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Title: Angel of peace
Description: Caricature of New York mayor and Peace Democrat (i.e. Copperhead) Fernando Wood. Shows Wood with devil wings and horns, seated on a rock, with a snake labeled "Copperhead" wrapped around his ankle., Publisher's imprint with logo printed on verso., The Anthony firm, established in 1859, operated as a partnership from 501 Broadway between 1863 and 1871.
Creator: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Anthony - Caricatures & cartoons [P.9758.7]

Title: The statue of Wm. Penn crowned by Fred'k Coombs
Description: Shows Coombs, the popular scientist, phrenologist, and photographer dressed as William Penn and embracing the Penn statue. Statue, attributed to John Cheere or John Bacon, was installed in the Pine Street Garden at the Pennsylvania Hospital (801-849 Pine Street ). Penn holds the Charter of Pennsylvania and the statue rests on a based inscribed "Presented by John Penn A.D. 1804.", Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Coombs, F. (Frederick), 1803-1874
Date: c1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Coombs - Monuments & statues [(1)5750.F.103d]

Title: The bust of George Washington crowned by Fred'k Coombs
Description: Shows Coombs, the popular scientist, phrenologist, and photographer dressed as Washington and seated next to and touching a bust of the first U.S. president. Bust wears a sculpted wreath and is propped up on a desk., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of a collection of portraits., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Coombs, F. (Frederick), 1803-1874
Date: c1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Coombs - Monuments & statues [(1)5750.F.103c]

Title: View from the Waumbek House, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows a group of well-dressed men, women, and children playing croquet in front of the luxury resort hotel in the White Mountains. View also shows neighboring buildings., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61e]

Title: Mt. Starr King, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows the mount named after Universalist Rev. Thomas Starr King in the White Mountains. In the foreground, men and boys sit and stand in a pasture in front of a farm and hotel buildings., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61f]

Title: Starr King House, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows several people arriving by horse-drawn carriage and sitting on the porch and veranda of the resort hotel in the White Mountains., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61i]

Title: Old Moravian burying ground - summer
Description: Shows two boys sitting in a tree-lined path in the cemetery established in the mid-eighteenth century in Bethlehem. Includes partial views of flat gravestones (i.e. breaststones) and a building in the background. Cemetery also called "God's Acre.", Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprinted printed on mount., Paper backing pasted on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kleckner, a Moravian, operated a studio in Pennsylvania until 1883.
Creator: Kleckner, M. A.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kleckner - Cemetery [(8)1322.F.a]

Title: Ah my home
Description: "Arranged and adapted to English words by C. Everest.", Illustration: Color lithograph of a wistful young woman is standing by a fence., On tp: Popular Song (Volkslied) fur eine Singstimme mit Piano., Lyrics are in English and German., Illustrated Popular Songs No. 13; Price: 27 kr; the number 3 in a 6 pointed star on tp. Publisher's Plate #450., This is No. 44 of "Vocal Beauties.", Handwritten pencil inscription at top of tp: Blanche Harker; Second page blank; in good condition., Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Date: c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Ah My 9551.F (Beitler)

Title: Improvisation on the bonnie blue flag
Description: Arranged by Theodore von La Hache., Civil War song (Confederacy) for piano., Dedication: To the arranger's friend, Mr. Auguste Davis., Op. 537; Number 6 on tp; Page 10 lists Popular Music Published by Blackmar & Co.; "Bonnie Blue Flag" was a very popular Confederate song during the Civil War, and became the national air of the Southern Confederacy. It was sung in Jackson, Mississippi at the Mississippi Convention which passed the secession act on January 9, 1861. Later, as other states seceded, additional verses were added to cover each state in the Confederacy; Included in "Early American Sheet Music" by Dichter and Shapiro, p.119; See also discussion of this piece in "Music for Patriots, Politicians and Presidents" by Vera Brodsky Lawrence (New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.) pp.358-359., Bound between pages 6 and 7 is a sheet of handwritten music which does not appear to belong to the Improvisation. The reverse side of this sheet is a handwritten song entitled, "Call Me Back Again"., Inscribed "Miss Carrie Hughes, Deauville (?) Oct. 15"., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Macarthy, Harry, 1834-1888, cmp
Date: c1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Imp 7518.F.30

Title: General Gilmore's grand march
Description: Within an oval frame surrounded by a floral border, General Gilmore, in uniform, is seated, his arm resting on a table next to his army hat., Lithographer: T. Sinclair's, Philadelphia., Civil War military march for pianoforte., "Respectfully dedicated to the gallant Major General Gilmore, U.S.A.", Op. 5; Major General Quincy Adams Gilmore, 1825-1888, was in command of the Department of the South in 1865., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Wolsieffer, William, cmp
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music General G 5786.F.114

Title: Oldest wood engraving establishment in New York. Commenced in 1838. Removal The engraving establishment of Lossing & Barritt, for many years at 71 Nassau Street, will be removed, on the first day of May next, to the building of the Nassau Bank, corner of Beekman & Nassau Streets, entrance in Beekman Street
Description: Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Lossing & Barritt
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Lossing 14874.Q (Zinman)

Title: Draft meeting! This evening, Monday, March 21, at 8 o'clock, a public meeting will be held at Citizens' Hall for the purpose of taking measures to raise a bounty for volunteers to fill the quota of our borough against the impending draft. Many citizens
Description: March 21 fell on a Monday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civl War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Draft (1)5777.F.70a (McAllister)

Title: Stand by the Union In Union there is strength. No "rats" of any "age" for sheriff. Printers' tracts, No 1. "The time has come."--Lincoln. ... Printed in the line of the Grand Union Procession, on Saturday evening, October 8th, 1864; in favor of the election of Lincoln, Johnson, and the whole Union ticket
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Stand 5793.F.40b (McAllister)

Title: The Friends of Lincoln, Johnson, Union and victory, in the Fifteenth Ward, to our soldier-brothers in the Army, greeting "The time has come!" You have been defending the flag of the free with bayonet and bullet. You are now called upon to ballot-down this bloody rebellion, which has torn you from your homes and entailed upon the whole country war and desolation. ... We send you, enclosed, the electoral ticket which in voting represents the flag
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1864 Friends 5793.F.40a (McAllister)

Title: The two roads to peace! How shall we end the rebellion--shall we coax it, or crush it? Every American citizen wants the rebellion ended and peace restored. Two plans have been proposed for doing it: one, by a convention which met at Baltimore, June 7; the other, by a convention which met at Chicago, August 20. Read and compare the two
Description: Text printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Nat Union 5793.F.50a (McAllister)

Title: Who shall be vice-president? Shall he be a loyal or a disloyal man? Past experience shows that the choice of vice-president of the United States is almost as important as that of president. In case the latter dies or becomes unable to perform the duties of his office, they devolve to the former
Description: Text printed in two columns., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: National Union Executive Committee (U.S.)
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1864 Nat Union 5793.F.39a (McAllister)

Title: [Title page for Birch's country seats of the United States containing a view of the unfinished capitol building in Washington, D.C.]
Description: Depicts a bald eagle clasping the American coat of arms above the unfinished "Capitol at Washington." Bricklayers work in front of the Capitol., Title supplied by cataloguer., Partially obscured copyright statement on verso., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [c1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 1b [P.9057.55.1a]

Title: The view from Springland
Description: Title page to first edition, later subtitle plate containing "The View from Springland" depicting the Neshaminy Creek and lush grounds near William Birch's estate in Bucks County. Birch resided at the estate from 1798 to 1818. View includes a woman standing near a potted tree, an abandoned bridge, and the abandoned toll house converted by Birch into his studio., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner., See William Birch study drawing of plate in Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.4]
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 2a [P.9057.55.2a]

Title: Hoboken in New Jersey, the seat of Mr. John Stevens
Description: View of the mansion, Stevens Villa, completed in 1787 near the Hudson River on the estate (Hoboken) of Colonel John Stevens III, renowned inventor of steamboats and railroads. The seat, purchased by Stevens in 1784, (initially developed as a summer resort) became incorporated as the city of Hoboken in 1855. In 1859, Stevens's sons replaced Stevens Villa with Stevens Castle. In the foreground, a woman and boy walk the grounds., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 3a [P.9057.55.3a]

Title: Hampton the seat of Genl. Chas. Ridgley, Maryland
Description: View of the mansion built in 1790 after the designs of Jehu Howell and constructed with a unique octagonal cupola for Captain Charles Ridgely in Towson, Baltimore County. The estate, purchased by the Ridgely family in 1735, was inherited by Ridgely's nephew Charles Carnan in 1791, and was later transferred to the custody of the National Park Service in 1949., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 4a [P.9057.55.4a]

Title: Mount Vernon, Virginia , the seat of the late Genl. Washington
Description: View showing the mansion and grounds in Fairfax county, Virginia owned by the first President of the United States. The seat, originally granted to Washington's great-grandfather John Washington in 1674, was inherited by George in 1761 and purchased by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1858. In the far right foreground, a handler walks a horse., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1809]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch Country Seats - pl 7a [P.9057.55.7a]

Title: Room in house
Description: View depicting an interior of the Lincoln House in Springfield, Illinois. A framed print commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation hangs on the wall-papered wall. Also includes a table adorned with a silver tray, pitcher, and goblets and a chair., Title from accompanying label: No. 21. Room in house., Date from copyright., Unmounted stereograph., Originally part of a McAllister, Hart, and Phillips Civil War scrapbook., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Schreiber & Glover
Date: [May 22, 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Glover - Lincoln [(13)1540.F]

Title: W. Wilberforce, Esqr. M.P
Description: Bust portrait, facing right within oval of the white English philanthropist and Member of Parliament. Wilberforce is attired in a shirt with a ruffled collar and dark colored double-breasted coat. Wilberforce was active in the Church Missionary Society and the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. In Parliament he worked to abolish the transatlantic slave trade., 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., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraver
Date: 1808
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - W [1885.F.79]

Title: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, President elect of the United States of America, with scenes and incidents in his life
Description: Periodical illustration containing a central bust-length, profile portrait of a beardless Lincoln and a decorative border comprised of vignettes representative of the 16th president's life. Also contains the text, "President Elect Abraham Lincoln," and the image of a rail, ax, and chain below the portrait., Title from item., Clippings pasted on verso., Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper (v. 11, no. 276), March 9, 1861, p. 247-248., Vignette captions: Lincoln's father killed by the Indians; Cap. Abr. Lincoln in the Black Hawk War; Law office; Springfield Capitol; Lincoln cropping corn in Indiana for Mr. Crawford; Lincoln splitting rails for Mr. Crawford; and Lincoln's residence., Originally from a McAllister scrapbook of Lincoln materials. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [March 9, 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **portrait prints- L [5792.F.16]

Title: Nigritae exhaustis venis metallicis conficiendo saccharo operam dare debent
Description: This woodcut is one of the earliest known illustrations of sugar making in the New World. In the right foreground, two slaves gather and strip stalks of sugar cane. Kneeling on the ground in the center of the scene, another slave feeds the stalks into a sugar mill. In the lower left-hand corner, the sugar juice extracted from the stalks is boiled in a large cauldron; the unrefined sugar is placed in the pots next to it. In the background, numerous slaves are show at work: some cut cane in the fields, some carry it in bundles, others transport pots of unrefined sugar., Plate I Girolamo Benzoni's Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis, secundae sectionis h[istor]ia[e] Hispanorum: tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia: . . . (Francofurti ad Moenum: Theodoro de Bry. Leod. cive Franc, 1595), part V of DeBry's Voyages., DeBry's illustration is based on the following passage in Benzoni's text from the translation of his work by W.H. Smith: "When the natives of this island (Espanola) began to be extirpated, the Spaniards provided themselves with blacks (Mori) from Guinea . . . and they have brought great numbers thence. When there were mines, they made them work at the gold and silver; but since those came to an end they have increased the sugar-works, and in these and in tending the flocks they are chiefly occupied, besides serving their masters in all else." (History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan. Shewing his travels in America, from A.D. 1541 to 1556 . . . Now first translated, and edited by Rear-Admiral W.H. Smyth (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1857) p. 93., Illustrations in part V of Benzoni's Voyages were engraved by Theodor DeBry after drawings by Joannes Stradanus., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver
Date: [1595]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1590 Har (b.w) Log 1076.F plate I, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2658

Title: Nigritae in scrutandis venis metallicis ab Hispanis in Insulas Abelgantur
Description: This mining scene is one of the earliest known illustrations of slave labor in the New World. Under the supervision of the Spaniards, several slaves pour buckets of molten metal onto the ground; others work in the caves seen in the background., Plate II in Girolamo Benzoni's Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis, secundae sectionis h[istor]ia[e] Hispanorum: tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia: . . . (Francofurti ad Moenum: Theodoro de Bry. Leod. cive Franc, 1595), part V of DeBry's Voyages., DeBry's illustration is based on the following passage in Benzoni's text from the translation of his work by W.H. Smyth: "When the natives of this island (Espanola) began to be extirpated, the Spaniards provided themselves with blacks (Mori) from Guinea . . . and they have brought great numbers thence. When there were mines, they made them work at the gold and silver; but since those came to an end they have increased the sugar-works, and in these and in tending the flocks they are chiefly occupied, besides serving their masters in all else." (History of the New World by Girolamo Benzoni, of Milan. Shewing his travels in America, from A.D. 1541 to 1556 . . . Now first translated, and edited by Rear-Admiral W.H. Smyth (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1857) p. 93., Illustrations in part V of DeBry's Voyages were engraved by Theodor DeBry after drawings by Joannes Stradanus., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, engraver
Date: [1595]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1590 Har (b.w) Log 1076.F plate II, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2659

Title: Sale of estates, pictures and slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans
Description: As the title suggests, the engraving shows a large auction in the New Orleans Rotunda. At separate podiums, three auctioneers simultaneously take bids on a painting (left), a family of slaves (center), and a manuscript (right). In the foreground, several traders lean and sit casually on barrels and crates as they watch the slave auction. Bidders for the painting and manuscript look somewhat more genteel. The engraver's emphasis the light streaming though the Rotunda's oculus may represent an ironic commentary on the events taking place within it., Frontispiece for volume one of James Silk Buckingham's The Slave States of America (London; Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co. Newgate St. London; rue St. Honoré, Paris [1842])., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Starling, J. M., engraver
Date: [1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1842 Buc 10584.O v 1 frontispiece, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2774

Title: Gang of slaves journeying to be sold in a Southern market
Description: Driven by mounted men with whips, a large procession of bound slaves travels down a shallow creek. Some of the slaves hold children in their arms; others carry baskets and bundles on their heads. A family of free blacks watches from the banking on the left., Illustrated plate in James Silk Buckingham's The Slave States of America (London; Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co. Newgate St. London; rue St. Honoré, Paris [1842]), vol. 2, p. 552., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Holl, F., engraver
Date: [1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1842 Buc 10584.O v 2 p 552, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2775

Title: Group of Negroes as imported to be sold for slaves
Description: Engraving was done after one of John Gabriel Stedman's own drawings; it shows a procession of slaves that he encountered during his travels in Surinam. Of the group, Stedman wrote, "They were a drove of newly-imported negroes, men and women, with a few children, who were just landed from on board a Guinea ship that lay anchor in the roads, to be sold for slaves. The whole party was such a set of scarcely animated automatons, such a resurrection of skin and bones, as forcibly reminded me of the last trumpet. These objects appeared that moment to be risen from the grave, or escaped from Surgeon's Hall; and I confess I can give no better description of them, than by comparing them to walking skeletons covered over with a piece of tanned leather." (vol. 1, p. 200) Stedman eventually continued, "Before these wretches, which might be in all about sixty in number, walked a sailor, and another followed behind with a bamboo-rattan; the one serving as a shepherd to lead them along, and the other as his dog to worry them occasionally, should any one lag behind, or wander away from the flock." (vol. 1, p. 200) He noted, however, that despite their condition, the slaves' facial expressions betrayed little dejectedness -- a point reflected in Blake's engraving., Plate XXII in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative, of a five year's expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777 (London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, & J. Edwards, Pall Mall, 1796), vol. 1, p. 200., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver
Date: [between 1791 and 1796]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1796 Sted 755.Q v 1 p 200, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2695

Title: Negoce des Negres avec les Europeans
Description: Set at Cape Verde, this engraving shows Africans trading with Europeans. In the foreground, a European merchant pours some type of libation into an African's cup. Behind them, another European kneels in front of a small group of Africans. In the left background, workers roll barrels onto a small boat, and large trading vessels can be seen on the waters in the distance., Illustration in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?])., Caption underneath the image reads: (1) Roy et (2) Alkaide au Cap Verd., In the absence of pagination, 32 has been written to the right of the border of the image., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1729?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (32), https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2944

Title: Coutume des Sacrifices chez les Angolais
Description: In the center of the scene, a fire burns in an urn, sending clouds of smoke upward. A large group of Angolans has congregated around the urn: they dance, clap, beat drums and other instruments, and appear to offer prayers to the gods. The king is seated on the edge of the circle; his attendants stand next to him. Toward the right, four men -- presumably those intended for sacrifice -- stand with their hands bound behind their backs., Illustration in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?])., In the absence of pagination, 31a has been written to the right of the border of the image., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1729?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (31a), https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2943

Title: Ehem, ou canots, petits bateaux, et jenge-jenge ou ponts des Africains
Description: On the bank of a river, three Africans build an ehem, or a "small boat." One breaks a piece of wood over his knee; another chops wood with an axe, and the third wades through the river with a bundle of wood on his back. The cloud of smoke rising from behind the boat suggests that the construction process has necessitated a fire. Behind them, a group of Africans paddle a finished ehem. In the background, a Jenge-Jenge, or an African bridge, stretches across the river. The bridge appears to consist of wooden planks, and each of its four corners is tied to a palm tree, so that two pairs of trees secure the bridge on either side. Ropes stretched between the trees also provide hand-rails. Two men are shown crossing the bridge; each carries a large bundle on his back., Illustration in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?])., In the absence of pagination, 41 has been written to the right of the set of images., A closely related version of the engraving (mirror image) had been published earlier in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid (London, 1670), p. 454., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1729?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (41), https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2946

Title: Noir au bois Mayombe
Description: The image is set in the interior of Angola; it shows African slave-traders and the slaves they have captured from the Mayombe forest. Armed with rifles and swords, the traders lead the slaves to the coast, where they will be sold. The slave in the foreground wears a forked branch around his neck. It is secured in the back by an iron pin, which, as the text explains, threatens to choke him. A trader holds the other end of the branch, thus directing the slave along the narrow path. To the right, another slave is bound with ropes and escorted by two traders. Behind them, a trader leads a female slave by the hand., Fold-out plate in L. de Grandpré's Voyage à côte occidentale d'Afrique: fait dans les années 1786 et 1787 . . . (Paris: Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galeries de Bois, no. 240, an IX., 1801), vol. 2, p. 48., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Michel, engraver
Date: [1801]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Grand 10198.D v 2 p 48, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2908

Title: The slave chain
Description: Engraving accompanies Part III ("Sojourn at Whydah") of Forbes's travel narratives. Whydah, now known as Ouidah, is a port-city in Benin that figured importantly in the 19th- century slave-trade. Set in front of a trading depot, the illustration shows a line of slaves who are chained together at the neck. Two European overseers crack their whips., Illustration in Frederick E. Forbes's Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journey of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and his Residence at the Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), vol. 1, p. 100., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Forbes 9727.D v 1 p 100, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2907

Title: Chaine d'esclaves venant de l'interieur [Senegal]
Description: Having been captured in the country's interior, six Senegalese slaves are led by two European slave-traders who carry swords and long spears. The slaves march in a line; each wears a collar that is attached to a long pole that rests on their shoulders and extends down the line., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 41., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 40, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2931

Title: Vue de Ben dans le pays de Cayor près Gorée
Description: Engraving is set in the village of Ben in the Kingdom of Cayor (Senegal). Armed with swords, long spears, and other weapons, African slave-traders capture a mother and her three small children. In the background, two traders attack another village resident. The image includes villagers' cottages, and the central scene is framed by elements of the lush, hilly landscape., Double-page illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 3, p. 56., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 3 p 56, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2928

Title: Fabrica del Tabacco
Description: Shows four slaves at work in a tobacco house. In the lower left-hand corner, a female slave sits on the ground and strips (?) the tobacco leaves (1). Behind her, another slave twists tobacco (2), while a third slave (3) puts it on a roll. Drying tobacco leaves hang upside down from the rafters (4). In the background, a mother and child work hanging leaves. A version of this engraving (a closely related mirror image) appears in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique (A Paris: rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre-François Giffart, près la rue Mathurins, à l'image Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXII [1722]), vol. 4, p. 496., Plate 21 in Il gazzettiere americano (In Livorno: Per Marco Coltellini all' inglese della verita, [1763]), vol 3, p. 202., Key at the top reads: 1. Nero che leva le Costole al Tabacco; 2. Nero che torce il Tabacco; 3. Nero che arrotola il Tabacco ; 4. Tabacco sospese per aseiugarsi., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Creator: Gregori, Ant, engraver
Date: [1763]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1763 Ameri Gaz Log 2080.F v 3 p 202., https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2677

Title: Plan and sections of a slave-ship / Representation of an insurrection on board a slave-ship [insert]
Description: This page introduces several diagrams under the title "Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship." Fig. I is a vertical cross-section of the hold of a slave-ship, seen from the side. It shows the manner in which slaves were forced to spend the voyage: lying flat on their backs in rows, one pressed against another. Figs. II. and III are vertical cross-sections viewed from the ship's bow or stern. Figs. IV, V, VI, and VII are aerial views of the ship's hold, all of which clearly illustrate the inhumane conditions in which slaves were transported. In addition to these diagrams, the page also includes a separate insert entitled "Representation of an Insurrection on Board a Slave-Ship." The engraving is accompanied by two captions, the first of which appears above the image and reads: "Showing how the crew fire upon the unhappy slaves from behind the BARRICADO, erected on board all Slave ships, as a security whenever such commotions may happen." Printed below the image, the second caption reads: "See the privy council's report part I. Art: Slaves, Minutes of evidence before the House of Commons. Wadstrom's Essay on Colonization. 471." A version of the engraving appeared, as a color lithograph, in William Fox's A Brief History of the Wesleyan Missions of the Western Coast of Africa (London: Printed for the author, published by Aylott and Jones, 8, Paternoster-Row, 1851, p. 116)., Folded insert at the back of Carl Bernhard Wadstrom's An Essay on Colonization: Particularly Applied to the Western Coast of Africa, with Some Free Thoughts on Cultivation and Commerce; also Brief Descriptions of the Colonies already Formed, or Attempted, in Africa, Including those of Sierra Leone and Bulama (London: Printed for the author, by Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch-Street. And sold by G. Nicol, No. 58, Pall-Mall; W. Faden, corner of St. Martin's Lane, Strand; J. Stockdale, No. 191, Piccadilly; J. Edwards, No. 78, Pall-Mall; E. [sic] & J. Egerton, No. 32, Charing-Cross; J. Debrett, No. 179, Piccadilly; J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard; and C. Dilly, No. 22, Poultry, MDCCXCIV [1794-1795])., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade., Plates have been removed from book and are housed separately: 3# U Afr Wads 728.Q (Plates)
Date: [1795]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 3# U Afr Wads 728.Q (Plates), https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2938

Title: Negres de traite en voyage
Description: Engraving shows several Africans being led from Senegal's interior to the coast, where they will be sold into slavery. Three Africans in the foreground wear forked branches around their necks. Such branches were commonly used in the African slave-trade, and appear frequently in depictions thereof. The branches were secured in back by an iron rod, which threatened to choke the wearer if he or she struggled or tried to escape., Illustration in Abel Hugo's France pittoresque ou Description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France (A Paris: Chez Delloye, éditeur de la France militaire, place de la Bourse, rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, 1835), vol. 3, p. 270., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Creator: Lalemont, engraver
Date: [1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1835 Hugo 10039.Q v 3 p 270, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2742

Title: Fan blacksmiths
Description: From 1855-59, Paul B. Du Chaillu (Paul Belloni), a French-American explorer, led an expedition through Gabon, which was supported by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Scienes. Du Chaillu's observations were published in Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861). This engraving is set in a village inhabited by the Fan peoples, who settled in the area around the Gabon River. It shows two Fan blacksmith working over a small fire. "As blacksmiths," Du Chaillu wrote, "they very far surpass all the tribes of this region who have not come in contact with whites. Their war-like habits have made iron a most necessary article to them; and though their tools are very simple, their patience is great, and, as the reader will perceive from the pictures of their arms, they produce some very neat workmanship." (p. 91) Describing the scene shown in the engraving, Du Chaillu continued, "The forge is set up anywhere where a fire can be built. They have invented a singular bellows, composed of two short, hollowed cylinders of wood, surmounted by skins accurately fitted on, and having an appropriate valve and a wooden handle. The bellows-man sits down, and moves these coverings up and down with great rapidity, and the air is led through small wooden pipes into an iron joint which emerges in the fire. The anvil is a solid piece of iron of the shape seen in the illustration. The sharp end is stuck into the ground, and the blacksmith sits alongside of his anvil and beats iron with a singular hammer, which is simply a piece of iron weighing three to six pounds, and in shape of a truncated cone. It has no handle, but is held by the smaller end, and, of course, the blows require much more strength." (p. 91-92), Illustration in Paul B. Du Chaillu's Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa: With accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and the chace of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1861), p. 91., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Du Chail 15232.O p 91, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2901

Title: Negre jouant du balafo
Description: Sitting in the doorway of a hut, an African man plays a wooden xylophone called the balafo (i.e. balo). A detail of the balafo, common in Senegambia, is shown at the top., Plate in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouvelle relation de l'Afrique occidentale: contenant une description exacte du Senegal & des Pais situés entre le Cap-Blanc & la riviere de Serrelionne, jusqu'à plus de 300. lieues en avant dans les terres. L'histoire naturelle de ces pais, les differentes nations qui y sont répandues, leurs religions & leurs moeurs. Avec l'etat ancien et présent des compagnies qui y font le commerce (A Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, rue Saint Jacques, à Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXVIII [1728]), vol. 2, p. 332, Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1728]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri Labat 65539.D v 2 p 332, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2921

Title: Orfevre ou forgeron negre
Description: Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African goldsmith (or blacksmith) working with his hammer and anvil., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 178., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 178, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2932

Title: Tisserand negre
Description: Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African weaver with her loom. A similar loom appears in the frontispiece for the London Yearly Meeting's Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction (London, 1822)., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 180., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 180, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2933

Title: Negresse battant le coton au lieu de le carder
Description: Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African woman beating cotton into threads. The cotton, which had already been ginned, was placed on a stiff mat and hit with a baton., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 181., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 181, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2934

Title: Negresse filant le coton
Description: Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African woman spinning cotton. She holds a spool in each hand, and sits on a mat with a large basket of cotton next to her., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 182., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 182, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2935

Title: Negresse etudiant le jeu de Ouri
Description: Included in Chapter XVII, "Chasse, Pêche, Musique et Divertissemens," the engraving shows a young African woman learning to play Ouri, a popular "pit and pebble" game known throughout Africa under several names, including Oware and mancaga. In the accompanying text, Villeneuve wrote that Ouri (and similar games) were too complicated to be described simply. He noted, however, that girls usually learned to play the game around the age of ten., Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 205., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Date: [1814]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 205, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2936

Title: A Carib of Morne Ronde, St. Vincent
Description: Portrait image of Mary and her child, two Caribs whom Wentworth met in Morne Ronde on St. Vincent. According to Wentworth, Mary's features "were more of the African character, than of the aboriginal Indians, who were remarkable for the symmetry of their forms, and long straight glossy hair." "Her proportions, too," he wrote, "were singularly out of proportion, as if -- excepting her head and feet, she had been formed of the half limbs of a muscular giantess." (p. 337), Plate in Trelawney Wentworth's West India Sketch Book (London: Printed for Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1834), vol. II, p. 336., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: December 1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1834 Wentw 5894.D vol 2 p 336, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2740

Title: Slave barracoons -- burial-ground
Description: Illustration depicts an episode that Du Chaillu witnessed during his stay in Cape Lopez (in the modern country of Gabon). As he wrote, "During my stay in the village, as I was one day out shooting birds in a grove not far from my house, I saw a procession of slaves coming from one of the barracoons toward the farther end of my grove. As the came nearer, I saw that two gangs of six slaves each, all chained about the neck, were carrying a burden between them, which I knew presently to be the corpse of another slave. They bore it to the edge of the grove, about three hundred yards from my house, and, throwing it down there on the bare ground, they returned to their prison, accompanied by the overseer, who, with his whip, had marched behind them." (p. 115), Plate in Paul Du Chaillu's Stories of the Gorilla Country: Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1868), p. 108., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1868 Du Chail 17468.D p 108, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2819

Title: La traite des noirs
Description: Image is set below the decks of a slave-ship during the middle passage. Most of the slaves wear chains and shackles on their wrists. Some try to sleep on the floor; others simply wait. In the center of the scene, a mother holds her infant child. The father buries his face in the mother's hair, and rests his hand on the shoulder of his older daughter., Engraving in Albert Laporte's Récits du vieux marins (Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?), p. 238., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Creator: Trichon, engraver
Date: [1883?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Lap 7206.Q (Lewis) p 238, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2833

Title: Revolte sur un bâtiment négrier
Description: Image depicts a revolt aboard a slave-ship. Having broken free of their shackles and chains, the slaves use them to attack the ship's crew. The crew members fight back with daggers and hatchets., Engraving in Albert Laporte's Récits du vieux marins (Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?), p. 267., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1883?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1883 Lap 7206.Q (Lewis) p 267, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2834

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