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Title: Rail shooting on the Delaware
Description: Genre print showing two men standing in a small boat navigating through the tall reeds and lily pads of a marshy section of the Delaware River. The gentleman in the front of the boat is poised to shoot a rail, a slow and steady game bird, while the man in the back poles slowly through the water., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2797
Date: c1866
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2797]

Title: Home again. [graphic] / From the original painting by J. Noel Paton.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Genre scene showing a Civil War soldier being welcomed home by his family. The soldier, a bandage on his head, sits in his cozy parlor as his mother cries on his shoulder, his wife wraps herself around his waist, and their baby sleeps in a cradle. The soldier's gun and knapsack rest beside him against a side table.
Creator: Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël), Sir, 1821-1901 artist., creator
Date: [[ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.141a]

Title: [Print containing sentimental genre scene and proof vignette bust portraits]
Description: Genre scene depicts two young peasant girls in an embrace and holding bunches of grapes. Proof vignette, bust-profile portraits printed in the upper corners and show women attired in hats, earrings, collars, and shirtwaists., Inscribed upper right corner: 83., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.51b]

Title: The second great match game for the championship, between the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn, on the grounds of the Athletics, Fifteenth & Columbia Avenue, Phila., Oct. 22nd, 1866
Description: Genre print depicting the Philadelphia Athletics and the Brooklyn Atlantics during a game in the Athletics field at Fifteenth Street and Columbia Avenue. The Brooklyn Atlantics are in the outfield, and an Athletics player positions himself to receive a pitch. In the foreground, two men sit at a table on the sidelines, three sit on chairs and other spectators watch the game, engage in fights, or keep score. In the left background, a low stand crowded with spectators is visible. The park is fenced and surrounded by trees. The names of each player and the umpire, and inning scores are included near the title. Formed in 1860 by James N. Kerns, the Philadelphia Athletics helped establish the National Association of Professional Baseball Players (NA) in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: c1867
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]

Title: Offering of bells to be cast into cannon
Description: Partisan genre scene depicting a Southern white man pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to a Confederate officer at the hearth of an enslaved African American man blacksmith. In the left, the officer holds his cap in his hand as the blacksmith, attired in a long apron (doffed cap as well), bends over to grab one of two bells near his feet. Candlesticks and andirons lie in a pile under the hearth and to the left of the officer. In the right, congregants stand behind the pastor attired in robes and a wide-brimmed hat, and include a woman attired in a fancy dress and cape, men in suits and top hats, and a man dressed in yeoman's clothing. In the background, an enslaved African American man carries a cylinder-shaped object over his shoulder and church towers are visible. In 1862, Confederate General P.T. Beauregard called for bells to be given to the Confederacy to be melted into cannon. Several churches in North Carolina donated them., Inscribed upper left corner: 19., Inscribed in lower left corner: AJV; FBM., Issued as plate 19 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 19 [2990.F.20]

Title: Smuggling medicines into the South
Description: Partisan genre scene depicting the unloading of a rowboat with medical supplies along a shoreline near dense thickets of trees. In the center, a white man Confederate military officer keeps the boat moored through a rope in his hand. He looks back toward a white man, possibly a doctor, climbing down from a tree. An enslaved African American man (his back to the viewer), ankle deep in the water, holds a wooden pole on the shore as a lever as a white man in civilian clothes rolls a barrel toward a Confederate soldier (his back to the viewer). The soldier places sacks on the back of a mule. A sack, crate, and barrel lie near the mule. Volck was active in smuggling medicines into the South across the Potomac River in response to the Union's ban of the passage of medical supplies to the South., Inscribed upper left corner: 18., Issued as plate 18 in Sketches from the Civil War in North America (London [i.e., Baltimore]: [the author], 1863-1864), a series of pro-Confederacy cartoons drawn and published by Baltimore cartoonist Adalbert John Volck under the pseudonym V. Blada. The "first issue" of 10 prints (numbered 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15, 16, 21, 24), with imprint "London, 1863" were printed as etchings. The remaining 20 prints (numbered 4, 8, 9-11, 14, 17-20, 23, 25-27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 45) headed "Second and third issues of V. Blada's war sketches" and dated "London, July 30, 1864" were printed as lithographs., Title and publication information from series at Brown University Library., Research file about artist available at repository., Accessioned 1935., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912, artist
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Volck - Sketches - Volck 18 [2990.F.21]

Title: Summer scene in the country
Description: Genre print depicting a scene of leisure in front of a large Victorian-era, Italianate home and garden enclosed by a stone and iron-work fence. In the foreground, an elegantly-attired couple (the woman on sidesaddle) rides on horseback on a dirt road, while within the fenced grounds, a woman in wide-brimmed hat tends a rose garden across from a young girl petting a sheep. In the background, a man stands at the main entrance and a woman on a side porch of the house and look toward the couple in the road. In the far left, a man grooms a horse in front of a small stable and near a flock of chickens. The dirt road winds its way past grazing cattle, shrubbery and other homes, toward a body of water in the distance. Sailboats are visible on the water in the right background., Not in Wainwright., Joseph Hoover, a prolific producer of chromolithographed parlor prints, located to 804 Market Street in 1864., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 245, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642], Digital image shows Smithsonian copy. LCP copy acquired after 2010.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Genre [P.2013.22], Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2642]

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