Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878 [graphic].
Title
Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878
Description
Traveler, author, diplomat., American Celebrities Album., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.44f]
A lecture under the auspices of the People's Literary Institute, : for the benefit of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons of Philad'a, will be delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, Dec. 3d, by Bayard Taylor, Esq. Subject--"The American people." Ticket
Title
A lecture under the auspices of the People's Literary Institute for the benefit of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloons of Philad'a, will be delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday evening, Dec. 3d, by Bayard Taylor, Esq. Subject--"The American people." Tickets 25 cents, for sale by T.B. Pugh, Sixth and Chestnut. The entire proceeds of this lecture, without any charge of expenses, will be divided between the Cooper Shop and Volunteer Refreshment saloons
Description
December 3 fell on a Tuesday in 1861., Printed in blue and red., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
People's Literary Institute of Philadelphia
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 People 14828.Q (Beitler)
Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Title
Improved Authors with Portraits & Autographs Card Game
Description
Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card.
Improved authors with portraits & autographs
Title
Improved authors with portraits & autographs
Description
Incomplete card game containing 68 illustrated cards. Cards depict the bust-length portraits of Thomas Bailey Aldrich; William Cullen Bryant; Robert Burns; Samuel L. Clemens, "Mark Twain"; J. Fenimore Cooper; Ralph Waldo Emerson; James T. Fields; F. Bret Harte; Oliver Wendell Holmes; William Dean Howells; Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell; Samuel Rogers; Bayard Taylor; Alfred Tennyson; Charles Dudley Warner; Richard Grant White; and John G. Whittier. Some portraits are in profile. Versos of cards contain an allegorical image composed of a stack of books, scrolls and leaves of paper, a laurel wreath, and a quill pen. Includes small number of incomplete sets for J. Fenimore Cooper, Henry W. Longfellow; James Russell Lowell, and Richard Grant White. Lowell set includes a cut-out of the portrait from an original card., Publication date based on copyright statement on box cover., Includes "Improved Authors Directions for Playing" instruction sheet. Instructions note that the 72 cards containing the "Portrait and Autograph of some distinguished Author, together with the titles of three [of their] different works" are to be "arranged in 18 groups of four cards each" with the goal to get as many complete groups as possible., Box cover printed with gilt lettering and a decorative border., Gift of Clarence Wolf., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box.
Creator
McLoughlin Bros.
Date
1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Improved [P.8453]