Sample image scanned from: Wolf 1623b, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
Menus and ephemera related to Philadelphia restaurants, including announcements and invitations, mid-19th century. The collection was started with menus from the John A. McAllister collection and additional menus have accrued over the years. Most significantly, in 1984, Charles E. Rosenberg donated eleven menus from the anniversary dinners of the Shakespeare Society, dating from 1855 to 1874. The collection is open to new additions.
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 920a, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2465g, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
Sample image scanned from: Wolf 2401c, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).
Depicts a man standing in front of two oxen pulling a cart. An unidentified barn structure sits in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.6]
Depicts agricultural buildings and a windmill in the distance, taken from a field full of wildflowers., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.10]
Depicts four naked men sitting on a log with their arms folded over their chests. They're on a sandy beach with grass and vegetation in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.124]
Depicts three women and a man collecting chestnuts near a large chestnut tree. The man is climbing the tall tree in search of chestnuts. Catharine Rupp Doering, the wife of the photographer, is depicted, but the others are unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.107-109]
Depicts the five heads of people swimming in a deep body of water, not far from a rocky ledge and trees in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.123]
Depicts the photographer's three young nephews and an unidentified young girl posing from a wooden swing suspended from a tree. George Doering, the photographer's brother, stands in the background. A baby carriage is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.74]
Depicts three men (with others out of view) demonstrating the large size of a tree trunk in a wooded area by clasping hands around its circumference., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.79]
View of front of church from across a wide road. Adorned with a four column portico on the first level and surmounted by a tall steeple. Second floor of church obscured by trees. Located in a park setting, with benches lining the road nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.228 & 229]
Depicts the side entrance door on the side of a house, including the back stairs and a rear oval shaped room., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.230]
Angle view of a four story brick industrial building, with evenly spaced windows flanked by shutters. A bicycle leans near one of the entrance doors of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.235]
Depicts four women and four men gathered onto the entrance stairs of an unidentified clapboard building. Their bicycles stand nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.178]
Depicts a dirt country road from the top of a hill, looking toward dwellings and trees in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.224]
Depicts a curving dirt country road, looking toward dwellings and trees in the distance. An unidentified man stands on the side of the road in the foreground, posing for the camera., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.225]
Continental Congress meeting in the Pennsylvania state house, later known as Independence Hall., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 99., Plate 5 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date
[1783]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.5]
Exterior view of front facade and side of church., Sheet number: 50B15., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of front facade and flank of church., Sheet number: 50B16., Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Interior view of nave, pews and sanctuary of unidentified church., Sheet number: 50B16., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Signed: Hor. Binney [and 67 others]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Phila 5793.F.48a (McAllister)
Two printed sections, each inside ornamental border. The top section measures 39 x 55 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: 1789 Bank. The bottom section measures 40 x 56 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: BFB 1789., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy has MS. note: Chas. A. Poulson Esq. with the regards of Jno. A. McAllister Feb 29, 1864., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bank of North America
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm #Am 1789 Bank 3321.F.70 (McAllister)
Caption title., Copyright 1861 by William Beschke., "American national songs for the Union! To the Hon. William H. Seward most respectfully dedicated by this devoted and humble friend: William Beschke. Philadelphia, in June, 1861."--p. [4]., With two eagles and one seal on p. [4]., "Every loyal man in the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, is entitled to one copy gratis, from the War- and Navy-Departments. Such copies for the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, are for that purpose only and not saleable, printed with two seals, marked W.B., and with one eagle. All saleable copies are printed with one seal, marked W.B., and with two eagles. ... Copies to be had, wholesale and retail, 531 Chestnut-Str., Philadelphia."--p. [1] and p. [4]., The first page contains words and music to six numbered patriotic songs; the second and third pages are identical and each have the caption title "Appendix to six 'American national songs for the Union!' By William Beschke."; the fourth page has the words only to the six numbered songs., William Beschke, the inventor of the breech-loading cannon, was a staunch supporter of the Union cause and published this broadside as a diatribe against Jeff Davis. He wrote derogatory lyrics to a German melody, Hail Columbia, Marseillaise, Haydn's Austrian National, God Save our Noble Queen, and Yankee Doodle. Members of the Union forces were entitled to one free copy from the War and Navy Departments [see 5782.F.4c]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4a (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4b (McAllister)
For voice, chorus and piano., "To the army & navy of the Union.", First line of text: When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah, Hurrah., Pre-cataloging record., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Gilmore, P. S.
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 11669.F (Clarence Wolf) In Process 4th Floor
The words "Bucks County, Pennsylvania." are typeset within the banner of a spread-eagle headpiece., Printed area measures 37.7 x 26.3 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Conrad Deisenoth, native of Sachsen Weimar, dated Sept. 18, 1857, and signed by A.W. Gilkeson., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas (Bucks County)
Date
[185-]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1850 Penn Cou 11330.F (Doret)
The words "Bucks County, Pennsylvania." are typeset within the banner of a spread-eagle headpiece., Printed area measures 37.7 x 26.3 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Conrad Deisenoth, native of Sachsen Weimar, dated Sept. 18, 1857, and signed by A.W. Gilkeson., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Pennsylvania, Court of Common Pleas (Bucks County)
Date
[185-]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1850 Penn Cou 11330.F (Doret)
Cover title., At head of title: To the officers & men of the 113th Regt. Ills Vols., For voice (AATB) and piano., First line: Oh! Bury the dead where they fall! Let them sleep beneath the sod ...., Library Company copy matches copy held by Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 089, Item 064. Digital surrogate available., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Frisbie, Henrie L.
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Oh! Bury 11373.F, http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/15851
Depicts a group of men and women sitting on the side porch of an unidentified residence. An older man sits in the grass against the stone wall dividing the property from the road in the foreground., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator
Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.88]
Landscape view of an unidentified pasture dotted with trees, looking toward an unidentified farm., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator
Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.30 & 31]
Depicts a young girl attired in a double breasted coat and wide brimmed wicker hat standing outside with a puppy in her arms., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.21]
Depicts a group of cows resting under a tree on a hill. A few cows are standing in the distance, closer to a fence dividing the field. Trees fill the valley in the background., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Form part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.24]
Depicts seven cows grazing in a field on a hill in the foreground and an unidentified body of water surrounded by trees in the distance., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.25]
Depicts three boys and two girls sitting on a wooden wagon frame, pretending to steer an elevated log set up in front of the wagon. Probably in Mount Washington, Massachusetts., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
March 20, 1892
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.12]
Landscape view depicting the wooden ruins of a barn structure in a rocky field., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.29]
Depicts a man and a woman sitting in the front of a wagon pulled by two white horses along a dirt path in the hills. The team is transporting one wooden barrel., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.32]
Depicts one man sitting in the back of the rowboat with a paddle while another stands at the front, pushing the boat into an unidentified body of water. An empty rowboat is docked next to it., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.33]
Depicts a woman carrying a basket, standing on a dirt path, next to a two-story residence on the side of the road. Two young girls sit on the porch of the house watching her. Another residence is visible between the trees in the distance., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.34]
Depicts a man with a cradle scythe, harvesting grain in a field., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1889]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.37]
Reproduction of a caricature showing a Light Guard depicted as a mannequin attired in a uniform. The light-weight soldier stands in front of broadsides advertising the "roll of honor Engagements of the Light Guard" and "Academy of Music Ball.", Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
J. Gurney & Son
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51q]
View of small boats floating near the dock of a residence located along the bank of an unidentified river., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator
Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.2]
Table showing the money value of clothing, arms, and equipment allowed to the Union Army., "Clothing furnished by state authorities will be charged at the above prices unless otherwise specially directed.", Signed: Adjutant General's Office, January 1, 1863. Official: L. Thomas, adjutant general., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
United States, Adjutant-General's Office
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta Adjut 5786.F.58a (McAllister)
Depicts a group of cows in a fenced pasture resting under a tree., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.1]
