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People and the Moon

Moon in mass cultureCreated by: LOC's Public Domain ArchiveDated: 1901
James T. Powers in The blue moon
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
/A nursery rhyme from the 1700's /
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[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige - Public domain  drawing

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows a moonlight scene on a river with boats. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: modern Oban reproduction. Forms part of: ... More

Anything to oblige / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Anything to oblige / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as Romeo, hanging off a balcony, speaking to an old woman labeled "Democrary" as Juliet, with "Nurse Grover" Cleveland standing behind her. The full moon in the upper l... More

USAF lunar wall mosaic : LEM-1B. - Public domain map

USAF lunar wall mosaic : LEM-1B. - Public domain map

"Mosaic compiled November 1962." "Lithographed by ACIC 3-63." Relief shown by shading. Lunar coordinates: W 0⁰--E 0⁰/N 90⁰--S 90⁰. Includes "Lunar data" and "Graphic data." Available also through the Library of... More

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Maps of the surface of the Moon / - Public domain map

[Maps of the surface of the Moon / - Public domain map

Public domain photograph of the Moon, telescope photography, astronomy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

N8858 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 112 Fourth Ave., N.Y.; copyright 1882 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Inabayama no tsuki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Inabayama no tsuki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a warrior climbing Mount Inaba by the light of a full moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tsuki hyaku s... More

The dogs and the moon / Keppler.

The dogs and the moon / Keppler.

Print shows a pack of dogs, with their tails between their legs, howling at a full moon labeled "Prosperity" outside the U.S. Capitol building; the dogs are labeled "Tillman, [?], Vest, Jones, Bryan [his tail t... More

"First Quarter of the Moon" (grand prize statue), World's Fair, St. Louis, U. S. A.

"First Quarter of the Moon" (grand prize statue), World's Fair, St. Lo...

H60581 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Old stuff, this parcels post. Been running one myself for years!" / Gordon Grant '13.

"Old stuff, this parcels post. Been running one myself for years!" / G...

Illustration shows a stork carrying an infant against a full moon, above a snow covered community. Illus. in: Puck, v. 73, no. 1875 (1913 February 5), cover. Copyright 1913 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Troublesome moon - Public domain dedication image

Troublesome moon - Public domain dedication image

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carl Sagan with the planets

Carl Sagan with the planets

Public domain image related to Carl Sagan, science, astronomy, physics, astrophysics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Moon with charms and a beehive]

[Moon with charms and a beehive]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Our Little Culture Society at Pignapoke," Life, 5:147 (March 12, 1885).

The moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 155. Public domain photograph - night sky, astronomy, universe, space, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S. Capitol at night with stars, Taft as moon, about to eclipse William Jennings Bryan as sun]

[U.S. Capitol at night with stars, Taft as moon, about to eclipse Will...

H115334 U.S. Copyright Office. On verso: 27. W.D. Magee, Monticello, Iowa.

The Girl in the moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The Girl in the moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Scantily clad young woman lying in crescent shape of moon with stars behind her.

Charles Bittinger. Charles Bittinger shown in painting moon eclipse IV

Charles Bittinger. Charles Bittinger shown in painting moon eclipse IV

Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Full Moon Bar-b-que signs in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

[The reg'lar lark] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[The reg'lar lark] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Illustration in: "A Phenomenal Fauna" by Carolyn Wells, 1902.

Normal lunar crater / J. Nasmyth.

Normal lunar crater / J. Nasmyth.

Illus. in: The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite / By James Nasmyth, C.E. and James Carpenter, F.R.A.S [...]. 2nd. ed. London : J. Murray, 1874, plate XXI, facing p. 156. Initials on the ... More

[View of full moon from the scaffolding beneath a bridge, with city on the left]

[View of full moon from the scaffolding beneath a bridge, with city on...

Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06, and researcher F.M. de Monasterio, 2016) Takamizawa modern reprint (Showa). Form... More

Hoyt's latest success, A day and a night the howling success.

Hoyt's latest success, A day and a night the howling success.

34001 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." Direction of Wm. H. Currie ; Harry Phillips, manager. No. 3670. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige - Public domain  drawing

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows a moonlight night with a man poling a small boat as the moon rises from behind a grove of trees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 20... More

Hawk made a light by striking the flints together, and set fire to the ball

Hawk made a light by striking the flints together, and set fire to the...

(DLC/PP-1936:0107). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Old Crow and his Friends / Katharine B. Judson. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1918, p. 76.

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). Temple of Nannar, the moon God

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). Temple of Nannar, the moon God

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Bittinger. Charles Bittinger shown in painting moon eclipse III

Charles Bittinger. Charles Bittinger shown in painting moon eclipse II...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond / - Public domain map

Erde und Planeten, Erde und Mond / - Public domain map

Appears in: Sydow-Wagners methodischer Schul-Atlas. 1923, 1926 and 1928 editions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth.

The  man in the moon might tell

The man in the moon might tell

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

G.K. Chesterton - Drawing. Public domain image.

G.K. Chesterton - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Celebrities I have not met" by Oliver Herford, American magazine, 75:77 (Feb. 1913).

Nazimova in Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" / direction by Charles Bryant.

Nazimova in Oscar Wilde's "Salomé" / direction by Charles Bryant.

Motion picture poster for "Salomé" shows the moon, with a head-and-shoulders image of a woman, passing through the clouds.

[Map of moon showing surface features, with four sets of cherubs and a scale bar]

[Map of moon showing surface features, with four sets of cherubs and a...

Illus. in: Selengraphia / Johannesevelius. Gedani : Autoris Sumtibuss, Typis Hunefeldianus, 1647. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 44.

Night, gelatin silver print - Public domain  print

Night, gelatin silver print - Public domain print

Photograph shows a nude woman standing on a crescent moon, holding, horizontally, a bamboo pole with an owl perched on each end. A37822 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1895 July 24 by Frederick B. Johnson & C... More

The Hoosier Don Quixote / J.K. after Doré.

The Hoosier Don Quixote / J.K. after Doré.

Illustration shows Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as Don Quixote, he is standing with shield and lance next to a well on which stands a suit of armor labeled "Indiana Organization", to the right of Fairban... More

James T. Powers in The blue moon

James T. Powers in The blue moon

G xxc 14872 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Do you see the sweethearts in the moon? Copyright 1906 by Philip G. Schermerhorn. Created by Metropolitan Print. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library o... More

"Shine on Silver Moon" - An old photo of two people hugging each other

"Shine on Silver Moon" - An old photo of two people hugging each other

Rear view of man and woman, standing, full length, with arms around each other, looking at the moon. H128647 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by the Celebrity Art Co. This record contains unverified, ol... More

USAF lunar reference mosaic : LEM-1.

USAF lunar reference mosaic : LEM-1.

"Mosaic compiled November 1962." In lower right margin: Lunar earthside hemisphere. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

"Fair moon to thee I sing"-(Pinafore)

"Fair moon to thee I sing"-(Pinafore)

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1962

Full Moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Full Moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Negatives for each side made a month apart. Stereo by Prof. Rutherford, copyrighted by T.W. Ingersoll. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The passing of the eclipse / Keppler.

The passing of the eclipse / Keppler.

Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as the sun labeled "Sane Democracy" emerging from behind William Jennings Bryan as the moon labeled "Bryanism". Illus. in: Puck, v. 55, no. 1419 (1904 May 11), cover. Copyri... More

The girl in the moon - Public domain portrait painting

The girl in the moon - Public domain portrait painting

73461 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brown & Bigelow.

The girl in the moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

The girl in the moon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Scantily clad woman seated on quarter moon. Stereo copyrighted by Ex. Sup. Co. No. 1. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Farewell, Mister Moon - A book with a picture of a woman sitting on a hill

Farewell, Mister Moon - A book with a picture of a woman sitting on a ...

Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The harvest moon - Print, Library of Congress collection

The harvest moon - Print, Library of Congress collection

Reapers gathering bundles of wheat by moonlight; river in the background. No. 2746. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2977.

Uyōkanazawa hashōyakei - Drawing. Public domain image.

Uyōkanazawa hashōyakei - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chas. H. Yale's forever Devil's auction

Chas. H. Yale's forever Devil's auction

53220 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Everything new but the title. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin. & N.Y." No. 4029. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collect... More

[Katagami stencil with rabbits and a moon]

[Katagami stencil with rabbits and a moon]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Girl in the moon - Public domain portrait print

The Girl in the moon - Public domain portrait print

Scantily clad woman on crescent shape of moon; seated, facing left, with left arm raised. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No copyright renewals. No. 5.

[Fūkeiga], Ando Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prformance, drawing

[Fūkeiga], Ando Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prfor...

Print shows a moonlight scene along a river with people fishing, in boats, and walking along the shore. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06... More

Oh you mister moon - Public domain music sheet scan
The fairy king and queen drawn by ten beetles

The fairy king and queen drawn by ten beetles

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0209). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Fairy-ring Inhabited" by Henry Hawthorne, St. Nicholas, 24:959 (Sept. 1897).

Mating time / Gordon Ross. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Mating time / Gordon Ross. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a young man and a young woman kissing and their reflection in the full moon in the background, also shows frogs, rabbits, birds, and mushrooms as couples, and two trees as silhouettes of a yo... More

[The Earth with the Milky Way and moon]

[The Earth with the Milky Way and moon]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Future of the Earth" by Maurice Maeterlinck, Cosmopolitan, 64:41 (Mar. 1... More

The Girl in the moon - Public domain portrait print

The Girl in the moon - Public domain portrait print

Scantily clad woman facing right, reclining on crescent shaped moon. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No copyright renewals. No. 14.

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket. Landauer Co... More

Go and come out soon, oh! Mr. Moon

Go and come out soon, oh! Mr. Moon

words and music by Clara B. Lanctot Irving. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Poster - Herrmann the Great Co. - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Herrmann the Great Co. - Public domain lithograph

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Navigational charts & designs: Phases of the moon

Navigational charts & designs: Phases of the moon

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 50. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

[Moon as solid body with irregular surface features in first telescopic drawings of moon to be published]

[Moon as solid body with irregular surface features in first telescopi...

Illus. and text in: Syderus nuncius. In Opere di Galileo Galilei. Vol. 2. Bononiae : HH. de Ducijs, 1655 p. 14. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress,... More

[Phase of the moon taken March 1851]

[Phase of the moon taken March 1851]

"Crystalotype" or salted paper print from a daguerreotype of the moon taken and printed by John A. Whipple. Illus. in: The photographic art-journal. New York : W.B. Smith, 1853, v. 6, no. 1 (July), frontispiec... More

An old fable with new application / F.M.H.

An old fable with new application / F.M.H.

Print shows David B. Hill as a jackass wearing a coat with ribbon that states "I am a Democrat", standing on rocks, kicking at the moon, which shows the face of Grover Cleveland. Puck and a group of citizens ar... More

Yoru no fukagawa sanbashi - Public domain city architecture drawing

Yoru no fukagawa sanbashi - Public domain city architecture drawing

Print shows a person standing on a dock attached to a building, a small boat with passengers arriving or departing, under a full moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored E... More

No wonder he gets full / Ehrhart.

No wonder he gets full / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows by the light of a full moon many couples in romantic embraces scattered around the globe; instances, perhaps, of summer love. Caption: The August moon - O, but they make me sick! Illus. in: ... More

Tennessee moon record label, Victor records

Tennessee moon record label, Victor records

Public domain photograph related to Victor Records, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Victor Records was one of the leading record labels of the early 20th century founded in 19... More

Harvest moon - Public domain American sheet music
Poster - Herrmann the Great Co. - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Herrmann the Great Co. - Public domain lithograph

Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man in the moon at large, British Cartoon Print

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

Tamausagi songokū, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Tamausagi songokū, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Son Goku, a monkey sometimes known as the Monkey King, holding a spiked sceptre and glaring at the Moon Rabbit, who apparently lives on the moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by ... More

[Maps of the surface of the Moon / - Public domain map

[Maps of the surface of the Moon / - Public domain map

Public domain photograph of the Moon, telescope photography, astronomy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Maps of the surface of the Moon / - Public domain map
Under the midnight moon - Public domain American sheet music
In the valley of the moon - Public domain American sheet music
Alabama moon - Public domain American sheet music
I've heard from the man in the moon
Discovery of a world in the moone.

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Error in paging: 207-208 repeated. Signatures: A⁴ B-O⁸ P⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 25640.5 LC copy has inscription: C. Townson. Special Files Project; vb32 01-11-2008 LAC ecr 2018-10-30 update (2 cards) LC Review of LAC ... More

By the light of the jungle moon
The Man in the Moon - An old book with a drawing of a man flying a plane

The Man in the Moon - An old book with a drawing of a man flying a pla...

Shows man flying in air, on apparatus being pulled by birds.

Ornamental statuary, "First Quarter Moon" - a grand prize statue, World's Fair, St. Louis, U. S. A.

Ornamental statuary, "First Quarter Moon" - a grand prize statue, Worl...

H55148 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Error in paging: 207-208 repeated. Signatures: A⁴ B-O⁸ P⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 25640.5 LC copy has inscription: C. Townson. Special Files Project; vb32 01-11-2008 LAC ecr 2018-10-30 update (2 cards) LC Review of LAC ... More

The  moon's message to the soldier

The moon's message to the soldier

words and music by W. B. Robinson. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Carpe diem hora adest vespertina

Carpe diem hora adest vespertina

(DLC/PP-1933:0187). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpiece for: "An Old Country House" by Richard Le Gallienne, Harper's magazine, 103:458 (Aug. 1901).

Underneath the southern moon - Public domain American sheet music
Discovery of a world in the moone.

Discovery of a world in the moone.

Error in paging: 207-208 repeated. Signatures: A⁴ B-O⁸ P⁴. STC (2nd ed.) 25640.5 LC copy has inscription: C. Townson. Special Files Project; vb32 01-11-2008 LAC ecr 2018-10-30 update (2 cards) LC Review of LAC ... More

[3 Figures of the Moon: The Crater of Plato, The Crater Wargentin, The Surface of the Moon]

[3 Figures of the Moon: The Crater of Plato, The Crater Wargentin, The...

Wood engraving in Scientific American, May 13, 1876, p. 309. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Science; Moon; Shelf.

The moon shines on the moonshine

The moon shines on the moonshine

Public domain photograph of recording, record label, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moon Walker at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Moon Walker at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, Cali...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Twenty-nine California counties participated in the eighteen-day fair in 2012. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Ca... More

William Lambert, December 31, 1799, Drawing of Eclipse of Moon

William Lambert, December 31, 1799, Drawing of Eclipse of Moon

Drawing of Eclipse of Moon Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

N8858 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 112 Fourth Ave., N.Y.; copyright 1882 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

William Lambert, December 30, 1799, Drawing of Eclipse of Moon

William Lambert, December 30, 1799, Drawing of Eclipse of Moon

Drawing of Eclipse of Moon Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Man in the Moon - Public domain American sheet music