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Title: Our generals' quickstep by C.S. Grafulla; as performed by the 7th Reg't. National Guard
Description: For piano., Caption title; imprint from cover., Cover title: Our generals quick step., Color lithograph on cover of generals on horseback; identifying names printed below. "Lith. by Thomas & Eno, 37, Park Row, N.Y.", "Engvd. at Clayton's"--P. 7., Advertising matter on final p., Pre-cataloging record., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Grafulla, C. S.
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 11663.F (Clarence Wolf) In Process 4th Floor

Title: Joseph Hooker
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General known as "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Shows Hooker as a pugilist., Title from manuscript note on mount: Jos. Hooker., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7c]

Title: Kill-Patrick suppressing the riot
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, nicknamed "Kill Cavalry" as a result of the high casualty rate of the men under his command. Shows Judson astride a horse as he impales a caricatured figure of an Irishman with a sword., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.8c]

Title: Cabinet series - No. 5. "Bombastes furioso."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Civil War Commander-in-Chief Henry Wager Halleck (1862-1864) that alludes to the "Bombastes" character in the 1810 opera "Bombastes Furioso." Shows Halleck wearing boots with huge spurs and holding a sword and pointing a finger at a boot marked "Commander in Chief" hanging from a tree. The opera character threatened death to anyone who removed his boot from a tree., Manuscript note on recto: Halleck., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7a]

Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, and a jacket with a boutonniere, looks slightly right. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., 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: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.100]

Title: Benjamin F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., 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.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [P.8911.103]

Title: Maj. Gen. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly right. Probably published in one of several editions by various publishers between 1862 and 1882 of John S.C. Abbott's The History of Civil War in America...(LCP Am 1864 Abbo, (2)15996.O). Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., LCP book plate differs., Accessioned 1982., 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: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.104]

Title: Benj. F. Butler
Description: Right profile, bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler wears a mustache and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. While commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., During the Civil War, the U.S government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., 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: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.105]

Title: Benj. F. Butler Likeness from the latest photograph from life
Description: Full-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in his military uniform with a sword, sits beside a table covered in a patterned cloth. There are papers on the table and strewn on the floor. Butler, while commander at Fort Monroe, Virginia, declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Published in Evert Duyckinck's National portrait gallery of eminent Americans:...(New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1861-1864), p. 423. (LCP Uz 3, 3333.Q)., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Chappel painted a majority of the portraits published as engravings in biographer Evert Duyckinck's, "Portraits Galleries," of the 1860s and 1870s. He often copied the subject's faces from photographic portraits and placed them on generic bodies that he situated in more decorative surroundings than the original photograph., Accessioned 1982., 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: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Butler [P.8911.128]

Title: Oh high and mighty general, I don't know where your match is.
Description: The valentine depicts a Union general standing by a table. Casting a glance over his shoulder, he writes "Despatch [i.e. dispatch] No. 10,000" on a piece of paper. The sender criticizes the recipient's competency as a military leader., Text: Oh high and mighty general, I don't know where your match is. / Especially as regards the manufacture of dispatches; / In every one's opinion, you would make a first rate clerk / Who would have to do much thinking, and but very little work. / You had better take a friend's advice, resign your situation, / Or your general imbelicity will bring general indignation., "527", Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Date: [1861-1865?]

Title: Our modern infant Hercules
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Union General Ambrose Burnside. Shows the general as a baby Hercules declaring "Order 38. No nonsense allowed in my department" as he strongholds a clutch of "Copperhead" snakes, i.e. Peace Democrats and a serpent with the face of a man, probably prominent Ohio Peace Democrat, Clement Vallandingham. Order no. 38, which forbade the declaration of sympathy for the enemy, was issued in April 1863 while Burnside was Commander in the Department of Ohio., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.58e]

Title: Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Butler
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in military uniform, faces slightly left. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on presented age of the sitter., Printed below image: Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Putnam operated his own publishing business between 1857 and 1867., Accessioned 1982., 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: Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.63]

Title: Major General B.F. Butler, U.S.A
Description: Playing card size bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General attired in military uniform. Butler, while commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title from item., Date based on the presented age of the sitter., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Accessioned 1982., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-B [P.8911.62]

Title: A. Koellner No. 6. Bank Alley Philadelphia respectfully offers his services to the public in drawing of figures landscapes & animals from the rough sketch to the most finished drawing in every manner and in a style which will be especially useful to publishers of books, periodicals, music, etc. manufacturers etc. etc. on reasonable terms & at short notice
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia lithographer containing vignettes and picotrial details. At left and right, tall trees mark the edges of the composition; a near-nude man stands on a branch at left, reaching towards a semi-bare breasted woman standing on the branch at right, who holds out a bunch of grapes. At top center, a figure sits in a landscape studying large tomes; nearby stands an anatomical figure. At bottom center, statuary of a general riding a rearing horse and doffing his hat on a base adorned with a battle scene is visible. To his right, a group of farmyard animals flock together. At the general’s left, pilgrims make contact with Indians. Kollner operated from 6 Bank Alley in 1844., Not in Wainwright., Title annotated: "and in a style" crossed out in pencil., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 1, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Koll Kollv
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [1844]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Koll Kollv

Title: [Benjamin F. Butler]
Description: Reproduction of a bust-length portrait print of the Massachusetts Governor, abolitionist legislator, and Civil War Major General. Butler, attired in uniform, sits facing slightly left. As commander of Fort Monroe, Virginia, he declared freedom seekers as "contraband of war," providing the impetus for Congress to enact the Confiscation Act of 1861., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on depicted age of the sitter., Accessioned 1979., 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: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits- sitter - Butler [P.2282.107]

Title: Hampton Place - Residence of Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott - Elizabethtown, N.J
Description: Exterior view of the front elevation of Hampton Place in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the residence of soldier and statesman Winfield Scott and his wife Maria Mayo, who are depicted standing in the gateway leading to the front entrance of the home. Colonel John Mayo, Maria's father, purchased the property in the early nineteenth century., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Residences [P.8464.12]

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