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Title: George Washington
Description: LCP Minutes vol. 4, April 17, 1814, p. 333: “Mr. Joseph Sansom having presented a bust of General Washington...the Secretary was directed to thank Mr. Sansom for the present made by him.", Gift of Joseph Sansom, 1814.
Location: OBJ 551

Title: George Washington
Description: Inscription on verso says: “Presented to the Library Company of Phila. by their Treasurer 1801 J.D. John Dorsey.”, Library Company Minutes vol. 4, Feb 5, 1801, p. 129: A Portrait of General Washington elegantly framed, was presented by Mr. Dorsey the Treasurer, for which he has the thanks of the board., Gift of John Dorsey, 1801.
Date: Ca. 1800
Location: OBJ 151

Title: George Washington
Description: This portrait is a copy of the Gilbert Stuart portrait., Gift of Mrs. T. Hudson Rich.
Creator: Otis, Bass, 1784-1861
Location: OBJ 259

Title: Mask of George Washington
Description: In 1785, Houdon accompanied Benjamin Franklin to visit Washington at his Mount Vernon home. Houdon spent two weeks at Mount Vernon, sketching, measuring, and observing the General as well as creating this plaster life mask. He returned to Paris and used this mask to aid him in sculpting a marble, life-sized sculpture of Washington which still resides in the Richmond Capitol. There are four known copies of the mask in existence.
Creator: Houdon, Jean-Antoine, 1741-1828
Date: Ca. 1785-1792?
Location: OBJ 542

Title: Reward of merit
Description: Contains central vignette, including a portrait of George Washington, and ornamental side borders. Vignette depicts a female figure and a cherub flanking the portrait near a rose bush and elevated on a tuft of ground. The cherub lays a rose garland across the top of the portrait. Grape vines comprise the borders., Presented to Mr. Charles Nash. By A. B. Sanford, Instructor., Manuscript note on verso: Presented to Charles B. Nash Esq. By Miss Amillie B. Sanford. [Illegible ] of Hamilton, Madison County, New York State., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Rewards of Merit [P.2011.10.151]

Title: Washington. Printed by S. H. Greene & Sons. Riverpoint, R.I. Coffin, Altemus & Co. Sole agents
Description: Textile label for the textile print works founded in 1828 by Simon H. Greene and Edward Pike. Depicts Washington, in uniform, holding a sheet of paper, and standing next to his horse near a river. Label also contains corner details of fasces and United States shields framed in garland. The firm, renamed S. H. Greene & Sons in 1865, were nationally known for their "Washington" line of printed textiles., Stamped on recto: 41 2, Copyrighted in Washington, D.C., Inscribed on verso: Cora cora Ott. Samuel Sassemon., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: c1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.99]

Title: Surveyor
Description: Cigar box label showing George Washington as a surveyor. Washington, carrying a transit over his shoulder, leads his horse from Mount Vernon., Printed below image: Title and Design Registered., Attributed to American Lithographic Company from proof print auctioned in 2008., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.105]

Title: Centennial Handkerchief
Description: A framed cotton Centennial handkerchief or bandanna printed with views of buildings from Philadelphia’s International Exhibition, including the Main Building, the Art Gallery, and the Horticultural Building, portraits of George Washington and Ulysses Grant, and patriotic seals. Printed with black on a white ground with a geometric border. Label of the framer, Ursula Hobson, on the back., Gift of James T. Carson, 2008.
Date: Ca. 1876
Location: OBJ 880

Title: Declaration of Independence
Description: Calligraphed Declaration of Independence displayed during the 1876 Centennial Exhibition. The artist recorded the entire text of the Declaration, the coats of arms of the thirteen original states, the names of the Signers on the border columns, a portrait of George Washington, and various vignettes., The artist's name is listed as W.V. Peacon in the Centennial catalog., Gift of Michael Zinman, 1991.
Creator: Pearson, W.V
Date: Ca. 1875-1876
Location: OBJ 849

Title: Grand Union ball in honor of the recent brilliant victories achieved by the land and naval forces of the United States, at the Academy of Music, Tuesday evening, March 4, 1862
Description: Advertisement containing a gothic-style ornamental border surrounding text providing the date of the ball, names of sponsors, ticket information, and entertainment details. Border includes vignettes of cherubs; allegorical figures representing the arts including painting, sculpture, and music; a portrait of George Washington; a mythical scene; and a view. Scene shows a bare-chested woman on a horse being attacked by a tiger surrounded by symbols of industry, science, and the humanities. View shows a seventeenth-century landing party aboard a skiff. Sponsors include Alexander Henry, Commodore C.J. Pendegrast, and Capt. W.S. Ogden. Master of Ceremonies was M[iecislaw] Hlasko (a dancing and gymnastics teacher who offered drill classes at his physical institute) and music was under the direction of the Hassler Brothers., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 97, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Creator: Weeber, L., lithographer
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - A [(2)5786.F.147a]

Title: Samuel Hart & Co. Philadelphia and New York
Description: Playing card containing vignette portraits of George and Martha Washington, the American eagle and shield, and the ace of spades. Also includes banners, stars, and vinery. Samuel Hart & Co. began the manufacture of playing cards in Philadelphia and New York in 1849. George & Martha Washington Aces of Spades was one of the firm's most popular designs, with at least five different versions issued until after 1900., Printed on recto: Patented May 8 1866., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Creator: Samuel Hart & Co.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.178]

Title: P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
Description: Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 69, Also published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece.
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1854 10840.O.12a

Title: P.S. Duval & Co.'s steam lithographic establishment, artizan's building Ranstead Place west from no 26 South Fourth Street Philadelphia Drawings of all kinds executed on stone. Copper and steel plates transferred. Printing, plain & coloured in the neatest style and the business in all its various branches carried on with punctuality and despatch. Nota: Engineers & surveyors wishing to execute their drawings, for transferring, merchants & others, writing their circulars or price currents, for the same purposes, will be supplied with the suitable ink & paper. Portraits, landscapes, geological and other maps, plans, architectural and historical drawings, ornamental title pages, colored illustrations, show cards, checks, circulars, price currents &c &c. Labels for patent medicines, perfumery, and all description of fancy articles, can be furnished at a very moderate cost to establishments requiring large quantities
Description: Directory advertisement showcasing the illuminated style of chromolithography executed by the Duval firm. Contains allegorical and historical vignettes and figures within a frame comprised of floral and Gothic elements. Includes the figure of Liberty attired in the American flag, holding a sword, and standing next to symbols of the arts such as a palette and sheet music below a framed bust-portrait of George Washington. The portrait is adorned with flowers and a banner reading "E. Pluribus Unum." Vignettes show lithographic artisans at work at a sketch table and rolling ink on a stone in a workshop, and a montage of medievally-attired artists and intellectuals, including a cartographer, sculptor, painter, mathematician, and composer. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Co. 1853-1857 and from Ranstead Place 1853-1856., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-second exhibition of American manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 68, Also published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1854... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1854), opp. p. 12a.
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Exhib of 50574.O.15

Title: [Relics in display case]
Description: Interior view showing portraits, pottery, books, letters, a drum, a sword, and other relics on display in a glass case. One of the small portraits in the case depicts George Washington. Framed portraits are visible in the background on the wall., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint on mount., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Philadelphia photographer Harrison Tryon at one time worked in A.H. Hemple's photographic rooms, according to the imprint on other stereographs in the collection [Hemple P.9260.56 and P.9047.57].
Creator: Tryon, Harrison, b. 1848
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Tryon - Exhibitions [P.9058.176]

Title: Washington and his servant
Description: Illustration included in Chapter II, "First Years of the Constitution." It shows President George Washington walking on a cobblestone sidewalk with his black manservant, who follows a few steps behind him. Image appears in the context of a discussion of Washington's taste for fashion and "courtly etiquette," and it relates to the following passage: "When he walked the streets his body-servant in livery followed him at respectful distance." Carrying a walking-stick, the well-dressed Washington wears breeches, a dark vest and waistcoat, and a bicorne, a type of hat commonly worn by intellectuals. His servant carries his dark-colored overcoat. The servant himself wears a lighter suit and a tricorne., Engraving in Charles Coffin's Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883), p. 37., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Cof 23709.O p 37, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2831

Title: Washington. [label] Full madder colors. No. Yds
Description: Packing label, probably for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a full-length portrait of George Washington, leaning on his horse and holding a piece of correspondence inscribed "Washington victory is ours. Paul James.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 268, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 61 T 693b, LCP holds copy in John Serz Scrapbook [P.9773.49d].
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 61 T 693b

Title: [Cloth mitten pattern for Civil War soldiers provided by Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine and E.W. Carryl & Co., military & house furnishing store; King & Baird, printers; and S.A. George, electrotyper and stereotyper] [graphic].
Description: Title supplied by cataloguer, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Pattern containing explanatory text, cutting and sewing directions, patriotic vignettes, and advertisements. Vignettes show the figure of liberty, flags, a soldier, eagle, shield, and George Washington. Text explains the efficiency of women sewing cloth mittens by machine; the availability at E.W. Carryl & Co. of the pattern and free cloth remnants supplied by the U.S. Arsenal; and the receipt of the mittens by the "Philadelphia Ladies Aid Society." Advertising text promotes printed military supplies available at King & Baird, including muster rolls, military blanks,and military manuals. Also contains a testimonial by G.H. Crossman, Deputy Quartermaster General, dated November 30th, 1861.
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.4a]

Title: Collection of objects from the Stevens - Cogdell - Sanders - Venning families
Description: See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1991 p. 26-31., 891 a: Thimble with monogram JES. Bottom decorated with leaves. 891 b. Cameo of George Washington. Italian. 891 c. Back of locket or watch, monogram LSV, 14k gold. 891 d. Small metal plate with monogram C.S.C. 891 e. Token from the South Carolina Society’s Centennial celebration in 1857. Obverse reads: 130 Rich W. Cogdell was admitted a member of the So. Ca. Society, May 2nd 1826. Reverse depicts a hands holding three leaves, reads: Centenl. Celebrn. of So. Ca. Society Mar. 28, 1857. Posteritate. 891 f. Mourning pendant with leather case. Back of pendant reads: John Stevens died June 1, 1772 Aged 52. Mary Stevens died August 1st, 1782, Aged 56. Front has monument with two urns, reads “Rest in Peace” surrounded by trees. Surrounded by a blue border with gold flowers. 891 g. Cameo with neoclassical scene of two men and a women reaching to grab a horse, while a child with a dog sits at the bottom right corner. Italian. 891 h. Button with circular pattern, inscribed W to J. 891 i Clear-cut glass, 3-sided wax seal attached to an ornate (brass?) handle. Depicts: dove with olive branch, man with beard and helmet (Roman?), third side blank. 891 j. Small glass mosaic of beetle. Borders from outside to interior are dark blue, turquoise blue, red. Beetle is composed of gold, red, and green with a white background., Gift of Cordelia Hinkson Brown, Beverly Brown-Ruggia, and family in honor of Phil Lapsansky, 2012., Middle-class African American family active in the Philadelphia African American political, social, educational, and cultural community from the 1850s to the 20th century. The family was involved in several prominent local African American institutions, including the St. Thomas P.E. Church, Church of the Crucifixion, Central Presbyterian Church, the Colored Institute of Youth, and the Citizens Republican Club.
Date: 18uu
Location: OBJ 891

Title: [Times Printing House trade cards]
Description: Series of trade cards for the Times Printing House, located at 610 Chestnut Street and later 725-727 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. One illustrated trade card depicts portraits of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, an eagle, and patriotic bunting., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876-1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Times [P.9111.13; P.9111.16; P.2006.20.67]

Title: Book of cabinet chromos 1881
Description: Subscriber's premium comprised of a series of titled chromolithographs depicting portraits of historical figures and genre, religious, sentimental, and allegorical scenes. Images include "Beauty and Her Pets" showing a young lady feeding doves at her window garden; a robed woman "At The Cross"; the "Autumn Beauties" of a girl on a swing with her cat in her lap; a woman picking flowers in "Shoo Fly"; "The Sailor Girl"; "Our Idol," a lavishly attired Victorian girl; a woman near a fireplace showing "Maternal Affection" as she holds her baby to her breast; "The Flower Angels"; "The Angel of Song" in a bird's nest; a "Little Tot" of a girl; "The Flower Girl" in a wooded area with her dog; "Young Captain Jinks"; "Little Buttercup"; a woman pondering "Yes Or No" to a written marriage proposal; the engaged woman holding a portrait photograph in "Yes"; portraits of George and Martha Washington and Henry W. Longfellow; chicks confronting "The Unwelcome Visitor" of a frog; a mother kissing the hand of her daughter - "Grandma's Pet" - in a highchair next to her grandmother; "The Angel's Message"; "A Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year" family portrait; "The Young Student" reading on a grassy cliff overlooking a cove; puppies learning "The First Lesson" of hunting vermin; "Puss in Boots" showing a kitten in a boot; the buck "The Monarch of the Glen"; a girl covered in ink from her "Little Mischief" to write with a quill pen; children "Fruit Gatherers" at a fruit tree by a lake; and a woman on an evening "Meditation" near a sun dial., Copyrighted., Presented to every subscriber to The People’s Illustrated Fireside Magazine., Case shaped liked book binding and illustrated on recto and verso. Images include vignette showing a hearth and floral and geometric pictorial details., Text on spine reads: Premium with The Peoples Illustrated Fireside Magazine. 32 Gems., Prints numbered lower left corner: 1-2; 4-23; 26-33. Some in manuscript., Peleg Orison Vickery, publisher and politician, established Fireside Magazine in 1874. The periodical contained fictional stories and served as a mail order catalog., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection [P.2011.10.1a-dd]

Title: Columbia's noblest sons
Description: Memorial print published after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 containing portraits, allegorical figures, vignettes, and pictorial details. Depicts Columbia, depicted as a white woman and attired in classical garb and a Phrygian cap, crowning a bust-length portrait of George Washington (left) and bust-length portrait of Lincoln (right) with laurel wreaths. Flagpole finials with flags appear as wings behind her. Documents, partially rolled, associated with Washington and Lincoln, the "Declaration of Independence 1776" and the "Emancipation Proclamation 1863," appear below the portraits of the presidents. Each president's life dates are inscribed on the edge. On the left are vignettes with scenes from the Revolution depicting the Boston Tea Party "Dec. 18th 1773"; the signing of the Declaration of Independence "July, 1776"; and the British surrender at Yorktown "Octr. 19, 1781." On the right, are vignette scenes of the Civil War depicting the bombardment of Fort Sumter "April 14th, 1861"; an encounter between an ironclad and two wooden ships ("Progress"), and Lincoln's triumphant arrival via coach with an African American driver in Richmond "6th April 1861." Latter vignette also includes an African American man cheering in the crowd. Vinery details frame the vignettes. Columbia's right foot rests on the British lion, and an American eagle emerges from behind her other leg. On the ground, near her feet, rest cannons, cannon balls, and broken shackles., Title from item., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in year of 1865 by Henry & Wm. Voight [illegible] D[istrict of] N[ew York]., Reproduced and described in The Lincoln image, p. 194-195, 197., Gift of Gordon Wright Colket, 1970., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Lang, Manson, artist
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1865-9 [7879.F]

Title: W.H. Rease. Lithographic artist. No. 17 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia Drawings & designs of every description, executed in the best style and on the most reasonable terms. Foundries, factories, stores, machinery, portraits, views, anatomical drawings &c &c
Description: Print containing two variant specimens of advertisements for the prolific Philadelphia lithographer of mid-19th century advertising prints. Top specimen contains a central vignette and three border vignettes adorned with ornamental details. Central vignette shows a semi-bare breasted Columbia with the shield of the United States and the American eagle. Border vignettes show classical-style portraits of a woman and girl, and an artist at an easel, and a lithographer drawing on stone. Lower specimen contains a central vignette and two border vignettes adorned with ornamental details. Central vignette shows a man sketching next to a tree at the bank of a river. Border vignettes show bust portraits of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Each specimen contains different style lettering., Price calculations, including figures for mounting, binding edges,and printing inscribed on verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 109, Smithsonian Institution: Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical File 2 - Rease, Rease operated a lithographic establishment from 17 South Fifth Street 1844-1854.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Lithography - Vertical File 2 - Rease

Title: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment. Augs. Kollner designer, engraver & lithographer. Henry Camp copperplate & lithographic printer. Phoenix Block corner of Second & Dock streets Philadelphia The Public is respectfully informed this establishment offers inducements for the execution of the finest down to the coarsest work in the different branches of this business, which no other similar establishment can offer. Any order will be thankfully received and promptly executed with neatness, dispatch, and at as moderate a price as will give entire satisfaction._ Original designs, as well as copies of any description, in any manner on paper, steel, copper & stone (lithographed), also printing and transferring from steel, copper, etc. executed in a superior style
Description: Advertisement containing an ornamental border, vignette examples of Kollner's work, and several lines of advertising text for the collaboration between Camp and Kollner at the Phonenix Block circa 1849-1851. Vignettes, marked with variant Kollner imprints, include General Washington, accompanied by two of his officers, and dismounted from a horse that is managed by a black handler (Servant William Lee?); a line drawing of the Phoenix Block building; the back of an old man, possibly Franklin, dressed in colonial attire, and seated at his secretary; and a view showing a grand building, probably a Capitol, along a river on which vessels sail. Border also includes vignettes. Vignettes depict a military scene with an officer on horseback accompanied by another soldier on the shore of an ocean on which a ship sails; and a trade scene between a gentleman and a Native American reviewing a stack of goods of commerce at a pier. Advertisement also contains depictions of female allegorical figures representing probably Spring and Fall flanking two ornamented poles entwined with banners. The banners are marked with the subject matter and types of prints issued by the partners, including "Portraits, Landscapes, Animals, taken from life. Vignettes from books, drafts, music titles etc." and "Showbills, labels, architectures, machine d. maps, plans, business & visiting cards.", Not in Wainwright., pdck00001, Printed on recto: To Publishers, Manufactures, etc. A.K. has taken from nature and is in possession of upwards of 500 views of picturesque scenery from the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware & Ohio., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Augustus Kollner Collection - Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs Box - Lithographs-Tradesmen's Cards
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Augustus Kollner Collection - Drawings, Etchings, Lithographs Box - Lithographs-Tradesmen's Cards

Title: [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Description: Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]

Title: [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Description: Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]

Title: [Corn Exchange, Union Avenue, the Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, 1864]
Description: Unmounted stereograph shows a display sponsored by the "Corn Exchange". Includes a portrait of George Washington, drums, and patriotic bunting. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on mount., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.168b]

Title: [Checks, bank notes, billheads, and receipts specimens]
Description: Series of checks, bank notes, billheads, and receipts, containing allegorical and patriotic vignettes and ornate pictorial details. Vignettes depict allegorical female figures, including Liberty, Hope, Justice, and Bounty; animals, including the American eagle, a dog protecting a safe, and bucks; and patriotic figures, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ulysses Grant. Other vignettes depict a view of a traveling locomotive; the seal of Pennsylvania; and views of harvested produce and grains. Businesses represented include A. Exton & Co., cracker manufacturers; Heywood, Kilburn & Co., chair and cottage furniture dealers; West Branch National Bank; Perry County Bank; Reed & Schell, bankers; First National Bank of Sunbury; and Jefferson Savings Institute., Title supplied by cataloger., Several of series printed in color ink, including blue, green, tan, and violet., Print P.9399.390 inscribed to John Mayer for $23.00 three months after date [illegible]. 24 Feb. H five. Feb 23rd., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger; Lehman & Bolton; Theodore Leonhardt; Wm. F. Murphy's Sons (& Sons); and Paul & Lindsay., Originally part of Specimen Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Checks, etc. [P.9349.341, 369, 371-372, 375, 379-381, 383, 385-390, 392- 394, 396, 398, 400, 410, 415, 423, 426]

Title: S.F. Jacoby & Co. Importers & dealers in foreign and domestic marble in all their varieties. J.K. & M. Freedley dealers in American marble
Description: Advertisement for S.F. Jacoby & Co. containing a montage of three titled views showing the sites involved in its marble manufacturing operations. The scenes are separated and surrounded by an ornate border comprised of patriotic imagery on top, including an eagle clutching the American flag and shield near a bust of George Washington and the state seals of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; filigree, foliage, and tassels decorate the central portion, where putti hold up a banner displaying the title of the central view; and a lion-mouth fountain adorns the bottom portion of the border. Upper view shows slabs of marble piled in railroad cars pulled by a locomotive at J.K. & M. Freedley's "Bay State Marble Works in West Stockbridge, Mass," and includes residences and cattle. The bustling central scene depicts slabs of marble being moved from the boats and piled onto the wharf at the "Marble Depot Chesnut [sic] St. Wharf Schuyl. Philadelphia," ready for finishing in nearby mills or to be sold by S.F. Jacoby & Co. Includes vessels on the Schuylkill River, a partial view of the Market Street Permanent Bridge (left), and adjacent manufacturing buildings and sites near the river. The bucolic bottom scene shows slabs of marble lined on the bank and hoisted by a crane onto canal boats to be transported to desinations across the country from the Key Stone Marble Works, Conshohocken, Pa.", Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 668, Upper left corner torn and repaired., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #68., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W323 [P.2257]

Title: Soldiers memorial. 4th Regiment. Company F. U.S. Col. Troops Mustered into the United States Service at Baltimore, Md., Aug. 4, 1863, by Col. Wm. Birney
Description: Stock commemorative certificate with some variations for the African American 4th Regiment, Company F troop and containing a montage of allegorical and battle scenes, patriotic motifs, and soldier vignettes above the printed names of 4th Regiment Privates, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals, and Field and Staff Officers. The allegorical scene depicts the female figure of Columbia, resting upon an American shield and seated next to an American eagle that looks down on a snake it clutches under its claws. Columbia holds her head with her left hand and the "Constitution of the United States" down between her knees in the other. She is portrayed as a white woman with long dark hair, wearing a gold headpiece and white veil, and attired in a dress with a blue bodice, red skirt, and white sleeves and collar. Surrounding the central scene (counterclockwise) are views of white Union soldiers at battle and firing cannons near a harbor and across from Union forts displaying American flags; a departing white Union solder embracing his wife in front of his family, an older woman holding her grandchild, his crying son, and their dog, outside of their home in the countryside as troops march in the distance; white Union cavalry corps charging during battle; the previously depicted white Union soldier returning home, shown in mid stride and holding his cap in the air as his family heads toward him with their arms out; and white Union soldiers, with a cannon, and at battle near a trench. The scene and views within the montage are bordered and framed by portraits of George Washington, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson and pictorial details of American flags, flowers, and filigree., Pictorial details surrounding the names of the soldiers in the lower half of the print include outer columns composed of marble and wood trunks with one unsplit and adorned with the placard "United We Stand" and another split with stakes and adorned with the placard "Divided we fall; inner columns wrapped within the American flag; medallions depicted with red, white, and blue stripes and stars; and images of the American eagle atop an American shield that is adorned with a banner reading "E Pluribus Unum." A. Hoen & Co. printed several slightly variant copies of the Soldiers Memorial in 1866, to commemorate different regiments and with different publishers. In the upper half of the print, the montage imagery remained the same, and in the lower half of the print, the imagery for and near the columns was altered in addition to the printed names of the officers and soldiers and their placement between the columns. The 4th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized in Maryland, July 15-September 1, 1863. The African American unit saw action in Virginia and North Carolina before being mustered out May 4, 1866 after the designation change to 76th U.S. Colored Troops on April 4, 1864. The Regiment lost nearly 300 officers and enlisted men while in service., Title from item., Name of publisher from publication statement: Published at Baltimore by Jos. L. Kessler., Date inferred from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by Whitney & Anderson in Dist. C. of Md., Purchased with Louise Marshall Kelly Fund.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Certificates [P.2022.28.2]

Title: Centennial commemoration at Philadelphia [ticket] Three millions of colonists on a strip by the sea. Now forty millions of freemen ruling from ocean to ocean
Description: Ticket to the "Grand Mass Demonstration in favor of the Centennial Commemoration of American Independence, February 22, 1873" at the Academy of Music containing scenes contrasting life in Philadelphia in 1776 with life in 1876. Scene of 1776 shows white men colonists, including one attired as a backwoodsman, in front of a log cabin and standing near a barefooted, enslaved African American man, attired in torn and worn clothing, sitting on a pile of sticks. Scene of 1876 shows a white man soldier talking to a white man artisan near an African American man laborer seated next to an anvil and machinery gears. Cityscape is visible in the background. Also includes an eagle holding an American flag crest adorned with a portrait of Washington. Contains text printed on the verso soliciting subscriptions to make the Centennial a success as well as to make Pennsylvania the representative to the world of the "power of the Republic.", Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr -8 x 10 - Events [5758.F.26c]

Title: Washington National Monument, Washington, D. C
Description: Print commemorating the Washington Monument after the designs of Robert Mills and constructed 1848 to 1884 in Washington, D.C. In the center, shows the original designs created by Mills of a large obelisk with a colonnaded building at the base. On top of the building's portico are sculptures of Washington standing in a chariot holding the reins of six horses. Flanking the staircase leading to the monument are sculptures of Patrick Henry and Jefferson. In the background, the White House and U.S. Capitol building are visible. Numerous pedestrians walk around the monument and other landmarks. An eagle soars through the air in the left. Below the image are three vignettes depicting Washington resigning his commission to Congress; a bust-length portrait of Washington; and the signing of the Declaration of Independence., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1885, by S.H. Austin, 129 S. 7th St. Phila., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Hunter, Thomas, approximately 1828-approximately 1894, artist
Date: 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.42]

Title: [Glorification of the American Union]
Description: Allegorical print glorifying life and liberty in post-Civil War America depicting the figure Columbia, depicted as a white woman, atop a tall pyramid-shaped pedestal. Flanked by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the latter holding the "Proclamation of Emancipation," she raises her hand toward emancipated enslaved men and women to her right who acknowledge her with raised shackled hands, a knelt position, and a tipped hat. Newly arrived European immigrants are gathered to her left. Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher stands among the enslaved men, women, and children who have been emancipated, and revolutionary and diplomat Carl Schurz stands before the immigrants. The freed persons embrace each other, break free from shackles, and brandish instruments of free labor as behind them the Capitol, a large American flag, and apparitions of colonial soldiers stand vigil. The immigrants, depicted in their native attire, look to Schurz as they carry their belongings ashore. More ships continue to arrive in the background., Title from copy print at the Calvert Gallery, Washington, D.C., Printer's proof., Manuscript note on recto: Aun myn goeden arrend J. Bollens; J. B. Michiels., After a painting by Belgian historical painter Ferdinand Willem Pauwels, exhibited in 1867 at the Kunstschule in Weimar and possibly at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia under the title, "The New Republic.", See Hugh Honour's The Image of the Black in western art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989) Part 2, Vol. IV, p.248-249., Purchase 1999., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Michiels, Jean-Baptiste P., 1821-1890, engraver
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC-Emancipation [P.9672]

Title: Africa. America
Description: Abolition print juxtaposing two female allegorical figures in chariots representing Africa and America. In front of a backdrop of tropical trees and huts, "Africa," depicted as a Black woman, is attired in a feathered headpiece, an orange shawl covering one breast, and a pink sarong. She holds a flag inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd in England 1806" and the reins of two lions pulling her chariot. In front of a waterfall, probably Niagara Falls, "America," depicted as a white woman, is dressed in Native American attire, including a feathered headpiece, a breast plate, an orange cape, a pink and blue sari, and an axe strapped to her back. She holds the American flag, decorated with a portrait of George Washington, and the reins of two tigers pulling her chariot. Near the wheels of her chariot, a rattlesnake is coiled., Title from item., Date inferred by content and medium., Name of publisher illegible., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1969, p. 56., Purchase 1969., 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.
Date: [ca. 1808]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC-Allegories [7812.F]

Title: True blue
Description: Poster commemorating the service of African American men during World War I. Shows an African American family gathered in a living room decorated with floral wall paper and looking at the framed portrait, hung above a fireplace, of an African American service man, likely the father of the family. In the right, the mother, attired in a beige sheath dress, holds a toddler attired in white pajamas in her arms while her daughter, attired in a white night gown, and holding a black baby doll in her left hand, stands next to her. The daughter stands in front of her older, seated brother. The older son, attired in a beige uniform, sits in an arm chair. The toddler and daughter reach and point toward the portrait on the wall. Decorative flags adorn the upper edge of the framed portrait showing the man in uniform. A fire burns in the fireplace and a portrait of George Washington, a portrait of Woodrow Wilson, a vase of flowers, a bust, and a clock adorn the mantle. On the wall to the right of the father's portrait, hangs a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A patterned rug, a cat asleep by the fire, and a window displaying a service flag comprise the scene as well. Sheer curtains and a bowl-shaped vase of flowers also adorn the window., Name of publisher and date from copyright statement: [copyright symbol of "c" in circle] 1919 By E. G. Renesch, Chicago., Description revised 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
Date: 1919
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Soldiers [P.2016.61]

Title: The triumph
Description: Print predicting the Union's triumph over the Confederacy using an allegory of "Humanitas" (i.e., Humanity) depicted as a white woman holding a child astride an eagle, reaching to save a shackled African American held on the ground by the evil "King Cotton." From a break in the clouds an apparition appears behind "Humanitas," including "Freedom" depicted as a woman wearing a crown of feathers holding a large American flag and a Liberty cap; "Christianity" depicted as a white woman holding a bible; "Justitia" depicted as a white woman holding scales; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; and Benjamin Franklin. The oppressed enslaved person reaches up as "King Cotton," portrayed with an alligator head with a body composed of a bale of cotton with a holster of pistols, raises his hands in horror as the eagle clutches his cloak and shoots lightning bolts at his throne. To his right a column labeled "Lecompton", "Fugitive Slave," and "Missouri Compromise" is set aflame from the lightning. In the left, the "Hydra of Discord" accompanied by a hound "Fugitive Slave Law," a group of white men enslavers, and a Spaniard, who drops a package marked "Cuba $50,000,000," flee from the vision to the sea where a boat of enslaved African American men are docked. Contains eighteen lines of verse from Lord Byron's 1813 poem "The Giaour" below the image., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., Per Reilly, published key to print exists., Copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by M. H. Traubel, in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Penna., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - 1862-15 [P.9654]

Title: Washington crossing the Delaware. Evening previous to the Battle of Trenton Decr. 25th 1776 The annual greeting of the carriers of the Philadelphia Inquirer to their patrons for 1861
Description: Commemorative print after Thomas Sully's 1819 painting "Washington's Passage of the Delaware." Depicts General Washington astride his horse atop the barren bank of the Delaware River. He tips his hat and acknowledges his troops below, who cross the river by barge. To the left of Washington, white men soldiers move a cannon. In the right are several soldiers on horseback, including Prince Whipple, enslaved African American man and bodyguard to Washington Aide, General William Whipple., Title based on item., Original painting in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., For a description of the original painting, see the broadside Passage of the Delaware by Thomas Sully. (LCP sm #Am 1820 Sul, 6658.F)., Accessioned 1987., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Gimbrede, Joseph Napoleon, 1820-, engraver
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - American Revolution [P.9179.9]

Title: In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of American independence
Description: Elaborate Centennial Exhibition commemorative print depicting an arched monument containing a central full-length portrait of George Washington surrounded by vignettes; allegorical figures; and religious quotes by the first president. Washington is depicted mounted on his horse. Arch is adorned with the names of the 38 states and is flanked by columns containing views representing the industries of the North, East, South, and West. Views show a white man laborer of the North chopping a tree at a waterfront, white women loom workers of the East, an overseer on horseback watching an enslaved African American man picking cotton in the South, and a white man farmer reaping his harvest with a horse-drawn plow in the West. Columns also contain allegorical figures to represent the years 1776 and 1876. Justice and Independence (depicted as white women and holding the Declaration), and a prostrate British soldier represent the year 1776 and Peace and Liberty (depicted as white woman and holding a "Ballot"), and a seated enslaved African American man free from his shackles represent the year 1876. Monument also contains views of Independence Hall and Memorial Hall (Centennial Exhibition), the scene showing the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and allegorical figures and emblems symbolizing the classical and industrial arts. Other pictorial elements depict the all-seeing eye; American eagle, shield, and flag; vignettes showing Washington praying, and accepting the sword of surrender from Lord Cornwallis during the American Revolution; and vignette views with dimensions of Centennial Exhibition buildings. Buildings include the Art Gallery, Main Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Horticultural Hall. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Improvement copyrighted 1877 The Presbyterian Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 370, Gift of David Doret, 2007., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: 1876, 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2007.28.7]

Title: Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Commercial lithography. 324 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Souvenir flier in commemoration of the Centennial Exhibition and the 25th anniversary of the lithographic firm started by Theodore Leonhardt in 1851. Contains a montage of vignettes representing the work of the studio, including views of exhibition buildings and city landmarks. Views depict Memorial Hall, Masonic Temple, Academy of Fine Arts, Horticultural Hall, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania University, Girard College, and City Public Buildings (i.e., City Hall). Also includes "Birds-Eye View Centennial International Exhibition" (center), bust-length vignette portraits of George Washington and President Grant, the seal of the city, and a banner reading Theo. Leonhardt & Son. 324 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 1851.1876. Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic. Vignettes separated by borders comprised of ornate details, graphics representing modes of the arts, and cameo portraits of a Native American, soldier, sailor, and farmer. The Leonhardt lithographic studio was renamed following the partnership between Leonhardt and his son Arno circa 1874 and the firm remained in operation until the early 20th century. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Cover contains pictorial design., Promotional text printed on cover: We take the liberty in presenting you this souvenir as a memento of the Nations One hundredth Birthday and our Twenty-fifth Anniversary, calling your attention to our varied Specimens in the line of Commercial Lithography. Our experience in this quarter of a century enabled us to Study the Wants of the Commercial World at large, and as we have always been striving to produce the Best Work, we leave it to your own judgement [sic] to convince yourself by personal inspection. We remain Respectfully Yours, Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Philadelphia, May 1st 1876., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 98, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: May 1, 1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876 - verso

Title: Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Commercial lithography. 324 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Souvenir flier in commemoration of the Centennial Exhibition and the 25th anniversary of the lithographic firm started by Theodore Leonhardt in 1851. Contains a montage of vignettes representing the work of the studio, including views of exhibition buildings and city landmarks. Views depict Memorial Hall, Masonic Temple, Academy of Fine Arts, Horticultural Hall, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania University, Girard College, and City Public Buildings (i.e., City Hall). Also includes "Birds-Eye View Centennial International Exhibition" (center), bust-length vignette portraits of George Washington and President Grant, the seal of the city, and a banner reading Theo. Leonhardt & Son. 324 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 1851.1876. Most of the views also show street and pedestrian traffic. Vignettes separated by borders comprised of ornate details, graphics representing modes of the arts, and cameo portraits of a Native American, soldier, sailor, and farmer. The Leonhardt lithographic studio was renamed following the partnership between Leonhardt and his son Arno circa 1874 and the firm remained in operation until the early 20th century. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Cover contains pictorial design., Promotional text printed on cover: We take the liberty in presenting you this souvenir as a memento of the Nations One hundredth Birthday and our Twenty-fifth Anniversary, calling your attention to our varied Specimens in the line of Commercial Lithography. Our experience in this quarter of a century enabled us to Study the Wants of the Commercial World at large, and as we have always been striving to produce the Best Work, we leave it to your own judgement [sic] to convince yourself by personal inspection. We remain Respectfully Yours, Theo. Leonhardt & Son. Philadelphia, May 1st 1876., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 98, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: May 1, 1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - L - May 1, 1876 - verso

Title: The Washington family
Description: Group portrait of George Washington, his wife Martha, and his two step-grandchildren gathered around a cloth-covered table. A seated George Washington, attired in civilian clothing, rests one arm on the table and the other on the shoulder of his step-grandson and namesake who stands next to a globe, which shows "America." His step-granddaughter, Nelly, stands next to a seated Martha on the other side of the table. Both are pointing at "North America, United States" on a large map unfurled on the table. William Lee, an African American man enslaved by Washington who worked as his valet including during the Revolutionary War, stands in the right background. He is attired in a white cravat and a black jacket and tucks his left hand into his jacket. A curtain is draped open near a column revealing a waterscape scene in the background., Title from item., Names of sitters printed in margin below image., Purchased with Davida T. Deutsch Women's History Fund, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Washington [P.2013.23]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Mount Vernon--Washington's Residence
Description: Puzzle showing the eastern facade of the mansion and grounds overlooking the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia owned by George Washington. White men and women promenade, white children play with a dog, cattle graze, and a white man handler walks a horse on the landscaped grounds in the foreground. George Washington, Martha Washington, and a white woman sit on the porch. An enslaved African American man servant, attired in a white collared shirt, a black jacket with tails, and black pants, stands to the left of them. The estate, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858., One of four puzzles, stored in two pieces, housed in clamshell box., Purchase 1978., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.2]

Title: Washington birthday greetings
Description: Postcard containing an interpretation of Christian Schussele's 1864 painting "Washington and his Family" that was also issued as an engraving. Shows a domestic family group portrait with George and Martha Washington seated at a table, near which their step grand-children Nelly and William stand. A map rests on the table, and Washington holds a book in his lap. In the background, William Lee, an African American man enslaved by Washington who worked as his valet including during the Revolutionary War, enters the room holding a note on a tray. In the right foreground, Washington's overcoat and sword rest on a chair., Date inferred from postmark: Mass., Dec. 1910., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. Ralph Osgood, Oak St., Springfield, Mass., Inscribed in lower left corner on verso: Cores. from Ethel., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Divided back., Gift of John Serembus, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Non-Pennsylvania [P.2013.66]

Title: [George Washington crossing the Delaware]
Description: Commemorative print after the 1851 painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze depicting General Washington's famous campaign across the icy Delaware River above Trenton on Christmas Eve 1776. A stoic Washington stands at the head of the lead rowboat surrounded by several of his dedicated men, including a white man soldier holding the American flag and the African American oarsman Prince Whipple, enslaved man and bodyguard to Washington Aide, General William Whipple. In the background, boats with the remaining troops and horses are visible., Copyrighted by M. Knoedler., Proof copy., Title from original painting in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York., Gift of Anthony N.B. Garvan, 1981., 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: Giradet, Paul, engraver
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.8646.1]

Title: "Father, I cannot tell a lie: I cut the tree"
Description: Genre scene of the fictitious moment when the young George Washington confesses to his father, Augustine, a plantation owner, that he cut a cherry tree on their Virginia plantation. Depicts Washington's father holding his son's hand and comforting him. George looks up at his father and points his left hand towards the cut tree in the right. On the ground is an ax and an upturned hat. In the background, an enslaved African American man plows the pasture with a team of oxen, and an enslaved African American man and woman couple stands near the gate of a cottage, probably their dwelling., Title from date., Date based on the active dates of engraver., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1978., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: McRae, John, engraver
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Washington [8384.F.16]

Title: Masonic memorial
Description: Commemorative, fictionalized group portrait print depicting “seventy-seven Masonic Brethren, Signers of the Declaration of American Independence and other Distinguished Members of the “Masonic Fraternity” in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall. Shows three rows of Brethren (“Distinguished Dead” and “immortal”) within the paneled wall room of the historic site being used as an exhibit gallery. At the center of the first row stands “Father of his Country” George Washington, his left hand on his hip, and wearing a masonic apron adorned with Masonic symbols. Nearest him to the left, also in masonic, but undecorated, aprons, stand Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Other figures in undecorated aprons in the front row include (left to right) James Buchanan; Marquise de Lafayette; Bishop William White; Andrew Jackson; and Henry Clay. Some of the men hold hats or scrolls, while others hold their hands together, or cross their arms. Other figures in the further rows include Stephen Girard, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckenridge. In the background, framed artwork, predominately from the Charles Willson Peale portrait collection; Henry Inman's portrait painting of William Penn (left); Thomas Sully's portrait painting of Lafayette (right) line the walls. Background also includes in the far right, the Liberty Bell upon which a stuffed bald eagle sits (installed 1852) and, in the center, a bronze eagle elevated above the partially visible wood statue of George Washington (carved 1815 by William Rush, installed 1824)., Title from from promotional pamphlet held in collections [Am 1860 Pheni 54390.O.13]. Pamphlet also lists the names of many of the sitters in image., Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Thomas Phenix in the Clerk's Office of the Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Inger, Christian, artist
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **group portrait prints - Masons [P.2011.45.10]

Title: Panorama of Washington. [graphic] : First in war. First in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Description: Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Described in Georges Malpass's "A Check List 'Rose' and 'Panorama' Envelopes of the Civil War" in American Philatelist (March 1953), p. 430-442., Civil War envelope insert containing a portrait of George Washington above 25 vignette views of federal buildings and prominent sites in Washington, D.C., a bird's-eye view of the city, and patriotic vignettes. Prominent sites depicted include the Capitol, interiors of the House of Representatives and Senate; U.S. Post Office; U.S. Treasury; Observatory; White House; Military Asylum; Columbia Armory; War Department; Jackson Monument; Willard Hotel; U.S. Navy Yard; U.S. Arsenal; Matthew Church; City Hall; Trinity Church; Georgetown College; view of Georgetown; National Hotel; Lunatic Asylum; U.S. Patent Office; Smithsonian Institute; Mills statue of Washington; and the building dedicated to the Fine Arts. Patriotic vignettes show Washington as a general during the American Revolution; the Washington monument; and the figure of Liberty. Also includes vignettes of Mount Vernon and the Tomb of Washington.
Creator: Magnus, Charles., creator
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept **GC - Views - U.S. - Washington, D.C. [(2)5786.F.182b]

Title: Civil War stationery collection
Description: Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at The Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [32]., 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.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]

Title: The United States Centennial International Exhibition
Description: Share certificate issued by the Centennial Board of Finance containing a series of historical and allegorical vignettes, scenes, and figures. Vignettes depict a view on a coastline showing a white man, attired in colonial dress, reaping with a sickle beside a white man driving a plow in front of a steer-drawn conestoga wagon, a moving train, and sailing ships; the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and a scene depicting a Native American man, attired in pants and moccasins with a feather in his hair and a quiver of arrows on his back, covering his face from the sight of a dilapidated windmill near rows of industrial buildings spewing smoke. Along the sides figures include: tradesmen; laborers; soldiers; frontiersmen; inventors, including Benjamin Franklin; Native Americans; and an African American man reading. In the top center, allegorical figures of Liberty, Art, and Peace, portrayed as white women, accept offerings from representations of people from across the world, including African women; a woman attired in a turban, a person with a parrot on their shoulder, and an Asian man with a queue. Also contains: busts of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant; an eagle holding an American flag; views of the State House and Capitol; and the printed seal of the Centennial Board of Finance. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title from item., P.2002.67.77 issued to Margaret R. Bringhurst for one share on October 20, 1875. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President., 5788.F.10 issued to Mary Norris Logan for one share on November 10, 1876. Signed by Fred. Fraley, Treasurer; and John Welsh, President., Printed on recto: Shares $10. Each. Capital $10,000,000., P.2002.67.66 poor condition., Gift of Helen Beitler, 2002 [P.2002.67.66]., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views [5758.F.10. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: United States, Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [P.2002.67.77], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Philadelphia certificates - Centennial [5758.F.10]

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