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Title: ASSU Illustration 7141
Description: Block numbered in one place: 7141, also 1067 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a girl running away from a bull who stands behind some brush or a bush and what appears to be an incomplete fence., "V. Grottenthaler, 402 Library St Phila." – Back of block. Vincent Grottenthaler is listed (as a dealer in boxwood) at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1869 to 1876., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down piece of paper.
Date: [between 1869 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 21

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified bull]
Description: Portrait of an unidentified bull. The bull has a ring in its nose and stands in left profile in a field. The landscape view around the bull has been added with watercolors., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Attributed to Schreiber Studio., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Schreiber Studio
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.16]

Title: [Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
Description: Sketchbook containing pencil and watercolor landscapes and marine views, and life studies of animals. Many of the landscapes and marines are identified with a date, title, and notes about color. Identified views include a landscape showing a hillside with rocks and foliage in "Portsmouth, N.H., July 30"; a lumber mill at "Pleasant Point, Portsmouth, N.H."; a ship at a pier in "Norwich - Con., Aug 18/82"; wood houses along the shoreline and a hillside lined with trees and bushes in 'Old York" (latter dated Aug. 7th/82); cows, and a ship at a wharf in "Gloucester Aug 12/82; landscape in "Concordville, N.H. [sic] Aug 1"; a sailing ship on the coast in "Gloucester, Aug 13/82"; the lighthouse "The Nubble, York Beach"; "Falls, Quinebaug River"; landscape, including a partial view of a roof in "Putnam, Con. Aug 17/82"; seaside view with residence at "Old York Aug 7/82 and Aug 8/82"; a laborer "Carting Sand, York Beach, Aug 8/82" into a cart hitched to bulls near a sleeping dog; a panoramic view of "Old York Aug 7/82," including buildings, a seated figure, and a sailboat; mountainside in "Gloucester Aug 14/82"; and "York Beach Aug 1/82." Unidentified sketches show bucolic residential and hillside views, cows grazing, wharf scenes, and studies of a gated fence, a cliff, and a bull standing and lying in the grass., Front outside cover inscribed: Moran., Several images dated, titled, or include inscriptions, often illegible., Inside front cover inscribed with several manuscript notes. Notes include: 36 [same back pack?] Elias Baker, York, Hamlin Maine; David Trowbridge, Eastford, Windom Co., Conn.; P. Moran, 1322 Jefferson St. Philadelphia; Ann Weston, Aug. 2nd; P. Moran. Also contains miniature sketches of human figures., Inside front cover stamped in blue ink: Frost Adams, Artists Materials, Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See David Gilmore Wright, Domestic and wild: Peter Moran's images of America (Baltimore: Creo Press, 2010), vol. 1, 45, 71.
Creator: Moran, Peter, 1841-1914, artist
Date: [1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Moran - vol. 1 [P.2011.39a]

Title: Sanford's Opera House Eleventh Street, above Chestnut S.S. Sanford, proprietor Cool White, stage manager Monday eve'ng, Decem'r 30th, '61. Crowded houses. Second week of the great Christmas pantomime! Introducing all the principal features of the Rebellion. National tableaux: Capture of the Black Horse Cavalry. Surrender of Beauregard to the brave McClellan! End of the Rebellion! Capture of Jeff Davis & Floyd! The stars and stripes triumphant! ... To conclude with a new comic pantomime, written by S.S. Sanford, expressly for this establishment, entitled The harlequin, shoemaker, and tailor of Kensington ... New Year's day, 2 performances Afternoon at half-past 2 o'clock. Evening at half-past 7. The holiday pantomime at both performances! Admission, 25 cents. Children, 13 cents Doors open at half-past 6 o'clock. To commence at half-past 7
Description: The performers include: Sanford's Opera Troupe, Professor Buch, J.L. Carncross, J.S. Cox, E.F. Dixey, Hughey Dougherty, Frank Moran, J.A. Palmer, Julia Sanford, S.S. Sanford, Charles Villiers, and Cool White., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB Phi Sanford 1861 5786.F.101b (McAllister)

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