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Title
[Sheep grazing near trees]
Creator
Walcott, Mary Vaux, 1860-1940, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Vaux [P.8983.48]
Title
The war to end in 1863 at which time the greatest strides in all pursuits of industry, and the introduction of improvements in machinery will commence, that have ever been known in the United States. In the midst of war and confusion the United States has proven to be the greatest mechanical, agricultural and grain growing country in the world; ... James M. Clark, of Clark's Villa, Lancaster City, Lancaster County, Penn'a, has invented and received a patent for the whole United States for a newly invented, very ingenious and greatly needed apparatus, which all mills need and must have. ... James M. Clark's newly patented alarm and indicator, and silent feed and centrifrugal [sic] distributing apparatus for grinding mills
Creator
Clark, James M., of Lancaster, Pa
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 Clark (27)5761.F.92 (McAllister)
Title
Horsemen, attention! Dr. A.W. Selden of Kentucky, assisted by Dr. W.V. Strickland! of Kentucky, and Dr. James L. Killgore of Delaware, will deliver a free lecture, at Odd Fellows' Hall Wilmington, on Monday night, August 29th, 1864, commencing at [blank] o'clock, on the veterinary science and art, science of horsemanship, and the physiology and anatomy of the horse, and the various methods of taming and handling horses The doctors will, if the citizens wish, take up a class and teach the whole veterinary science. ... They will also introduce their Indian war bridle! which, if any scholar says is not worth the price of tuition alone, no charge will be made
Creator
Selden, A. W.
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Selden (26)5761.F.42a (McAllister)
Title
Shute, Thomas
Creator
Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date
December 30, 1801
Title
Mammoth ox "Pride of Livingston," weighing the enormous weight of 3,602 lbs being the heaviest animal of this species on record, is now on exhibition, with other fine animals, &c., &c., at the building erected for the cattle show, on 15th St., adjacent to the machinery and ship-building departments of the Metropolitan Fair
Creator
Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.)
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Metropol (6)5777.F.29c (McAllister)
Title
Grand celebration of the Battle of Buena Vista! Come see it. Come see it. The slaughtering of a mammoth hog which is supposed by many good judges to wiegh 800 pounds! will take place at the house of W.S. Sager, Willow Grove on Monday, Feb. 23d, 1863, at 10 o'clock, A.M. Gentlemen, this hog is pronounced by all who have seen her, to be the best proportioned big hog exhibited to the public this season; we therefore invite you, one an all, to be in attendance on that day, as we expect to have a good time any how. The hog to be sold to the hihgest [sic] bidder after slaughtering
Creator
Clayton, C. S.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Clayton (1)1322.F.277 (McAllister)
Title
The Mammoth cattle! Gen. G.B. McClellan and Garibaldi At the Western Exchange Hotel Yard, Fifteenth and Market Street, Philadelphia. The public are invited to call and examine the most extraordinary pair of cattle ever produced in this or any other conntry [sic]. Gen. McClellan took the first prize at four successive state fairs in four states, viz: Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, and is conceded to be the neatest and finest animal every before looked upon. The cattle will remain on exhibition during the present month. They will be slaughtered on or about the 1st of March, and their meat will be sold by A.R. Paul, at his stalls, Second Avenue, Western Market. The butchers selected to dress these cattle, are the following gentlemen: Jos. S. Lowry, Peter Riffert, Samuel S. Coggins, Wm. Myers
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Mammoth (6)5777.F.3b (McAllister)
Title
Andalusian stallion Hidalgo The following letter from Mr. Sprague, American Consul in Gibraltar, gives the history of this horse: ... There are only two colts of his get now at the stables of his owner, at Tarrytown. The above horse, presented by Mr. Aspinwall to the Metropolitan Fair for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, will be sold at auction, by Edward Schenck, on Thursday, 21st inst., at 4 o'clock, at the fair grounds, 15th Street
Creator
Metropolitan Fair (1864 : New York, N.Y.)
Date
[1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Metro (2)5781.F.136a (McAllister)
Title
[Specimens album]
Date
[ca. 1852-ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349]
Title
Engravings by William Humphrys Scrapbook
Description
Scrapbook of print specimens and proofs engraved by Philadelphia and London engraver William Humphrys. Contents include postage stamp proofs, book and periodical illustrations, tile pages, portrait prints, advertisements, and cut outs of banknote and certificate vignettes. Majority of graphics depict allegorical imagery or illustrations of genre, religious, sentimental, and literary scenes, some from the plays of Shakespeare. Illustrations include scenes of courtship; female friendship; children with animals; a ghoulish-looking woman with a torch; a European man smoking a hookah; Jesus Christ; Adam & Eve; and imagery from Edmund Spencer's "Faery Queen", John Milton's "Palemon's Story," and John Gay's "Thursday: or The Spell." Allegorical works depict the figures of Columbia, Minerva, Mercury, Neptune, Bounty, Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Hope, and Apollo, as well as scenes with the American eagle; caducei for the "Liverpool Apothecaries Company"; citizens fighting a fire; cherubs charting a globe; Native Americans; a family; sailing ships; and symbols of farming, trade, and industry. Vignettes also show a portrait of Benjamin Franklin; Pocahontas saving John Smith; and a female warrior slaying a man of royalty captioned "Sic Semper Tyranus."
Title
Engravings by William Humphrys
Creator
Humphrys, William, 1795-1865
Date
[ca. 1817-ca. 1845]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Humphrys [7607.F]
