John C. Browne Scrapbooks

An historical collection of Civil War ephemera, originally formed by John C. Browne, a resident of Philadelphia. It is comprised of many thousands of individual items from both the North and the South, including broadsides, patriotic covers, numerous Confederate postage stamps, badges, a fine series of Currier & Ives views of military and naval actions, election posters, flyers and ballots of the 1864 presidential campaign, Confederate bonds, song sheets and sheet music, photographs, engraved and lithographic portraits, Confederate playing cards, advertising cards, paper currency, newspaper and magazine clippings, lithographic caricatures, recruiting posters, Confederate proclamations, etc. It also includes a "Constitution" printed for abolitionist John Brown, various rare broadsides, and possibly the first printing of "Maryland, My Maryland." Gift of Raymond S. Wilkins.