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- Title
- Camp of 104th Penna. Vol.'s Morris Island, S.C. [graphic] / Hoffman delt.
- Description
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., View of the camp housing the Pennsylvania infantry during the campaign against Charleston in the spring of 1863. Shows soldiers carrying water, cooking over campfires, and resting near tents on the grounds. Also shows "Secessionville," i.e. Charleston, Black Island, and James Island in the distance. Contains the names of the sites included in the view printed below the image.
- Creator
- Hoffman, Abram J., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps- M [5779.F.24]
- Title
- The offering of the carriers of the press to their patrons. January 1st, 1863. [graphic].
- Description
- Contains seven vignettes: Signing of the Declaration of Independence; Hall of Independence - Front; Hall of Independence - Rear; Carpenters' Hall; Carpenters' Hall - Interior; House in which the Declaration was written, and Hall of Independence - Interior., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- 1862.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W387.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W387 [P.2213]
- Title
- Christ Church [graphic] / C. Th.
- Description
- Location: Second Street above Market St., Frontispiece to Edward W. Clark's A Record of the Inscriptions of the Tablets and Grave-Stones in the Burial-Grounds of Christ Church, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Collins, printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1864)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Uy8 96795.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898., creator
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W061.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W61 [Uy8 96795.D]
- Title
- Wallace & Sons, manufacturers of the eagle pin, superior to all others in quality and finish
- Description
- Label for the rolling metal and drawing wire manufactory showing an American eagle framed by an ornamented border. Border includes pictorial details depicting flowers and vinery. Wallace & Sons, a brass manufactory established in 1848 in Ansonia, Ct., operated until 1895., Printed on flaps: Perfect heads & points. Spring temper., 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. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.110]
- Title
- [Certificate of membership on the committee of ships and ship builders in behalf of the Great Central Fair of the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware] Great Central Fair, for the United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia June 1864
- Description
- Committee membership certificate containing six vignettes and two scenes related to ship building and the Sanitary Fair. Scenes at the top and bottom edges show ships under construction at dry dock and visitors entering the Union Avenue entrance of the fair. Ship building scene shows several ship builders at work in front of and on the hull of a ship at dry dock at the river. A completed ship on a floating dry dock and ships in the water complete the view. Scene also includes a large America Flag incorporated as a pictorial element from the bottom scene and the motto "The Wealth and the Strength of the Nation." The fair scene shows throngs of people entering the arch-shaped entrance to the central passage of the fair site at Logan Square. A large flag pole ascends from the building. Vignettes create a side border and depict workshop scenes of the different professions within ship building. Laborers form the hull of a rowboat, sand and shave wood planks and huge spars (i.e. masts), sew sails, blacksmith using an anvil and hot coal from a furnace, and craft parts of the rigging. Many of the scenes include the tools of the trade, raw materials, and views out of the open entryways of the workshops toward vessels on the river. Vignettes surrounded by scroll flourishes. Also includes the names of committee members by their profession - Ship Builders, Boat Builders, Ship Joiners, Ship Smiths, Spar Makers, Riggers, Block Makers, and Sail Makers. Members include Henry Hoover, William Cramp, Joseph Albertson, Jonathan Jenks, Henry Delaney, Thomas Humphreys, William Hugg, and George Brazier. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Title supplied by Wainwright., Issued to Henry Delaney. Signed by Charles H. Cramp, Chairman; Preston Brearly, Secy.; and John W. Lynn, Treasr., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 99, Hagley Museum and Library: BSIDE
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- 1864
- Location
- Hagley Museum and Library | Imprints HML BSIDE
- Title
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
- Description
- Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1865.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]
- Title
- In commemoration of the great parade of the Philadelphia Fire Department October 16th 1865 [graphic] : Dedicated to the Philadelphia firemen and their visiting brethren / on stone by Jas. Queen; designd. by Schell; P.S. Duval & Son lith. Philada.
- Description
- Copyrighted by Barclay & Co., Commemorative print containing a portrait of Chief Engineer David M. Lyle; three vignettes including a view of the Citizens Volunteer Hospital, a horse drawn steam engine, and fire fighters battling a blaze; and a list of fire companies who participated in the parade.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist. P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1865.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W181.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W181 [P.2272]
- Title
- Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862. [graphic] / From nature by Jas. Queen.
- Description
- Location: Broad St. and Washington Ave., northeast corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1865.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W067.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W67 [P.8650]
- Title
- Mrs. S. A. Allen's improved hair restorer. Favorite hair dressing. New style in one bottle. Price, one dollar
- Description
- Envelope illustrated with a central image showing a fashionable woman, her long hair loose, and over her shoulder. Also contains a border comprised of floral imagery. Susan Allen, wife of a New York dentist, marketed her restorer starting in the 1840s. She sold her business to Selah R. Van Duzer circa 1862., Text printed on verso: A Real Hair Restorer and Dressing in One Bottle. Mrs. S. A. Allen's Improved New Style Hair Restorer. Price one dollar. Buy a Bottle of Mrs. Allen's Hair Restorer and receive a Perfumed Sachet free. Perfumed Sachet. Place this unopened in Drawer or Trunk, the Odor is delicious. Its remarkable success is due to the superiority and freshness of its ingredients, and the scrupulous care bestowed in its manufacture; also for its prompt, quick action, great growth, life, and vigor that it is sure to give to the hair-never failing by a few applications, to restore Gray or White Hair to its Natural Color. Ladies will find it a standard toilet luxury to dress their hair. Sold by all druggists. Principal Sales Offices, 198 and 200 Greenwich Street, New York, and 266 High Holborn, London, England., 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]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Ephemera Collection - Bags and envelopes [P.2010.37.94]
- Title
- [Textile labels advertising Ginghams, and Balmoral skirts]
- Description
- Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
- Date
- ca. 1862-ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
- Title
- [Textile labels advertising Ginghams, and Balmoral skirts]
- Description
- Series of illustrated textile labels for Fulton and Clyde Ginghams, and Raleigh's, J. P. Buggy, and Fairbrook Mills balmoral skirts. Illustrations depict Robert Fulton seated in front of a view of a steamboat on the water; a Scottish hunter attired in a kilt and accompanied by a dog; a fashionably-attired couple seated in a pavilion; individual women in winter attire lifting their overskirt to expose their Balmoral skirt; and a couple ice skating., Title supplied by cataloger., One of prints [P.9349.187d] copyrighted in 1866 by Arthur Keegan, Printers include Theodore Leonhardt and Stein & Jones., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See P.9349.153l for proof of P.9349.187g., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
- Date
- ca. 1862-ca. 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.187a-f]
- Title
- National Farm School for children of colored soldiers and colored orphans - Eastern Branch, Washington, D.C Established March 1866, by H. de Mareil, editor & proprietor of the Messenger Franco American. Incorporated by act of Congress 25th July 1866
- Description
- Landscape view depicting the National Farm School founded in 1866 by Henrie De Mareil of New York and situated on a hilly plot of land with trees, bushes, meadows, and cleared fields. Shows, in the center foreground, three African American children harvesting wheat under the guidance of a white, bearded man. Behind them, two men plow a field with horse-drawn tractors across from individuals binding sheaths of wheat in an open field near a dirt path. In the foreground, cows stand and/or drink in a pond. In the left background, two individuals plow a field with horse-drawn tractors. In the distance center and left background, people mill in front of dwelling, farm, and school-like buildings standing in front of grassy hillsides. The school-like building (center background) is adorned with two flags, a French and an American one. Incorporated by Congress in July 1866, the mission of the school was to provide "normal and school education, as well as a practical knowledge of farming in all its branches" to "orphan and dependent children of colored soldiers, and of other colored orphans." By November 1866, the school was under construction and had fifty pupils. That month, the French Opera Comique Troupe held a benefit concert for the school in Philadelphia that was reported to "not have been as well attended as it should have." By May 1867, the school was reported to still be under construction in order to accommodate two hundred pupils who after "two or three years course [are] to take any position, from a valuable field hand, to a market-man and overseer upon the plantations of the South or the great farms of the West.", RVCDC, LCP copy contains repaired tears around the edges,, See "Amusements," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1866, p. 3., See "Academy of Music," Press, November 20, 1866, p. 8., See "Freedmen's National Farm School," Helena Weekly Herald, May 2, 1867, p. [2]., See 39th Congress, 1st Session, H. R. 802.
- Date
- [1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Education [P.2023.4]
- Title
- Civil War military campaign and battle maps
- Description
- Maps show troop movements; fortifications and battlegrounds; routes to and from sites of military engagements; headquarters and camps; local architecture; topography, including railroads, rivers, and roadways; state and county lines; towns, cities, and capitals; and vegetation. Two of the maps also include remarks by military surveyor T. Ditterline describing troop movements during the Battle of Gettysburg. Two maps contain portraits of prominent political and Union military figures including President Lincoln, William H. Seward, General George McClellan, General Winfield Scott, and General Robert Anderson., Includes Maps of the District of Columbia, Baltimore with Ft. McHenry, Ft. Monroe and the Atlantic States, with their Rail Road Connections, Coast Lines, &.; A Correct Map of Pensacola Bay Showing Topography of the Coast, Fort Pickens, U. S. Navy Yard and all other Fortifications from the latest Government Surveys; Sketch of Vicinity of Fort Fisher; Plan and Sections of Fort Fisher carried by assault by the U. S. Forces, Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, Commanding, Jan. 15th, 1865; Colton’s United States Shewing(sic) the Military Stations, Forts &.; Map of the Seat of War, Supplement to P. S. Duval & Son’s Military Map showing the location of the present Military Operations (1861); Map of the Battlefield of Antietam; Battlefield of Chattanooga with the operations of the National Forces under the command of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant during the battles of Nov. 23, 24 & 25, 1863; Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863; Map of the Battle Ground of Manassas [i.e., Bull Run] from Actual Surveys by an Officer of Genl. Beauregard’s Staff Shewing [sic] the exact position occupied by Federal & Rebel forces in the battle of 21st July 1861; Battle of Gettysburg Showing the Position of the Two Contending Armies During the First, Second & Third of July 1863; Map of the Southern States including rail roads, county towns, state capitals, county roads, the southern coast from Delaware to Texas, showing the harbors, inlets, forts and position of blockading ships; and Part of Charleston Harbor: embracing Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Johnson, and Castle Pinckney, also Sullivan, James and Morris Islands and showing the position of the Star of the West when fired into from Morris Island. A Civil War era political map of Pennsylvania for the 1863 Governor's race and a Map of The Grounds and Design for the Improvement of The Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pa. 1863 also included as part of the collection., Various publishers and lithographers including W. Boell; J.H. Colton; P.S. Duval & Son; Engineer Bureau, War Dept.; Charles G. Kreb; Lithographers' Association of New York; E. Molitor ; L. Prang & Co.; George T. Perry; T.B. Pugh; J.G. Shoemaker; Jacob Weiss; and Benjamin Wrigley., Various surveyors and engineers including Brvt. Brig. Gen. C. B. Comstock; T. Ditterline; William Saunders; Private Otto Julian Schultze; Lt. Wm. H. Willcox; and members of the U.S. Coast Survey, including Captains F. W. Dorr and J. W. Donn, Maj. Morhardt, Capts. Ligowsky, McDowell, Jenney and Lts. Boeckh and Dahl, and U. S. Vol’s. Capt. Preston and C. F. West., Relief shown pictorially and by hachures., Majority of maps include a scale and a compass., Several maps include key to Union and Confederate troop positions., Two maps [5779.F.79a & 80a] contain insets. Insets show Washington, D.C.; Baltimore south to Annapolis, Maryland; Cairo, Illinois to Memphis, Tennessee; Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico; and the area from Winchester, Virginia to Morgantown, Maryland., Manuscript note on map 5779.F.107a: John A. McAllister from [D. McCoughy?], Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks containing Civil War views and Robert Anderson material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- 1861-1865
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **maps - Civil War military campaign and battle [5779.F.76b; 79a; 80a; 81b; 82a; 83a; 84a; 85b; 86a; 97a; 99a; 107a; 108a; 121a; 5794.F; P.2006.1.28]