Thomas Richardson and American Bank Note Company scrapbook
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Scrapbook compiled by Philadelphia banknote printer Thomas Richardson containing proofs of illustrations after the work of F. O. C. Darley from Susan Fenimore Cooper's "Pages and Pictures from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper" (New York, 1861); portrait illustrations, some from J. B. Longacre's "National Portrait Gallery" (probably 1854 edition); and vignette specimens of the American Bank Note Company and their predecessor companies. Cooper illustrations depict scenes on the frontier and ship decks, with Native Americans, and of battles; deathbeds; and of informal meeting from his works The Oak Openings, The Redskins, The Chainbearer, The Pathfinder, The Red Rover, The Monikins, Deerslayer, Homeward Bound, Lionel Lincoln, The Pilot, Last of the Mohicans, The Wept Wish-ton Wish, The Spy, and Wing and Wing. Several also contain animals. Sitters in portrait illustrations include Lewis Cass, Giuseppe Garibaldi, David Ramsay, James Kent, Thomas C. Pope, John McLean, Stephen Decatur, Samuel Rogers, Rev. William Capers, John Binns, Washington Irving, and Noah Webster.; Specimen subjects include portraits of prominent government officials, Civil War figures, businessmen, clergymen, royalty, and "fancy heads" of named and unnamed women and children; allegorical figures and scenes, including Bounty, Liberty, Arts, Agriculture, and Commerce; state and symbolic seals and insignia; naval and maritime imagery, including sailors, sailing vessels, and wharf and dock views; modes and venues of transportation, including steamboats, trains, streetcars, and rail stations; white and Black men artisans, laborers, and tradesmen, including drivers, farmers, sheep shearers, and furriers; industrial views of factory workers, mineworkers, and female loom workers, as...Record Contributed By
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- African American Men
- African Americans
- Agriculture
- Allegories
- Animals
- Art
- Artisans
- Binns, John, 1772 1860
- Booksellers' Labels (Provenance)
- Business People
- Capers, William, 1790 1855
- Cass, Lewis, 1782 1866
- Children
- Civil War
- Civilization
- Clergymen
- Commerce
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789 1851
- Decatur, Stephen, 1779 1820
- Decks (Ships)
- Engravings
- Factories
- Farm Life
- Farmers
- Fighting
- Frontier & Pioneer Life
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807 1882
- Government
- Government Officials
- History
- Illustrations
- Indians Of North America
- Indigenous Peoples
- Industry
- Irving, Washington, 1783 1859
- Kent, James, 1763 1847
- Laborers
- Mc Lean, John, 1785 1861
- Mezzotints
- Military Personnel
- Mills
- Municipal Buildings
- Patriotism
- Piers & Wharves
- Plantation Life
- Pope, Thomas C
- Portrait Prints
- Portraits
- Proofs
- Ramsay, David, 1749 1815
- Rogers, Samuel, 1763 1855
- Sailing Ships
- Sailors
- Scrapbooks
- Sewing Machines
- Slaver
- Slaves
- Southern States
- Specimens
- Steel Engravings
- Storefronts
- Transportation
- United States
- Vignettes
- Webster, Noah, 1758 1843
- Women
- Work