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Title: Heroes of the colored race
Description: Print commemorating men prominent in and representative of the advancement of African American civil rights. Depicts a central vignette of bust-length portraits of ex-Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and ex-Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi surrounded by four scenes of pre- and post-Civil War African American life. Includes two titled scenes, "Receiving the News of the Emancipation" depicting an older African American man, two women, and children celebrating, and "Studying the Lesson" depicting an African American man teacher instructing a classroom of children. Adorning the borders of the central vignette are a portrait of John Brown flanked by a horn of plenty and school books, and an eagle holding American flags embellished with portraits of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and Ulysses S. Grant. Other scenes depict enslaved African American men and women picking cotton and African American Civil War soldiers fighting a battle. Includes corner portraits of African American legislators John R. Lynch of Mississippi, Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina, Robert Smalls of South Carolina, and Charles E. Nash of Louisiana., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 60-61., Gift of Gordon Colket, 1975., Reaccessioned as P.9615., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - African American Heroes [8140.F]

Title: Storming of Missionary Ridge
Description: Panoramic view showing the Union victory at the Battle of Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 25, 1863. Shows Union troops carrying an American flag as the men break through the Confederate line. An African American Union corps drummer marches behind the soldiers. Shows Union and Confederate soldiers firing and falling in battle near brush and fallen trees, and Confederate troops retreating past a homestead in the background., Title from item., Gift of David Doret, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Philadelphia Panorama Co., distributor
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Missionary Ridge [P.2002.50.3]

Title: [Caricature of the capture of Jefferson Davis May 10, 1865]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing the unusual circumstances of the capture of the Confederate president, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Depicts Davis being inspected by Union soldiers as he emerges from a tent, holding a basket, while attired in a hood and skirt. His wife, Varina Davis, stands next to him and an African American servant, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, peers from behind the tent flap. Bottles and a case marked "Silver Spoons, C.S.A." (an allusion to Jefferson's safeguarding of the remaining Confederate treasury) lay on the ground in front of the tent. Also shows a saddle hanging in a tree to the right of the tent., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Francis Hacker, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., See related carte de visite: cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons - [P.2016.63].
Creator: Hacker, Francis
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Hacker [5795.F.15a]

Title: Jeff . Davis in prison
Description: Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]

Title: Jeff . Davis in prison
Description: Anti-Davis cartoon invoking the travesties at Confederate war prisons to satirize the incarcerated former Confederate president as a pompous, sniveling ingrate. Shows Davis, attired in a suit, and his feet shackled, in his cell, in front of a table containing his modest meal and complaining to the prison doctor. He bemoans his being unaccustomed to such living and that "you must order some more healthy food, or I shall starve to death." The doctor responds it is "good healthy food, such as our soldiers are fed on" and that their recent achievements prove it is "tolerably healthy." In the left, an older African American man cook, portrayed in racist caricature, announces in the vernacular "Massa Jeff! de dinner is ready." Two Union soldiers retort and reply "It's unhealthy is it! You didn't think that a pint of cornmeal was unhealthy when we were at Andersonville." The other angrily remembers "Rotten sowbelly and mouldy hard tacks was considered 'healthy food' when I was in "Libby" and Belle Island., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Gibson & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio., Purchase 2008., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-Jef [P.2008.5.1]

Title: A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]

Title: A distinguished arrival Negro soldier - "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room - one wid a closet to put dis yar skelle in tum in!"
Description: Cartoon satirizing the imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Va. of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, detained by Union cavalry troops on May 10, 1865, while wearing his wife's overcoat and shawl as a disguise. Shows an African American soldier escorting Davis to a cell door at the "Hotel De Monroe." In front of the door a noose hangs. Davis, attired in a bonnet, shawl, and overcoat, holds a money bag labeled "JD. CSA" (an allusion to Davis's confiscation of the remaining Confederate treasury). The soldier holds a bayonet to which a skirt hoop is attached and speaks in the vernacular "Hi dar! Show dis ole lady a room..." In the background, a smiling sun, an African American soldier, and a ship sailing the bay are visible. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe between 1865 and 1867., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Ent'd according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J. Chapman in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York., Purchase 2004., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2004.6.2]

Title: Jeff. Davis., the compromiser, in a tight place
Description: Cartoon expressing Northern exasperation with Jefferson Davis's attempt to negotiate for peace in 1865. Depicts Davis being slammed between the doors of the "United States Senate" by Uncle Sam and an armed Zouave soldier. Davis carrying on his back a bundle of "Compromise Goods. Latest Styles" begs the unsympathetic soldier to let him alone as Uncle Sam holding a noose declares that Davis has cheated him too often and deserves execution. In the left, an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature, holds a "Trinkets" box and says in the vernacular, "It pears to me, Massa Davis bring his goods to de wrong market dis time. All de better for cullored folks, Yah! Yah!", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1865-1W [5795.F.a]

Title: Encampment [at Richmond]
Description: Portrait of several Union army soldiers and personnel at an encampment in Richmond, Virginia during the city's occupation. Near a row of tents, under a canopy made of branches, most of the men sit on chairs. Outside of the canopy two African American men crouch., Title from negative sleeve., Date inferred from content., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish photographers from Philadelphia who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Creator: Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Glass Negatives-Levy & Cohen [P.8532.43]

Title: Encampment [at Richmond]
Description: Portrait of several Union army soldiers and personnel at an encampment in Richmond, Virginia during the city's occupation. Near a row of tents, under a canopy made of branches, most of the men sit on chairs. Outside of the canopy three African American men sit and stand., Title from negative sleeve., Date inferred from content., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of a series: Levy & Cohen's Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish photographers from Philadelphia who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
Creator: Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Glass Negatives - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.44]

Title: "Your plan and mine."
Description: Racist satire criticizing the 1864 presidential candidates, Democrat General George McClellan's and incumbent Abraham Lincoln's, divergent peace policies depicting each in a scene with Jefferson Davis and an African American Union soldier. The first scene depicts McClellan offering an olive branch, a frightened kneeling African American soldier, and a promise of non-interference to a scowling, armed Jefferson Davis, attired in torn and worn clothing. Davis acknowledges the branch, accepts the soldier, and expresses his satisfaction about the renewed ability for Southern domination of the government. The soldier, whose head Davis clutches, questions with horror McClellan's proposition to send him back to slavery after his service to the Union. The opposite scene depicts Lincoln pointing a bayonet at a cowering Davis who begs for readmission to the Union. Lincoln, on behalf of the nation, demands unconditional surrender and declares the end of slavery. The observing African American soldier replies in the vernacular that Davis will not have anything to do with him anymore., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1864, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1864-18W [5793.F.4]

Title: Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Print depicting a white Union soldier reading the Emancipation Proclamation to families of enslaved African Americans in a cabin. The families are depicted with anxious and solemn mannerisms. Family members surround the officer near a dining table and hearth. An older boy holds a torch providing the officer with light. The father watches over the soldier's shoulder. Other figures, including a "young woman with two children, the house servant of her [enslaver], not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion" pray, cheer, and cling to their mothers. Interior also includes a side of bacon hanging next to a ladder, a drying line with cotton balls handing from it above the hearth, and a cradle. Contains portrait of Abraham Lincoln below the image. The Emancipation Proclamation, effective January 1, 1863, granted African Americans not only their right to freedom but the right to join the Union Army., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., After painting by Henry Walker Herrick exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1865. Exhibited by "possessor" Lucius Stebbins., Publisher and copyright holder Stebbins published complementary pamphlet "Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st, 1864 [sic]" that included "Description of the Engraving." Description: Old man at the right with folded hands, Grand-father; Old lady at the left with cane in hand, Grand-mother; man leaning on ladder, the father; woman with child in her arms, the mother; lad swinging his hat, oldest son; one holding torch, second son; little girl, oldest daughter; infant in the arms of its mother. Young woman with two children, the house servant of her master, not belonging to the cabin but happened to be in on the occasion. Party reading, Union Soldier. The internal view of the Cabin is true to nature. The stone chimney, garret, ladder, side of bacon, rough cradle, piece of sugar cane and cotton balls, &c, all combine to give a correct idea of the slaves' home. Lincoln Financial Foundation copy of pamphlet accessible at Internet Archive., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1993, p. 44., LCP exhibition catalogue: An African American Miscellany p. 22., Purchase 1993., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Lucius Stebbins (1810-1901), born in Massachussets, worked in Hartford, Connecticut, in the businesses of map coloring and subscription book publishing (American Publishing Company).
Creator: Watts, James W., -1895, engraver
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9429]

Title: "A guard of colored soldiers"
Description: Full-length group portrait depicting three African American Union soldiers, attired in uniform, standing with bayoneted Springfield rifle muskets and non-commissioned officer swords in hand. The soldiers include a sergeant (center left) who wears a regular belt plate, three chevrons on his sleeve, a kepi with a tarred cover, and a non-commissioned officer baldrick on his sword. The African American private (center) wears an infantry bugle and brass insignia on top of his kepi. The private (right) wears an unadorned kepi. In the left, is a white man soldier, probably a junior officer, attired in a great coat and slouch hat and holding possibly an 1850 foot officer's sword. Possibly soldiers from Camp William Penn, the African American training camp near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Title from manuscript note on recto., Name of photographer/publisher attributed from copy of photograph available in Hindman February 27, 2024 auction. Copy included revenue stamp and was stamped on verso: O.H. Willard's New Galleries, 1203 Chestnut St. No. [4485] Phl. Copy of listing included in Willard research file at repository., Date inferred from revenue stamp on verso of copy at Hindman auction, February 2024., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2024 with information from 2024 Hindman auction listing., Access points revised 2024., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Willard, Oliver H., -1875
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- group - Military [5779.F.3d]

Title: The straggler's last "sup."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a Union infantryman staring into the bottom of an empty can he has raised into the air., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53e]

Title: Raising colored infant - ry
Description: Racist satiric print comprised of a watercolor drawing and a photograph showing a white man in civilian clothes feeding an African American doll. The man, attired in a white shirt, a black bowtie, a gray vest, gray pants, and black shoes, sits on a wooden chair and holds a spoon to the doll, costumed in a white layette gown. A bowl labeled "Bounty" is set upon a wooden chair in the left. A photograph cut-out of a head, presumably of a white commander of an African American regiment, rests on the drawn body of the man., Title from manuscript note written on the recto., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister Civil War scrapbook of humorous views and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings & Watercolors - unidentified - R [5780.F.5c]

Title: Scene of camp life
Description: Busy scene showing numerous activities occurring simultaneously at a military camp. In the center, Union Generals look at a map while sitting and standing under a canopy made from an American flag. In the background, soldiers drill on horseback, with cannons, and in lines near rows of tents. In the left, two barefooted African American men and a child approach a Zouave. A white man soldier stands with a rifle and looks on while another white man soldier leans upon a cannon., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Create postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Trimmed., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War - Military Camps [5779.F.90f]

Title: Enlistment of Sickles brigade
Description: Caustic satire depicting the enlistment by notorious New York Congressman Colonel Daniel Sickles of recruits from offices near New York's crime-ridden Five Points area. The congested scene depicts several men, including African American men, clustered on a city street near a liquor store. In the left, Sickles, unwigged, stands above the crowd, and holds out Bibles in each hand. In the right above the crowd, "Mrs. Higby," wife of a New York clergyman, hands out pipes to the men (an allusion to Sickles's men being given pipes and Bibles for enlisting). A sign near Sickles reads "The Capital in danger. Sickles Brigade to the Rescue!!" A sign near Mrs. Higby reads "Pipes for the noble saviors of their country by Mrs. Higby." The "enlisting" men wear torn, worn, and patched uniforms or street clothes and hold picket signs, guns, and clubs. Within the crowd, a pit bull terrier and a white boy watch the melee, which includes a white man, attired in a uniform and a "Colonel Sickles Brigade" cap, offering an African American man a medal, who scratches his head, next to another African American man, attired in uniform and portrayed in racist caricature, and seated on a barrel. A few years before the war in 1859, Sickles gained notoriety for murdering Philip Barton Key II for having an affair with his wife Teresa Bagioli. He was acquitted based on the first successful use of the insanity defense in the U.S., Inscribed upper left corner: 6., Issued as plate 6 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Tile and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 6 [2990.F.23]

Title: Soldiers memorial. 4th Regiment. Company F. U.S. Col. Troops Mustered into the United States Service at Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4, 1863, by Col. Wm. Birney
Description: Stock commemorative certificate with some variations for the African American 4th Regiment, Company F troop and containing a montage of allegorical and battle scenes, patriotic motifs, and soldier vignettes above the printed names of 4th Regiment Privates, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals, and Field and Staff Officers. The allegorical scene depicts the female figure of Columbia, resting upon an American shield and seated next to an American eagle that looks down on a snake it clutches under its claws. Columbia holds her head with her left hand and the "Constitution of the United States" down between her knees in the other. She is portrayed as a white woman with long dark hair, wearing a gold headpiece and white veil, and attired in a dress with a blue bodice, red skirt, and white sleeves and collar. Surrounding the central scene (counterclockwise) are views of white Union soldiers at battle and firing cannons near a harbor and across from Union forts displaying American flags; a departing white Union solder embracing his wife in front of his family, an older woman holding her grandchild, his crying son, and their dog, outside of their home in the countryside as troops march in the distance; white Union cavalry corps charging during battle; the previously depicted white Union soldier returning home, shown in mid stride and holding his cap in the air as his family heads toward him with their arms out; and white Union soldiers, with a cannon, and at battle near a trench. The scene and views within the montage are bordered and framed by portraits of George Washington, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson and pictorial details of American flags, flowers, and filigree., Pictorial details surrounding the names of the soldiers in the lower half of the print include outer columns composed of marble and wood trunks with one unsplit and adorned with the placard "United We Stand" and another split with stakes and adorned with the placard "Divided we fall; inner columns wrapped within the American flag; medallions depicted with red, white, and blue stripes and stars; and images of the American eagle atop an American shield that is adorned with a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum." A. Hoen & Co. printed several slightly variant copies of the Soldiers Memorial in 1866, to commemorate different regiments and with different publishers. In the upper half of the print, the montage imagery remained the same, and in the lower half of the print, the imagery for and near the columns was altered in addition to the printed names of the officers and soldiers and their placement between the columns. The 4th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized in Maryland, July 15-September 1, 1863. The African American unit saw action in Virginia and North Carolina before being mustered out May 4, 1866 after the designation change to 76th U.S. Colored Troops on April 4, 1864. The Regiment lost nearly 300 officers and enlisted men while in service., Title from item., Name of publisher from publication statement: Published at Baltimore by Jos. L. Kessler., Date inferred from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by Whitney & Anderson in Dist. C. of Md., Purchased with Louise Marshall Kelly Fund.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates [P.2022.28.2]

Title: Specimen sheet Union, patriotic and humorous designs upon envelopes
Description: Advertisement containing twenty-five examples of Civil War envelope vignettes published by King & Baird. Majority of the vignettes include titles and slogans. Designs depict the American flag; liberty, the American eagle; soldiers (including the martyred Colonel Ellsworth); caricatures of Brigadier General Henry A. Wise (former governor of Virginia), Jefferson Davis, and the Southern gentry; a portrait of Washington; an abolitionist scene showing the whipping of an African American man entitled "The persuasive eloquence of the Sunny South"; and a racist caricature of an African American man on all fours carrying a whip and asking in the vernacular, "Whar's Jeff Davis?" Also contains a description of the envelopes and shipping information, as well as the scale of prices ranging from "25 Assorted Envelopes, (25 kinds)" at 25 cents to 1000 at 5 dollars., Title from item., Text printed on recto: Single copies of this sheet will be mailed free of postage, upon receipt of six cents, by King & Baird, Book and Job Printers, 607 Sansom St., Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War prints. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886 [5786.F.161a]. Accessioned 2002 [P.2002.45]., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: King & Baird
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War [5786.F.161a; P.2002.45]

Title: Soldiers Home in the city of Philadelphia. This certifies that [Charles Macalester] having contributed the sum of [fifty] dollars is constituted a [life] member of the Soldiers Home. Philada
Description: Certificate containing an allegorical scene depicting a central, winged female figure, seated, and surrounded by wounded soldiers and other female figures. The central figure has long, dark hair, adorned with a headband, and is attired in a toga with a drape-like shawl. Her arms are outstretched to her sides. Celestial light frames her head. In her left hand, she holds an olive branch. Broken shackles adorn her right wrist. In her lap, a loose scales of justice rests atop a sword. At her feet, a pair of white and African American soldiers and sailors sits and lies. In the left, the white soldier, a bandage on his arm, sits on a bound volume, near a canteen, and in front of the seated African American soldier. The latter wears a bandage on his head and rests the right side of his head on his right hand. The white soldier holds up a sheet of paper inscribed "Honorable Discharge" to the winged figure. The white sailor sits across from the white soldier. His head and left arm are bandaged and crutches rest by his side. He extends his right hand and holds his cap out to the winged figure. The African American sailor, prone, and partially visible behind him, does the same. American flags, on their sides and their upper poles adorned with wreaths of garland, rest among the soldiers and sailors. Four allegorical female figures, two and two, flank the central figure. To her left, one holds a basket of bounty as the other (behind her) tosses wreathes of garland. To her right, one holds a pocket watch as the other (behind her) shoots lightning from her hand. In the left background, wreathes rain upon soldiers, some in bandages, who march and carry American flags. In the right background, lightning bolts strike an ironclad ship on open waters., The soldiers home chartered in 1862, opened in December 1863, and incorporated in 1864 was an outgrowth of the relief organization, the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon. The founding relief organization provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, sailors, refugees, and free people during the war. The Soldiers Home was chartered with the mission of "the providing of a temporary or permanent Home for all persons who, while in the military service of the United States of America, either upon land or sea, shall become disable from wounds, or from sickness, so that they are unable to perform the ordinary avocations of life." The Soldiers Home operated until 1889 when the Board of Managers dissolved itself and turned the home over to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States., Title from item, Date inferred from year organization was chartered., Completed in manuscript on January 1, 1866 and signed by E. S. Hall, Secretary; Ellerslie Wallace, President; and Wm. Struthers, Treasurer., Charles Macalester was a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist. Macalester College is named for him., Gift of David Doret, 2002., For a history of the Home, including the process to transfer administration of the home to the Loyal Legion, see Ferdinand Sermiento, ed., Historical Sketch of the Soldiers' Home ... (1886) [Am 1886 Phi Sol Hom 24755.O]., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia certificates - Organizations - Soldiers [P.2002.40.1]

Title: [Headquarters Lafayette - Headquarters Gen'l Porter. Farinholt's house and York River in the distance.]
Description: View from the Civil War showing the headquarters of General Lafayette and General Porter near Yorktown, Virginia during General McClellan's Campaign on the Peninsula. Depicts white Union soldiers, and African American men and a boy, probably freedom seekers, posed before Farinholt's dilapidated house supported by a large log. Several camp tents and the York River are seen in the background., Title from cdv photograph, Brady's Album Gallery, no. 370., Photographer given in Gardner catalogue (see LCP research file)., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Alexander Gardner was a respected photographer, businessman, and former manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. Gallery who produced the acclaimed "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., James F. Gibson was a prominent Civil War photographer and one-time manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery who also provided images for photographer Alexander Gardner's "Catalogue of photographic incidences of the war..." and "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War."
Creator: Gibson, James F., 1828-, photographer
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection - stereos - identified photo. [5779.F.6h]

Title: Civil War era paper soldiers collection. [graphic].
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 182e; 183a-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a, b, d, e; 188a-c, e-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]

Title: [New York Zouaves.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers. They all have bayonets propped against their right shoulders.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189g]

Title: Civil War Paper Soldiers Collection
Description: Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5785.F; 5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 83a; 183b-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a-e; 188a-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]

Title: New York Zouaves.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers marching and carrying a bayonet. a flag, a drum, and a sword.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.184d]

Title: United States' Volunteers.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Civil War wrapper with a paper soldier depicted on the front with a rifle slung over his right shoulder and a knapsack on his back.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [P.2005.2.10]

Title: United Turner Rifles.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with bayonets, a flag, a drum, a sword, and knapsacks on their backs.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.184a]

Title: [New York soldiers.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers representing different regiments. Includes a soldier from the Highland Guard, 79th Regt., L. Col. Elliott; soldier from the 69th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil: Col. Corchoran; soldier from the Irish Zouaves, Capt Francis Meagher; and a solder from the Steuben Guard, N.Y. St. Vol: Col. Bendix.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189a]

Title: [New York Zouaves.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of fourteen Civil War era paper soldiers marching with bayonets slung against their right shoulders.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.5c]

Title: New York Zouaves.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of six Civil War era paper soldiers. They are marching with bayonets, a drum and a flag.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [P.2005.2.11]

Title: Polnish Legion. Col. Pratt.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier depicted with a bayonet in his right hand.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189f]

Title: New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol: Col. Hawkins.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier running with a bayonet in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186f]

Title: United States' Volunteers.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Civil War wrapper with a paper soldier depicted on the front with a rifle slung over his right shoulder and a knapsack on his back.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.134a]

Title: [Zouave.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188k]

Title: [New York Zouaves.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of two Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with rifles propped against their right shoulders, and bayonets standing at their sides. Both are dressed in a long blue jacket, blue pants, and a royal blue cap. Inscribed in their belt buckles is "SNY".
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183e]

Title: Fireman Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol: Col. Ellsworth.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle leaning against his left shoulder.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188i]

Title: French Zouaves, 55th Reg. Col. Le Gal.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier knealing on one knee and holding a rifle in his hands.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189e]

Title: National Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol: Col. McChesney.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier holding a bayonet in his left hand.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186e]

Title: [New York and Vermont soldiers.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers from different regiments in New York and Vermont. Includes a soldier from the 1st German Rifle Regiment in New York, led by Colonel Blenker; a soldier from the 9th Regiment in New York, led by Colonel Stiles; a United Turner Rifles soldier led by Colonel M. Weber; and a soldier from the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.184c]

Title: New York Fire-Brigade-Zouaves.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers marching with a drum, a flag, and their rifles.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186b]

Title: 7th Regiment of New York.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers marching with bayonets slung over their right shoulders.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.187a]

Title: 8th N.Y. Reg. German Rifles, Col: Blenker.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers standing with bayonets, a flag and a bugle.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189d]

Title: Advance Guard, Col. Duryee.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier running with a flag in his hands.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.134c]

Title: Advance Guard. Col Duryee.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers running with bayonets, a flag and a drum.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186h]

Title: [Cavalrymen.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper cavalrymen dressed in royal blue jackets and light blue pants. Three are depicted with swords, and one holds a bugle in his right hand.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.83a]

Title: [Cavalrymen.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper cavalrymen dressed in royal blue jackets and light blue pants. All four hold swords in their right hand. See (2)5786.F.83a for a similar image.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183d]

Title: De Hall Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol: Capt. Duysing.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188c]

Title: [Duryee Zouaves, 5th New York Volunteers.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers running with bayonets in their hands.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183b]

Title: [Duryee Zouaves, 5th New York Volunteers.]
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers. Depicts a soldier with a raised sword running and leading two soldiers who hold a flag and a drum.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183c]

Title: National Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol: Col. McChesney.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier holding a bayonet in his left hand.
Date: [ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188h]

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