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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: The colored volunteer Marching into Dixie
Description: Portrait of an African American man Union soldier, attired in a uniform, a "U.S." belt buckle, and a cap. He holds his rifle over his right shoulder and carries a sleeping mat on his back., Inscribed under title: 843., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook. 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.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC-Civil War-Soldiers [(9)1540.F]

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: Battle of Olustee, Fla Feby 26' 1864 - Union: (Gen. Seymour) 8' U.S., 54" Mass., 1' N.C. Col'r T[roop]. Loss: 193 k'd, 1175 'd, 460 miss'g - Conf. (Gen. Finnegan) Loss: Abt 660
Description: Commemorative print depicting the participation of African American troops in the only major battle fought in Florida during the Civil War. Shows an African American regiment from the 8th U.S. Colored Infantry advancing against Confederate troops hunkered down behind fortifications in the left distance. The troop is led by a white officer on horseback. Behind a single cannon, the first line of men has their guns drawn and aimed. Two rows behind is the African American flag bearer. He holds an American flag with a gold streamer reading "8 U.S. Inf[antry]." Two rows of African American soldiers advance from behind him. Dead soldiers and two dead horses lie to the advancing troop's left. A white soldier uses one of the dead horses as a shield while firing. To the far rear of the advancing troop, a white officer on horseback gives directions to another white officer on foot. An African American soldier assists an injured fourth white officer who holds his hand to his head as they walk toward the officer on horseback. In the far left foreground, African American soldiers survey the scene, fire a rifle, prepare a rifle to fire, and lie dead near an overturned dray and ammunitions locker., In the right background, white troops man cannons as a bomb blasts near them. Palm and pine trees as well as train tracks line the clearing in which the battle ensues. Smoke billows from the many gun and cannon blasts. The Battle of Olustee was fought on February 20, 1864 in Baker County near Olustee Station on the Florida, Atlantic, and Gulf Central Railroad. Union troops, led by Brigadier General Truman Seymour, met reinforced Confederate troops under the command of General Joseph Finnegan when on an expedition to capture Florida. Union troops entered the battle piecemeal, were barraged, and were forced to retreat to Jacksonville. Reserve forces from the Massachusetts 54th and the 35th United States Colored Troops provided cover. Union forces never fought Confederate forces from behind fortifications, nor in a clearing as portrayed in the Kurz & Allison print. The Battle of Olustee was the second bloodiest battle of the war for the Union., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1894 by Kurz & Allison - 76 & 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., Description review 2022., Access points reviewed 2022., Kurz & Allison, a Chicago firm known for sensational views, was established in 1880 by lithographer Louis Kurz and Alexander Allison. Through the 1890s, Kurz & Allison issued several popularly marketed views of the Civil War. Many documented African American participation in the war.
Creator: Kurz & Allison
Date: 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Civil War - Campaigns & Battles - Olustee [P.2017.51]

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: United States soldiers at Camp "William Penn" Philadelphia, PA [graphic]: "Rally round the flag, boys! Rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom" / P.S. Duval & Son. Lith. Cor. 5th & Minor St. Phila.
Description: LCP exhibit catalogue: Negro History, p. 140., Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City. (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1990), p. 217., Recruitment print depicting members of an African American regiment posed with their white commander at Camp William Penn, Cheltenham Township. The troop members, including the drummer boy, wear their military best and are gathered on an open green near a tent. One soldier proudly displays the American flag. Begun in 1863 with the support of the Union League, eleven regiments were formed at Camp William Penn, the first Pennsylvania camp for volunteer African American regiments. William Penn was the largest Civil War camp for the training of officers to lead African American troops.
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son,lithographer., creator
Date: [1863]
Location: *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - Penn [P.9177.17]

Title: United States soldiers at Camp "William Penn" Philadelphia, PA "Rally round the flag, boys! Rally once again, shouting the battle cry of freedom"
Description: Recruitment print depicting members of an African American regiment posed with their white commander at Camp William Penn, Cheltenham Township. The troop members, including the drummer boy, attired in military uniforms, are gathered on an open green near a tent. One soldier holds the flagpole with the American flag. Begun in 1863 with the support of the Union League, eleven regiments were formed at Camp William Penn, the first Pennsylvania camp for volunteer African American regiments. William Penn was the largest Civil War camp for the training of officers to lead African American troops., Title from item., Date inferred from content., LCP exhibition catalog: Negro history,, Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: portrait of an American city. (Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1990), p. 217., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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: P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - Penn [P.9177.17]

Title: Official first day of issue. Honoring Salem Poor, Gallant Soldier, distinguished patriot of Bunker Hill, Valley Forge and White Plains
Description: ArtCraft "First Day Cover" (i.e., designed envelope with a stamp affixed and cancelled on the day the stamp was issued) from the "Contributors to the Cause "series issued for the United States Bicentennial. Contains illustration after John Trumbull’s historical painting based on his eyewitness account of the Battle of Bunker Hill while serving as a commissioned officer during the American Revolution. Depicts American Major General Joseph Warren’s death proceeding the Americans’ retreat from the hill and includes the figure of Salem Poor, who has also been identified as another Black soldier, Peter Salem, in the context of the painting., Title from item., Date supplied from content., Logo of printer printed in lower left corner: Text "ArtCraft" set on a paint palette with brushes inserted through the hole for the artist's thumb., Image caption: Salem Poor received commendation for his heroics during the Battle of Bunker Hill., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Cambridge, MA. Mar 25 1975 02139 and cancelled "First Day of Issue" color-printed U.S. 10-cent stamp "Contributors to the Cause. Salem Poor. Gallant Soldier" depicting a half-length portrait of Poor with a rifles in hand. Poor was an enslaved African-American man who purchased his freedom in 1769 and became a soldier in 1775., Contains printed address., The Washington Press ArtCraft brand was introduced in 1939 for the printing of First Day Covers. The firm stopped producing ArtCraft First Day Covers in 2016., Gift of George R. Allen, 2022.
Date: [1975]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - envelopes - Poor [P.2022.42.3]

Title: Colored man is no slacker
Description: Poster, possibly a modern reproduction, commemorating the service of African American men during World War I. Shows a young African American couple, including an infantry man in uniform, looking at each other, in a slight embrace, and holding their left hands. The woman wears a blue, calf-length frock with a white Puritan collar and white cuffs and black and white boots with heels. Her hair is pinned under. Her companion wears a tan uniform, including a campaign hat, jacket, jodhpurs, gaiters, and boots. They stand on a pathway lined with flower bushes and potted flowering plants that leads to a portico. In the background, a troop of African American soldiers, including a soldier bearing the American flag, marches. Rows of trees are visible in the distance., Title from item., Range in publication date inferred from medium and copyright statement: [copyright symbol of "c" in circle] 1918 By E. G. Renesch, Chicago., Name of publisher from copyright statement., Description revised 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: [ca. 1918 - ca. 1950]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Framed graphics [P.2016.28]

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: James K. Polk
Description: Bust-length portrait within an ornate border of the U.S. president responsible for the statehood of Texas. Polk, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, waistcoat, and jacket, faces to the right and tucks his left hand into his waistcoat. Border includes the figure of the American eagle, and a vignette titled "Annexation of Texas" depicting a trio of military officers reading the declaration of annexation to a crowd of civilians, including a cheering African American man. Border also includes angelic male torsos, flourishes, scrolls, and ornaments., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Gift of Dr. Milton and Mrs. Joan Wohl, 1991., 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., Edwards, an English engraver, worked with New York publishing firms in the mid-19th century.
Creator: Edwards, W. Joseph, active 1843-1867, engraver
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.9363.81]

Title: James K. Polk
Description: Bust-length portrait within an ornate border of the U.S. president responsible for the statehood of Texas. Polk, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, waistcoat, and jacket, faces to the right and tucks his left hand into his waistcoat. Border includes the figure of Liberty, depicted as a white woman, and a vignette titled "Annexation of Texas" depicting a trio of military officers reading the declaration of annexation to a crowd of civilians, including a cheering African American man. Border also includes angelic male torsos, flourishes, scrolls, and ornaments., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date inferred from content., Accessioned 1982., 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., Andrews and Babson, Boston engravers, collaborated in the 1850s.
Creator: J. Andrews & R.E. Babson, engraver
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.8911.790]

Title: This view of the barracks Fort Charlotte and part of the Island of New Providence to the westward of the town of Nasssau taken from the top of the guard house Is respectfully inscribed to Wm. Dowdeswell Esqr. Governor General of the Bahamas. And the inhabitants of those islands by their most obedient servant, John Irving
Description: View of the two-story British barracks and fort near the coast of the Bahamas. A British barge is docked at the nearby levee. Relaxed British soldiers converse near a cannon on the lookout. A Black man leads a horse and cart loaded with coal up the roadway to the barracks., Title from item., Manuscript signature on verso: N. Franks Esq. L. Irving, Dowdeswell, a noted print collector, was appointed Governor of the Bahamas in 1797., 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: Hubert & Stadler, engraver
Date: Jan 1st, 1802
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Views - Foreign - Bahamas [1879.F.2]

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: Washington crossing the Delaware. Evening previous to the Battle of Trenton Decr. 25th 1776 The annual greeting of the carriers of the Philadelphia Inquirer to their patrons for 1861
Description: Commemorative print after Thomas Sully's 1819 painting "Washington's Passage of the Delaware." Depicts General Washington astride his horse atop the barren bank of the Delaware River. He tips his hat and acknowledges his troops below, who cross the river by barge. To the left of Washington, white men soldiers move a cannon. In the right are several soldiers on horseback, including Prince Whipple, enslaved African American man and bodyguard to Washington Aide, General William Whipple., Title based on item., Original painting in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., For a description of the original painting, see the broadside Passage of the Delaware by Thomas Sully. (LCP sm #Am 1820 Sul, 6658.F)., Accessioned 1987., 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: Gimbrede, Joseph Napoleon, 1820-, engraver
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.9179.9]

Title: Journey of a slave from plantation to the battlefield
Description: Collection of twelve titled album (carte-de-visite size) cards depicting the evolution of the life of an African American man from enslavement to a Union soldier. "In the Cotton field" and "The Christmas Week" show his life on the plantation from which he is sold and separated from his family in "The Sale" and "The Parting: 'Buy us too'." His new enslaver whips him in "The Lash," for which he then retaliates in "Blow for Blow." He hides "In the Swamp" and is finally "Free!" to become a Union soldier and "Stand up a Man" to fight in the battlefield to "Make Way for Liberty!" He is struck down in "Victory!" for Liberty, depicted as a white woman, who states as she mourns over his body, "He Died for Me!", Title from series title., Publication information inferred from copyright statement: Entered according to the act of the year 1863 by William A. Stephens in the Clerks' Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the E. Dist. of Pa., Attributed to James Fuller Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Henry Louis Stephens was a native Philadelphia caricaturist, book, and magazine illustrator who worked in New York in the mid-19th century for the periodical "Frank Leslie's." His brother William Allen Stephens served as his business manager., Described in Gathering history: The Marian S. Carson Collection of Americana. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999), p. 26., Original wrapper for the card set held in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [LOT 5174], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Copyright by William A. Stephens, 1120 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia., Description revised 2023., Access points revised 2023., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Henry Louis Stephens Collection [(5)5780.F.56m-p; (5)5780.F.57a-h]

Title: All slaves were made freemen. By Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, January 1st, 1863. Come, then, able-bodied colored men, to the nearest United States camp, and fight for the stars and stripes
Description: Civil War recruitment print targeting African Americans by evoking the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a montage of symbolic scenes centered around an African American Union soldier triumphantly holding up a sword and an American flag with the banner "Freedom to the Slave." He stands near broken shackles upon a tri-color flag adorned with a coiled snake. The flag is tugged upon by one of three joyous African Americans freed from enslavement by an African American soldier. Other scenes depict an African American man reading a newspaper on a rocking chair near a plow and child, African American children entering a "Public School" near a church, and a regiment of "U.S. Colored Troops" marching across a battlefield strewn with dead bodies., Title printed on verso., Text of the "Original Version of the John Brown Song" by H.H. Brownell printed on verso., Described in LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, entry #139., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany [(2)5786.F.107b]. Transferred from #Am 1863 All (2)5786.F.107b. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. Accessioned 1987 [P.9179.44], 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.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Emancipation [P.9179.44; (2)5786.F.107b]

Title: [George Washington crossing the Delaware]
Description: Commemorative print after the 1851 painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze depicting General Washington's famous campaign across the icy Delaware River above Trenton on Christmas Eve 1776. A stoic Washington stands at the head of the lead rowboat surrounded by several of his dedicated men, including a white man soldier holding the American flag and the African American oarsman Prince Whipple, enslaved man and bodyguard to Washington Aide, General William Whipple. In the background, boats with the remaining troops and horses are visible., Copyrighted by M. Knoedler., Proof copy., Title from original painting in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York., Gift of Anthony N.B. Garvan, 1981., 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: Giradet, Paul, engraver
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.8646.1]

Title: Old '76 and young '48 From the original picture in the possession of the American Art-Union
Description: Mexican War-era genre print evoking the memory of the American Revolution depicting a young, white man Mexican War soldier returned home to his family, including his grandfather, a Revolutionary War veteran. In a parlor, the young man, attired in his uniform, sits, turned away from his meal, surrounded by his mother, father, sister, grandfather, and family dog. He raises his hand in the air as he regales his family about his experiences. They all look at him intently, except the grandfather, seated in an arm chair, and leaning on a cane, who stares a little off to the side. In the background, three servants (two African American men and an African American woman) listen from the doorway. A portrait painting of the grandfather as a young man in his military uniform hangs on the wall. In the left, a fireplace with mantle is visible. Above the mantle, a framed print reproduced after Trumbull's painting "Declaration of Independence" is displayed near lamps, a clock, and a bust of Washington on a bookcase. Also shows the soldier's cap and sword lying on the floor in the foreground., Title from item., After an 1849 painting by Robert Caton Woodville in the collections of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore., One of six prints issued in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Gift of David Doret, 2006., Description revised., Access points revised., Described in the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, June 1850, p. 46., 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: Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883, engraver
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Mexican War [P.2006.28.23]

Title: The gallant charge of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment On the rebel works at Fort Wagner, Morris Island near Charleston, July 18th 1863, and death of Colonel Robt. G. Shaw
Description: Commemorative print depicting the African American regiment's heralded battle at Fort Wagner at the moment of the death of their white commander, Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw, his hand on his chest from the fatal gunshot, falls back on top of the parapet. His color-bearer holding the American flag inscribed, "54th Mass." continues to charge. Gory hand-to-hand battle and bayonet fighting proceeds around them. Soldiers fall to their death. The battle at Fort Wagner fomented Union support of African American regiments and immortalized Shaw as a martyr for the cause., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress i the year 1863, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 50., 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.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Fort Wagner [5779.F.38]

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: Tobias Gilmore House, Raynham, 1781-1918. "Toby" Gilmore, born in Africa, was a patriot of the American Revolution
Description: Souvenir card depicting the second Raynham, Ma. residence of Black Revolutionary War soldier Shibodee Turry Wurry also known as Tobias Gilmore. Shows the two-story wooden residence with portico, hipped roof, and chimney and grassy, front grounds. Trees and shrubbery line and surround the house. Wurry born in West Africa, was kidnapped and enslaved in 1757. Captain John Gilmore of Rayham, Ma. became his enslaver and renamed Wurry, Tobias Gilmore. Gilmore enlisted in military service in 1776, during the American Revolution, to gain his freedom. In December 1781, Gilmore was discharged from service, including serving at the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga. He returned to Rayham a free man. In 1784, he purchased land in Rayham and built his first home. He built his second home circa 1800. The residence was destroyed by fire in 1918., Title from item., Date inferred from "1918" date in title and year of destruction of the depicted dwelling., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ephemera - souvenirs & keepsakes [P.2021.15]

Title: Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia [ticket] Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea. Now forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean
Description: Ticket to the "Grand Mass Demonstration in favor of the Centennial Commemoration of American Independence, February 22, 1873" at the Academy of Music containing scenes contrasting life in Philadelphia in 1776 with life in 1876. Scene of 1776 shows white men colonists, including one attired as a backwoodsman, in front of a log cabin and standing near a barefooted, enslaved African American man, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting on a pile of sticks. Scene of 1876 shows a white man soldier talking to a white man artisan near an African American man laborer seated next to an anvil and machinery gears. Cityscape is visible in the background. Also includes an eagle holding an American flag crest adorned with a portrait of Washington. Contains text printed on the verso soliciting subscriptions to make the Centennial a success as well as to make Pennsylvania the representative to the world of the "power of the Republic.", Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views. 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.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr -8 x 10 - Events [5758.F.26c]

Title: Charge of the colored troops - San Juan
Description: Commemorative print of the Spanish-American War depicting members of the African American regiments of soldiers during the Battle of Kettle Hill, generally known as the Battle of San Juan Hill, on July 1, 1898. Shows, in the left and foreground, African American soldiers, three with head wounds, lying on the ground, on their knees, back, and side. They are portrayed with blood flowing from their wounds, and two likely portrayed to have been killed. Behind and near the men, their fellow soldiers charge, carry an American flag, aim and shoot, and/or engage in hand-to-hand combat with Spanish soldiers, many of whom lay or fall injured and/or dead. In the background, a military fort and charging Spanish soldiers under gun fire and explosions are visible. View also shows firearms, a drum, wagon wheel, and a crate laying in the grass of the battleground. The Spanish American War was the conflict between Spain and the United State originating with the Cuban War of Independence. Cuba gained independence and the United States acquired the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands from Spain. The regular army's four Black troops (9th and10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry) and thousands of Black men volunteers served during the war. African American troop's service during the war caused controversy within the African American community which still did not have equal civil rights as citizens of the United States. Nearly thirty Black soldiers from the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 24th and 25th Infantry were killed during the battle., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1907 by James Lee Co. Chicago., Printed in lower right: 3838.
Date: 1907
Location: *GC - Spanish American War [P.2023.32.3]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons
Description: Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to An Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by Job T. Williams in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 806, Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: True blue
Description: Poster commemorating the service of African American men during World War I. Shows an African American family gathered in a living room decorated with floral wall paper and looking at the framed portrait, hung above a fireplace, of an African American service man, likely the father of the family. In the right, the mother, attired in a beige sheath dress, holds a toddler attired in white pajamas in her arms while her daughter, attired in a white night gown, and holding a black baby doll in her left hand, stands next to her. The daughter stands in front of her older, seated brother. The older son, attired in a beige uniform, sits in an arm chair. The toddler and daughter reach and point toward the portrait on the wall. Decorative flags adorn the upper edge of the framed portrait showing the man in uniform. A fire burns in the fireplace and a portrait of George Washington, a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, a vase of flowers, a bust, and a clock adorn the mantle. On the wall to the right of the father's portrait, hangs a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A patterned rug, a cat asleep by the fire, and a window displaying a service flag comprise the scene as well. Sheer curtains and a bowl-shaped vase of flowers also adorn the window., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: [copyright symbol of "c" in circle] 1919 By E. G. Renesch, Chicago., Description revised 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: 1919
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Soldiers [P.2016.61]

Title: National Farm School for children of colored soldiers and colored orphans - Eastern Branch, Washington, D.C Established March 1866, by H. de Mareil, editor & proprietor of the Messenger Franco American. Incorporated by act of Congress 25th July 1866
Description: Landscape view depicting the National Farm School founded in 1866 by Henrie De Mareil of New York and situated on a hilly plot of land with trees, bushes, meadows, and cleared fields. Shows, in the center foreground, three African American children harvesting wheat under the guidance of a white, bearded man. Behind them, two men plow a field with horse-drawn tractors across from individuals binding sheaths of wheat in an open field near a dirt path. In the foreground, cows stand and/or drink in a pond. In the left background, two individuals plow a field with horse-drawn tractors. In the distance center and left background, people mill in front of dwelling, farm, and school-like buildings standing in front of grassy hillsides. The school-like building (center background) is adorned with two flags, a French and an American one. Incorporated by Congress in July 1866, the mission of the school was to provide "normal and school education, as well as a practical knowledge of farming in all its branches" to "orphan and dependent children of colored soldiers, and of other colored orphans." By November 1866, the school was under construction and had fifty pupils. That month, the French Opera Comique Troupe held a benefit concert for the school in Philadelphia that was reported to "not have been as well attended as it should have." By May 1867, the school was reported to still be under construction in order to accommodate two hundred pupils who after "two or three years course [are] to take any position, from a valuable field hand, to a market-man and overseer upon the plantations of the South or the great farms of the West.", RVCDC, LCP copy contains repaired tears around the edges,, See "Amusements," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1866, p. 3., See "Academy of Music," Press, November 20, 1866, p. 8., See "Freedmen's National Farm School," Helena Weekly Herald, May 2, 1867, p. [2]., See 39th Congress, 1st Session, H. R. 802.
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.2023.4]

Title: Offering of bells to be cast into cannon
Description: Partisan genre scene depicting a Southern white man pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to a Confederate officer at the hearth of an enslaved African American man blacksmith. In the left, the officer holds his cap in his hand as the blacksmith, attired in a long apron (doffed cap as well), bends over to grab one of two bells near his feet. Candlesticks and andirons lie in a pile under the hearth and to the left of the officer. In the right, congregants stand behind the pastor attired in robes and a wide-brimmed hat, and include a woman attired in a fancy dress and cape, men in suits and top hats, and a man dressed in yeoman's clothing. In the background, an enslaved African American man carries a cylinder-shaped object over his shoulder and church towers are visible. In 1862, Confederate General P.T. Beauregard called for bells to be given to the Confederacy to be melted into cannon. Several churches in North Carolina donated them., Inscribed upper left corner: 19., Inscribed in lower left corner: AJV; FBM., Issued as plate 19 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., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 19 [2990.F.20]

Title: Smuggling medicines into the South
Description: Partisan genre scene depicting the unloading of a rowboat with medical supplies along a shoreline near dense thickets of trees. In the center, a white man Confederate military officer keeps the boat moored through a rope in his hand. He looks back toward a white man, possibly a doctor, climbing down from a tree. An enslaved African American man (his back to the viewer), ankle deep in the water, holds a wooden pole on the shore as a lever as a white man in civilian clothes rolls a barrel toward a Confederate soldier (his back to the viewer). The soldier places sacks on the back of a mule. A sack, crate, and barrel lie near the mule. Volck was active in smuggling medicines into the South across the Potomac River in response to the Union's ban of the passage of medical supplies to the South., Inscribed upper left corner: 18., Issued as plate 18 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., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 18 [2990.F.21]

Title: John Brown - the martyr. Meeting a slave mother and her child on the steps of Charlestown jail on his way to execution. Regarding them with a look of compassion Captain Brown stooped and kissed the child then met his fate
Description: Print depicting the fictitious meeting between John Brown and an enslaved African American mother on the radical abolitionist's walk to the gallows in December 1859. Shows Brown, his hands tied behind his back, standing at the door of the Charles Town, Virginia jail gazing compassionately upon the barefooted mother and her child seated to the side of him on a stair railing. In front of them stands a stern-faced, white man soldier waiting impatiently for Brown's descent down the steps., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Access points revised 2021., Purchase 1969., Description 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: Currier & Ives
Date: 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7811.F]

Title: Marion crossing the Pedee Engraved from the original picture in the possession of the American Art-Union
Description: Historical print showing Brig. Gen. Francis Marion, known as the Swamp Fox, during the American Revolution and commanding a raft down the river in between one of his guerilla attacks in South Carolina. Marion, wrapped in a cloak, on horseback is surrounded by his band of volunteer soldiers, horses carrying light equipment, and a few dogs on the raft. The men include Marion's enslaved man Oscar Marion holding the reigns of his horse and another African American man rowing the raft with an oar. A few of the soldiers hold the reigns of horses swimming through the river. A second raft is visible in the background., Title from item., After an 1850 painting by William Tylee Ranney in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX., One of six prints issued in 1851 for the members of the American Art-Union in New York., Trimmed., Gift of David Doret, 2006., 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: Burt, Charles Kennedy, 1823-1892, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.2006.28.22]

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: The battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston June 17, 1775
Description: Book illustration after John Trumbull's historical painting based on his eyewitness account of the battle while serving as a commissioned officer during the American Revolution. Dramatically depicts the scene of American Major General Joseph Warren's death proceeding the Americans' retreat from the hill. Amidst a melee of activity, Warren lies dying in the arms of an American militiaman who fends off a bayonnet pointed down over his body by an English soldier. British Major John Small restrains the bayonnet of his soldier as Americans Captain Thomas Gardner, holding a musket, Major Andrew McClary, and Colonel William Prescott stand guard over their fallen compatriot. Behind Small, British Major John Pitcairn, mortally wounded, is held up by Lieutenant William Pitcairn and to the far right American Lieutenant Thomas Grovesnor stands en garde shielding Peter Salem, an armed African American soldier who discharged the fatal shot at Pitcairn. British Generals William Howe, Henry Clinton, and Lieutentant Francis Lord Rawdon, flag in hand, continue the charge in the background. Other American soldiers involved in the battle include: Colonel Israel Putnam who gallantly leads the retreat; Rev. Samuel McClintock; Major Willard Moore, as well as several other free African American soldiers. American Lieutenant Colonel Moses Parker and British Lieutentant Colonel Sir Robert Abercromby lay dying., Published in John Howard Hinton's The history and topography of the United States of North America,... [LCP *Am 1834 Hinto, 11860.Q.1] and later editions., Printed below title: Vol. I. page . 226., Original painting at Yale School of Fine Art, New Haven, Connecticut., Described in Theodore Sizer's The works of Colonel John Trumbull (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), p. 95., Described in The Library of Congress' An album of American battle art, 1755-1918. (Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Printing Office, 1947), p. 27-30., 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., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021., Gift of Dolly Maass, 2002.
Creator: Archer & Boilly, engraver
Date: [1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - American Revolution [P.2002.14]

Title: The United States Centennial International Exhibition
Description: Share certificate issued by the Centennial Board of Finance containing a series of historical and allegorical vignettes, scenes, and figures. Vignettes depict a view on a coastline showing a white man, attired in colonial dress, reaping with a sickle beside a white man driving a plow in front of a steer-drawn conestoga wagon, a moving train, and sailing ships; the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and a scene depicting a Native American man, attired in pants and moccasins with a feather in his hair and a quiver of arrows on his back, covering his face from the sight of a dilapidated windmill near rows of industrial buildings spewing smoke. Along the sides figures include: tradesmen; laborers; soldiers; frontiersmen; inventors, including Benjamin Franklin; Native Americans; and an African American man reading. In the top center, allegorical figures of Liberty, Art, and Peace, portrayed as white women, accept offerings from representations of people from across the world, including African women; a woman attired in a turban, a person with a parrot on their shoulder, and an Asian man with a queue. Also contains: busts of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant; an eagle holding an American flag; views of the State House and Capitol; and the printed seal of the Centennial Board of Finance. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from item., P.2002.67.77 issued to Margaret R. Bringhurst for one share on October 20, 1875. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President., 5788.F.10 issued to Mary Norris Logan for one share on November 10, 1876. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President., Printed on recto: Shares $10. Each. Capital $10,000,000., P.2002.67.66 poor condition., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002 [P.2002.67.66]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views [5758.F.10. 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.
Creator: United States, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [P.2002.67.77], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [5758.F.10]

Title: On the march to the sea
Description: Civil War scene from Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's notorious campaign across Georgia in 1864 and 1865 depicting the depredation and destruction of countryside near the Atlantic coast. Amidst smoke, Sherman sits on his horse, looks through a scope, and scouts the horizon. Around him, white men Union soldiers and an African American man dismantle railroad tracks, and further down the line a railroad car has been set on fire. Newly free African Americans leave on foot and by raft. In the right, an African American family of a mother, father, son, and grandfather, attired in worn and torn cloths, carry bundles as they travel over the dismantled railroad tracks. The mother holds her son’s one hand while he uses the other to rub his eyes. The father rests his hand on the back of the grandfather. Behind them, two Union soldiers cut down a telegraph pole. In the background, Union soldiers round up cattle, burn homesteads and a bridge, and fire upon retreating Confederate soldiers. In the lower margin is a portrait of Sherman., Title from item., Plate signed by Darley lower right corner., Manuscript note on verso: Acc. No. 0479; Gift Minnie Owen., See Nancy Finlay's Inventing the American past: the art of F.O.C. Darley (New York: New York Public Library, 1999), p. 28 and opp. p. 32., Accessioned 2000., 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., Ritchie, a New York painter and prolific engraver of portraits and genre scenes, produced many engravings after the works of the premier illustrator of the 19th century and native Philadelphian, F.O.C. Darley.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Civil War [P.9854]

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: 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: The military and historical portrait group of the officers of the Third North Carolina U. S. V. Infantry in the war with Spain, commanded by Colonel James H. Young. The first negro regiment ever organized and entirely officered by colored men
Description: Commemorative print containing a collage of portraits (after photographs) of members from the North Carolina regiment, one of the only African American commanded regiments, which was mustered into service July 23 1898. Sitters attired in uniforms. Portraits depict Maj. Andrew J. Walker; Maj. A. J. Haywood; Maj. J. E. Dellinger; Dr. David A. Lane; Lieut. Col. C. S. L. A. Taylor; Col. James H. Young; Chaplain Henry Durham; Adjutant E. E. Smith; 1st Lieut. Marcus W. Alston; Capt. James E. Hamlin; Capt. J. T. York; Capt. Joseph J. Hood; 1st Lieut. M. T. Pope; Capt. David J. Gilmer; Capt. William A. Carpenter; Capt. R. H. Alexander; Capt. P. H. Smith; Capt. S. O. Mason; Capt. Thos. Leatherwood; 1st Lieut. J. C. Graham; 1st Lieut. P. H. Haywood; 1st Lieut. H. S. Christmas; 1st Lieut. W. T. Powell; 1st Lieut. E. L. Watkins; 1st Lieut. H. T. Scott; 1st Lieut. H. L. Joyner; 1st. Lieut. J. W. B. Murphy; 1st Lieut. Harrison B. Brown; 2nd Lieut. H. H. Taylor; 2nd Lieut. Jacob J. Jones; 2nd Lieut. Gray J. Tool; 2nd Lieut. William E. Mitchell; 2nd Lieut. I. F. Moore; 2nd Lieut. T. L. Taylor; 2nd Lieut. J. I. Allen; and 2nd Lieut. Samuel F. Taylor. Also contains battle and camp scenes; an American eagle with a shield; biographies of the depicted officers, predominately businessmen and professional; and a brief history of the regiment captioned "A New Epoch In Our History.", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Published and copyrighted, 1899. By Thomas L. Leatherwood, Asheville, N.C., Printed lower right corner: Agents Wanted in every Town, State or Country, to handle this Beautiful Souvenir Portrait Group., Accompanied by inscribed office stationery "From the Desk Of" Leon Candeub., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2005, p. 67-69., Gift of Helene Candeub, 2005., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Kurz and Allison Art Studio
Date: 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Spanish American War [P.2005.23]

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