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Title: Vote for representative, Fourteenth District, Alex'r Cummings
Description: The illustration, signed H.L.S. L. Johnson & Co. Copyright secured, shows an eagle on a shield with the banner: To secure our country's cause., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1864 Vote (5)5777.F.62 (McAllister)

Title: National Union Candidat für Congress Dritter Distrikt Leonard Myers
Description: Leonard Myers served six terms in the House, from 1863 to 1875, having been defeated in the 1874 election., Printed in red and blue., The illustration, signed L.Johnson & Co., shows an eagle on a shield, with the banner: Die Union und die Constitution., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Nat Union (6)5777.F.66a (McAllister)

Title: Congress, 3d district, Leonard Myers!
Description: Leonard Myers served six terms in the House, from 1863 to 1875, having been defeated in the 1874 election., Printed in red, blue, and black., The illustration is a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Congress (5)5777.F.42 (McAllister)

Title: National Union nominees For Congress, Chas. O'Neill. For Representative, first district, Wm. Foster
Description: The illustration, signed Copyright secured L. Johnson & Co. Philada., shows an eagle on a field of stars, with the banner: Lincoln, Johnson and victory!, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Nat Union (5)5777.F.26 (McAllister)

Title: Capitol at Washington, 1857
Description: Faded view showing the United States Capitol building with a canal in the foreground. Also shows a docked rowboat and piles of lumber stacked on the ground nearby. Capitol building built 1793-1829 after the designs of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch and the current dome and the House and Senate wing extensions by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn in the 1850s., Publication date inferred from color and style of mount., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [1857 [but published ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.8643.3]

Title: Delawareans attend! Remember the 19th of November approaches, the day fixed for the election of our representative in the glorious old Congress of the United States. Stand firmly by the flag of the Union! Rally to the support of our national standard, and the honor of our own state! Forget not the declaration of the immortal Jackson, "The Union must and shall be preserved." Vote then for the talented and well-tried son of Delaware, Nathaniel B. Smithers, ... Shall the sons of Delaware ... be cast aside to make room for a talkative adventurer like Charley Brown? ... Let us then roll up such a majority for Nathaniel B. Smithers, as will demonstrate to all worn-out politicians from other states, that Delaware has always on hand material enough of her own, to serve her in any emergency
Description: A special election was called in Nov. 1863 to fill the seat left vacant upon the death of Democrat William Temple; Republican Nathaniel B. Smithers ran against Democrat Charles Brown, and won with 99% of the vote. In the regular election the following year, Smithers lost to Democrat John A. Nichols., The illustration shows and eagle on a shield, with the banner: We must be brief when traitors take the field., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Smithers, Nathaniel B. (Nathaniel Barratt), 1818-1896
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Smithers 5786.F.44a (McAllister)

Title: Washington Senate Chamber
Description: Interior view of the United States Senate Chamber in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Shows desks and chairs arranged in a half-circle facing a platform, the galleries lining the perimeter of the room, and a partial view of the skylights in the ceiling. The Senate relocated to this chamber in 1859., Title on negative., Distributor's imprint on mount., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Government Buildings [P.9521.5]

Title: National Union ticket 20th Ward! Lincoln, Johnson. Congress, Wm. D. Kelley Assembly, Franklin D. Sterner, 1st and 2d divisions. George De Haven, Jr., 3d and 11th divisions. Francis Hood, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th divisions. Common Council, Joseph F. Marcer. School directors, George W. Hill, James W. Packer, Fletcher Hartley. Alderman, Edward S. Fitch. Constables, Charles P. Coward, Joseph Griffith
Description: Printed in red and blue., The illustration is a U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1864 Nat Union (5)5777.F.43 (McAllister)

Title: Southern chivalry - argument versus club's
Description: Cartoon critically addressing the Brooks-Sumner Affair in which Southern Congressman Preston S. Brooks caned antislavery Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate on May 26, 1856. Brook's "chivalrous" attack on Sumner was a reprisal for Sumner's two-day speech, "The Crime against Kansas," which attacked the violence occurring in Kansas over the issue of slavery; the South; and Brook's uncle, Andrew Butler. Depicts Sumner, head bloodied, quill in his raised hand and clutching a paper symbolically inscribed "Kansas.," He is held to the ground by Butler whose face is obscured by his raised arm and hand that holds his cane above his head. Butler is posed in mid-strike. Members of Congress observe in the background, some laughing, some scowling, with one member raising his hands in surrender from another who has his fist and cane raised., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., 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., Magee was a Philadelphia lithographer who established his own lithographic firm in Philadelphia in 1850.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-3W [5760.F.105]

Title: Lecompton funeral
Description: Cartoon satirizing Colonel Thomas B. Florence, the only successful Philadelphia Democrat in the Congressional race of 1858 despite his support of the recently defeated pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution advocated by President Buchanan ("Prince James"). Depicts Florence, with the head of a donkey, leading a funeral procession for the "dead" constitution. The procession is composed of: white men shipworkers of the "Two Sloops," which rescued Florence from the "wreck of Lecompton" (an allusion to the decisive electoral support provided by the Philadelphia Navy Yard workers actively supported by Florence's committee work); four, white men pallbearers carrying the "remains of Lecompton" in a coffin resembling an outhouse and inscribed with the names of the unsuccessful Democratic Congressional nominees, "Phillips," "Landy," "Jones" ; and two semi-human figures bearing the flag "discharged ship carpenters.", Title from item., Publication date supplied by manuscript note in Poulson's Scrapbook, Vol. 1, p. 29., Text printed on recto: Democratic committee bearing the remains of Lecompton to Prince James, marshaled by the only remaining representative, Col. T.B. Florence, who was rescued from the wreck by the untiring exertions of the workmen upon the TWO SLOOPS., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Pennsylvania views and political miscellany. 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.
Date: [October 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1858-2W [5759.F]

Title: Where's my thunder?
Description: Cartoon comparing the Senate chamber with a courtroom to satirize the Senate's response to Henry Clay's controversial and long-debated Compromise of 1850. Depicts Webster stealing the "Fugitive Slave Act" out of the pocket of Clay, who snoozes at his desk in the Senate (an allusion to the Senate's predominately positive reception of abolitionist Senator Webster's controversial support of the Act). In the background, Senators scowl, nap, and look on in anguish, including Lewis Cass of Michigan and Henry S. Foote of Mississippi. Cass, proponent of popular sovereignty and the extension of slavery, exclaims "Ain't tha man done yet." Foote, who proposed a special committee to revise Clay's omnibus bill, brandishes a club (probably an allusion to his violent confrontation with rival Thomas Hart Benton over his proposal). Contains several lines of text describing the larceny trial of "Defendent" Webster and "Complainant" Clay, including "loud applause" during Webster's departure of the "Court-room" compared to Clay's scarcely noticed exit. Also contains note: "(See Police Report in the Daily Screamer).", Title from item., Date inferred from content., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1850?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1850-3W [6691.F.]

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