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).
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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.
Poster/lithograph advertising a vocal performance at Fulton Hall by "The Hutchinson Family." Three brothers are pictured on the poster: Judson J (tenor), John W.(baritone) and Asa B.(bass) Hutchinson. Along sides of the poster: Hutchinson Family History, and Book of Songs. Beneath 'Book of Songs:' Tappan & Bradford's Lith., Boston."
The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s. The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works, and are considered by many to be the first uniquely American popular music performers.
Activism
At the urging of Jesse Hutchinson, the group took up various causes. Among these were abolitionism, temperance, and women's rights. In December 1842, John Hutchinson signed a petition affiliated with an abolitionist rally in Milford. By the following year, the Hutchinsons had become vocal abolitionists. Asa Hutchinson wrote:
About this time [1843] an antislavery convention was held in Milford attended by Wm. Lloyd Garrison... The custom at once enlisted the sympathies of the young men. Accustomed to roam at freedom among their own Hills, they abhorred slavery and pitied the slave. More than this they nobly resolved to exert their influence on behalf of the captives. To this end they prepared and sang antislavery songs.
They traveled with Frederick Douglass in England in 1845 and stayed for almost a year. Original songs such as "Get Off the Track!", "Right over Wrong", and "The Slave's Appeal" addressed these issues. Abby Hutchinson wrote "Song of Our Mountain Home" in 1850. It includes the line, "Among our free hills are true hearts and brave, / The air of our mountains ne'er breathed on a slave."
Date Range
March 24, 1854
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0037
Object Name
Broadside
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-04-17
Condition Notes
Paper glued to firm cardboard. Small piece missing from lower left edge. Paper loose at tip of lower right corner.
Object ID
2023.001.022
Notes
The group formed in the wake of a string of successful tours by Austrian singing groups such as the Tyrolese Minstrels and when American newspapers were demanding the cultivation of native talent. John Hutchinson orchestrated the group's formation with his brothers Asa, Jesse, and Judson Hutchinson in 1840; the Hutchinsons (11 sons, two daughters) gave their first performance on November 6 of that same year. The popularization of group singing in America arguably began with them. Jesse Hutchinson quit the main group to write songs and manage their affairs; he was replaced by sister Abby Hutchinson.
The Hutchinsons were a hit with both audiences and critics, and they toured the United States. They popularized four-part close harmony. The group's material included controversial material promoting abolitionism, workers' rights, temperance, and women's rights, all stances popularized by the Second Great Awakening.
(a) Auld Lang Syne/Farewell to Mr. Duff, his benefit and last appearance on Monday Aug. 30, 1830. The poster lists play (Gamester), farce (Wag of Windsor), recitations, songs and dance. Names of performers list surnames only: Mr. & Mrs. Duff, Mr. & Mrs. Beverly, Miss Hamilton, Mr. Johnstone, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Misters Clarke, Houpt, Durang & Bryan. Tickets available at Greaff's Hotel from Mr. Duff.
(b) Accompanying note written in ink in cursive: "The theatre in which this performance was given on Monday, August 30th, 1830, stood on the site of No. 36 West Chestnut street, now (1930) occupied by the Post Office."
Broadside advertising a gift distribution for the benefit of Lancaster's Union Steam Fire Engine Co., No. 1, to be held at Fulton Hall on Monday, July 18 (no year) beginning at 8 a.m.
Details ticket price, lists individual items and details on how and where to purchase tickets as well as how gifts will be distributed. The general agent was J.F. Downey.
Poster advertising an Inter-town Silver Medal Contest to be held at the I.O.O.F. Hall in Paradise, Pa. on Saturday, Jan. 22, 1916. In addition to recitations there will be a musical program with selections from Lancaster's Peerless Male Quartette. Chart at Denlinger's Store in Paradise will be open Jan. 15, 1916. Poster printed by Landis Art Press of Lancaster, Pa.
Written in pencil on back near upper left corner: 34868
Date Range
January 22, 1916
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0037
Object Name
Broadside
Length (cm)
48.26
Length (ft)
1.5833333333
Length (in)
19
Width (cm)
31.75
Width (ft)
1.0416666667
Width (in)
12.5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-04-27
Condition Notes
Fold mark across center. Right edge is brown in portions with 3 small tears. Both corners missing.
Vegetable Pain Killer Advertisement in English and German
Description
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."
Year Range From
1866
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0037
Object Name
Broadside
Material
Paper
Length (cm)
36.83
Length (ft)
1.2083333333
Length (in)
14.5
Width (cm)
26.035
Width (ft)
0.8541666667
Width (in)
10.25
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-01-27
Condition Notes
Some center fold marks. A portion missing on upper right edge and top center.
Certificate is a "Letters Patent" entitling "The Lancaster City Street Railway Company" to operate a city railway transportation system.
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was directed by the General Assembly on May 3, 1878, to provide for the incorporation and government of Street Railway Companies in cities of the 3rd, 4th and 5th classes in the boroughs and townships in the Commonwealth. According to the infilled blanks which are written in a very legible, flowing hand, this certificated was issued on November 28, 1883. Although printed under the name and with the authority of Gov. Robt. E Pattison, the certificate is signed at the bottom by John C. Shumaker, Deputy Sec. of the Commonwealth.
Handwritten on reverse side (outside when folded) in ink is: "Letters Patent./Lancaster City Street Ry Co/ November. 28, 1883" (Written by Wendell Zercher)
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Cabinet
Cabinet 2
Storage Shelf
Shelf 3
Storage Container
Box 0539
Object Name
Broadside
Material
Paper, Wove
Length (cm)
58.42
Length (ft)
1.9166666667
Length (in)
23
Width (cm)
45.085
Width (ft)
1.4791666667
Width (in)
17.75
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2023-04-27
Condition Notes
Generally good structurally with little discoloration. Heavy fold lines with some breaking at fold line extending in about 2 inches from the left side, under the gold seal. Silverfish hole about 1/2" x 1/4" near upper edge 5 " from left side. Edges good except for left side which has fold lines, small wrinkles, small tears and dot-eared upper left corner. Small holes through fold lines. Seal is tarnished and detaching w/ breaks. Revers is darkened with soil and acid burn in sections.
Broadside commercially printed on wove paper in Pa. German script. Geometric border surrounds text block of 4 long paragraphs. Modern frame.
Title is "Kraftiges Gebet, / Wodurch man sich vor Kugel und Degen, vor sichtbarlichen und un- / sichtbarlichen Feinden, so wie vor allem moglichen / Uebel beschutzen und bewahren konne."
Place of origin is unknown.
Seller's translation: "A Powerful Prayer whereby one can protect himself from shot and sword, of a visible or invisible enemy, just as from all other possible wounds that one need protect against."
Rows of letters at bottom with more text with a title "Vor die fallende Sucht, oder Gicht," which seems to mean "For those who've come down with an ailment (addiction?), or gout."
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
