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Title: The Castle of the State in Schuylkill. [graphic] / From nature & on stone M. Swett.
Description: Location: West bank of the Schuylkill, opposite Bartram's Garden., First appeared in American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, 1, No.5, p. 217 (January, 1830), and then as frontspiece in William Milnor, Jr.'s An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company (Philadelphia: Published by Judah Dobson, 1830)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1830 Mil 7130.O copy 1 & 2., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: in Am 1830 Mil Ap83 M66 copy 1 & 2 and Wi.2.
Creator: Swett, Moses., creator
Date: [1830]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W369.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W369 [Am 1830 Mil 7130.O]

Title: At Six O'Clock
Description: View of the Philadelphia skyline at night in 1916. City Hall is clearly visible to the left of the image., The heart of the city presents, on a winter evening, a wonderful picture of towering office buildings aglow with lights from a thousand windows. This sketch, made from the roof of the new Bell Telephone Building, suggests the power and ambitions fo the new Philadelphia, which has, within a few years, so shut in a dwarfed our once dominant City Hall., Taylor Catalog Number: 52
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

Title: Company A, (Gray Reserves.) Company, First Regiment, R.B. having completed the roll of 100 muskets ready for the field at one hour's notice, and as there are a large number of members who are anxious to aid in the cause of defending their state and city, but who cannot leave at a short notice, therefore it is recommended that a second company be formed of the active and associate members who remain in the city
Description: The Gray Reserves, the First Regiment Infantry Reserve Brigade, was organized in Philadelphia in April 1861, under command of Col. Peter C. Ellmaker. During the crisis of 1862, it was mustered in as the 7th Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, Sept. 12-15, and mustered out Sept. 26. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 5, p. 1162, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 218., Printed on p. [1] only., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; folded, stamped, postmarked, and addressed in MS. to J.J. Phillips Esq. 227 N. 12th St., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Pennsylvania, Militia, Reserve Infantry Regiment, 1st, Company A.
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Penn Mil (2)5777.F.16c (McAllister)

Title: Fairmount Park high stone bridge postcards
Description: Depicts the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River, above Ridge Avenue. Includes views of Wissahickon Falls in the foreground, a motorcar and pedestrians. Marks the entrance to Wissahickon Creek, Wissahickon Drive and Wissahickon Park., Contains 22 postcards printed in color and 3 in black and white., Construction of the bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge) was begun in 1874 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Due to budgetary constraints, construction was halted and later completed from 1881-1882., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - High Stone Bridge - 61]

Title: [Household Sewing Machine trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for the Household Sewing Machine Company in Providence, Rhode Island. Illustrations depicts various kinds of birds, flowers, bees and butterflies., Title supplied by cataloger., Several prints [P.9801.1-4] contain advertising text printed on versos for the household sewing machine for sale by H.H. McCargo, 1609 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia., Several prints [1975.F.406-409] contain advertising text printed on versos for the household sewing machine and N.D. Stoops & Co., general agents, 17 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Household [1975.F.406-409 & P.9801.1-4]

Title: Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Camden approach, Camden, New Jersey
Description: Aerial views of the approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River Bridge, on the Camden, New Jersey side of the Delaware River. Bridge was constructed from 1922-1926 and spans the river to connects Camden to Philadelphia. The approach, portions of the bridge and the area immediately surrounding the approach are visible. Commissioned by the Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission of New Jersey and the Delaware River Bridge and Tunnel Commission of Pennsylvania, the bridge was designed by architect Paul Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski. Located at 5th and Race Streets in Philadelphia., Negative numbers: 6645, 6734, 6735, 6804.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6645; P.8990.6734; P.8990.6735; P.8990.6804]

Title: [Thomas Cooper]
Description: Image depicts Thomas Cooper, a Maryland slave who escaped to Philadelphia, where he settled, found work, married, and raised a family. In this scene, Cooper's former owner, having learned of his whereabouts, has seized and handcuffed him, and is taking him back to Maryland. His wife and children beg for his release in vain. According to the accompanying text, Cooper's Philadelphia employers had offered to pay the slaveowner a large sum in return for his release, but their offer was refused., Cover of the American Anti-Slavery Reporter, vol. 1, no. 3 (March, 1834), p. 33., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator: Brown, G. L., engraver
Date: [March 1834]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Per A 247 75432.O v 1 n 3 front cover, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2861

Title: Circular of Oakland Female Institute Norristown, Pa J. Grier Ralston, D.D. LL.D., principal. June 1, 1877
Description: Frontispiece signed: Lehman & Bolton Phila. Lithograph titled "Oakland Female Institute" depicts an exterior view of the institute and tree-covered grounds. Students stroll on the lawn and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the property. A horse-drawn buggy and a passenger train of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad passes in the foreground. The institute was established in 1845 and underwent major renovation and enlargement 1852-1855., Title and text printed inside ornamental borders., In printed paper wrapper., Library Company copy wanting the back wrapper., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 157
Creator: Oakland Female Institute (Norristown, Pa.)
Date: [1877]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1877 Oakland 50704.O .6

Title: Lemon Hill Mansion
Description: Proof print containing four duplicate views showing the former mansion of businessman Henry Pratt built 1799-1800 in East Fairmount Park. Includes visitors walking on the grounds populated by trees with autumnal colored foliage. Lemon Hill, purchased by the city of Philadelphia in 1844, was the first Fairmount mansion obtained by the city to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 434, One of the prints gift of S. Robert Teitelman. [P.2007.23.9]
Creator: Kennedy, David J., artist
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [P.2283.28; P.2007.23.9]

Title: Cedar Hill Female Seminary N. Dodge. A. M. Principal
Description: View showing the girls boarding school built 1837-1839 in Mount Joy, Pa. administered by Reverend Dodge. School located adjacent to the track between Harrisburg and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Includes a fenced pasture near a gated path in the foreground and a train traveling in the background. Dodge operated the seminary, originally called Young Ladies Lyceum Institute, until the 1860s when it was closed during the Civil War. The school was reopened by Prof. David Denlinger in 1874, and later closed, and then destroyed by fire., Not in Wainwright., Mount contains printed border., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 22, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 46 C 326
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 46 C 326

Title: New Oddfellows Hall Philada. Dedicated 17 September 1846. Grand master of a grand lodge. Of I. O. of O. F. in full regalia
Description: View showing the four-story marble building built 1845-1846 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Sixth Street below Race Street. In the left foreground, an Odd Fellow grand master in his apron and vest stands, hat in hand, and gestures toward the building. Also shows an alley and partial views of neighboring buildings. The Odd Fellows, a benevolent and charitable organization, was established in Philadelphia in 1821., Trimmed., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 505.1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 051 R 668, October 18, 1957. Penrose fund.
Creator: Robyn, Edward, 1820-1862, artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bb 051 R 668

Title: Wistar party, [Mr. George F. Edmunds] requests the pleasure of [Mr. Dreer’s] company on Saturday evening [February 5th] at nine o’clock at [1724 Spruce Street] The favor of an early answer is requested
Description: Engraved invitation with script lettering from George F. Edmunds to Ferdinand J. Dreer. In the top is a bust-length, profile vignette portrait of Caspar Wistar. George F. Edmunds (1828-1919) was a U.S. Senator for Vermont. After leaving the Senate in 1891, he moved to Philadelphia to practice law. Ferdinand J. Dreer (1812-1902) was a Philadelphia goldsmith, jeweler, and autograph collector., Title and date from item., Date written in manuscript on recto: 1898., Gift of David Doret, 2019., See related invitations to Ferdinand J. Dreer [P.2019.64.7-10; P.2019.64.12-15].
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.11]

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

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

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

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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

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

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

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

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]

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

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]

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

Title: Smith, John B.
Description: See Smith, Joseph.
Date: b. ca. 1835
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

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]

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.

Title: Arthur Power Dudden Travel Ephemera Collection
Description: Collection of ephemera documenting the travels of the Charles J. Clarke family between 1865 and 1875.

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).

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

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]

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]

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]

Title: American Celebrities Albums
Description: Two volume set of albums containing predominately cartes-de-visite photographic portraits of prominent American 19th-century figures in politics, education, and the arts, ca. 1870.
Date: 1869

Title: [Two African American men advertising Higgin's German laundry soap]
Description: Portrait photograph showing two African American men, side-by-side, attired in suits, as well as top hats with advertising text for Charles S. Higgins Company soap. One hat reads "Try it" and the other reads "Higgins German Laundry soap is the best." One man holds a swagger stick and the other a walking cane, and both stand in front of a backdrop depicting a bucolic mountain scene. Charles S. Higgins Company, established by Higgins's father W. B. Higgins in Brooklyn in 1846, manufactured "German Laundry soap" beginning around 1860, when Charles assumed the business. The laundry soap was packaged in a wrapper illustrated with an African American woman washing in a tub. By the early 1890s Charles S. Higgins left the firm still operated under his name and formed Higgins Soap Company. Court proceedings over trademarks and tradenames ensued and Higgins Soap Company became insolvent by the mid 1890s., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on verso. Includes illustration of a paint palette., Purchased with funds from the Albert M. Greenfield Foundation.
Creator: Block, B., photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - group - advertisements - Higgins [P.2013.26]

Title: Brice Leon Showell
Description: Class photograph showing a bust-length portrait of Showell as a teen. He wears a zippered pullover, collared shirt, and tie. Showell, the nephew of Arthur Showell (1894-1943), was born and resided in Maryland as a child and young adult., Title from manuscript note on verso., Printed above portrait: School Days., Printed below portrait: 1946-47., Gift of Brice C. Showell.
Date: [1946]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait photographs - misc. - sitter - Showell [P.2015.1.4]

Title: [Satiric stereograph showing an African American dandy receiving a shoe shine from a white shoe shine boy]
Description: Stereograph, possibly published in London, depicting a scene satirizing race relations in America. Shows the dandy standing and with one foot on the boy's shoe shine box in front of a back drop depicted as a wall adorned with broadsides referencing abolition, slavery, and emancipation. The dandy is attired in striped and checkered pants, a jacket with tails, a ruffled shirt, and top hat. He holds a walking stick under one arm and a cigarette in his other hand. The boy kneels and shines the dandy's shoes with his shining supplies and tools by his box. Broadsides include a "playbill" reading "Adelphi. Tonight The White Slave. Octoroon Farce" and an advertisement for "Fast Clipper. Clyde. For New Orleans." Other posts read "No Slavery. Freedom" and "Great Meeting. Negro Emancipation. Poor Slaves.", Place of publication and date inferred from image content containing a reference to the "Octoroon" at the "Adelphi." Adelphi is a London theater where The Octoroon was performed 1861-1862., Grey mount with square corners., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., See similar visual trope "I say Billy, do you know why I'm doing this? Cause, I'm going to run for Congress soon!" [Political cartoons - 1863-13W, 8033.F.3]
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Genre - African [P.2014.29]

Title: Camp Knox, 11th Regt. Me. Vols. [graphic] : John C. Caldwell, colonel.
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 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Shows an officer on horseback supervising flanks of soldiers drilling in front of rows of tents.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: 1861.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - K [5779.F.18]

Title: Camp Davis-- Ringgold Regiment, 104th Penna. Vols. [graphic] : Colonel W.W.H. Davis.
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 outside of Doylestown, Pa. Shows a soldier on horseback passing a field of tents.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: 1861.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - D [5779.F.14]

Title: Camp Meridian Hill 7th Regt. N. Jersey vols. [graphic] : Col. Revere.
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 in Washington, D.C. Shows an officer on horse-back inspecting a row of soldiers, including a drum corp, at attention on the camp grounds. Rows of tents are visible in the background.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: 1861.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - M [5779.F.20]

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