All together, all together, once, once again (3 vs. and chor.) As sung in the Public Schools; publ. Johnson and Co.; print. Johnson (2). 17 x 10 cm. (cropped)
Ever of Thee I'm fondly thinking (2 vs. and chor.) As sung by David S. Wambold, with immense success throughout the States; adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2)., Variant: a. Letter paper; single-line border; hdpc. Magnus 240, col. 20.1 x 12.6 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 247b, col. 20.3 x 12.8 cm., Variant: c. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 248b, col. 20.4 x 12.8 cm., Variant: d. [Without As sung by David S. Wambold, etc.;] headed: Second Edition; As Sung by "Miss Maggie Huntly," at the "Art Union." publ. H.H. Smith & Co. T.o. border. Cut of four hieroglyphic figures. 21 x 12.4 cm.
Cheer up, Annie darling, with hopeful emotion (3 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Music, published by Sep. Winner and Co. (4), obtained of Wm. A. Pond and Co.; 2nd song: "Annie's Reply To Enoch Arden"; publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan clown border. 25.7 x 16.3 cm., Variant: b. With "Or, I'll Sail the Seas Over" in title; cop: 1865, Sep. Winner, EDPa.; Sep. Winner's Music Store (3). Multi-line border. 19.1 x 11.5 cm. (cropped)
0 Ladies, have you seen Jeff Davis (4 vs. and chor.) Air: Kingdom Coming. Written by John P. Larkin., Variant: a. [Publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan military cupid border. 25.9 x 16.8 cm., Variant: b. Publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan clown border. 25 x 16.5 cm.
Come all ye who are fond of singing, let us set a song a ringing (9 vs. and 2 chors.) Air: Old Dan Tucker., Variant: a. Print. Andrews. T. o. border. 22.7 x 14.4 cm., Variant: b. [Without period at end of title;] publ. Johnson (2). T. o. border; old man with ducks. 22.8 x 12.3 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.
White folks listen to me now (5 vs.) Air: Blow ye Winds, I, O. Sheet no. 851; As sung by Bob Hart, at the American Concert Hall 444 Broadway; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.3 x 15.6 cm.
'Twas ten o' clock one moonlight night (3 vs.), Variant: a. With "Ten O'clock, or" in title; print. Andrews. T. o. border. 23.7 x 14 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] with Astley's imprint added. 24.2 x 15 Cm., Variant: c. Sheet no. 500; music obtained at Firth, Pond and Co. (1); publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border, col. 24.6 x 14.5 cm.
In the Hazel Dell my Nelly's sleeping (3 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. Song and Chorus by Wurzel; music obtained of Wm. Hall and Son (3); publ. De Marsan (4). De Marsan comic heads border. 24.5 x 16.3 cm., Variant: b. Publ. Johnson (2); adv: Cards, Circulars, Bill-Heads, etc. A-J border. 20.8 x 12.5 cm. (cropped)., Variant: c. No imprint. T.o. border. 24 x 14.5 c.m.
Kind friends, a soldier, brave and true (12 vs.) The undersigned, a brave soldier of the Army of the Potomac, asks the aid of the people to enable him to sup- port a wife and five children, who have no other means of subsistence . . ., Variant: a. Headed: "Price Ten Cents"; [signed] David Gingry, Jr.; Philadelphia "Press" Job Print. Double-line border. 23.9 x 15 cm., Variant: b. With variant in preface to song ". . .to support an aged widowed mother and himself, as they have no other means of subsistence . . ."; [signed] C. W. Davids; adv: Price Ten Cents. T. o. border; yellow paper. 25.3 x 20.6 cm.
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)
Song in eight unnumbered stanzas, with chorus; first line: Of all the many mighty things in this here Quaker city,., The American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, flourished between 1849 and 1856., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 21.3 x 14.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Eastlack, Francis F., b. 1833
Date
[between 1849 and 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1849 Eastlack 15143.Q (Roughwood)
Song in eight unnumbered stanzas, with chorus; first line: Of all the many mighty things in this here Quaker city,., The American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, flourished between 1849 and 1856., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 21.3 x 14.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Eastlack, Francis F., b. 1833
Date
[between 1849 and 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1849 Eastlack 15143.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)
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)
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)
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
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)
A hymn in five verses and a chorus, words only; first line: Kommt ihr Freunde, wir eilen jeszt fort., Caption title., Dated by Yoder, "probably from the late nineteenth century.", Printed area measures 14.4 x 6.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[between 1850 and 1900?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1850 Sehns 106030.D (Roughwood)
A hymn in five verses and a chorus, words only; first line: Kommt ihr Freunde, wir eilen jeszt fort., Caption title., Dated by Yoder, "probably from the late nineteenth century.", Printed area measures 14.4 x 6.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[between 1850 and 1900?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1850 Sehns 106030.D (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]
A cartoon supporting the Old Ticket Party of Pennsylvania which advocated a conversion from a proprietary government to a royal colony. Depicts well-to-do Philadelphians in a tavern drinking and singing "Huzza Old ticket, Old Ticket Forever." An African American server serves the men as he states in patois his support of the Old Ticket. As the devil exits the tavern, he indicates his support for the New Ticket Party which supported the existing proprietary government. Contains an electioneering song of six verses from which the depicted Philadelphians sing verses. The tavern was often used as a place to canvass election support and treat voters., Place and date of publication supplied by Evans., Possibly the work of Henry Dawkins., 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., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[1765]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons -[1765] - New [959.F.87a]
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]
Scrapbook containing portrait prints and photographs of American and European historical figures, dignitaries, and celebrities, including several images of Queen Victoria. Majority of portraits are cartes de visite depicting full or three-quarter length views, often also showing props, including balustrades, chairs, and backdrops. Sitters include Simon Cameron, Lord Byron, Lord Cranworth, Charlotte Cushman, the young Edward VII, Percy Fitzgerald, Joseph Hew[e]s, John Hogan, James Logan, Frederick Marryat, Michelangelo, D. L. Moody, Napoleon III, Winfield Scott, Rev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Queen Victoria, Sir William Wilde, Lady Wilde, and Lord Wodehouse. Also contains a small number of unidentified portraits; patriotic song sheets illustrated with military leaders of No. 1 and No. 2 Arméee Française, including Felix Douay; and images of statuary, including the sculpture of Alexander Hamilton by Horatio Stone., Title supplied by cataloger., Some items identified by, or contain, manuscript notes by Smith inscribed on mount or verso. Notes often explicate provenance., Various artists, photographers, and engravers including A. Blaikely, D. J. Pound, F. Winterhalter, J. B. Longacre, F. Kearny, A. Bernoud, W. Behnes, O. A. Lawson, J. Horsburgh, M. B. Brady, John Sartain, J. Bonnet, O. W. Wilson, C. Herberth, and Fratelli Alinari., Various printers and publishers including George C. Leighton, John Wanamaker & Co., B. Rogers, Adam Waldie, and Morris pere et fils., Forms part of M. Rebecca Darby Smith Scrapbooks Collection., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Smith, Mary Rebecca Darby
Date
[ca. 1855-ca. 1871]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4-Alcove 2 [Is 6 1518.Q, vol. 1]
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, prints, drawings and manuscript notes, predominantly dated to the 1850s, pertaining to the history, the built environment, and social climate of Philadelphia. Subject matter includes clippings about Federalists, Leiper Railroad, beer brewing, historic private houses, and Patrick Lyon from the newspaper column series "Reminiscences of Philadelphia" (Christian Observer, 1856), "Philadelphia Peculiarities" (Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, 1856), and "Recollections from the Past" (authored by Poulson) and "To Readers and Anxious Inquirers" (Sunday Dispatch, 1856); articles about the early history of Germantown and Independence Hall, the origin of April Fools, a “Venerable document,” i.e., a 1747 indenture between the Library Company and librarian Robert Greenway, and the 1859 cholera epidemic at the Arch Street Prison; and newspaper advertisements for the Zoological Institute (48 S. Fifth St.), Page's Patent Safety Cab, and Colonel Chaffin, “The Celebrated Dwarf, at the Masonic Hall" (1845). Also contains an editorial about the poor quality of the Philadelphia Directory for 1865; a song sheet "Social Quoit Club" by Charles Alexander inscribed with a note about its provenance by Poulson on the verso; Poulson manuscripts about notable houses, including the Butler Mansion (Chestnut & Eighth Sts.), William Waln House (Chestnut & Seventh Sts.), and James Fisher mansion (Chestnut & Ninth Sts.); and prints, watercolors, and sketches, several created and signed by Poulson, predominantly showing Philadelphia residences, landmarks, and city and landscapes., Graphic materials include a Charles Magnus print after the Trumbull painting, "Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776"; the captioned George Gilbert illustration "A View of the Grand Civic Arch... in Honor of Lafayette" (1824); a Le Met miniature portrait of Timothy Palmer; a James McClees photograph of the engraving "The Hour of Sunset, on the Fourth of July 1776" and Poulson watercolor and sketches (often with extensive manuscript captions) showing "Episcopal Academy," "A House on the North side of Chestnut Street, next to that on the N.E. corner of Eighth Street, lately occupied by Danl. W. Coxe, Esq. who deceased there June 3, 1852" (1857), "Sketch of the river Schuylkill at Fairmount. The wooden floating bridge and tavern &c by C. A. P. under the tuition of Jemmy Cox, the drawing master," "Jonathan Leedom’s Iron Store, no. 211 S. Front St. or now no. 343," "Sketch of the Emlen or [Benendye?] house Chestnut St. opposite the State house and next to Jacob Ridgway’s house on the east" (1858); and advertising vignettes and cameo stamps for businesses, including a segar store (Mulberry St.), G. S. Appleton, bookseller, publisher & importer of foreign books (148, i.e, 600 block Chestnut St.), W. C. Allen, broom & variety store, and a multi-manned press of “The Saturday Evening Post.” Other images include satiric women's fashion vignettes and a cut out caricature of an African American man advertising Sanford's Opera House., Majority of contents annotated with a date by Poulson., Title page illustrated with a ca. 1856 lithographer's advertisement issued by Wagner & McGuigan. Depicts an allegorical, patriotic scene with the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, and with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal., Verso of title page contains Poulson inscription: "The "Articles" in the book are taken from fugitive sources only; and the dates affixed to each are those of the newspapers &c from which they were procured.", Back free end paper contains Poulson inscription: "The dates of the articles herein, are those of the Newspapers &c from they are cut.", "Index to set in back part of vol. XI.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
ca. 1824-1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 2 [(2)2526.F]
