Maps, Posters, Handbills, and Prints

Maps
Posters and Handbills
Prints

Maps

Fourteen maps, not cataloged, are in the FHC. Most have Recorder of Deeds copy attached or typed transcriptions of notes attached. Eleven of the maps are photostat copies of Pittsburgh, Allegheny City and Lawrenceville.

1. 6th and 9th wards, Lawrenceville. Sketch of lots on Butler and Turnpike Roads (1836).

2. Lots on Butler Street (1836).

3. Plan of the "In Lots" #149-163 in the village of Lawrenceville. Laid out in 1815 and 1816 by William B. Foster.

4. Lots on Butler and Burrows Streets (1836).

5 & 6. Duplicate copies of the original plan of Lawrenceville, laid out by William B. Foster in 1815-1816 (copies made in 1934).

9. Map featuring "Road to Philadelphia," made in 1814. Hand drawn, not to scale.

10. "Pittsburgh and adjacent country," ca. 1814, showing the three rivers and William B. Foster's spring. Original is in the Office of the Chief of Engineers in Washington, D.C. Surveyed by W. Derby of Philadelphia, Published by Robert Patterson.

11. Negative image duplicate of #10. Glued on the back are comments by Evelyn Foster Morneweck concerning the map's origins.

12. "Plan of the town of Lawrenceville laid out by William B. Foster." Plan of the inlots from No. 149 to No. 163 and of the outlots in the village of Lawrenceville as laid out in the years 1815 and 1816 by William B. Foster. Photostat of a "true copy" made by Robert E. McGowin in 1847.

13. 6th and 9th wards (a copy of Map #1).

14. "The Booklovers Map of America Showing Certain Landmarks of Literary Geography" (1933) Poster board map.

The FHC maintains a small, uncatalogued collection of posters and handbills. Included are 8 poster size reproductions of 2 Howard Chandler Christy paintings, 9 posters (lobby cards) from the movie I Dream of Jeanie, and a poster size advertisement for "Christy's American Opera House."

The handbills are from nineteenth-century minstrel shows featuring the songs of Stephen Foster; 26 of these are mounted on cardboard. One handbill, from a show that a Mr. Foster performed in is framed while another one, from a show featuring the Christy Minstrels, is mounted.

Prints

Approximately 30 different prints are located in the FHC. They are a variety of images relating to Stephen Foster, including portraits, images of scenes from his music and images of places he visited. A detailed list follows.

Drawing of Stephen Foster by Howard Simon, 425 copies, 12" x 15", in black and white, unmounted. Presented to the FHC by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in 1938. Foster Hall Reproductions Covers, including the covers for "Ellen Bayne," "Gentle Lena Clare," "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair," "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night," "Old Folks at Home," "Willie My Brave," "Willie We Have Missed You." 8 prints, 10" x 13 1/2", in black and white, unmounted.

Early edition of "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair." 10" x 13 1/2 ", in black and white, pressed between suede leather and plexiglass.

Wood-cut of Augusta College, Kentucky. 1 print, 6" x 8", in color, in a cardboard window mount.

Drawing of a black man with a violin, titled "Way down upon de Swanee Ribber." 1 print, 9" x 13 1/2", in black and white, unmounted.

Drawing of a black man with a violin. "De Ole Kentucky Home--far away" printed at the bottom. 1 print, 10" x 13", in color, in a cardboard window mount.

Aquatone portrait of Stephen Foster by Janet Dexter. 25 prints, 8 1/2" x 11", in color, unmounted.

Drawing of a scene from Old Folks at Home by Ernest C. Rost. 2 prints, 7" x 15", in black and white, one is unmounted, one is in a cardboard window mount.

Page from the 1910 Swifts Premium Calendar. 1 print, 8" x 14", in color, unmounted.

Drawing of Athens, Pennsylvania by John Moray. Includes 8 scenes of different buildings and landscape vistas from in and round the town. 1 print, 22" x 26", in black and white, taped to cardboard.

The Old Kentucky Home, painted by [?] Bauscher. 1 print, 11" x 14", in black and white, mounted on cardboard.

"The Old Kentucky Home," chromolithographic reproduction of an oil painting by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) depicting several slaves relaxing behind a manor house. Copyrighted 1876 by Chas. C. Lucas & Co. Chromolithograph by Bencke & Scott. Title printed at the bottom. 1 print, 24" x 30", in color, mounted on a wood frame, badly damaged.

"My Old Kentucky Home," painting of a 3-story red brick house by Hardon Sundblom. Title printed at the bottom. 1958, 1 print, 14" x 18 1/2", in color, unmounted.

"My Old Kentucky Home," painting of a 3-story red brick building by R.E. Noble. Untitled, 1 print, 16" x 22", in color, mounted on cardboard.