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Clapp, William Warland, Jr., 1826-1891. Correspondence, 1790-1891 (bulk 1840-1891)

Title: William Warland Clapp correspondence, 1790-1891 (inclusive), 1840-1891 (bulk)

Letters to American journalist and author William Warland Clapp Jr. from his friends, colleagues, and family. Also includes some other papers.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (4.5 linear feet)

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Poems and Songs. 1856-1862 (bulk).

Title: Civil War Poems and Songs. 1856-1862 (bulk).

The volume contains approximately 750 examples of poems and song lyrics written during the Civil War by well-known poets and the general public, which were clipped from serials in Philadelphia, New York, and other cities such as Boston, Hartford, and Louisville. The themes are overtly patriotic and primarily war-related, with many verses devoted to the flag and the Union. The works were pasted into a folio scrapbook made for the Library Company in the 1890s. They are randomly arranged, with between five and fifteen examples on a page. Most of the clipped pieces do not have citations though many were annotated in pencil with a date, often just the year, mostly 1861 and 1862. The earliest dated work in the compilation is a poem dedicated to Charles Sumner, "The Fourth of July," by Ann L. Rogers, published in The Sun in 1856. The volume contains two series of long poems: sixteen numbered "Ballads of the War," written for the New York Mercury by Edward Willett, and eleven "Spicy Letters to Distinguished and Extinguished Statesmen," by "Anna Konda," with each devoted to a particular leader. The latter group does not have citations, though another long poem by "Konda" in the volume, "The Apotheosis of Shoddy," was published in the Mercury. Other noted poets included in the compilation are Park Benjamin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lucy Larcom, John G. Saxe, Lydia Sigourney, T. Buchanan Read, William Ross Wallace, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Among the serials credited are the Philadelphia papers Daily News, Evening Bulletin, Evening Journal, Gazette and Republican, Inquirer, Sunday Dispatch, as well as Harpers New Monthly Magazine, and Charivari. In addition to the poems and songs, there are a few examples of dry good marketing disguised in war-themed verses, where the poems actually promote Philadelphia merchants Bennett & Co. and John Wanamaker, and two Christmas acrostics (1860 and 1861) advertising a store in Elizabeth, NJ.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. 81 p. 57 cm.

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Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864. Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

Title: Albert Newsam Print Collection, 1822-1881 bulk 1829-1860.

The Albert Newsam Print Collection is primarily black and white lithographed portraits drawn on stone by Newsam from life or after other artists and photographers. The collection holds images of several hundred prominent figures from the period spanning the late 1820s through the early 1860s. There are more than seventy religious figures, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian clergyman, many of which were published in the U.S. Ecclesiastical Portrait Gallery (1841), and the Presbyterian Historical Almanac (1858). Other dominant occupations are medicine (doctors and dentists), lawyers, judges, military figures, writers, composers, performing artists (dance, music, and theatre), and Philadelphia merchants. Many of the subjects are politicians. There are portraits of eight Pennsylvania governors from George Wolf (1829) through William F. Packer (1858), fifteen American presidents from George Washington through James Buchanan (1857), cabinet members, and congressmen from a variety of states. Many of the portraits were produced for publications - - both books and serials - - as well as for sheet music. Some of the prints have printed or hand-applied color. Several of the images are present in varying states, and there are a number of duplicates. The Historical Society owns all but 91 of the 555 identified Newsam works. Artists most often copied are the painters Henry Inman, Charles Bird King, John Neagle, Gilbert Stuart, and Thomas Sully, and Philadelphia photographers M.A. Root and McClees & Germon. The prints were primarily published by P.S. Duval, as well as other firms including: C.G. Childs; Childs & Inman; Pendleton, Kearny & Childs; Lehman & Duval. Newsam created a series of portraits of Indians for Thomas L. McKenney's noted History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published in Philadelphia between 1836 and 1844. Also included in the collection are the plates from four medical publications published in Philadelphia which contain images by Newsam: Pancoast's Treatise on Operative Surgery (1st edition, 1844 and 3rd edition, 1852); Quain and Wilson's Series of Anatomical Plates (1842); and Rayer's A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Skin (1845). The Newsam prints were acquired by the Historical Society through gift and purchase between 1881 and 1965. The largest accession came in April 1881, when 162 prints were donated by John A. McAllister. The prints in that group were Albert Newsam's personal copies, and had been given to McAllister by Newsam near the end of his life. Many are proofs before letters and were annotated by the artist. More than 150 additional prints were acquired by the Historical Society at sales and auctions in the period between 1910 and 1919.

ArchivalResource: 750 lithographic prints 1 drawing (11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212412079 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896. American Political Ephemera, 1835-1884 (inclusive).

Title: American Political Ephemera, 1835-1884 (inclusive).

The collection consists of handbills, circular letters, poll tabulations, and miscellaneous electioneering material, including satirical and cartoon campaign cards, for political campaigns in Pennsylvania, predominantly in Philadelphia. Filed in with Elections, Miscellaneous are two advertising cards for campaign card and campaign badge manufacturers, and a few electioneering pieces related to New York campaigns.

ArchivalResource: 1 box .21 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. American Song Sheet Clippings. 1888-1892 (bulk).

Title: American Song Sheet Clippings. 1888-1892 (bulk).

The collection consists of seventeen pages holding clippings from unidentified newspapers, though most likely Philadelphia and New York papers. The clippings are from the nineteenth century and are mostly undated, though some are marked as 1888 and 1892. The pages were removed from a folio album that once held a collection of song sheets. The clippings cover all types of popular American songs and ballads, including military songs, sea shanties, campaign songs, plantation songs, street ballads, and camp meeting songs. Also included are articles on composers including Elizabeth Paine-Milbank, Hope Temple, Effie Channing, Charles A. White, Gussie L. Davis, Fred N. Crouch, Felix M'Glennon, J.M. Barrie, Victor Nessler, Henry C. Work, and the composer of "Maryland, My Maryland!," Mrs. H. Newell Martin (nee Hettie Cary) of Baltimore. One clipping from the New York Times is dated February 28, 1892, and relates the story of "Kelley the Song Man," a Confederate spy who gathered information while selling music in Union camps during the Civil War. The final three pages are a title index to the song sheets once in the folio album, which can now be found in the American Song Sheet collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 box 21 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145522432 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Philadelphia Court Records, 1802-1862 (inclusive).

Title: Philadelphia Court Records, 1802-1862 (inclusive).

Primarily official legal forms, most of the documents in the collection hold little in the way of narrative about the suits cited, and were most likely kept for the value of their signatures. The Arbitration Records are forms that record the names of the plaintiffs, defendants, and arbitrators, location of the arbitration (often a tavern), and the settlement, but generally not a précis of the case. The Insolvency Petitions record the petitioner (and sometimes his occupation), a schedule of his property, his creditors and debt owed, and a statement of the means by which he became insolvent; most of the forms were printed and sold by Thomas S. Manning. The Miscellaneous Records are mostly simple docket transcripts for capias (arrest warrant) cases or certifications of appeals filed in the Court of Common Pleas, and contain little content about the parties involved or their suits. There are just a few folders with more extensive testimonial evidence, including one involving the officers of the Brotherly Union Society of the County of Philadelphia, a mutual aid organization that was formed in 1823 by group of free black men. Many of the folders hold printed forms titled bear the signature of Philadelphia alderman John Binns.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes .63 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Centennial and World's Columbian Expositions, 1876, 1893.

Title: Centennial and World's Columbian Expositions, 1876, 1893.

The collection contains illustrations that were formerly in a folio album holding material from several fairs held in Philadelphia and from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Centennial material consists of forty-six wood engravings that were cut from serials including the Daily Graphic, and Harper's Weekly. The World's Columbian material consists of ten illustrations of the exposition's buildings and grounds, which were removed from an unidentified publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (2 linear feet)

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Philadelphiana, 1826-1873 (inclusive).

Title: Philadelphiana, 1826-1873 (inclusive).

The Philadelphiana collection contains miscellaneous ephemera, primarily admission tickets and programs, which document social, civic, and cultural events held in Philadelphia in the mid-nineteenth century. Most of the tickets are for balls and parties which were held for fundraising purposes or were simply social events. Among the sponsoring organizations found in the collection are the Hair Dresser's Union of Philadelphia, the Dallas Association, the Scots Thistle Society, and the French Benevolent Society. Also included are tickets for dinners (one each for Nathan Dunn, Hugh McGinnnis, and the Robert Burns Association) and a concert by the young ladies of the fifteenth ward public schools, and tickets and invitations to the opening of the new Athenaeum, Ledger, and City Hall buildings. The Funeral Obsequies folder holds invitations to local ceremonies following the death of American presidents William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). Newspaper clippings are mostly unidentified and relate to Philadelphia through being published in a local paper (such as an article about sailing on the ice of the Hudson River) or of local interest (an article on Dan Rice's horse Excelsior, and one on a proposed bridge over the Schuylkill River). The Religion and Reform folder contains tickets for events held by religious organizations including the Sunday Institute of Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Festival and Annual Ball, and a visitor's ticket for Eastern State Penitentiary. The single advertising piece is a small card inviting the reader to have dinner at one of the Wanamaker's Dining Rooms; it is in the Miscellaneous folder, which also holds a wide variety of disparate material. Examples of items in the folder are a plan for the "Decimal System of Numbering Houses" that appeared as a foldout chart in the 1858 McElroy city directory, an invitation to the Butchers & Drovers Ball of 1842, and a circular regarding the watering of city streets. The earliest item in the collection is a season (1826-1827) ticket that admitted John McAllister Jr. to lectures at the Franklin Institute.

ArchivalResource: 1 box .21 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusive).

Title: Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers, 1752-1831 (inclusive).

The Gratz-Franks-Simon Papers contains correspondence and documents concerning the lives of two generations of three families of merchants living and working in eastern Pennsylvania. The material is primarily related to their business transactions, with some personal and family topics also present. Among the correspondents are Levy Andrew Levy, who worked with Joseph Simon in Lancaster, the trader and speculator George Croghan, and the Gratz's cousins Jacob and Solomon Henry.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes 1.04 linear ft.

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Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

Title: Benson John Lossing Collection, 1843-1917

The Benson John Lossing Collection is an assortment of correspondence, drawings, writings, and memorabilia relating to the 19th century historian, illustrator, and editor of The American Historical Review (1813-1891). Predominantly correspondence, the collection centers around Lossing's information gathering for his popularizations of American history, while it also illuminates the early publishing industry in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Illustrations. 1859-1865 (inclusive).

Title: Civil War Illustrations. 1859-1865 (inclusive).

The collection consists of illustrations, primarily wood and line engravings, which were cut from serials published in Philadelphia and New York, such as Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, the New York Picayune, and The Phunny Phellow; very few of the pieces have dates, source citations or explanatory text beyond the published captions. Included are camp and battle scenes, basic maps meant to help readers understand military strategies, and caricature portraits of generals and politicians. The material was formerly housed in two folio scrapbooks (one for each of the existing series) but was not arranged in any chronological or subject order within the albums. Most of the illustrations remain fixed to the album pages, which have been disbound, foldered and boxed. Material absent from the pages has been incorporated into the Library Company's print department and cataloged separately.

ArchivalResource: 1 box containing 5 folders 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124558483 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896. Biography and Genealogy Collection, 1857-1882 (inclusive); undated.

Title: Biography and Genealogy Collection, 1857-1882 (inclusive); undated.

The collection of genealogical material includes family charts, heraldic charts, and other printed materials, some of which had once been foldout tables in published genealogies. The material was formerly housed in a folio scrapbook created for the Library Company, which was disbound in 2005. The Vail family is represented by several pieces, and there are single items for the following families: Cope, Douglas, McCall, Penn, Pennington, Shippen, Somerled, Washington, Wilcox, and Wilson. There are miscellaneous single items relating to Robert Blackwell (photograph of a certificate of ordination), William Schnider (newspaper obituary), and Joseph Priestley (a transcription of the memorial tablet on a meeting house in Birmingham, England), and a printed list of the general officers of the Revolutionary Army prepared by Jeremiah Colburn. Also in the folder is a transcription of the McAllister genealogy copied from the family bible now in the Library Company collection (published in Edinburgh [Scotland]: Printed by Mark and Charles Kerr, His Majesty's printers, MDCCXCIII. [1793], call number *A Bible Eng 1793 Log.1504.Q.1 (McAllister)).

ArchivalResource: 1 box 2 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Sanitary Fairs Collection, 1749-1867 (bulk 1864).

Title: Sanitary Fairs Collection, 1749-1867 (bulk 1864).

The Sanitary Fairs Collection consists largely of ephemera and manuscripts documenting the efforts made by citizens to raise awareness and funds for the United States Sanitary Commission. Most of the material is from the Great Central Fair held in Philadelphia in June 1864, and includes circulars letters, forms, handbills, correspondence, and miscellaneous printed material generated by the various committees set up to collect objects and financial donations for the fair, and to arrange and staff the fair's sales booths and exhibits. Two additional folders of material for the Relics, Curiosities, and Autographs committee have examples of the autographs (dating 1749-1851) that were sold at their booth and remain in their special printed enclosures from the fair. The collection holds the correspondence files of one particular office, the Committee for Labor, Incomes and Revenues, whose chair and treasurer were, respectively, Philadelphia merchants L. Montgomery Bond and John W. Claghorn. The collection also contains limited ephemera from fairs in Albany, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Elmira, Indianapolis, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Muscatine, Iowa.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes 2.71 linear ft.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Manuscripts, 1854-1868.

Title: Civil War Manuscripts, 1854-1868.

The collection holds disparate letters and documents pertaining to both military and naval officials, and civilians, active during the Civil War. There are small groups of material relating to the careers of five Union men who functioned at various levels in the war: an army colonel, William Watts Hart Davis; a navy surgeon, James McClelland; a soldier from Philadelphia, J. Ridgway Moore; an army general, Lovell Harrison Rousseau; and a Union spy, Richard Wilcox. There are also ten prisoner-of-war letters written by Confederate soldiers being held in Indianapolis, IN, and Columbus, OH. Much of the material was removed from military office files during the war and sent to the collector, John A. McAllister in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1 box .42 linear ft.

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John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871, 1834-1871

Title: John Fries Frazer papers, 1834-1871 1834-1871

Principal correspondents in the lettes of John Fries Frazer include Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian Ramsay Peale who discuss mainly general scientific topics, although personal and family matters are discussed with Bache. Topics include the University of Pennsylvania, boiler explosions, chemistry, education, the National Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution, fossils, magnetism, solar eclipses, the American Philosophical Society, weights and measures, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, scientific instruments, the American Civil War, electricity, the United States Mint, the Franklin Institute, scientists of the period, natural history, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet, 6 boxes, ca. 683 items

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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896. McAllister Autograph Collection, 19th century (bulk).

Title: McAllister Autograph Collection, 19th century (bulk).

A collection of approximately four hundred autographs clipped from letters and documents that contains signatures of most of the prominent men (and six women) in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American history. There is also a specific group of Civil War-era autographs collected from servicemen during the war.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes .83 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172833763 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Leaders Ephemera Collection. 1860-1865 (bulk).

Title: Civil War Leaders Ephemera Collection. 1860-1865 (bulk).

The Civil War Leaders Ephemera Collection holds ephemera and visual materials related to a group of prominent American politicians and military heroes active in the middle of the nineteenth century: Robert Anderson, William G. Brownlow, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, George B. McClellan, and Winfield Scott.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes 1.88 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124558487 View

Autograph File, M

Title: Autograph File, M

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01436/catalog View

Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885. Papers, c. 1861-c. 1882.

Title: Papers, c. 1861-c. 1882.

The first four octavo volumes are collections of correspondence, newsclippings, illustrations, photographs, and business records pertaining to his research for the book on the American flag. The materials are not arranged in a precise order but appear to be grouped together in non-alphabetical sequence by writer. The first volume includes material dating from 1861-1873; the second, 1866-1873; the third, 1873-1880; and the fourth, 1873-1880. The first two volumes have many letters from Joel Munsell (1808-1880) pertaining to the printing of the book and there are also statements of expenditures and receipts from Munsell and from the engravers, including J.H. Bufford's Lithographic House. Subsequent volumes include correspondence from persons knowledgeable about flags including John A. McAllister (1822-1896), John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne (1807-1884), Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1828-1900) and William J. Canby ( - ). There is information about various state flags, and there are letters from persons complementing Preble on his book. The collection also includes three volumes of newsclippings, illustrations, and reports about people who lived to be very old. The folio volume is titled "Instances of Reputed Longevity with Notes on Same." Most of the material was copied into the volume by a clerk, Alexander H. Massie ( - ). There are 1235 pages (some blank) and the reports are arranged by age of the persons at death. The clippings in the volume date from 1875 newspapers. Two octavo volumes have similar materials on longevity. Octavo volume #5 (152 p., many blank) has newsclippings dating from 1876 and there is some interleaved correspondence. Octavo volume #6 (102 p., some blank) is a supplement to the other two volumes and includes some older newsclippings with most of the clippings dating from c. 1879-1881. One folder includes four letters and one postcard, 1874-1882, from Preble to Nathaniel Paine (1832-1917) discussing personal matters, American Antiquarian Society meetings, and Preble's writing. There is also a copy of a seven-page letter, 1875, to Preble from Divie Bethune McCartee (1820-1900) discussing his professorship at the Imperial University of Tokyo in Japan and missionary work in the Far East. The second folder contains subscription lists and prospectuses for the second edition of Preble's book on the American flag, newsclippings about the book, Preble's bookplate, and a photograph of the flag of Fort McHenry. (This material was removed from the AAS copy of the second edition, call number: G380.P922.H880.).

ArchivalResource: 6 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.2 folders (32 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207165343 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. John A. McAllister Papers, 1820-1885 (bulk 1860-1866).

Title: John A. McAllister Papers, 1820-1885 (bulk 1860-1866).

The collection holds correspondence and documents which are primarily the papers of the Philadelphia antiquarian collector John A. McAllister, but it includes some additional material relating to his family and their optical business. As McAllister was an active collector of autograph letters, there are items from many of the important names in nineteenth-century politics, culture, religion, and the military, including members of the Peale family and other Philadelphians. A large component of the collection relates to McAllister's acquisition methods, so there are letters from private and institutional collectors of Americana in other parts of the country as well as with working historians such as Benson J. Lossing. Much of the collection focuses on the American Civil War (1861-1865); the single literary item is a manuscript by Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes 1.46 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172834133 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. McAllister Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1683-1872 (inclusive).

Title: McAllister Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1683-1872 (inclusive).

A collection of miscellaneous and individual papers including letters, deeds, indentures, invoices, depositions, wills, certificates, passports, summons, and other government, legal and financial documents, most of which bear no relation to each other. Among the documents is a memoir by Scottish immigrant Quintin Campbell, three songs by Scottish hymnist James Montgomery, a letter from Dr. J.K. Mitchell, papers relating to A.H. Dohrmann and William Kneass, and a letter from Louis-Antoine Caraccioli to Tobias Smollett.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes 5.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172834077 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896. Confederate States of America Ephemera Collection, 1861-1865 (inclusive).

Title: Confederate States of America Ephemera Collection, 1861-1865 (inclusive).

The collection contains financial instruments, forms, and ephemera that emanated from the South during the Civil War. The material was once kept in a folio album, and some of the documents, particularly the currency and newspaper clippings, remain attached to their album pages. Folder 1 holds bonds and certificates, many uncut with coupons attached, and one album page with receipts for bonds. Folder 2 holds sixteen album pages of Confederate currency and a folder with fourteen loose dollar bills in various denominations, a few of which are labeled as facsimile notes (as part of their engraved design) and were printed in Philadelphia. There is also one page with Treasurer's bank checks, and a sheet of white paper with CSA watermarks, which is inscribed "Bank note paper manufactured for the Confederate States of America. Part of the cargo of the Blockage runner Bermuda captured 27 April 1862 & brot into the Port of Philadelphia." Folder 3 holds clippings cut from unidentified newspapers, most of which contain announcements of regiment activities, bonds sales, defense loans, etc. Folder 4 holds ephemera printed with "Southern rights" and other secessionist slogans. Folder 5 holds miscellaneous material printed in the South, primarily government and military forms. There is also a blank sheet of light brown paper inscribed "Rebel writing paper from North Carolina."

ArchivalResource: 1 box 1.67 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172833669 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Albert Newsam Papers. 1861-1868 (bulk, 1833-1864).

Title: Albert Newsam Papers. 1861-1868 (bulk, 1833-1864).

The Albert Newsam Papers holds correspondence and documents sent to, written by, and about the artist. Some of the material relates to the Gallaudet Monument Association, which was organized to collect funds from the deaf community nationwide to raise a monument to Thomas H. Gallaudet (1787-1851) on the grounds of the American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (now the American School for the Deaf) in Hartford, Connecticut. Newsam designed the monument, and was vice president for fundraising in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. The collection also holds a circa 1835 folio album, titled "Principles of Perspective," which is thought to be in Newsam's hand and functioned as his workbook on the subject.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes 1.63 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145522330 View

McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Lottery & Gift Concert Collection, 1753-1879 (inclusive).

Title: Lottery & Gift Concert Collection, 1753-1879 (inclusive).

Vol. 1 (1811-1860) contains 74 pages on which are pasted between 2 and 8 lottery scheme circulars for school fund, state and local lotteries in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Germany. The earliest items are two from England: an 1811 and an 1826 prospectus for lotteries. Much of the album is devoted to the results of Rhode Island lotteries, with the circulars signed in ink by the secretary of state, Henry Bowen (1785-1867). There are a number of pieces issued by the firm of F.E. Fuld & Co., of London and Frankfurt am Main, having to do with Austrian lotteries. The volume includes a single issue of the Benefactor (vol. 11, no. 21, January 1858, published in Jersey City, NJ), which is inscribed by an A. Cummings, with a request for descriptions and prices of magic lanterns, apparently sent to the McAllister firm. A number of the circulars are for lotteries to support the Patapsco Female Institute (operating 1837-1891), a boarding school in Ellicott City, Maryland. There are also advertisements for lottery brokers Taylor & Co. (New York), Cohen's Lottery Exchange (Baltimore), Peter Schneider (Frankfurt), T. Bish and J. & J. Sivewright (both in London) and George Taylor Jr. and the Temple of Fortune, both in Philadelphia. Vol. 2 (1860-1864) contains more than 250 lottery scheme circulars, managers' packet certificates, and drawing certificates, printed as broadsides and handbills. Many were issued (and were inscribed by) New York lottery broker Joseph Bates, operating from 11 Wall Street; the album also includes a single four-page issue of his Bates' New Monthly (vol. 1, no. 1, November 1863). Many of the circulars in the volume were issued by lottery managing firms including Murray, Eddy & Company, John A. Morris & Company, and Z.E. Simmons & Company (successors to John A. Morris), and cover state and educational contests in Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Cuba, in particular Shelby College (Shelbyville, KY, 1836-1868). Vol. 3 (1803-1879, bulk 1864-1879) contains 130 pages pasted with lottery scheme circulars, broadside advertisements, and prize lists for drawings in Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Virginia, Cuba, Spain, and New Brunswick, arranged with between 2 and 5 items on each page. Special items in the volume include a single issue of The Public Library Paper (April 1874), a tabloid publication detailing the lotteries held to raise funds for the "Public Library of Kentucky" in Louisville (chartered by the state in 1871) which, after moves and mergers, became the Louisville Free Public Library. The Paper and attendant materials feature a cut of the dry-goods store on Fourth Street, between Green and Walnut, proposed for the library. There is one prospectus for a lottery held in 1867 to raise funds for the Gettysburg Asylum for Invalid Soldiers; each subscriber was to receive a lithograph of the asylum buildings and a chromolithograph of the Gettysburg battleground. The top three prizes were $100,000 in cash, a 600-acre stock farm with a "splendid mansion," and "the celebrated yacht Henrietta," with the remainder of prizes paid out in cash. The volume contains a number of items from the notorious Louisiana State Lottery, including an 1876 brochure which mimics, in design and vocabulary, a railroad timetable, and others which include a wood engraving, by J.W. Orr (1815-1887), of what is labeled as the lottery's building. At the end of the album are a dozen pages of newspaper clippings, dating from the early 1800s to the 1860s. They include a full page from an unidentified Philadelphia newspaper (1817) and clipped advertisements and columns from others. Contained in the clips are the results from the 1810 Madras lottery, a six-part article on the history of Rhode Island lotteries (1856), and various columns criticizing games of chance. One advertised lottery was the "Grand Literature or Cyclopaedia Lottery" (1822) which featured prizes of perfect and imperfect sets of the work, as well as sets of plates from the volumes; tickets were sold at "Waite's Fortunate Office" at Third and Chestnut, Philadelphia. There is one undated newspaper advertisement for a lottery managed by Harrison & Pitts (Columbus. GA), for which the top prize was "a family of likely negroes," consisting of a woman, five children, and a man. The second prize was a rosewood piano, and the remainder of prizes were cash. The family, it said, was on view in the auctions rooms, and tickets were priced at $10. Vol. 4 (1753-1862, 1876) holds about 2,100 lottery tickets. There are 8 pages of tickets for states and charities, 1753-1843 and 1876, including canal, town, church, school, college, and city lotteries from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The earliest ticket, from 1753, was issued by the Connecticut Lottery to benefit the College of New-Jersey. There are 25 tickets dating before 1800, both letterpress and engraved examples; just a few date between 1800 and 1829, with the rest dating from the 1830s. In addition to the American tickets, there is one for the Irish Lottery (1799), one from France (1811) and one from Cuba (1876). Following that are 113 pages of tickets dating from 1844 to 1862, from state, school, and canal lotteries in Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia, with one ticket from the Art Association of Great Britain, and one from Cuba. They are arranged chronologically. Vol. 5 (ca. 1800-1878, bulk 1863-1878) has more than 1,500 lottery tickets arranged chronologically from 1862 to 1878, with a few tickets from the 18th and early-19th centuries. They cover lotteries held in Kentucky, Louisiana, Delaware, Georgia, Nebraska, and Cuba, and prize concerts in Boston, Washington, Chicago, and New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois. At the end of the volume are three pages of earlier tickets from lotteries to raise funds for charities, churches, and improvements such as the Washington City Canal, Piscataqua Bridge, Amoskeag Canal, and the South Hadley Canal. There is one ticket for the Washington Monument Lottery. Two tickets are present for lotteries benefiting the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, founded in Paterson, NJ, in 1791. There is also one ticket from a drawing for the Frederick Female Seminary, where the top prize was a "splendid music box." Vol. 6 (1864-1877) contains 48 programs, broadsides, and prize lists for gift and prize concerts. Organizers include the New York Jeweler's Association (Philadelphia), Kelley's Grand North American Prize Concert (Chicago), Crosby Opera House Art Association (Chicago), Cosmopolitan Art Union Association (Lexington, MI), the Art Union of Great Britain (Manchester), and Pike's New York Opera House Association (Cincinnati). Beneficiaries include the Gettysburg Asylum for Invalid Soldiers, Riverside Volunteers Orphan Institute (Burlington, NJ), Montpelier Female Humane Association (Alexandria, VA), Working Tailors' T.P. & B. Union (New York), and the victims of the French War (Washington, DC, 1871). While the material is predominantly American, there are several tickets from the Grand Bazaar for New Church of S.S. Augustine & John, in Dublin, Ireland (1865), and one from the Royal Dominion Gift Concert in New Brunswick, Canada (1877). Among the advertisements is a list of special prize goods, consisting of stationery, chromolithographs, engravings, and picture frames, manufactured by J.C. & W.M. Burrow, of Bristol, TN, and promotions for Hoyt's Novelty Store in Philadelphia, including a humorous cartoon titled "Five Ways of Drawing a Watch," published for Hoyt's by Dick, Andrews & Co.

ArchivalResource: 6 v. 60 cm.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896. Letter of John A. McAllister, 1865.

Title: Letter of John A. McAllister, 1865.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Miscellanies Ephemera Collection, 1858-1884 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Civil War Miscellanies Ephemera Collection, 1858-1884 (bulk 1861-1865).

The collection contains tickets, invitations, handbills, advertising, product labels, government forms, and miscellaneous ephemera related to merchandise, charitable and patriotic organizations, and home front activities in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities during the Civil War period. Also included is ephemera concerning the Union martyr E.E. Ellsworth, the author George Francis Train, and documenting Southern relief efforts mounted by Northerners.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes 2.71 linear ft.

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George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Title: George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Letters and papers assembled by scholar George Edward Woodberry, concerning the American poet Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.75 linear ft.)

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Papers, 1865-1876.

Title: Papers, 1865-1876.

Drawings, poems, and correspondence of Americanartist and poet William Cook.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1linear ft.)

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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection. 1861-1868 (inclusive).

Title: Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection. 1861-1868 (inclusive).

The Civil War Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals Ephemera Collection holds ephemera and a few pieces of correspondence (including letters to and from Samuel Bradford Fales, William M. Cooper, and Arad Barrows) that illustrate and describe the workings of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, and both of their hospitals. The ephemera is somewhat similar for each group, and consists primarily of donation acknowledgements, event tickets and programs, flyers, and circular letters that the committees used to raise funds.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes 1.88 linear ft.

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Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

ArchivalResource: 14,250 items

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Castle-Bache Collection, 1683-1922

Title: Castle-Bache Collection 1683-1922

A leading Jeffersonian journalist, Benjamin Franklin Bache was the eldest son of Richard and Sarah (Franklin) Bache, and grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in France and Switzerland, Bache returned to the United States with his grandfather in 1785 and by 1790, had established himself as editor of the , a newspaper that became one of the most important voices for radical Republicanism in early national Philadelphia. Bache died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798. His son Franklin Bache became a noted physician and chemist, teaching at the Franklin Institute (1826-1832), the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science (1831-1841), and at Jefferson Medical College. The Castle-Bache Collection contains a diverse assemblage of both personal and professional correspondence relating to the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin Bache, with interesting material relating to Bache's son, Franklin, and later generations of the Bache family. The collection also includes genealogical materials on the Franklins, Baches, Markoes, and cognate families, as well as a selection of miscellaneous printed materials. Aurora

ArchivalResource: 9.0 Reel(s)

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McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896,. Civil War Playing Cards Collection. 1857-1865 (bulk).

Title: Civil War Playing Cards Collection. 1857-1865 (bulk).

The collection holds four decks of playing cards: "Game of Battles Between the North & South," first series (New York: Andrew Peck, 1861), consisting of 48 cards covering 24 battles in Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, and West Virginia, plus one card each of directions and counters; "National Emblems" (New York: American Card Company, 1862); "Union Generals" (New York: M. Nelson, 1863); and "Confederate Generals" (New York: M. Nelson, 1865). Also included are related ephemera such as two chromolithographed display cards, and four partial box labels/advertisements for decks made by Samuel Hart & Co., Philadelphia and New York (the firm's "Club House" (1857), "Union" (1861), "Linen Eagle" and "Monitor" sets); also a card advertising the 1861 patent held by Andrew Dougherty for the union designs on the backs of playing cards.

ArchivalResource: 1 box 1 linear foot.

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