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- Title
- West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina. [graphic] / James Queen.
- Description
- In Philadelphia and its Manufactures . . . in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), 460., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Freedley.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1859.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W445-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W445.2
- Title
- Combined letter box and lamp post. Patented March 9, 1858, by Albert Potts, Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Third and Willow Sts., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- 1858.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W076.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W76 [P.2037]
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease 4th & Chesnut St.
- Description
- Published in The Hibernia Fire Engine Company No.1 (Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Chandler, 306 & 308 Chestnut St, 1859), page 109., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1859.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W271.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W271 [*Am 1859 Hibernia 11750.Q]
- Title
- Cathedral of St. Peter & St. Paul Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Eighteenth Street at Logan Square., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1859.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W041.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W41 [P.9093]
- Title
- Franklin Iron Works. Sutton & Smith's iron foundry, Franklin Street between Second and Front Streets, Philadelphia [graphic] / W. H. Rease.
- Description
- Location: Franklin and Howard Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1860.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W139.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W139 [P.2046]
- Title
- Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works. Foot of Palmer Street, Kensington, Philadelphia. Reaney, Neafie & Co. engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th. St. (FHS on stone).
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 R288 (in color)
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1854.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W272.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W272 [P.2127]
- Title
- Robert Wood's steam iron railing works, Ridge Road above Buttonwood St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 Sth. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W318.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W318 [P.2254]
- Title
- Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works. [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Shell, No. 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: vicinity of Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore Streets., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Designed by the engineering firm of Birkinbine & Trotter.
- Creator
- Rease & Schell., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W351.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W351 [*P.2191]
- Title
- Wright, Hunter & Co. S.W. cor. Ninth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds, No. 30, S 5th St.
- Description
- Location: 900 Walnut St., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Reynolds, Robert F., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W471.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W471 [P.2270]
- Title
- The New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Tholey ; Lithy. of Friend & Aub, 80 Walnut St.
- Description
- Sloan & Stewart, Architects; S.K. Hoxie, Builder., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979 p. 43., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: BcO5 T451.
- Creator
- Friend & Aub lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1855
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W385.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W385 [P.8467]
- Title
- Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Proprietors, Allmond & Stem. The hotel's address changed to 227 North Third Street in 1857.
- Date
- ca. 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W102.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W102 [P.2040]
- Title
- [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W236.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W236 [P.2106]
- Title
- Two of the killers. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American City Philadelphia (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
- Date
- [1848].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W408.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W408 [P.2219]
- Title
- This institution known as "Cherry Hill State Prison" at Philadelphia, is the model prison of "The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline" or "Separate System" as it is called to distinguish it from "The Congregate." [graphic] / From a drawing by convict No. 2954 [Samuel Cowperthwaite].
- Description
- Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1855.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W401.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W401 [P.2216]
- Title
- Goodyears Rubber-Packing & Belting Company. Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 102-104, later 306-308 Chestnut Street., Imprint from duplicate printed in colors., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Luders, E., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1856.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W159.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W159 [P.2079]
- Title
- Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]
- Title
- Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- 1856.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W366.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W366 [P.2202]
- Title
- The original Moravian church of 1820. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread Street) & Race St. [graphic] / Lith. by Herline & Hensel.
- Description
- Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 168., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Herline & Hensel., creator
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W389.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W389 [P.9830.8]
- Title
- St. Peter's Catholic Church of Philadelphia. At Fifth and Franklin Streets., Die Katholische St. Peter's Kirche zu Philadelphia. An der Fünften und Franklin Strasse. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S149., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the Roman-style German Catholic church, St. Peter the Apostle, built 1842-1847 at 1015 North Fifth Street after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two children holding hands.
- Creator
- Herline & Hensel., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W096.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W96 [(5)1322.F.48a & 71a]
- Title
- Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg. [graphic].
- Description
- Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D]
- Title
- Chestnut Street Schottisch. [Wm. D. Rogers' "Carriage Repository", 1009 & 1011 Chestnut St.] [graphic] / J. Haehnlen Lith Phila.
- Description
- Copyrighted by James W. Roddon., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824 lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1858.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W059.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W59 [P.9001]
- Title
- The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Attributed to James Queen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Membership certificate for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons containing a view of Eastern State Penitentiary and a portrait of William White.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
- Date
- ca. 1858.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W396.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W396 [P.2214]
- Title
- View of the department for coloured children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the north west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
- Description
- Frontispiece of the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Exterior view of department buildings including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W426.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W426 [(1)1525.F.41a]
- Title
- View of the department for white children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the south west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
- Description
- Frontispiece to the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Poulson inscription on recto: Feby. 16_59_., Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting room; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
- Date
- [1858].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W428.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W428 [(1)1525.F.41b]
- Title
- W. P. Hacker, importer and wholesale dealer in china, glass, queensware & fancy goods, No. 60, North Second Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1851.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W439.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W439 [P.2264]
- Title
- Abbott & Lawrence. Liberty Stove Works, Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada. [graphic] / Drawn & lithd. by A. Kollner.
- Description
- Location: Brown Street above Fourth St. Philada., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813 lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W011.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W11 [P.2002]
- Title
- Northern Liberties & Spring Garden Water Works. [graphic] / Drawn from nature by Thos. M. Scott ; C.K. [C.C. Kuchel].
- Description
- Location: East bank Schuylkill, mile above Fairmount., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc88 N 874.
- Creator
- Scott, Thomas M., creator
- Date
- 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W254.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W254 [P.2128]
- Title
- Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware. [graphic] / Thomas M. Scott.
- Description
- Location: New Jersey Shore about two miles north of Camden., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc03 Tl53., Gift of Jay Snider.
- Creator
- Scott, Thomas M., creator
- Date
- ca. 1852.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W363.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W363 [Snider gift]
- Title
- Masonic Hall Chesnut St. Philada. Erected AD 1809. Destroyed by Fire A.D. 1819. [graphic] / Wm. Strickland architect; D. Chillas Lith. 50 S. 3rd Street.
- Description
- Copyrighted by Wm. Spink, Wm. Kneass & Philip R. Engarg., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc05 S917.
- Creator
- Chillas, David lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W229.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W229 [P.2130]
- Title
- Elevation plan of Granite St. buildings and those connecting with Walnut, Dock and Front Streets. [graphic] / Drawn for J. Godley Esq. at A. Kollner's Lithy. N.E. cor. of 2d. & Dock St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- 1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W108.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. ***W108 [P.2065]
- Title
- Bennett & Co. Tower Hall, clothing bazaar No. 182 Market St, between Fifth & Sixth. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Executed, by, W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Location: 518 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., creator
- Date
- ca. 1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W023.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W23 [P.2016]
- Title
- Neall & Matthews, iron founders and machinists, Bush Hill Iron Works (Formerly occupied by Rush & Muhlenburg,) corner of Fairview & Schuylkill Seventh St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease No. 17, So. 5th St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1853.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W245.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W245 [P.2131]
- Title
- Keyser & Foxe's mahogany steam saw mill & turning shop No. 21 [later 225] Crown St. between Race & Vine Sts., Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Heiss, George G., lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1854.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W212.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W212 [P.2138]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf & Dumb. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Albert Newsam, a former pupil of the Institution; From a daguerreotype by Collins.
- Description
- Frontispiece for The Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for 1850 (Philadelphia; Crissy & Markley, printers, 1851). (LCP Am 1851 Pen Ins 50596.O.22), Exterior view of the school located at the northwest corner of Broad and Pine Streets. Designed by Philadelphia architect John Haviland, the building was constructed in 1824-26, soon after the school's founding.
- Creator
- Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist., creator
- Date
- [1851].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W276.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W276 [P.2164]
- Title
- Woodlands Cemetery. Main entrance. [graphic] / James Queen.
- Description
- Location: .The Woodlands Estate in West Philadelphia., Frontispiece to The charter, by-laws and regulations of the Woodlands Cemetery Company, with a list of lot holders (Philadelphia: James B. Chandler, printer, 1857), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1857.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W470.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W470 [Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1]
- Title
- View of the department for white children of the House of Refuge. [graphic]: Looking from the south west. / John McArthur Jr. Architect, 15, Mercantile Library Building, Phil.
- Description
- Frontispiece to the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting rooms; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
- Date
- [1858]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W428.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W428 [P.2234]
- Title
- General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: between Ridge Road and the Schuylkill four miles from Philadelphia., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, 1847)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.7 and in Am 1847 Phi Lau 10497.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1851.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W148-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W148.2 [P.9830.7]
- Title
- West Philadelphia Institute. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: William Street., Frontispiece to An Appeal in Behalf of the West Philadelphia Institute, Organized January 2, 1853 with the Charter and Constitution (Philadelphia: Printed by Isaac Ashmead, 1853)., LCP copy lacking imprint., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2000, pg. 54-56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: In *Wn 892
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W444.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W444 [P.9830.1]
- Title
- City Marble Works and Steam Mantel Factory. Corner Tenth and Vine Streets Philadelphia. J.E. & B. Schell. [graphic] / Rease & Schell's Lith., No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
- Description
- Although Wainwright suggests date of publication as circa 1855, date of circa 1854 is used since Rease relocated to the new business address of 97 Chestnut Street as of 1855., Contains two lines of text below the title advertising the manufactory's improved facilities., Advertisement depicting a corner view of the three building showroom and factory operated by the Schells from 1853 until 1856. J.E. Schell continued the business as J.E. Schell & Company starting in 1857. On Tenth Street, patrons enter the four-story storefront and mantle room adorned with signage and statuary displayed on a second floor veranda. At the corner, a coach waits, the disembarked African American driver standing at the ready. On Vine Street, behind the showroom, a family of passerbys admire the marble statuary, monuments, and headstones in the factory's fenced in yard. Factory laborers load a headstone onto a horse-drawn cart, inspect open crates lining the street, and review slabs of marble outside the factory's storage building. Partial views of adjacent buildings and the "10th" Street carriage are visible.
- Creator
- Rease & Schell, lithographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W071.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W71 [P.2032]
- Title
- Views of Liberia from "W.F. Lynch report of mission to Africa"
- Description
- Series of titled views of the Black emigrant country of Liberia (founded 1822) that accompanied a government report compiled by William F. Lynch, Commander, United States Navy following an exploratory excursion to the west coast of Africa. Depicts the stone mansion of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia (1847-1855); Episcopal Mission, near Cape Palmas, Mt. Vaughan, founded in 1834 under the auspices of the Maryland Colonization Society and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Monrovia (i.e., Liberia) from Bushrod's Island; and Cape Palmas, a Liberian settlement. Views include lush landscapes, Black and white residents, sailing ships, and dwellings., Title from name of the publication., Artists include John H.B. Latrobe and William S. Seager., Printed below images: Senate executive documents, No. 1, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, Part III., Published in "W.F. Lynch report of mission to Africa," Senate Executive documents, 1st Session, 33rd Congress, part 3, vol. 1, doc. 1, p. 329-389., Latrobe, a Baltimore landscape painter, also served as President of the Maryland Colonization Society., Gift of David Doret, 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Wagner & M'Guigan, a partnership between Philadelphia lithographers Thomas S. Wagner & James M'Guigan, was active 1846-1858.
- Creator
- Wagner & M'Guigan
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - Foreign - Africa [P.2004.33.5a-d]
- Title
- Todmorden Mills. Highland. Warranted. All wool
- Description
- Textile label for the woolen mills containing a vignette surrounded by pictorial details and filigree. Vignette depicts the head of a woman partially framed by a garland of flowers. Pictorial details include banners. Todmorden Mills, originally established in 1831 as John Bancroft & Son in Media, Pa., was sold by the family in 1842 and repurchased by Joseph Bancroft in 1854. By the 1870s, it was one of the largest woolen mills in the country., Printed and inscribed on recto: Style 29. Size 68 x 136., 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.2011.10.104]
- Title
- Hon. Abraham Lincoln, [sic]
- Description
- Bust-length portrait after a painting by Thomas Hicks of Abraham Lincoln, when a candidate for president. The clean-shaven Lincoln is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, a black waistcoat and jacket, and faces right., Title from item., Date based on content., Facsimile of signature of sitter printed below image: Yours truly, A. Lincoln., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Trimmed., 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
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **portrait prints - L [5792.F.86a]
- Title
- Whig equestrian exercises - ground and lofty tumbling
- Description
- Cartoon mocking 1852 Whig Presidential candidate General Winfield Scott, his abolitionist supporters, and the antithetical party platform. Shows the candidate and his supporters as performers at a horse circus. In the right, Scott, in uniform, struggles to straddle the horse "Slavery Compromise" (i.e., the Fugitive Slave Act) and "Tariff Free Soil" (i.e., prohibition of the extension of slavery) as his exclaims, “If the Southern horse don’t moderate his pace, I shall be down presently and break all my bones! Whoa! Whoa!" Nearby, abolitionist and New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, fearing he will not "strike on his feet this time" flips head-long into a "Tribune Dung Heap of Abuse and 'isms" next to the "Tribune Building" adorned with signs that promote Scott for president and "No journeyman cut throats." In the background, the "Higher Law Vaulters," advocates of New York Senator William Seward's 1850 quote that a higher law than the Constitution should exist in regard to slavery, jump over the horse "Constitution." Vaulters include Whig political boss Thurlow Weed, Seward, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Also shows in the left foreground, New York Times editor and Scott supporter Henry J. Raymond depicted as a harlequin brandishing a billboard announcing the acts., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Purchase 2006., 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
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - [1852] Whi [P.2006.6.2]
- Title
- The pious Mr. All-bone, taking leave of his directors previous to his departure for Europe
- Description
- Cartoon about the Panic of 1857 satirizing the dubious overseas departure of the Bank of Pennsylvania president Thomas Allibone preceding the failure of the financial institution in the fall of 1857. Allibone claimed he departed for Europe for health reasons with the support of the Board of Director. The board later charged he resigned while in debt $200,000 to the bank. Shows the Bank of Pennsylvania board wishing a teary-eye Allibone farewell at the "Steamer Europe Sail" wharf. The board stands on "Bank of Pennsylvania" charters and many sneer and hold handkerchiefs to their faces. To the rear of the group, a white woman "reduced to absolute want" from the bank failure, stands with her children, including a baby at her breast, and asks one of the board members "could you not through your influence, obtain me a situation as housekeeper or school teacher?" The member jeers that his influence is "for his friends" and she should get "some tickets for soup." At the front of the group, the wart-nosed, rotund head of the board, shakes Allibone's hand. He assures the departing president of the entire respect and sympathy for his "good care" of the funds of the "Board, and the Widows, and Orphans." He hopes Allibone will return with "renovated health and strength" as well as a purchased title that includes "Gentleman of the Grand Order of the Rag Mill and the Check Marked Good.", Allibone stands on several sheets of "stock" near his valises. He holds a handkerchief to his face, and carries the book of "Common Prayer" in his coat pocket. He responds that if "a liberal expenditure of THEIR money" restores his health that he will attempt to purchase a title. He also suggests that his well-wisher go to church regularly, keep out of jail, and keep his breeches buttoned up and he "will sail through this crisis with flying colors." In the right, an African American woman peddler holds her nose and states in the vernacular that it is because of the "bad odor of dis paper! won't git much fur dis." Beside her, a white boy fishing at the pier remarks to his wriggling, hooked worm that "yer bound to be catched at last." Also shows an African American man, attired in worn and torn clothing, seated and chewing a stick in front of an overturned barrel while a white cabman races his horse-drawn coach down the street of grocery stores in the background. The driver hollers "Stop him! He owes me 130 dollars for Cab-hire." Groceries advertised include onions, molasses, soft sawder (i.e., blarney), sugar, oil, and vinegar., Artist probably John L. Magee., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Weitenkampf incorrectly provides date of 1837., John L. Magee's print "The Dreadful Accident on the North Pennsylvania Railroad" (1856) lithographed on the verso. [7663.Fb], Purchase 1968., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Magee, John L., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1857-Pious [7663.Fa]
- Title
- View of cotton plantation and gen [sic] in West Indies in 1764
- Description
- According to the title, the image is set in the West Indies in 1764. The lithograph accompanies a brief discussion of the history of cotton cultivation in the New World. The featured plantation is situated near the coast, and three ships (presumably trading vessels) are visible in the background. In the right foreground, a slave picks cotton from a plant and places it in a basket. Behind him, another slave carefully cleans the picked cotton. At the far left, a female slave operates an early cotton gin, and two men pack large sacks of finished cotton. Two full sacks of cotton occupy the left foreground; one bears the label "7 No. 120 / P.R.M.", Plate in the Report on the Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co. for E. Barksdale, State Printer, 1854), plate VIII, p. 140., Engraving is based upon a print executed by Prevost and published in the first volume of Diderot's Encylcopedia (Paris: 1762) under the title "Oeconomie Rustique, Culture et Arsonnage du Coton.", Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
- Creator
- Fuchs, F., lithographer
- Date
- [1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Miss Sta 13287.O p 140, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2798
- Title
- Daniel Webster addressing the United States Senate In the great debate on the compromise measures 1850
- Description
- Commemorative print depicting Daniel Webster's noted "Seventh of March Speech" delivered in support of Henry Clay's proposed legislation to prevent Southern secession and to address the extension of slavery, known as the Compromise of 1850. The amended compromise, passed in September 1850, included the admittance of California as a free state and the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law in favor of the South. Shows the U.S. Senate chamber with Webster, in the right, standing with his right hand raised. Each Senator from 1850 is depicted facing toward Webster and the viewer, including Stephen Douglas (to the right of Webster), John C. Calhoun (seated in the left), Vice President Millard Fillmore (presiding at center), Secretary of the Senate Asbury Dickins (below Fillmore), Henry Clay (to the right of Webster’s upraised hand), and Jefferson Davis. White men and women spectators fill the visitors' galleries above. Fillmore and Dickins sit at raised desks, and behind them is a draped curtain. Above the valance is an American flag crest with arrows and a bald eagle with outstretched wings. A framed portrait of George Washington hangs in the center. Also visible is the coffered, domed ceiling and a chandelier., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by James M. Edney in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York., Gift of David Doret, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Slavery [P.2002.2.2]
- Title
- John Brown. Leader of the Harper's Ferry insurrection
- Description
- Full-length portrait depicting the radical abolitionist with a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat, a black jacket, and pants. He sits in a chair beside a small table and holds an edition of the "New York Tribune," an abolitionist newspaper, in his right hand. Also shows a map of "Kanzas" adorning the wall in the background to symbolize the controversial extension of slavery., Title from item., Date inferred from content., The Kellogg Firm, brothers Edmund Burke and Elijah Chapman, was a prolific New England lithographic firm that nearly rivaled Currier & Ives in the production of popular prints., Reaccessioned as P.8911.60., Purchase 1969., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)
- Date
- [ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Portrait Prints-B [7809.F]
- Title
- Insurrection on board a slave ship
- Description
- Lithograph was copied from an engraving originally published in Carl Bernhard Wadstrom's Essay on Colonization (London: Printed for the author, by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-Street, 1794-95). As the title suggests, the lithograph shows an insurrection aboard a slave ship. From the vantage point of a raised barricade near the ship's stern, the crew fires upon (what looks to be) hundreds of slaves crowded upon the deck. A number of slaves jump overboard. A cloud of smoke hovers over the British vessel., Illustration in William Fox's A Brief History of the Wesleyan Missions on the Western Coast of Africa (London: Printed for the author, published by Aylott and Jones, 8, Paternoster-Row: sold also by John Mason, 66, Paternoster-Row, MDCCCLI [1851]), p. 116., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
- Creator
- Walton, W. L., lithographer
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Fox 12623.O p 116, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2786
- Title
- The great Republican reform party, calling on their candidate
- Description
- Cartoon lampooning the Republican Party's constituency of radicals and reformers who supported the first Republican presidential candidate, John C. Frémont, in 1856. In the right, Frémont receives his eclectic array of supporters and promises "You shall all have what you desire--and be sure that the glorious principles of popery, Fourier, ism, free love, womans rights, the Maine law, and above all the equality of our colored brethren, shall be maintained, if I get into the Presidential chair." In the left is a white man puritanical reformer calling for the prohibition of tobacco, meat, and alcohol; a white woman suffragist attired in bloomers, smoking a cigarette, and carrying a riding whip; a white man socialist, attired in worn and torn clothing and wanting “an equal division of property”; an older, white woman libertarian espousing free-love as a "Freemounter"; a white, Catholic priest promoting the Pope; and a racist caricature of an African American man, attired in a white collared, ruffled shirt, a black jacket with tails, black pants, and black shoes, carrying a cane who comments in the vernacular, "De poppylation ob color comes in first--arter dat, you may do wot you pleases.", Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Weitenkampf., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Maurer was a French-born painter and lithographer who worked for several years with the New York lithographic firm, Currier & Ives.
- Creator
- Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1856-22 [5760.F.100]
- Title
- The nigger emperor of Nicuragua [sic] on his throne Attended by Chatfield & his Black guards witnessing the detention of the steamer Prometheus, by the English brig of war Express, at San Juan
- Description
- Racist political cartoon satirizing the fictitious "Nigger Emperor" of Nicaragua during the "Prometheus-Express" incident of November 1851, which threatened the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 between the United States and Britain to abstain from attempting dominion of Central America. Depicts the Emperor as a Black man, partially undressed, attired in a military uniform with epaulettes, a black plumed hat, a sword on his waistband, and black boots. He sits atop a barrel labeled “Jamaica Rum.” He has one boot off that exposes his sock. His trousers are off and draped over his right arm. He smiles with a cigar in his mouth and carries a bottle labeled “Brandy” in his left hand. He looks towards Frederick Chatfield, the United Kingdom’s consul in Central America from 1834 to 1852, standing in the right. Chatfield holds his hands up and says, “They shall pay the money or be blow to attoms for their temerity, let me again entreat your Majesty to condesend (sic) to draw your breeches over your imperial shins.” The Emperor gestures with his right hand to the two ships in the harbor and replies in the vernacular, “Nebber mine, Massa Chatfield, wedder to warm for wear beechum, Yankee hab to cum back and pay money to dis nigger, ya, ya, ya.” Behind the Emperor, several Black guards, attired in tall hats, smile and stand in formation. Also in the print is a small black dog sniffing the Emperor’s sock., The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 made Greytown, Nicaragua a free port, denying the British revenue. To circumvent this, the British charged harbor fees. On November 21, 1851, Cornelius Vanderbilt’s ship Prometheus refused to pay the British harbor fees. The British brig o’war Express fired three shots across the bow of the Prometheus. Vanderbilt then paid. However, when the ship arrived in New York he took his case to the U.S. government with the U.S. wanting Britain to withdraw from Central America. In early 1852, the Nicaraguan government sought to assert its authority over the Miskito kingdom. On April 30, 1852, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and British minister John Crampton negotiated a settlement that made Greytown a free city, protected the rights of the Miskito Indians, and established the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua along the San Juan River., Title from item., Erroneously dated 1839 by Weitenkampf., Appears in The old soldier, New York, February, 1852., Likely drawn by John L. Magee, who worked at 69 Nassau Street at this time., Originally part of American political caricatures, likely a scrapbook, accessioned 1899. Collection primarily comprised of gifts from Samuel Breck, John A. McAllister, and James Rush., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Magee, John L., artist
- Date
- [1852]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1851-28 [5760.F.107]