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- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] from [blank] teacher. [blank] 186[blank]
- Description
- On verso, printed inside ornamental border signed "Childs sc.", with an illustration signed "Childs sc.", a poem: Light house. Star of hope to the benighted, First to greet the wanderer's eye: Joy in hearts hath oft been lighted, When thy beams shone on the sky! Harbinger that bliss is coming, Glimmer by the dark blue sea! And upon the ocean roaming, I will sing in praise of thee!, Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan from Carrie Smith., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .3
- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] from [blank] teacher. [blank] 186[blank]
- Description
- On verso, printed inside ornamental border signed "Childs sc.": Good children. Good children are generally happy. We have seen many little boys and girls that were unhappy, simply because they were naughty. One naughtly word or deed will cast a cloud over any bright and smiling face., Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan from Carrie Smith, Jan. 24, 1865., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .2
- Title
- Reward of merit To [blank] by [blank] teacher
- Description
- Printed in gold ink., Library Company copy inscribed to Mary Morgan by C. Smith., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Reward 79129.O .1
- Title
- Certificate of promotion This may certify, that [blank] by diligent attention to study, and punctual attendance at school, has made such proficiency in the studies of [blank] department as entitles [blank] to a promotion to a higher grade; and by [blank] correct deportment and exemplary conduct, has merited the esteem and affectionate regard of [blank] teachers. In consideration of which, this certificate is granted by the board of directors, as a testimonial of their approbation and favour
- Description
- Printed on rose-colored paper; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 16.4 x 22.2 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. May 24, 1840 for Miss Mary Shertz, signed by John Mathiot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Lancaster (Pa.), School Board
- Date
- [1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1840 Lanca 112040.O (Roughwood)
- Title
- Certificate of promotion This may certify, that [blank] by diligent attention to study, and punctual attendance at school, has made such proficiency in the studies of [blank] department as entitles [blank] to a promotion to a higher grade; and by [blank] correct deportment and exemplary conduct, has merited the esteem and affectionate regard of [blank] teachers. In consideration of which, this certificate is granted by the board of directors, as a testimonial of their approbation and favour
- Description
- Printed on rose-colored paper; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 16.4 x 22.2 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. May 24, 1840 for Miss Mary Shertz, signed by John Mathiot., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Lancaster (Pa.), School Board
- Date
- [1840]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1840 Lanca 112040.O (Roughwood)
- Title
- Marriage certificate This is to certify, that Mr. [blank] and M[blank] [blank] were by me united in matrimony, this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and [blank] according to law, and the custom of the church
- Description
- At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [not after 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)
- Title
- Marriage certificate This is to certify, that Mr. [blank] and M[blank] [blank] were by me united in matrimony, this [blank] day of [blank] one thousand eight hundred and [blank] according to law, and the custom of the church
- Description
- At head of title: "Whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.6 x 21.1 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Martin Mellinger and Miss Sarah Burry [i.e. Barry], married Dec. 13, 1864, by Rev. F.W. Kremer; with a five-cent stamp attached., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitied by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [not after 1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Marri 16513.Q (Doret)
- Title
- Ware, Harriet, 1799-1847.
- Description
- Waist-length portrait of Harriet Ware, wearing a bonnet and a dress with lace collar, knitting., In Wayland, Francis. A memoir of Harriet Ware (Providence, 1850), frontispiece., Harriet Ware was an educator and philanthropist who founded the Providence Children’s Friend Society after retiring as a teacher at Indian Point, a suburb of Providence., “She seldom allowed herself to sit many minutes without work of some kind in her hands. While entertaining callers and friends, knitting was her most common employment, and, even while intensely interested in conversation, her needles would be flying, as if impelled by some unseen power. Knitting work came at length to be called her ‘coat of arms;’ and in the daguerreotype portrait, a copy of which was taken only at the urgent request of her friends, which I believe is to accompany the memoir of her, her knitting work has its appropriate place, and may serve as a fit emblem of the homely virtues which she honored and practiced.”--P. 129-30.
- Date
- [1850?]
- Title
- [Collection of samples of raised-letter line types for printing for the blind.]
- Description
- Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: Coll. Zinman Blind: [1] Specimen of type. Medium type. This sample of Howe's Boston line type appeared in the Ninth annual report of the trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind (Boston 1841) -- [2] Card embossed with a geometric diagram, and the Lord's prayer. This appeared as a specimen in Address to the trustees of the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind (Boston 1833) -- [3] Of Greece & of Rome? raised-letter, all capitals, signed: W. Crafts -- [4] Poem in two verses by Anna McClintock, a blind poet, printed in raised letter on pink paper; first line: Art those weary burdened one? -- [5] Child's book, leaf 27; text is common to the moral lessons in spellers of the 1820s -- [6] New York point alphabet. Specimen printed in Boston line type and New York point; inscribed: Myra M. Cox PO address 624 Batavia -- [7] Students' magazine, Pennsylvania Institution for the instruction of the blind, v. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 3, 1838), leaf 3 --, Contents: #Coll. Zinman Blind: [8] The pilgrims progress, leaf 79, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [9] New Jerusalem Church, leaves 141-142 -- [10] Proverbs chapter 6, leaves 980-981, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [11] Visitation of prisoners, leaf 245 of the Book of common prayer, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 [12] David Copperfield, leaves 188 and 193, probably printed at the Perkins Institution before 1880 -- [13] Type specimen, [2] leaves., In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1830-1900]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 1 Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.1-7 (Zinman), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare TWO FOLDERS FOLDER 2 #Coll. Zinman Blind 11865.F.8-13 (Zinman)
- Title
- The works of John Woolman In two parts
- Description
- Signatures: A-2E⁸ 2F²., "A journal of the life, Gospel labours, and Christian experiences of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, late of Mount-Holly, in the province of New-Jersey."--[2], 250 p., has separate title page., "The works of John Woolman. Part the second. Containing his last epistle and other writings."--p. [251]-436, has separate title page, and includes: Some considerations on the keeping of negroes., Library Company copy 1118.O in original sheepskin binding; armorial bookplate: Levi Hollingsworth., Library Company copy 112571.O in original sheepskin binding; inscribed: Sarah Hopkins [and] B. Hopkins 1826; from the McNeil Americana Collection., Readex August 2013 update: This record replaces control number 000035738.
- Creator
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772
- Date
- [M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Woolm 1118.O (Maier), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Woolm 112571.O (McNeil)