Within a twisted foliate border is a central block depicting Adam & Eve flanking a tree with a serpent wound around the trunk offering Eve an apple. This is an engraving executed by Gabriel Miesse of Reading; his name appears at lower right followed by "sc" for "sculpsit", indicating the engraver. Two columns of verse flank the central block, telling the story of "the Fall" in conversational form. At top of broadside is the title in German: "Adam und Eva im Paradies." A subtitle reads: "Mel. Herzlich thut mich Verlangen, etc."
At bottom is: "Gedruckt in der Druckerey des Adlers von H.W. Villee, Lancaster, Pa. allwo alle Sorten Bilder, Bucher,/ Schriebmaterialien und Arzneyen zu haben find." This indicates the broadside was printed in the Lancaster Eagle's printshop (a newspaper started by Villee and Jacob Baab on Oct. 26, 1826). Villee was also selling pictures, books, stationery and even medicines out of his shop on N. Queen St.
See biographical info about Villee from Klaus Stopp's book in this file. He was born in France, served as a captain under Napolean, had to leave France in 1815 and ended up in America in 1820. Villee entered the printing business by working at "the Eagle," a newspaper in Reading. Villee was not successful as a printer in Lancaster, and he left sometime in 1832 or soon after, going to places like Lewisburg, Sunbury and Milton. After moving to Northumberland Co. and becoming a teacher, he finally died in 1842.
The Earnests note that Adam & Eve were popular fraktur subjects, especially among German-language printers of SE PA. They note that there are only about a half dozen Adam & Eve broadsides by Villee known.
Exhibited in Fraktur Exhibit in Masonic Lodge circa 2004 through 2007 (removed spring 2008).
See also P.01.60.1 and P04.48 for examples of a Heaven & Hell broadside by Villee.
North Queen St., Lancaster (printer); Reading, PA (engraver). Villee, Herman W., printer; Gabriel Miesse, engraver; unknown colorist
Paper darkened and soiled overall, wrinkled with fold lines and rough-edged with minor tears and folds. Stains scattered over surface with darkest stains within right text above center. Small hole at center of top foliate border.
Frame is homemade of stained and varnished tiger maple. Acidic cardboard backboard replaced with acid free matboard.
Object ID
P.04.48.1
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Irene N. Walsh, Heritage Center Collection
Bilingual broadside printed on rag paper, advertising Benjamin Schaum's Hardware store on North Queen St., Lancaster. The ad begins in English with a note of thanks to Schaum's customers for their business. Next are lists of items available for purchase, including bar, rod, hoop and sheet iron, steel "Of every Description and Manufacture", glass, paintes, oil, varnishes, stoves, cedar and pewter wares, grindstones, spikes, nail, and brads. There are also illustrations of additional products, including a plane, anvil, and clamp.
The ad is also printed in German in the bottom quarter of the page, and at the very bottom is the printer's name, William Albright, and the location opposite the Market House, Lancaster.
Heavy creases down the center and across the middle. Some tears at various places along the edges, esp. 3" in from the lower left corner, and 2" up from the lower right corner. Apparent transfer of ink from another printed item visible.
Object ID
P.91.02
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Gift of the James Hale Steinman Foundation, Heritage Center Collection
Dual-sided bilingual (English and High German) advertisement for "Mrs. Dr. Knab's Magic Indian Vegetable Pain Killer."
26 people listed who endorse the product dated Aug. 20, 1866. Directions appear for treatment of coughs, cold, fever and ague, asthma and phthisic, dyspepsia, liver complaint, acid stomach, head ache, heartburn and indigestion, canker in the mouth, throat and stomach, cancer rash, kidney complaints, piles, sick headache and seasickness, cramp and pain in the stomach, painters' cholic, diarrhea, a summer complaint, dysentery, cholera infantum, cholera, frost bites and chilblains, sprains and bruises, whitlows, felons and boils, ringworms, rheumatism and neuralgic affection, pain in the side, back and loins, stings and bites of poisonous insects, wounds by fish hooks or the fins of fish.
The medicine is "prepared and sold by Mrs. Dr. Knab, No. 10 Church Street, near South Queen, Lancaster, Pa., where all kinds of Root and Herb Medicines can be obtained."
Printed by the Daily Intelligencer Steam Job Printing Office, Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa."
Admin/Biographical History
"A Dutch Indian: Mrs. Dr. Knab, who has a 'laboratory' in Church st., where she prepares an article she calls a Pain Killer, and which she vends on our markets and throughout this and the adjoining counties, appeared in Centre Square, this morning, in the costume of an Indian squaw, taking a position on a stand, from which she harrangued a gaping crowd, on the virtues of her 'medicine,' in broken English. The scene was ludicrous in the extreme, and as each one left the crowd which surrounded her, a broad smile was visible on his or her countenance." The Daily Evening Express, 16 November 1867, p. 2.
Some center fold marks. A portion missing on upper right edge and top center.
Object ID
MG0153_Ovrszd_F001
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
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Advertisement for Sheriff's Sale of property of David Shreiner of Warwick Township
Description
Advertisement for Sheriff's Sale of a piece of land in Warwick Township containing six acres with two one-story dwelling houses. Property of David Shreiner, adjoining land of George Grube, Isaac Rudy, and others. Sold by S. W. P. Boyd, Sheriff, 9 November 1861. Printed by Cochran's Steam Power Press, Union Office, Lancaster.
Advertisement for public vendue of the property of John Rohrer of Drumore Township
Description
Advertisement for public vendue of the property of John Rohrer, deceased, of Drumore Township, at the house of Henry Harman. Valuable tracts of land about three miles below the Black Horse Tavern. John Rohrer and Christian Rohrer, Executors. 11 August 1814. William Hamilton, Printer, Lancaster.
Advertisement for the public sale of 8 tracts of land in Starsburg Township and Bart Township
Description
Advertisement for the public sale of 8 tracts of land.
Tract 1, 146 acres adjoining lands of John Brackbill, Jacob Neff, and others in Starsburg Twp.
Tract 2, 163 acres adjoining tract 2 in Strasburg Twp.
Tract 3, 76 acres adjoining Henry Brenneman in Strasburg Twp. Tract 4, 71 acres adjoining lands of John Rhoads, Henry Rohrer, in Strasburg Township along the road leading to Peach Bottom. Tract 5, 40 acres of woodland in Strasburg Township adjoining the land of Henry Brenneman and William Tweed.
Tract 6, 47 acres of woodland situated in Strasburg Township and Bart Township adjoining lands of Martin Pfoutz and Henry Brenneman Jr.
Tract 7, 77 acres of timberland situated in Bart Township adjoining lands of Abraham Leaman, Jacob Hartman and Jacob Neff.
Tract 8, on acre of land in Strasburg Township south of the borough of Strasburg. All tracts lands late of John Neff Sr. Christian Herr and Edward Coleman, assignees of John Neff Sr. 25 December 1829. Printed by Fenn & Fenton, Lancaster.
Advertisement for the sale of the assests of the Lancaster Bank
Description
Advertisement for the public sale of assets of the Lancaster Bank held at Russell's Hall, Lancaster, 28 December 1860. Horace Rathvon, assignee of the Lancaster Bank. Printed by Cochran's Steam Power Press, Union Office, Lancaster.
Advertisement for public sale of real estate for Lancaster Bank shares
Description
Advertisement for the public sale of real estate for Lancaster Bank shares. Consists of seven three-story brick dwelling houses and lots or pieces of ground in the city of Philadelphia. Terms to be made known by David M. Lebkicher. 28 December 1860. Printed by Cochran's Steam Power Press, Union Office, Lancaster.
Campaign broadside, written on behalf of George M. Steinman, Democratic candidate for Congress opposing Thaddeus Stevens
Description
Reproduction of an [1862] campaign broadside. "To the people of Lancaster County! A few facts in the political history of Thaddeus Stevens." Written on behalf of George M. Steinman, Democratic candidate for Congress opposing Thaddeus Stevens. An 1843 letter written by Henry Clay to Rev. Colton, in which he expresses opposition to Abolition and supports States rights regarding the institution of slavery, is added at the bottom of the broadside.
"The people of Lancaster County have the case fairly stated, and it will be for them to determine at the ballot box, whether they will be any longer willing to basely bow the knee to the dark spirit of Abolitionism, which broods over our once happy country like a death pall, and saddle themselves and their posterity with a grievous burthen of debt to free and support in idleness four millions of negroes; or whether, by electing George M. Steinman, a pure and honest man, and a true patriot, they will cling to the Constitution and the Union of our fathers, as 'the shipwrecked mariner clings to the last plank, when night and the tempest close around him,' to use the language of the great Webster, and drive the foul spirits of disunion--Abolitionism and secession--'to the vile depths from which they sprung, unwept, unhonored, and unsung.'"
Reproduction on vinyl from the original at Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Folio BrSides Cb4A 1862).
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Thaddeus Stevens Collection (MG0115), Part 1, Folder # or Object ID, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).
LancasterHistory is committed to preserving and providing access to materials chronicling Lancaster County's heritage. In order to maintain the historical integrity and context of collection items, LancasterHistory does not censor historical documents or edit language, titles, or organization names when transcribing original content.
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-115, Part 1
Other Number
MG-115, Part 1, Oversized Box 1, Oversized Folder 2
Classification
MG0115
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Added to database 21 February 2024.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
