ASSU Illustration 6204
Title
ASSU Illustration 6204
Description
Block numbered in two places: 6204, also 1417 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a boy selling books (Bibles?) in the street, carrying a tray suspended around his neck while extending one to a man looking on; several other people are gathered around, including women wearing cloth headdresses resembling wimples., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876., “Am.S.S.U” – Back of block in three places., “Italy. Buy the light, the true light” – Inscribed on side of block.
Date
[between 1861 and 1876?]
Location
ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 22
Fresh from a soldier's pen. : Our campaigns, or, The marches, bivouacs, battles, incidents of camp life, and history of our regiment during its three years' term of service: together with a sketch of the Army of the Potomac under generals McClellan, Burns
Title
Fresh from a soldier's pen Our campaigns, or, The marches, bivouacs, battles, incidents of camp life, and history of our regiment during its three years' term of service: together with a sketch of the Army of the Potomac under generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant. By E.M. Woodward, adjutant, Second Pa. Reserves. 12mo., cloth. Price $2 00. The object in writing this volume is to give, in a clear and lucid manner, the history of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Corps (Colonels Wm. B. Mann and Wm. McCandless), and an insight into the life of a soldier. ... Agents, canvassers, and others are wanted for the circulation of the book, with whom liberal terms will be made. Single copies sent, post paid, to any one on receipt of price, $2 00
Description
Woodward's Our campaigns was published in Philadelphia in 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison)
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woodward (2)5786.F.52c (McAllister)
The book agent at work.
Title
The book agent at work
Description
Genre scene showing a book agent trying to sell subscriptions to a woman. Title possibly suggests women are more pliable or easily manipulated by salesmen or men in general., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Todd and Sharon Pattison., Kilburn, successor to stereograph publisher Kilburn Brothers in 1877, broadened the firm's portfolio from White Mountain scenery to include genre and comic subjects and international views.
Creator
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date
c1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Portraits and genre [P.2009.11]
Undercurrents of the Southern conspiracy! : The rebel pirate's fatal prize : the bloody tragedy of the prize schooner Waring ....
Title
Undercurrents of the Southern conspiracy! The rebel pirate's fatal prize : the bloody tragedy of the prize schooner Waring
Description
Broadside advertisement for The rebel pirate's fatal prize (life story of the steward William Tillman [i.e., Billy Tilghman], a "brave and daring negro") and, on verso, The rival rebel cousins., "Sold by agents only.", Formerly part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Und (2) 5786.F .46e
The Rebellion record: : a complete, authentic, official history of the great struggle of 1860-2. Including three departments, namely: I. Documents, speeches, narratives and reports, from official sources--complete and reliable. II. A diary of events, conc
Title
The Rebellion record a complete, authentic, official history of the great struggle of 1860-2. Including three departments, namely: I. Documents, speeches, narratives and reports, from official sources--complete and reliable. II. A diary of events, concise, succinct, comprehensive. III. Rumors, incidents, ballads, songs, facetiae; a mirror of the poetical and humorous aspects of the time. Edited by Frank Moore. Illustrated with portraits, maps, and plans
Description
Sample letter to a canvasser, p. [3], dated 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Evans, Charles T.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans (2)5786.F.195a (McAllister)
The brave soldier, consummate general, and devoted Christian! : Thus does the New-York commercial advertiser speak of Stonewall Jackson. Chas. T. Evans, 448 Broadway, has just published the authentic biography of the great general of the South, by Markinf
Title
The brave soldier, consummate general, and devoted Christian! Thus does the New-York commercial advertiser speak of Stonewall Jackson. Chas. T. Evans, 448 Broadway, has just published the authentic biography of the great general of the South, by Markinfield Addey. With portrait. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. The appearance of this book has been hailed with acclamation by the public press of every shade of politics. ... The first edition is exhausted, so great has been the call for the work; and to meet the public demand, a new edition is now ready. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. Copies sent by mail on receipt of price. Canvassing agents wanted
Description
Addey's Stonewall Jackson was published in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Evans, Charles T.
Date
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans 5786.F.174b (McAllister)