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Title: [Comic scene showing a Confederate officer fleeing from a U.S. cannonball]
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing the officer, his hat flown off, trampling on a map marked "C.S.A." Also shows soldiers fleeing in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53h]

Title: [Ariovistus Pardee, Jr.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Pardee as a young man. He wears his hair long, swept over, and with a side part. He also has a mustache. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket, white, high-collared shirt, and necktie. Pardee was a prominent Civil War Union officer celebrated for his leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also the son of Ariovistus Pardee, the founder of Hazleton, PA., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from inferred age of sitter., Pad: Red velvet with scroll design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: S. Broadbent., Case: Leather. Scroll pattern in center. Framed above and below by a border pattern with a scroll design. Same design on verso. Front cover detached., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Creator: Broadbent, Samuel, 1810-1880, photographer
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.4]

Title: [Ariovistus Pardee, Jr.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Pardee as a young man. He wears his hair long, swept over, and with a side part. He also has a mustache. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket, white, high-collared shirt, and necktie. Pardee was a prominent Civil War Union officer celebrated for his leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also the son of Ariovistus Pardee, the founder of Hazleton, PA., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from inferred age of sitter., Pad: No pad., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: M. P. Simons, Philada., Case: No case. Two of four preservers detached., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), 1810-1880, photographer
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.5]

Title: "We fights mit Sigel"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing German-American involvement during the Civil War showing German-born military commander Franz Sigel. Shows Sigel with the body of a beer stein astride a charging horse depicted as a "Lager Beer" keg. Also shows soldiers depicted as beer mugs running beside Sigel., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdvs - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2282.49]

Title: Brig. Gen. Edw. A. Wild
Description: Bust-length, front facing portrait of Wild attired in Union uniform. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War achieving the rank of Brigadier General. He commanded several African American brigades., Title from item., Published in Frank Moore, ed. Rebellion record (New York: D. van Nostrand, 1867) vol. 10, opp. p. 450. (LCP Per R 15), Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895, engraver
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - W [P.8911.1048]

Title: [Ariovistus Pardee, Jr.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Pardee as a boy. He wears his hair long and below his ears. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket, white, high-collared shirt, and necktie. Pardee was a prominent Civil War Union officer celebrated for his leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also the son of Ariovistus Pardee, the founder of Hazleton, PA., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from inferred age of sitter., Plate tarnished around the edges., Pad: Red velvet with no design., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. No visible design., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.2]

Title: [Ariovistus Pardee, Jr.]
Description: Bust-length portrait of Pardee as a boy. He wears his hair long and tucked behind his ears. He is attired in a dark-colored jacket, white, high-collared shirt, and necktie. Pardee was a prominent Civil War Union officer celebrated for his leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also the son of Ariovistus Pardee, the founder of Hazleton, PA., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from inferred age of sitter., Plate tarnished around the edges., Pad: Red velvet with no design., Mat: Oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: M. A. Root, 40 Chestnut St., Philada., Case: Leather. Geometric pattern. Same design on verso. Front cover detached., Gift of Samuel Earle.
Creator: Root, M. A. (Marcus Aurelius), 1808-1888, photographer
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Pardee Family [P.2016.58.3]

Title: Max Rosenthal Collection of Portraits Scrapbook
Description: Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks.

Title: "Take care Gilmore you'll knock my brains out."
Description: Reproduction of a drawing mocking the Confederate military and Gen. Q.A. Gillmore's bombardment of Charleston, S.C. in August 1863. Shows a "450 lb" cannon ball, shot from a cannon on the bank of Morris Island, swiping past the backside of a Confederate officer. Also shows Fort Sumter in the background, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - Miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51e]

Title: [Collection of portraits]
Description: Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks., Sitters include Daniel Agnew; William Allen; Richard Bache; Phineas Bond; Thomas Cadwalader; Stephen Decatur; William Ellery, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson; Miers Fisher; Nicholas Gilman; Ann Diggs Graeme; Thomas Graeme; Joseph Hemphill; Thomas Hopkinson; Jare Ingersoll (1722-1801); Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822); Joel Jones; Moses and Samson Levy; Brockholst Livingston; James Mease; Rev. Henry Morton; William Plumstead; Samuel Powell; Charles B.J.F. de Saint-Memin; Edward Shippen; Edward, James, Matthew, and William Tilghman;George Walton, George M. and Thomas I. Wharton; William Whipple; and Jasper Yeates., Title from stamp on spine., Manuscript index of sitters (1-100) date stamped September 11, 1883 pasted in front of volume., Majority of lithographs signed: MR., Some prints include facsimile signature of sitter., Some sitters identified by manuscript notes., Two of the engravings after daguerreotypes by McClees & Germon., Engravers, lithographers, and printers include Max and L. N. Rosenthal, John Sartain, Henry S. Wagner, and Robert Whitechurch., Max Rosenthal was a skilled lithographer, mezzotint engraver, and painter who delineated the majority of the chromolithographs for the firm he operated with his brothers Louis N., Morris (i.e., Maurice), and Simon Rosenthal in Philadelphia from 1851 to circa 1872. Rosenthal continued to work as an artist and lithographer until 1910., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Index of sitters available at repository.
Date: [ca. 1855-ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [Uz 3 10536.Q]

Title: Philadelphia fashions fall & winter 1847 by Samuel A. Ward & Asahel F. Ward, no. 62 Walnut St
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 19 elegantly attired men and women in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene with 8 men and two women socializing. Most of the men wear suits with striped or plaid pants, long coats tapered at the waist, and bow ties. Some hold top hats and canes. The women wear a bonnet, shirtwaist, and full skirt or a riding habit. Furnishings include a marble pedestal, and mosaic carpeting and wallpaper. Lower panel shows General Zachary Taylor and two military officers, in uniforms and mounted on horses, flanked by 6 male civilians in front of a military training ground. All the plain-clothed men wear top hats, striped or checkered pants, and overcoats or capes. Background includes calvary troops on drill and a cannon. Most of the depicted men are clean-shaven or have mustaches. Key numbered 1-10 and 11-19 printed below the figures., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S. A. & A. F. Ward., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 174, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist
Date: c1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Fashion [P.2007.28.29]

Title: Southern tombstones
Description: Photographic reproduction of an anti-Confederate political cartoon showing a dilapidated graveyard of tombstones and a mausoleum inscribed with vitriolic epitaphs for predominately prominent military figures from the Confederate States. The fictionalized deceased include Generals P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, John B. Floyd, Robert E. Lee, Leonidas Polk and Henry A. Wise in addition to Vice-President Alexander Stephens. Within the cemetery, an African American man with a bayonet peers out from behind a tombstone near a debris-strewn path marked "secession, mob rule, and nullification." Plantations burn in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Brother - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52o]

Title: Brady's Album Gallery
Description: Incomplete series of the "Brady Album Gallery" of Civil War views first published in 1862 by New York publishers, E. & H.T. Anthony. Contains camp scenes, views of historic residences and military fortifications, and group portraits predominately photographed by unattributed Brady technicians, James F. Gibson and George N. Barnard. Gibson and Barnard hold copyright to twenty-six of the series. Contains series No. 1, 100, 100 (variant), 289, 302 - photographed by Barnard; No. 355, 360-361, 363-372, 377-380, 382-384, 388 - photographed by Gibson; No. 423-424, 427 - copyrighted and probably photographed by Brady., Views include: the incomplete Capitol in Washington, D.C.; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula including Union artillery batteries near Yorktown and Union headquarters of Generals McClellan, Scott, and Lafayette; and the inflation and ascent of the Union reconnaissance air balloon, "Intrepid." Group portraits depict African American Civil War freedom seekers, Union officers, and Union soldiers., Copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson and Mathew Brady., Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister and Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the series., Names of the photographers supplied by "Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war from the gallery of Alexander Gardner (Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1863)." (Transcription in LCP research file)., Gift of Jesse G. Haydock, 1981., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Forms part of Small Civil War Photograph Collection., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - Brady cdv's [P.9877.1-29]

Title: [Scraps no. 3. for 1832]
Description: Plate four from the 1832 edition of "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and everyday life such as fashion, religious hypocrisy, ignorance, vanity, country life, class inequities, the military, and higher education. Includes 'The Glass of Fashion & The Mould of Form' depicting a white man sales clerk falsely flattering a white man dandy trying on a puff-sleeved coat; "Faith and Works" depicting a hypocritical white man Deacon, near a fireplace, reneging the shelter that he promised to a cold, poor white woman outside his door while his African American servant offers her money; "Arrival of a Country Cousin" depicting a snobby, white, city gentleman snubbing his country cousin; "About to be Astonished" depicting a dimwitted gloating white man farmer about to intentionally kill a sleeping "varmint" and unintentionally kill his friend with a sickle; "Champagne [Campaign] or the Fatigues of Modern Camp Duty" depicting a grossly intoxicated troop of white military officers toasting their intellect and patriotism; "A Body Coat & A Coat of Arms" depicting a rotund and thin "John Smith" exchanging wrongly delivered coats; "The Able-Bodied Man & The Exempt" depicting a scraggly white soldier encountering an "exempt" hardy white gentleman; "Symptoms of Extravagance" depicting a white man, attired in rags, debating the necessity to "dress better on Sunday"; "College Acquirements" depicting an African American man and woman, portrayed in racist caricature and speaking in the vernacular, discussing 'de college for de colour'd circles' based on the beneficial effects of college on "Massa Bob," including his staying out later, no longer reading, and drinking champagne., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 4., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 4., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1893., 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.
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-Scr (d) [5656.F.24]

Title: Military memorial. War record of [blank]. "Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable." - Webster
Description: Commemorative certificate for Civil War Union veterans containing a montage of military and battle scenes, portrait vignettes, pictorial details, and statistical charts surrounding blank entries for a "War Record." Military and battle scenes, some captioned depict a military parade; a cemetery, probably during Memorial Day with wreathes and flowers being left on graves by visitors near a grandstand an military band; "Attack on Ft. Sumter April 12th 61" showing men at battle; "Enlisting" showing a large crowd in front of the Capitol as men enlist by a grandstand and band; "In Camp" depicting "Sutler" Camp in which men drill, receive mail, play horseshoes, gather wood, cook, and play instruments near rows of tents; "Off for the War" showing Union Solders being sent off by their families and supporters via train and steamboat; "The Conflict" showing a major battle with insets showing "Attack on the Pickets" and "Long Roll. "Fall In."; "On the March" showing enslaved persons near their dwellings on a plantation welcoming Union soldiers; "Hospital" depicting a combat hospital in the woods flying the banner "U.S. S.C. U.S. C.C."; "Prison" depicting several soldiers in prisoner of war camp; and "Surrender of Gen. Lee April 9th 65. Portraits, captioned by last name and some with quotes, depict President and/or Civil War Union officers, including George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Phillip Sheridan, George Henry Thomas, David Farragut, Oliver Otis Howard, William Rosencrans, John A. Logan, George McClellan, Winfield Scott Hancock, Benjamin Butler, John C. Fremont, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, Ambrose Burnside, Henry W. Halleck, James B. McPherson, George Armstrong Custer, Edward Canby, Winfield Scott, "Maj. Anderson," "Col. Ellsworth," "Pres. U.S.S.C. Dr. Bellows" (Henry Whitney Bellows), and "Supt. of Nurses Miss Dix" (Dorothea Lynde Dix). Pictorial details depict an American eagle with the banner "Pluribus Unum Triumphant" and the American flag; over 20 "U.S. Army Corp Badges"; and patriotic and military symbols, including hats, bugles, cannons, cannon balls, guns, rifles, swords, drums, saddles, and knapsacks. Statistical charts document "Historical Records. Pres. Lincoln's Call for Troops" for 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1864; the "Number of Men furnished by States:," including "U.S. Colored Troops - 93, 441" and "Indin. Nat., 3, 530"; "Total number furnished - 2, 859, 132", and "Reduced to Three Years Standard, 2, 320, 272"; Killed in Battle - 61 362,", "Died of Disease - 153, 538," "Died of Wounds - 34, 727," "Died in Prison - 29,749," "Total Federal Losses - 279, 376" "Money Cost of the War, $6, 189,929, 908 58/100,"and "Number of Battles, Skirmishes, Sieges, etc. - 5, 574";"Important Battles for 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, with "'Sheridan's Ride', Oct 19" "'Sherman's March to the Sea', Nov. 15 to Dec. 13", "Fall of Richmond, April 3," and "Appomattox-Surrender of Lee, April 7-9" especially highlighted., Title from item., Date inferred from copyright statement: Copyright 1881-1883., Contains a number of repaired tears., See William H. Sallada, Silver sheaves: Gathered through clouds and sunshine, in two parts. Second edition (Des Moines: Published by the author, 1879). Digital copy in Hathi Trust., RVCDC, William H. Sallada (1846-1935), Civil War veteran, was a member of the 57th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. He became blind during combat during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia in 1864. In the years following, he worked as a book canvasser, wrote his biography "Silver Sheaves" that was published as a second edition by 1879, and was listed with the occupation publisher in the 1900 census.
Creator: Sallada, W.H. (William H.), 1846-1935, originator
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Certificates - Military [P.2023.42.2]

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