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Title: View of Chestnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view looking east on Chestnut Street from below Fifth Street showing the United States Hotel built in the early 1800s at 419-423 Chestnut. Includes the nearby business of A.L. Vanhorn, "Suspender Stock Russian Belt manufacturer" (403 Chestnut) and the adjacent "Bank" building (425 Chestnut). Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including two carriages parked in front of the hotel, men on horseback traveling in the street, and a couple strolling near men conversing in front of the steps to the Custom House (420 Chestnut Street), partially visible to the right of the image. Hotel purchased by the Philadelphia Bank in 1856., pdcp00009, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 787, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 4th-7th, Original in the collections of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa.
Creator: Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Date: c1840
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 4th-5th

Title: Wyck in March 1840, from daguerreotype made by Prof. Walter R. Johnson
Description: Copy of daguerreotype depicting the exterior view of the house as it looked in 1840. Earliest section of the house built circa 1690 by Hans Milan. Center section and alterations were designed and completed by William Strickland in 1824. For nine generations belonged to the Wistar-Haines family., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.58]

Title: Millverton, home of Joseph Lea and Sarah Ann Robeson, his wife, at mouth of Wissahickon. From painting
Description: Copy of a painting depicting Millverton from the west bank of the Schuylkill River looking northeast. Occupied by Joseph Lea and Sarah Ann Robeson, the daughter of Peter Robeson, who purchased the nearby estate in Shoomac Park the year Sarah was born. Located immediately north of the Wissahickon Creek near Ridge Avenue. In the background, a train crosses the Norristown Railroad Bridge, which dwarfs the Ridge Avenue Bridge in front of it. Another house sits on a hill north of Millverton. There is activity on and near the river in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Property later known as the Riverside Mansion.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.165]

Title: [Interior of Christ Church, Philada. in 1785]
Description: Photographic reproduction of an engraving attributed to James Peller Malcolm of the tromp l'oeil decorated chancel of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1727-1744 at 22-34 North 2nd Street. Shows the wineglass pulpit built by cabinetmaker John Folwell, the palladian window, archways, and balconies. Includes the decorative motif of the rising sun symbolizing resurrection above the pulpit., Title and publication information supplied by carte de visite duplicate in the collections of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., Original engraving in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: McAllister & Brother
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Brother [(4)1322.F.65]

Title: View of the old Capitol
Description: Reproduction of an 1837 print "View of the Capitol at Washington" engraved by C.J. Bentley after the work of W. H. Bartlett and published in N. P. Willis's American Scenery;... (London: George Virtue, 1837). Shows the Capitol building with the Bulfinch dome that was removed in 1856. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, a man on horseback, and a group of Black men and women in non-European attire in the foreground. Reconstruction of the Capitol building after the designs of Charles Bulfinch was completed in 1826., Title from label., Date inferred from content and active dates of the photographer., Gift of Sandra Markham.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Rau - United States [P.2006.21.1]

Title: Second Street north from Market St. wth. Christ Church. Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Second Street north from Market Street in Philadelphia including Christ Church and the Old Courthouse and market. Depicts the busy street corner with people riding horses, driving and loading carts, conducting business, and walking and performing errands. In front of the Courthouse, vendors sit and sell their goods while nearby a constable on horseback is flanked by citizens. An African American boy carrying a basket strolls across Second Street. He walks toward two men and a child convened together and a man on horseback traveling toward the church (his back to the viewer). A dog runs in front of the horse. Christ Church, a Protestant Episcopal Church, was built between 1727 and 1744 and was founded as part of a provision of the original charter given to Pennsylvania founder William Penn. The Old Courthouse, completed in 1710 was the town hall, seat of the Legislature, market house, and the Pennsylvania statehouse until Independence Hall was opened in 1748. The Courthouse was demolished in 1837., Manuscript note on recto: John A McAllister with compl[imen]ts of Jacob Broome., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 15., Broome was a Philadelphia lawyer and Pennsylvania legislator., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 15a facs./P.2276.34]

Title: [Warnick, Chadwick & Bro. stove factory and iron founders, northeast corner of 2nd & Race streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows several stoves and furnaces on display in front of the large stove manufactory. Building covered in signage advertising registers, ranges, stoves, and furnaces. Also shows a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Date on photograph.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859 or 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Industries - W [P.9808.1]

Title: [Northeast corner of Chestnut and Second streets]
Description: View looking east on Chestnut Street showing the north side of the block including Caspar Souder, bootmaker (43 Chestnut Street), and a leather store., Title supplied by cataloguer., Probably a reproduction of an 1843 daguerreotype by William G. Mason. See P.2282.16., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(3)1322.F.73d]

Title: Kill-Patrick suppressing the riot
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General, Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, nicknamed "Kill Cavalry" as a result of the high casualty rate of the men under his command. Shows Judson astride a horse as he impales a caricatured figure of an Irishman with a sword., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.8c]

Title: Semmes motto "I am here"
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Confederate naval officer, Raphael Semmes, who captained the commerce raider CSS Alabama. Shows Semmes as a pirate., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.18a]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Image faded.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.69c]

Title: Hart's Building, north side of Chestnut east from Sixth St
Description: View looking east from Sixth Street showing Hart's Building, a store and office building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 at 537-539 Chestnut. Signage advertising E.B. Mear, stereotype foundry, and Gilbert & Gihon, engravers on wood, adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including T.& J.W. Johnson, law book publisher (535 Chestnut); Eagle Hotel (530 Chestnut); J.W. Moore, importer and bookseller (531 Chestnut); and William J. Kern, French warehouse, and China Hall (529 Chestnut)., Reproduction of a daguerreotype originally photographed June 1851 by F.De B. Richards., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - H [(6)1322.F.83b], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/1322f83b.jpg

Title: [The Fisher House. Formerly No. 110 now 226 South Front Street The residence of Saml. R. Fisher - where he deceased. His son (only) Thomas then occupied the house where he died, on Tuesday morning, Feby 12th 1856. The house is remarkable from the "pent" roof over the front door - where the second or upper door appears in the picture there was a window similar to that remaining. S.R.F's counting house* no. 27 (old) Dock St. and storehouses were in the rear of this, on Dock Street. The houses northerly in view are to the N.W. cor. of Front and Granite Street.]
Description: View looking east showing the 200 block of Front Street, including the former residence of merchants Samuel Rowland Fisher and his son Thomas Fisher. Also shows adjacent businesses including Kirkpatrick, DeHaven & Co., liquor dealers (228-230 S. Front) and the Pennsylvania Railroad Emigrant Line office (224 S. Front). Also shows barrels lining the sidewalk and a parked horse-drawn dray., Date inscribed on negative., Title from duplicate., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: May 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - F [(7)1322.F.27d]

Title: [Chestnut Street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a view showing a residential building on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. Includes partial view of signage reading "1011-" adorning the adjacent building., Reproduction of February 1859 photograph., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [8339.F.10]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]

Title: View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]

Title: Girard House Hotel, northeast corner of Chestnut & 9th St As viewed from the southwest across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street
Description: View looking northeast from the construction site of the Continental Hotel showing the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead & Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. Also shows an advertisement promoting "Bathing Robes at Sloans" visible on a building adjacent to the construction and a man standing on a section of the foundation. The Continental Hotel was built 1857-1860 after the designs of McArthur., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on (3)2526.F.115., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. (, One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 115. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., (6)1322.F.65b reproduction of (3)2526.F.115, (3)2526.F.115 reaccessioned as 8339.F.4.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels - G [(6)1322.F.65b; (3)2526.F.115], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/8339f4.jpg

Title: Old Houses, on the east of Fifth Street, with entrance to a "court," to Fred. Brown's iron buildings n.e. cor. of Chestnut and Fifth sts
Description: View showing the residence of Philadelphia artist Thomas Sully (23 S. 5th) and George Blake's music store (25 S. 5th). Sully lived in the residence, which included his living quarters, studio, and small exhibition gallery, circa 1828 until his death. Blake, a long-time friend of Sully, operated from the location circa 1814-1871. View includes Frederick Brown's apothecary store, i.e., "Iron Building" and court entrance. Also shows two men standing in front of the Sully residence., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.56 1/2., Date inscribed on photograph (3)2526.F.56 1/2., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount of 3)2526.F.56 1/2: (See page 58)., Manuscript note on mount of (3)2526.F.56 1/2: Thos. Sully Residence; Blakes Music Store., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 56 1/2. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: February 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo -Richards - Streets - Fifth [(6)1322.F.137c; (3)2526.F.56 1/2 (Poulson)]

Title: [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street]
Description: Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s., Title supplied by cataloguer., Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]

Title: North-west corner of Fifth and Arch street. (A primitive house)
Description: Photographic reproduction of a partially painted photograph showing the former house tenanted by C.G. Henderson & Co., booksellers and publishers, the "Cheap Book Store," at 501 Arch Street. Also shows two men standing in front of the building, which is adorned with several advertisements., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Compass directions inscribed on mount., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 33. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1976), entry #97., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: October 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - A [(2)2526.F.33(Poulson)]

Title: [African American toddler and baby in a pile of cotton]
Description: Copy print of a circa 1925 print depicting two babies, outdoor, in a large pile of cotton. In the left, the toddle, attired in a beaded necklace with a white cloth wrapped around its waist, sits up with some cotton in its hands and looks to the right at the infant. In the right, the infant lies in the cotton with its arms out., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1950]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Portraits - Babies

Title: Chestnut Street, east of Third
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view showing the 200 block of Chestnut Street with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. Businesses include Lewis Brothers & Co., importers of silk goods, Senat, Perot & Co., importers, Cottringer, Boyd & Gibbons, importers, and Lawrence Stone & Co. (80-82, i.e., 238-240); the Jayne Building (built 1849-1850) tenanted by Wesendock & Co. importers of silks & cloths, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, patent medicine, and Ellwood Shannon, tea dealer (84-86, i.e., 242-244); Oberteuffer & Freytag, importers, and Samuel Robinson, importers of Irish linens (88, i.e., 246); N. Thouron & Sons, importers of French goods, and Harden’s [sic] Express, probably A. Howard & Co. express (92, i.e., 248); and the U.S. Life Insurance Annuity & Trust Saving Fund building tenanted by Draper, Welsh & Co. Bank Note Engraving (94, i.e., 250). Includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn carriages, wagons, an omnibus, and drays travel in the street in addition to a dray situated to be loaded in front of the Jayne Building. Clusters of pedestrians walk near the Jayne and the Saving Fund buildings. In the foreground, on the opposite side of the street, families stroll, converse, and are greeted by other individuals near men, including laborers, talking near a pile of crates and a loaded dray. Also shows lettering reading "Howard" above the doorway of 92 Chestnut Street and a partial view of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00010, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 113, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 2nd-3rd
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: c1857
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 2nd-3rd

Title: I cannot sing the old songs. Or, the late home of a Union soldier
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a young widow, in mourning attire, crying over a piano in a parlor. A portrait of her deceased soldier husband hangs in the background., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator: Monroe, N.
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.53j]

Title: Liberty
Description: Reproduction of a drawing showing a bust-length portrait of the allegorical female figure of Liberty. She wears a gold crown, a necklace with a large medallion stamped "U.S.," and the American flag as a shawl., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs., Created postfreeze.
Creator: Horton, Henry W.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Caricatures & cartoons [5780.F.52b]

Title: Facsimile of the Emancipation Proclamation
Description: Photographic reproduction of a lithographic facsimile of the original draft of the proclamation printed and sold as a fundraiser for the Soldiers Home of Chicago. Facsimile includes a portrait of Lincoln and patriotic vignette. Lincoln gave the draft to the organizers of the 1863 Northwestern Sanitary Fair to be sold at auction and then donated to the Chicago Historical Society. Draft was bought by Thomas B. Bryan and given to the Soldiers Home before its display at the historical society., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5792.F.4j]

Title: Macbeth. November 16, 1861
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Philadelphia actor Edwin Forrest in the character of Macbeth. Shows the actor in a Scotch cap and holding a shield., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.157e]

Title: John Collins
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the New Jersey Quaker, founder of the New Jersey Horticultural Society, and developer of Miami Beach, Florida., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - C [(1)5750.F.98d]

Title: Napoleon III
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing the face of dictator Napoleon III comprised of human figures and a cannon. Depiction alludes to the failing Mexican empire established by Napoleon III in 1864 under the reign of Emperor Maxmilian, former Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maxmilian. Includes text in French below the image., Title from manuscript note on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons [(3)5750.F.160b]

Title: Edwin Booth
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature by William J. Gladding, Jr. of actor Edwin Booth in the character of Hamlet. Booth portrayed the character for 100 consecutive nights between November 26, 1864, and March 22, 1865, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - B [(1)5750.F.49i]

Title: Billy Morris
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature by William J. Gladding, Jr. of minstrel performer Billy Morris. Shows Morris at the bridles of a horse-drawn buggy followed by the grim reaper., Name of artist from duplicate in the collections of the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - M [(2)5750.F.146c]

Title: The New York Post boy
Description: Reproduction of a caricature of William Cullen Bryant, editor and part owner of the Republican, reformist newspaper, the New York Evening Post. Shows Bryant riding a horse saddled with an edition of the Post., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - unidentified - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.60 1/2b]

Title: The three graces
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of New York newspaper publishers Horace Greeley of the Tribune, James Gordon Bennett of the Herald, and George Jones of the N.Y. Times. Shows the three men standing next to each other on a mound while holding a copy of their respective newspapers., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil WAr.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall - Caricatures and cartoons [(3)5750.F.174c]

Title: The two Napoleons
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing dictators Napoleon I and Napoleon III standing side by side beneath a Phoenix., Title from manuscript note on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons [(3)5750.F.160a]

Title: The reliable gentleman
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the newspaper, The New York Herald. Shows Bennett with an umbrella under his arm, his hat at his feet, and an edition of his newspaper in hand., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits.
Creator: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Anthony - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.36d]

Title: Intelligent contraband
Description: Reproduction of a caricature of Horace Greeley, publisher of the newspaper, The New York Tribune. Shows Greeley as a hobo carrying a bundle on a stick inscribed "New York Tribune. H. Greeley."., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(1)5750.F.194c]

Title: The guerrilla chieftan
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, with the body of a guerilla., Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5795.F.13e]

Title: [Caricature of Jefferson Davis attired as a Chinese man]
Description: Shows Davis on a coast in front of a fleet of ships labeled "200 Chinese fleet" sailing toward a Chinese pagoda labeled "Richmond" in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Jefferson Davis and Confederate material., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5795.F.7d]

Title: It's no use knocking at the door
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing George McClellan holding a valise labeled "Strategy" using the knocker of a door labeled "White House" and "1865." James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald, attired as a Scotsman and holding a valise labeled "N.Y. Herald" accompanies the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. The New York Herald published several stories critical of Lincoln's management of the war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George B. McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24f; P.2006.1.23

Title: It's no use knocking at the door
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing George McClellan holding a valise labeled "Strategy" using the knocker of a door labeled "White House" and "1865." James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald, attired as a Scotsman and holding a valise labeled "N.Y. Herald" accompanies the former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army. The New York Herald published several stories critical of Lincoln's management of the war., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George B. McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: J. Hall & Co.
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Hall - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24f; P.2006.1.23

Title: Jefferson Davis smelleth a mice and reflects
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature showing a rotund man, turned away from a full length mirror and aghast at a mouse scurrying down a pole resting on the rung of a rolling ladder., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to George McClellan., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5793.F.24d]

Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: I wish I was in Dixie
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist and anti-abolition caricature of Abraham Lincoln showing Lincoln as a banjo playing Southerner with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his pocket., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4f]

Title: "As if he had been in a bottle strongly corked."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature satirizing Benjamin Butler's failed expedition at Bermuda Hundred on the peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign (1864). As quoted in Ulysses S. Grant's 1885-1886 memoirs, Butler's command of the movement of the troops left the general "as if he had been in a bottle strongly corked" by the Confederate line. Shows Butler encased in a corked bottle in front of a map labeled "Bermuda Hundred.", LCP holds original caricature drawing, probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook [drawings & watercolors - unid. - B (P.2006.1.11)]., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [P.2006.1.12]

Title: [Photographic reproduction of a caricature of Abraham Lincoln attired as an elderly woman]
Description: Shows Lincoln attired in a black dress and bonnet reading a "Draft" paper with a magnifying glass., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln., Also used as vignette in cartoon titled "Our Bleeding Country's Infernal Revenue Stamps." [5792.F.4i], Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Brewerton - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.4c]

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

Title: The negro on the brain
Description: Photographic reproduction of a racist woodcut caricature showing Abraham Lincoln wearing a naked African American shaped as a stovepipe hat. Contains photographic reproduction of several lines of verse in English and German on verso: A goodly difference does exist; Among the party that did call; There is among them many a [one?]; Conservative and true at heart; But there are others [who insist?]; The white man's freedom would deny; To place them on an equal footing; No matter what the cost may be; Something is for the negro done; The negro on the brain., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., 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: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [5792.F.1a]

Title: Resurgam. In memory of our late president
Description: Photographic reproduction of a memorial print showing a cross resting on a base of rocks inscribed with the names of the states. Two hanging black banners flank the cross. Cross adorned with a shield labeled "Pro Patrie.", Unmounted carte de visite., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln.
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Genre & sentimental [5792.F.97e]

Title: President Lincoln's hearse
Description: Photographic reproduction of a print showing the five horse-team drawn catafalque carrying the flower-covered casket of the President stopped in front of a church. White men funeral officials, attired in black suits and top hats, attend the horses and hearse. Mourners line the city street, including an African American man., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by Henszey & Co., Photographers, No. 812 Arch St., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Henszey & Co.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Henszey & Co. - Lincoln [5792.F.48b]

Title: Joseph Hooker
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of the Union General known as "Fighting Joe" Hooker. Shows Hooker as a pugilist., Title from manuscript note on mount: Jos. Hooker., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.7c]

Title: Lincoln's "guardian angel."
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature of William Seward, the Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln. Shows Seward with a vest and coat, wings, and a toga skirt. He holds a sword. Also includes a caricature of Napoleon III in "Mexico" in the background. Seward threatened American intervention against the puppet government installed in Mexico by France in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Trimmed., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Civil War - Caricatures and cartoons [(11)1540.F.18b]

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