Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bessel, Fred
Date
[1889?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)
Verse in four unnumbered stanzas; first line: The shadows of death are upon us, and a calamity has occurred,., On Jan. 9, 1889, a tornado swept over Reading, Pa., destroying the Grimshaw Silk Mill and the Reading Railroad paint shop, killing 17 and injuring more than 100 people., Printed area, including mourning border, measures 25.3 x 19.8 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bessel, Fred
Date
[1889?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1889 Bessel 112042.O (Roughwood)
Collection of stationery, primarily illustrated and typographical letterheads, billheads, and form letters, of pharmaceutical firms and related businesses and institutions in the United States (predominantly New York City, New York, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania) issued between circa 1840 and 1935. Subjects include invoices and receipts, shipping arrangements and fees, product orders, payments and payment disputes. Firms, businesses, and institutions well represented include James S. Aspinwall; William P. Blanding; L. N. Brunswig; Caswell, Massey & Co.; C.J. Lincoln Co.; College of Pharmacy of the City of New York; Geo. C. Goodwin & Co.; Hall & Ruckel; Dr. William A. Hammond's Sanitarium; Hopkins-Weller Drug Co.; James Baily & Son; J. D. Marshall & Bros. (D. Marshall & Bro.); J. L. Lyons & Co.; A. M. Knowlson; Lanman & Kemp; McKesson & Robbins; Nichols & Harris; P. D. Orvis; S. R. Van Duzer; Wells, Richardson & Co. (Wells & Richardson Co.); Wilson Drug Co.; and W. J. Gilmore & Co. Philadelphia firms represented include A.W. Wright & Co.; Barker, Moore, Mein; Bean & Stevenson; Browning & Brothers; C.H. Butterworth & Co.; Robert Shoemaker & Co.; W.H. Schieffelin & Co.; and Strother Drug Co. Collection also contains several pieces of stationery of firms in New England, including Massachussetts (particularly Boston), Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island; the Mid-West, including Ohio, Michigan, and Minnesota; and the South, including Louisiana (particularly New Orleans), Virginia, and Tennessee. A small number of items also represent businesses in the Western United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. A song sheet, envelope, and stereograph also form the collection., Illustrations depict various subjects. The most numerous are views of pharmaceutical factories and storefronts, often including street and pedestrian traffic. Imagery also depicts pharmaceutical apparatus and trademarks, including mortars and pestles; medical supplies, including trusses; allegorical scenes; heraldry; and art nouveau pictorial details and designs. Other illustrations show medieval apothecaries; the interiors of a pharmacy and dental office; and the mythical creature phoenix., Title supplied by cataloger., Various engravers, printers, and publishers, including Smith Bros.; Gast; A. Hoen & Co.; Collier & Cleveland; Craig, Butt, & Finley; Calvert Lithographing Co.; Snyder & Black; Detroit Litho. Co.; American Bank Note Company; Gies & Co.; Strobridge & Co.; E. Weber; Craig, Finley & Co.; G. H. Dunston; and Wm. H. Brett & Co., Majority of the billheads, letterheads, and form letters completed in manuscript or type and contain manuscript and typewritten notes on recto and verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., Digitized for AMD: Popular Medicine. Series I.
Date
[ca. 1840-1935, bulk 1870-1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Graphic Popular Medicine Stationery Collection [P.2011.46]
Caption title., Without music., Hymns printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 31.0 x 14.2 cm., Contents: The happy land -- The Sunday school army -- Beautiful river -- Dismission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1868 Sunday 17239.Q (Roughwood)
Caption title., Without music., Hymns printed in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 31.0 x 14.2 cm., Contents: The happy land -- The Sunday school army -- Beautiful river -- Dismission., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1868 Sunday 17239.Q (Roughwood)
Includes a stereograph depicting "Killnarney-The Black Valley" and advertising Rutland, Vermont druggist and apothecary W. H. H. Fisher; an envelope printed "Bought of Coon & Robinson, Dealers in Drugs & Medicines... Nunda, N.Y."; and an illustrated songsheet "Composed by the Bearer, H. C. Harris, who has not Walked or had the use of his Hands or Arms, for 14 Years, July, 1872." Songsheet contains an ornate floral border and illustration captioned "My Picture" showing a full-length portrait of Harris, in a wheelchair and with a small box on his lap., P.2011.46.485 on yellow mount with rounded corners. Inscribed on verso: Oscar Marshall., Printers, publishers, and engravers include Miller & Best; Republican Banner Steam Print; and Stillman-Way., W. H. H. Fisher was succeeded by Fisher & McClallen in 1895., Coon & Robinson operated in the 1860s., 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. 1865-ca. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.46.484-486]
Song in two stanzas; first lines: Beautiful isle of the sea! Smile on the brow of the waters!, Words by George Cooper; sheet music copyright 1865. See the Library of Congress American memory online archive, Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920., Place of publication based on provenance., Printed area measures 15.9 x 10.0 cm., Part of the McAllister Collection., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Cooper, George, 1840-1927
Date
[1865?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Cooper 9982.F.71 (McAllister)
Verse in four unnumbered stanzas., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22.6 x 7.7 cm., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Date
[ca. 1865?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm# Am 1865 Foster 13944.Q (Stod- dard)
Another year of human life (4 vs. uneven length) T. o. border; supporters of arms of Philadelphia with 1864 - 65 in shield, and figures of a farmer and Plenty below. 35.5 x 21.8 cm.
Peace be unto you, dear patrons (10 vs. uneven length) Peacock, Chambers and Co.; editor G. Peacock; publ. F. L. Fetherston. Engraved border; eagle and motto. 29.5 x 19.5 cm.
Still in the midst of tempest and of strife (2 columns) With calender; print. Wm. S. Young. T. o. border, with floral corners; woodcut of Washington Monument. 45.8 x 30.3 cm.
Beside my quiet hearth to-night (16 vs. and 5 vs. of Invocation) Headed: "New Year, 1864"; print. Hull and Brother. Text on background of shield with American flag de- sign, red and blue with gold border. 43 x 35.5 cm.
Peculiar joy and blessing (14 vs.) With calendar; print. M'Laughlin Brothers. Two multiple-line borders; ornamental arms of Pennsylvania. 31.1 x 24.3 cm.
Avaunt, Old Year] Go, with thy load of death (24 vs.) Engraved by Wm. Howland; print. J. F. Trow. Elaborate oval-shaped woodcut border, with Columbia chasing Slavery at the top, and "January 1, 1862" at the bottom. 63.2 x 44.5 cm.
Happy Christmas! fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, great and small (2 columns) With calender; print. M'Laughlin Brothers. T. o. border, with floral corners; woodcut of battle scene. 46.7 x 32 cm.
Words and music., Caption title., This hymn first appeared in Atlantic monthly, v. 7 no. 44, for June 1861., Printed in red and blue ink; printed area, including double-rule border, measures 13.4 x 7.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Date
[1861?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Holmes 54309.O.2
The Carrier's Address we leave at your door (2 columns) With calender; print. McLaughlin Brothers. Double-line border; woodcut of feast scene. 45.7 x 35 cm.
The loud laugh rings in the good old home (9 vs.) Red ink; two single-line borders, inclosing arms of Philadelphia, Indian Squaws and corner pieces. 42.9 x 30.3 cm.
Back to your door with annual pleasure hies (10 vs.) Blue ink; floral metal-cut border in red; eagle with symbols of American industry at top, and comic scene at foot, col. 40.8 x 33.2 cm.
The Century is growing old (7 vs.) With calender; print. McLaughlin Brothers. Double-line border; woodcut of Father Christmas and the New Year. 46 x 32 cm.
Dost mark that ceaseless ruthless wanderer, Time (2 vs.) Signed: P. S. W. Printed in red and blue; t. o. border; woodcuts of Plan of the Proposed Alterations of the County Buildings and "Proposed Monument to the Thirteen States." 40.5 x 33.3 cm.
A year is dead! A year is born (20 vs.) Notices of Fire Alarm and Fire District, and Fare of Hackney Coaches. Wavy-line border, with elaborate cornerpieces and vignettes of Columbia. 46.1 x 30.7 cm.
When night's shadows gather slowly (10 vs.) Two single-line borders, inclosing arms of Philadel- phia, Indian Squaws and corner pieces. 42.1 x 28.2 cm.
God said- "Let there be light" (7 vs.) By Ebenezer Elliott, January 1, 1859; print. Press Job Printing Office. Red and blue ink; t. o. border. 34.5 x 25.9 cm.
"Happy New Year to all! as here we stand (6 vs. uneven length) Floral border; Liberty with eagle and bust of Washington; L. N. Rose[n]thal's Lith Phila. 47 x 30.5 cm.