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Title: Henry & Fisher's union coal yard, Ninth Street, below Jefferson, Philadelphia Always on hand the best Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal. Orders promptly attended to
Description: Henry & Fisher, the partnership between William Henry and Lewis C. Fisher, was active ca. 1862 until becoming a spice factory ca. 1867., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Henry [5786.F.9L]

Title: B.M. Singley & Co., dealers in coal, yard, N.E. cor. Ninth and Master Sts., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card tucked into roses., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Singley [P.9802.1]

Title: Men of the Keystone State rally for its defence! And join Capt. C.A. Thomas's independent company! For 90 days service and avoid the draft. The soil of Pennsylvania, where "Liberty" was first proclaimed "throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof," must not be polluted by the footsteps of traitors. He who fails to rally at once to defend his home, his family and his country, is unworthy of the name of freeman, and of the priceless legacy bequeathed to him by a glorious and noble ancestry. All the state and city bounty given! Head-quarters of the company No. 921 North Tenth Street, above Poplar
Description: Capt. C.A. Thomas led Company C of the 51st Regiment Infantry, Ninety-Day Militia, the Second Coal Trade Regiment, under command of Col. Oliver Hopkinson; the regiment was mustered into service July 3 and discharged Sept. 2, 1863; Henry V. Christy was 2nd Lieut. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1293, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 51st (1863), Company C.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (3)5777.F.19 (McAllister)

Title: To arms! Coal Regiment! Col. Alfred Day comd'g $25 bounty to each volunteer, from city $10, in all $35.00 bounty! Recruits wanted for 3 mos. for Co. [blank] Recruiting offices, 138 South Fourth Street, basement. 1701 Germantown Road & Columbia Av
Description: The First Coal Trade Regiment, 40th Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. Alfred M. Day, was mustered into service July 1 and discharged Aug. 3 and 4, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1266, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 40th (1863)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1863 Penn Mil (2)5777.F.43a (McAllister)

Title: $50 city bounty $50 Men wanted to fill old Co. A, 51st Reg't, P.V.M Formerly 2d Coal Regiment. This company is attached to the First Coal Regiment now recruiting for 100 days. Come forward & enlist!
Description: The Second Coal Trade Regiment, 51st Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. Oliver Hopkinson, was mustered into service July 3 and discharged Sept. 2, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1293, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 51st (1863), Company A.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.36k (McAllister)

Title: Fall in, "I" First Coal Regiment $50 city bounty $50 Recruits wanted for Comp'y "I!" 1st Coal Reg't for 100 days!
Description: Henry Rudolph was in Company I of the 51st Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, called the Second Coal Trade Regiment, under command of Col. Oliver Hopkinson; was mustered into service July 3 and discharged Sept. 2, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1293, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 51st (1863), Company I.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.36i (McAllister)

Title: George B. Newton & Co., agents for the sale of Lehigh Valley Coal Co.'s coal. 329 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Shipping pier, Camden, N.J. yards: 30th and Chestnut Streets, Frankford Road and Vienna St. ; Geo. B Newton. William Hill. Frank T. Patterson
Description: Names of coal mines are underlined in red ink and flank the central word "Coal": Jeddo, Highland, Spring Mount'n, Spring Brook, Packer, Continental, Logan, Centralia, Council Ridge, Middle Lehigh, Hazle Brook, and Wyoming Collieries., Stamped in purple ink on recto: F. Jay St. John., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Newton [P.2006.20.30]

Title: William Still, dealer in Lehigh & Schuylkill coal, 1216, 1218 and 1220 Washington Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Price list template ("Present prices per ton") printed on verso for various kinds of Lehigh, Schuylkill and Bituminous coal., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., Digitized., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Still [P.9939]

Title: Bought of Charles Clarke, coal dealer, N.E. cor. Master & North Penna. R.R
Description: Receipt containing a vignette showing a horse-drawn coal cart loaded with coal., Completed in manuscript to Mr. George W. Thorn on March 19, 1862 for "1 (2240 lbs) ton Lehigh Store @ $4.50. Signed: Received Payment, Chas. Clarke., Promotion printed below image: Has constantly on hand and daily receiving: Lehigh Coal, Prepared with care for Family and Factory use. Kept Under Cover. Terms Cash., Contains punched whole in center., 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. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.129]

Title: Francis Bacon & Co.'s coal yard. Spruce Street Wharf, Schuylkill Philadelphia Vessels loaded with dispatch, by steam power. Office no. 53 South Fourth Street
Description: Advertisement showing the busy coal yard along the Schuylkill River. Yard workers haul cauldrons of coal by pulley and load and transport trucks on a multi-level wharf elevated above and surrounded by piles of coal. A schooner docked near two long boats at the end of the wharf receives a haul of coal from two chutes. A skiff and rowboat flank the boats. Opposite the schooner, a man sails a skiff named "Go On" past a tugboat. Signage for the coal yard is visible behind the tug and several industrial buildings line the wharf in the background. Bacon & Co. operated from the wharf address 1853-1854., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 273, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 76 R 288
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 76 R 288

Title: To arms! To arms! Coal Regiment! 35 dollars bounty! Recruits wanted for 3 months Co. B. $25 bounty to each volunteer, in addition to $10 city bounties--making $35 in all. Alfred Day, Col. commanding
Description: The First Coal Trade Regiment, 40th Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. Alfred M. Day, was mustered into service July 1 and discharged Aug. 3 and 4, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1266, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 40th (1863), Company B.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.36h (McAllister)

Title: One more rally for the Old Keystone State "Let no one refuse to arm who will not be able to justify himself before man and God, in sight of a desolated hearth or a dishonored family." Coal Regiment! Alfred Day, Col. commanding. A company is now organizing at the Southwark Guards' Armory 702 South Second Street, to join the Coal Regiment. Active able-bodied men are invited to enroll themselves without delay. $25 bounty will be paid by the regiment--$10 by the Citizens' Volunteer Fund exclusive of all other bounties and state pay. To serve for three months, unless sooner discharged. Come at once! Come to-day!
Description: The First Coal Trade Regiment, 40th Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. Alfred M. Day, was mustered into service July 1 and discharged Aug. 3 and 4, 1863. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1266, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 40th (1863)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (1)5777.F.36j (McAllister)

Title: To arms! To arms! Coal Regiment! 45 dollars bounty! Recruits wanted for 3 months Co. "A." $25 bounty to each volunteer, in addition to $20 city bounties--making $45 in all. Col. Alfred Day, commanding
Description: The First Coal Trade Regiment, 40th Regiment Infantry of the Ninety-Day Militia, under command of Col. Alfred M. Day, was mustered into service July 1 and discharged Aug. 3 and 4, 1863. Cf. F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 250. Samuel M. Heaton, John C. Scott, and Harry Walter ended up in Company I. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1266., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Infantry Regiment, 40th (1863), Company A.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Penn Mil (2)5777.F.42 (McAllister)

Title: To arms! To arms! Rally to your country's call The national capital is threatened by the invader. Rally to its defence Recruits wanted to fill the 1st Coal Exchange Reg't now recruiting for 100 days! Colonel's head-quarters at the Coal Exchange Room, Walnut Street, below Dock
Description: Colonel John R. Haslett commanded the 197th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,, called the Third Coal Exhange Regiment; it was organized July 22 and mustered out Nov. 11, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 450, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 278., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 197th (1864)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.36e (McAllister)

Title: To arms! To arms! Rally to your country's call! The national capital is threatened by the invader. Rally to its defence. Recruits wanted to fill the 3d Coal Exchange Reg't. Now recruiting for 100 days. $50 city bounty! Pay $16 per month. All recruiting expenses paid. Colonel's head-quarters at the Coal Exchange Room, Walnut Street below Dock. John R. Haslett. Colonel commanding
Description: The Third Coal Exchange Regiment, the 197th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, was organized July 22 and mustered out Nov. 11, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 450, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 278., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 197th (1864)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (3)5777.F.28 (McAllister)

Title: John T. Roberts & Bro., reliable coal dealers, 1825 and 1827 N. Tenth St., and Germantown
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three miners working in a dimly lit coal mine. Each miner has a lamp at his feet and a light on his hard hat. The miner in the foreground swings his pick axe, while the man behind him takes a break and rests his weight on the axe., Seal on recto: Purest and hardest, Lehigh Coal., Manuscript note on verso: Bessie., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Roberts [P.9724.2]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: Rathbun Guards This company is being recruited under the auspices of the Coal Merchants Committee, and will be attached to the 183d Reg't, Pa. Volunteers! Col. commanding, Geo. P. McLean. The only new regiment that has been accepted, or will be, by authority of the War Department. The last chance before the draft! The bounties are as follows: for those who have served 9 months, $652. For new recruits, $552. Cash paid on muster of co., $325 Pay, rations and clothing commence as soon as mustered. Head-quarters, New Market & Laurel Sts
Description: The 183rd Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, the Fourth Union League Regiment, began recruiting in the fall of 1863 and was mustered out in July 1865; Col. George P. McLean was mustered in March 8 and resigned May 3, 1864; David Richardson was captain of Company B. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 128, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 141., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 183rd (1863-1865), Company B.
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.54a (McAllister)

Title: Coal Regiment! $50 bounty! Fall in! Fall in! For 100 days! Company F recruiting at C.B. Miller's, 741 Spring Garden St
Description: There were at least three Coal Regiments: the first and second, organized in 1863, became the 40th and 50th Infantry Regiments of the Pennsylvania Militia; the third, organized in 1864, became the 197th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army. William Wilson cannot be identified with any particular regiment., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863 or 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Coal (1)5777.F.36g (McAllister)

Title: 1st Coal Reg't Col. John R. Haslett $50 bounty! Rally for the old California Reg't (Seventy-first.) Fall in! Fall in! Head-quarters, Burns' Cottage, Sixth and Minor Sts
Description: Colonel John R. Haslett commanded the 197th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, called the Third Coal Exhange Regiment; it was organized July 22 and mustered out Nov. 11, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 450, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 278., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 197th (1864)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Uni Sta (1)5777.F.36f (McAllister)

Title: View of Kensington, Phila
Description: View showing several freight cars loaded with coal resting on railroad tracks between fenced plots of land and several piers owned by Philadelphia coal merchants on the Delaware River. Merchants include Van Dusen Bro. & Co.; John C. Scott & Son; and Gordon Repplier & Co. Also shows sloops docked at the piers and a corn crop in the foreground., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9212.7]

Title: Masonic Temple dedication parade, September 26, 1873
Description: Views looking north on Broad Street showing parade participants and spectators on the day of the temple's dedication including partial views of the west front of the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim to accommodate the local lodge's increasing membership. Also shows other buildings and businesses north of the temple on Broad Street, including Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869-1870 after designs by Addison Hutton. One rooftop view from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts shows a sign on the west side of the block reading "Carriage" (McLear & Kendall's carriage factory) and one for "Convery's Coal Yard" (Alexander Convery & Co.) on the east side of Broad street near Cherry Street., Labels on versos contain printed description and history of Masonic Temple in paragraph form surmounted by a vignette of the state seal of Pennsylvania., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.68 and P.9047.70 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: September 26, 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Processions [P.9047.68; P.9047.70; P.9168.19; P.9260.39-41]

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