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Title: Steamer Missouri
Description: View of the steamboat travelling down a river. Includes African Americans dancing on deck near a crewman carrying logs; passengers walking on the roof of the boat; and dwellings lining the riverbank. The steamer ran in the St. Louis - New Orleans trade; served in the Mexican American War; and was referenced in the Mark Twain novel "Tom Sawyer." Ship was destroyed by fire 1851., Title from item., Date from accompanying sellers label., Gift of David Doret, 2004., 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., Klauprecht & Menzel, a partnership between Emil Klauprecht and Adophus Menzel, operated 1839-1855.
Creator: Klauprecht & Menzel, lithographer
Date: [1841]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Transportation [P.2004.44.27]

Title: [Liberator masthead, 1850
Description: Engraving is divided into two parts by a roundel in the center that features a Christ-figure with a cross. The words "I come to break the bonds of the oppressors" are printed around the roundel's periphery. To the left, a black man kneels at Christ's feet. With shackled wrists, he holds his hands together in prayer. To the right, a slaveholder is positioned on the ground; most of his body is oriented away from Christ. Scene to the left of the roundel shows a slave auction, identified as such by a sign that reads "Slaves, Horses, & Other Cattle in Lots to Suit Purchase." (Versions of the sign appear in earlier Liberator mastheads.) An auctioneer stands on a raised platform over which an American flag flies; a small black child sits at his feet. Crying, the child covers his face with his hands. Several other slaves (adults and children) huddle around the rear of the platform, while a number of slaveowners stand in front of it. A courthouse (or another government building) appears in the distant background; a flag that reads "SLAVERY" waves above it. The scene to the right of the roundel depicts the emancipation of the slaves. A similar building appears in the background. In this case, however, the flag above it reads "FREEDOM." With a sea of flags, a parade (of troops?) marches through a triumphal arch marked "EMANCIPATION." In the foreground, freed slaves of varying ages cluster in front of a building that may represent a schoolhouse. Seated in a rocking chair, an eldery slave holds an infant in her out-stretched arms. A lamb, a dog, and other animals stand on the edge of the group., Masthead from the Liberator, ed. William Lloyd Garrison (Boston: Y.B. Yerrinton & Son, Printers, 1850), vol. XX, no. 22, whole no. 1012 (May 31, 1850), p. 85., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator: Hartwell
Date: [May 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per L 21 1646.F v XX n 22 May 31 1850 p 85, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2882

Title: The battle ground at Germantown. Cliveden or Chew's House
Description: Periodical illustration depicting the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. On the grounds in the foreground, a white boy stands beside a chair and exchanges a book with an African American man. Benjamin Chew owned property from Delaware to Maryland, including plantations that enslaved people. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Plate from: Godey's magazine and lady's book, December, 1844. (LCP Per G 43)., Smith, a prominent Philadelphia landscape painter and friend of Godey's publisher, Louis A. Godey, had several of his Philadelphia and Pittsburgh views engraved for the 1844 issues of the periodical. Smith's painting, Chew House, Germantown, is in the collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., 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.
Creator: Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, engraver
Date: [December 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11x14 - Residences [(7)1322.F.12b]

Title: Josh educating a pig
Description: Racist periodical illustration that illustrated the James Fenimore Cooper serial "The Islets of the Gulf, or Rose Budd" in the January 1847 issue of Graham's Magazine. Depicts the scene from the story set during the Mexican-American War aboard a sailing ship when the character Josh, an older Black man cabin hand, teaches a pig "to know their place"-- not to be on the quarter-deck--with scalding water. Shows, in the right, on a ship deck, Josh, attired in a blue-checkered shirt, red vest and tie, yellow pants, and boots, standing with his legs apart, and holding a cloth in his right hand and a kettle in his left hand. He pours "scalding" water from the kettle onto a squealing pig by his feet. He is portrayed with a smile and steam rises from the back of the pig. To the left are a young Black man, attired in a brown broad-rimmed hat, shirt, pants, and boots and an older white man with a chin-beard and attired in a brown jacket, white vest, blue pants, and shoes. The younger man stands with his feet crossed and leans on the ship railing behind him. The older man is portrayed with a rotund midriff and holds his left hand in his vest pocket and his right hand on the railing on which he leans. A lantern-like object is visible in the left foreground and sailing line and a rope ladder are visible in the right background. Scene also includes a cloudy sky, the ocean, and distant sailing ships in the background. Josh and the white man character are portrayed with exaggerated features and/or manners., Title from item., Date from item., Originally published in Graham's Magazine, January 1847, aft. p. 54., Hand-coloring probably added after removal from publication., RVCDC
Date: 1847
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Fictional Characters - J [P.2022.17]

Title: Robt Adrain
Description: Half-length portrait of the mathematician, professor, and author. Adrain, attired in a white shirt and scholarly black robes, faces the viewer with his right hand on an open book. Adrain was born in Ireland and left due to his revolutionary beliefs. He taught at Queens College (later Rutgers), Columbia, and University of Pennsylvania where for a short while he was also Vice-Provost., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Appears in "The United States magazine and Democratic review" (June 1844), 24: frontis., Accessioned 1884., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Reason was an African American artist, engraver and lithographer working in New York City in the 1830s and 1840s.
Creator: Reason, Patrick Henry, 1816-1898, engraver
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - A [52551.O.13a]

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