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Title: Do they miss me at home?
Description: Trimmed vignette showing a caricature of a young African American girl, possibly a satirical personification of the popular mid-19th century song of the same title. Depicts the girl, attired in a baby doll dress, her hair in short coils, and the fingers of one hand in her mouth as, in the other, she holds the string of a rolling pull toy horse visible behind her. Published in 1852 and composed by S. M. Grannis with lyrics by Caroline Atherton Mason, "Do they Miss Me at Home" was written in the voice of a homesick girl away at school. The song remained popular through the Civil War when translated to the voice of soldiers. Bufford, later J. H. Bufford's sons, issued trade cards 1870-1875 containing images portraying racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as personfications of popular 19th-century songs, ballads, and poems., Copyrighted, Bufford, Boston., Date inferred from style of copyright statement., Gift of Wendy Woloson.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Genre [113487.D]

Title: Camp Brightwood, Col. Henry S. Briggs, 10th Massachusetts Volunteers [graphic].
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places, & events., View of the Washington D.C. camp showing a troop of soldiers drilling in a clearing between tents. Also shows soldiers on guard.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - B [5779.F.5]

Title: Poplar Grove. Residence of E.S. Richards, near Germantown, Penna
Description: View showing the villa-like estate of merchant Edwin S. Richards. Shrubery and trees landscape the grounds in front of the residence. In the background, behind a picket fence, a stone building and gazebo stand next to other buildings., Not in Wainwright., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 614
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - P [P.2003.37.2]

Title: Philada. Physical Institute Prof. Hillebrand & Lewis' gymnasium. N. E. cor. 9th & Arch
Description: Advertisement containing vignettes showing male and female gym patrons participating in physical activities and the use of exercise equipment. Equipment includes parallel bars, pummel horse, pull-up bars, ropes, weights, and peg poles. Activities include shooting, fencing, boxing, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Exercise poles incorporated into the image as pictorial elements separating the vignettes. Also contains text advertising the hours of the establishment; the skills of its instructors; separate classes and drawing rooms for the different sexes; and the benefits of exercise for the "proper development of strength, health, mind and the cure of chronic affections" and the importance to ladies to produce "strength, health, beauty and grace.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 567, See related tradecards for Hillebrand & Lewis, including one printed by Stein & Jones. [P.9349.147a and 8608.F.5b].
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.8729.16]

Title: Gallant charge of United States Cavalry. Gallant charge of Lieutenant Tompkins of the Second Cavalry, at Fairfax Court House, Va., on the morning of June 1, 1861
Description: View of one of the first cavalry campaigns of the war showing the troop, swords raised, charging past a Confederate under the aim of two Union soldiers in front of his confiscated cannon. Also includes fallen Confederate soldiers, including one being trampled, laying in the foreground., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events.
Creator: Magee, John L.
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Tompkins Charge [5779.F.46]

Title: Jeff. Davis caught at last. Hoop skirts & Southern chivalry
Description: Not in Reilly., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cartoons 1865-22 [P.2275.30]

Title: Emancipation Freedom for all, both black and white!
Description: Print depicting the Emancipation Proclamation for both African Americans and whites including equal opportunity to education. Depicts Lincoln raising his right hand and holding the "Emancipation Proclamation" in his left hand in the center between a poor white family and an enslaved African American family. Both families, attired in torn and worn clothing, stand and kneel as they hold their clasped hands up toward Lincoln, who treads upon broke shackles and a serpent. A "Spelling Book" lies on the ground near them. In the background, Union soldiers stop a white man enslaver from whipping a shackled and enslaved African American woman and children enter "Public School, No. 1." From the roof of the school waves a flag inscribed "Education to all Classes." Contains text from the Proclamation above the image, "and by virtue of the power and for the purpose of the aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves, within designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free!", Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to the act of Congress A.D. 1865 by J.L. Magee in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Magee, a lithographer, painter, and cartoonist, established his own firm in Philadelphia in 1850., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 77., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Emancipation [P.9702]

Title: Humboldt Monument in Fairmount Park, designed by Collins & Autenrieth, for the Humboldt Festival Committee
Description: View showing a rendering of the monument, surrounded by trees and bushes, to be erected in honor of German natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt in East Fairmount Park. Monument composed of a bust of Humboldt resting on a column pedestal adorned with lion-mouthed fountains and two cherubs holding a globe marked "Cosmos" (representing Humboldt's 5-volume work about his knowledge of the earth). A stone canopy with benches protects the monument under and near which a lady and two gentlemen stand. Also shows a short level of stairs leading to the monument. The cornerstone of the monument, commissioned by German societies, was laid facing the entrance to Girard Avenue Bridge during a celebration of the centennial of the birth of Humboldt on September 13, 1869. The completed monument, including a full-length sculpture by Frederick Drake, was unveiled on July 4, 1876 during the Centennial Exhibition., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 366, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 632 H 881, Collins & Autenrieth, were German-born Philadelphia architects who worked on several projects for the German immigrant community of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 632 H 881

Title: View of the farm where the murder of the Deering [sic] Family was committed by the fiend Antoine Probst on April 7th 1866
Description: News print showing the farm at Jones Lane in South Philadelphia of the Philadelphia family murdered by their farmhand Anton Probst on April 7, 1866. The victims included Christopher Dearing, aged 38 years; his wife, Julia Dearing, aged 45 years; their son, John Dearing, aged 8 years; their son, Thomas Dearing, aged 6 years; their daughter, Anna Dearing, aged 4 years; their daughter, Emily Dearing, aged 2 years; family friend Elizabeth Dolan, aged 25 years; and fieldhand Cornelius Cary, aged 17 years. Depicts (left to right) "1. The Haystack" where the headless body of the first murdered, field hand Cary, was hidden; "2. The Dwelling" Probst ransacked for money and in which he shaved, changed, napped, and ate after the murder; "3. The Stable" where Probst fed the animals before his departure; and "4. The Barn" where the family was lured one by one, killed, and discovered by neighbors a few days later. Individuals walk the property, including spectators and police, and a cow stands across from two policemen in a field tilled for planting in the foreground. Also shows barren trees, carts, wagons, and other farm equipment. Probst, a German immigrant and swindler, was a disgruntled former farmhand of the Dearings who murdered the family by hammer and ax for revenge and money. He was convicted in May 1866 and executed the following month at Moyamensing Prison for the largest murder in Philadelphia at that time., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00022, Manuscript note on verso: In the ‘neck’ Philada a farm close to the Delaware River., Key to buildings depicted printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Farms
Date: [1866]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Farms

Title: [F. Brown druggist, storefront] 1822
Description: View showing the original store of Frederick Brown, chemist, druggist, and patent medicine dealer at 441 Chestnut Street. The three-story building contains large display windows. A wagon loaded with goods rests near the side of the building and two pedestrians pass crates lining the sidewalk. Men greet each other at the doorway of the storefront., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00016, Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: [Frederick Brown, storefront] 1868
Description: View showing the new five-story building of Frederick Brown, chemist, druggist, and patent medicine dealer at 441 Chestnut Street. Men greet each other at the doorway. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and omnibuses and wagons travel in the street., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer, pdcp00017, Probably printed by Helfensteiu & Lewis., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: New Mill House at Fairmount. H. P. M. Birkinbine. Chief Engineer
Description: View showing the new mill house on the mound dam at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Also shows a partial view of the old mill house and a visitor at the top of the stairs leading to the interior of the new building. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Printed upper right corner: Pl. 1., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 503, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - small - Water Works, Box 73, Folder 8
Date: 1861
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - small - Water Works, Box 73, Folder 8

Title: Rialto House, Christopher Dusch, proprietor. Fairmount Park
Description: Advertisement for the Rialto House tavern and restaurant north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. Shows several activities occurring around and at the three-story tavern with cupola. Tavern patrons stand on the porch, balconies, and cupola as horse-drawn street cars travel past the establishment. In the foreground, visitors wait at a boat landing under an elegant shelter and in front of a ferry boat about to dock. Also shows scullers and men in rowboats, including one fishing, on the river. A boat house, probably Quaker City, is visible in the left distant background. The tavern served lager beer, fried catfish, and mint juleps., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 647, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 32 R 235
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 32 R 235

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

Title: Philadelphia Schuetzen-Verein. 1869
Description: Shows hundreds of members, their faces copied from photographs, of the German-American shooting club posed on the grounds of the club park, Schützen Park, east of Indian Queen Lane in East Falls. The massive crowd of prominent men, many holding rifles, sits, stands, reclines on rocks, lift their hat in celebration, greet one another, and attend to their hunting dogs. At the center of the group, a man wears a sash and holds the banner of the club. Five different types of hunting dogs are depicted in the foreground. Also shows the banquet hall and members taking target practice in the background. The Philadelphia Schützenverein was founded in 1864., Inscribed on recto: 1869., Not in Wainwright., "J" in artist's name reversed on print., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 595, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 PH 533
Creator: C. P. & A. J. Tholey, artist
Date: [1869]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 03 PH 533

Title: The horrible murder of the Dearing Family The above picture is a correct representation of the interior of the the barn and appearance of the murdered family as sketched by the artist shortly after the discovery of the murder, the murderer is in the act of dragging the bodies of Mrs. Dearing and the children into the adjoining corn crib, seen through the window to the right of the picture. Names of the murdered family: Christopher Dearing, aged 38 years; his wife, Julia Dearing, aged 45 years; their son, John Dearing, aged 8 years; their son, Thomas Dearing, aged 6 years; their daughter, Anna Dearing, aged 4 years; their daughter, Emily Dearing, aged 2 years; his niece [sic], Elizabeth Dolan, aged 25 years; and Cornelius Cary, aged 17 years
Description: News print showing the Philadelphia family murdered by their farmhand Anton Probst at their farm at Jones Lane in South Philadelphia on April 7, 1866. Probst, his face partially covered by the wall above the passageway, drags the body of one of the boys through it to the crib. The goateed murderer drags the boy by his feet, face up, from the pile of corpses laying on the hay covered floor. To the left of the image, Mrs. Dearing lays face down and covered by the bodies of her older children, who lay face up and with slit throats. Her hand is outstretched and resting on the baby, whose throat is also slit. To the right, in front of a barrel below a window, Mr. Dearing lays face up, a slit in his throat, his face covered by hay, and next to family friend Miss Dolan. She lays face down, her arms outstretched and her cross visible from beneath her body. Also shows, a pitchfork and ax propped against the wall in the background across from an opening to another section of the barn where cows stand in stalls. The murdered farmhand, Cary, is not depicted. Probst, a German immigrant and swindler, was a disgruntled former farmhand of the Dearings who murdered the family by hammer and ax for revenge and money. He was convicted in May 1866 and executed the following month at Moyamensing Prison for the largest murder in Philadelphia at that time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 361, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 D 285
Date: [1866]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 892 D 285

Title: Swar thmore College
Description: View showing the original building, later named Parrish Hall, of the college founded by Hicksite Quakers in 1860 and opened in 1869. In the foreground, a dirt road runs past the college. Parrish Hall, named for first president Edward Parrish, contained a library, geological museum, classrooms, a chemical laboratory, parlors, dining-room, kitchen, and student rooms. The cornerstone was laid 1866 and the building completed after the designs of Addison Hutton., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00028, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 247, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 27A:41
Creator: Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926, artist
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 27A:41

Title: Gettysburg, Pa. July 3rd 1863
Description: Print containing series of vignettes of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the left, depicts two Confederate soldiers holding rifles, labeled "C.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General Robert Lee; and Confederate soldiers with cannons, labeled, "Artillery Duel Confederate." In the center, shows Confederate soldiers holding rifles and marching forward during "Pickett's Charge." In the right, depicts two Union soldiers holding rifles labeled, "U.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General George Meade; and Union soldiers with cannons labeled, "Artillery Duel Union." In the lower center, shows an eagle with outstretched wings and an American flag crest with a swords, a rifle, and a cannon., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Manuscript written in the lower left: Artist proof., Artist signature written in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: M. Krause, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Battles -Gettysburg [P.2011.45.7]

Title: Schooley's Mountain Seminary, N.J
Description: View of clapboard building surrounded by trees. One boy flies a kite, others push hoops, and groups of boys and girls stand on the front lawn and porch. The Reverend Luke Stoutenburg established a school ca. 1870 in Schooley Mountain (Morris County, N.J.), an area long known for its medicinal springs., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Ferd. Mayer & Co, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Education [P.2010.6.26]

Title: Illustrated description of the Battle of Gettysburg. By Holtzworth. [graphic] / Peck.
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Theatrical poster for the illustrated lecture by Civil War veteran and battlefield guide, William David Holtzworth, who toured throughout the United States decribing the Battle of Gettysburg. Contains a montage of scenes of military life including preparations for battle, wagon train caravans, drills, charges, removal of the dead, reconnaissance, and a soldier reading a letter from home by the campfire. Also contains an inset of a portrait of Holtzworth.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles [(2)5786.F.150a]

Title: Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865. [graphic] / F. Bourquin, Chesnut St. 602.
Description: Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room.
Creator: Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808 lithographer., creator
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]

Title: Henry Simons. Wagon & U.S. national coach works. Philadelphia [graphic] / W.H. Rease N.E. cor 4th. & Chestnut Sts.,i
Description: Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Select link below for a digital image., Lower left corner missing., Advertisement with ornate border containing a series of vignettes displaying several types of wagons, coaches, and carts produced by the manufactory. Vignettes are captioned with details of the products uses and surround a central view of the exterior of the busy "Simons, Coleman & Co. National Wagon Works" factory and office at No. 1109 North Front Street. Vignettes depict: African American plantation workers transporting sugar cane to a barge by a "cane cart"; laborers and settlers hauling materials out West by "road wagon" and "catamaran"; an ambush of U.S. Army soldiers, baggage wagon, and ambulance by Native Americans; and a busy Philadelphia port scene with a disinterested constable overseeing the wharf congested with carts and wagons as docked Henry Simons's factory ships ready for departure. Also contains an allegorical scene with a Northern factory worker and his Southern patron extending each other their hands before the shadowy figure of a factory agent; a large American eagle clutching the American flag; promotional text; and a listing of the factory's several business locations and names of agents. The city's high quality blacksmithship and large local lumber supply made Philadelphia the primary national and international manufacturer of wagons immediately following the Civil War.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W174.htm

Title: Shadows of the times
Description: Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]

Title: Shadows of the times
Description: Series of three Civil War satires containing captioned vignettes utilizing shadow figures to cynically depict the threat of a European intervention; the prowess of the military; and the exploitation of war news. Plate 1 contains two scenes foreshadowing possible British, French, and Prussian invasions. Shows Queen Victoria, on the shore of Britain, accompanied by demons and restraining the British lion while she threatens Columbia, "I will sink your ships and burn your factories they are a perfect nuisance." Columbia, atop a globe flanked by warships, holding an American flag and shield, and with a man at her feet thumbing his nose at Britain, replies, "You don't say so!! Very glad to see you." Second scene shows Emperor Napoleon III, and probably, Prussian commander Otto Von Bismarck conversing in a parlor in front of framed paintings of Napoleon I in exile and Frederick the Great commanding his army. Bismark points to the Napoleon painting and comments "General. St. Helena is not forgotten." Plate 2 includes "Good Bye to the Lager" showing male civilians and a soldier at a saloon; the disorganized and distracted "Jeff. Davis' Body Guard"; soldiers chasing, bayoneting; and roasting pigs for "Pig duty in the Sacred Soil"; and "Rather moist" showing a military caravan crossing a river. Plate 3 includes "Somerset Polka (Quick Step)" depicting the death and chaos of a military battle; newsboys hawking the "Evening Bulletin. Capture of Fort Pulsing" to a crowd of eager pedestrians; a soldier, "One of the Chivalry in excitement," stretching from a nap; overweight and doddering soldiers "Going to play the Yankee Doodle down South"; an officer in a huff demanding "Why didn't you call when you saw me coming?" to a lieutenant who responds, "Senty. Beg pardon Sir, I thought you was an animal."; and infantrymen threatening a cow "Surrender or you are a dead Man.", Plate numbers printed upper right corner., Originally part of McAllister scrapbooks of Civil War materials and Civil War caricatures and photographs., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Kramer, Peter, 1823-1907, artist
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons 1862-3 [(10)1540.F; 5780.F; 5780.F.32-34]

Title: Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865
Description: Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room., Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 607, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Creator: Bourquin, F. (Frederick), b. 1808, lithographer
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Theatres & halls - A (2)5786.F.106a]

Title: Wm. Painter & Co., bankers, No. 110 South Third Street, buy all kinds of quartermasters' vouchers, including certificates for deserters, and court martial certificates
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Painter [5786.F.9p]

Title: Bought of Russell & Landis, importers & wholesale druggists, & dealers in paints, oils, glass, varnishes, & c., also manufacturers of pure lily white lead, hunters iron paint, & ivory white lead. no. 5 North Fifth Street (3 doors above Market.) Geo. P. Russell. D. C. Landis
Description: Billhead of the Philadelphia druggist containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the firm's storefront on Fifth Street. View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus and a man pushing a hand cart. Print also contains a pictorial detailed composed of a ribbon overlaid filigree and reading "All Claims to Be Reported Within Ten Days After Receipt of Goods." Terms of payment and shipping are also included. Russell & Landis relocated from the 400 block of Market and Fifth Street circa 1870., Completed in manuscript to F. P. Magraw on October 27, 1870 for $12.60., Stamped on recto: Paid Jul 19, 1904, E.K. Thompson & Son., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.389]

Title: Bought of Stretch, Bennett & Co. (Successors to Peter T. Wright & Co.) Importers of and dealers in drugs and medicines. Also brandies & wines for medical purposes. No. 609 Market St
Description: Billhead of the Philadelphia firm containing ornate lettering and an exterior view of the business's six-story store front at 609 Market Street. View also shows crates in the second floor windows, a passing horse-drawn omnibus, and laborers loading crates onto drays. Joseph S. Bennett entered into the established business of Peter T. Wright & Co. in 1858, which was reestablished as Stretch, Bennett & Co. circa 1865. The firm was later succeeded by Joseph S. Bennett & Co., Completed in manuscript to Ebun Somers on January 21, 1867 for two items for $14.80., Manuscript note in pencil on recto: Pd by Cash. E. Pope., Manuscript note in ink on recto: Rec'd Payment Stretch Bennett & Co. pr Grigg., 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]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - Billheads -1879 (N-R) - R [P.2011.46.407]

Title: Cornish & Co., new manufactory. High grade organs & pianos, Washington, New Jersey, U.S.A
Description: Pictorial envelope containing a bird's eye view showing the organ and piano manufactory complex. View includes street and pedestrian traffic, including two trains and several railcars. Also shows surrounding buildings. Cornish & Co. was established circa 1880 and operated until circa 1922., Title from printed return address., Addressed in manuscript to: Post Master [stamped] Birchrunville, Chester Co., Penn., Contains cancelled one-cent stamp printed in blue ink and depicting Benjamin Franklin in profile., Numeric calculations in pencil on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.76]

Title: E. Andrews, manufacturer of saws, patent hooks and stirrups, patent taks, patent spring steel wood-saw frames
Description: Envelope containing pictorial details depicting different styles of hooks, saws, and taks surrounding the advertising text. The Andrews manufactory founded in 1860 was reorganized as E. Andrews & Sons in 1882., Title from printed return address., Contains ink-stamp postmark: Williamsport, PA Decd 23 7 PM and cancelled three-cent stamp printed in green ink and depicting George Washington in profile., Date inferred from stamp., Addressed in manuscript to: Miss Herr Rieker & Co., Salona, Pa., Printed above title: If not called for in 10 days return., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Envelopes [P.2011.10.70]

Title: [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Description: Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]

Title: [Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
Description: Series of specimens (some proofs) depicting masonic, military, allegorical, and patriotic imagery, transportation views, women, agriculture, buildings, animals, and machinery. Includes views of locomotives traveling railroad tracks; sailing and steam boats; mines and mine workers; distilleries and refineries; farmers, farm hands, and farm animals; female allegorical figures of liberty, justice, and bounty; and sailors, blacksmiths, and steam factory workers. Imagery also depicts Native Americans; peasants; sheep herding; the American eagle; masonic emblems; historical and patriotic figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; storefronts, factories, and government buildings, including A. Exton cracker bakery (Trenton, N.J.) and Phoenix Iron Foundry (Wilmington, Del.); military camp and solider; deers, dogs, and children with animals; state and corporate seals, including Pennsylvania; and a city block on fire and an erupted volcano., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger, Klauprech & Menzel, Stein & Jones, and Jacob Weiss., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860-ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.155-162]

Title: The Union Business College [certificate]
Description: Receipt certificate for the Philadelphia business school, later renamed Peirce Business College, containing a vignette depicting the allegorical figure of Columbia. She holds a fasces and laurel wreath. Also contains a blank space (for a stamp) framed with an ornate border and a pictorial detail designed as a medal engraving., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.216b]

Title: Vankirk & Co. Philadelphia
Description: Series of trade catalog illustrations showing different styles of chandelier lamps produced by the chandelier works in Frankford. Includes views of three-, four-, and six-light chandliers with globe-, bell-, and fluted-shaped glass shades, Style numbers include no. 362, no. 363, no. 404, no. 457 and no. 661 (including "for Coal Oil"). Prints also includes the spread (from 19 to 36 in.) of the light fixtures., Three of the four prints contain plate numbers in upper right corner: Plate 59, 62, and 63., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Boell relocated his establishment to 312 & 314 Walnut Street in 1868.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.229-230]

Title: Vankirk & Co. Philadelphia
Description: Series of trade catalog illustrations showing different styles of chandelier lamps produced by the chandelier works in Frankford. Includes views of three-, four-, and six-light chandliers with globe-, bell-, and fluted-shaped glass shades, Style numbers include no. 362, no. 363, no. 404, no. 457 and no. 661 (including "for Coal Oil"). Prints also includes the spread (from 19 to 36 in.) of the light fixtures., Three of the four prints contain plate numbers in upper right corner: Plate 59, 62, and 63., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Boell relocated his establishment to 312 & 314 Walnut Street in 1868.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.229-230]

Title: J. P. Buggy, palmoral [sic] skirts. Manufacturer
Description: Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]

Title: J. P. Buggy, palmoral [sic] skirts. Manufacturer
Description: Proof of textile label for the Philadelphia textile manufacturer Joseph P. Buggy showing a couple ice skating. The woman wears a balmoral skirt, overcoat, hat, and gloves. The man wears pants, a coat, scarf, hat, and gloves. Buggy established his manufactory at South Twenty-Fifth and Factory streets circa 1864., Printed below image: 144 x 45., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153l]

Title: Kremintz, white lead, zinc and color works. McKnight & Co., manufacturers, importers, and wholesale dealers, Twenty-Second & Race sts. Philadelphia We manufacture a chemically pure carbonate of lead; and also manufacturers , importers, and dealers in all grades & qualities of leads & zinc paints, colors, &c
Description: Trade card containing an exterior view of the "Kremintz, White Lead, Zinc and Color Works. McKnight & Co." factory and fenced courtyard. Laborers load a horse-drawn wagon near the entryway and another wagon travels down the street. View also includes several smokestacks., Printed above image: G. S. McKnight. Cicero Hunt., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154c]

Title: [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
Description: Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]

Title: [Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
Description: Trade cards for wine and beer importers John Brueck (617 S. Third St.) and John Betz containing a view of a village along the Rhine River. Betz trade card, possibly a proof, also includes vignettes depicting a wine bottle and glass, and a bunch of grapes. Brueck operated a tavern in 1862., Title supplied by cataloger., Name of printer from P.9349.154k., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.154k&o & 189a]

Title: United States Plate Glass Insurance Co. of Philadelphia [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate for the company "chartered by the legislature of Pennsylvania 1867" containing an allegorical vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view. View includes horses, the American eagle, and cityscape and a steam boat in the background. Certificate also contains pictorial details, including filigree and scrolls, and a decorative border. The company, later renamed the United States Liability Insurance Company of Philadelphia, was in operation until 1941 before remaining dormant until 1951., Printed in border: Shares $100 Each., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.236a]

Title: Steel's Bay Printing Company [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing a view of the printing company in "Camden Co. New Jersey." View shows the factory building, including smokestacks and a tank, along a riverbank. Men in a rowboat and a sailboat are visible on the water in the foreground. Certificate also contains pictorial details deisgned as frames surrounding printed text and a space for a stamp. Details include flowers, scrolls, and filigree., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.237b]

Title: Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach Haupt Depot, German medicine store, 631 Arch St
Description: Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]

Title: Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach Haupt Depot, German medicine store, 631 Arch St
Description: Label for the patent medicine showing a medieval scene in the wilderness. Depicts a medieval soldier leaning against a tree and his shield. An ax and club rest beneath him. The soldier wears a pony tail and chest plate. Also contains advertising text in German in the side borders. The bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), entered the United States market in the 1840s., Printed in lower border: Genuine Signed. C.M. Jackson. Philadelphia., Date of printing based on business address advertised., C. M. Jackson began marketing bitters in the United States about 1848. He operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859, and then 631 Arch Street. Jones & Evans assumed operations of the office and factory circa 1862., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [printed ca. 1861], c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.190c]

Title: Pennsylvania Building Block Co. [certificate]
Description: Stock certificate containing an allegorical vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view. View includes horses, the American eagle, and cityscape and a steam boat in the background. Certificate also contains pictorial details, including filigree, flowers, and a ribbon, and a decorative border., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Leonhardt relocated his establishment to 114 South Third Street in 1868.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.235a]

Title: Gray Reserves Company D, First Regiment, Reserve Brigade, P.M. [certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing an allegorical vignette depicting the seal of Pennsylvania as a scenic view. View includes horses, the American eagle, and cityscape and a steam boat in the background. Certificate also contains corner details and a decorative border. The Gray Company was established in 1861 and active into the 20th century., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.235b]

Title: John Faulkner, carter & teamster, 30th and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia Hauling of machinery a specialty
Description: Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Faulkner [P.2006.20.64]

Title: Goddard & Co. apothecaries, No. 1228 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting the head and antlers of a deer and embellished with foliage and filigree., Manuscript note on verso: [Name illegible] Bryson & Son prs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized., The partnership of Stein & Jones, established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871 and its reestablishment as Jones & Potsdamer.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Goddard [P.9349.408]

Title: Bought of Edwin Hall, no. 28 South Second St., silks, shawls, dress goods, cloths, mourning goods, furnishing goods, gloves, hosiery, embroideries, laces, white goods &c
Description: Bilhead containing a vignette showing the exterior of the four-story dry goods store. Patrons enter the building past large display windows at which passers-by review the merchandise. In the foreground, a horse-drawn omnibus travels and a man on horseback greets a gentleman on the sidewalk., Completed in manuscript to Mr. C .J. Collings on May 1, 1871 for several items, including flannel, muslin, pink chintz, edging, lace, and ribbon, purchased between February 27 and March 3. Prices range from $.08 for lace to $2.75 for cuffs. Bill totals $21.34., Manuscript note on recto: 7/30 Recd Payt Edwin Hall., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.134]

Title: To Fenstermacher Brothers, Dr. Shipping and commission merchants, no. 5 Walnut Street, above Delaware Avenue, oysters, fruits, poultry, &c
Description: Billhead containing a vignette view showing a shipping dock. Stevedores load and unload horse-drawn wagons parked near a wharf. Ships are visible in the background and rows of barrels and baskets lay on the ground in the foreground., Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. F. [Kunk?] on July 19, 1873 for "1 Bbl Potatoes" $5.75; "Cartage" $.10: 5.85., Manuscript note on recto: Rec Payment Fensmach [illegible] Aug 9/73, Printed below image: Copyright Secured, Manuscript note on verso: Fenstermach & Bro $5.85., Calculation in pencil inscribed on verso., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.130]

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