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- Title
- Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844
- Description
- Sensational print showing the death of the 18-year old Nativist, the first person killed in the Nativist Riots at Kensington on May 6, 1844. Shows three men in suits surrounding Schiffler, who is attired in shirt sleeves, and collapsing to the ground. The gravely injured man half-kneels with one hand reaching for the bullet wound at his chest, and the other holding an American flag above his head. In the background, shadowy crowds of rioters clash with one another. The May riots (May 6-8, 1844) began during a confrontation between Irish-Catholics and participants of an American Nativist Party rally held in the Irish neighborhood of Kensington. Schiffler purportedly helped support the flag that hung on the speaker's stand at the Nativist Rally., Date range inferred from content of image and post-consolidation address of printer, 706 South Third Street, previously 264 South Third Street. See *GC - Genre [P.2005.36.17], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 176, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 24:1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 M191, See also the ca. 1850 print "Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844" held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The unsigned lithograph is further captioned “Respectfully dedicated to the Native Americans by Shifler No. 1 Southwark Phila” and contains the imprint “Sold by Pierson No. 349 So. 2nd Phila. R. DeWitt, Tribune Buildings, N. York.” Pierson was Southwark (and Nativist supportive) bookseller Hiram B. Pierson (b. ca. 1814). DeWitt was New York publisher Robert DeWitt. Each concurrently operated from their cited business address between circa 1850 and circa 1853. Magee and Smith probably designed their lithograph after the ca. 1850 print after 1854.
- Creator
- Magee, John L., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1844-1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Riots [P.8729.17]
- Title
- Unabhangiger Deutscher Orden der Harugari. Dieses diploma [certificate]
- Description
- Certificate written in German for the German Order of the Harugari composed of text surrounded by eight allegorical vignettes, symbols of the fraternal order, and filigree and scrollwork. The top vignette depicts a robed, bearded man holding a staff. Other vignettes depict a robed female figure holding a liberty pole; two men with shovels in the woods; a mother and father consoling a young child; a group of men standing near an open grave; a husband and wife standing next to their bedridden child; a man held by soldiers awaiting crucifixion; and a man being arrested. Symbols of the fraternal order include a handshake, a winged hourglass, crossed canes, a skeleton with a scythe, gavels bound with a ribbon, crossed swords, a skull and crossbones, a heart in hand, three crossed arrows, a half moon, a beehive with farm implements and an open Bible. Includes the society's seal at the bottom. Secret society founded in 1847., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Otto Gratz, Humboldt Loge No. 71, Philadelphia, 15 Marz 1868. Signed Albr. Loechner O.B. and Wm. Zimmermann Secr., Majority of inscription illegible., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 258, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2405, Herline & Hensel operated their lithographic establishment from 632 Chestnut Street 1862-1866.
- Date
- ca. 1865
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2405]
- Title
- President Lincoln's hearse
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of a print showing the five horse-team drawn catafalque carrying the flower-covered casket of the President stopped in front of a church. White men funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the horses and hearse. Mourners line the city street, including an African American man., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Henszey & Co., Photographers, No. 812 Arch St., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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
- Henszey & Co.
- Date
- 1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Henszey & Co. - Lincoln [5792.F.48b]
- Title
- [Marshall House, King and Pitt streets, Alexandria, Va.]
- Description
- Exterior view showing the place where Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth died during the Union occupation of Alexandria. Ellsworth, the first Union war death, was killed on May 24, 1861 by the Marshall House innkeeper, James W. Jackson. Jackson shot Ellsworth following the colonel's removal of a Confederate flag from the inn's roof. Image depicts a crowd of men convening near a horse-drawn wagon in front of the hotel. Also shows adjacent and nearby buildings, including one adorned with an advertisement, as well as a parked horse-drawn carriage in the lower right corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount., Inscribed on negative: 2295., Missing upper right corner., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1863
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.2003.1]
- Title
- The three days of May 1844. Columbia mourns her citizens slain
- Description
- Memorial to nativist casualties of the violent clashes occurring between anti-foreigner "Native Americans" and Irish-American Catholics in Kensington, Philadelphia, May 6 through 8, 1844. The female figure of Columbia holds a large, billowing American flag near a broken column on which she places a wreath. On the column are the names of those Native Americans killed during the attacks on Catholic homes and institutions. At the top of the list, circled by Columbia's wreath, is the name of George Schiffler, the first and most famous of the nativist martyrs. Other names inscribed on the column are: Wright, Rhinedollar, Greble, Stillwell, Hammitt, Ramsey, and Cox. To the right of Columbia is an American eagle supporting a shield with the names of the wounded, including: Peale (the artist?), Whitecar, Lescher, Young, Wiseman, Willman, Schufelbaugh, Yocum, Ardis, Boggs, Ford, Bartleson, and Ort. Above the figure floats a streamer with the print's title. Below a similar banner reads "Deceased----We Revere Their Memory---Wounded---We Cherish And Reward Them---.", Not in Wainwright., Artist's signature lower left corner., LOC copy filed for copyright July 1, 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 254, Library of Congress: LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia, Description supplied by LOC catalog record.
- Creator
- Peale, Washington, artist
- Date
- c1844
- Location
- Library of Congress LOC LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia
- Title
- [Civil War miscellanies]
- Description
- Collection of prints and ephemera, predominantly depicting Elmer Ellsworth, and originally part of a scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War materials collected by John A. McAllister. Includes portrait prints, lettersheets, and illustrations depicting Ellsworth or his death, as well as a memorial work containing symbols of patriotism and mourning. Collection also contains lettersheets illustrated with the Union flag, and the song “America” bordered by state seals; a full-length portrait of General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general killed during the war; and memorial portrait of Sen. Edward D. Baker killed at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff., Various artists, engravers, and printers, including C. Y. Haynes, J. Magee, A. B. Walter, and Alonzo Chappel., Various publishers, including J. Dainty, Johnson, Fry & Co., and J. W. Barber., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Miscellanies., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- 1861-1862
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War -Miscellanies [5785.F]
- Title
- Residence of Lt. General Grant as it appeared April 15, 1865
- Description
- Shows the New York residence of the Union general adorned with black bunting and American flags. Also shows a passing horse-drawn carriage, construction materials in the street, and scaffolding attached to a nearby residence., Title from manuscript note on label accompanying 5779.F.19., Yellow mounts with square corners., Created postfreeze., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials related to Abraham Lincoln and views of the Civil War., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non - Phila. - New York [5792.F.4c; 5779.F.19g]
- Title
- The last days of Webster at Marshfield To the family and friends of the late Daniel Webster, this plate, representing a scene from his last days at Marshfield, is most respectfully dedicated by the publishers
- Description
- Engraving after a painting by Joseph Ames showing family, relatives, and friends gathered around the dying Daniel Webster, who sits in bed propped up against a pillow. Webster, a Whig senator from Massachusetts, died at his home in Marshfield in 1852 after falling from his horse. His attendees, gather around the foot of his bed, including his wife Caroline LeRoy Webster, attired in a white lace veil, who cries with her head in her hand. In the right, a seated, Mrs. Caroline Fletcher Webster gazes at Webster while her son leans against her and a young, white girl rests on a stool at her feet. Behind her is Sarah, an African American servant, holding a silver tray with a pitcher and cup. Attendees include: Charles Henry Thomas, Jacob LeRoy, Edward Curtis, Caroline LeRoy Webster (wife), Mrs. James W. Paige, Samuel A. Appleton, James W. Paige, George Ashmun, Rufus Choate, Peter Harvey, Daniel Fletcher Webster (son) and his wife Caroline S. White, Caroline L. Appleton, Daniel Webster, Ashburton Webster, Caroline Webster (granddaughter), Dr. J. Mason Warren, Dr. John Jeffries, Sarah (African American servant), John Taylor (farmer), and Porter Wright (farmer). A bust of George Washington sits on a shelf on the wall in the right. In the lower margin is a small vignette of the estate at Marshfield., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Smith & Parmalee in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York., See A Description of the great historical painting of The last days of Webster at Marshfield. Painted by Joseph Ames, of Boston. New York : Smith Brothers and Parmelee, 1855. [Am 1855 Smi Bro, 73625.O], LCP also holds one trial proof, two proof without letters, two engraved artists proofs without letters, and five additional copies of print. [***GC - Webster, P.2012.69.1-10], Gift of David Doret, 2011., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
- Creator
- Mottram, Charles, 1817-1876, engraver
- Date
- 1858
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC - Webster [P.2011.63.26]
- Title
- Civil War stationery collection
- Description
- Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at The Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [32]., RVCDC, 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
- 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]