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Title: [Election night mob]
Description: Scene depicts an incident that occurred in Philadelphia (the city proper and Moyamensing) on Election night, October 11, 1849. The incident began when a group of white boys and men dragged a flaming furniture car through the area around St. Mary Street, a neighborhood inhabited primarily by blacks. As the car travelled along, a shot was fired, and a cry arose that a white man had been shot. Having heard this, the mob headed toward the California house at Sixth and St. Mary, which was kept by a black man who was rumored to have a white wife. A riot ensued, and the California house was destroyed in a fire that claimed many other buildings and numerous lives., Frontispiece for Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester: the notorious leader of the Philadelphia "killers." (Philadelphia: Printed for the publishers, 1850, c1849)., Accompanied by the following caption: "A cry at once arose that a white man was shot, and the attention of the mob was directed to the California House, at the corner of Sixth and St. Mary street.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Resistance.
Date: [1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1850 Lif 76423.O (Mrs SM Brenner) frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2780

Title: Riot in Philadelphia July 7, 1844
Description: Discrepant news print showing a battle scene from the second series of anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in July 1844 that stemmed from the defensive arming of St. Philip de Neri Catholic Church in preparation of a July 4 Nativist party parade. Shows the melee around the city militia under attack from the Protestant rioters depicted as gentlemen in top hats and coats. In the foreground, a rioter picks up a brick as his compatriots fire at a charging band of militiamen near an illuminated lamppost. One soldier lays fallen on the ground as a rioter collapses over him. To the right, a mother flees with her children as men fight hand-to-hand in front of a group of onlookers. The crowd watches another band of militia attempt to guard the targeted Catholic church that is marked "I.H.S. A.D., 1840." In the background, rioters and the militia fire cannons at one another. In actuality, rioters gained control and set the church on fire by the morning of July 7, causing the militia to try and clear a neighboring street on which the combat and cannon fire occurred. The riot, which killed 15, was quelled by the state militia late that evening., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 650, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 B 921, LCP exhibit catalog: Made in America, entry #63.
Creator: Bucholzer, H., artist
Date: [1844]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 892 B 921

Title: Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844
Description: Sensational print showing the death of the 18-year old Nativist, the first person killed in the Nativist Riots at Kensington on May 6, 1844. Shows three men in suits surrounding Schiffler, who is attired in shirt sleeves, and collapsing to the ground. The gravely injured man half-kneels with one hand reaching for the bullet wound at his chest, and the other holding an American flag above his head. In the background, shadowy crowds of rioters clash with one another. The May riots (May 6-8, 1844) began during a confrontation between Irish-Catholics and participants of an American Nativist Party rally held in the Irish neighborhood of Kensington. Schiffler purportedly helped support the flag that hung on the speaker's stand at the Nativist Rally., Date range inferred from content of image and post-consolidation address of printer, 706 South Third Street, previously 264 South Third Street. See *GC - Genre [P.2005.36.17], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 176, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 24:1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 M191, See also the ca. 1850 print "Death of George Shifler in Kensington. Born Jan 24 1825. Murdered May 6 1844" held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The unsigned lithograph is further captioned “Respectfully dedicated to the Native Americans by Shifler No. 1 Southwark Phila” and contains the imprint “Sold by Pierson No. 349 So. 2nd Phila. R. DeWitt, Tribune Buildings, N. York.” Pierson was Southwark (and Nativist supportive) bookseller Hiram B. Pierson (b. ca. 1814). DeWitt was New York publisher Robert DeWitt. Each concurrently operated from their cited business address between circa 1850 and circa 1853. Magee and Smith probably designed their lithograph after the ca. 1850 print after 1854.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1844-1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Riots [P.8729.17]

Title: Ruins of St. Augustines Church North 4th Street Phila. Destroyed by a mob on the evening of the 8th of May 1844. [graphic] / L.F.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W322.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W322 [P.2182]

Title: The three days of May 1844. Columbia mourns her citizens slain
Description: Memorial to nativist casualties of the violent clashes occurring between anti-foreigner "Native Americans" and Irish-American Catholics in Kensington, Philadelphia, May 6 through 8, 1844. The female figure of Columbia holds a large, billowing American flag near a broken column on which she places a wreath. On the column are the names of those Native Americans killed during the attacks on Catholic homes and institutions. At the top of the list, circled by Columbia's wreath, is the name of George Schiffler, the first and most famous of the nativist martyrs. Other names inscribed on the column are: Wright, Rhinedollar, Greble, Stillwell, Hammitt, Ramsey, and Cox. To the right of Columbia is an American eagle supporting a shield with the names of the wounded, including: Peale (the artist?), Whitecar, Lescher, Young, Wiseman, Willman, Schufelbaugh, Yocum, Ardis, Boggs, Ford, Bartleson, and Ort. Above the figure floats a streamer with the print's title. Below a similar banner reads "Deceased----We Revere Their Memory---Wounded---We Cherish And Reward Them---.", Not in Wainwright., Artist's signature lower left corner., LOC copy filed for copyright July 1, 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 254, Library of Congress: LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia, Description supplied by LOC catalog record.
Creator: Peale, Washington, artist
Date: c1844
Location: Library of Congress LOC LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia

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