Reproduction of a drawing showing a Zouave and infantryman drinking a beer together., Publisher's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
J. Gurney & Son
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53k]
Landscape, winter view showing a stone bridge spanning a creek or stream in the distance. Snow blankets the ground and bare trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Beige mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9844.38]
Sketch depicting an exterior view of an unidentified residence and a garden. Shows a gabled roof and the wall of a building, probably a house. In the foreground is a garden with a square pathway bordering a circle. Trees and shrubs grow on the other side of a wall or fence., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.15]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Genre scene showing a Civil War soldier being welcomed home by his family. The soldier, a bandage on his head, sits in his cozy parlor as his mother cries on his shoulder, his wife wraps herself around his waist, and their baby sleeps in a cradle. The soldier's gun and knapsack rest beside him against a side table.
Creator
Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël), Sir, 1821-1901 artist., creator
Date
[[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.141a]
Depicts cows standing in shallow water, behind a wooden fence. Birds are perched on a cable above the fence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.11]
A cow grazes in a field near a small canal bridge. An unidentified mill building, surmounted by a water tank, sits adjacent to the bridge., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.20]
Depicts a man diving from a small rowboat into an unidentified body of water. Three companions hold onto the edge of the boat and stabilize it for the diver., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.125]
View of a stone arch bridge spanning an unidentified body of water and partially obscured by a tree. A house sits at the top of a hill nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.28]
Depicts the front and rear facades of a large residence, showing a large four columned portico and a belvedere cupola., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.231 & 232]
View of a woman standing on the front stairs near an open porch of a dwelling. Two bicycles are parked nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.236-238]
Depicts a woman wearing a white bonnet and apron, tending to a garden., Located on the verso of P.8983.9a., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
1888
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.9b]
Depicts a woman wearing a white bonnet and apron, tending to a garden., Photographer's imprint lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
1888
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.10]
Depicts a boy with a fishing rod and pail, fishing in a small stream flanked by large bushes., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.31]
Reproduction of a caricature showing a soldier dining with a young lady attired in an absurd hat. The soldier sips from a straw and looks sheepishly at his dining partner., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze., See related print: political cartoons - 1863 Hom [5780.F.d].
Creator
J. Gurney & Son
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.51r]
Depicts cows sitting and standing in an enclosed, muddy area. A small barn structure stands outside of the gate nearby and a residence is visible in the distance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.3a]
Depicts five cows grazing on a hill above an unidentified body of water., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1885
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.9106.3b]
Docket title. (Appears on bottom half of p. 4; reads perpendicular to text of p. 4.), Caption title: Fugitives from slavery., Introductory paragraph "Signed on behalf of the Committee of the Coloured Refugee Fund, Joseph Crosfield."
Creator
London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends), Meeting for Sufferings, Committee of the Coloured Refugee Fund
Date
1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Lond Yea Meet 7285.F
Depicts a man feeding a calf from a metal pail. A young girl stands nearby, eating a cracker as she watches the feeding., Title from inscription on mount., Photographer's blind stamp lower left., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
ca. 1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. Redfield [P.8983.40]
Depicts farmers clearing the land with a team of oxen., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Title from inscription on mount., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date
c1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *phot. Redfield [P.8983.39]
Caricature showing a soldier dining with a young lady attired in an absurd hat. The soldier sips from a straw and looks sheepishly at his dining partner., Lithographer's signature on stone lower left corner., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., See related photograph: cdv - misc. - Civil War - Gurney - Caricatures and cartoons [5770.F.51i]., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Mullen, Edward F., lithographer
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons-1863 Hom [5780.F.d]
Depicts an autogiro on an open dirt landing area near a small wooden shed. The small airplane has four large blades that make up the rotor on top, a two-blade propellor in the front and two wings., Gift of Emily Riese., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date
ca. 1930
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.12]
Drawing depicting an exterior view of an unidentified residence. Shows the front facade of the two-story, brick house. A long series of stairs leads from the yard to the front door. The house has chimneys, shuttered windows, and an additional wing in the right. Trees and shrubs grow on the grounds. A stone plaque with writing is in front of the brick wall, which surrounds the property., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
[ca. 1930]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.13]
Drawing depicting an exterior view of an unidentified residence. Shows the front facade of the two-and-a-half story, brick house. Stairs lead to the front door. The house has a covered porch, dormers, and two chimneys. There is a wing in the left, which has a separate covered porch and front door. A stone wall borders the front of the property and fences divide the sides and back., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Signed by artist in the lower right corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator
Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date
Dec. 21, 1942
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.14]
Menus and ephemera related to Philadelphia restaurants, including announcements and invitations, mid-19th century. The collection was started with menus from the John A. McAllister collection and additional menus have accrued over the years. Most significantly, in 1984, Charles E. Rosenberg donated eleven menus from the anniversary dinners of the Shakespeare Society, dating from 1855 to 1874. The collection is open to new additions.
Depicts a man standing in front of two oxen pulling a cart. An unidentified barn structure sits in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.6]
Depicts agricultural buildings and a windmill in the distance, taken from a field full of wildflowers., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.10]
Depicts four naked men sitting on a log with their arms folded over their chests. They're on a sandy beach with grass and vegetation in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.124]
Depicts three women and a man collecting chestnuts near a large chestnut tree. The man is climbing the tall tree in search of chestnuts. Catharine Rupp Doering, the wife of the photographer, is depicted, but the others are unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.107-109]
Depicts the five heads of people swimming in a deep body of water, not far from a rocky ledge and trees in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.123]
Depicts the photographer's three young nephews and an unidentified young girl posing from a wooden swing suspended from a tree. George Doering, the photographer's brother, stands in the background. A baby carriage is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.74]
Depicts three men (with others out of view) demonstrating the large size of a tree trunk in a wooded area by clasping hands around its circumference., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.79]
View of front of church from across a wide road. Adorned with a four column portico on the first level and surmounted by a tall steeple. Second floor of church obscured by trees. Located in a park setting, with benches lining the road nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.228 & 229]
Depicts the side entrance door on the side of a house, including the back stairs and a rear oval shaped room., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.230]
Angle view of a four story brick industrial building, with evenly spaced windows flanked by shutters. A bicycle leans near one of the entrance doors of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.235]
Depicts four women and four men gathered onto the entrance stairs of an unidentified clapboard building. Their bicycles stand nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.178]
Depicts a dirt country road from the top of a hill, looking toward dwellings and trees in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.224]
Depicts a curving dirt country road, looking toward dwellings and trees in the distance. An unidentified man stands on the side of the road in the foreground, posing for the camera., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.225]
Continental Congress meeting in the Pennsylvania state house, later known as Independence Hall., Inscribed upper left corner: S. 99., Plate 5 from Matthias Sprengel. Historisch-genalogischer Calendar oder Jahrbuch... (Leipzig: bey Haude und Spener Von Berlin, 1783). (LCP Am 1783 Spre, Log 5059.D)., 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.8935.5]
Exterior view of front facade and side of church., Sheet number: 50B15., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Exterior view of front facade and flank of church., Sheet number: 50B16., Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Interior view of nave, pews and sanctuary of unidentified church., Sheet number: 50B16., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Two printed sections, each inside ornamental border. The top section measures 39 x 55 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: 1789 Bank. The bottom section measures 40 x 56 mm, and the ornamental border incorporates: BFB 1789., Not in: Evans; Bristol., Library Company copy has MS. note: Chas. A. Poulson Esq. with the regards of Jno. A. McAllister Feb 29, 1864., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bank of North America
Date
[1789]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm #Am 1789 Bank 3321.F.70 (McAllister)
Caption title., Copyright 1861 by William Beschke., "American national songs for the Union! To the Hon. William H. Seward most respectfully dedicated by this devoted and humble friend: William Beschke. Philadelphia, in June, 1861."--p. [4]., With two eagles and one seal on p. [4]., "Every loyal man in the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, is entitled to one copy gratis, from the War- and Navy-Departments. Such copies for the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, are for that purpose only and not saleable, printed with two seals, marked W.B., and with one eagle. All saleable copies are printed with one seal, marked W.B., and with two eagles. ... Copies to be had, wholesale and retail, 531 Chestnut-Str., Philadelphia."--p. [1] and p. [4]., The first page contains words and music to six numbered patriotic songs; the second and third pages are identical and each have the caption title "Appendix to six 'American national songs for the Union!' By William Beschke."; the fourth page has the words only to the six numbered songs., William Beschke, the inventor of the breech-loading cannon, was a staunch supporter of the Union cause and published this broadside as a diatribe against Jeff Davis. He wrote derogatory lyrics to a German melody, Hail Columbia, Marseillaise, Haydn's Austrian National, God Save our Noble Queen, and Yankee Doodle. Members of the Union forces were entitled to one free copy from the War and Navy Departments [see 5782.F.4c]., 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.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4a (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4b (McAllister)
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