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

Title: The neglected picture From the Home journal. The following lines were suggested on seeing the painting styled the "Neglected picture," by W.M. Davis, of Port Jefferson, now on exhibition at Messrs. Ball, Black and Co.'s
Description: Caption title, with first lines of text., First line of the seven-verse poem: What ails you Jeff.? hast had a "smash?", On verso: Done gone. From the New York herald. The fine arts. Mr. William M. Davis, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, whose painting, styled the "Neglected picture," has attracted so much notice of late, has just produced another picture, ... The title "Done gone," selected by the artist, will be readily recognized by all who have travelled in the South ..., At foot of each side: Photographic copies, carte de visite size, 25 cts. each., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Davis, William M., 1829-1920
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Davis 5795.F.69 (McAllister)

Title: Pocket edition. Diary of the Rebellion! A useful hand-book for soldiers & citizens. For sale here
Description: Bixler & Winchester of Washington, D.C. published the pocket edition of Diary of the great rebellion in 1862., Printed in green., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Pocket (6)5777.F.33b (McAllister)

Title: Presidential power over personal liberty! A review of the Hon. Horace Binney's essay on the writ of habeas corpus. For sale here
Description: Presidential power over personal liberty, attributed to Isaac Myer, was "Imprinted for the author" in Philadelphia in 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Presiden (5)5777.F.59b (McAllister)

Title: New Union paper! Second number National guard now ready! Office, 333 Walnut St. For sale everywhere
Description: The National guard began publishing in 1862; it is listed as a weekly newspaper at this address in the Philadelphia directory for 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 National (6)5777.F.27b (McAllister)

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

Title: Charles C. Watson & Sons, 92 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the tailor containing the numbered front and back of a male figure corresponding to a key of directions on taking measurements. Also includes text requesting "the height of the person to be sent" and the"length & widths to be stated in inches.", Variant published in Joseph Shaw's United States directory for the use of travellers and merchants...: (Philadelphia: Printed by James Maxwell, 1822)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany.
Date: [ca. 1822]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Advertisements - W [5786.F.166a]

Title: Fairmount Machine Works, office, 2106 Wood Street, Philadelphia, Penna Thomas Wood, manufactures as specialties, power looms, with improved box and pattern machines. Bobbin winding, spooling, beaming, dye & sizing machines. Self-acting wool scouring machines (Yewdall's patent.) Improved power hoisting machines, lard and paraffine [sic] oil presses. Wall paper machinery, such as grounding, clay and color mixing machines, paper rolling and bundling machines
Description: Advertisement for the machine manufacturer containing a series of vignettes and descriptions of company products. Shows power looms; a "dye frame for dying six warps"; a "30 spindle bobbin winding machine"; "vertical cone & cradle indigo mills, for crushing indigo, etc."; "new style' beaming machines"; and couplings, post hangers, pulleys, and a pillow block. Also contains a chart of "Change Pinions for Regulating the number of Picks on Goods, with Positive Take-up Motion" and advertising text about shafting, gearing, and pulleys. Fairmount Machine Works was established in 1839 by John and Thomas Wood as a manufactory of power looms and other textile machinery., Various artists including Rea & Sharp, Klein, and Longacre Co., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 233
Creator: Longacre & Co.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - F [P.2004.43]

Title: Jeff. Davis' confession! A singular document found on the dead body of a rebel! ... /The above is a true copy of the original
Description: At head of title: Extra., Copyright 1861 by Charles W. Alexander; Wesley Bradshaw is the pseudonym used on literary works of Charles Wesley Alexander, Philadelphia publisher., At foot: Notice.--We will send to any address, on the receipt of three cents, a copy of "General McClellan's dream," of which nearly forty thousand were sold in Philadelphia alone. To any one remitting $1.00 we will send, post paid, 50 copies. Our edition is the only one authorized by Mr. Bradshaw, and bears his autograph. Agents should send in their orders immediately., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Bradshaw, Wesley, 1837-1927
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Bradshaw 5795.F.17 (McAllister)

Title: Prof. C.C. Schaeffer will repeat his lecture on Hamlet the first of his course, for the benefit of U.S. Sanitary Commission, with diagrams, (free) at the hall of the university, Ninth Street, above Chestnut, on Friday, June 24, 1864, at 5 o'clock, P.M. Doors open at 4 o'clock. ... The title of the lecture at the first delivery was: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or How to set a country, "Time out of joint," right.--Lecture, one hour
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Schaeffer, C. C. (Charles C.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Schaeff (1)5781.F.11a (McAllister)

Title: P.S. Duval & Son's lithographic establishment, s.w. corner of 5th & Minor sts. (near Chestnut.) Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a view of a chemistry laboratory during the middle ages. Shows the chemist and his assistants performing experiments surrounded by flasks of chemical solutions, books, a cauldron, and a fish hanging from the ceiling. Scene surrounded by an ornate border containing flags, flowers, chemical packets, and equipment used in chemistry including flasks, mortars, and burners. Also contains advertising text lithographed on the verso announcing the employment by Duval & Son of James Queen as superintendent of their drawing department. Text also promotes the ability of the firm to "execute any style of work" including portraits, anatomical and engineer drawings, views of factories, show cards, bill heads, and circulars., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 121
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - D [(2)5786.F.121a]

Title: Fresh from a soldier's pen Our campaigns, or, The marches, bivouacs, battles, incidents of camp life, and history of our regiment during its three years' term of service: together with a sketch of the Army of the Potomac under generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant. By E.M. Woodward, adjutant, Second Pa. Reserves. 12mo., cloth. Price $2 00. The object in writing this volume is to give, in a clear and lucid manner, the history of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Corps (Colonels Wm. B. Mann and Wm. McCandless), and an insight into the life of a soldier. ... Agents, canvassers, and others are wanted for the circulation of the book, with whom liberal terms will be made. Single copies sent, post paid, to any one on receipt of price, $2 00
Description: Woodward's Our campaigns was published in Philadelphia in 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woodward (2)5786.F.52c (McAllister)

Title: Asher M. Childs clothes renovating establishment, No. 145 N. 9th St Old clothes made to look equal to new, by cleaning or dyeing without taking a part. Also repairing, and altering done to the latest fashions. All work done in a superior manner
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]

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: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines manufactured and marketed by the Egyptian Drug Co., of New York, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Pine-Apple Lung Balsam, [1893] -- [2] Egyptian Regulator Tea regulates the bowels and system, [1890] -- [3] $500 reward for as good a family medicine as Egyptian Regulator Tea ... Nils Erickson, Abercrombie, N. Dak. -- [4] 3 best things on earth! How to cure disease. How to keep well. How to make money, [1897] -- [5] Form letter, dated Nov. 5, 1897., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Egyptian Drug Co.
Date: [1890-1897]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 17178.Q (Helfand)

Title: You cannot blot out...the fact that Louis Heilbron sells the best furniture, carpets, and bedding at most reasonable prices, at the largest furniture house in Reading, Pa. 838-840 Penn Street
Description: Advertisement blotter containing a genre scene showing a young girl pulling two boys, one holding an umbrella, in a wagon made from a crate., 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. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.31]

Title: Centennial. 1776. 1876. Dwight Compy
Description: Photomechanical reduced reproduction advertising the commemorative print engraved by the American Bank Note Company. Commemorative print contains portraits of the U.S. presidents from Washington to Grant within a border composed of the thirty-six state seals. Portraits include inauguration date., Trade Mark., Registered 1876., 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: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.18]

Title: Paints and drugs, for cash 162 Broadway, just below Courtlandt St. "The cash drug house," P.D. Orvis. Notice. Your are respectfully requested to put this circular in your memorandum book and call at my establishment, conveniently located in Broadway, just below Courtlandt Street and Maiden Lane, where courteous salesmen will be in readiness to show you a full line of paints, ... drugs, patent medicines and fancy goods
Description: The illustration shows a U.S. flag with the motto: Stand by the flag., Printed in red ink; printed area measures 15.7 x 10.7 cm., Library Company copy has contemporary MS. note: P D Orvis circular drugs &c 1861., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Orvis, Philander Denslow, 1828-1903
Date: [1861?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Orvis 113005.D (Helfand)

Title: Oxford Carpet Mills, Wm. Hogg, Jr. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 140 Oxford Street built between 1858 and 1868 in Kensington. Also shows light street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus. The business was established by William Hogg, Sr. in 1832. William Hogg, Jr. assumed sole operation in 1850., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.78c]

Title: [X. Bazin, steam fancy soap works and perfumery, 917 Cherry Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory and laboratory complex. Also shows crates lining the sidewalks and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon hauling crates and departing the complex. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel’s name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76a]

Title: Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76b]

Title: Allen's Furniture Warehouse, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the multi-story storefront for cabinetmakers Allen & Bro. (Joseph and James C.) erected in 1860 at 1209 Chestnut Street. Also shows pedestrians looking at furniture visible in the large display windows. The building contained salesrooms on the lower floors and upholstery and finishing rooms on the upper ones. Allen & Bro. was originally established by William Allen in 1836. The business specialized in custom orders and exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Variant wood engraving published in I. L. Vansant, ed., The royal road to wealth (Philadelphia: Samuel Loag, (1869?)], opp. p. 43.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76c]

Title: Wm. Simpson & Sons, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the calico printers showing a sepulchral monument composed of three mourning female figures attired in Roman garb beside a casket. The business, established in 1836 in the Falls of Schuylkill by William Simpson, was renamed William Simpson & Sons from "The Washington Print Works" in 1869. In 1877, the firm was incorporated as Eddystone Manufacturing Company., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1869 by W. Simpson & Sons in the Clerk's Office of the District of the East. District of Penna., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.9e]

Title: [Gumpert Bros., cigar manufacturers, 1341 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Advertisement depicting the factory during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 adorned with several signs, including ones illustrated with allegorical figures and patriotic imagery. Passersby look at displays of boxes in the window near pedestrians walking on the sidewalk. In the street, a man on horseback, and a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gumpert Bros, originally W.H. Grumpert, was established in 1856. The firm name changed to Gumpert Bros in 1866 and the business removed from the site in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76e]

Title: [Joseph Beckhaus carriage factory, 1204 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Advertisement depicting the factory and office at 1204 Frankford Avenue. Coaches line the street in front of the establishment and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Beckhaus was originally established as Beckhaus, Allgaier, and Petry in 1853. Beckhaus assumed sole operation about 1869., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76d]

Title: Bind your own music, newspapers, pamphlets, pictures, documents, &c. Use adhesive binding tags and portfolios. Heyl's patent For sale by music dealers and stationers. H.R. Heyl & Co., sole manufacturers, No. 113 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Circular containing eight pages of text bound into a pamphlet using binding tags. Text details who should purchase the tags, including orchestras, bands, musical societies, choirs, editors, authors, teachers, ministers, druggists and physicians; how to adhere them by "rubbing them down with the thumbnail or something hard"; and other products sold by Heyl, including "extensible portfolios for music" and "firm back postfolios especially adopted to the new method of binding.", Title from front and back covers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Heyl [P.2006.20.2]

Title: Rabbit hunt Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila
Description: Illustrated "hidden puzzle" trade card depicting a winter scene showing a small building with a large flag inscribed "Jacob Shaffer, No. 628 N. Second St., Phila." Includes bare, broken trees and boulders in the foreground in which the figures of a hunter and at least two rabbits are "hidden." Jacob Shaffer was a propietor of a varieties and notions store during the 1860s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shaffer [P.9582.85]

Title: Come in out of the draft, or, How are you, Conscript? comic song
Description: Cover title., First line verse: As it was rather warm, I thought the other day., "Respectfully dedicated to all disconsolate conscripts.", Advertisements for Lee & Walker, p. [2] and [6]., Library Company copy matches a copy held by Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 087, Item 085; digital surrogate available., Library Company copy, acc. no. 9940.F.03 (Beitler), bound in volume inscribed Emily B. Markle., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Walters, B. Frank, cmp
Date: [c1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Come in 11378.F, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music 9940.F.03 (Beitler), http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/26767

Title: Jenny Wade, the heroine of Gettysburg
Description: For voice, chorus (SATB) and piano., At head of title: Respectfully dedicated to Major Gen. George G. Meade., Description of Jenny Wade's death at Gettysburg on t.p., Excerpt of lyrics printed as text on t.p., "Electrotyped by L. Johnson & Co., Philadelphia."--p. 5., Publisher's advertisements on final page., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wittig, Rudolph, cmp
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Jenny 11369.F

Title: A Neat and cheap history of the Rebellion just published by H. Derousse. For sale here. Price only 20 cents
Description: Printed in red, on card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; price corrected in MS. to 15 cents., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Neat 5786.F.10a (McAllister)

Title: A Neat and cheap history of the Rebellion just published by H. Derousse. For sale here. Price only 20 cents
Description: Printed in red, on card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; price corrected in MS. to 15 cents., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Neat 5786.F.10a (McAllister)

Title: Amer ican hair dye warranted Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, No. 8 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Proprietor of Jayne’s Hair Tonic, which besides being a delightful perfume, will increase the growth [sic] & beauty of the hair, and prevent it from falling off. No gentleman or lady’s toilet should be without it
Description: Advertisement containing a full-length portrait of a Native American standing in a clearing in the woods. He holds a bow in one hand and points to the sky with the other. A bundle of arrows is partially visible from above his shoulder and he wears a feathered headband. An ornamental border surrounds the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00027, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 9, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Advertisements
Creator: Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Advertisements

Title: Henry Adolph, manufacturer of furniture wholesale and retail, warerooms no. 36 North Second St., one door above the Christ Church Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the exterior of the furniture warerooms near Christ Church (22-34 N. 2nd St.). Clusters of people admire the furniture displayed in the windows of the storefront as patrons enter the building. The store is heavily adorned with signage and an American flag. Men, women, and children, including a man pushing a handcart, walk on the bustling sidewalk. A woman with a girl, and a delivery boy, cross the street near the "No. 21 Exchange & Richmond" streetcar, a "H. Adolph" delivery wagon, and another laborer pushing a handcart. Many of the women carry parasols. Also shows the gated, tree-lined promenade between the church and warerooms., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 347, Atwater Kent Museum: 47.33.7/3. With manuscripts notes giving date as June 1861 and indicating that the print formerly belonged to John A. McAllister., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W171 [P.2006.15]

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan, call the attention of the public to the superior facilities at their extensive lithographic establishment, no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, (north of no, 111 Chestnut Street.) Where the most efficient artistical skill is employed in the various branches of the art, enabling them to produce the most elaborate drawings on stone, anatomy, geology, botany, portraits, landscapes, title pages, book illustrations, machinery, show cards, maps, plans &c. . Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work equal if not superior to any other establishment in the country, in color printing, they produce the most chaste, unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, music titles, show cards &c. Also, a beautiful style in colors of stores, hotels, manufactories, and landscape views. Businessmen can be supplied with thousands of circulars, in their own hand-writing after a few hours notice
Description: Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 110, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.10 (front ad section)

Title: Edward L. Waller, lithographic printer. Portraits, landscapes, buildings, animals, charts, maps. Circulars, bill heads, music titles, checks, cards, labels, transfers from copper or steel, lithographed in a superior manner, no. 17 Minor Street, third story, Philadelphia
Description: Directory advertisement containing lettering in various styles. Waller operated a studio in Philadelphia 1856-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [6], back ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 25
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.6 (back ad section)

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic & steam power printing establishment Athenian Building, Franklin Place
Description: Directory advertisement containing an allegorical, patriotic scene. Shows the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal. She holds a sword in one hand beside an American eagle perched on a shield and a laurel wreath in the other in front of a sculpted bust of George Washington. The bust rests on a pedestal adorned with a fasces. A paint palette and brushes, compass, rolls of paper, and a banner reading "Encourage American Arts" rests at the feet of Columbia. Floral details frame the sides of the image. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Names of artists from variant duplicate in Poulson's scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. 1., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 114
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.frontispiece

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan's lithographic drawing, engraving, and printing establishment Wagner & McGuigan, respectfully call the attention of the public to the superior facilities to be found at their extensive establishment, employing upwards of forty presses, together with the most efficient artistical skill in the various branches of the art, enables them to produce all work equal to an establishment in the country. Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts, stone and manuscript. We particularly recommend this branch of our business to the notice of those having plates of this description, as millions of impressions may be printed with but little wear to the original plate, and at a far greater speed than from the copperplate press, at very moderate cost. Business men can be supplied with thousands of circulars in their own handwriting, at a few hours' notice. Surveyors, draughtsmen, and others, desiring to execute their own plans, circulars, price currents, &c, for transferring, will be furnished with suitable paper and ink, free of charge
Description: Advertisement containing an "Interior view of Wagner & M'Guigan's forty press room, Athenian Building, Franklin Place, Philadelphia." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Not in Wainwright., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 112, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Exhib 13701.O.2.39

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: P.S. Duval, lithographer, no. 7 Bank Alley, near the Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia Portraits from life, on stone, landscapes from nature, anatomical & architectural drawings, machinery, music titles, maps, plans, circulars, checks, bill heads, bills of lading, price currents, fac-similes, transfers from steel, copper, wood, and autographs, printing in colors, &c &c. Executed in the best possible manner, and on low terms
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Mercantile register, or business man's guide.. (Philadelphia: H. Orr, 1846), p. 198., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 76
Date: [1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1846 20728.O.1.198

Title: P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment, No. 7 Bank Alley, Philadelphia Long and favourably known under the firm of Childs & Inman. P.S.D. respectfully infroms the artists of Philadelphia, and the public in general, that he is prepared to execute orders in all the various branches of the above art in a superior style. N.B. Likenesses drawn from life on stone, maps, charts, plans, bill heads, bills of exchange, cheques, professional and visiting cards, labels &c. &c. will receive prompt attention, and no exertion spared to render perfect satisfaction in every department of lithography
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 106., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 77
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.106

Title: J.T. Bowen, lithographer & print colourer, no. 94 Walnut Street, Philadelphia N.B. Views of public buildings, landscapes, maps, plans, charts, circualrs, &c. executed in the most beautiful style, and at the shortest notice; also portraits taken from life, or reduced from paintings, or enlarged from miniatures
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 41
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107

Title: John Collins, lithographer, no. 79 South Third Street, Philadelphia Plans, maps, circulars, portraits, landscapes, anatomical, and other drawings executed in the most accurate and highly finished style
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 49
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107

Title: P.S. Duval & Son Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates and autographic circulars. Nota: There is also a photographic department attached to this establishment. S.w. corner 5th and Minor streets, near Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of "A[lois] Senefelder, Inventor of Lithography." Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and several sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger, next to a compass and another ledger, and near a lithographer rolling ink on a stone on a lithographic printing press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image.The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia city directory, for 1858... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1858), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 70
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1858 (63) 10840.O.frontispiece

Title: E. Ketterlinus steam power letter press and lithographic printer, Arch and Fourth street, Philadelphia
Description: City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23/24, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b

Title: E. Ketterlinus, steam power letter-press and lithographic printing house, n.w. cor. Arch & 4th sts. Philadelphia Gilt, embossed and illuminated labels, for manufacturers, liquor dealers and perfumers. Show cards, filled up & blank for the trade. Ball tickets, programmes, &c. Banks furnished with lithographed check with government stamps
Description: City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b

Title: Thos. S. Wagner formerly Wagner & McGuigan lithographers Philadelphia. Franklin Place no. 38. Lithography in all its branches Portraits, landscapes, illustrations, factories, stores &c. Printing in colors. Maps, charts, town lots, checks, labels, transferring of the finest steel & copper plates
Description: City directory advertisement containing an allegorical scene within an arch-shaped frame. Scene shows the figure of Liberty, attired in a liberty cap, and American flag cape, holding a sword and driving a three horse-team drawn chariot. She travels past a bust of George Washington displayed on a pedestal. In the background, a steam locomotive and steam boat are visible under rays of light emanating from the vista. Also shows an American eagle with an olive branch in its claws flying above Liberty and floral details adorning the bottom edge of the frame. Wagner operated a lithography studio solely 1858 until his death in 1863., Not in Wainwright., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia city directory for 1859... (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle. Printed by Henry B. Ashmead., 1859), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 104
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.)
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1859 (65) 10840.O.frontispiece

Title: P. S. Duval & Son lithographers, 22 & 24 South 5th St., ab. Chestnut Philada All works appertaining to the various branches of lithographic drawing, engraving, and transferring, printing, plain and in colors, are executed in this establishment in the best style of the art. Turn over
Description: Advertisement containing an allegorical scene surrounded by a floral border. Scene shows a child asleep in her bed labeled "The Dream of Heaven" as angels, including one holding a book of "wisdom" and a basket of fruits hovers near her on a cluster of clouds. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: A hand-book exhibiting the development, variety, and statistics of the manufacturing industry of Philadelphia in 1857 (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 1858), opp. p. 182., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 73, Variant of HSP Tradecard Collection - D and HSP Ba 61 D 956a
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1857 Fre 67170.D.182a

Title: P.S. Duval & Son lithographers. S.W. corner 5th and Minor street. Philadelphia Lithography in all its various branches, transfer from copper or steel plates executed in the most perfect style
Description: Directory advertisement containing a montage of pictorial elements including a landscape view, and depictions of a Gothic-style church tower and bas-relief bust profile of Alois Senenfeder, the inventor of lithography. Landscape view includes a cow, horse, and sheep. Other details depict two cherubs reading a ledger near tools of the lithographic trade including a roller, paper, rag, scraper, and press. Floral and vinery ornamentations bordering a banner adorned with the firm's name and the bas-relief portrait also comprise the image. The Duval firm operated under the name P.S. Duval & Son or P.S Duval, Son & Co. circa 1857-circa 1879 and from 22 & 24 South 5th Street 1858-1869., Published in The Philadelphia complete business directory for 1857... (Philadelphia: Published by Wm. F. Bartlett & Co., [1857]), opp. p. 113., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 74
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1857 76553.0.112a

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan, respectfully invite the attention of the public to their extensive lithographic establishment no. 4 Athenian Building, Franklin Place, north of no. 111 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Lithography in all its branches, portraits, landscape, anatomy, geology, botany, architecture, machinery, store views, title pages, certificates, steamboats, pattern books, country and town maps, plans circulars, commercial blanks, &c. Transferring from steel and copper-plate, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work of a superior order in this line. Illuminated color printing unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, show cards, labels, stores, hotels, manufactories, printed in various colors, bronzes, &c. All orders promptly attended to
Description: Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 111, Variant of advertisement published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.15 (front ad section)

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