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Four Scrapbooks

John Work Garrett, 1820-1884 [graphic].

The industrious man

Dealers in Toffler's patented round, square & flat rolling wood matting adapted and in use for railroad and street cars, hotels, saloons, stores, markets, bath rooms, water closets, &c. &c. [over]

[Humane Society of Philadelphia]

A promenade concert will be given at the Masonic Hall, : on Thursday evening, May 12th, for the benefit of the Sociers' Union Fair, / by the ladies of the May Flower Association. There will be a table of just such delicacies as will be needed. Rolley's Ba

Foyer of the Academy. : Wednesday evening, April 13, 1864. Vocal & instrumental concert in aid of the Sanitary Commission. Committee--Miss Houston, Miss De Solms, F.H. Williams. Programme. ... Cards of admission--one dollar. The Steinway grand piano has b

F[ire] and P[olice] Dept. Record. [certificate] [graphic].


Our diagrams for army socks having been found useful, we herewith submit one for army mittens : Those who may be disposed to knit mittens for the army, may forward them through the Women's Central Relief Association No. 814 Broadway, New-York. Specificati

[Specimen sheet of volunteer fire fighting vignettes]

Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. To the citizens of the United States. : The Ladies Visiting Committee of the Soldiers' Home, in the city of Philadelphia, propose to open a national fair at the Academy of Music, on the twenty-third day of October

Joseph Oat & Son, coppersmiths, No. 12 Quarry Street Philadelphia.

Presbyterianism Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work

Fruit festival for the benefit of disabled soldiers : to be held at Citizens' Hall, Saturday, August 30th, / by the ladies of "The Bethlehem Mite Society." Donations of cakes, fruit, and flowers, will be thankfully received. They can be left at the hall o

Captain A.R. Calhoun will deliver a lecture on "Prison life in the land of chivalry," : on Thursday evening, the 13th inst., at the hall of the "Ladies' Soldiers' Aid," of Weldon, Montgomery Co., in aid of the sick & wounded soldiers. Admission, 25 cts. A

Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list.

Pike's Opera House! Reading by Mr. James E. Murdoch! : For the benefit of the sick soldiers! Under the auspices of the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Society! On Tuesday evening, Feb. 4th. Subject: The wild wagoner of the Alleghenies! A new and unpublished patrioti





The coal-cart.

The oysterman.

Idle talk.

The wood-cart.

Selections from Elkington's repousse exhibit - Main Building.



Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Nam

Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey"

Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey,"

[Print specimens depicting African Americans from the Thomas Richardson and American Bank Note Company scrapbook]

David Doret collection of Centennial ephemera

Sanitary Fairs Collection, 1749-1867 (bulk 1864).

[Thomas Richardson and American Bank Note Company scrapbook]