Thursday, July 31, 2003

AAS Catalogue Search: "American Missionary Society" in graphics (looking for temperance pledge and certificate)

Main Author: Baker, Joseph E., ca. 1837-1914.

Title: Union refugees.

Imprint: Boston : Issued from Bufford's print publishing house 313
Washington St Boston, [ca. 1856-1866]

Description: 1 print : lithograph, hand col. ; 31 x 27 cm.

Notes: Printed area measures 25.3 x 17.8 cm.
Stock number: 62.

Local Note(s): American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of Charles H.
Taylor and has ink stamp: Taylor Lith. Coll.

Genre(s): Ink stamps (Provenance).
Lithographs.
Hand-colored illustrations.

Illustrator/Lithographer(s):
J.H. Bufford's Lith., lithographer.

Former Owner/Donor(s):
Taylor, Charles Henry, 1867-1941, donor.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Lithf Buff Bake Unio

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Title: Uncle Sam's way of letting traitors along.

Imprint: Boston : C.A. Evans, 33 Devonshire Street, [ca. 1861]

Description: 1 print : lithograph (b&w) ; 41.7 x 28.4 cm.

Notes: American eagle perched on Plymouth Rock holds noose from
which Jeff Davis hangs. Names of American heroes
inscribed on cannons protrude from rock; Underground
Railroad is at bottom. Old Ironsides is alongside.
Printed area measures 41.7 x 28.4 cm.

References: Weitenkampf, p. 129

Subject(s): Constitution (Ship)
Caricatures and cartoons.
Eagles.
United States--History--1815-1861.
Plymouth Rock (Mass.)

Genre(s): Lithographs.

Other Author(s): Evans, Charles A.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Polit. Cart. U61

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Main Author: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910.

Title: Life in camp. Part 1 [2 sets] & Part 2 [total of 24 scenes
on 2 1/2 x 4" cards].

Imprint: Boston : L. Prang & Co., 1864.

Description: 1 print : lithograph ; cm.

Subject(s): American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Camps, living
quarters.

Genre(s): Lithographs.

Other Author(s): Prang, Louis, 1824-1909.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Lithf Pran Home Life

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Main Author: A. Hoen & Co.

Title: Chart of American freedom or the death knell of slavery :
[thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution].

Imprint: Baltimore : Lith. by A. Hoen & Co., 1865.

Description: 1 print : lithograph ; 56.0 x 41.2 cm.

Notes: Printed area measures 56.0 x 41.2 cm.

Subject(s): United States. Constitution.
Facsimiles.
Slavery.
United States--Biography--Portraits.

Genre(s): Lithographs.

Other Author(s): Sharretts, John F.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Lithff Hoen Char

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Title: "Oh, what a fall was there!".

Imprint: Boston : J. Mayer & Co. Lith, 4 State Street, [ca. 1865]

Description: 1 print : lithograph (b&w) ; 32.0 x 49.0 cm.

Notes: Davis, trying to escape in female garb, trips over "Last
Ditch." Three Union soldiers and an African American
cavort happily.
Printed area measures 32.0 x 49.0 cm.

References: Weitenkampf, p. 148

Subject(s): Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Genre(s): Lithographs.

Other Author(s): J. Mayer & Co.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Polit. Cart. O38

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Main Author: Noble, Thomas Satterwhite, 1835-1907.

Title: John Brown.

Imprint: New York : American Art Pub. Co. : Endicott & Co., Lith.,
1867.

Description: 1 print : lithograph ; 67.2 x 42.8 cm.

Notes: Accompanied by two stanzas of Whittier's "Brown of
Ossawatomie."
Printed area measures 67.2 x 42.8 cm.

Subject(s): Brown, John, 1800-1859.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Literary prints.
African Americans.

Genre(s): Lithographs.

Other Author(s): Endicott & Co.
American Art Pub. Co.

Primary Material: Visual Material
Physical Description:
Nonprojected Graphic

Call number(s): Lithff EndiC Nobl John

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Main Author: Worth, Thomas, 1834-1917.

Title: Everybody's friend. : To take an occasional chew, Is a
thing to do. Your chewing is well enough, but it isn't
up to snuff. While you two are chewing and snuffing, I
solace myself with puffing.

Imprint: [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives ... 125 Nassau St.
New York., [1876?]

Description: 1 print : lithograph, hand col. ; 36 x 44 cm.

Notes: Comic print caricaturing three men using tobacco.
Signed, on stone: Thos. Worth.
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1876, by
Currier & Ives, in the office of the Librarian of
Congress, at Washington."
Printed area measures 30.7 x 36.7 cm.

References: Gale 1935

Local Note(s): American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of Jay Last,
1997.

Subject(s): Smoking.
Snuff.
Tobacco.
Tobacco chewing.
Tobacco habit.

Genre(s): Caricatures.
Lithographs.

Printer/Publisher(s):
Currier & Ives, publisher.

Former Owner/Donor(s):
Last, Jay, donor.

Primary Material: Visual Material

Call number(s): Lithf CurrI Wort Ever

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