A Prayer for the Southern cause.
Title
A Prayer for the Southern cause
Description
Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 8.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; 5795.F.82a printed on yellow paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.81c (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.82a (McAllister)
A Prayer for the Southern cause.
Title
A Prayer for the Southern cause
Description
Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 18.2 x 8.7 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; 5795.F.82a printed on yellow paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.81c (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Prayer 5795.F.82a (McAllister)
American national songs for the Union.
Title
American national songs for the Union
Description
Caption title., Copyright 1861 by William Beschke., "American national songs for the Union! To the Hon. William H. Seward most respectfully dedicated by this devoted and humble friend: William Beschke. Philadelphia, in June, 1861."--p. [4]., With two eagles and one seal on p. [4]., "Every loyal man in the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, is entitled to one copy gratis, from the War- and Navy-Departments. Such copies for the U.S. Militia, Army and Navy, are for that purpose only and not saleable, printed with two seals, marked W.B., and with one eagle. All saleable copies are printed with one seal, marked W.B., and with two eagles. ... Copies to be had, wholesale and retail, 531 Chestnut-Str., Philadelphia."--p. [1] and p. [4]., The first page contains words and music to six numbered patriotic songs; the second and third pages are identical and each have the caption title "Appendix to six 'American national songs for the Union!' By William Beschke."; the fourth page has the words only to the six numbered songs., William Beschke, the inventor of the breech-loading cannon, was a staunch supporter of the Union cause and published this broadside as a diatribe against Jeff Davis. He wrote derogatory lyrics to a German melody, Hail Columbia, Marseillaise, Haydn's Austrian National, God Save our Noble Queen, and Yankee Doodle. Members of the Union forces were entitled to one free copy from the War and Navy Departments [see 5782.F.4c]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4a (McAllister), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 5782.F.4b (McAllister)
Geburts- und Tauf-Schein.
Title
Geburts- und Tauf-Schein Den beiden Ehegatten, als: [blank] und seiner Ehefrau [blank] eine geborne [blank] beide wohnhaft in [blank] ist ein [blank] zur Welt geboren den [blank] im Jahr Christi 18[blank] Dieses Kind wurde hierauf getauft den [blank] durch Herrn Pfarrer [blank] und erhielt [blank] Namen [blank] Die Taufzeugen waren: [blank]
Description
A birth and baptismal certificate, with verse in six numbered stanzas; first line: Ich bin Getauft auf deinen Namen,., Printed in Reutlingen, Germany, in the 1830s by B.G. Kurtz for the American market. At head of ornamental border is an eagle with a shield, and the banner: E pluribus unum., Printed area, including hand-painted ornamental border, measures 37.4 x 28.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[183-?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1830 Geburts 9639.F (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1830 Geburts 9640.F (Roughwood)
Geburts- und Tauf-Schein. : Den beiden Ehegatten, als: [blank] und seiner Ehefrau [blank] eine geborne [blank] beide wohnhaft in [blank] ist ein [blank] zur Welt geboren den [blank] im Jahr Christi 18[blank] Dieses Kind wurde hierauf getauft den [blank] d
Title
Geburts- und Tauf-Schein Den beiden Ehegatten, als: [blank] und seiner Ehefrau [blank] eine geborne [blank] beide wohnhaft in [blank] ist ein [blank] zur Welt geboren den [blank] im Jahr Christi 18[blank] Dieses Kind wurde hierauf getauft den [blank] durch Herrn Pfarrer [blank] und erhielt [blank] Namen [blank] Die Taufzeugen waren: [blank]
Description
A birth and baptismal certificate, with verse in six numbered stanzas; first line: Ich bin Getauft auf deinen Namen,., Printed in Reutlingen, Germany, in the 1830s by B.G. Kurtz for the American market. At head of ornamental border is an eagle with a shield, and the banner: E pluribus unum., Printed area, including hand-painted ornamental border, measures 37.4 x 28.5 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[183-?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1830 Geburts 9639.F (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1830 Geburts 9640.F (Roughwood)
Geburts- und Taufschein.
Title
Geburts- und Taufschein Den beiden Ehegatten, als: [blank] [blank] und seiner ehelichen Hausfrau [blank] eine geborne [blank] ist ein [blank] zur Welt geboren, den [blank] 18[blank] im Jahre Herrn [blank] Diese [blank] wurde geboren in [blank] County, im Statte [blank] in Nordamerika, und wurde getauft und erhielt den Namen [blank] am [blank] im Jahre unsers Herrn 18[blank] von Herrn [blank] Die Taufzeugen waren: [blank]
Description
Copyright 1849 by Augs. Kollner., Printed area, including hand-colored ornamental border, measures 33.3 x 22.4 cm., Library Company copy 9644.F completed in MS. for Albert Moriz Althaus [later Morris A. Althouse], born May 15, 1858 in Centre Township, Berks County, Pa., son of Solomon H. and Esther Althaus Althaus, baptized Aug. 15, 1858, by Rev. Isaac Miesse, sponsored by Jacob and Catharina Nafzinger; imperfect: torn, affecting some text., Library Company copy 11396.F is blank., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[1849]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1849 Gebur 9644.F (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare $Am 1849 Gebur 11396.F (Doret)
Barren Hill Hotel, no. 1, (opposite the Germantown Road.) James Mewhinney, proprietor. Choice wines, liquors, and cigars.
Title
Barren Hill Hotel, no. 1, (opposite the Germantown Road.) James Mewhinney, proprietor. Choice wines, liquors, and cigars
Description
Trade card for the inn, later known as General Lafayette Inn, containing an embossed image of a man driving a horse-drawn buggy. Also contains a decorative border. Mewhinney operated the inn, first called Barren Hill Hotel in 1869, from 1874 to 1895., Embossed., 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., LCP also holds duplicate in the Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia ephemera [Freedman Collection - Trade Cards, P.2013.87.30].
Creator
McClement Bros., printer
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.7a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Trade cards [P.2013.87.30]
[Michael Zinman world's fairs collection]
Title
[Michael Zinman world's fairs collection]
Description
Collection of graphic materials documenting world's fairs of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, predominantly the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 (Philadelphia) and Exposition Universelle de 1867 à Paris. Includes stereographs, trade cards, collecting cards, lantern slides, and souvenirs. Graphics also depict the Great Exhibition of 1851; New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854); the Exposition Universelle de 1867 a Paris; the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878; the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; the Pan American Exposition of 1901 (Buffalo, N.Y.); the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (St. Louis, Mo.); and the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 (Philadelphia). Views show panoramas of the exhibition grounds and exteriors and interiors of exhibition buildings, including displays showing the wares and products of specific companies and countries, particularly porcelain and terra cotta; art, predominantly sculpture; and dioramas representing the social life and customs of different nations (Morocco, Japan, Sweden, and South America). Several trade cards issued during the Chicago World's Fair advertising the Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Penn'a. also contain anecdotal, caricatured scenes portraying prominent historical figures, including Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, and Benjamin Franklin. Collection also contains a small number of portraiture, views of events and prominent local buildings related to the Philadelphia exhibitions, and lantern slides issued by the Centennial Photographic Company., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, publishers, and manufacturers including Centennial Photographic Company; Curt Teich & Co.; Donaldson Bros.; Thomas Hunter; Ketterlinus; Longacre & Co.; M. Leon & J. Levy; Pan American Exposition Co.; and Philip Frey & Co., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Series IV. Lantern slides housed separately.
Date
[1851-ca. 1920]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36]
An essay of a declaration of rights, : brought in by the committee appointed for that purpose, and now under the consideration of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania..
Title
An essay of a declaration of rights brought in by the committee appointed for that purpose, and now under the consideration of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania
Description
Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed area measures: 32.9 x 17 cm., Library Company copy 962.F.92 annotated in the hand of Benjamin Franklin.
Creator
Pennsylvania, Constitutional Convention, (1776)
Date
[1776]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con 962.F.92, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1776 Pen Con Dickinson 24.7
We are coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 more.
Title
We are coming, Father Abraham, 300,000 more
Description
Lyrics by J.S. Gibbons; arranged by J.A. Getze., Number 2 1/2 in 6 pointed star on title page., First verse is printed on title page., Library Company has two copies, both lacking the music; copy 5782.F.15 includes all [4] p. of the wrapper; copy 1540.F includes p. [1-2] only., Information about this song is included in "Music For Patriots, Politicians & Presidents" by Vera Brodsky Lawrence (New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975) p. 364., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., A digital copy including music is available at the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music website.
Creator
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892, lyr
Date
1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare *Sheet Music We Are Com 5782.F.15, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare *Sheet Music We Are Com 1540.F
Wearing of the green, an Irish ballad of 1798.
Title
Wearing of the green, an Irish ballad of 1798
Description
Arranged by Gerald Lacey., Irish ballad., Music from "Arrah Na Pogue" by Dion Boucicault, 1820-1898., Two additional verses printed on page 5; publisher's plate # 225; number 3 in 6 pointed star on tp., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
c1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Wearing 8107.F.26, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Wearing 8107.F.28
Civil War stationery collection
Title
Civil War stationery collection
Description
Collection of stationery containing patriotic designs often used on patriotic envelopes, with a majority including a title, slogan, and/or verse. Designs predominately include views of regiment camps; images of soldiers, including battle and camp life scenes; patriotic symbols including flags, eagles, bells, shields, stars and the figure of liberty; portraiture of historic and military figures; and basic designs including stripes, colored edges, and lined borders. Unique designs with assigned LCP numbers include an untitled regiment view showing the soldiers playing baseball, possibly at Abner Doubleday's camp (RE-LCP 35); a view of Poughkeepsie from 1854 (SC-NW-LCP-3); the New York funeral procession for Abraham Lincoln on April 25, 1865 (SC-NW-LCP-4); two designs published by J.W. Barber of New Haven showing bars of music from "My Country Tis of Thee" (O-M-LCP-8) and an allegorical scene of Liberty fighting treason, rebellion, tyranny, and oppression (F-P-LCP-1). Collection also contains a series of seven Charles Magnus hand-colored designs containing birds-eye views and military maps. Views show Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. and the Capitol. Military maps shows Maryland and Virginia; Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction; Richmond and Alexandria; Fortress Monroe and Richmond; and the southern coast between Fortress Monroe and New Orleans. Collection also includes a small number of Confederate stationery. Confederates designs include a view of enslaved African American people driving a wagon of supplies to a battlefield and a satire of Abraham Lincoln as an Native American chief. Portraits include George Washington, George McClellan, and Elmer Ellsworth. Three uncut printed proof sheets of patriotic stationery used as ream wrappers and the first style of U.S. postcard (circa 1872) also included as part of the collection., Some copyrighted., Some contain manuscript notes., Various publishers including Philadelphia publishers James Magee and L. N. Rosenthal as well as New York publisher Charles Magnus., Title supplied by cataloger., See William R. Weiss, Jr.'s The catalog of Union Civil War patriotic covers (Bethleham, Pa.: William R. Weiss, 1995). LCP copy annotated to show collection holdings., See the George Walcott collection of used Civil War patriotic covers (New York: Robert Laurence, 1934)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Civil War. McAlliser Collection, gift, 1886., Reproduced in Erika Piola, "For the millions: Civil War stationery for women and children in the McAllister Collection at The Library Company of Philadelphia," The Ephemera journal 13 (2010), [32]., RVCDC, 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
1861-1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Civil War Stationery [various], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Ream Wrappers [P.2006.1.30a-c]
Jesus Lied.
Title
Jesus Lied
Description
Verse in nine unnumbered stanzas; first line: Wo ist Jesus, mein Verlangen?, Printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule; printed area, within ornamental border, measures 24.3 x 19.2 cm., Cataloging of copy 14289.Q funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14056.Q (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14289.Q (Roughwood)
Jesus Lied.
Title
Jesus Lied
Description
Verse in nine unnumbered stanzas; first line: Wo ist Jesus, mein Verlangen?, Printed in two columns divided by a wavy rule; printed area, within ornamental border, measures 24.3 x 19.2 cm., Cataloging of copy 14289.Q funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14056.Q (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1870 Jesus 14289.Q (Roughwood)
Christlicher Stundenweiser.
Title
Christlicher Stundenweiser das ist: Kurze Betrachtungen aller Stunden des Tages, dadurch ein Christ, sich zur Wahrnehmung der Zeit, das Nothwendige erwecken kann
Description
Hand-colored woodcut of a clock surrounded by twelve Christian passages, with scenes depicting stages of life in each corner., "This European broadside was perhaps imported because it was attractive to residents of German heritage in southeast Pennsylvania. Although twelve-hour prayers are associated with Catholics, they were occasionally used among Pennsylvania Germans, most of whom were Protestants."--Earnest, R. Flying leaves and one-sheets, 106., Printed on laid paper; printed area measures 36 x 28.9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1999, p. 23-25.
Date
[ca. 1810?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1810 Christ 9504.F (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1810 Christ 10130.F (Roughwood)
Christlicher Stundenweiser. : das ist: Kurze Betrachtungen aller Stunden des Tages, dadurch ein Christ, sich zur Wahrnehmung der Zeit, das Nothwendige erwecken kann.
Title
Christlicher Stundenweiser das ist: Kurze Betrachtungen aller Stunden des Tages, dadurch ein Christ, sich zur Wahrnehmung der Zeit, das Nothwendige erwecken kann
Description
Hand-colored woodcut of a clock surrounded by twelve Christian passages, with scenes depicting stages of life in each corner., "This European broadside was perhaps imported because it was attractive to residents of German heritage in southeast Pennsylvania. Although twelve-hour prayers are associated with Catholics, they were occasionally used among Pennsylvania Germans, most of whom were Protestants."--Earnest, R. Flying leaves and one-sheets, 106., Printed on laid paper; printed area measures 36 x 28.9 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1999, p. 23-25.
Date
[ca. 1810?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1810 Christ 9504.F (Roughwood), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1810 Christ 10130.F (Roughwood)
The works of John Woolman. : In two parts.
Title
The works of John Woolman In two parts
Description
Signatures: A-2E⁸ 2F²., "A journal of the life, Gospel labours, and Christian experiences of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, late of Mount-Holly, in the province of New-Jersey."--[2], 250 p., has separate title page., "The works of John Woolman. Part the second. Containing his last epistle and other writings."--p. [251]-436, has separate title page, and includes: Some considerations on the keeping of negroes., Library Company copy 1118.O in original sheepskin binding; armorial bookplate: Levi Hollingsworth., Library Company copy 112571.O in original sheepskin binding; inscribed: Sarah Hopkins [and] B. Hopkins 1826; from the McNeil Americana Collection., Readex August 2013 update: This record replaces control number 000035738.
Creator
Woolman, John, 1720-1772
Date
[M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Woolm 1118.O (Maier), Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Woolm 112571.O (McNeil)
Epitaph.
Title
Epitaph
Description
Broadside continues: Mr. Cox, member of Congress from Ohio, concluded his speech of June 6, 1862, with the following: Weary in watching its mad designs of revolution--and its crazy crotchets of Black freedom--and for the self preservation of my native state and the north from the Black immigration with which it is threatened, I shall go to my home and ask the ballot to speak its denunciation ... the people will write the epitaph of this Congress ..., Authorship and imprint statements from text., Includes caustic poem on the XXXVII Congress., Variants printed on pink, yellow, or white paper., Acc. no. 71187.O.1 printed on yellow paper; Acc. no. 71187.O.2 printed on white paper., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1862 Cox 71187.O .1, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1862 Cox 71187.O .2
A summary view of the rights of British America. Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia. Now in convention. By a native, and member of the House of Burgesses.
Title
A summary view of the rights of British America Set forth in some resolutions intended for the inspection of the present delegates of the people of Virginia. Now in convention. By a native, and member of the House of Burgesses
Description
Attributed to Thomas Jefferson in the Dictionary of American biography., Date of publication supplied by Adams., Library Company copies have manuscript notes in Jefferson's hand.
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date
[1774]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Jef 1982.O.12, Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1774 Jef 991.D.6
Blicker, George
Title
Blicker, George
Description
George Blicker, born about 1833 in Hanover, Germany worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided with his wife, Madeline (b. ca. 1834) and three children, Margaret (b. 1855), Sarah (b. 1857), and Caroline (b. 1859), in Ward 5.
Date
b. ca. 1833
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Mann, William
Title
Mann, William
Description
William Mann, born June 14, 1814 in Philadelphia, proprietor of a Philadelphia blank book manufactory and stationery, printing and lithographic establishment (later William Mann Company), was active in the trade 1848-1881. Originally apprenticed in agriculture and carpentry, Mann entered the stationery and printing trade in Philadelphia in 1848 following his patenting of a binder for filing letters. He later patented copying paper (1852) and a paging and numbering machine (1874)., By 1850 Mann operated a binders and letterpresses manufactory at 74 (i.e., 000 block) North Fourth Street that evolved into a stationery by the mid 1850s at 34 South Third Street. By 1860 the business expanded into a blank-book manufactory, stationery, and letterpress and lithographic printing establishment at 43 South Fourth Street. Lithographic work included trade cards and job printing, and throughout the Civil War, Mann earned enough income to be taxed by the I.R.S. During the 1870s, Mann relocated to a larger location at 529 Market Street in 1872 and printed a visitor's guide as well as the "Centennial Calendar 1876" during the Centennial Exhibition. The firm remained active following Mann's death in 1881 and in the 1940s became a division of the Todd Company., Mann was married to Mary Ann (b. ca. 1815) with whom he had several children, including sons Charles (b. ca. 1850) and Joseph (b. ca, 1840) who assumed operations of their father's business following his death. In 1888 the business was incorporated as William Mann Company., During his career, Mann predominately lived north of Center City before relocating to Haddonfield, N.J. about 1870. According to the census for that year, Mann owned real estate worth $70,000 and personal estate worth $60,000. Between the 1850s and 1870, he resided in Philadelphia at 404 North Twelfth Street, 1711 Green Street, and 1736 Mt. Vernon Street, respectively. In the early 1880s, soon before his death, Philadelphia city directories also list a residence at 1813 North Broad Street. Mann died following a second stroke at his home in Haddonfield on September 7, 1881.
Date
June 14, 1814-September 7, 1881
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bourquin, Gordon M.
Title
Bourquin, Gordon M.
Description
Gordon M. Bourquin, son of lithographer Frederick Bourquin, was born in New York in August 1839. In 1860, Bourquin worked as a lithographer while a resident of Camden, N.J. He abandoned his family and profession and relocated to the Upper Monclair area of New Jersey in 1888. He died in Passaic County, New Jersey in February 1906.
Date
July 1839 - February 1906
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
LCP-Watson-DrawingsWatercolors-357M.jpg
Title
Watson, J. F. (John Frampton)
Description
John Frampton Watson, born ca. 1805 in Philadelphia to merchant Joseph Watson and Margaret Rodman, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia 1833-1866. He began his career in lithography with his brother Charles Augustus Watson in 1833. By 1835, an advertisement for the new lithographic establishment of J. F. & C. A. Watson at 62 Walnut Street appeared regularly in the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and emphasized "that cards &c. engraved on stone for all the practical purposes of business, are equal to those on copper, and at one third the cost." Early works by the firm included the plates "Grisly Bears [sic]," "Ground Squirrel," and "Argali" published in the third volume of the "Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports" (1833)., J. F. & C. A. Watson also printed sheet music covers and maps, along with an 1834 lithograph of Chadds Ford delineated by Swiss artist and lithographer John Caspar Wild in 1834. By 1837, C. A. Watson had withdrawn from the business. However, John Frampton continued to operate from 62 Walnut Street, where he published "Tippecanoe and the Thames" with Philip Banks as J.F. Watson & Co. in 1840. Between 1843 and 1847, Watson operated from 80 1/2 Walnut Street, near Fourth Street, and subsequently from the southeast corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, where he remained until his death in 1866., Little is known about John Frampton Watson, except that he embarked on a government-funded expedition to the South Seas in 1830, possibly as a draughtsman, with Jeremiah N. Reynolds. In the late 1830s and early 1840s he resided on High (i.e., Market) Street, including 207 High Street, according to an 1837 city directory listing and his address on his 1842 proposed membership cited in the Franklin Institute Board Meeting Minutes. He married Susan Abbott Newbold Penny in 1846 and resided with her in a hotel in the Dock Ward of the city by 1850. They lived at 257 South Ninth Street in 1858, and by 1866, boarded at 739 Spruce Street, where Watson died ca. 1866. His widow provided the address in an "Illustrated New Age" (June 21, 1866) advertisement asking for all debts to be paid to the Watson estate.
Date
ca. 1805-1866
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
[New York Zouaves.]
Title
[New York Zouaves.]
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of three Civil War era paper soldiers. They all have bayonets propped against their right shoulders.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.189g]
Camp Vermont, Va. 4th Dele. Infy. [graphic] : Col. A.H. Grimshaw. Comd. 3rd Brigade. Lt. Col. C. Carroll Tevis. Major C.C. Lammot. Adjt. W.H. Cloward Q. Master. John F. Toner.
Title
Camp Vermont, Va. 4th Dele. Infy. [graphic] : Col. A.H. Grimshaw. Comd. 3rd Brigade. Lt. Col. C. Carroll Tevis. Major C.C. Lammot. Adjt. W.H. Cloward Q. Master. John F. Toner.
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 Union military training camp near Hunting Creek, North Carolina. Shows soldiers milling among wood barracks on the grounds. Also shows two large tents in the foreground.
Creator
Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date
c1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - V [5779.F.31]
Home again. [graphic] / From the original painting by J. Noel Paton.
Title
Home again. [graphic] / From the original painting by J. Noel Paton.
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Genre scene showing a Civil War soldier being welcomed home by his family. The soldier, a bandage on his head, sits in his cozy parlor as his mother cries on his shoulder, his wife wraps herself around his waist, and their baby sleeps in a cradle. The soldier's gun and knapsack rest beside him against a side table.
Creator
Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël), Sir, 1821-1901 artist., creator
Date
[[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **GC - Civil War - Soldiers [5786.F.141a]
The great fight at Charleston, S.C., April 7th, 1863 [graphic] : Between 9 United States "Iron-Clads," under the command of Admiral Dupont; and Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and the Cummings Point Batteries in possession of the rebels.
Title
The great fight at Charleston, S.C., April 7th, 1863 [graphic] : Between 9 United States "Iron-Clads," under the command of Admiral Dupont; and Forts Sumter, Moultrie, and the Cummings Point Batteries in possession of the rebels.
Description
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War materials., View showing the Union iron-clads, including the New Ironsides, ablaze and under heavy fire from the batteries at the harbor. Includes the names of the forts and "New Ironsides" printed below the image. Also includes several lines of text below the image describing the bravery of the vessels sustaining 300 rounds of fire for two hours before the order to retreat "on account of obstructions in the harbor."
Creator
Currier & Ives., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Charleston [5794.F.1]
Brushman, Charles
Title
Brushman, Charles
Description
Charles Brushman, born about 1825 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850 and 1870. He resided in the Dock Ward in 1850. He married Amelia (b. ca. 1830), with whom he had four children: Amelia (b. 1855), Henry (b. 1860), Lotta (b.1860) and Charles (b. 1865), and resided in Ward 5 by 1870.
Date
b. ca. 1825
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Sachs, Frederick
Title
Sachs, Frederick
Description
Frederick Sachs, born ca. 1817 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided in the Pine Ward as the head of a household that included his wife Elizabeth (b. ca. 1824) and three children, including two born between ca. 1845 and ca. 1846 in Germany and a son born in Pennsylvania ca. 1848.
Date
b. ca. 1817
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
[Civil War "Victory Package" illustrated broadside insert]
Title
[Civil War "Victory Package" illustrated broadside insert]
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of newspaper and song clippings., Corresponding wrapper part of the Civil War Envelope Collection. [O - M - Novelty - LCP - 10]., Wrapper insert containing 5 clothing pattern designs, 15 receipts (i.e., recipes) to aid the household, a currency table, and the text for 33 patriotic songs.
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [5784.F.109]
Hohenstein, Anton
Title
Hohenstein, Anton
Description
Anton Hohenstein, born November 1, 1819 in Württemberg, Germany, was an artist and oil painter of portraits and historical scenes with a studio at 329 North Sixth Street in Philadelphia between 1855 and 1870. Son of poverty-striken weaver Alois Hohenstein (1781-1843) and Maria Eva Fischer (1781-1852), Hohenstein apprenticed as a lithographer, probably in Stuttgart, and was a student of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from April 13, 1841 to circa 1845. He studied lithography and painting. According to the reminiscences of colleague Ferdinand Moras, Hohenstein arrived in Philadelphia in 1850 and predominately worked as a portrait painter before relocating to Alabama. Hohenstein returned to Philadelphia by 1860 and from 1868 to 1869, delineated "Abraham Lincoln's Last Reception," "Baptism of Pocahontas 1813," and "Franklin's Reception at the Court of France 1778" for lithographer John Smith. He also created the 1867 portrait of Robert E. Lee for George Spohni and owned "first rate battle scenes" (possibly his own work) according to an 1870 advertisement promoting the sale of his estate in the "Public Ledger.", Hohenstein immigrated to the United States apparently previous to his family as indicated by the May 1854 application by his wife Dorothea (Dorothy) (b. ca. 1827) listed in the Württemberg, Germany Emigration Index. Dorothea, whom he married on November 23, 1846 in Wuttemberg, arrived in Philadelphia from Stuttgart by about 1855, the year she gave birth to their first Pennsylvania-born child. By 1860, Hohenstein, his wife and their children (including two born in Germany) resided at 1469 Franklin Street (Ward 13). That year, Hohenstein declared his intent to become a citizen and on October 13, 1863 was naturalized. Hohenstein died of delirium tremors on July 20, 1869 leaving five children and his wife who worked as a confectioner according to the 1870 census.
Date
December 1, 1824-July 20, 1869
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Wartz, Michael
Title
Wartz, Michael
Description
Michael Wartz, born ca. 1860 in Darmstadt, Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1860. He resided in Center City (Ward 5) with his German-born wife Jane (b. ca. 1835), and their two children Mary (b. 1857) and Jane (b. 1859).
Date
b. ca. 1860
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bruce's New-York Type-foundry, 13 Chambers st., New York [specimen sheet]
Title
Bruce's New-York Type-foundry, 13 Chambers st., New York [specimen sheet]
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Specimen sheet containing twelve numbered examples of Civil War envelope vignettes published by the Bruce New York Type Foundry also known as George Bruce's Son & Co. Designs depict the American flag. Some include the American eagle; military personal; a patriotic-themed border; or historic figures. Vignettes also include prices, ranging between 50 cents and 2 dollars, for plain or two-colors.
Creator
George Bruce's Son & Co., creator
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.1b]
Benade, James Arthur
Title
Benade, James Arthur
Description
James Arthur Benade, son of Moravian bishop Andrew Benade, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1823 and worked as an artist for the lithographic establishments of P. S. Duval and Thomas Sinclair ca. 1842-1850. His lithographs include a "South West View of Lancaster, Pa." He studied art in Philadelphia and with Gustavus Grunewald (1805-1878) as well as taught F. D. Devlan (1835-1870). He also exhibited works at the Artist's Fund Society in Philadelphia in 1838 and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1848. He died February 2, 1853 in Reading, Pennsylvania, his town of residence in the 1850 census. According to that census, he was married to Sarah (b. ca. 1823) with whom he had three children and held $6000 (i.e., about $171, 000 in 2008) worth of real estate.
Date
1823-February 2, 1853
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Engleken, Jacob
Title
Engleken, Jacob
Description
Jacob Engleken, born ca. 1804 in Germany, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1850. He resided in a boarding house neighboring Frederick Bourquin's residence on the 600 block of Pine Street in the New Market Ward. Possibly the same Jacob Enkelken that came to New York aboard the Silvie de Grasse from Havre in August of 1841.
Date
b. ca. 1804
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Biddle, Edward C.
Title
Biddle, Edward C.
Description
Edward C. Biddle, print and book publisher and son of John Biddle and Elizabeth Canby, was born January 5, 1808 in Philadelphia. He published from an office at the S.W. corner of Fifth and Minor streets during the 1830s and 1840s, and later the 200 block of South Third Street. He resided in Center City. By the time of his death on July 18, 1893, he lived at 1422 Spruce Street., Biddle was the third publisher of the seminal Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's "History of the Indian tribes of North America..." issued 1837-1844. The work about early 19th-century Native American culture contained 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Biddle collaborated with printers Lehman & Duval with artist Albert Newsam and printer J. T. Bowen with artist A. Hoffy 1836-1838 and issued parts 1-8 (Vol. 1).
Date
January 5, 1808-July 18, 1893
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
LCP-RosenthalLN-5-2526-F-b.jpg
Title
Rosenthal, Louis N.
Description
Louis N. Rosenthal, born ca. 1824 in Turck, Russian Poland, was a pioneer chromolithographer who operated the Philadelphia lithography firm, the Rosenthals, with his brothers Max, Morris, and Simon 1851-ca. 1872. Raised in Turck, Russian Poland, the four brothers departed their home country at the bequest of their father to avoid draft into the army. Louis N. and Simon (buried in Federal Street Cemetery, Philadelphia) were indentured to lithographic printers in London, Morris was sent to Rabbinical School in Berlin, Germany, and Max was indentured to artist and lithographer Martin Thurwanger in Paris. Following his indenture in London, Louis N. Rosenthal arrived in New York aboard the "Spartan" on September 29, 1848., Around 1849, he established himself in the Philadelphia lithographic trade and partnered briefly with Peter Kramer in 1850. Around the same time, brother Max arrived in Philadelphia with Thurwanger and worked for a short time under Napoleon Sarony. In 1851, he and Louis N. established the firm L. N. Rosenthal, also known as Rosenthals, at the southeast corner of Third and Dock Streets and chromolithographed nine plates for Charles W. Webber's "Hunter-Naturalist" (1851). Peters and Marzio suggest that Max operated primarily as the artist, and Louis as the printer, publisher and proprietor of the establishment. Within the year, Rosenthal received a "First Premium" award from the Franklin Institute for chromolithography and became one of the earliest Philadelphia firms to specialize in this branch of lithography. The Rosenthals issued illuminated book plates, sheet music covers, advertisements, labels, geological and anatomical prints, portraits, maps, views of buildings, and Civil War scenes., In 1857, Rosenthal relocated to a larger space with new equipment at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. By 1863, the business relocated to 327 Walnut Street, where on September 15, 1872 fire struck and caused severe water damage. Soon thereafter, the Rosenthal firm dissolved after twenty-plus years in Philadelphia and Rosenthal relocated to Chicago., Rosenthal married Louisa (b. ca. 1830) in Philadelphia by 1850 and resided in the Penn Ward with his brothers Max and Samuel (b. ca. 1831). By 1860, Rosenthal and his wife resided with their six children at 316 New Street, immediately south of Vine Street (Ward 6). Two more children were born by 1870, by which time the family had relocated to 1036 Pine Street in Center City (Ward 7). The Rosenthal family moved to Chicago ca. 1873, where Louis continued to work as a lithographer and printer until his death sometime after 1900.
Date
b. ca. 1824-after 1900
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Our relations at home and abroad.
Title
Our relations at home and abroad.
Description
Stephen's album drolleries no. 1., Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens., Title from accompanying wrapper., Collection of twelve numbered and captioned comic cards satirizing the diplomatic relations between the United States, Confederate States, Great Britain, France, and Mexico during the Civil War. First nine cards show the British "surly lion" giving a "generous roar," (i.e., the recognition by Great Britain of the Confederacy); which "temporarily astonishes" the "Gallic Cock"; who eventually overpowers the lion; who later weeps "is he not a bird and brother" for a crow, (i.e. a slave of the South) at Exter Hall; "which he forgets in the embrace of the "Belligerent Wolf of the C.S.A." while stepping on the crow; which leads to his "arming of the wolf"; while the Mexican vulture is garroted by the Gallic cock (i.e., French intervention in Mexico); causing the lion to protect his rams with the introduction of the "Swamp Angel" and Greek fire,( i.e. the bombing of Charleston) by the American eagle; which causes the "grand combat" between the eagle and the wolf. Last three cards predict "to consult history" to see the Union victory of the eagle over the wolf; the eagle vindicating the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico by overthrowing the Gallic cock; and the little child Liberty leading the supplicant British lion and Gallic cock., Added to African Americana Digital Collection 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
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer., creator
Date
c1863.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Henry Lewis Stephens Collection [5780.F.55a-l]
LOC-Mahan-PGA-Duval-ParisNewYorkPhiladelphiafashions-Dsize.jpg
Title
Mahan, Francis
Description
Francis Mahan, born ca. 1790 in Pennsylvania, worked primarily as a fashion lithographer, publisher and designer in Philadelphia from 1829 to 1871. Trained as a tailor in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the mid-1810s "by making clothes of every description, plain or fashionable, to suit customers," Mahan relocated and was proprietor of Francis Mahan & Co. in Philadelphia (Chestnut Street Ward) by the late 1820s. He copyrighted and advertised protractors and his proof system "to impart the art of garment cutting" to tailors, a system disputed by rival tailor and publisher Allen Ward in local newspapers beginning in the late 1830s. In a newspaper war that endured many years, Ward accused Mahan of copying designs from old drafts of his work, resulting in several design competitions; an injunction against Mahan by Ward in 1839; and a libel suit by Mahan against Ward in 1840., By the 1840s both Mahan and Ward published fashion prints. The prints displayed in local tailors' shops depicted several figures attired in seasonal fashions that often included prominent figures for credibility and made the lithographs collectibles. Prominent figures in Mahan prints, which were often advertised in the local newspapers, included Henry Clay and James K. Polk in 1844 and 1845 and Colonel May, "the hero of Palo Alto," (from a daguerreotype) in 1847. During the 1840s, Mahan also exhibited fashion plates in the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufactures (1848) and included an advertisement in the catalog that claimed he had "near Six Thousand regular subscribers" to his plates. He continued to publish plates through the 1850s and in the 1860 issued a print "which contain[ed] all the Presidential Candidates" for which he advertised in the "Public Ledger" for canvassers., A listing for Mahan's tailor shop at 20 South Sixth Street appeared in city directories in 1831. The shop moved to Chestnut Street in the early 1840s, with locations at 215, then 211, 186, 720, 911 and then back to 720 Chestnut Street. Mahan resided within the same ward as his business, and by 1850 he lived in the hotel owned by Filbert I. Nagle at 18 South Sixth Street. He moved to Camden, New Jersey in the 1860s, and returned to Philadelphia by 1871, after which time his name is absent from city directories. He had one son, Phineas Jenks Mahan (1814-1875), who was an expert gardener and a soldier in Texas in the mid-late 1830s. The younger Mahan was appointed by Richard G. Harrison of Philadelphia to secure contracts for bank note engraving in Texas, which is where he subsequently moved his family by 1870.
Date
ca. 1790-1871
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
[Cloth mitten pattern for Civil War soldiers provided by Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine and E.W. Carryl & Co., military & house furnishing store; King & Baird, printers; and S.A. George, electrotyper and stereotyper] [graphic].
Title
[Cloth mitten pattern for Civil War soldiers provided by Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine and E.W. Carryl & Co., military & house furnishing store; King & Baird, printers; and S.A. George, electrotyper and stereotyper] [graphic].
Description
Title supplied by cataloguer, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Pattern containing explanatory text, cutting and sewing directions, patriotic vignettes, and advertisements. Vignettes show the figure of liberty, flags, a soldier, eagle, shield, and George Washington. Text explains the efficiency of women sewing cloth mittens by machine; the availability at E.W. Carryl & Co. of the pattern and free cloth remnants supplied by the U.S. Arsenal; and the receipt of the mittens by the "Philadelphia Ladies Aid Society." Advertising text promotes printed military supplies available at King & Baird, including muster rolls, military blanks,and military manuals. Also contains a testimonial by G.H. Crossman, Deputy Quartermaster General, dated November 30th, 1861.
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War [(2)5786.F.4a]
LCP-Hunter-Am1875Key-19263-D-2-162.jpg
Title
Hunter, Thomas
Description
Thomas Hunter, born ca. 1828 in Ireland, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from ca. 1868 to ca. 1894, including the partnership Duval & Hunter (ca. 1869-1874). Immigrating to Pennsylvania by 1831, Hunter worked as a manufacturer and resided with his parents and Philadelphia-born siblings, including brother Charles (b. ca. 1833), a calico printer, in Blockley in 1850. By 1860 Hunter entered his brother's trade and was listed as a mast calico printer in the census, married to Julia (b. ca. 1832), with three children and two servants. The family resided in West Philadelphia near the family of his brother James (b. ca. 1825), also a calico printer. Hunter remained a resident of Hestonville, West Philadelphia when he entered the lithography trade in 1868. Soon thereafter, he partnered with Stephen C. Duval, son of P. S. Duval, in the firm Duval & Hunter (223 South Fifth Street, 716 Filbert)., Hunter continued to head a well-to-do household and manage a successful business with his switch in trades. In 1870, he still retained a servant and in 1874 won an American Manufacturer Exhibition silver medal; assumed the business of partner Duval; and printed the noted "Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of The Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776 published by the Centennial Portrait and Autograph Co., Philadelphia. According to credit reports which previously rated the business of Duval & Hunter an excellent one, the sole proprietorship by Hunter "rendered the house stronger in the opinion of the trade." Hunter's brothers James and John, calico printers, supplied much of the capital for the establishment estimated to perform $100,000 worth of business a year., Two years after assuming sole proprietorship of the lithographic firm, Hunter served as one of the few Philadelphia publishers of Centennial Exhibition of 1876 views (copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance) depicting the buildings and grounds of the fair. Cited in the "Printer's Weekly" as a "first-class lithographer" for his "artistic excellencies of coloring and drawing" of the prints, Hunter also used the journal to advertise his business in 1878 as the "oldest lithographic establishment in the country;" capitalizing on the legacy of his former partner. Between ca. 1878 and 1881, Hunter issued another significant series of views when he printed a series of panoramas, predominately after W. W. Denslow, showing the several county seats of Pennsylvania. During the early 1880s, Hunter also produced photolithographs as well as sheet music covers before handing over the management of his debt-riddled firm (still owned by his brothers) to William H. Butler, formerly of Packard & Butler, in 1885. In January 1886, the "Hunter" establishment suffered a business-ending fire with Butler having paid off near 2/3 of the debt owed by the firm to its local suppliers., By 1880, Hunter continued to reside with his family, including sons and lithographers James (b. ca. 1856) and Owen (b. ca. 1861) as well as a servant in Hestonville at North Fifty-Fifth Street and Lancaster Avenue. Following the disposition of his business to Butler, Hunter remained listed as a lithographer in city directories until 1894. Throughout the early 1890s, he was listed with a variety of addresses, including 803 North Forty-First Street, 626 North Fortieth Street, and 3324 Lancaster Avenue. Hunter remained listed until 1894 and his probable death., Hunter was also a member of the Supreme Grand Orange Lodge of the United States, in which he served on the Committee of Finance during the Centennial as well as active in the opposition to the 1877 tariff to abolish the duty on books.
Date
b. ca. 1828
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Smith, John B.
Title
Smith, John B.
Description
See Smith, Joseph.
Date
b. ca. 1835
Location
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Va. [graphic].
Title
Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Va. [graphic].
Description
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., Bird's eye view of the rest station and "lodge for invalid soldiers" operated by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. Shows an enclosed barracks flanked by tents and railroad tracks. Soldiers walk, relax, and drill on the grounds as others disembark and arrive via locomotive. Also shows the railroad roundhouse in the far left background near signage reading "Sanitary Commission Lodge for Invalid Soldiers" and "Soldiers Rest U.S. Sanitary Commission"; horse-drawn wagons travelling past and into the barracks; and the surrounding town.
Creator
Magnus, Charles., creator
Date
c1864.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Hospitals [5779.F.57]
Max Rosenthal Collection of Portraits Scrapbook
Title
Max Rosenthal Collection of Portraits Scrapbook
Description
Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks.
Arthur Power Dudden Travel Ephemera Collection
Title
Arthur Power Dudden Travel Ephemera Collection
Description
Collection of ephemera documenting the travels of the Charles J. Clarke family between 1865 and 1875.
Nature Prints of Leaves Albums
Title
Nature Prints of Leaves Albums
Description
Albums of predominantly nature prints of leaves produced by inking both sides of the specimen, placing it between a folded sheet of paper, and pulling the sheet through a printing press. Sheets contain one to several specimens (a few numbered) and several are annotated with the date of printing, inscriptions, and identifications of specimens. Some sheets contain manuscript notes about the provenance of and how the specimens were dried or inked, the condition of the leaves, their medicinal uses, and descriptions of the plants from which they came. Inscriptions of note include "Engraven by the Greatest and Best engraver in the Universe"(v. 1, p. 2); "... leaves dried and press'd in my Heap of News-Papers for 7 or 8 years" (v. 1, p. 43); "Done July 18th 1742, when I impress'd 6 or 8 sheets more for my Frd's Kent, Bard, Pratt, Browne, Shoemaker, &" (v. 1, p. 74); "These were done in my new Press which Joseph Watkins made & now brought Home 2nd of May 1734" (v. 1, p. 94); "Done July 1st 1744 with L' & Vel't B'll"(v. 1, p. 95) and "From Jno. Bartram 18th Augst. 1734. The most excellent remedy for the bite of a Rattlesnake - Sysimachia Quadrafolia - 1st 7br 1734 - "An Indian specific for fevers and aguas [sic] and a substitute for tea [I think Green]" - "From Peter Sonmans (who brought it from Albany). Done 31st Augst. 1734. A famous Snake weed" - "Mem the other Side I sent to Peter Collinson, June 1735" (v.2, p. 58).
Rock me to sleep.
Title
Rock me to sleep
Description
Lyricist: Florence Percy (pseudonym of Elizabeth Allen)., Number 2 1/2 in 6 pointed star on tp; 3 additional verses printed on page 5., Another version of this is listed in "Early American Sheet Music" by Dichter and Shapiro, p.150., Song for piano., In poor condition: torn and discolored., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Mack, Edward, d.1882, cmp
Date
c1861
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Rock (2) 7594.F.14
New York Zouaves.
Title
New York Zouaves.
Description
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies., Cutout of four Civil War era paper soldiers marching and carrying a bayonet. a flag, a drum, and a sword.
Date
[ca. 1861-ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Soldiers [(2)5786.F.184d]
[Klopstock]
Title
[Klopstock]
Description
Illustrated trade card depicting a seated portrait of German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. He holds a piece of paper in his left hand while looking right, away from the viewer., Title trimmed off., Title supplied by cataloger from duplicate in the collections of Tartu University Library., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bolt, Johann Friedrich, 1769-1836, engraver
Date
1813
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Misc [1975.F.652]
While using children's elastic knee protector.
Title
While using children's elastic knee protector
Description
llustrated metamorphic trade card depicting a "before using" and "while using" scene of children playing inside. Before using, the children are seated and sullen with their heads in their hands because they have holes in their pants and tights. While using, they smile and build a castle. One boy holds a small puppet booth labeled, "Punch & Judy"., Advertising text promoting "Children's patent elastic knee protector" printed on verso below "before using" image, which folds up to create the complete scene., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Chestnut [1975.F.208]

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