Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with rifles slung over their right shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188a]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186i]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with bayonets, swords, a drum and a flag.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188b]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. Depicts all of the soldiers with bayonets propped against their left shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186c]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier mounted on a black horse, holding the reins and a sword in his hands.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183f]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188j]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188e]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers dressed in full Scottish regalia. One soldiers plays the bagpipes, one plays the drums, and another holds a flag.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186d]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with bayonets slung over their left shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.187b]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers. They are depicted with bayonets, swords, a drum and a flag.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189c]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier. He is depicted on horseback, with a sword in his right hand.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.187e]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his left hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188f]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers marching with bayonets slung over their right shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.187a]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers standing with bayonets, a flag and a bugle.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189d]
Bust-length portrait of the deceased sixteenth president Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Printed signature of sitter below image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., 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
Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Date
[1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.80]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers running with bayonets, a flag and a drum.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186h]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier resting his arms on the top of his rifle.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188g]
Civil War recruitment print targeting African Americans by evoking the freedoms granted by the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicts a montage of symbolic scenes centered around an African American Union soldier triumphantly holding up a sword and an American flag with the banner "Freedom to the Slave." He stands near broken shackles upon a tri-color flag adorned with a coiled snake. The flag is tugged upon by one of three joyous African Americans freed from enslavement by an African American soldier. Other scenes depict an African American man reading a newspaper on a rocking chair near a plow and child, African American children entering a "Public School" near a church, and a regiment of "U.S. Colored Troops" marching across a battlefield strewn with dead bodies., Title printed on verso., Text of the "Original Version of the John Brown Song" by H.H. Brownell printed on verso., Described in LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, entry #139., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany [(2)5786.F.107b]. Transferred from #Am 1863 All (2)5786.F.107b. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. Accessioned 1987 [P.9179.44], 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
[1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Emancipation [P.9179.44; (2)5786.F.107b]
Location: 518 Market Street., Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 56, design XII for a mercantile building in the Norman style., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 architect., creator
Date
[1867]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W025.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W25 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers dressed in full Scottish regalia. They all have bayonets propped against their left shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186a]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper cavalrymen dressed in royal blue jackets and light blue pants. Three are depicted with swords, and one holds a bugle in his right hand.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.83a]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper cavalrymen dressed in royal blue jackets and light blue pants. All four hold swords in their right hand. See (2)5786.F.83a for a similar image.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183d]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 182e; 183a-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a, b, d, e; 188a-c, e-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]
Collection of prints and ephemera, predominantly depicting Elmer Ellsworth, and originally part of a scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War materials collected by John A. McAllister. Includes portrait prints, lettersheets, and illustrations depicting Ellsworth or his death, as well as a memorial work containing symbols of patriotism and mourning. Collection also contains lettersheets illustrated with the Union flag, and the song “America” bordered by state seals; a full-length portrait of General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general killed during the war; and memorial portrait of Sen. Edward D. Baker killed at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff., Various artists, engravers, and printers, including C. Y. Haynes, J. Magee, A. B. Walter, and Alonzo Chappel., Various publishers, including J. Dainty, Johnson, Fry & Co., and J. W. Barber., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Miscellanies., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1861-1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Civil War -Miscellanies [5785.F]
Collection containing cut-outs of and uncut sheets of Civil War era paper soldiers. Soldiers depicted with guns, knapsacks, drums, on horseback, carrying flags, during charges, and on the march. Majority contain the name of the regiment, including Advance Guard, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ab. Duryee (5th N.Y. Infantry); De Kalb Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol. Capt. Duysing (41st N.Y. Infantry); Firemen Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Ellsworth (11th N.Y. Infantry); Green Mountain Boys of Vermont (Vermont National Guard); Highland Guard 79th Regt. L, Col. Elliott; Irish Zouaves, Capt. Francis (69th N.Y. Infantry); National Zouaves N.Y. St. Vol., Col. McChesney (10th N.Y. Infantry); New York Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Hawkins (9th N.Y. Infantry); Polnish Legion, Col. Pratt (31st N.Y. Infantry); Ninth Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Stiles (83rd N.Y. Infantry); Steuben Girard N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Bendix (7th N.Y. Infantry); United Turner Rifles, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. M. Weber (20th N.Y. Infantry); 1st German Rifle Regt. NY. St. Vol. and 8th N.Y. German Rifles, Col. Blenker; 3d Reg. Missouri Voli, Col. F. Sigel; 6th Reg. of Massachusetts, Mass. St. Mil., Col. Jones; 6th Reg. Wilson's Zouaves, N.Y. St. Vol., Col. Wilson; 7th Regiment N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Lefferts; 55th Regiment, N.Y. St. Mil and French Zouaves, Col. Le Gal; 69th Regt. N.Y. St. Mil., Col. Corcoran; and 79th Regiment of N.Y. Also includes three uncut sheets of unidentified paper soldiers and a Revolutionary War paper soldier. Largest uncut sheet inscribed "N.Y. Zouaves" and published by New York firm Heerbrandt & Co. Three paper soldier wrappers published by New York firms McLoughlin Brother and G. Heerbrandt also included as part of the collection. Wrappers contain illustrations of soldiers, assembly instructions, and list of available series. Copies of soldiers illustrated on wrappers included in collection., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5785.F; 5786.F.134a&c; (2)5786.F.5c; 83a; 183b-f; 184a, c, d; 186a-i; 187a-e; 188a-k; 189a, c-g; P.2005.2.10-11]
Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at The Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [32]., 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
1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]
Sheet music cover containing a view of cadets drilling in front of the Pennsylvania Military Academy, relocated from Wilmington, Delaware in 1862. One troop stands at attention as another group mans a row of cannons. A large flag pole rises from behind the multi-storied academy building that is adorned with a cupola and portico. Also shows a white picket fence surrounding the grounds. The academy, founded as the Bullock School for Boys in 1821, relocated from Wilmington, De. to Chester, Pa. in 1868 and operated as the Pennsylvania Military College 1892-1966. The institution was reincorporated as Widener University in 1979., Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to the cadets of the Penna. Military Academy West Chester, Pa., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 281, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 044, Item 037
Date
c1864
Location
Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 044, Item 037, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:044.037
Vignette illustrating a banknote for the Philadelphia National Bank. Shows the importer and manufacturer of men's furnishing goods (618) in Artisan Hall at 616-620 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter the storefronts and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk near a horse-drawn dray parked in the street to be loaded. A horse-drawn carriage travels nearby. De Coursey, Bryan & Co. was active 1867-1868., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 173, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., One printed in brown ink and one tinted with one stone.
Date
[ca. 1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.126b&p]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle in his right hand and a knapsack on his back.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188c]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers running with bayonets in their hands.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183b]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers. Depicts a soldier with a raised sword running and leading two soldiers who hold a flag and a drum.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.183c]
City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23/24, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Creator
Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date
[1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b
City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
Creator
Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date
[1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier with a rifle leaning against his left shoulder.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.188i]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of a Civil War era paper soldier knealing on one knee and holding a rifle in his hands.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189e]
Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American City (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1990), p. 221., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1971 p. 43., Scene depicting the procession of the catafalque transporting the flower covered casket with the President to Independence Hall. Funeral officials, dressed in black and wearing top hats, attend the open air funeral car with canopy, draped in black cloth, and drawn by eight horses. Mourners line the city street including an African American man and woman.
Creator
Tholey (Firm), lithographer., creator
Date
[1865]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W146.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W146 [7929.F]
Pictorial envelope advertising the seed business established in 1855 by printer and horticulturist James Vick. Contains flourishes and floral pictorial details framing and comprising the text. Details include flowers, vinery, and foliage. Vick issued seed catalogs beginning in 1856., Title from printed return address., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Susan Smith, Pughtown, Pa., Date inferred from three-cent stamp, printed in green and depicting a profile portrait of George Washington, pasted on recto., Contains ink-stamp postmark. Rochester, N.Y. May 20., Printed on recto: If not called for within 10 days, please return., 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. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.92]
Vignette illustrating a banknote for the Philadelphia National Bank. Shows the fabric store in Jayne’s Hall (constructed 1856) at 631 Chestnut Street. Members of the Lafourcade family worked as Philadelphia merchants from around 1840, with the partnership between the brothers and Irwin established around 1866. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk past a horse-drawn dray parked in the street to be loaded. A horse-drawn surrey travels nearby., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 427, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.126o]
Location: Abington & Springfield Aves., Frontispiece to Rules and Special Orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865)., Copyrighted by W. Kipling., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1865 Mower 15730.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date
c1865.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W239.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W239 [Am1865 Mower 15730.D]
Location: Abington & Springfield Aves., Frontispiece to Rules and Special Orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865)., Copyrighted by W. Kipling., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1865 Mower 15730.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a.
Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date
c1865.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W239.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W239 [Am1865 Mower 15730.D]
Racist trade card specimen depicting an Irish boy portrayed in caricature preparing to fight an African American boy portrayed in caricature. Shows the Irish mother, Mrs. O’Toole, attired in a bonnet, a polka dotted scarf, and a long-sleeved shirt, holding a pipe in her left hand and leaning out of a window. She speaks in the vernacular to her son, Mickey, that "t’was for de loikes of sich as him, yer fayther got kilt in the war." In the center outside of the house, the barefooted son Mickey, attired in a hat, a torn long-sleeved shirt, a vest, and pants, holds his left hand in front of his chest as he angrily looks at the African American boy in the right. The African American boy carries a hoop and stick toy in his hands and opens his mouth in alarm. In the background, clothes hang from a clothesline., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Illustration printed in red ink., Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Misc. - Mrs. O'Toole [P.2017.95.206]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers from different regiments in New York and Vermont. Includes a soldier from the 1st German Rifle Regiment in New York, led by Colonel Blenker; a soldier from the 9th Regiment in New York, led by Colonel Stiles; a United Turner Rifles soldier led by Colonel M. Weber; and a soldier from the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.184c]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of five Civil War era paper soldiers marching with a drum, a flag, and their rifles.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.186b]
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