The game of secession or sketches of the rebellion
Title
The game of secession or sketches of the rebellion Our army and navy for ever!
Description
Gameboard containing a serpent-like figure comprised of 135 spaces surrounded by captioned vignettes also used on Civil War envelopes. Pro-Union designs advance the player and anti-secession designs retard the player. Vignettes depict portraits of prominent war figures; views of forts, soldiers, and preparations for battle; Union and Confederate flags; allegorical figures; and satiric and racist depictions of Confederates. Includes President Abraham Lincoln; Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Gen. Winfield Scott, Maj-Gen. George B. McClellan, Comm. S.F. Dupont, Confederate Gen. Beauregard; bombardment of Fort Sumter; Philadelphia Navy Yard; liberty; Columbia; and Confederate soldiers on retreat; riding a enslaved African American man, and protected by bales of cotton. "Directions" to play the game printed in the lower left corner. Flags and shields adorn the borders., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan. McAllister 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), [39]., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Games [5793.F.44]
Civil War scrapbook of envelopes and portraits [graphic].
Title
Civil War scrapbook of envelopes and portraits
Description
Scrapbook containing portraiture, predominately patriotic envelopes, of Civil War military and political figures. Majority of the envelopes issued by prolific New York publisher Charles Magnus, with several from his series "Generals of the Potomac Army" and "Heroes of Successful Expeditions." Also contains portrait prints, stationery, and non-portrait and ephemera materials, including newspaper clippings, manuscript letters, autographs, playbills, an illustrated songsheet, and a performance program. Several of the portrait prints were originally published in the 1861-1863 volumes of "The Rebellion Record" edited by Frank Moore., Majority of clippings detail the controversial death and funeral of Col. Edward D. Baker. Manuscript letters include correspondence from 28th PA Regt. Beck Band musician, Samuel A. Murray to John McAllister, Jr. about collecting Southern Civil War relics and letters. Also includes W.S. Hancock correspondence denying a citizen's pass to cross military lines. Songsheet, performance program, and majority of playbills relate to special performances, including an 1862 Washington birthday commemorative program, at the 28th Pennsylvania Regiment military camp. Ephemera materials include a facsimile of the correspondence from General Grant to General Buckner for unconditional surrender following the Battle of Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862 and plain envelope covers inscribed by Col. Frank P. Blair and General Henry Halleck (General-in-Chief). Other materials include a print and newspaper clipping showing the Merrimac and Monitor; a cartoon satirizing supporters of defeated 1860 Constitutional Unionist presidential nominee John Bell; a Ulysses S. Grant family portrait photomechanical reproduction from the Photo History of the Civil War (1910); and the autographs of generals John W. Geary, Samuel P. Heintzelman, and William S. Rosencrans. Also contains a small number of non-Civil War era items, including an A. & J.B. Bartholomew trade card promoting Grant for president and an invitation to an 1879 Philadelphia City Council reception for former President Grant., Portraiture predominately depicts Edward Dickinson Baker; Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; John Bell; Louis Blenker, John C. Breckinridge; Ambrose Everett Burnside; Michael Corcoran; Samuel Ryan Curtis; Stephen Douglas; Samuel Du Pont; David Glasgow Farragut; Andrew H. Foote; John Geary; Ulysses S. Grant; Henry W. Halleck; Winfield Scott Hancock; Samuel P. Heintzelman; David Hunter; Nathaniel Lyon; Peter Lyle, Irvin McDowell; James A. Mulligan; Joshua Thomas Owen; Robert Patterson; John Pope; Benjamin M. Prentiss; Jesse Lee Reno; William S. Rosecrans; Richard Rush; Thomas W. Sherman; William T. Sherman; James Shields; Silas H. Stringham; Edwin V. Sumner; and James S. Wadsworth., Various artists and photographers including Edward Anthony, Mathew Brady, John Henry Bufford, John Chester Buttre, Alonzo Chappel, Washington Lafayette Germon, Herline & Hensel, James Magee, Charles Magnus, and George E. Perine., Various publishers and distributors including John Dainty, James Gates, Harbach & Brother, Oscar H. Harpel, Franklin Hedge, Johnson & Fry, and Wm. S. & A. Martien., Disbound and trimmed scrapbook pages re-housed in folders., Oversize 1893 color lithograph "General Grant's Farewell Address to the Union Army in the Field 1865" removed to flat storage, see *GC-Grant [5758.F.69a]., Select link below for complete inventory of sitters., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
ca. 1860-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Print Room Annex - McAllister [(7)5785.F], http://www.librarycompany.org/FindingAids/McAllister(7)5785.F.pdf