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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: The Pennsylvania cyclone
Description: Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bessel, Fred
Date: [1889?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)

Title: The Pennsylvania cyclone
Description: Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bessel, Fred
Date: [1889?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)

Title: Decoration! Valley View, PA. Saturday, May 30th, 1885 : programme
Description: Ceremonies performed by the "members of W. C., No. 109, P.O.S. of A." and "Wm. Thompson Post, No. 174, G.A.R." Programme signed S. R. Yoder, Marshal ... by order of the committee., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1885.]
Location: sm # Am 1885 Decoration 15146.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Decoration! Valley View, PA. Saturday, May 30th, 1885 : programme
Description: Ceremonies performed by the "members of W. C., No. 109, P.O.S. of A." and "Wm. Thompson Post, No. 174, G.A.R." Programme signed S. R. Yoder, Marshal ... by order of the committee., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1885.]
Location: sm # Am 1885 Decoration 15146.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Teachers' local institute
Description: Signed: J. O. Knauss, County Superintendent and Chairman Ex. Committee., Printed area measures: 15.8 x 11.1 cm., Held at Seiberlingsville Church, Weissenberg Township, Lehigh County, on Saturday December 22nd, 1877., "Members will be at liberty to express their views in either the English or the German language.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1877.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1877 Teachers' 106024.D (Roughwod)

Title: Teachers' local institute
Description: Signed: J. O. Knauss, County Superintendent and Chairman Ex. Committee., Printed area measures: 15.8 x 11.1 cm., Held at Seiberlingsville Church, Weissenberg Township, Lehigh County, on Saturday December 22nd, 1877., "Members will be at liberty to express their views in either the English or the German language.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1877.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1877 Teachers' 106024.D (Roughwod)

Title: Godey's lady's book for 1881 will contain a complete novel in every number and every number will be complete in itself. Subscription price, only $2 per year For a period of more than fifty years this magazine has been a favorite with the American people, and its present owners have shown their ability and purpose to maintain its well-earned reputation as the cheapest and best lady's book in the world!
Description: Printed in red and blue; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 43.9 x 27.8 cm.
Creator: Godey's Lady's Book Publishing Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1880 Godey 10400.F (Doret)

Title: [Postcards, bank drafts, and invoices relating to G.G. Green, manufacturer of proprietary medicines, Woodbury, N.J.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Postcard, dated Oct. 15, 1887, from R.K. Hill, Woodbury, N.J., to J.G. Wainwright, Waukegan, Ill. -- [2] Postcard, dated Feb. 27, 1879, from G.G. Green, Woodbury, N.J., to W.S. Clark, New Hope, N.Y. -- [3] Bank draft (printed by Forbes Co. Boston & N.Y.) no. 17666, dated April 3, 1883, drawn on the First National Bank, $23.20, to J.L. Emlet, Hanover, Pa., signed by G.G. Green and H.C. Foote -- [4] Bank draft (printed by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co.) no. 8990, dated Dec. 6, 1879, drawn on the First National Bank, $18.20, to J.L. Emlet, Hanover, Pa., signed by G.G. Green and H.C. Foote -- [5] Invoice, dated Nov. 3, 1885, to D.W. Morris, Emporia, Kansas -- [6] Invoice, dated June 22,1878 -- [7] Order form, 1885., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Green, G. G. (George Gill), 1842-1925
Date: [1878-1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111843.O (Helfand)

Title: [Collection of advertisements and other promotional materials relating to proprietary medicines manufactured by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, of Lynn, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Lydia Estes Pinkham founded the company in 1873, and patented her best-known medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, in 1876. The company also produced Sanative Wash, Blood Purifier, and Liver Pills. It remained in the family until 1968, when it was sold to Cooper Laboratories of Connecticut., Contents: [1] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is a positive cure for all those painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population. ... Sold by W.G. Sprague, druggist, Vergennes, Vt. -- [2] MS. letter on letterhead, dated Oct. 20, 1888, addressed to Mrs. Jas Pequegnat, and signed "Mrs. Pinkham" -- [3] Letterhead, with small portrait of Lydia E. Pinkham above life dates -- [4] Nerve strain. The busy lives of American women. The cause of their ill health, and the remedy. Written by Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn Mass., and published in the Boston Globe -- [5] Lydia E. Pinkham's four remedies -- [6] Guide for women to a knowledge and cure of prolapsus uteri (falling of the womb) and all painful complaints and weaknesses so common to our best female population, all of which can be permanently cured, provided the Pinkham preparations are used faithfully, copyright 1893 -- [7] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies, with an order blank, and two questionnaires offering a free copy of Elbert Hubbard's biography of Pinkham or a sewing kit to any woman who responds -- [8] Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and other remedies, with an order blank for Lydia E. Pinkham's private text book upon ailments peculiar to women -- [9] For those who wish to know something of what Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines have done, the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, encloses the following testimony -- [10] Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier cures all impurities of the blood. For sale here, with a portrait of Lydia E. Pinkham on the verso, signed: Forbes Co. Boston., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company
Date: [1876-]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11779.F (Helfand)

Title: Geistlicher Irrgarten mit vier Gnadenbrunnen, dadurch kürzlich angedeutet werden: 1stens, die vier Ströme des Paradieses
Description: Representation of Christian life as a journey through a maze. The typographical layout of the text follows a maze-like pattern., The Mennonite Publishing Company, Elkhart, Indiana, the successor to the firm of John F. Funk and Brother, was chartered in 1875., Printed area, including holly-leaf border, measures 44.8 x 31.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not before 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1875 Geist 9518.F (Roughwood)

Title: Geistlicher Irrgarten mit vier Gnadenbrunnen, dadurch kürzlich angedeutet werden: 1stens, die vier Ströme des Paradieses
Description: Representation of Christian life as a journey through a maze. The typographical layout of the text follows a maze-like pattern., The Mennonite Publishing Company, Elkhart, Indiana, the successor to the firm of John F. Funk and Brother, was chartered in 1875., Printed area, including holly-leaf border, measures 44.8 x 31.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not before 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1875 Geist 9518.F (Roughwood)

Title: Keystone Normal School Class tribute to Ellen S. Christ
Description: Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
Date: [1874.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F

Title: Keystone Normal School Class tribute to Ellen S. Christ
Description: Class tribute signed Class of 1875; dated November, 1874. First line: But few months have elapsed since it fell to our lot., With: Philomathean Literary Society tribute. First line: Gone to the grave has our sister., Printed area, including foliated border, measures: 20.6 cm x 9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Kutztown State Teachers College, Class of 1875
Date: [1874.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1874 Kutztown 8758.F

Title: Record of birth & baptism To these two parents: as [blank] and his wife [blank] a daughter of [blank] was born a [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank] This child was born in [blank] in [blank] county, in the state of [blank] in North America; was baptized by the Rev'd. [blank] and received the name of [blank] Witnesses: [blank]
Description: Printed area, including color-printed ornamental border, measures 35.5 x 26.4 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Tyrus Franklin Zerbe, born Aug. 8, 1873 in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa., son of George and Mary Donmoyer Zerbe; he was baptized by Rev. Elias S. Henry Oct. 26, 1873, with Adam and Sarah Donmoyer Lengel as witnesses., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not after 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1873 Record 9637.F (Roughwood)

Title: Record of birth & baptism To these two parents: as [blank] and his wife [blank] a daughter of [blank] was born a [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank] This child was born in [blank] in [blank] county, in the state of [blank] in North America; was baptized by the Rev'd. [blank] and received the name of [blank] Witnesses: [blank]
Description: Printed area, including color-printed ornamental border, measures 35.5 x 26.4 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Tyrus Franklin Zerbe, born Aug. 8, 1873 in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa., son of George and Mary Donmoyer Zerbe; he was baptized by Rev. Elias S. Henry Oct. 26, 1873, with Adam and Sarah Donmoyer Lengel as witnesses., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not after 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1873 Record 9637.F (Roughwood)

Title: This certifies that [blank], the [blank] of [blank] and his wife [blank], as born [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank], and that [blank] was baptized on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank]
Description: A baptismal certificate., Copyright 1873 by Crider & Bro., "Lith. by A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 32.0 x 24.0 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Marranda, daughter of Davilla and Amilia Fiand Peifer, borner April 6, 1875, and baptised June 27, 1875 by Preacher Wolf, with the parents as sponsors; the blanks are incorrectly used, and there are errors in spelling and grammar., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1873 This 14351.Q (Roughwood)

Title: This certifies that [blank], the [blank] of [blank] and his wife [blank], as born [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank], and that [blank] was baptized on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank]
Description: A baptismal certificate., Copyright 1873 by Crider & Bro., "Lith. by A. Hoen & Co. Baltimore.", Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 32.0 x 24.0 cm., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Marranda, daughter of Davilla and Amilia Fiand Peifer, borner April 6, 1875, and baptised June 27, 1875 by Preacher Wolf, with the parents as sponsors; the blanks are incorrectly used, and there are errors in spelling and grammar., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1873 This 14351.Q (Roughwood)

Title: [Collection of prescription forms.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Davis & Rice, druggists, Morristown, Tenn., dated in MS. 9/5/91 for Miss Lockewood, Wilkinson M.D. -- [2a] Bartram & Millington, registered pharmacists, Paw Paw, Michigan, completed in MS. for Js Smith, Meyan M.D. -- [2b] Bartram & Millington, registered pharmacists, Paw Paw, Michigan, completed in MS. for Mr. Smith, Meyan M.D. -- [3] W.D. Kuhlman. A.M. Riggs. The Star Pharmacy, Morristown, Tennessee -- [4] Johnson & Mauk, druggists and apothecaries, Claysburg, Blair Co., Penn., [187-] -- [5] R.M. & W.J. Snodgrass, apothecaries & druggists, Allegheny, Pa.; on verso: Thomas Mabon, M.D. 184 Lacock Street, Allegheny -- [6] Paige & Crooks, druggists & apothecaries, Rutland, Vt. -- [7] Hermann Krebs, druggist & apothecary, Deutsche Apotheke, Cleveland, Ohio, printed on blue paper -- [8] Hermann Krebs, druggist & apothecary, [187-] -- [9] J.D. Keegan & Co., druggists, Cleveland, O. -- [10] Carriger Roberts & Co. druggists, Morristown, Tenn. -- [11] Irving H. Hills & Co. druggists, mixed paints & oil. Wyoming and Hartwell [Cincinnati, Ohio] -- [12] W.H. Brill & Co., druggists & apothecaries, Allegheny City, Pa. (Pittsburgh : C.A. Miller, lithographer) -- [13] Marion Roberts, druggist, Morristown, Tenn. -- [14] Hermann Krebs, druggist and pharmacist, Cleveland, O. -- [15] R.M. Perkins, Ottawa, Ont. -- [16] W.W. Brookinton, Beaufort, S.C., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1870-1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine Prescriptions 112630.D (Helfand)

Title: [Advertisements for proprietary medicines marketed by R.W. Robinson & Son, wholesale druggists, of New York, N.Y.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., The company was formed in 1870 by Russell W. Robinson. It went into bankruptcy in 1908., Contents: [1] The Old Squaw's Cure for Fever & Ague, one testimonial dated Sept. 1871; with MS. notes on verso by a women, "Diary of one day, not a 'busy' one. September 14, 1887" -- [2] Robinson's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with hypophosphites of lime and soda, sold by A.C. Mabie, Sparkill, N.Y. -- [3] Sol-San-Dis (Soluble Sanitary Disinfectant), one testimonial dated Sept. 8, 1890., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R.W. Robinson & Son
Date: [between 1870 and 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111803.O (Helfand)

Title: Jesus Lied
Description: Verse in nine unnumbered stanzas; first line: Wo ist Jesus, mein Verlangen?, Printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule; printed area, within ornamental border, measures 24.3 x 19.2 cm., Cataloging of copy 14289.Q funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14056.Q (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14289.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Jesus Lied
Description: Verse in nine unnumbered stanzas; first line: Wo ist Jesus, mein Verlangen?, Printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule; printed area, within ornamental border, measures 24.3 x 19.2 cm., Cataloging of copy 14289.Q funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14056.Q (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14289.Q (Roughwood)

Title: [Materials relating to Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil, manufactured and marketed by Wm. Renne & Sons, of Pittsfield, Mass.]
Description: Collection title devised by cataloger., Contents: [1] Will the family of the house please read!, [1869] -- [2] Invoice, dated July 27, 1872, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y. -- [3] MS. letter on letterhead, dated June 27, 1876, to Mrs. Phebe M. Whitman, Eaton St., Providence, R.I., signed by Z.C. Renne, 3 leaves -- [4] MS. letter on letterhead, dated Jan. 3, 1873, to C.N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wm. Renne & Sons
Date: [1869-1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 111879.O (Helfand)

Title: Sunday school hymns. To be sung by the children at the grand gathering, June 13th, 1868
Description: Caption title., Without music., Hymns printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 31.0 x 14.2 cm., Contents: The happy land -- The Sunday school army -- Beautiful river -- Dismission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1868 Sunday 17239.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Sunday school hymns. To be sung by the children at the grand gathering, June 13th, 1868
Description: Caption title., Without music., Hymns printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 31.0 x 14.2 cm., Contents: The happy land -- The Sunday school army -- Beautiful river -- Dismission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1868 Sunday 17239.Q (Roughwood)

Title: The Apostle's Creed
Description: Caption title., Kneass published Manual of devotion for the Catholic blind in 1867., Printed in raised-letter Philadelphia Line type on blue paper; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 17.0 x 21.6 cm., In the Michael Zinman Collection of Printing for the Blind., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [1867?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Zinman Blind 111999.O (Zinman)

Title: Record of birth & baptism Unto these two parents: [blank] and his wife [blank] a daughter of [blank] was born a [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank] This child was born in [blank] county of [blank] state of [blank] was baptized by [blank] and received the name of [blank] Witness: [blank]
Description: At foot: +27., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 23.5 x 31.0 cm., Library Company copy hand-colored; completed in MS. for Lydian Wolfskill (later Artz), born Dec. 13, 1866 in Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pa., daughter of John and Elizabeth Mesner Wolfskill, baptized by Daniel Hertz, witness Elizabeth Wolfskill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not after 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1866 Record 9533.F (Roughwood)

Title: Record of birth & baptism Unto these two parents: [blank] and his wife [blank] a daughter of [blank] was born a [blank] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year of our Lord 18[blank] This child was born in [blank] county of [blank] state of [blank] was baptized by [blank] and received the name of [blank] Witness: [blank]
Description: At foot: +27., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 23.5 x 31.0 cm., Library Company copy hand-colored; completed in MS. for Lydian Wolfskill (later Artz), born Dec. 13, 1866 in Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, Pa., daughter of John and Elizabeth Mesner Wolfskill, baptized by Daniel Hertz, witness Elizabeth Wolfskill., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [not after 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1866 Record 9533.F (Roughwood)

Title: City Hall Positively 1 night only Monday evening, April 18 Harris & Smith's Minstrel Troupe and Brass Band! 18 star performers, the most perfect minstrel organization now traveling, consisting of the following powerful array of talent, never before concentrated in a similar entertainment ... Comic quartet! ... What is that? ... Les Miserables! ... Codfish musketeer! ... Essence of Ole Virginny ... The whole to conclude with Dan Emmet's latest walk-a-round, How are you greenbacks! by the entire company. Admission, 25 cents. Reserved seats, 50 cents Doors open at 7. Performance to commence at 8. Balcony serenade every evening, previous to the opening of the doors, by the brass band attached to the troupe, led by Prof. Hosfeldt
Description: April 18 fell on a Monday in 1866., The performers include: M. Bryan, F. Campbell, J.W. Charles, George Edwards, Eugene Gorman, Dick McGowan, Joseph Norrie, Charles Stevens, Billy West, and Frank Winslow., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator: Harris & Smith's Minstrel Troupe
Date: [1866?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1866 Harris (28)5761.F.1a (McAllister)

Title: The two platforms
Description: Racist poster attacking radical Republican support of African American suffrage by comparing the platforms of Democratic candidate and white supremacist Heister Clymer and radical Republican candidate John White Geary during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. Depicts the side-by-side bust portraits of a white man titled "Clymer's Platform is for the White Man" and an African American man, portrayed in racist caricature with grotesque features, titled "Geary's Platform is for the Negro." Contains three lines of text above the image which reference the other "Radical" Republican candidates who support "Negro Suffrage" and two lines below which declares "Read the Platforms. Congress says, the Negro must be allowed to vote, or the states be punished.", Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Reilly., RVCDC, Purchase 1998., 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: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Political Cartoons - 1866-8 [9387.F]

Title: Died, near the South-Side Rail Road, on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, the Southern Confederacy, aged four years Conceived in sin, born in iniquity, nurtured by tyranny, died of a chronic attack of punch. Abraham Lincoln, attending physician. U.S. Grant, undertaker. Jaff Davis, chief mourner
Description: "Epitaph."--ten-line poem printed in two columns at foot; first line: Gentle stranger, drop a tear., Printed on white card stock; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 15.2 x 19.2., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Died 5795.F.88b (McAllister)

Title: Concert Hall immense success Every evening, at eight o'clock, and matinees Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, at 2.30. Doors open one hour previous. Tom! The blind Negro boy--of musical inspiration! Sightless and untutored from birth--his very soul overflowing with musical genius. This youth is a remarkable phenomenon in one direction only, and that is his wonderful aptness for the piano forte! ... Tickets, 50 cents Reserved seats, 75 cents. Tickets for sale at the hall and at Trumpler's Music Store, 926 Chestnut St
Description: Thomas Greene Bethune or Thomas Greene Wiggins was known as Blind Tom., Illustration signed: Adrian-Probasco., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Readex Aug. 2017 update: missing 510 supplied.
Creator: Blind Tom, 1849-1908
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1865 Blind (8)5761.F.59a (McAllister)

Title: County Commissioners' Office, Doylestown, Bucks Co., Pa., February 15, 1865 This is to certify, that the bearer will be entitled to the sum of three hundred dollars, with six per cent. interest from the date. Payable out of the Bucks County Bounty Fund, on the first day of July, anno Domini 1866, at which time the interest on this certificate will cease
Description: A blank form., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Bucks County (Pa.), County Commissioners
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Bucks (2)5777.F.75d

Title: Ninth Union League! 215th Regiment Penn'a Vols Recruits wanted for Company 'D' Head-quarters, National Guard's Hall City and United States bounties: for one year, $500 " two " 700 " three " 900 besides ward bounties extra. Ward committees and all citizens are urged to exert themselves to fill up this regiment, and thus help save the city from a draft. Do not wait to be drafted but come at once
Description: The Ninth Union League Regiment, the 215th Pennsylvania Infantry, under the command of Francis Wister, was organized April 21, 1865 and mustered out July 31, 1865. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 838, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 279., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: United States, Army, Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 215th (1865), Company D.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1865 Uni Sta (4)5777.F.22 (McAllister)

Title: Important draft notice! This Monday evening at 8 o'clock the citizens of the borough, and especially those liable to draft, are earnestly requested to attend the meeting at Citizens' Hall, to adopt prompt and decided measures to raise more funds to procure volunteers, and thus avoid the draft ordered February 15, 1865. The quota of our borough, after deducting all credits to January 1, 1865, is still the enormous figure of seventy-eight men! Fellow citizens! Do not fail to be present! We have commenced the work, and dare not retrace our steps. Our hopes are that this may be the last call
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1865 Important (2)5777.F.67a McAllister)

Title: Draft notice! All those liable to draft, who have not yet paid their twenty dollars, are hereby notified to do so at once, to Wm. L. Brown, treasurer, corner of Market and Center Streets, or to the committee. If there is not a general response, the draft must come! This is the last notice. Come forward! if you want to save yourselves. We have correct lists of all those liable to draft
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1865 Draft (2)5777.F.65d (McAllister)

Title: Draft meeting! The citizens of the borough are urgently requested to attend the meeting at Citizens' Hall on Saturday eve'g Jan. 7, at 8 o'clock, to take measures to fill the quota ef [sic] the borough, and thus avoid the coming draft. Come one, come all! Time is precious. Other districts are at work already, and the sooner we commence, the better for us. Do not fail to be present! Many citizens. Bethlehem, Jan. 6, 1865
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1865 Draft (1)5777.F.70b (McAllister)

Title: Fifth Ward attention! Avoid the draft At a meeting of the citizens of the Fifth Ward, held on Thursday evening, 26th inst., the following named gentlemen were duly authorized to receive and collect money to pay bounty to recruits under the president's late call for volunteers: ... An adjourned meeting will be held Saturday eve'ng, 28th inst., Good Intent Hall, Spruce St., above Sixth at half-past 7 o'clock. Punctual attendance is requested
Description: Jan. 26 fell on a Thursday in 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Citizens' Bounty Fund Committee (5th Ward, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1865 Bounty (2)5777.F.52a (McAllister)

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: Beautiful isle of the sea
Description: Song in two stanzas; first lines: Beautiful isle of the sea! Smile on the brow of the waters!, Words by George Cooper; sheet music copyright 1865. See the Library of Congress American memory online archive, Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920., Place of publication based on provenance., Printed area measures 15.9 x 10.0 cm., Part of the McAllister Collection., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Cooper, George, 1840-1927
Date: [1865?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Cooper 9982.F.71 (McAllister)

Title: Dr. C.W. Kierstead's unrivalled remedy, the King of All Pain! The great internal & external medicine, ... You will find full directions in the German and English languages, how to use the King of All Pain, on the inside wrapper of each bottle. ... Sold by druggists, apothecaries & dealers, everywhere
Description: Copyright 1865 by Dr. C.W. Kierstead in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 23.9 x 16.6 cm., 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: Kierstead, C. W.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Kiers 16742.Q (Helfand)

Title: Springfield Church School Certificate of scholarship of [blank] for the term ending March 22nd, 1865. Orthography, [blank] Reading, [blank] ... Days absent, [blank] Days present, [blank]
Description: A report card., Printed area measures 9.6 x 16.6 cm., Library Company copy completed for Milton Hess, whose academic grade point average was 3.9, who was present for 98 days out of 100, and who earned a 5 for conduct., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Springfield Church School (Springfield, Bucks County, Pa.)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Sprin 110648.D (Doret)