Reproduction of a drawing showing a bust-length portrait of the allegorical female figure of Liberty. She wears a gold crown, a necklace with a large medallion stamped "U.S.," and the American flag as a shawl., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator
Horton, Henry W.
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52b]
Sheet music cover including a figure of Liberty surrounded by an ornamental border containing an eagle. Liberty depicted attired in a liberty cap, holding a shield and American flag adorned with a laurel wreath, and flanked by an eagle, lyre, globe, and artist's palette., Probable publication information supplied by Reilly., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany., Trimmed and altered., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Whateley, H., artist
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1861 - 19 variant [5786.F.127a]
View of the bell, mostly likely a replica, displayed behind bars., Title printed on verso in publisher's series list with fifty-three other titles (No. 1-54)., Publisher's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - H. Ropes & Co. - Monuments & statues [P.9644.25]
Image shows a reformed slave trader who reaches toward a female allegorical figure representing liberty, virtue, and independence, who is seated on a staircase above him. A harbor is visible in the background, as are four slaves (three adults and one child), two of whom appear to be bound., Frontispiece for Thomas Branagan's Penitential Tyrant (New York: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807)., Accompanied by the following description of the frontispiece: "It is intended as a contrast between Practical Slavery and Professional Liberty, and suggests to the citizens of the American States the following distich: 'Sons of Columbia, hear this truth in time, He who allows oppression shares the crime.' The temple of Liberty, with the motto of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which would as well become her sister states, is displayed; the Goddess, in a melancholy attitude, is seated under the Pillar of our Independence, bearing in her hand the Sword of Justice surmounted by the Cap of Liberty, while one foot rests on the Cornucopiae, and the Ensigns of America appear at her side. She is looking majestically sad on the African Slaves, landed on the shores of America, who are brought into view, in order to demonstrate the hypocrisy and villainy of professing to be votaries of liberty, while, at the same time, we encourage, or countenance, the most ignoble slavery.", Images in this work derived from oral testimony given before the British Parliament's Select Committee Appointed to Take the Examination of Witnesses Respecting the African Slave Trade originally published as An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791; on the Part of the Petitioners for the abolition of the Slave-Trade (London: printed by James Phillips, 1791). Images also issued in a number of other printed works including Remarks on the Methods of Procuring Slaves with a Short Account of Their Treatment in the West-Indies (London: printed by and for Darton and Harvey, no. 66 Gracechurch Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]): Sclaven-Handel (Philadelphia: Gedruckt fur Tobias Hirte, bey Samuel Saur, 1794); Der Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender aur das Jahr 1797 (Baltimore: Samuel Saur, 1796); Injured Humanity: Being a Representation of What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure From Those Who Call Themselves Christians... (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl Street, between 1805 and 1808); and The Mirror of Misery, or, Tyranny Exposed (New York: printed and sold by Samuel Wood, 1807) and later editions issued in 1811 and 1814., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Edwin, David, 1776-1841, engraver
Date
[1807]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1807 Bra 2721.D frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2709
Contains central vignette showing three female allegorical figures, including Ceres (i.e., bounty) and Liberty., Includes verse: Now is the time each child should try, in life's bright, sunny morn, To lay rich stores of knowledge by, Ere wintry age comes on., 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. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.157]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Trimmed., Patriotic print, possibly a poster illustration, containing a central allegorical scene flanked by views of Civil War battlefields. Central scene shows men of all eras and trades, including a sailor with an American flag, raising their arms in salute to the Temple of Liberty elevated upon a rock in the background. Other figures include a farmer with a sickle, a veteran of the American Revolution, and a wagon driver. Also shows boughs of wheat and artisans tools. Battle views show soldiers, including Zouaves, charging, traveling on horseback, and firing a cannon. Variant of print often used as a Civil War envelope design.
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [5786.F.137a]
Allegorical figure representing liberty blesses and grasps the hand of a male slave who kneels before her. One of the slave's shackles lies broken on the ground, the other remains on his leg. Behind him, a group of enchained slaves look on as they wait to approach the figure of Liberty., Frontispiece for Benjamin-Sigismond Frossard's La Cause des esclaves nègres et des habitans de la Guinée (A Lyon: De l'imprimerie d'Aimé de La Roche, imprimeur de la Société royale d'agriculture, 1789)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Boily, Charles-Ange, 1738 or 9-1813, engraver
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1789 Fross 1971.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2681
Frontispiece accompanies Cowper's poem "The Morning Dream," which appears on the opposite page. The engraving features an allegorical figure representing Liberty/Britannia, who sailed westward to America "to make freemen of slaves." Shedding light "like the sun," this divine and beautiful figure "sung of the slave's broken chain, wherever her glory appeared." In accordance with the verse, two chained slaves kneel before her, praying for freedom. At the left, a slave-owner drops his whip. ("In his hand, as a sign of his sway, / A scourge hung with lashes he bore, / And stood looking out for his prey, From Africa's sorrowful shore. / But soon as approaching the land, / That angel-like woman he view'd, / The scourge he let fall from his hand, / With the blood of his subjects imbru'd."), Frontispiece for John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between the Years 1830 and 1838 (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, No. 25, Cornhill, 1837)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Date
[1837]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1837 Whi 51405.D frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2759
View showing an unexecuted monument commissioned by the citizen's group National Commemoration Monument Association and designed by sculptor William Wetmore Story for the re-landscaping of the square for the Centennial celebration of 1876. Shows the figure of Liberty standing upon a column adorned with female allegorical figures; an eagle encircled by stars; fearsome animal heads; and floral ornaments. The monument was to be placed in the center of the square at the intersection of the main paths. In 1876, the committee asked to and was allowed to be released from a city ordinance, passed in March 1875, that required them to raise $50,000 for the erection of the monument and the project effort apparently dissolved., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 534
Creator
Hunter, Thomas, lithographer
Date
1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Monuments and statues - L [(3)1322.F.27c]
View showing an unexecuted monument commissioned by the citizen's group National Commemoration Monument Association and designed by sculptor William Wetmore Story for the re-landscaping of the square for the Centennial celebration of 1876. Shows the figure of Liberty standing upon a column adorned with female allegorical figures; an eagle encircled by stars; fearsome animal heads; and floral ornaments. The monument was to be placed in the center of the square at the intersection of the main paths. In 1876, the committee asked to and was allowed to be released from a city ordinance, passed in March 1875, that required them to raise $50,000 for the erection of the monument and the project effort apparently dissolved., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 483, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 632 S 888
Date
c1876
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 632 S 888
Stephen's album drolleries no. 1., Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War. First nine cards show the British "surly lion" giving a "generous roar," (i.e., the recognition by Great Britain of the Confederacy); which "temporarily astonishes" the "Gallic Cock"; who eventually overpowers the lion; who later weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. a slave of the South) at Exter Hall; "which he forgets in the embrace of the "Belligerent Wolf of the C.S.A." while stepping on the crow; which leads to his "arming of the wolf"; while the Mexican vulture is garroted by the Gallic cock (i.e., French intervention in Mexico); causing the lion to protect his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire,( i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle; which causes the "grand combat" between the eagle and the wolf. Last three cards predict "to consult history" to see the Union victory of the eagle over the wolf; the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock; and the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a-l]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion who weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. a slave of the South) at Exter Hall. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55i]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the victory of the eagle over the wolf. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55c]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55b]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion protecting his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire, ( i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55e]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the eagle and the wolf fighting. The lion hangs out of a window above the fight scene, near the words "police ; murder". Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55d]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion arming the wolf. The wolf stands with one foot on the lap of the lion, who is fixing his boots. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55g]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the British lion roaring and astonishing the Gallic cock. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55k]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the Gallic cock overpowering the British lion. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55j]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., The Gallic cock is strangling the Mexican vulture and has his knife raised, about to stab him in this scene (i.e., French intervention in Mexico). Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55f]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the British lion roaring from the coast of England, with the "Trent" (RMS Trent of the Trent Affair) steamship afloat in the background. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55l]
Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Depicts the lion and the wolf shaking hands, and stepping on the crow. Forms part of a collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator, Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882 artist., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55h]
Interior view showing the Liberty Bell on a pedestal in the State House. State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: 198, Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Presko Binocular Company bought negatives from photographers and published stereographs between 1910 and 1920 in Chicago.
Date
[ca. 1910]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Monuments and statues [P.9047.157]
Interior view showing the Liberty Bell hanging on a chain of thirteen links from the ceiling in the Assembly Room of the State House. The State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley., Title on negative., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1877]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Monuments and statues [P.9567.11]
View of the bell hanging from the ceiling in Independence Hall., Additional places of publication printed on mount include: London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas., Printed on mount: Works and studios. Arlington, N.J.; Westwood, N.J.; and Washington, D.C., Sun sculpture trademark printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Copyrighted 1902 by Underwood & Underwood on recto under title and copyrighted 1904 by Underwood & Underwood on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Explicative paragraph of text describing the history of the Liberty Bell printed on verso. "Liberty Bell; Philadelphia, Pa." printed in five languages below paragraph., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date
c1904
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Underwood & Underwood - Historic buildings & sites [P.9047.119]
Seven pins: 1. Red Cross 1919. 2. Red Cross 1920. 3. Red Cross. 4. Fourth Liberty Loan with flag. 5. Liberty Loan with V. 6. Third Liberty Loan with Liberty Bell. 7. I Helped War Chest with chest filled with gold and American flag crest. 1, 2, 5 -Made by The Whitehead Hoag & Co. Buttons, Badges, Novelties, and Signs Newark, NJ. 3, 6, 7- Made by American Art Works Conshocton, Ohio. 4-Made by American Art Sign(?) New York
Reads, "Libertas Americana" and "4 Juil 1776." Translation: "American Liberty—4th of July, 1776." Depicts Liberty with her cap and pole. Reverse reads, "Non Sine Diis animosus infans" "17 19 Oct. 1777-1781." Translation: "The fearless child was not without the help of gods." (Verse from the Odes of Horace; Book III, Ode IV, 20.) Depicts Minerva, with a spear and shield, protecting an infant Hercules from a lion. Hercules is strangling two serpents., Gift of Benjamin Franklin., Exhibited in, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007).
The painting is signed "S. Jennings Pinxt.1792" on a scroll in the lower right corner. The frame is original, made by the Philadelphia carver and gilder James Reynolds (c. 1736-1794)., LCP Minutes vol. 3, April 1, 1790, p. 195-197: "Extract of a Letter from Samuel Jennings, dated London January 12th, 1790. `My Dear Father. Having lately received Information that an Elegant Building is now erecting for the Philadelphia Library, an Idea immediately struck me, that if it would not be thought presumptuous, I should esteem myself very happy to have the honor of presenting a Painting to the Company that would be applicable to so noble, and useful an Institution, and which if agreeable to the Gentlemen who have the Directions of it, shall use my utmost exertion & abilities to make it acceptable; the great affection I retain for my native Country, will always be an inducement to me to contribute my mite towards the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences, hoping in due time, they will arrive to as great perfection as they are at present, in the place I now reside--- As I do not know who the Gentlemen are that have the direction of the Library, I request you will be so obliging as to communicate to them the Information I have given you, and if they should be pleased to approve of it, as I hope they will, it will be necessary for me to be acquainted with the length, breadth and height of the Room, together with the Situation they would wish to place in it, and if over the Fire-place, the distance from the Mantle-piece to the Ceiling-- You will perhaps think me too particular, but these are things essentially necessary--/As soon as I receive an answer from you with their approbation, which I hope will be by the first Packet from New York, or any other immediate opportunity, I shall put the piece into Execution., In regard to the subject, there are three, which I think would be applicable to the Institution vizt. Cleo - Goddess of History, and Heroic Poetry. Calliope - Goddess of Harmony, Rhetoric, & Heroic Poetry - Minerva- Goddess of Wisdom & all the Arts, The Presidentess of Learning, which seems to comprehend everything that can be desired.The dress of Minerva is grand, and would make a better picture than either of the others. But if my other Subject should be their choice, I shall with plesure, comply with it-' This handsome Compliment from one of our Fellow Citizens now in London, is gratefully received, and Mordecai Lewis, John Kaighn, Doctor Parke, Thomas Morris and Richard Wells, are appointed a Committee to prepare a Letter to go by the next Packet expressive of the high Sense which the Board entertain of the genteel proposal, and that the Committee take the subject of the picture into consideration, and transmit their opinion thereon-.", Vol. 3, May 6, 1790, p. 206-207: "The Committee appointed by the last board reported that they had transmitted a letter to Samuel Jennings in answer to his polite and liberal offer of a painting for this Institution which was read and ordered to be entered on the minutes--- `Phila. April 3, 1790, Esteemed Friend- The Directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia having been furnished with an extract of thy letter respecting a Piece of Painting intended for the Library they have instructed us to transmit their grateful acknowledgments for so genteel a notice of their Institution--To recieve such a proof of Attachment from one of their Fellow-Citizens, at so great a distance, must be truly pleasing to every Member of the Company, to whom the Directors will have an opportunity of communicating it, at their annual Election next month-/ The Board have considered the three Subjects submitted to their Choice, and readily agree in giving a preference to that of Minerva; but as a more general latitude has been so politely granted, they take the liberty of suggesting an Idea of Substituting the figure of Liberty/with her Cap and proper Insignia/displaying the arts by some of the most striking Symbols of Painting, Architecture, Mechanics, Astronomy etc, whilst She appears in the attitude of placing on the top of a Pedestal, a pile of books, lettered with, Agriculture, Commerce, Philosophy, & Catalogue of Philadelphia Library., A broken chain under her feet, and in the distant background a Groupe of Negroes sitting on the Earth, or in some attitude expressive of Ease & Joy -/ This is handed merely as a Sketch of what struck the Directors, but they have so much diffidence on Subjects of this nature, that they wish to submit the whole to thy own Judgment-/ We are on behalf of the Directors very respectfully Thy Friends. Signed by Richard Wells, Thomas Morris, Thomas Parke, John Kaighn'., Gift of Samuel Jennings, 1792., Exhibited in: Art Institute of Chicago's exhibition, From Colony to Nation (1949); Corcoran Gallery of Art's exhibition, American Processional (1950); Library Company and Historical Society of Pennsylvania's exhibtion, Negro History, 1553-1903 (1969); The National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, 1770-1800 (1973); Library Company and Historical Society of Pennsylvania's exhibtion, Women 1500-1900 (1974); Library Company's exhibition, Quarter of a Millennium (1981); Corcoran Gallery of Art's exhibition, Facing History, The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940 (1990).
Image features a large allegorical figure representing Liberty, who stands in the center of the scene. Her raised left hand holds a book. In front of her and to the left, a male slave has broken free from his shackles and chains. Next to him, a black woman prays, and a black mother holds her infant child. At the right, a white girl teaches a group of black children to read the alphabet. An American flag flies in the background., Frontispiece for the Liberty Bell (Boston: For the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1839)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver
Date
[1839]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1839 Lib 66087.D frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2770
Allegorical print showing the figure of liberty holding a laurel wreath over a bust of George Washington that is mounted on a pedestal reading “E. Pluribus Unum 1876 1776”. The image of two overlapping torches separates the dates on the pedestal and an American flag drapes the bust. The figures are surrounded by an eagle, American flags and oak leaves intertwined with a banner that reads “These United Colonies Are And Of Right Ought To Be Free And Independent States,” a quote from the Declaration of Independence., pdcp00038, Copyrighted by the "Centennial Album.", Title from duplicate in the collections of the Boston Athenauem, Boston, Massachusetts., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Centennial, Trimmed.
Creator
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Date
c1875
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana – Centennial
Top half of the commemorative print depicting a monument that contains vignettes; allegorical, patriotic, and historical figures; state seals; and references to the Declaration of Independence to symbolize "A Free Nations Progress." Includes a central arch containing a view showing "Philadelphia Public Buildings. 1776. Independence Hall." View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Arch comprised of the seals of the original 13 states bordered by abutments containing angels trumpeting "Liberty" and "Independence." Flanking the central view are columns labeled with the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Above the arch figures of Liberty, American eagles, Christopher Columbus, William Penn, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln adorn a panel representing a time line of the nation's history. Also includes views of a stagecoach; a sailing vessel, and the U. S. Capitol. Also contains the patriotic mottoes "United We Stand Divided We Fall" and "In Union There is Strength." The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition, the Centennial Exhibition, of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Frank H. Leonholdt., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 368a, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 47 Z 992
Creator
Leonholdt, Frank H.
Date
[c1875]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 47 Z 992
View showing the Liberty Bell on a float adorned in patriotic bunting in front of Independence Hall on Chestnut Street. Two military escorts stand nearby. The Liberty Bell traveled to Boston in 1903 for the 128th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; London; Hamberg, Ger.; and Milan, Italy., Title printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note in pencil on verso: Mrs. E. B. Dorathy ; Sammy Taylor, Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1903
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Griffith & Griffith - Monuments and statues [P.9450.2]
Illustrated trade card depicting the seated female figure of Liberty leaning against a large American shield. Includes in the background a pole topped by a liberty cap, the sails of a ship, and a steamboat on a body of water., 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 - Keeler [5786.F.176]
Illustrated trade card depicting the patriotic figure of Liberty wearing a headdress and a dress cinched at the waist with a "U.S." buckle. She holds an American flag in her right hand and a sword in her left., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., George S. Harris started his printing business in 1847 and relocated in 1852 to Fourth and Vine Streets. In 1872, he partnered with his son George T. Harris and renamed the business George Harris & Son.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Newton [(2)5786.F.190f-1]
Print after painting by New York historical painter and Art Union exhibitor, Frederick Augustus Chapman, commemorating the Declaration of Independence. Depicts the raising of a liberty pole in a colonial town square. Image contains a group of men, including an African American man, raising the pole as around them revelers rejoice; a tavern sign with a portrait of King George III is pulled down; the Sons of Liberty rally; volunteers for "War, Liberty, and Rights" are recruited; a white man loyalist turns away in disgust; and a white woman raises her baby in celebration as other women solemnly look on. Liberty poles, symbols and meeting places of the radical group, Sons of Liberty, first appeared in 1766 following the repeal of the Stamp Act., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1875. By John C. McRae; New York., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., 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.
Creator
McRae, John C., engraver
Date
1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-American Revolution [8384.F.13]
Teacher's certificate illustrated with three allegorical vignettes: the New Jersey state seal with Liberty and Prosperity, portrayed as white women; a group of objects representing knowledge including books, a globe, a protractor, and a beaker; and a group of objects representing the arts including musical instruments, an artist's palette, a painting on an easel, sculpture, and a camera., Title from item., Issued to Mary S. Bunday, who qualified as a "first assistant in a grammar school," on September 25th, 1874. Bunday, an African American woman, was issued a second class certificate awarded to Black teachers., Date from manuscript written on recto., Manuscript note on frame backing: second class certificate meant Black for a Black Teacher., Unframed 1993., 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
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, lithographer
Date
[ca. 1874]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9427] - Dickerson Family Collection - Miscellaneous
Pro-Union cartoon containing a montage of vignettes representing the consequences of secession, particularly the denigration of American freedom. Depicts Roman soldiers representing the "Demons of Nullification, Secession, and Treason" attacking the "Temple of Freedom," the edifice adorned with the names of Revolutionary heroes and battles. The allegorical army carries a "Flag of Disunion" inscribed "Liberty! [To Extend Slavery]," swords, spears, and torches. These soldiers of "war" and "rapine" trample upon the torn Constitution and American flag. In the background, surrounding vignettes depict the bloodied, manacled "Genius of Liberty," depicted as a white woman, fallen beside "Free Speech" and the "Free Press"; the "Servile Insurrection" depicting enslaved Black men attacking white men, women, and children; the king "Military Despotism," depicted as a white man attired in a crown, brandishes manacles and bayonets to complete "the work begun by the traitors"; ghostly figures of "Departed Heroes & Sages," including Washington, Jefferson, and Adams look aghast "on the sacrilege perpetrated in the name of Liberty"; and Liberty, depicted as a white woman, weeps beside an upside down American flag and below the quote of the executed French revolutionary, Madame Roland, "O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name.", Text printed above image: "Indignantly frown upon every attempt to alien any portion of our country from the rest"--Washington., Text printed below image: The enemies of the Republic, from the Gulf, or Lower Regions, led on by the Demons of Nullification, Secession and Treason, assail the Temple of American Freedom, consecrated by the blood of the Martyrs of Liberty. Raising the Flag of Disunion, the Traitors trample on the Star-spangled Banner and the Constitution which they have sworn to defend. The Genius of Liberty is stricken down and manacled. War and Servile Insurrection prevail. Military Despotism, of necessity, succeeds, and with its chains and bayonets completes the work begun by the Traitors. The Genius of America weeps, while, above, the shades of departed Heroes and Statesmen gaze with sad astonishment on the sacrilege perpetrated in the name of Liberty! “God Save the Commonwealth.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by John Barber, in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Connecticut., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1981., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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
1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons-1861 Sec [P.8699]
Allegorical print depicting female allegorical figures in front of a temple of Justice. Depicts in the right, Peace as a white woman attired in a laurel wreath crown and a white Roman gown, standing across from the white figure of Liberty and pointing with her left hand toward the temple in the background. Liberty, wearing the American flag as a cape, and with a liberty pole and cap in hand, charges toward the temple. Three muse-like female followers, including two white women, one holding an urn, and a Black woman, looking toward the temple, stand alongside her. Behind Peace, a white cherub stands by a stack of books. Scene also includes a discarded shield and sword laying on the ground in the foreground., Title from item., Presumably issued late in 1854 by Swain, Abell & Simons, the publisher of the Philadelphia newspaper, the Public Ledger, for their subscribers., Printed below the image: Printing! the art of every art preserver. The lever that uplifts the world of mind. Of Justice, Peace, and Human Rights conserver; The sense of vision to the mental blind. The torch of genius flashes o’er its pages, Illumes Fame’s temple with its dazzling ray. And marks the means for moulding future ages, In universal education’s sway., Purchase 1984., 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., Sartain, a premier Philadelphia portrait and genre engraver of the 19th century, was also a social reformer who often incorporated his reformist beliefs into his work., Schussele was a historical, genre, landscape, and portrait painter and respected professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts whose paintings his professional associate and friend, John Sartain, often engraved.
Creator
Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Allegories - L [P.9000.1]
Advertising calendar for 1881 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate setting containing patriotic allegorical figures and symbols, including Liberty with a lyre, marble bust, fasces, and an American shield at her feet sitting with the liberty pole draped across her lap and a laurel wreath on her head as she looks at an album of U.S. Presidents; flowers and cherubs holding grain, holly, a scythe, an umbrella, a watering pot, and other spring symbols; and the dome of the United States Capitol in the background. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., On bottom recto outside of gilt border: "Bell Telephone Communication.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 52
Creator
Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
Date
[1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [P.9349.363]
Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]
Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 69, Also published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece.
Creator
Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1854 10840.O.12a
Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington. The portrait is adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 68, Also published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a.
Creator
Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Exhib of 50574.O.15
Elaborate Centennial Exhibition commemorative print depicting an arched monument containing central views of the "Philadelphia Public Buildings," Independence Hall (1776) and the new City Hall (1876), surrounded by vignettes; allegorical, patriotic, and historical figures; state seals; and references to prominent historical, national and local personages. The public building views include pedestrian and street traffic, the name of City Hall architect John McArthur Jr., and the motto "A Free Nation's Progress." City Hall image also contains misrepresentative views of other municipal- style buildings in the background. Arch comprised of the seals of the original 13 states bordered by abutments containing angels trumpeting "Liberty" and "Independence." Above the arch figures of Liberty, American eagles, Christopher Columbus, William Penn, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln adorn a panel representing a time line of the nation's history. Flanking the central views are columns labeled with the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; the states; the U.S. Presidents and Vice-Presidents; prominent citizens, including Alexander Hamilton, William Wirt, Thomas Sullly and Thomas U. Walter; and the Philadelphia Commissioners for Public Buildings. Also includes vignette views symbolizing industry, arts, politics, and technological advancement. Includes sailing vessels, bridges, locomotives, railroads, a factory, a turbine, and the U. S. Capitol. Also contains the patriotic mottoes "United We Stand Divided We Fall" and "In Union There is Strength" in addition to plaques with the names of the Mayor of Philadelphia, William S. Stokley, and the Governor of Pennsylvania, John F. Hartranft. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Frank H. Leonholdt., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 368, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 47 Z 992
Creator
Leonholdt, Frank H.
Date
c1875
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 47 Z 992
Print containing a central view of the proposed Main Exhibition Building surrounded by titled vignettes showing key events in the history of the United States. View includes trains of people arriving by foot, on horseback, and by omnibus in front of the exhibition hall. The length, width, and square footage of the building are printed below the image. Vignettes, predominately events from the American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican American and Civil War, include "Drafting the Declaration of Independence - The Committee"; "Reading the Declaration of Independence"; Celebration of the Fourth of July After the [Civil] War"; "Battle at Manmouth"; "Entry into Mexico"; "Battle of Lake Erie"; the raising of the American flag at "Fort Sumter"; "Surrender of Lee"; and Lincoln's celebratory "Entry into Richmond." Many of the images include victorious military leaders in addition to celebratory crowds. Other vignette views show street and pedestrian traffic in front of "Independence Hall or State House, Phila." and "The Memorial Building or "Art Gallery," Phila." Also contains the figure of America; an American eagle; a bee hive icon for "Agriculture" and train icon for "Mechanics"; Native American figures incorporated into the border; and banners reading "Great World Fair" and "Industry of All Nations." The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Farimount Park., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 3, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 8 S 325
Creator
Schile, H. (Henry)
Date
[c1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW -Centennial [7859.F]
Print containing a central view of the female figure of America surrounded by scenes and vignettes that commemorate the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Shows America, wearing a liberty cap and holding a laurel wreath, seated on a throne that is bordered by American flags. Vignette portraits of the presidents and prominent military figures from the American Revolution encircle the image and a bird's eye view of the exhibition grounds, "Centennial Exhibition Buildings, Philadelphia,"and vignettes of Independence Hall, Faneuil Hall, and the Bunker Hill Monument are visible above it. At the bottom of the print, a battle scene represents "The Struggle for Liberty" and a family resting on their porch in front of a farmer in his field, and a factory, represents "Peace and Prosperity". Also includes the American eagle holding the American shield and banner "E Pluribus Unum." The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 374, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 8 St 57
View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the fire company that operated from Front Street below Green Street. Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers. The compressor contains ornate detailing and is adorned with a plate depicting the figure of Liberty standing beside a pedestal adorned with the portrait of Washington. A trumpet hangs from the harness of the engine. Also contains a border with geometric details., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 154
Creator
Heiss, George G.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.9943]
Shows the bell installed in the gallery in 1852 surrounded by patriotic symbols and emblems in iron work, including liberty caps and shields. Iron work fencing encloses the bell., Attributed to John Moran., Title supplied by cataloguer., Unmounted half stereograph., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date
ca. 1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran -Monuments & statues - L [8339.F.24]
Invitation containing vignette scenes and pictorial and ornate border details. Vignettes scenes depict the figure of liberty with the American eagle and shield; a sailor and farmer in conversation, and couples dancing in a ballroom. Details include a hand pump fire engine; clasped hands; and filigree. Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, one of the city’s first volunteer fire companies, was organized on March 1, 1741 or 1742., Date from Poulson inscription., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., POSP 280
Date
1847
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol.5 [(5)2526.F.8]
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