Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

209 c   (PENNSYLVANIA.) Set of wooden medallions from 1876 World’s Fair in their original illustrated case. 6 wooden relief medallions, each 2 1 / 2 or 3 inches across, with no wear noted. In their original cardboard folding case, 7 1 / 2 x 9 3 / 4 inches, trimmed in gilt, with a lithograph lining the interior upper case titled “Bird’s Eye View of the Interna- tional Exhibition Buildings, 1876”; starting to separate at joint, other minor wear. [Philadelphia, 1876] [500/750] A handsome souvenir presentation. The medallions depict George Washington, Director General Alfred Goshorn, the Exposition’s main building, Memorial Hall, Independence Hall, and Exposition President Joseph Hawley. 210 c   (PENNSYLVANIA.) Taylor, Eli. Diary of a Pennsylvania farm boy. [159] manuscript diary pages, plus [33] pages of memoranda. 4to, original illustrated wrappers, worn; dampstaining, final gathering of leaves detached. Vp, 1 March 1833 to 31 October 1834 [300/400] Eli Taylor (1814-1903) of East Bradford in southeastern Pennsylvania was the son of affluent farmer Anthony Taylor. One entry describes a visit from the circus: “The circuits was at Westchester to night and last night and was to be there to morrow night” (20 August 1833). He also notes some local news: “This was the day the girl was tried at court for the murder of her child” (1 August 1833).Taylor studied surveying during the winters when the farm work was lighter, as detailed in a long accounting of school days after his 25 April 1834 entry.Among the poems he transcribed was theWar of 1812 tune “Constitution and Guerriere” on the second leaf. By 1839,Taylor had married and moved to Ohio, where he spent most of his life. 211 c   (PENNSYLVANIA.) A textile printing of “William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians.” Engraving on linen, 22 1 / 4 x 24 1 / 4 inches; several areas of slight loss, most notably a 2 1 / 2 -inch hole in the lower right, unevenly toned, light folds, three smaller fragments of the same pattern stitched to the main fragment as described below. Np, circa 1800 [500/750] A rendition of Benjamin West’s 1772 oil painting which depicted the signing of the Pennsylvania’s seminal peace treaty. It took place in 1683 in what is now the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. This textile print was apparently sold by the yard. A larger surviving fragment at the New-York Historical Society is cropped more tightly on the top and left edges, but contains more of the image in the right edge and foreground. The present copy is filled out with at least three fragments from the same pattern stitched to the larger fragment, including strips on the left and right edges and a large diagonal piece in the upper right corner. Collins, Threads of History 15. 209 211