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Title: David Doret collection of Centennial ephemera
Description: Collection consists of approximately one hundred items, primarily advertising ephemera, relating to the Centennial Exhibition, held in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in 1876 to celebrate America’s one-hundredth anniversary of independence and to showcase the strengths of the country’s industry, manufactures, agriculture, and art. Materials include circulars, price lists, advertising cards, stationery, and pamphlets for goods and services, including washboards, ironing tables, saws, springs, sewing machines, mills, mowers, reapers, horse shoes, and hotel accommodations. Other documents include souvenir view books and guidebooks for visitors, maps, a Centennial Board of Finance letterhead, a Centennial award seal, programs, and admission tickets. Several of the items contain illustrations, such as views of the Centennial buildings, and depictions of products. Some advertisements promote foreign businesses from countries, including Belgium, Russia, Great Britain, Holland, Austria, France, Germany, and Spain., Approximately seventeen of the items include manuscript annotations of dates (e.g. "11.2.76" and "Nov 9/76"), possibly made by Centennial visitors to record dates of attendance at the fair. A concert program for Seibert Hall [11423.F.21] contains a lengthy manuscript annotation on the verso., Various printers include Allen, Lane & Scott; Craig, Finley & Co.; Thomas S. Dando; Duross Brothers; G. S. Harris & Son; Heppenheimer & Maurer; Thomas Hunter; Ketterlinus; Lehman & Bolton; Loag; William Mann; Phillip Frey & Co.; Potsdamer & Co.; Theodore Leonhardt & Son; and Times Printing House., Select link above for on-line finding aid and exhibition., Gift of David Doret., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Books and oversize material housed separately in stacks., 11423.F.14 is probably the separated cover of a handbill, and not an advertising card.
Date: 1855-1882, bulk 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera [11423.F; P.2010.21.6-14], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera - 4th Floor [11423.F], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1875 Visitors 11423.F.10 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Chick 11423.F.35 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Chick 11423.F.36 (Doret), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1876 Pocket 11423.F.11 (Doret), http://www.lcpimages.org/centennial/

Title: [Scrapbook with linen pages]
Description: Scrapbook containing scraps, cutouts, periodical illustrations, and trade cards. Contents depict sentimental, genre, and religious scenes; images of children, animals, mothers and mothering; fancy heads; patriotic, historical, and allegorical figures, including George and Martha Washington; advertisements for Philadelphia, Hartford (Conn.), and New York businesses, including promotions for druggists, patent medicines, and soap; imagery documenting the Centennial Exhibition 1876, including portraits of prominent figures; figures in European costumes; scenes of rural life and European scenery; and landscape views. Also includes a small number of views of factories and industrial buildings; a patent medicine advertisement including an African American man servant character opening a door (p. 76); a print depicting a stanza from Robert Burn’s “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” (p. 22); illustrations of Little Red Riding Hood; the periodical cartoon “A Parent’s Vengeance” (p. 53); "La Belle Chocolatiere from the original painting by Leotard now in the Dresden Gallery" (p. 57); a cutout from a women’s fashion plate (p. 77); H.M.S. Pinafore theatrical character illustrations printed by Ledger Job Printing Office (p. 64); and a calling card for Mary S. Bassett (back inside cover)., Businesses represented include B. T. Babbit (soap); Clark’s O.N.T. (thread); C. F. Rump (leather goods); Corning & Tappan (perfumes); Marburg Bros. (tobacco); Devlin & Co. (clothiers); Dundas, Dirk & Co. (pharmacists); [Hiram] Duryea’s Starch Works; Fairbanks scales (E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.); J. Milton Brewer (druggist); C. L. Hauthaway & Sons (shoe polish); Charles S. Higgins (German laundry soap); The New York Bazar (fancy goods, Phillip Isaacs, proprietor); Demorest’s Monthly Magazine (W. J. Demorest, publisher); Edwin C. Burt (shoes); E. P. & Wm. Kellogg; Samuel Gerry & Cos. (patent medicine); Alex. Boost (analytical chemist); Chas. F. Hurd & Co. (chinaware); E. P. & Wm. Kellogg (photographers & art dealers); and Willcox & Gibbs (sewing machines)., Title supplied by cataloger., Front cover stamped: Scrap Book, Various artists, engravers, and printers including F. Beard; Illman Bros.; Ledger Job Print; L. Prang & Co.; Major & Knapp; Thomas Moran; and Shober & Carqueville., Cutouts and calling card pasted to inside front and back covers., Edges of scrapbook leaves contains stitching in different colors, including yellow, green, blue, red, lilac, and purple., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., Housed in phase box., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1876-ca. 1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Linen [P.2013.69.1]

Title: [Michael Zinman world's fairs collection]
Description: Collection of graphic materials documenting world's fairs of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, predominantly the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 (Philadelphia) and Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris. Includes stereographs, trade cards, collecting cards, lantern slides, and souvenirs. Graphics also depict the Great Exhibition of 1851; New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854); the Exposition Universelle de 1867 a Paris; the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; the Pan American Exposition of 1901 (Buffalo, N.Y.); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (St. Louis, Mo.); and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 (Philadelphia). Views show panoramas of the exhibition grounds and exteriors and interiors of exhibition buildings, including displays showing the wares and products of specific companies and countries, particularly porcelain and terra cotta; art, predominantly sculpture; and dioramas representing the social life and customs of different nations (Morocco, Japan, Sweden, and South America). Several trade cards issued during the Chicago World's Fair advertising the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Penn'a. also contain anecdotal, caricatured scenes portraying prominent historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and Benjamin Franklin. Collection also contains a small number of portraiture, views of events and prominent local buildings related to the Philadelphia exhibitions, and lantern slides issued by the Centennial Photographic Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, publishers, and manufacturers including Centennial Photographic Company; Curt Teich & Co.; Donaldson Bros.; Thomas Hunter; Ketterlinus; Longacre & Co.; M. Leon & J. Levy; Pan American Exposition Co.; and Philip Frey & Co., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Series IV. Lantern slides housed separately.
Date: [1851-ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36]

Title: [Unidentified trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting scenes of Japanese life showing men and women attired in traditional garb; a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greeting with a vase of flowers and bamboo; a profile of a woman's face encircled by a flower border and a bird; a female figure attired in robes and a Roman helmet in the clouds holding a mirror showing a child's reflection; sailing vessels on the water; a horseshoe; and flowers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Bufford (Boston) and Continental Bank Note Co. (New York)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes the gents' shoe department of an unidentified store; fancy furs and cloaks; porcelaines, bronzes, clocks and leather goods; and "all of the ordinary grades at the lowest prices"., Two prints contain calendars for 1880, one for 1879 and one print with sixth months of a calendar for an unidentified year printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Unidentified [1975.F.198; 1975.F.215; 1975.F.218; 1975.F.306; 1975.F.483; 1975.F.919; 1975.F.1033; 1975.F.1040; P.9111.12]

Title: Bits of nature and some art products, in Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Volume of compiled prints and drawings by lithographer, etcher, and artist Augustus Kollner primarily depicting landscapes of Fairmount Park and originally published in his "Bits of Nature ...," one of four volumes in his 1878 series of small folio pictures. Also contains views of Philadelphia and Bucks and Montgomery counties. Several of the prints also show park and riverscape; residences and estates; animals, including canal mules, horses, cows, and dogs; park visitors, including an African American family, children, and persons on foot and on horseback; steamboats, rowboats, and other vessels on the Schuylkill River; and rock formations. Other views show wharf workers at lunch and a cliff-side residence at North Twenty-Seventh Street near the park., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Titles include Thos. Moore’s Cottage, Phila. Park; Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park, Phila. (Columbia Bridge); Prospect from Ridgeland and Fairmount Park, Phila.; (In Fairmount Park) Sweet Briar Mansion, in 1843; In Ravine near Sweet Briar Fairmount Park, Phila.; Schuylkill River below the Falls, Fairmount Pk. Phila.; Belmont and Waterworks. Mount Pleasant, Fairmount Park, Philada.; In Wissahickon Valley, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Peters Island, Fairmount Park, Philada.; Schuylkill Riv. above Fairmount Dam, Philada. in 1843; Phila. 1842; Schuylkill River Pa.; Pt. Pleasant, Pa.; Near Willow Grove Penna.; Life Scenes in Fairmount Park; Near East Park, Phila./ "S.E. corner 27th & [Arben?]"; Schuylkill Valley Pa (dated 1893).; Delaware Riv. [Easton?]; Life Scenes in Park; City Wharf Scene (dated 1894); and West Phila [illegible] near Sweet [Briar?] West Phila., Title from title page., Maroon leather binding, stamped in gilt on cover: Bits of Nature. A. Kollner., Spine stamped: Bits of Nature. Kollner., Prints variably signed AK; A. Kollner; A. Kollner fc.; From nate. and etchd by A. Kollner; and Kollner, fect., Titles on the stone or plate. Some annotated with inscribed titles., Two of prints [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.15 and 16] printed on recto of proofs. Proofs depict "Life Scenes in Park" and "The Christian Soldier.", Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [1878-1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F]

Title: Louella: Home of J. Henry Askin Album
Description: Album containing 27 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the estate in Radnor Township, later Wayne, Pa.

Title: International Exhibition. Main Building
Description: Trade card issued during the Centennial Exhibition advertising Philadelphia clothier Goldsmith Bros. Depicts the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Individuals and horse-drawn vehicles travel the grounds. Also contains an ornate border surrounding the image. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Goldsmith Bros., a partnership between Levi (1824-1886) and Abraham Goldmsith (1832-1902), established their clothing business circa 1859., Advertising text printed on verso: Goldsmith Bros. Importers & Jobbers of Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings and Tailors Trimmings. 335 Market Street, Philadelphia., Signed on verso: Presented by Wm. McLeran., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.100]

Title: [Business stationery of Hall & Ruckel, importers and wholesale druggists, 218 & 220 Greenwich Street, New York]
Description: Includes billheads, a letterhead, and "Memorandum of Credit" containing ornate typography. Billheads also contain promotional text and lists of medicines that Hall & Ruckel serve as "Proprietors of" and "Agents for," including Van Buskirk's Sozodont and McAllister's All-Healing Ointment. Memorandum also contains a pictorial detail depicting a mortar and pestle. Hall & Ruckel, the partnership between William Henry Hall and John H. Ruckel, was established circa 1843. Ruckel left the firm in 1869 and Hall continued as proprietor until his death in 1893. The firm was sold to C. G. Bacon & Co. in 1894., Title supplied by cataloger., P.2011.46.153 printed on pink paper. Completed in manuscript to J. H. Athey , Holly Springs, Miss. on December 6, 1876 for several items, including Holman's Pads, Coleman Mustard, and Brown's Ginger for $26.52. Inscribed on recto: Your goods marked P & Mills Son with your name on the corner.", P.2011.46.154 completed in manuscript to Athey & Hill, Holly Spring, Miss. for [illegible] Paid on good for $1.91., P.2011.46.155 completed in manuscript on May 17, 1888 to Mr. J. N. Hegeman from Hall & Ruckel about remittance of thirty dollars for "initiation for and annual subscriptions to College of Pharmacy for Mr. H. Hall, Augustus H. Hall & N. J. I. Hall.", P.2011.46.156 completed in manuscript to Mess. Carriger and Roberts, Morristown, Tenn. on November 15, 1888 for "Allowance on Florida Water charged 1 doz. Toilet Water 4.00. Sent 1 [Doz.] Florida [ Water] " for $1.75., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.153-156]

Title: [Business correspondence of Weeks & Potter, importers & jobbers of drugs and druggists sundries, Boston, Ma.]
Description: Includes an illustrated billhead and advertisement. Billhead contains image captioned "Resurgam" and showing a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames marked "WP" in a cluster of clouds. Billhead also contains ornamented type and ornamental details. Advertisement depicts an exterior view of the Weeks & Potter four-story storefront. Signage adorns the buildings and merchandise is visible in the first floor display window and in those on the second floor. Building also adorned with a model of a phoenix rising from a mortar of flames and a flag with the name of the firm and mascot. Firm name on flag transposed in image. Advertisement promotes Weeks & Potter's flavoring extracts, home remedies, cologne, olive oil, wines, and toilet articles on verso. Weeks and Potter, the partnership between Andrew G. Weeks and Warren B. Potter established circa 1852 as dealers of patent medicine, began to manufacture their own medicines in the 1860s. In 1899, the firm was incorporated as Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation., Title supplied by cataloger., Billhead completed in manuscript to D. F. Saunders on February 24, 1885 for several items, including glycerine, "Pur. Panacea," and "Downes Elix." for $27.70., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.246 & 247]

Title: [Collection of letterheads and billheads of Wells, Richardson & Co., later Wells & Richardson Co., wholesale druggists, Burlington, Vt. completed to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown, N.Y.]
Description: Collection includes letterheads and billheads, majority illustrated, dated between June 13, 1873 and September 30, 1886. Illustrations depict three variant exterior views of the firm's storefront on College Street in the 1870s and 1880s. Earlier views also show signage adorning the side of the building and street traffic, including a man pulling a handcart, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons. Later view captioned "125 to 133 College St., Burlington, Vt." shows the two buildings of the firm in front of which pedestrians walk and several horse-drawn wagon and carriages travel in the street. The prints also contain ornamented type and lettering and pictorial details. Items billed with totals ranging for $2.25 to $114.26, include syringes, indigo, spirits oil, plasters, hair brushes, glue, varnish, Down's Elixir, Kedders Pastiles, lime cement, vanilla, and vaseline. Correspondence relates to receipt of, changes to, and charges for shipments, as well as prices of the merchandise. The firm established as Henry & Co. in Waterbury, transferred to Burlington in 1868 and was renamed Wells, Richardson, & Co. in 1872. The firm known for "Diamond Dyes" incorporated as Wells & Richardson Co. in 1883., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gies & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1870-ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.248-262]

Title: [Billhead and envelopes of Wilson Drug Co., wholesale druggists, Charlotte, N.C.]
Description: Billhead contains vignette exterior view of the three-story storefront of the firm. Patrons enter and exit the building and laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn wagon parked in the street near passing pedestrians. Billhead accompanied by corresponding envelope addressed to L. Perguson & Co., Bostic, N.C. Postmarked Charlotte, February 1, [18]90, 1 AM. Also contains two-cent stamp. Other envelope printed in predominantly block letters., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gast St. L. N.Y. & S.F., Billhead completed in manuscript to L. Perguson & Co. on January 31, 1890 for several items, including grinder, pepper, turpentine, indigo, and "sm. chimneys" for $11.61., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - W [P.2011.46.263-265]

Title: Specimens for Theo. Leonhardt & Son, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing examples of vignette views and genre scenes executed by the Philadelphia lithograph firm. Views include "Palo Alto Iron Company's Works" in Pottsvile (est. in 1854); a tropical farm; small and industrial towns; and a hill-side village. Genre scenes show two young girls on promenade, and a mother with her child seated on her lap. Decorative elements adorn the upper corners. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 88
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2002.27]

Title: Centennial music
Description: Centennial music cover page paired with six different songs. Cover page is bound with the song Grand Centennial march by E. Mack with this copy [11479.F (Zinman)]., Cover page copyrighted by J.E. Ditson & Co., Song copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Publisher's advertisement on last page for Oliver Ditson & Company., Cover illustration is a lithograph depicting an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Printer: J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., 141 Franklin St. Boston., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 94, Stamped on the cover page: Schaefer Bros. music dealers, Steubenville, O.
Creator: Mack, Edward, 1826-1882, cmp
Date: c1876, c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Cent 11479.F (Zinman)

Title: Louella Home of J. Henry Askin, Wayne Station, Penna. Rail Road, Radnor Township, Delaware Co. Pa. Views of mansion, farm houses, surrounding scenery, etc
Description: Album containing 27 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the estate in Radnor Township, later Wayne, Pa. Includes No. 1 the Wayne Pennsylvania Rail Road station; No. 2 "mansion as seen from the S.W."; No. 3 the "north side of Mansion"; No. 4 "Entire northern side of Mansion"; No. 5 "Full front view taken from the South, and as fronting on "The Pike," i.e, Lancaster Pike; No. 6 "Main Entrance and Vestibule, taken from the interior"; No. 7 "Scenery and Grounds, and Summer House, east of Dwelling"; No. 8 and No. 9 "South view" and North view of "late residence," known formerly as the 'Old Maule Manor House'"; No. 10 'View from the S.S.W. showing Lawn, Flower Garden, etc.; No. 11 "Partial view of the old and principal Barn and Implement House"; No. 12 "South View of the Main Barn and Granary, Stables for pleasure horses, and coach house"; No. 13 "Meadow north of the Pike"; No. 14 "Principal Spring and Dairy Houses"; No. 15 the public, lecture and library hall "'Wayne Hall' as seen from the S.W."; No. 16 "Modernized dwelling, formerly known as the "Old Barber Farm House"; No. 17 "Spring House," etc. belonging to the Barber Farm"; No. 18 "Cottage at the extreme eastern boundary of the 'Louella Farm' "; No. 19 "View from the N.W. of the old 'Jno. Richards Manor House,' built in 1792"; No. 20 "Northern view of the Sheep Houses, Fold, etc."; No. 21 "Two cottages "built on a hill," south of the Pike, on line with the Mansion"; No. 22 "The New Reservoir, (covered), with scenery to the East" at Wayne and Bloomingdale avenues; No. 23 "Meadow south of the Pike"; No. 24 "Wheel House"; No. 25 "The Riding horse 'Frank'"; No. 26 horse 'Billy Button' "; and No. 27 'Elizabeth' our favorite, a thorough-bred Guernsey cow." Views also show the cottage of Jane Kissick (widow of Center Square Water Works engineer John Kissick) attached to the Wayne train station; members of the Askin family, and their grounds keepers., Brown leather binding, grained., Contains lithographed title page and Table of "Contents" with a numbered and explanatory list of the photographs. Photographs listed as No. 1 - No. 27., Insert: Loose albumen print showing an oblique view of the mansion. Members of the Askin family sit on the porch. The landscaped estate lawn is partially visible in the foreground., Album pages contain lithographed decorative borders, tinted with one stone., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2002, p. 62., Variant copies held in the collections of William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and the University of Delware Special Collections., Housed in red-clothed clamshell box., Louella, the estate of successful Philadelphia real estate broker and banker J. Henry Askin, was built in 1867 on hundreds of acres of land along the Lancaster Pike and the Pennsylvania Railroad in Wayne, Pa. The residence contained eighty rooms, was powered with gas retorts, and received water from a reservoir erected on a neighboring hill. The estate also sustained a green house; conservatory; farm; a public lecture hall, library, and place of worship; as well as landscaped lawns and flower gardens. In 1880, Askin sold the property to Philadelphia editor George Childs and banker Anthony J. Drexel for development into the Wayne Estates. The Louella residence was later used as a summer resort hotel, school for girls, and apartments.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.2002.20]

Title: The Washington family
Description: Group portrait of George Washington, his wife Martha, and his two step-grandchildren gathered around a cloth-covered table. A seated George Washington, attired in civilian clothing, rests one arm on the table and the other on the shoulder of his step-grandson and namesake who stands next to a globe, which shows "America." His step-granddaughter, Nelly, stands next to a seated Martha on the other side of the table. Both are pointing at "North America, United States" on a large map unfurled on the table. William Lee, an African American man enslaved by Washington who worked as his valet including during the Revolutionary War, stands in the right background. He is attired in a white cravat and a black jacket and tucks his left hand into his jacket. A curtain is draped open near a column revealing a waterscape scene in the background., Title from item., Names of sitters printed in margin below image., Purchased with Davida T. Deutsch Women's History Fund, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Currier & Ives
Date: 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Washington [P.2013.23]

Title: Thomas Hunter, successor. Duval & Hunter's catalogue of oleograph publications for the season 1873-4
Description: Trade catalog containing an ornate front and back cover and two specimen pages of script promoting Thomas Hunter, former partner in Hunter & Duval (active 1869-1874). Front cover contains central vignette showing a woman with two cherubic figures seated on filigree. The woman writes on a lithographic stone and the figures hold a banner reading "Duval & Hunter" and a printing ink roller. Rear cover contains a wreath of medals awarded to predecessor firms P. S. Duval and Duval & Hunter. Medals, many from the Franklin Institute, enclose text reading "Duval and Hunter's Steam Lithographic Establishment. 19 First Premiums in Diplomas and Medals. 1841-1872" and contain inscriptions, dates, allegorical figures, seals, and busts of Benjamin Franklin and King Albert. Several of the medals reference color lithography and chromolithography., Also includes two specimen pages of script for "Duval & Hunter, Designer, Lithographers, and Chromo Publishers, Nos. 716-722 Filbert St. Philadelphia" that promote the services and prints supplied by the establishment, including "a liberal discount to the trade," "check books," "labels of all kinds," and "Portraits and Lithography in all its Branches." Catalog also contains preface "To the Trade" and title list with prices., Not in Wainwright., Title annotated with stamp Thomas Hunter, Successor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 102, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01
Creator: Duval & Hunter
Date: [1873]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Cover, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-ToTheTrade, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Insurance, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Graphic Arts SI NMAH Graphic Arts 1984-774-01-Back

Title: [Tarrant & Co.'s Seltzer Aperient trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards entitled "Oh this headache! How foolish I was to travel without Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient," "That dose of Tarrant's Seltzer made it all right for me," "It certainly cools my blood and clears my brain," and "The people's remedy, use it for all disorders of the stomach". Illustrations depict a woman in her nightgown standing next to a bed with a towel wrapped around her head; a man with a round stomach holding his fork and knife up in anticipation of the large meal on the table in front of him; and a man smiling and reading a document at a desk next to a waste bin full of crumpled papers., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Wemple & Company (New York)., One print [P.2002.67.5] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Tarrant's effervescent seltzer aperient as the "best remedy known for all bilious complaints, sick headache, costiveness, indigestion, heartburn, &c.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tarrant [1975.F.873; 1975.F.876 & 877; P.2002.67.5]

Title: Importers & dealers in tin plate, copper sheet, rod and hoop iron, metals, N. & G. Taylor Co. 301, 303 & 305 Branch St., between race and Vine Sts. Philadelphia Wire, cast steel, emery, files, borax, &c. Established 1810
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Taylor [P.9618]

Title: [Morgan & Headly trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting jewelers Morgan & Headly in the Mutual Life Building at the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Trade card depicts a large diamond jewel [1975.F.579]. Illustrated trade card depicts a caricaturized Japanese woman and boy playing a horn. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and decorated with kanzashi (decorative hair ornaments) and attired in a floral patterned kimono, stands before a Japanese-style building. She leans her left arm over a wall and looks down at a boy, wearing a shaved head with a small ponytail and attired in a tunic, a belt, pants, and cloth, slip-on shoes, playing a horn next to a bird with its beak open [1975.F.592]. Trade card depicting a Japanese-stylized scene of a crane bending over and cleaning its feathers with its beak. Also includes flowering tree branches [1975.F.593]., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and history of the advertised business., One print [1975.F.579] contains vignette printed on verso depicting a hand-held fan superimposed onto a ribbon., RVCDC, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Morgan [1975.F.579; 1975.F.592 & 593]

Title: American Hotel, S. M. Heulings proprietor, Chestnut Street bet. Fifth & Sixth, opposite Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Pictorial envelope advertising the American Hotel and containing a view of "Independence Hall, Directly Opposite the American Hotel" on the verso. Image also shows the Bailly statue of George Washington and pedestrian traffic, including couples on promenade and in conversation., Title from printed return address., Upper right corner removed., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Philadelphia Oct 3 8 AM., Addressed in manuscript to: Mr. Wm. Fulmer, Bloomsberry, New Jersey., Accompanied by illustrated letterhead completed in manuscript to Mr. Wm. Fulmer ("Dear Bro.") from A.M. Henkel, dated October 2, 1876 describing a wedding trip, including a visit to the Centennial Exhibition. Illustration duplicates illustration on corresponding envelope. [P.2011.10.69a], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.69 & 69a]

Title: The Philadelphia & Chester Valley Railroad Company
Description: Stock certificate for the railroad chartered in 1850 as the Chester Valley Railroad Company. Contains central vignette showing a train, including a "U.S. Mail" car, traveling through countryside. A steamboat travels on a river in the background. Company reincorporated as Philadelphia and Chester Valley Railroad company in 1888. The train operated between Philadelphia and Downingtown., Pictorial details printed above title labeled "Number 191" and "Shares.", Contains ornamental border. Printed within border: Shares $50 Each., Transfer agreement printed in letterpress on verso. Includes monogram "L.S.", Reissue statements dated "188_" printed on flap., 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., Allen, Lane & Scott partnered by 1875.
Date: [ca. 1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.180]

Title: Horticultural Hall. Length 360 ft. Width 160 ft
Description: Miniature souvenir collecting card depicting the major Centennial Exhibition building built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann. Visitors on foot, horseback, and in carriage traverse the grounds. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, May 10-November 10, 1876., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.105]

Title: Waterbury Drug Store, established 1797. Leavenworth & Dikeman, Exchange Place, Waterbury, Conn
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards containing "Fishing" showing a white man and woman couple fishing in a rowboat with a pet dog that has its head in their picnic basket; "Caught on the fly" depicting a white man attached to the hook of his own fishing rod as he stands next to a stream; "We met by chance, or waiting for the swell" showing a white man floating on a wave in the ocean and colliding with a white woman as she stands in the ocean near other white women and children; "What are the wild waves saying sister?" depicting a boy, attired in overalls and a wide-brimmed hat, standing next to his sister, attired in a bonnet and long-sleeved dress, looking out at the ocean with their backs to the viewer; "Oh, come and see us" showing a group of white children standing in a pond jeering at an older, white man who stands on dry land in the foreground; and "Scoot, brother scoot!" depicting an African American boy and girl holding hands and scurrying from the approaching waves of the ocean. Leavenworth & Dikeman, the partnership between Elisha Leavenworth and Nathan Dikeman, operated in Waterbury, Connecticut between 1850-1890., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Four prints [P.9828.7033-7036] printed by Phoenix Card Co., N.Y., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., 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.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - W [P.9828.7031-7036]

Title: [F.T. Howell & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for F.T. Howell & Co.'s paper hanging establishment at 1216 Chestnut Street and later Thirteenth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict Asian symbols, including fans, a paddle fan, bamboo, pottery, and cranes (one with a frog caught in its beak) and a witch with a broom in front of a full moon, witches flying on brooms in the distant background, snakes, rodents, an owl, and a castle atop a steep cliff. Includes geometric borders., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Theo. Leonhardt & Son and Craig Finley & Co., One print [1975.F.406] contains advertising text printed on verso: Antique drawings for the interior decoration of walls., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Howell [1975.F.406a; 1975.F.412a & 1975.F.442]

Title: [Dell & Joseph C. Noblit & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Dell & Joseph C. Noblit & Co., importers and manufacturers of furniture covers and curtain materials, established in 1849. Illustrations depict a shield, laurel wreath and monogrammed "N"; an interior window dressed with drapes; and a spray of daisies, leaves and twigs entitled "Easter Greeting"., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Matthews & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Noblit [1975.F.223; 1975.F.253; 1975.F.260]

Title: Victoria Vokes
Description: Full-length portrait of British actress Victoria Vokes standing and leaning on a chair. Vokes was one of five siblings popular in pantomime theatres in London in the 1870s., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Miscellaneous - Vokes [1975.F.886a]

Title: [Business correspondence of New York chemist Charles Rice]
Description: Includes illustrated letterhead of "D. DeGraff, Prop'r of Orange Blossom Tooth Powder, Apothecary." Letterhead contains an ornament comprised of a banner and art nouveau pictorial elements. Firms and organizations represented in the other letterheads include McKesson & Robbins, New York Department of Charities and Correction, and Pharmaceutical Record Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Correspondence dated June 7, 1887, October 14, 1887, March 1, 1888, and April 27, 1888.l, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - R [P.2011.46.210-213]

Title: Bought of John L. Thompson, Sons & Co., wholesale druggists, and dealers in paints, oils, dye stuffs and window glass, nos. 159, 161 and 163 River Street
Description: Billheads containing ornamented type and ornamental and pictorial details. Details depict a mortar and pestle captioned "Established 1797" and banners, and flourishes. Proprietors listed on the billheads include John L. Thompson, David Cowee, J.I. Thompson, G.A. Thompson, and James F. Cowee. The firm, established by Dr. Samuel Gale, Jr. in 1797, became a partnership between Gale and John L. Thompson in 1821, and reincorporated as John L. Thomspon, Sons & Co. in 1851., Printed above image: Terms cash., P.2011.46.179 completed in manuscript to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown on May 15, 1875 for several items, including bitters, camphor, aloe, mucilage, and Sudletz powder for $134.13. Inscribed on recto: Exp [?] to Westport. Printed on recto: Family Safety Oil., P.2011.46.180 completed in manuscript to C. N. Williams, Elizabethtown on January 16, 1884 for several items, including Bay Rum, Redders Pastile, milk magnesia, cocaine, vaginal syringe, and Hall's Balsam for $75.27. Stamped: Family Oil., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1870-1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - J [P.2011.46.179 & 180]

Title: [Business stationery of Gerity Brothers, wholesale druggists, 126 Lake St. Cor. Carroll, Elmira, N.Y
Description: Billhead and letterhead containing ornate lettering, pictorial and ornamental details, and a vignette view of the building of the firm established in 1847. Views show the three-story building adorned in signage and an American flag and with medicine bottles visible in the display windows. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn wagons and an omnibus. Omnibus in letterhead vignette marked 'Horse Head." Details include flowers, filigree, and a mortar and pestle. Gerity brothers, the firm originally operated by William S. Gerity (d. 1912) and Clayton R. Gerity (d.1897), was active until 1910., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Calvert Lith. Co. Detroit, Mich. and Milton & Johnson, N.Y., P.2011.46.151 completed in manuscript to J. P. Coles, Orwell, Pa. on January 12, 1889 for several items, including F.E. Ergot, Vaseline, Butter color, Hood's Sarspa. for $18.63. Inscribed in pencil on recto: Recd Pay Gerity Bros, 323.89. Stamped: Positively no allowance will be made unless reported within 5 days after receipt of bill. Inscribed on verso: Gerity Bros, Jan 12/89, Drugs, $18.63. ck #1642, March 23/89., P.2011.46.152 completed in manuscript on June 13, 1892 to Towanda, Pa. druggists Dr. H. C. Porter Son supplying a quote for four items, including "50 cases C.P. Glycemic M and R." Contains watermark and two punched holes upper center., Printed above image of P.2011.46.151: After shipping goods and obtaining a Receipt for them in "Good Order" our responsibility ceases and we can allow no claim for any damage or loss that may occur in Transportation., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - G [P.2011.46.151 & 152]

Title: [Charles Herder trade cards]
Description: Illustrated trade cards with vignettes on rectos and versos depicting a roller skate, shaving knife, utensils, and an array of knives and tools. Also shows an anthropomorphic frog attired in trousers and suspenders aiming a revolver., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include the Charles A. Dixon Printing House (Philadelphia) and Rowley & Chew (Philadelphia)., Advertising text printed on versos promotes products manufactured, imported and repaired by Charles Herder at 830 Arch Street in Philadelphia, including roller skates, ice skates, shears and scissors, razors, table cutlery, pocket cutlery, and carving and pen knives. The business of Charles Herder began in 1847 as Clarenbach & Herder, changed to L. Herder & Son in 1871 and by 1879, the style changed to Charles Herder., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Herder [1975.F.434 & 435; 1975.F.410a]

Title: J.C. & J.F. Field, gloves, 45 South 8th Street, Philadelphia
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards die cut and shaped into gloves., Prints printed in black ink on pink paper., Advertising text printed on versos promoting fine French kid gloves and ladies' and gentlemen's kid, buckskin and dogskin gloves and gauntlets., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Field [1975.F.320 & 321]

Title: Fairmount Park
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking from Reservoir Hill toward Lemon Hill showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Includes part of the mill race and the promenade on the old mill house, and visitors on the roof of the new mill house (completed 1862). Also shows a boat docked at the nearby boat landing and boat houses along the east bank of the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 235, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1 and 30:86
Date: c1871
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:1 and 30:86

Title: Bird's eye view of International Exhibition buildings
Description: Prospective view showing the main buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes Machinery Hall, Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Agricultural Hall. Shows fair visitors on the grounds landscaped with paths, fountains, a pond, and foot bridges. George's Hill and the 24th Ward reservoir are visible in the background. In the lower right foreground, a paddleboat and ladies on a rowboat excursion on the Schuylkill river are visible. Key to buildings and building dimensions printed below the image. Several of the main exhibition buildings were built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875 by Breuker & Kessler in the Office of teh Librarian of Congress at Wash DC., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 53
Creator: Breuker & Kessler
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW -Centennial [P.9991.2]

Title: [Brainerd & Armstrong Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting children pulling on a thread of silk used as kite string; spools of silk labeled "Brainerd, Armstrong & Co."; a fairie; "good luck" horseshoe; silkworms; and butterflies., Title supplied by cataloger., Two prints [1975.F.88 and 1975.F.97] printed by the National Bureau of Engraving, Phila., Advertising text printed on rectos and versos promotes Brainerd & Armstrong Co. silk by offering a beautiful chromo card to buyers; announces the company's dyeing abilities; and suggests using the silk for good luck., Stamped on recto of one print [P.2006.20.50]: Sold by Wm. Menke & Bro., 804 Arch Street., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Brainerd [1975.F.88; 1975.F.97; P.2006.20.50]

Title: [Bartholomay Brewing Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for the brewing company based in Rochester, N.Y. Illustrations include the company's trademark vignette of a wheel with wings; a spider hanging from a web attached to a sprig of flowers; and a bird perched on a branch below a nest filled with eggs. Founded in 1852 and in operation until 1934, the brewing company was styled "Bartholomay Brewing Company" from 1874 to 1889., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Hofstetter Bros., Prints contain advertising text on rectos for Bartholomay Brewing Co.'s Stock Lager. One print [1975.F.35] also includes addresses for the office and depot of the Philadelphia branch., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Bartholomay [1975.F.35 and 1975.F.81]

Title: Main building, International Exhibition. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1876
Description: Photograph of a lithograph showing the Main Exhibition Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial fair, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. View includes heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Couples stroll the landscaped grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes., Title from inscription on print., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9299.30]

Title: Philharmonic T[h]eatre, Islington. Every evening at eight. [Sa]turday at three and eight. Sam Hague's Ori[gi]nal Slave Troupe at St. James's Hall, Li[me] Street, Liverpool. Every evening at 8, Saturdays at 3 & 8, all the year round. Positively for four weeks on[ly] commencing Monday, Feb. 14th. Terminat[ing] [on] March 11 [ ] been re-built since the fire), St. James Hall, Liverpool, March 13th, 1876
Description: Advertising print depicting a racist scene to promote Sam Hague's Original Slave Troupe after their dislocation from their permanent home theatre, St. James Hall, following a fire in 1875. Shows a rhinoceros, a bell on his tail, pulling a cart on which members of the minstrel troupe, portrayed as Black men and women caricartures, perform. On the head of the animal, a man sits, his legs straight out while he holds the pole of a banner designed as an American flag and that is marked with advertising text for the troupe. On the animal's back, men and a woman stand, play hand instruments, and dance on a raised plank. On the cart, men play string and wind instruments, including a bass and trombone, as well as one man, bare-chested and in boxing pants, holds up an open umbrella, on which another man sits and plays the drum. The men figures are attired in suits and/or shirt sleeves and pants. The woman figure wears a kerchief, long-sleeved shirt, with the sleeves pulled up and apron-like, checkered skirt. Scene also includes blades of grass and a flowering plant in the foreground. Sam Hague's Original Slave Troupe evolved from the Georgia Slave Troupe Minstrels for which Samuel Hague assumed part management in 1866. Within the year, the troupe of formerly enslaved individuals, including singers, comedians, and minstrels, traveled to Great Britain to tour the country. In 1869, Hague acquired St. James Hall in Liverpool as a permanent home for the company, as well as a site to organize touring companies. In 1875, the hall was razed by fire and for the next year, the Troupe performed from other theatres such as Philharmonic Theatre, Islington. By this time, the Troupe was mainly comprised of white performers who performed in Blackface and Hague had managed the Troupe with a few different partners., Blackface minstrelsy is a popular entertainment form, originating in the United States in the mid-19th century and remaining in American life through the 20th century. The form is based around stereotypical and racist portrayals of African Americans, including mocking dialect, parodic lyrics, and the application of Black face paint; all designed to portray African Americans as othered subjects of humor and disrespect. Blackface was a dominant form for theatrical and musical performances for decades, both on stage and in private homes., Title from item., Date inferred from promotional text on item., RVCDC, Description of Blackface minstrelsy from Dorothy Berry, Descriptive Equity and Clarity around Blackface Minstrelsy in H(arvard) T(heater) C(ollection) Collections, 2021., Print torn in half and with sections missing.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Advertisements - Samuel Hague [P.2022.57.1]

Title: Die Deutsche Gesellschaft des staates Pennsylvanien [membership certificate] Gegründet am 26ten December 1764
Description: Membership certificate for the German Society of Pennsylvania, the oldest organization of its kind in the United States. Contains a vignette showing the Pennsylvania coat of arms, and an ornamental border., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 51, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 354
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP *NB 1 75 - 354

Title: Gambrinus Unterstutzungus Gesellschaft [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate probably for a German brewing society. Includes a decorative border containing a portrait of King Gambrinus, the parton saint of beer and a universal symbol of beer and brewing; female allegorical figures representing hops and barley; a fermenter flanked by lions; and urns of flowers. Gambrinus portrait shows the king seated in front of a row of kegs and holding a goblet of beer. Allegorical figures shown as peasant girls holding a bale of barley and a stalk of hops., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 88, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 356
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP *NB 1 75 - 356

Title: Teutonia Sänger Bund [membership certificate] Gegründet den 13ten Januar 1863
Description: Membership certificate for the German-American choral society. Includes an ornamental masthead containing a harp, laurel leaves, and a scroll. Also includes the coat of arms of Pennsylvania. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 249, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 358
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP *NB 1 75 - 358

Title: Germantown Maennerchor [membership certificate] Gegründet den 6ten Oktober 1867
Description: Membership certificate for the German-American choral society. Includes an ornamental masthead containing a harp, laurel leaves, and a scroll. Also includes the coat of arms of Pennsylvania. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 92, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: *NB 1 75 - 359
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP *NB 1 75 - 359

Title: Junger Maennerchor [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate for the German-American choral society founded in 1852. Includes an ornamental border and vignettes. Vignettes depict a Grecian-attired female with harp; an American eagle grasping a harp and a banner marked with the establishment date of the society; the female allegorical figure of music holding a harp, laurel wreath, and attended by a cherub displaying a sheet of music on a pillow; and a view of the society's hall at the N.W. corner of Sixth and Vine streets. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 128, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: **NB 1 75 - 403
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP **NB 1 75 - 403

Title: [Bird's eye view of the Centennial Exhibition grounds, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Trimmed detail of a bird's eye view looking toward the city showing the exhibition grounds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows several of the exhibition buildings, including the Main Hall, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, U.S. Government Building, and Agricultural Hall. Several exhibition attendees walk and use carriages on the landscaped grounds between the buildings. In the foreground, park visitors view the vista from a tree-lined cliff and small observation deck. Some converse and make sketches. In the background, the New York Connecting Railway Bridge and Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River are visible in addition to cityscape. Trains approach and depart from the bridges and steamboats traverse the river. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 48, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 Z 99
Date: [1876]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 Z 99

Title: Centennial March
Description: Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 871, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 164, Item 074
Date: c1875
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 164, Item 074, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:162.115

Title: Cunningham & Hill, 204 Church Street, Philadelphia. Flags and shields of all nations and sizes, gas jets of any device or design, banners and silk flags for inside decoration
Description: Advertisement issued during the Centennial Exhibition 1876 for the upholstery manufacturers and dealers containing illustrations of 5 different styles of patriotic bunting and an exterior view of a residence adorned with bunting and commemorative window shades. Illustrations depict bunting designs composed of shields, flags (including America, France, Great Britain), swaths of fabric, panels, and fringes. One design includes shield with portrait of George Washington. Section of advertisement also includes a design for lettering reading "1776 Union 1876" complemented by the figure of an eagle. View of residence shows a three-story mansard-roofed building with a portico entrance. The name and address of Cunningham & Hill are printed over and within the illustrations. Cunningham & Hill, the partnership between William B. Cunningham & Philip Hill, operated between circa 1871 and 1876 when the partnership dissolved., Advertising text printed below image: We would respectfully call your attention to the above illustration of store and house decoration, and advise those who attend decorating to do so at their earliest convenience to avoid a rush, which will be inevitable. Our shields are made of papier-mache, and can be exposed to all weathers, and can easily be attached to any window with out patent group-socket for five flags, making a beautiful group. Manufactured wholesale and retail., POSP 285
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2011.53]

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

Title: London Mfg. Co. essences of meats, 77 & 79 Varick Street, New York
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a girl wearing a bonnet embellished with flowers and wrapped in large bow under her chin., Advertising text promoting essences of meat (beef, mutton, and chicken) for invalids, dyspeptics, infants, in cases of sea sickness and after child-birth printed on verso with the London Manufacturing Company's trademark symbol., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - London [1975.F.500]

Title: Pancoast & Maule, 243 & 245 South Third St., Philadelphia
Description: Trade card die cut and shaped into a pipe thread. Pancoast & Maule was formed by Henry B. Pancoast and Francis I. Maule in Philadelphia., List of available tubes, pipes, radiators, gauges, tools and supplies printed in two columns on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Pancoast [P.9788]

Title: Henry Tolman, dealier in railway, machinists', engineers' and general supplies, also machinery and tools, No. [228] Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting metal hardware flanking the title., Title annotated to No. 228 Arch Street from No. 116 Arch Street., Manuscript note on verso: Office hours 12 to 26c., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Tolman [P.2006.20.63]

Title: Thos. Thompson, Sons & Co., manufacturers and importers of upholstery materials, curtains, decorations and novelties. Retail department, Nos. 1430 and 1432 Chestnut Street, (Young Men's Christian Association building.), Philadelphia Thos. M. Thompson. Lewis A. Thompson. Wholesale department, 242 South Second Street. Presented by R.M. Morrell
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Thompson [P.2006.20.45]

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