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Title: [View showing the grounds of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Shows four of the main buildings near the Schuylkill River. Includes the Art Gallery, Main Building, Machinery Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Also shows sailing vessels, including the steamboat "Belmont," traversing the river in the foreground. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Probably by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.3]

Title: Benjamin Franklin Perry, midshipman of the United States Navy. Born June 19, 1843. Died July 3, 1860. Aged 17 years Given to his country. Taken to his God
Description: Pen and watercolor drawing probably commissioned by Baird Marble Works, Philadelphia showing the design for the sepulchral monument for the midshipman. Depicts a column-shaped monument on a pedestal inscribed with Perry's epitaph. An American eagle with a laurel wreath in his beak sits atop the column that is entwined by an American flag. An anchor and American shield, partially wrapped in the flag, adorns the bottom of the column. Shield inscribed: Given To His Country. Taken To His God. Perry was the son of the 72nd Governor of South Carolina Benjamin Perry. The elder Perry was a Southern Unionist who did not support secession before the Civil War. Known as Frank, the younger Perry attended the U.S. Naval Academy before his death. The monument, near identical to the rendering, marks Perry's grave in Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina., Title from text included on depicted monument., Inscribed in ink in lower right corner: Baird, Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Perry [P.2017.8.24]

Title: Plan of U.S. Military Hospital at Edgewood Chestnut Hill Penna. [graphic] / John McArthur Jr. Archt, No. 209 So. Sixth St. Phia.
Description: Eleven of twelve drawings inscribed on verso: Book 57 B.598., 5791.F.5 inscribed October 3, 1863., Described in Rules and special orders of the Mower United States Army and General Hospital (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865). (Am 1865 Phi Mow,15730.D)., Series of architectural drawings including a site plan and section plans of the hospital facility. Site plan includes an inset of the "Plan of iron trucks for conveying food to wards made of iron wire gage" and depictions of the surrounding roads, Chestnut Hill Railroad, store depot, and depot for patients. Also contains annotations about the locations of drain pipes, sewage pipes, and gas, fire, and water mains. Section plans depict the first and second stories of the central building, operating rooms, first and second stories of the medical department; stewards apartment, kitchen, prison ward, ward for 60 beds, section of ventilators, and a corridor. Plans include sky lights, bathrooms, sleeping rooms, dining rooms, waiting rooms, barracks, wash rooms, scullery, cauldrons, stoves, sinks, pantries, knapsack room, offices, apothecary shop, and post mortem room. Plan of operating rooms also contains a key to symbols representing gas burners. Plan of first story of the medical department also contains a design for the shelving of the apothecary shop. Section plans include scale 4 ft to 1 inch.
Creator: McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect., creator
Date: 1861-1863.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **architectural drawings - McArthur [5791.F.1-3; 5-13]

Title: [Nude figure studies]
Description: Collection of nude figure studies by lithographer Augustus Kollner. Most, if not all, of the studies were likely executed for the life class at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine arts. Includes two female studies and two male studies. The first female study [P.2017.8.18] shows a nude woman seated on her side, her legs outstretched, and leaning on her left hand. Her right hand stretched down to her calf. Her light-shaded hair is pulled back Grecian-style and she lies in front of a draped stand. The second female study [P.2017.8.19] shows a woman lying on her back, her head resting on her right hand that is bent at the elbow, and with her eyes closed. Her dark-shaded hair is worn in a low bun, her legs are crossed at the ankles, and her left hand rests on her left thigh. A less-detailed, ink-drawn, vignette-size, bust-length study of the woman is visible in the lower left corner. The first male study [P.2017.8.20] shows a nearly nude man, a loin cloth at his waist, sitting with his legs open on a draped seat. He is slightly hunched over and rests the left side of his face on his left hand curled into a fist with his left elbow resting on his knee. His right arm is bent at the elbow with his right hand resting on his right knee. His dark-shaded hair is parted to the right. The second male study [P.2017.8.21], a profile, shows a nude man, semi-seated on a platform, with his upper body leaning to his left and with his left leg extended behind him. He rests his arms on the edge and side of the platform. He has short, dark-shaded hair and a mustache. The genitalia of the three figures without a loin cloth is shaded in shadow., Dates of two of the drawings [P.2017.8.18-19] inferred from the accompanying dated drawings., P.2017.8.21 inscribed in lower right: Jany 1867., P.2017.8.22 inscribed in lower left: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Kollner Feby 4, 1867 Phila., Drawings are trimmed., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Augustus Kollner (1813-1906) a German-born and trained Philadelphia lithographer began to focus his career more on drawing and painting in the 1860s. In 1861 Kollner enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts life class and continued to take the class until at least 1867. Kollner also exhibited genre, historical, and landscape drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1865 and 1868.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Kollner [P.2017.8.19-22]

Title: [Civil War drawings and cartes de visite reproductions of drawings by Henry Louis Stephens]
Description: Series of caricatures predominately satirizing the effects of the presidential policies of Abraham Lincoln on his re-election and the candidacy of Democratic nominee and former Commander of the U.S. Army, George McClellan, in the presidential election of 1864. Lincoln caricatures depict racist scenes and themes of election loss and show the president as a comic stage performer; a feeding open-mouthed tool of the abolitionists; as a defeated Robin Hood with his "Band of Brothers," (i.e. cabinet members Edwin Stanton, William Seward, and Gideon Welles); as weighed down by the "Old Keystone", a visual metaphor for the large number of Pennsylvania soldiers lost in the war; as a buffoon tripped up by his large boots of "military necessity"; as patronizing a miniature McClellan propped up on the "Chicago Platform"; as McClellan's puppeteer; and as "loved little and long" for his emancipation of the enslaved. McClellan caricatures primarily use the themes of McClellan, known as "The Young Napoleon," as a "MacNapoleon" and his contradictory personal and party platforms in relation to the war. Caricatures show "MacNapoleon" searching for the White House, childishly whining about his quest for the White house, and singing a "doleful ditty" about himself. Platform caricatures show McClellan as a squeeze doll who speaks two words - war and peace, and in a "Quandary" to choose between a ballerina representing war and another representing peace. Collection also contains caricatures of Edward Stanton making a "Soliloquy" as an allusion to a Republican loss in the presidential election; of Peace Democrat Clement Vallandigham satirizing his sentence of banishment to the South for anti-war sentiments as well as a racist caricature of the "The American Eagle.1864. A likely young bird" showing an eagle with the head of an African American resting on the American shield marked "E. Pluribus. U-No-Um.", Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright., Created postfreeze., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of materials related to Abraham Lincoln and of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAlister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Henry Louis Stephens Collection [(11)1540.F.20a; 5780.F.52m; 5792.F.4d&e; 97a-c &f; 98a,b,d, e-i; 99a-h; P.2282.50; P.8686.1-2; P.2005.2.12a-e; P.2006.1.25a&b]

Title: Plan of Auburn Farm belonging to the Cresson estate, Twenty-fifth ward. Philadelphia
Description: Map showing the Cresson estate (likely Sarah Emlen Cresson) including Erie, Venango, Tioga, Ontario, G, H, and I Streets. Shows the property bordered and shaded in red. Several rectangles, probably symbolizing buildings, are depicted between G and H Streets and Venango Street. Shows the total acreage and railroad acreage., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text on recto: Note-copy of a survey and plan made by Isaac E. Shallcross with location and area of rail road added., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.22]

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