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Title: A Guernsey herd
Description: Depicts Guernsey cows in a field in the Berkshires., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.7]

Title: Near Sheffield, Mass. 1890
Description: Depicts a man wearing a vest and felt hat driving a pair of oxen to plow his field. He carries a large switch in his right hand to encourage the animals, and at his left hand is a little girl in a checked dress and broad-brimmed hat. The field has been fenced and is surrounded by trees, shrubs and a small lake., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.6]

Title: Among the Berkshire Hills
Description: Depicts a man driving a buggy with two horses down a very narrow dirt road, surrounded by unspoiled verdant countryside., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Label on mount reads: Loaned to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.9]

Title: Rules and regulations to be observed by persons employed in this shop
Description: Signed: Richard Kitson. Lowell, September 1, 1862., Richard Kitson was the inventor of cotton machinery and founder of the Kitson Machinery Shop. Cf. Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1908), p. 754., Text printed within decorative border; printed area measures: 24.8 x 14.8 cm., Purchased with NEH-PEAES funds., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2008, p. 10.
Creator: Kitson, Richard, 1814-1885
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1862 Kitson 16538.Q

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a two-story house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely at Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.588]

Title: [Group in front of a house near a lake]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men gathered in front a house with a large tree growing in the yard, likely in Massachusetts. Various bicycles are propped up against the house and a dog stands beneath the tree. A lake is visible in the background behind the men, September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.589]

Title: A Berkshire road. 1888
Description: Depicts a slender young woman, her sleeves rolled up, wearing an apron over her long skirt and a bonnet, carrying a spray of flowers in her left hand and a basket over her right arm. She stands in a narrow dirt road., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.8]

Title: "See Saw."
Description: Depicts two young girls sitting on a seesaw made of a board of wood, balanced on logs in a field. Two baskets and a wheelbarrow are on the ground nearby., Title from inscription on mount., Exhibited in 1889 Third Annual Exhibition of Photographs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: August 18, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.9a]

Title: (No. 8.) Your province tax. Lawful money ... Your town and county rate. Lawful money. ... The assessors sit at Faneuil-Hall in Boston, on Wednesdays, from 3 to 5 of the clock afternoon, to whom any person aggrieved may apply for ease, as the law directs. 1764. Errors excepted
Description: A tax assessment form., Printed area measures 8.0 x 10.4 cm., Not in: Evans; Bristol; Ford, W.C. Broadsides., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Mr. Willm. Fisher, assessment total £12.3.0; Sampson Salter, collector., Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
Creator: Boston (Mass.), Collector of Taxes
Date: [1764]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1764 Boston 16921.Q (Zinman)

Title: Harvey & Parker, produce commission merchants No. 3 South Market Street, Boston. All business entrusted to us will be promptly attended to
Description: Caption title., At head of title: January [year?]., Commodities price list for the Boston Market, Jan. 16, 1864., Library Company copy addressed in MS. to: Levi Leonard Adams Mass.; with a Boston postmark; imperfect: torn at top, removing some text., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Harvey & Parker
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Harvey 14387.Q

Title: A.V. Burlingame
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist. Burlingame, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, sits facing slightly right. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's violent attack of antislavery Senator, Charles Sumner, in Congress in 1856., Possibly by Mathew B. Brady., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date inferred from photographic medium., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Burlingame [(1)5750.F.63h]

Title: Hon. Anson Burlingame, M.C., from Massachusetts
Description: Bust-length portrait of the Massachusetts congressman and abolitionist attired in a white collared shirt, plaid waistcoat, black bowtie and jacket. Burlingame was challenged to a duel by Southern Senator Preston Brooks after denouncing Brook's physical attack of antislavery senator, Charles Sumner, in 1856., Title from item., Date from manuscript written on recto: 1856., Published with an accompanying article in Frank Leslie's Illustrated magazine, October 18, 1856, p. 301. [LCP **Per L, 1856]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Brightly, Joseph H., 1818-1901
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - B [(1)5750.F.63i]

Title: [Group of cyclists]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men with their bicycles standing across a dirt road, likely in Massachusetts. Many of the men wear hats and bowties as they prop up their bicycles., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.587]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.591]

Title: [Group standing in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing in front of a one-story building with a sign reading "Garage," likely at Massachusetts. A dirt road curves in front of the building and various cars are parked along the road. Bicycles lean agains the front of the building. Many of the men wear suits, hats, and bowties., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.592]

Title: [Group of four cyclists on a boardwalk]
Description: Photograph showing four men standing on a wooden boardwalk each propping up a bicycle. The men wear light shirts, ties, and one wears a hat. The water is visible in below the boardwalk on the left., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.597]

Title: Hicks' patent (applied for) improved spring blind fast I beg to call the attention of the trade to the above very important improvement in fastenings for outside window blinds and shutters
Description: Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kellogg, C. D. (Charles D.)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Kellogg 14634.Q

Title: Die Americaner wiedersetzen sich der Stemple Acte, und verbrennen das aus England nach america Gesandte Stemple Papier zu Boston im August 1764
Description: Scene depicting a riot in the town square of Boston protesting the enactment of the Stamp Act in 1765. Cheering spectators and participants, including a woman and an African American man, surround a bonfire, and brandish farm tools, and throw stamped paper onto the flames. Others watch from building windows overlooking the square., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 61., Plate 1 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.1]

Title: Union Republican 1864 ticket Ward 6 For presidential electors. ... For governor. John A. Andrew, of Boston
Description: Illustration at head, featuring Peace and Liberty flanking the U.S. flag and a cannon, is signed: Bricher-Russell engravers. Wright-Potter printers., Printed in red and blue; printed area measures 31.3 x 11.4 cm., Library Company copy has the red and blue printings poorly aligned., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Republican Party (Mass.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Repub 5793.F.45a

Title: Public Garden
Description: Rooftop view looking at the landscaped paths of the Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, including the equestrian statue of George Washington designed by Thomas Ball ca. 1869 in the distance and the Ether Monument/Good Samaritan designed by John Quincy Adams Ward ca. 1868. Also includes a small fountain in the foreground. Park created in 1837 and designed by George Meacham., Title printed on mount below image., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - Massachusetts [P.9022.45]

Title: "Feeding the chickens."
Description: Depicts two young girls feeding chickens at the entrance of a barn. One girl stands poised with her hand in a metal pail of chicken feed, ready to disperse it to the chicken at her feet. Another girl sits on the step leading into the barn. A large pile of hay sits on a cart behind them., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Title from inscription on mount., Included in the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: Aug. 12th, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.11]

Title: The fountain, Mount Auburn Cemetery
Description: View shows people walking around the perimeter of a large fountain in the cemetery founded in 1861. Also shows a large sepulchral monument in the foreground., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Aaron Wunsch.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.2]

Title: Skylight, Boston City Hall
Description: Interior view showing a square staircase and skylight of the building that served as Boston's third City Hall from 1865 to 1969. Built 1862-1865 after designs by Gridley J. F. Bryant and Arthur Gilman., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint on verso., Pink 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 Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.9299.118]

Title: Cobbs Tavern, Photo by Tho[ma]s H. Hall
Description: Photograph showing two cyclists standing in front of Cobb's Tavern. A dirt road runs next to the building, with trees growing on the left. Cobb’s Tavern was built circa 1740. It served as a tavern as well as the East Sharon Post Office from 1871 to 1895, after which it became a private residence. It was a popular stop on bicycle tours in the 1870s-1880s., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.567]

Title: Lake, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass
Description: Elevated, hillside view shows a lake surrounded by trees in the cemetery founded in 1861. Large sepulchral monuments are visible in the left foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed 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., Gift of Aaron Wunsch.
Creator: Allen, E. L. (Edward L.)
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Allen - Cemeteries [P.9963.1]

Title: Hathaway's patent portable writing case, designed for army use This is a neat, compact, and useful article, so constructed as to combine both the portfolio and desk. A small metal case contains a patent secure-top inkstand, paper, pens, envelopes. &c., --attached to this is a portfolio for note paper and letters,--and connected with the whole is a light, yet strong hinge table or writing board, which can be held in the hand and used in any position, either standing, sitting, or on horseback, and furnishes a hard and smooth surfaced for writing, always at hand and easily used. When packaged for transportation, it forms a roll of only nine inches in length, and weighs but thirteen ounces. They are made two different sizes. The new patent inkstand can be had separately, either singly or by the gross
Description: The illustration shows a Union soldier, in camp, writing on the portable desk., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: John M. Whittemore & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 John M 9982.F.19 (McAllister)

Title: [Estes & Lauriat trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Boston publisher Estes & Lauriat promoting illustrated childrens' books "Zig Zags Journeys in Classic Lands," "The Knockabout Club in the Woods," and "Zig Zags Journeys in Europe" depicting vignettes including Grecian ruins, scenes of camp life and the outdoors, and travellers and European townscapes., Advertising text for "The Knockabout Club in the Woods" and a list of the famous "Zig-Zag Books" by Hezekiah Butterworth printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Estes [P.9111.3; P.9111.8 & 9]

Title: The Union mower
Description: "Thomas H. Dodge, proprietor, 42 Exchange Street, Worcester, Mass."--p. [3]., This machine was awarded a prize at the New England Agricultural Society fair held in Sept. 1864., Illustrations engraved by J.W. Orr and W.C. Whittemore., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Dodge, Thomas Hutchins, 1823-1910
Date: [not before 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Dodge 14574.Q (Beit- ler)

Title: [Group at edge of Ponkapoag Pond]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men sitting at the rocky shore of Ponkapoag Pond. The men fold their legs to keep their shoes dry. Scrubby grass grows among the rocks on the shore., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.593]

Title: [Group at the edge of Ponkapoag Pond]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men sitting at the rocky shore of Ponkapoag Pond. The men fold their legs to keep their shoes dry. Scrubby grass grows among the rocks on the shore., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.594]

Title: Ponkapoag
Description: Photograph showing a group of men resting in the grass near Ponkapoag Pond. A man wearing a straw hat with his hands on his hips stands apart from the group., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.599]

Title: The Sec. Ed
Description: Photograph showing a man leaning against his bicycle in front of a tree, likely at Massachusetts. He wears a three-piece suit and holds his hat in his hand, which rests on his hip. A path runs behind the tree., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.600]

Title: [Group of men in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing on a dirt road in front of a garage, likely in Massachusetts. One of the men wears a long white coat and holds a cigar in his hand. Many of the other men wear hats and suits., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.606]

Title: [Group of men in front of a garage]
Description: Photograph showing a group of men standing on a dirt road in front of a garage, likely in Massachusetts. One of the men wears a long white coat and holds a cigar in his hand. Many of the other men wear hats and suits., September 13, 14, + 15, 1907., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.607]

Title: Camp of Second Mass. Regt., [graphic] : Col. George H.J. Gordon, commanding.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp at Roxbury, Massachusetts. Shows two brigades of soldiers marching toward each other under the inspection of officers on horseback. Also shows rows of tents among trees in the background.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - S [5779.F.19]

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines prepared and sold by Thomas Hollis, druggist and apothecary, 23 Union Street, Boston, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Thomas Hollis was at this address beginning in 1853. After his death in 1875, the business was carried on by his sons, Thomas and Francis, at the same address., Contents: [1] Hollis' Celebrated Eye Water, for sore, weak, and inflamed eyes -- [2] Jaundice Bitters, prepared by Thomas Hollis -- [3] Hollis's Vegetable Pectoral Syrup, for the cure of coughs, colds, hooping cough, influenza, and all coughs incident to children -- [4] Hollis' Compound Boneset and Wild Cherry Cough Candy -- [5] Hollis's original and genuine Liquid Opodelodoc or Rheumatic Liniment -- [6] Try it! Try it! Try it! Hollis' Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla, with iodide of potass -- [7] Insect Powder. For the destruction of insects, ants, roaches, water bugs, garden worms, &c. -- [8] Jonathan P. Hall & Co. Genuine Spice Bitters, prepared by Thomas Hollis -- [9] Hollis Herbal Compound -- [10] Dr. Whitney's Elixir of Life., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hollis, Thomas, 1802-1875
Date: [not before 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111807.O (Helfand)

Title: L. Prang & Co. art and educational publishers, Boston, Mass 1776-1876
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a flower wreath surmounted by Britain's "Red Ensign" flag and an American flag., Advertising text printed on verso promotes "Prang's American chromos," "Prang's illuminated business, advertising and visiting cards," "Prang's Christmas, New-Year, and birth-day cards," and "Prang's educational publications"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Prang [1975.F.669]

Title: [Business correspondence of Weeks & Potter, importers & jobbers of drugs and druggists sundries, Boston, Ma.]
Description: Includes an illustrated billhead and advertisement. Billhead contains image captioned "Resurgam" and showing a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames marked "WP" in a cluster of clouds. Billhead also contains ornamented type and ornamental details. Advertisement depicts an exterior view of the Weeks & Potter four-story storefront. Signage adorns the buildings and merchandise is visible in the first floor display window and in those on the second floor. Building also adorned with a model of a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames and a flag with the name of the firm and mascot. Firm name on flag transposed in image. Advertisement promotes Weeks & Potter's flavoring extracts, home remedies, cologne, olive oil, wines, and toilet articles on verso. Weeks and Potter, the partnership between Andrew G. Weeks and Warren B. Potter established circa 1852 as dealers of patent medicine, began to manufacture their own medicines in the 1860s. In 1899, the firm was incorporated as Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation., Title supplied by cataloger., Billhead completed in manuscript to D. F. Saunders on February 24, 1885 for several items, including glycerine, "Pur. Panacea," and "Downes Elix." for $27.70., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.246 & 247]

Title: Dr. Hooker's medicines J.T. Webber & Co., druggists and apothecaries, No. 7 State Street, Springfield, Mass. Proprietors of Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup syrup, Solidified Balsam and Liquid Balm. Dealers in patent medicines, cooking extracts, perfumery, toilet articles, &c., &c. Pure wines and liquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded
Description: Joseph T. Webber began his drug business on State St., Springfield, Mass. in 1863, and moved to the corner of State and Main in 1865., "Family knitting machines. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company."--p. 2. The Lamb Knitting Machine Company was organized in Springfield, Mass. in 1865., A leaf detached from an unidentified work, with running title: Advertisements., One illustration signed: T. Chubbuck sc. Springfield., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J.T. Webber & Co.
Date: [ca. 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 J T Web 112072.D (Helfand)

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: Facts! The U.S. bounty to volunteers ceases August 21st! State and city aid is to "volunteers" and not to drafted men. A volunteer who has a family will receive $614 for the first year's services, or about 51 dollars per month. The same man, if drafted, will receive for nine months services $199, or about $22 per month. The company now recruiting by Capt. Hooper and Lieut. Swift, will be the last "bounty" company and will fill the quota of Roxbury
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1863 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Facts (2)5777.F.70c (McAllister)

Title: Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins a Meer am 18 December 1773
Description: Scene depicting the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Protestors board and dump barrels of tea from English ships as spectators watch from the shore. Among the spectators is an African American man sitting on a barrel and a Native American man smoking a pipe., Inscribed upper left corner: S.74., Plate 2 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Chodowiecki was a prominent German engraver and painter who specialized in prints of historical subjects.
Creator: Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801, etcher
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.8935.2]

Title: Massachusetts State Building.
Description: Exterior view, front of building. Depicts porch, shrubs and walkway in front.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.9299.39]

Title: The Lord's prayer
Description: Caption title., At head of title is a type specimen., The New England Institution for the Education of the Blind opened in Boston in 1832; in 1839, the name changed to Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind., Printed in S.G. Howe's raised-letter Boston line type; printed area measures 24.9 x 20.1 cm., In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [between 1832 and 1839]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Zinman Blind 17224.Q (Zinman)

Title: [Hoyt's German cologne trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for E.W. Hoyt & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts. Illustrations depict a woman's face superimposed onto a rose and two women flanking a large bottle of cologne with a label inscribed, "Hoyt's German cologne, large bottle price $1.00. E.W. Hoyt & Co., proprietors, Lowell, Mass.", Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.445] design patented 1881., Advertising text promoting Hoyt's German cologne printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Hoyt [1975.F.432 & 1975.F.445]

Title: Bought of Chas. P. Alden, druggist and apothecary, and dealer in manufacturers' supplies, drugs, paints, oils, acids, artists' materials, toilet, and fancy articles. No. 270 Main Street
Description: Billheads for the drug firm established in 1862. Contains ornamented and type lettering. Alden operated from the Main Street address 1868-1903., P.2011.46.1 completed in manuscript to C. K. Brewster on November 29, 1884 for several items, including "3 Doz. Lemon," "4 [Doz.] Peppermint," and "20 # Epsom Salts" for $26.61 total., P.2011.46.2 completed in manuscript to E. B. Gates on May 9, 1893 for "1 Doz. Vanilla," 1/2 [Doz.] Wistar Balsam," and "1 [doz.] [Camphorlic?]" for $4.35., Contains manuscript notes on verso of Alden's signature and monetary balance due., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1880-1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - A [P.2011.46.1 & 2]

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