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Title: [Calligraphic label on folder]
Description: Calligraphic label reading: A Number of Vehicles, in use about Fifty years ago; sketched at the places and in the years, as indicated on the drawings, now enlarged executed in 1865 and 1888, by Augs. Kollner, Phila. (Formerly Calligrapher in Lithography.) Most of the calligraphy is in cursive. Kollner's signature is in Gothic letters., Item mounted on front cover of empty cardboard folder., Memorandum in type to Mr. Wainwright from Henry Shaw Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc. dated November 26, 1962 pasted on inside back cover: Dear Mr. Wainwright: Perhaps you can find a a place for the label on this old folder, now empty, alas. When it came to us some years ago it had some Kollner water colors in it, but not vehicles, as I recall. I find it interesting because of his own "ex post facto" statement. hsn/ea. Dictated but not signed by Mr. Newman., Label pasted inside front cover: Patented Jan. 21, 1901., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. During the 1880s, he executed watercolors based on earlier sketches and often mounted them and placed them in albums for sale.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date: [ca. 1888-ca. 1901]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.34]

Title: Whereas the Board of Trustees of the Village of Port Richmond has learned with deep and heartfelt sorrow of the death of Garrett P. Wright who was for twenty two years a village trustee, and for ten years president of this board, therefore resolved that his name and memory will be revered and respected ... Added greatly to the unexampled prosperity of this village ... in the continuous election ... first as trustee, and then as President up to 1891 ... Resolved that we add our expression of sympathy ... direct that a copy of this memorial minute suitably engrossed be presented to the family as an evidence of our esteem and regard for his memory. Port Richmond, March 1896
Description: Calligraphic memorial work with slight illumination for the Port Richmond, Staten Island civic leader and oyster dealer Captain Garrett P. Wright. Contains ornamented letters (one illuminated), flourishes, filigree, and pictorial details depicting scrolls, clouds, and celestial rays of light., Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Item mounted on board with lower edge lined with dry glue remnants., Ames & Rollinson was founded by premier penman Daniel T. Ames.
Creator: Ames & Rollinson, calligrapher
Date: [1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.18]

Title: Charter of the rector, church wardens and vestrymen of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook
Description: Calligraphic charter for the Protestant Episcopal church first petitioned for in 1896 by members of the Overbrook Farm community. Charter contains the names of the vestrymen (also the witnesses) to hold office until Easter Monday 1899. Following the granting of the charter in February 1899, ground was broken for the church in March 1899 (completed 1901, enlarged 1903), and in May 1899, the parish of the church was admitted a member of the Convention of the Diocese of Pennsylvania., Title from item., Recorded in the office for Recording Deeds in and for the County of Philadelphia in [Charter] Book No. [24] page [293 &c]. Witness my hand and seal of office this [24th] day of [February A.D. 1899]. [John Virden, Recorder of Deeds.], Witness on January 25, 1899 by the hands and seals of Edmond Brooks; Edward A. Casey; Edwin E. Cassell; Warren P. Laird; Edward M. Collin; David Morgan; John E. Rayner; W. P. Simpson; Lewis A. Thompson; and Charles C. Townsend, Contains seals of notary public, Recorder of Deeds, and ten witnesses., Also signed January 25, 1899 by J. Howard Rhoads, Notary Public and approved on February 20, 1899 Robert N. Wilson, Judge., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Item mounted on board with large border of remants of dried glue.
Date: [1899]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.15]

Title: West End Social Club of Reading, Pa. Articles of Incorporation
Description: Calligraphic document explicating the five articles of incorporation for the association with the object to "encourage and foster among its members a spirit of self improvement, moral and literary, the cultivation of sociability and of the manners and graces of polite society ..." Contains ornamented letters and a border adorned with S-shaped and hinge-like ornaments that contain jagged edge and leaf details., Title and date from item., Per Curiam November 5, 1888., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Creator: Harris, William, calligrapher
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.20]

Title: [Arabic fragment, a West African gris-gris]
Description: Contains a line of text from the Koran written in a courtly hand by an enslaved, educated, black Islamic priest. Translated text reads: In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful Say: He is Allah, the One and Only! Allah, the Eternal, Absolut; He begetteth not nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him., Title from LCP exhibition catalogue: Pierre Eugene Du Simitière. His American Museum 200 years after, entry #5:21., Date from manuscript note on recto: the above was written in my presence by a negro m[a]nding[o] at Leoganne in January 1773 DuSimitiere., Du Simitière, a Swiss-born historian, antiquarian, and artist, traveled and documented North America and the West Indies from the 1750s to 1770s. He settled in Philadelphia in 1774, and in 1782 opened the American Museum, which contained his collected antiquities., Purchase at auction, Du Simitière's American Museum, March 10, 1785., Explanation of translation in Du Simitière research file, Graphic Arts Department., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [Léogâne, Haiti]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Du Simitière Collection [961.F.5d]

Title: St. Joseph's Hospital, Reading, Pa. This is to Certify that by the direction of the Board of Trustees, the report of the committee appointed to take action upon the death of Daniel J. Driscoll is entered upon the records of the hospital
Description: Calligraphic memorial work with some watercolor details commemorating the philanthropic work of the Auburn, Schuylkill county iron foundry proprietor Daniel J. Driscoll. Includes ornamented letter, scrolls, filligree, and ornaments. Driscoll's foundry purportedly manufactured the first seamless steel tubing in the United States., Title and date from item., Contains a seal., Attested by [John B. Leeway?] Secretary; [William Taylor Stevens?], President; C. Raymond Heizmann, Vice President; and Albert N. Bunkholder., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Item mounted on board with lower edge lined with dry glue remnants.
Date: [1919]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.19]

Title: [Miscellaneous prints from the Joe Freedman collection of Philadelphia ephemera]
Description: Collection of miscellaneous prints, including promotional novelties, vignettes, views, proof sheet of banknotes, a photograph reproduction, and a postcard. Imagery depicts City Hall, Continental Hotel, Girard Fire Insurance Company, interior of Independence Hall, "Bird's Eye View from Lemon Hill" showing the Fairmount Water Works, Market Street and Delaware Avenue, the storefront of optician William Y. McAllister and Alex. R. Harper & Bro., watches (728 Chestnut), and vignettes showing miners at work, and a view of laborers at work in a stone quarry juxtaposed with a view of Native American persons. Also includes a 1777 German calendar illustration showing Philadelphia along the Delaware River (.193x); an 1804? lottery ticket for the African Church of St. Thomas (.190x); a ca. 1833 proof sheet of bank notes in German for The Western Bank of Philadelphia; a ca. 1830 textile sewn on paper and illustrated with a genre scene in front of the "House of Refuge, Philadelphia"; a pocket-size political print depicting Philadelphia mayor-elect Morton McMichael holding a fox by its tail to satirize his 1865 election win over Daniel M. Fox; and a 1919 calligraphic envelope (in color inks) addressed to Mrs. Sarah Zook, Temple University Hospital, Broad & Ontario Streets, Phila, Pa. Some prints also depict street and pedestrian traffic. Vignettes are possibly specimens for illustrations on certificates., Title supplied by cataloger., Artists, photographers, and publishers include C. G. Childs, W. N. Jennings, and The Rotograph Co., P.2013.87.190x and 193x in frames and housed separately in phase box., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1830-ca. 1950, bulk ca. 1860-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Box 2 - Miscellaneous [P.2013.87.2; 185-195x], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Lottery & Calendar Illustrations [P.2013.87.190x and 193x]

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