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Title: Marshal's sale! By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. John Cadwalader, judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Admiralty, to me directed, will be sold, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at the Mead Alley Wharf, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1861, at 12 o'clock, noon, the following, being the cargo of the schr. Mary Wood. 15 hogsheads of molasses, 4 barrels of do. 2,553 bushels salt
Description: The illustrations are two ships., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Uni Sta Marshal (2)5786.F.111c (McAllister(

Title: Marshal's sale! By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. John Cadwalader, judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Admiralty, to me directed, will be sold, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at the store, 712 S. Delaware Avenue, on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 1861, at 12 o'clock, M., 43 casks of linseed oil, part of the cargo of the ship Amelia, marked as follows: eleven puncheons and twenty hodsheads of linseed oil (C. & B.) 1-31 and twelve casks of raw linseed oil, marked C. & B. 32-43
Description: Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription., The illustrations are two ships., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; attached is a newspaper clipping: The United States Marshal, through their agent, Mr. Cook, of the firm of Dutilh & Cook, disposed of 43 casks of linseed oil, at public auction, yesterday noon, ... The oil which was purchased by Messrs. Grove & Bro, at 69 cents per gallon, was part of the cargo of the prize ship Amelia, which was sold some two or three weeks ago., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Uni Sta Marshal (2)5786.F.109c (McAllister)

Title: Marshal's sale By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. John Cadwalader, judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern Distict [sic] of Pennsylvania, in Admiralty, to me directed, will be sold, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at the Catharine Street Wharf, on Thursday, October 3, 1861, at 12 o'clock, M., the one-fourth part of the schooner Alice
Description: The illustrations are two ships., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Uni Sta Marshal (2)5786.F.109b (McAllister)

Title: Catalogue of articles in the Machinery Department to be sold at public sale on Friday morning, July 1st, 1864, at 11 o'clock, at the Great Central Fair Building
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.63a (McAllister)

Title: Public sale, for the benefit of the Sanitary Fair Building lot West Street, between 19th & 20th & Coates & Brown Sts On Saturday, June 18, 1864, at 12 o'clock, noon, will be sold at public sale, without reserve, at the flag staff, on Union Avenue, in the fair buildings, the following property, presented to the Sanitary Fair, ... Clear of all incumbrance. Terms cash
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.). Committee of Auctioneers, Committee of Auctioneers
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.31b (McAllister)

Title: Marshal's sale! By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. John Cadwalader, judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Admiralty, to me directed, will be sold, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at the Philadelphia Exchange, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 1861, at 12 o'clock, M., the one-sixteenth part of the schooner John S. Lee, her tackle, apparel and furniture, being the interest of Andrew J. Howell, a resident and inhabitant of the state of North Carolina, in the said schooner, now lying at House's Wharf, Richmond
Description: The illustrations are two ships., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Marshal (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Uni Sta Marshal (2)5786.F.109a (McAllister)

Title: Catalogue of fancy and miscellaneous goods articles to be sold at auction at the fair building of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, (Logan Square,) on Saturday, July 2d, 1864, at 3 o'clock, p.m. Terms,--cash on delivery. Sale in Union Avenue
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.103a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia horse & carriage bazaar, S.E. corner of Ninth & George, bet. Walnut & Chesnut Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 17 Sth 5th St. Phila.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 H548. Originally part of the Dreer Collection., HSP copy includes advertising text above image: Auction sales every Saurday morning. Private sales daily., View of Alfred M. Herkness' circular auction house. Originally erected for the exhibition of a cyclorama of Jerusalem, the building was acquired by Herkness in 1847 or 48. Herkness remained at this site until 1913. Building demolished in 1915.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [April 1848]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W289.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W289 [P.2173]

Title: Sanitary Fair sale Catalogue of miscellaneous goods remaining from the Great Sanitary Fair, to be sold at public sale, on Tuesday, December 6, 1864, at 10 o'clock, at the auction store, No. 1110 Chestnut Street
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Birch & Son
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Birch (1)5781.F.72a (McAllister)

Title: [Construction at Ninth and Sansom streets]
Description: Depicts four African American men construction workers on the framework of store fronts (i.e., Burd Building) under construction on the former grounds of the Shippen Burd mansion, demolished in 1861. In the background stands the hippodrome-shaped auction house of "Alfred M. Herkness Philadelphia Horse & Carriage Bazaar," in operation from around 1848 until 1913., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note on verso., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), p. 180., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. 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.
Creator: Broadbent & Co., photographer
Date: September 6, 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Non-Portraits - Broadbent & Co. [(8)1322.F.47f]

Title: Sanitary Fair Catalogue of cabinet furniture, looking-glasses, marble mantels, fonts, sewing machines, carpets, &c. to be sold at the fair building, (Logan Square.) On Friday, July 1, 1864, at 1 o'clock, p.m
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.62a (McAllister)

Title: Sanitary Fair Catalogue of articles to be sold at the Restaurant Department, at the Great Central Fair buildings, on Saturday morning, July 2d, 1864, at 10 o'clock
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, (1864 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Great (1)5781.F.69a (McAllister)

Title: Philadelphia horse & carriage bazaar, S.E. corner of Ninth & George, between Walnut & Chesnut [sic] Sts. Philadelphia
Description: View of Alfred M. Herkness' circular auction house on the 800 block of George, i.e., Sansom Street. Signage adorns the building in which a man, possibly Herkness, stands in the doorway. Signs advertise the sale of horses, carriages, and harnesses "twice every week" and harnesses are tacked along the doorway. Carriages, harnessed to horses and free-standing, line the streets, and men wait at the side of the building. Also shows the neighboring Fifth Baptist Church, a man waiting on horseback, and a gentleman at the opposite street corner. Originally erected for the exhibition of a cyclorama of Jerusalem, the building was acquired by Herkness in 1847 or 48. Herkness remained at this site until 1913. Building demolished in 1915., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1848. S.E. cor. George & Ninth Sts., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 589, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 H548. Originally part of the Dreer Collection., HSP copy includes advertising text above image: Auction sales every Saturday morning. Private sales daily.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W289 [P.2173]

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