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Title: Super, Marshall & Co., Philadelphia. Great Britain
Description: Embossed textile label for the Philadelphia linen dealer reincorporated as Super, Marshall & Co. in 1889. Contains the image of an armored arm holding a battle axe in its hand framed by pictorial details representative of royalty, including a crown., Printed and in manuscript on recto: No. 8641., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.171]

Title: Dracht en wapening der Hottentots = The Hottentots clothing and their dress
Description: Set in a lush landscape near the Cape of Good Hope, the illustration features a group of Khoikoin, also known (pejoratively) as the Hottentots. Engraving accompanies a passage in which Ogilby offers a detailed description of their clothing and weapons. "Their Clothing is very sordid, and vile, most of the Men wearing onely a Sheeps Pelt, or Badgers Skin, in manner of a Mantle about their Shoulders, with the hairy side commonly within, and ty'd under their Chin. Such a Mantle consists of three Pieces, neatly sew'd together with Sinews of Beasts in stead of Threed. When they go abroad, or upon a Journey, they throw another Sheeps-skin, with the Wool on the out-side, over the undermost. Upon their Heads they wear a Cap of Lamb-skin, with the Woolly side inward, and a Button on the top. Their shoes are made of a Rhincerot's Skin, and consists of a whole flat Piece, before and behind of a like heighth, with a Cross of two Leather-bands fasten'd to their Feet. Before their Privacies hangs a little piece of a wild Wood-Cat, or ring-streaked Tyger, or Jack-alls Skin, ty'd behind with two Thongs. The Habit of the Women differs little from the former, being a Sheep-skin Mantle on the upper part of their Bodies, with the Wool inwards; but somewhat longer than the Men; also another Skin hanging behind to cover their back-parts, and a square Piece before their Privacies. On their Heads they wear a high Cap of a Sheeps, or Badgers Skin, bound to their Heads with a broad Fillet: In all the rest following the Mens Garb. . . . Many of them wear as an Ornament, the Guts of Beasts, fresh and stinking, drawn two or three times one through another, about their Necks, and the like about their Legs . . . . When they go abroad they have usually an Ostrich Feather, or a Staff, with a wild Cats Tail ty'd to it, in one Hand, in stead of a Handkerchief to wipe their Eyes and Noses, and beat away the Dust, Sand, and Flies, and in the other Hand a sleight Javelin. The Women never go abroad without a Leather Sack at their backs, having at each end a Tuft or Taffel, fill'd with one trifle or another. Their Weapons, or Arms, are Bowes and Arrows, and small Darts, three, four, or five Foot long, having at one end a broad sharp Iron fixed, which they handle and throw very dexterously." (p. 590-91), Double-page plate in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid: the Land of Negroes, Guinee, and Aethiopia, and Abyssines, with all the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX [1670]), p. 590., A seemingly identical copy of this engraving appeared in Pieter van der Aa's La Galerie agreable du monde (Leyden: 1729?). The Leyden version was signed by van der Aa., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1670]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Wing O163 14.F p 590, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2962

Title: Dracht en wapening der Hottentots = Les armes et habits des Hottentots, aupres le Cap de Bonne Esperance
Description: Set in a lush landscape near the Cape of Good Hope, the illustration features a group of Khoikoin, also known (somewhat pejoratively) as the Hottentots. As the title suggests, the engraving shows their weapons and manner of dress. Both the men and the women wear loin-cloths and shawls bordered with fur. A few wear bands around their lower legs. Some of the Khoikoin carry spears; the central figure is also shown with a bow and a quiver., Double-page plate in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?]), n.p., In the absence of pagination, 57 has been written next to the plate., Seemingly, van der Aa copied from an unsigned engraving published in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid (London: 1670) under the title "Dracht en Wapening der Hottentots / The Hottentots Clothing and Their Arms.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1729?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (57), https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2951

Title: Metropolitan Fair, New York 1864
Description: Series of views of the New York fair published by William Langenheim to aid the Sanitary Commission. Views predominately show the Arms and Trophies Department, including the model of Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, N.Y., the uniform of Col. Ellsworth, the first Union fatality, and a suit of armor. Also includes views of the Firemens' Department, the "Two Swords" donated by Tiffany & Co. to be presented to the military and naval officer who received the greatest number of votes by fair visitors; the Welsh Stand; a coconut tree in the middle of several exhibits; and an unidentified exhibit displaying pottery, glassware, and boots. Also shows patriotic bunting, garlands, and flags; framed painting, prints, and photographs; weaponry; and signage. Signs include printed inspirational quotations; department banners; and business advertisements for exhibit sponsors., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook on the Sanitary Commission., Contains twelve stereographic prints mounted on yellow or white paper mounts with square corners, including six accompanied by labels and six with manuscript titles and two carte-de- visites., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Metropolitan Fair held April 4-23, 1864 on Fourteenth Street and Union Square in New York was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit, the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. The exhibition, the largest of the fairs, raised over $1,000,000 to benefit the commission. Exhibits included an Arms and Trophies Department, Art Gallery, Book Department, Firemens' Department, and Children's Department.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.161g & j], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Great Central Fair [5781.F.167a-c & e-h; 169c-e; 171e; 173g]

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