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- Title
- Leary & Co.'s cheap book store, no. 138 North Second Street, ten doors below New Street, Philadelphia Where are kept constantly on hand, and for sale, over 100,000 volumes of new, old, and scarce books in every department of literature, wholesale and retail. All the latest editions of school books. Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and German books. N.B. Cash paid for rags
- Description
- Advertisement showing the exterior of the four-story bookstore of W.A. Leary & Co. on the 200 block of North Second Street. Signage, including a model of a book, adorns the facade. Patrons stand in the doorway and read books retrieved from the several shelves inside, and display tables and boxes on the sidewalk. Also shows laborers loading a wagon, an approaching couple, and a partial view of the neighboring "Camel Tavern." A sign post stands in front of the wooden building across from a man seated on a bench. Image also contains border details. Leary operated from the site ca. 1841-ca. 1857, including the publication of works as Leary & Getz., Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.92]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street Theatre]. North East corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the second building of the theater, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland, Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and read playbills on display. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings, including Hart’s Building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 (537-539 Chestnut). A gas light with a shade illustrated with a dancer adorns the Melodeon (611-613 Chestnut) and signage advertising D. C. Baxter, engraver on wood, is partially visible on Hart’s Building. Theater razed 1856., Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.73a]
- Title
- The new theatre in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia Built 1822. Taken down 1856
- Description
- View of the third edifice of the Chestnut Street Theater, erected in 1822, after the designs of William Strickland at the location of the second building, razed by fire in 1820, on Chestnut Street above Sixth Street. Depicts couples strolling passed the theater, built with corinthian columns with niches containing the salvaged William Rush statues of Comedy and Tragedy. The theater, razed in 1855, was rebuilt on Chestnut Street above Twelfth Street in 1863., Inscribed upper right corner: 3., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a scrapbook of McAllister restrikes.
- Creator
- Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
- Date
- [1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 40c/2569.Q.3]
- Title
- Union Hotel, Fairfax C.H., Va. James W. Jackson, proprietor
- Description
- James W. Jackson, purportedly the first civilian casualty of the Civil War, leased the Union Hotel (ie., Wilcoxsen's Tavern) in Fairfax Court House ca. 1859., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Jackson [(2)5786.F.132b]
- Title
- Jay[ne's] Carmina[tive] Balsam. Prepared only by Dr. Jayne, wholesale druggist & chemist, no. 84 Chestnut Street below Third, Philada No. 84 Chestnut Street and without whose signature to this label it cannot be genuine. D. Jayne [facsimile signature]
- Description
- Patent medicine label containing an "infirmary" scene with four women, including a nursemaid, and several children. Shows the nursemaid comforting a girl as she is fed a spoon of medicine from a seated woman upon who children crawl and tug. In the left, another seated woman holds a baby. Behind her, a woman reaches for a jar of medicine on an upper shelf in a large cabinet. Jayne began to produce the carmative balsam (probably his first patent medicine) in 1831, which remained on the market until the 1930s., Printed below image: Keep the Tops of the Bottles Up., Several lines of advertising text printed on recto. Text promotes the balsam as a "safe and effective remedy" for several ailments, including griping pains, headache, hysterics, nervous tremors and twitchings, and "for all bowel affections and nervous diseases.", 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., Upper right corner missing.
- Date
- c1857
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.170]
- Title
- Oriental Print Works, Apponaug, R.I
- Description
- Textile label showing a scene in India. Shows a prince transported by elephant and attended by a guard armed with a sword and on horseback. A driver (mahout) rides on the neck of the elephant that is also guided by another man servant. Also shows a man smoking a hookah, an ox-driven carriage, and majestic, domed buildings. Alfred Reed and Albert Boit established the Oriental Print Works circa 1857 in Apponaug Village in Warwick, Rhode Island. The firm ceased operations in 1883., Printed and stamped on recto: No. Yds. 44., 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. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.107]
- Title
- W.B. Eltonhead, watch maker, and jeweler. 340 so. 2d St., Philad'a
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting two figures, a farmer with a scythe slung over his shoulder and a sailor resting against a large anchor, flanking a decorative scroll containing the title. A banner labeled "Excelsior" surmounts the scroll., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Eltonhead [P.9937]
- Title
- Wm. H. Hortsmann & Sons, manufactory & sales rooms, cor. Fifth & Cherry Streets. Philadelphia
- Description
- Letterhead containing an exterior view of the manufactory and adjoining showroom specializing in military clothing, trimmings, and paraphernalia at 51 North Third Street. Shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn cart, streetcars, and patrons entering the establishment. Business established in 1815., Completed in manuscript on January 16, 1862 to Providence Tool Company, Providence, R.I. by "W.H. Hortsmann & Sons" about the price of "U.S. Cavalry Blades to pass Government Inspection" and whether then can "commence delivery at once.", 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., See related print. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Industries - H, (7)1322.F.61d]
- Creator
- Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.149]
- 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 & 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
- 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)
- Title
- Williams anti-dyspeptic elixir. Prepared by Dr. James Williams, no. 4 South Seventh Street, 3 doors below Market St. Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement containing a vignette view captioned "Sine Labore Nihil" and ornate side border details. View shows a druggist working in his laboratory surrounded by equipment, including distilleries, a mortar and pestle, and mason jars. Border details depict floral and bird imagery, including a nest. Williams first produced the elixir in the late 1830s, then discontinued production until the late 1840s, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Poor condition from transference., See Philadelphia Inquirer, November 7, 1849 for a testimonial advertisement for the elixir.
- Date
- [ca. 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 10 [(10)2526.F.69]
- Title
- Samuel Simes, operative & dispensing chemist. Store and family medicine laboratory. N.W. corner Chestnut & Twelfth sts
- Description
- Advertisement containing two vignette views of the interior and exterior of the drugstore built 1851-1853 at 1201-1205 Chestnut Street. and manufactory. Interior view shows a couple being assisted by a clerk at the counter. Shelves with cubbies line the walls. Also shows a large glass dome by the counter. Exterior view shows pedestrians approaching a multi-storied building adorned with a flag. Vignettes connected by pictorial details of two pieces of chemistry equipment, including burners, tubing, and a stove., Date from Poulson inscription., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Mucklon, John, engraver
- Date
- Oct. 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F.10]
- Title
- Interior view of Rogers Smith Shop. Corner of Sixth & Master streets
- Description
- Vignette view clipped from an advertisement showing the interior of the coach and carriage factory on the 800 block of North Sixth Street. Shows several smiths at work stations divided by brick partitions with forges lining the wall. The workers use anvils, hammers, and bellows. Also shows a foreman and well-dressed gentleman conversing in the corner, wagon wheels mounted on a wall, and carriage frames in different stages of completion on the floor., Date from Poulson inscription on companion print showing the exterior of the smith shop titled, partially in manuscript,"Wm. D. Rogers Coach and light Carriage Factory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Byram, Joseph H., engraver
- Date
- Oct. 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F.12]
- Title
- George J. Henkels. City cabinet warerooms, 173 Chesnut [sic] Street, Phila
- Description
- Advertisement showing an interior view of the showroom of the furniture store of premier cabinetmaker George J. Henkels. Three well-dressed couples peruse and sit on the several pieces of furniture on display. Furniture includes tables, armchairs, sofas, and breakfronts. Also shows, in the background, curtained entryways to other areas liined with furniture. Henkels, Philadelphia's premier cabinetmaker in quality and production, operated his business from 173, i.e. 509 Chestnut Street from 1850 to 1857., Date from Poulson inscription., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- 1853
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol.7 [(7)2526.F.159]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society [ticket]
- Description
- Illustrated ticket to "Admit a Lady to the Stated Meetings of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society on the Third Thursday evening of each month Available for One Year ending Septr. 1855. This will also serve for a single admission to a Lady or Gentleman at the Annual Exhibition." Text framed by garlands of flowers. The society organized in 1827 with the mission "to inspire a taste for one of the most rational and pleasing amusements of man.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
- Creator
- Illman & Sons, engraver
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.4b]
- Title
- John H. Brown & Co. No. 307 Market St No. 76 Trade mark
- Description
- Illustrated label, probably for textiles, for the Philadelphia dry goods firm containing a vignette showing two sailing ships on the ocean. Also contains the text "Yds.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
- Date
- c1858
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.14b]
- Title
- Eliza crosses the Ohio on the floating ice
- Description
- Engraving illustrates an episode from Chapter 7, "The Mother's Struggle." With her young son, Harry, in her arms, Eliza crosses the frozen Ohio River in search of freedom. In the background at the left, the slave-trader from whom she has fled stands on the river's edge. Next to him, two slaves lift their hands in a gesture of rejoicing., Illustration in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (London: John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, 1852), p. 16., Caption underneath the image reads: "The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake; -- stumbling -- leaping -- slipping -- springing upwards again! Her shoes are gone -- her stockings cut from her feet -- while blood marked every step." --Page 51., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Creator
- Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872, engraver
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 16., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2788
- Title
- The marriage
- Description
- Engraving accompanies a fictional episode described in Letter XI, "The Marriage." Leaning over the staircase balustrade in the upper left, the story's narrator observes the scene taking place below, as does Cleopatra, an elderly slave, who watches from several steps down. In the center of the scene, mistress Rosalie forces the slaves Mima and Juniper to jump over a broomstick that stretches between two chairs. This is part of the forced marriage ceremony over which Rosalie presides. When the weeping Mima hesitates to jump, Rosalies boxes her ears with her slipper. In the background, another house-slave watches from behind a door., Plate in Emily C. Pearson's Cousin Franck's Household, or, Scenes in the Old Dominion (Boston: Upham, Ford, and Olmstead, 1853), p 168., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
- Creator
- Hayes, George H., engraver
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O p 168, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2793
- Title
- The whitewasher
- Description
- Illustration shows a familiar Philadelphia character: a black, female whitewasher. The woman is dressed in work-clothes and coarse shoes; her sleeves are rolled-up and the illustrator emphasizes her muscular forearms. According to the accompanying text, the bucket on the floor contains a mixture of lime and water, with a little salt and indigo to make it clear. In the course of her work, the whitewasher dips long-handled brushes (like those seen here) into the mixture and rubs it onto the walls for cleaning., Illustration in City characters, or, familiar scenes in town (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851), p. 12., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 12, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2782
- Title
- The laundress
- Description
- Illustration shows a familiar Philadelphia character: a black laundress. She is neatly dressed in a long, flowing skirt; and her head is covered with an untied bonnet. "This woman," as the accompanying text explains, "is engaged by rich people to wash and iron clothes, which have been soiled by wearing." The text continues, "The woman in the picture looks as though she had just finished a hard day's work and was taking clothes home to the owners; she what a large basket she carries. It is full of articles of clothing neatly folded up; and this shows how much the woman has done in one day.", Illustration in City Characters, or, Familiar Scenes in Town (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851), p. 32., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 32, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2783
- Title
- The rag-picker
- Description
- Illustration shows a familiar Philadelphia character: a black, male rag-picker. He wears a coarse, loose-fitting smock, trousers, and a cap. He carries a basket fastened to a stick over his shoulder and a hooked instrument in his hand. The accompanying text explains, "You see him with his hooked stick exploring heaps of rubbish, and carefully selecting whatever he finds which may be turned to good account, and storing all away in his basket.", Illustration in City characters, or, familiar scenes in town (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851), p. 80., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 80, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2784
- Title
- The wood-sawyer
- Description
- Illustration shows a familiar Philadelphia character: a black wood-sawyer. As the text explains, "This is a hard occupation, followed generally by coloured people. They are old men, and have little ones to support, so that they have to work very hard." Shown in full profile, this mature wood-sawyer carries an axe in his hand and a "Horse" on his back. According to the text, when the wood-sawyer cuts his logs, he puts them on this "curious-four legged machine," which is "very strong, and made of oak or hickory wood." Holding the logs down with one knee, the wood-sawyer cuts off one piece at a time., Illustration in City characters, or, familiar scenes in town (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851), p. 96., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 96, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2785
- Title
- Plantation scene -- coffee
- Description
- Illustration is set on a coffee plantation in either South American or the West Indies. Sitting in the shade of a palm tree, a planter watches several slaves at work. To the right, two women and a child pick coffee beans and place them in baskets. In the middle, three women carry full baskets up an incline and dump the beans on the ground. Two men rake and shovel them., Plate in William Blake's The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern (Columbus, Ohio: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858), p. 288., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Creator
- Felch-Riches, engraver
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 288, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2803
- Title
- Douglass wird von Coven gezüchtigt
- Description
- Engraving accompanies a brief history of Frederick Douglass' early years (c. 1817-1838), and was included in the article, "Bilder aus dem Sklavenleben" (Pictures from Slave Life). Set in a plantation field, the scene shows Douglass on his hands and knees with his shirt hanging around his waist. Standing behind him, a slave-holder named Coven (Douglass' master from approximately 1833-34) beats his bare back with a stick. According to the text, Coven never let a week go by without whipping Douglass and his back never healed., Illustration in Weber's Volks-Kalendar (Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, [1853]), p. 143., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Punishment Scenes.
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Web 21101.O p 143, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2796
- Title
- The mother's struggle
- Description
- Illustration shows the fictional character, Eliza, and her young son, Harry, as they flee from slavery in search of freedom. As Stowe wrote, "The frosty ground creaked beneath her feet, and she trembled at the sound; every quaking leaf and fluttering shadow sent the blood backward to her heart, and quickened her footsteps." (p. 74), Illustration in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), p. 73., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Creator
- Baker & Smith, engraver
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Stowe 12939.O p 73, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2795
- Title
- [The freeman's defense]
- Description
- Engraving depicts an episode from chapter 17. Atop a rocky embankment, George and Phineas defend themselves, Eliza and Harry, and Jim Selden and his aged mother from an approaching group that includes Marks, Uncle Tom, and two constables., Illustration in the first German translation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oheim Tom's Hütte) printed in America (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), p. 79., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Creator
- Baker & Smith, engraver
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Stow 71311.O p 79, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2794
- Title
- Scipio hunted, "As men hunt a deer!"
- Description
- Equipped with dogs and rifles, a party of men surround Scipio, an escaped slave, who lies wounded on the ground. St. Clare intervenes, claiming Scipio as his prisoner in order to prevent the men from shooting him., Illustration in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (London: John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, 1852), p. 176., Caption underneath the image reads, "He fought the dogs right gallantly, and actually killed three of them with only his naked fists . . . . It was all I could do to keep the party from shooting him." --Page 200., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Creator
- Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903, engraver
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 176, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2790
- Title
- Inspection and sale of a Negro
- Description
- Scene is set in the town of Bangalang, near the modern city of Kambia in Sierra Leone. According to Théophile Conneau's narrative, the engraving shows the notorious slave-trader Jack Ormond as he inspects a slave for purchase. As Conneau explained, "As each negro was brought before him, Ormond examined the subject, without regard to sex, from head to foot. A careful manipulation of the chief muscles, joints, arm pits and groins was made, to assure soundness. The mouth, too, was inspected, and if a tooth was missing, it was noted as a defect liable to deduction. Eyes, voice, lungs, fingers and toes were not forgotten; so that when the negro passed from the Mongo's [i.e, "King of the River," Ormond's nickname] hands without censure, he might have been readily adopted as a good 'life' by an insurance company." (p. 94) To the left of the central pair, another European slave-trader (presumably the seller) sits on a crate, smoking a cigar as he watches the inspection. His book, the quill, and the ink-well suggest that he is prepared to record the day's transactions. To the right, another European trader converses with three African merchants, possibly members of the Mandingo tribe. The subject of their discussion may be the sale of goods in Africans' trunk., Illustrated plate in Théophile Conneau's Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway; London: 16 Little Britain, M.DCCC.LIV [1854]), p. 94., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
- Creator
- Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver
- Date
- [1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Can 10796.D p 94, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2797
- Title
- The slave chain
- Description
- Engraving accompanies Part III ("Sojourn at Whydah") of Forbes's travel narratives. Whydah, now known as Ouidah, is a port-city in Benin that figured importantly in the 19th- century slave-trade. Set in front of a trading depot, the illustration shows a line of slaves who are chained together at the neck. Two European overseers crack their whips., Illustration in Frederick E. Forbes's Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journey of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and his Residence at the Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), vol. 1, p. 100., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Forbes 9727.D v 1 p 100, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2907
- Title
- The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire"
- Description
- Engraving shows the manner in which hundreds of African slaves were crowded on the deck of the "Wildfire," an American vessel captured off the northern coast of Cuba in April 1860. According to the accompanying text, the ship had left the Congo River thirty-six days before her capture, and had roughly five hundred Africans on board. The capture of the "Wildfire" was led by Lieutenant Craven of the United States steamer Mohawk. His experience was recounted in Harper's Weekly as follows: "Soon after the bark was anchored we repaired on boad, and on passing over the side saw, on the deck of the vessel, about four hundred and fifty native Africans, in a state of entire nudity, in a sitting or squatting posture, the most of them having their knees elevated so as to from a resting place for their head and arms. They sat very close together, mostly on either side of the vessel, forward and aft, leaving a narrow open space along the line of the centre for the crew of the vessel to pass to and fro. About fifty of them were full-grown young men, and about four hundred were boys aged from ten to sixteen years. It is said by persons acquainted with the slave-trade and who saw them, that they were generally in a very good condition of health and flesh, as compared with other similar cargoes, owing to the fact that they had not been so much crowded together on board as is common in slave voyages, and had been better fed than usual." (p. 344), Illustration in Harper's Weekly, vol. IV, no. 179 (June 2, 1860), p. 344., Caption underneath the image reads: "The slave deck of the bark 'Wildfire,' brought into Key West on April 30, 1860. -- [From a Daguerrotype.]", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
- Date
- [June 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Per H 1529.F v IV n 179 June 2 1860 p 344, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2651
- Title
- African slave trade
- Description
- Illustration is set on the eastern coast of Africa, most likely in Sierra Leone. In the center, a slave-trader inspects a slave for purchase. To the left of the pair, another European slave-trader (presumably the seller) sits on a crate, smoking a cigar as he observes the inspection process. His book, the quill, and the ink-well suggest that he is prepared to record the day's transactions. To the right, another European trader converses with three African merchants, possibly members of the Mandigo tribe. The subject of their discussion may be the sale of goods in the Africans' trunk. To the far right, an overseer with a raised whip marches behind a row of bound slaves who are headed toward a ship., Plate in William Blake's The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern (Columbus, Ohio: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858), p. 112., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images of the Slave Trade.
- Creator
- Felch-Riches, engraver
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 112, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2802
- Title
- Scene in the hold of the "Blood-Stained Gloria." (Middle Passage)
- Description
- As the title suggests, the engraving shows the hold of the Gloria, a Brazilian slave-ship upon which the author travelled. In Chapter XV of his Revelations, Drake described the conditions on board: "our slaves," he wrote, "were crammed in hold, cabin, and peak, and packed like herrings, on the shelves, around our vessel's sides; and what was worse, gratings were kept down half the time." (p. 88-89) Continuing to describe the "horrors of this dreadful passage," he added, "The sick and dying were chained together. I saw pregnant women give birth to babes, whilst chained to corpses, which our drunken overseers had not removed. The blacks were literally jammed between decks, as if in a coffin; and a coffin that dreadful hold became, to nearly one-half of our cargo, before we reached Bahia." (p. 89) In the engraving, Ruiz, the ship's captain, has entered the hold with one of his mates. In addition to a lantern, the captain carries a large sword, while his mate carries a rifle. A cat-o'-ninetails can be seen on the floor., Fold-out plate in Richard Drake's Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: Being the Autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African Trader for Fifty-Years from 1807 to 1857; during which Period He Was Concerned in the Transportation of Half a Million Blacks from African Coast to America (New York: Robert M. De Witt, publisher, [c1860]), p. 28., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
- Creator
- Andrew & Filmer, engraver
- Date
- [c1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1860 Dra 72735.O p 28, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2806
- Title
- Persecuted virtue
- Description
- Illustration accompanies a recollection made by George, a fugitive slave, in Chapter XI, "In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind." In conversation with Mr. Wilson, George recalled how his sister was whipped by her owner for no other reason that wanting a decent Christian life. Correspondingly, the image captures the moment leading up to George's sister's whipping. Stripped to the waist, she waits on her knees as shabby looking white man ties her wrists to a post. In the center of the scene, a black overseer stands with a whip in his hand, talking with the master. Chains and shackles hang from the rear wall of the barn interior., Illustration in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (London: John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, 1852), p. 112., Caption underneath the image reads, "She was whipped, sir, for wanting to live a decent Christian life, such as your laws give no slave girl a right to live." --Page 95., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Punishment Scenes.
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 112, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2789
- Title
- Lecompton funeral
- Description
- Cartoon satirizing Colonel Thomas B. Florence, the only successful Philadelphia Democrat in the Congressional race of 1858 despite his support of the recently defeated pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution advocated by President Buchanan ("Prince James"). Depicts Florence, with the head of a donkey, leading a funeral procession for the "dead" constitution. The procession is composed of: white men shipworkers of the "Two Sloops," which rescued Florence from the "wreck of Lecompton" (an allusion to the decisive electoral support provided by the Philadelphia Navy Yard workers actively supported by Florence's committee work); four, white men pallbearers carrying the "remains of Lecompton" in a coffin resembling an outhouse and inscribed with the names of the unsuccessful Democratic Congressional nominees, "Phillips," "Landy," "Jones" ; and two semi-human figures bearing the flag "discharged ship carpenters.", Title from item., Publication date supplied by manuscript note in Poulson's Scrapbook, Vol. 1, p. 29., Text printed on recto: Democratic committee bearing the remains of Lecompton to Prince James, marshaled by the only remaining representative, Col. T.B. Florence, who was rescued from the wreck by the untiring exertions of the workmen upon the TWO SLOOPS., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Pennsylvania views and political miscellany. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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
- [October 1858]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1858-2W [5759.F]
- Title
- [McAllister & Brother, opticians, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Exterior view of storefront at 728 Chestnut Street. Signage advertises mathematical instruments, spectacles, microscopes, spy glasses, thermometers. Image includes the bust of Franklin which adorns the second floor of the shop, and pedestrians in the street. Address on plate altered from an earlier version of the engraving created in late 1854 or early 1855 when McAllister & Brother moved from 48 Chestnut to their new location at 194 Chestnut. The address changed to 728 post-consolidation necessitating the alteration of the plate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
- Creator
- Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, engraver
- Date
- [after 1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Business - McAllister & Brother [(2)1525.F.18b]
- Title
- [Bnjn. Swain, umbrella & parasol manufactory billhead.]
- Description
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
- Creator
- Byram, Joseph H.
- Date
- ca. 1855
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Business - Swain [(1)1525.F.45c]
- Title
- Hill Manufacturing Co. Lewistown, Maine
- Description
- Textile label for the cotton mill established circa 1854. Contains ornamented lettering and a decorative border. The manufactory produced sheeting, sheet cloth, and other cotton goods., 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. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.103]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Member's Annual ticket
- Description
- Illustrated ticket containing an allegorical scene set in lush surroundings. Shows the figure of Pennsylvania under an arch covered in vinery and attended by cherubic-like boys holding baskets of produce above their heads. The society organized in 1827 with the mission "to inspire a taste for one of the most rational and pleasing amusements of man.", Issued to [H.?] J. Sharpless., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Forms part of Scrapbook of Ephemera [8608.F].
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Scrapbook [8608.F.4c]
- Title
- Chorus -- sing, darkeys, sing
- Description
- Pro-slavery image set on Fairfield Plantation, a fictional plantation near Macon, Georgia. This scene of casual socializing shows a large "corn-shucking" or husking. A group of men, women, and childen sit around a large pile of corn husks. Laughing and talking with one another, they husk the corn and toss the ears aside. A man identified in the text as Uncle Cato sits on top of pile and leads the others in singing. Two white overseers, who, according to the text, provided the slaves with whiskey, stand near a tree in the background., Illustration in Robert Criswell's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the planter's home; or, A fair view of both sides of the slavery question (New York: Printed and published by D. Fanshaw, No. 108 Nassau-street, 1852), p. 64., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
- Creator
- Whitney & Annin, engraver
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 660 71441.O p 64, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2652
- Title
- The festival
- Description
- Set at Buckingham Hall, a fictional plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, this pro-slavery image presents a scene of general merriment. In accordance with the wishes of their benevolent master, Col. Buckingham, the slaves celebrate a "holiday and festival." Jerry, the leader of the band, sits upon a hogshead and plays his fiddle. Next to him, others play banjos, bones, and other instruments for the entertainment of a group of dancers. Other slaves eat ("from a fatted calf"), drink ("something better than water"), and socialize. Col. Buckingham and his family enjoy the festivites from a raised platform in a tree to the right., Illustration in Robert Criswell's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the planter's home; or, A fair view of both sides of the slavery question (New York: Printed and published by D. Fanshaw, No. 108 Nassau-street, 1852), p. 112., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
- Creator
- Whitney & Annin, engraver
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 660 71441.O p 112, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A3139
- Title
- Osman
- Description
- Illustration accompanies the narrative, "The Dismal Swamp." A fugitive slave identified only as Osman sits amidst some tangled undergrowth. Holding his gun, he appears watchful. According to the text, a "tattered blanket" is wrapped about his shoulders, and he wears "little other clothing than a pair of ragged breeches an boots." His hair and beard are described as "tipped with gray." (p 453), Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 13, no. 76 (September 1856), p. 452., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Date
- [September 1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 13 n 76 September 1856 p 452, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2873
- Title
- The successful manhunt
- Description
- Engraving portrays an episode described in Hildreth's fictional narrative. With blood- hounds in tow and "armed to the teeth," a party of mounted slave-hunters proceeds with two captured fugitives: the young man marching in front around whose neck a rope has been tied, and the older man, identified in the narrative as Wild Tom, who rides on horseback and whose arms are tied behind his back. In the center of the image, the lifeless body of Snapdragon, a Yankee overseer, is draped over a horse. He was killed by Wild Tom during the course of the man hunt., Plate in Richard Hildreth's Archy Moore, the White Slave; or Memoirs of a Fugitive (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855), p. 290., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Fugitives.
- Creator
- Baker & Smith
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1855 Hildr 72210.O p 290, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2801
- Title
- "Old Joseph, the Patriarch"
- Description
- Engraving accompanies a fictional episode described in Letter IV, "The 'Purchases' -- Old Joseph." Episode takes place on Christmas Eve in the cabin of the coachman Rafe, the slave seated on the log near the fireplace to the extreme right. Rafe has learned that he will soon be sold, and thus separated from his wife, who sits to his right, and their young child, who rests on her lap. Other slaves cluster around the couple, trying to comfort them. Leaning on his walking stick, Old Joseph (described as "the beau ideal of a patriarch, at once humble, dignified and venerable") stands and faces the group, offering words of wisdom and consolation. Interior is furnished with a bench, a chest of drawers, a large chair, and stools of varying sizes. The men's discarded top hats are placed throughout the room, as are assorted utilitarian and domestic objects, such as pots and pans, an umbrella, and an axe. In the foreground, a book, quite possibly the Bible, rests on a stool., Frontispiece for Emily C. Pearson's Cousin Franck's Household, or, Scenes in the Old Dominion (Boston: Upham, Ford, and Olmstead, 1853)., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
- Creator
- Hedge, Franklin, b. ca. 1830, engraver
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2792
- Title
- [Scene from Northwood, or, life North and South]
- Description
- Set in a lush grove on the bank of a river, lake, or pond, the vignette features a black man (presumably a slave), who helps a young white boy (most likely the son of his master) steady a fishing pole. The well-dressed boy sits on the knee of the barefoot slave., Vignette in a full-page advertisement for Sarah Hale's Northwood; or, Life North and South (New York: H. Long & Brother, 43 Ann-Street, [1852]), printed in The Literary World: a Gazette for Authors, Readers, and Publishers, edited by C.F. Hoffmann (New York: Osgood & Co., 1852), vol. 11, no. 299 (October 23, 1852), p. 272., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life
- Creator
- Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver
- Date
- [October 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Per L 49.7 2478.Q v 11 n 299 p 272, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2883
- Title
- Thos. W. Mattson, 402 Market Street, one door above Fourth Street, south side. The most extensive trunk & carpet bag manufacturer in Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated advertising broadside depicting three trunks and a carpet bag. Text advertises sale of "leather bags, &c., umbrellas & hobby horses, boys' gigs, propellors, wheelbarrows, &c."
- Creator
- Mumford & Haas, engraver
- Date
- [between 1858 and 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11 x 14 - advertisements [P.2002.11.2]
- Title
- Wreck of the slave ship
- Description
- According to Hildreth's narrative, the plate shows a domestic slave ship that was caught in a storm while travelling down the Atlantic coast to Charleston. After the captain and crew fled in a jolly-boat, the slaves worked the pumps in the hopes of saving themselves. They were eventually rescued and brought to a jail in Norfolk, Virginia., Illustration in Richard Hildreth's The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 227 Strand, MDCCCLII, 1852), p. 80., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Hildr 70799.O p 80, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2787
- Title
- The emigration
- Description
- Engraving accompanies Chapter VII ("A Variety of Incidents") in Thorpe's fictional narrative. It shows the protagonist, Mildmay, leading his slaves on a journey from North Carolina to Louisiana, where he had purchased a new plantation. Following Mildmay's example, the slaves discarded most of their possessions and took only what they could carry. According to the text, the procession included five large wagons, "which were filled with camp equipage, cooking utensils, sick or delicate women, and infant children." (p. 72), Illustration in Thomas Bangs Thorpe's The master's house; or, scenes descriptive of southern life (New York: J.C. Derby, 119 Nassau Street, 1855), p. 70., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
- Creator
- Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver
- Date
- [1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 2496a 71095.D p 70, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2657
- Title
- The tango
- Description
- Engraving accompanies the lead article "The Carib Settlements." According to the unnamed author, it is set in the house of the "King of the Cannibal Islands" in Tulian, Honduras. In the center of the scene, a small group dances to the sound of the musicians' drums (right). As the author explained, "Our arrival was the signal for the commencement of the festivities. Such another exhibition of the Terpsichorean art I never had the pleasure of witnessing. Their instruments consisted of a couple of drums made of hollow logs with hide stretched over one end, and a Boston tin cracker-box, on which instruments a sort of running accompaniment was beaten with their hands. Wild songs were chanted during the progress of the dance, one of which, more moderate than the rest, and in English, was shouted for our benefit." In the next paragraph, he continued, "I am told their dancing is a perfect counterpart of similar proceedings on the western coast of Africa, from whence they originally came. They place the music in the centre of the room, and arranged themselves around it, and commenced a series of movements of the body, throwing in frequent twists and jerks by way of embellishment." (p. 149), Illustration in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 15, no. 86 (July 1857), p. 149., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Daily Life.
- Date
- July 1857
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 15 n 86 July 1857 p 149, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2874