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- Title
- Confirmations-Schein Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die wolle Gemeinschaft der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht hHundert und [blank]
- Description
- Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border., Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1858 to 1864; Schnabel & Finkeldey is listed from 1858 to 1863., Printed area, including ornament border, measures 22.6 x 17.6 cm., Not: in Wainwright., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Polly Rieth, confirmed May 6, 1858, by Rev. Augustus Bergner in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Upper Mahantango, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 43
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1858 Confirm 14332.Q (Roughwood)
- Title
- Woman and the war Woman has acted her part nobly in this war. She has toiled and sacrificed, suffered and died to relieve the wants and sufferings of our needy, sick and wounded soldiers. ... A work is now in press, to be published in New York, by N.C. Miller, and in this city by E.G. Storke, of the Auburn Publishing Co., bearing the following title: The heroines of the Civil War: comprising biographical sketches of the leading actors in soldiers' aid societies, in the sanitary and Christian commissions and in hospitals, camps, etc., etc., with notices of their patiotic devotion to our suffering soldiers. A record of true womanly heroism
- Description
- The publication in the advertisement has not been traced., 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 Woman (2)5786.F.63b (McAllister)
- Title
- Geburts- und Taufschein Den beiden Ehegatten, als: [blank] und seiner ehelichen Hausfrau [blank] eine geborne [blank] is ein [blank] zur Welt geboren, den [blank] 18[blank] im Jahre unsers Herrn 18[blank] Diese [blank] wurde geboren in [blank] [blank] County, im Staat [blank] in Nordamerika, und wurde getauft und erhielt den Namen [blank] am [blank] im Jahre unsers Herrn 18[blank] von Herrn [blank] Die Taufzeugen waren: [blank]
- Description
- Carl L. Rademacher is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1846 to 1848., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 36.4 x 27.8 cm, Library Company copy hand colored; completed in MS. for Maria Bolich (later Koch), born Oct. 11, 1848 in East Brunswick Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., daughter of William and Maria Sechler Bolich; she was baptized Dec. 19, 1848 by Rev. Jäger; godparents Jesse and Katharina Sechler., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [not after 1848]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1848 Gebur 11399.F (Doret)
- Title
- Geburts und Taufschein Diesen beyden Ehegatten, als: [blank] und seiner ehelichen Hausfrau [blank] geborne [blank] ist ein [blank] zur Welt geboren, den [blank] Tag [blank] im Jahre unsers Herrn, 18[blank] Diese [blank] ist geborne in [blank] in [blank] Caunty, im Staat [blank] in Nord Amerika; und erhielt durch die Heil. Taufe den Namen [blank] den [blank] Tag [blank] im Jahre 18[blank] von dem Ehrw. Hrn. [blank] Die Tauf-Zeugen waren: [blank] [blank]
- Description
- Putto with letter and posthorn at head; angels and birds flanking text; with type-set verse; printed area measures 36.9 x 30.5 cm, Library Company copy hand colored; completed in MS. for Martin Kelchner, son of Jacob and Anna Sheirer Kelchner, born April 11, 1841 in Richmond Township, Berks Co., Pa., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [not after 1841]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1841 Gebur 11405.F (Doret)
- Title
- Remarks on the slave trade
- Description
- Image shows the plan of an African slave ship. From left to right, the ship is divided into the following compartments: men's room, boy's room, women's room, and girl's room. It also includes two small store rooms. Hundreds of human figures illustrate the extent to which the slaves were crowded on board, and suggest the conditions under which they made the passage., Illustration for Remarks on the Slave Trade, Extracted from the American Museum, for May, 1789. And published by order of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &c. (Philadelphia: s.n., 1789)., A caption at the head of the engraving reads: "Plan of an African ship's lower deck, with Negroes, in the proportion of not quite one to a ton.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
- Date
- [1789]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1789 Rem 8645.F broadside, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2682
- Title
- Col. George's acceptance
- Description
- 2 letters. The first letter is to Col. George from the Democratic committee (Joseph Robinson and 4 others) informing him of his nomination at the Democratic Convention for the Second Congressional District, held at Manchester, as a candidate for Congress. The second letter, dated "Concord, Jan. 21, 1863," is Col. George's letter of acceptance and comprises the body of the broadside., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- George, John H. (John Hatch), 1824-1888
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1863 George 71320.O .12
- Title
- Primrose The celebrated piebald boy, a native of the West Indies; publicly [sic] shewn in London 1789
- Description
- Full-length portrait of John Richardson Primrose Bobey, a young Black man with the pigmentation disorder vitiligo, born enslaved in Jamaica, and inspected and exhibited as a specimen of science throughout England. Shows the young man standing on a shoreline. He stands with palm trees in the distance. He is dressed in a loincloth knotted on his left hip and adorned with tassels. White patches are visible on his legs, torso, and down the center of his head. In his right hand, he holds up a captioned portrait broadside of himself as a boy and points to it with his left hand bent at the elbow and from in front of his waist. The broadside depicts the very young Bobey with primarily white skin above text reading "A Child born at Gros Islet, in the Island of St. Lucia, of Black Parents, Taken from a model of the infant colored from nature," and at the museum of T. Pole, Surgeon, Grace Church, in London." In adulthood in London, Bobey advocated for his freedom from enslavement and was a proprietor of a menagerie and a member of several societies, including the Free Masons., Title from item., Manuscript note on recto: Presented T. Pole Surgeon, London, to the Library of Philadelphia., Publication information inferred from broadside illustrated in image and address of London publishers Wm. Darton & Jos. Harvey., Noted in LCP Minutes, v. 3, p. 230-231., Biographies of sitter in Karl Pearson, A monograph on Albinism (London: Cambridge University Press, 1911-1913) and William Granger, The new wonderful museum, and extraordinary magazine: ... (London: Printed for R.S. Kirby, 1804), v. 2, p. 711-714., Pole, a Philadelphia-born Quaker physician, was also an artist who illustrated his own text "An Anatomical Instructor, an Illustration of the Modern and Most Approved Methods of Preparing and Preserving the Different Parts of the Human Body, and of Quadrupeds, by Injection, Corrosion, ... (London, 1790)., 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., Descripton revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Gift of Thomas Pole, 1790., RVCDC
- Date
- [ca. 1789]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. *portrait prints - Primrose [901.F.27]
- Title
- Beadle's dime Union song book no 2 for sale here price 10 cts
- Description
- Beadle's dime Union song book no. 2 was published in New York in 1861., Printed in red and blue., The illustration shows a Union soldier holding the U.S. flag and clutching his sword, stepping on a snake., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Beadle and Company
- Date
- [1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Beadle (5)5777.F.50b (McAllister)
- Title
- [Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
- Description
- Contains specimens of ornate borders; an amateurly-colored view of Cincinnati pasted on verso of proof periodical illustration depicting butterflies; uncut pages of a gas pipe fittings trade catalog depicting tees, crosses, elbows, bends, and sockets; an entrance notice for Bryant & Stratton Business College illustrated with a calligraphic image of a bird, likely by J. E. Soulé; a printed lease and 1877 electoral broadside; sheet music cover "Charming Waltz"; advertising print for the "Walnut Street House"; and a flower print., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., J. Emory Soulé worked as a calligrapher at Bryant & Straton Commercial College by 1870 and became the school's principal within the decade.
- Date
- [ca. 1858-ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Miscellaneous [P.9349.217, 314, 327, 343, 362, 417-418, 421, 460, 473, 567]
- Title
- [Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
- Description
- Contains specimens of ornate borders; an amateurly-colored view of Cincinnati pasted on verso of proof periodical illustration depicting butterflies; uncut pages of a gas pipe fittings trade catalog depicting tees, crosses, elbows, bends, and sockets; an entrance notice for Bryant & Stratton Business College illustrated with a calligraphic image of a bird, likely by J. E. Soulé; a printed lease and 1877 electoral broadside; sheet music cover "Charming Waltz"; advertising print for the "Walnut Street House"; and a flower print., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., J. Emory Soulé worked as a calligrapher at Bryant & Straton Commercial College by 1870 and became the school's principal within the decade.
- Date
- [ca. 1858-ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Miscellaneous [P.9349.217, 314, 327, 343, 362, 417-418, 421, 460, 473, 567]
- Title
- [Specimens album loose prints collection]
- Description
- Collection of loose prints from a specimen album probably compiled by a printer once associated with the Philadelphia lithographic firm Stein and Jones. Contains chromolithographic art supplements and advertising specimens; proof sheets; checks, bank notes billheads, and receipts; trade cards and labels; vignette specimens; proof sheets; and illustrations. Businesses and trades represented include banks, manufacturers, and the textile industry. Collection also includes a proof of a trade catalog for gas pipe fittings; job work, including an 1877 broadside for an "Assessor's Registry of Voters" of a Philadelphia ward; an advertising print for the Walnut Street House (Cincinnati, Oh.); and a sheet music cover containing a landscape view., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Simeon Boerum; Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.; Geo. S. Harris & Sons; J. Ottmann; and Wm. F. Murphy Sons., Originally part of Specimens 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. 1898]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9349.275-472]
- Title
- David Doret collection of Centennial ephemera
- Description
- Collection consists of approximately one hundred items, primarily advertising ephemera, relating to the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Materials include circulars, price lists, advertising cards, stationery, and pamphlets for goods and services, including washboards, ironing tables, saws, springs, sewing machines, mills, mowers, reapers, horse shoes, and hotel accommodations. Other documents include souvenir view books and guidebooks for visitors, maps, a Centennial Board of Finance letterhead, a Centennial award seal, programs, and admission tickets. Several of the items contain illustrations, such as views of the Centennial buildings, and depictions of products. Some advertisements promote foreign businesses from countries, including Belgium, Russia, Great Britain, Holland, Austria, France, Germany, and Spain., Approximately seventeen of the items include manuscript annotations of dates (e.g. "11.2.76" and "Nov 9/76"), possibly made by Centennial visitors to record dates of attendance at the fair. A concert program for Seibert Hall [11423.F.21] contains a lengthy manuscript annotation on the verso., Various printers include Allen, Lane & Scott; Craig, Finley & Co.; Thomas S. Dando; Duross Brothers; G. S. Harris & Son; Heppenheimer & Maurer; Thomas Hunter; Ketterlinus; Lehman & Bolton; Loag; William Mann; Phillip Frey & Co.; Potsdamer & Co.; Theodore Leonhardt & Son; and Times Printing House., Select link above for on-line finding aid and exhibition., Gift of David Doret., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Books and oversize material housed separately in stacks., 11423.F.14 is probably the separated cover of a handbill, and not an advertising card.
- Date
- 1855-1882, bulk 1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera [11423.F; P.2010.21.6-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera - 4th Floor [11423.F], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1875 Visitors 11423.F.10 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Chick 11423.F.35 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Chick 11423.F.36 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Pocket 11423.F.11 (Doret), http://www.lcpimages.org/centennial/