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Title
Leary & Co.'s cheap book store, no. 138 North Second Street, ten doors below New Street, Philadelphia Where are kept constantly on hand, and for sale, over 100,000 volumes of new, old, and scarce books in every department of literature, wholesale and retail. All the latest editions of school books. Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and German books. N.B. Cash paid for rags
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.92]
Title
Mexican news
Creator
Jones, Alfred, 1819-1900, engraver
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Mexican War [P.9046.18]
Title
James K. Polk
Creator
J. Andrews & R.E. Babson, engraver
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.8911.790]
Title
Wagner & M'Guigan, call the attention of the public to the superior facilities at their extensive lithographic establishment, no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, (north of no, 111 Chestnut Street.) Where the most efficient artistical skill is employed in the various branches of the art, enabling them to produce the most elaborate drawings on stone, anatomy, geology, botany, portraits, landscapes, title pages, book illustrations, machinery, show cards, maps, plans &c. . Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work equal if not superior to any other establishment in the country, in color printing, they produce the most chaste, unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, music titles, show cards &c. Also, a beautiful style in colors of stores, hotels, manufactories, and landscape views. Businessmen can be supplied with thousands of circulars, in their own hand-writing after a few hours notice
Creator
Scattergood, David, engraver
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.10 (front ad section)
Title
Charles Sumner
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-S [P.8911.929]
Title
Wagner & M'Guigan, respectfully invite the attention of the public to their extensive lithographic establishment no. 4 Athenian Building, Franklin Place, north of no. 111 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Lithography in all its branches, portraits, landscape, anatomy, geology, botany, architecture, machinery, store views, title pages, certificates, steamboats, pattern books, country and town maps, plans circulars, commercial blanks, &c. Transferring from steel and copper-plate, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work of a superior order in this line. Illuminated color printing unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, show cards, labels, stores, hotels, manufactories, printed in various colors, bronzes, &c. All orders promptly attended to
Creator
Scattergood, David, engraver
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.15 (front ad section)
Title
Jno. W. Holm
Creator
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date
[ca. 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-H [(2)5750.F.31d]
Title
The slave chain
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Forbes 9727.D v 1 p 100
Title
The marriage
Creator
Hayes, George H., engraver
Date
[1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O p 168
Title
[The freeman's defense]
Creator
Baker & Smith, engraver
Date
[1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Stow 71311.O p 79
Title
The mother's struggle
Creator
Baker & Smith, engraver
Date
[1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Stowe 12939.O p 73
Title
Inspection and sale of a Negro
Creator
Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Can 10796.D p 94
Title
African slave trade
Creator
Felch-Riches, engraver
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 112
Title
The whitewasher
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 12
Title
The laundress
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 32
Title
The rag-picker
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 80
Title
The wood-sawyer
Date
[1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 96
Title
Persecuted virtue
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 112
Title
Scipio hunted, "As men hunt a deer!"
Creator
Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903, engraver
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Sto 72726.O p 176
Title
Plantation scene -- coffee
Creator
Felch-Riches, engraver
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 288
Title
Lecompton funeral
Date
[October 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1858-2W [5759.F]
Title
William H. Seward
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - S [P.8911.871]
Title
Theodore Parker
Creator
Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portait Prints-P [P.8911.751]
Title
Charles Sumner
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - S [P.2004.44.10]
Title
James K. Polk
Creator
Edwards, W. Joseph, active 1843-1867, engraver
Date
[ca. 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - Polk [P.9363.81]
Title
The United States Senate A.D. 1850
Creator
Whitechurch, Robert, 1814-ca. 1880, engraver
Date
c1855
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***GC - Slavery [P.2002.26]
Title
Wagner & M'Guigan's lithographic drawing, engraving, and printing establishment Wagner & McGuigan, respectfully call the attention of the public to the superior facilities to be found at their extensive establishment, employing upwards of forty presses, together with the most efficient artistical skill in the various branches of the art, enables them to produce all work equal to an establishment in the country. Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts, stone and manuscript. We particularly recommend this branch of our business to the notice of those having plates of this description, as millions of impressions may be printed with but little wear to the original plate, and at a far greater speed than from the copperplate press, at very moderate cost. Business men can be supplied with thousands of circulars in their own handwriting, at a few hours' notice. Surveyors, draughtsmen, and others, desiring to execute their own plans, circulars, price currents, &c, for transferring, will be furnished with suitable paper and ink, free of charge
Creator
Scattergood, David, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1854 Exhib 13701.O.2.39
Title
Edward L. Waller, lithographic printer. Portraits, landscapes, buildings, animals, charts, maps. Circulars, bill heads, music titles, checks, cards, labels, transfers from copper or steel, lithographed in a superior manner, no. 17 Minor Street, third story, Philadelphia
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.6 (back ad section)
Title
Oriental Print Works, Apponaug, R.I
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.107]
Title
Academy of Natural Sciences
Creator
Louderbach & Hoffmann, engraver
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Museums [(1)1525.F.36e]
Title
The festival
Creator
Whitney & Annin, engraver
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 660 71441.O p 112
Title
"Old Joseph, the Patriarch"
Creator
Hedge, Franklin, b. ca. 1830, engraver
Date
[1853]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1853 Pear 73222.O frontispiece
Title
Scene in the slave pen at Washington
Creator
Orr, Nathaniel, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 North 70438.O p 44
Title
The successful manhunt
Creator
Baker & Smith
Date
[1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1855 Hildr 72210.O p 290
Title
Wreck of the slave ship
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Hildr 70799.O p 80
Title
Chorus -- sing, darkeys, sing
Creator
Whitney & Annin, engraver
Date
[1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 660 71441.O p 64
Title
The emigration
Creator
Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin, engraver
Date
[1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2 Wright 2496a 71095.D p 70
Title
Modes of punishing slaves
Date
[1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Ellis 14699.O p 148
Title
Cotton pressing in Louisiana
Creator
Pierce, William J., engraver
Date
[1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Per B 1 5919.F v X n 15 April 12 1856 p 236
Title
Picking cotton
Creator
Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver
Date
[January 1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 8 n 46 March 1854 p 456
Title
Carrying cotton to the gin
Creator
Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver
Date
[January 1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 8 n 46 March 1854 p 457
Title
Cotton gin -- Ginning cotton
Date
[January 1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 8 n 46 March 1854 p 459
Title
Tobacco plantation
Date
[June 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 11 n 61 June 1855 p 8
Title
"Virginia hoe-down"
Date
[December 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 67 December 1855 p 38
Title
The banks of the River James
Date
[January 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 68 January 1856 p 174
Title
The cook
Date
[January 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 68 January 1856 p 177
Title
A conservative philospher
Date
[January 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 12 n 68 January 1856 p 178
Title
Aunt Winnie
Creator
Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver
Date
[August 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 13 n 75 August 1856 p 310
Title
Osman
Date
[September 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 13 n 76 September 1856 p 452
Title
The tango
Date
July 1857
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 15 n 86 July 1857 p 149
Title
Tuning up
Date
[August 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 17 n 99 August 1858 p 295
Title
A Negro funeral
Date
[November 1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per H 9 62992.O v 19 n 114 November 1859 p 731
Title
J.R. Giddings
Creator
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-G [P.8911.396]
Title
Illustrations of Philadelphia
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
1786-1860, bulk 1856-1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F]
Title
[Harbach & Brother's trade cards]
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Harbach [5786.F.002 & 003; 5786.F.9k; (2)5786.F.177b; (3)5786.F.163j; P.9631.2; P.2006.1.18]
Title
A freeholder's court
Creator
Fox, Frederick E., engraver
Date
[1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1855 Hildr 72210.O frontispiece
Title
Frederick Douglass
Creator
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893, engraver
Date
[1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints - D [P.8911.274]
Title
Fruit of the Loom. Industria et spe
Date
[ca. 1851]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.101]
Title
Illustrations of Philadelphia. Vol. IX
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
1857-1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 9 [(9)2526.F]
Title
Illustrations of Philadelphia
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
1858-1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 1 [(1)2526.F]
Title
Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser
Description
Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory.
Title
Illustrations of Philadelphia. Vol. X
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
1857-1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 10 [(10)2526.F]
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