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Title: Yankee Doodle songster
Description: A publisher's advertisement., Alden Winch is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1858 to 1862; Yankee Doodle songster was copyrighted in 1861., On verso: Price twelve cents. Contents of Yankee Doodle songster. ..., Printed in red and blue., 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: Winch, Alden, 1816-1882
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Winch 5782.F.16f

Title: Military books! King & Baird's edition The only kind that are really useful to the soldier. Illustrated with engravings, whereby all persons can teach themselves how to be soldiers, without the aid of a drill master. These books have been approved of officially, and are recommended by the first authorities as the most useful ever published. Copies of either of these books will be sent by mail, post-paid, upon receipt of the price
Description: Publisher's advertisement for five books, each issued in 1861., On verso: Who are against us? Should there ever be any surrender to any rebellion in this country, who would be responsible for it? Plainly those who, under the guise of supporting the cause, should have debauched the public mind by poisoning it with suspicion of disloyalty or the incompetency of the administration. ..., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: King & Baird
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 King (2)5786.F.198a (McAllister)

Title: Wm. R. Dyer & Co.'s Western and mercantile directory for 1862 Principal office, No. 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. The design of the United States military and mercantile directory, is to call the attention of sutlers, army officers, and the trade in general, to the advertising patrons of this enterprise, ... Advertisements inserted at the following rates, viz.: Per page, $20 00
Description: Printed on p. [1] only; printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; inscribed (by the printer, King & Baird?): 300 Mar 1 $2.50., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wm. R. Dyer & Co.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Wm R Dyer (2)5786.F.52d (McAllister)

Title: Wm. R. Dyer & Co.'s Western and mercantile directory for 1862 Principal office, No. 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. The design of the United States military and mercantile directory, is to call the attention of sutlers, army officers, and the trade in general, to the advertising patrons of this enterprise, ... Advertisements inserted at the following rates, viz.: Per page, $20 00
Description: Printed on p. [1] only; printed in blue., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; inscribed (by the printer, King & Baird?): 300 Mar 1 $2.50., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wm. R. Dyer & Co.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Wm R Dyer (2)5786.F.52d (McAllister)

Title: The old flag This truly American volume is earnestly commended to public favor. Its publication, at this time, is very opportune. ... The old flag. 368 pp. 16mo. Cloth. Beautifully illustrated. Price, $1.25
Description: The work was copyrighted in 1864 by the American Sunday-School Union, which published at 1122 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia between 1857 and 1907, and at 599 Broadway in New York from 1860 to 1868., Printed in red and blue; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 26.9 x 20.3 cm., The illustration is the U.S. flag., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: American Sunday-School Union
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Amer Sunday 5786.F.175a (McAllister)

Title: New York and the army in 1862 Shoulder-straps! by Henry Morford, Esq. editor of the "New York atlas." For sale here
Description: Henry Morford's novel, Shoulder-straps : A novel of New York and the army, 1862, was published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers in Philadelphia in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 T B Peter (6)5777.F.4b (McAllister)

Title: Attention soldiers Mr. A. Winch, of 320 Chestnut Street, has engaged our "Quaker City poet" Elmer Ruán Coates, Esq. to furnish you a series of patriotic ballads!! Applicable to every situation of martial life, as you will often resort to the power of music! You will do well to purchase the songs for the soldiers! No. 1, entitled On boys, on! Is now for sale by the news dealers. Price two cents
Description: Alden Winch, publisher and news agent, is listed in Philadelphia directories at this address from 1858 to 1862., The illustrations are three people, one holding a U.S. flag, with the banner: The Union and the Constitution! between two appearances of an officer standing, left arm raised, telescope in right hand., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Winch, Alden
Date: [1861 or 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Winch (6)5777.F.99c (McAllister)

Title: Catalogue of Union songs
Description: Printed area measures 20.5 x 11.8 cm., 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: Johnson, J. H. (John H.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Johnson 5782.F.16a

Title: Attention! The volunteer's manual, just published contains full instructions for the recruit, in the schools of the soldier and squad, with over one hundred illustrations ... By Lt. Col. D.W.C. Baxter, of the National Guard. 12mo. size. Convenient for the pocket. ... It is approved of officially. Agents wanted in every town, village and hamlet. Retail price, 25 cents per copy; or, bound in flexible cloth, 38 cents. Mailed anywhere, free of postage, on receipt of 25 cents. For sale everywhere
Description: De Witt Clinton Baxter's The volunteers manual was issued by King & Baird in 1861., On verso: Independent rangers! Company arrangement. The following articles are to be carried in knapsack or bundle. 1 Bible. 2 pair kid gloves. 6 standing collars (choakers,) one on. 2 pairs patent leather boots. 1 catechism. 2 white vests. 2 white neckcloths. 4 pairs silk hose. 2 pairs parlor slippers, (worked. 1 India rubber blanket, (John Thornley, 311 Chestnut Street.) 1 smoking cap. 1 meerschaum. 2 boxes best Habana. 1 morning wrapper. 1 Volunteer's manual, King & Baird's edition. 2 pair black pants. 2 blue coats, (brass buttons.) 1 colored servant. 1 "very" large pocket book. 4 bottles of Glenn's (not George's) hair oil. 6 cakes of Glenn's (not George's) scented soap. 6 white shirts, (ruffled bosoms,) one on. 1 rat terrier, (black and tan. 1 tooth brush. 6 tooth picks, ("Take your choice for $1." 1 pair of spectacles, gold. 2 blue silk umbrellas, (sleepers.) The piano forte, (Chickering's,) will be furnished by the government. Divine service every morning at 10 o'clock. Officiating chaplain, Rev. F.A. Degan. N.B.--If the knapsack will not hold the wardrobe, each member is expected to hire a wagon. By order of [blank], The illustration on the recto shows a proper soldier; the illustration on the verso shows a cartoon of a soldier armed with several knives and swords., Library Company copy dated in MS.: May 1861., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: King & Baird
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 King (2)5786.F.53b (McAllister)

Title: Lehman & Bolton, printers, publishers, [and] lithographers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertising calendar for 1882 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 stage setting containing classical figures and symbols of the arts, spring, and prosperity, including children surrounded by flowers, fruit, gold coins, a lyre, a marble bust, a tragedy mask, and an art palette. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 53
Creator: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
Date: [1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [1975.F.4 (Phillips)]

Title: Lithographic and letter press printing. Lehman & Bolton, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street, opposite post office
Description: Advertising card containing ornamental lettering and filligree border for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1873., Date assigned by cataloger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 57
Creator: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Letterheads - L [P.9349.409]

Title: Lehman & Bolton, lithographers, printers, engravers & publishers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Young and Woodward Business Papers, 1789-1826 (inclusive)
Description: The Young and Woodward Business Papers contain letters and documents relating to the printing, publishing, and bookselling efforts of both William Young, and William W. Woodward, to whom Young sold his business in 1802. Included are letters from authors, publishers, and other booksellers., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., William Young (1755-1829), a bookseller, printer, and publisher, was born in Scotland. He arrived in Philadelphia in June 1784 and opened a book store and print shop on Chestnut Street. Young sold his retail and publishing operations to William W. Woodward in 1802, and moved to Delaware, where he opened a paper mill., William Wallis Woodward (1769?-1837) was listed as a bookseller in the Philadelphia city directories from 1794 through the 1830s. In the 1802 directory his description expanded to “printer, bookseller & stationer,” the result of his having purchased Young's business; he remained in the directories with that description for twenty years. Woodward's main focus was religious books, and he was one of the first American publishers known to have marketed them using a network of clergymen as sales agents.
Date: 1789
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 007, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64423#page/1/mode/1up

Title: Just published. Winfield, the lawyer's son and how he became a major-general. By Major Penniman, author of "The tanner boy." Price, $1.50. ... Seaside and fireside fairies. From the German of George Blum and Louis Wahl. Translated by A.L. Wister. Price, $1.75
Description: C.W. Denison's Winfield, the lawyer's son, and A.L. Wister's translation of Blum and Wahl's Seaside and fireside fairies were published in 1864 by Ashmead & Evans, Philadelphia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Ashmead & Evans
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Ashmead 5786.F.174c (McAllister)

Title: Proposal for the republication of Burr's trial for treason The trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an indictment for treason before the Circuit Court of the United States, held in Richmond, Va., May term, 1807. Including the arguments and decisions on all the motions made during the examination and trial, and on the motion for an attachment against Gen. Wilkinson. Two vols. 8vo. Price, $7.50. Dear Sir: The original edition of "Col. Burr's trial for treason" having been for some time out of print, the undersigned are induced, by numerous recent inquiries for the work, to issue proposals for its republication. It is believed that the passing events in the history of our country will render an acquaintance with the details of this great trial of much importance
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. notes., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 J B Lipp (2)5786.F.102c (McAllister)

Title: Proposal for the republication of Burr's trial for treason The trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an indictment for treason before the Circuit Court of the United States, held in Richmond, Va., May term, 1807. Including the arguments and decisions on all the motions made during the examination and trial, and on the motion for an attachment against Gen. Wilkinson. Two vols. 8vo. Price, $7.50. Dear Sir: The original edition of "Col. Burr's trial for treason" having been for some time out of print, the undersigned are induced, by numerous recent inquiries for the work, to issue proposals for its republication. It is believed that the passing events in the history of our country will render an acquaintance with the details of this great trial of much importance
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; MS. notes., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 J B Lipp (2)5786.F.102c (McAllister)

Title: King & Baird's edition Zouave light infantry tactics By Major J.H. De Witt, of Baxter's Fire Zouaves. Revised and corrected by Col. John M. Gosline, of the Pennsylvania Zouaves. With sixty-four illustrations. One volume, 12mo., 160 pages. Price twenty-five cents. King & Baird, printers & publishers, Philadelphia.`
Description: J.H. De Witt's Zouave's light infantry tactics was published in 1861., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a Union soldier in Zouave uniform, sabre drawn, attacking a confederate soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: King & Baird
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# Am 1861 King (5)5777.F.59a (McAllister)

Title: Prison life in the tobacco warehouse at Richmond
Description: A publisher's advertisement., Engraved illustration at head, signed "Lauderbach sc.", has caption: Our last day in the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse Prison., Printed area measures 29.8 x 14.7 cm., Library Company has both issues, in printed paper wrapper for 50 cents, and in publisher's cloth for 75 cents., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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: Childs, George William, 1829-1894
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Childs 9982.F.99 (McAllister)

Title: Important announcement! Lossing's pictorial history of the great Rebellion. ... Persons possessing pamphlets, or other materials relating to the Rebellion, will confer a favor by sending them to the author, Benson J. Lossing, Esq., Poughkeepsie, N.Y
Description: Includes letters of recommendation dated March 1862. The pictorial history of the Civil War in the United States of America was published in parts by G.W. Childs between 1866 and 1868., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; ink stamp: From John Penington & Son. Philada., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Childs, George William, 1829-1894
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Childs (2)5786.F.45b (McAllister)

Title: Attention! The best military book ever published. Now ready, Baxter's Volunteer's manual containing full instructions for the recruit, in the schools of the soldier and squad, given in the most simple style, ... Illustrated with over 100 engravings, ... By Lt. Col. De Witt C. Baxter, of the National Guard, now in the service of the United States. This book is officially approved of. ... The same work is also published in the German language, at the same price
Description: De Witt Clinton Baxter's The volunteers manual, and Baxter's Handbuch des Freiwilligen were each issued by King & Baird in 1861., The illustration shows three soldiers standing at attention., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: King & Baird
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 King (2)5786.F.53a (McAllister)

Title: Baxter's Handbuch des Freiwilligen Scott's Taktik. Enthaltend eine Rekruten, in den Schulen des Soldaten und des Trupps und sum Gebrauch der Heim-Garde (Home Guard.) Mit über hundert Illustrationen. Von Lieutenant-Colonel. D.W.C. Baxter. Herausgegeben von King und Baird, No. 607 Sansomstrasse, Philadelphia. Einzelne Exemplare 25 Cents.---Heir zu haben
Description: Baxter's Handbuch des Freiwilligen, a German translation of De Witt Clinton Baxter's Volunteer's manual, was published by King & Baird in 1861., Printed in red, blue, and black., The illustration shows a soldier standing at attention beside a cannon, with a camp is in the background and two U.S. flags in the foreground., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: King & Baird, printer
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 King (6)5777.F.30a (McAllister)

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