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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione - [Melancholy] / G. Bened. Castilionus Genovensis.

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione - [Melancholy] / G. Bened. Castilionus ...

Woman(?) seated outdoors, with various animals, books and a suit of armor lying on ground. Marsh collection. LeBlanc 58.

[3 Asian men on their knees praying to large bird]

[3 Asian men on their knees praying to large bird]

Illus. in: Der Wunder Reiche...(Nuremburg, 1680) p. 1161. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Religion; Birds; Weather?

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and in partiular of Saint Paul.

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes scenes of apostles at bottom of sheet. Attributed to Richard Blome. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also throu... More

[Resurrection of Lazarus] 17th century

[Resurrection of Lazarus] 17th century

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Qubbec, ville de l'Amerique septentrionale dans la Nouvelle France avec titre d'Eveché située sur le fleuve de St. Laurens a 310 degrez 17 minutes de longitude et 46 degrez 55 minutes de latitude : elle fut Assiegée par les Anglois sur les Francois par qui elle est encore possédée l'an 1670 depuis le 16e octobre jusqu'au 22e du meme Mois : monsr de frontenac etant pour lors gouverneur du pays qui leur fit hontue sement lever le siege /

Qubbec, ville de l'Amerique septentrionale dans la Nouvelle France ave...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Landscape with 17th century soldiers(?) on horseback and on foot] / C.F.L. 1850.

[Landscape with 17th century soldiers(?) on horseback and on foot] / C...

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The pirate publisher - an international burlesque that has has the longest run on record / J. Keppler.

The pirate publisher - an international burlesque that has has the lon...

Illustration shows a man, identified as the "Pirate Publisher", standing at center with one foot on a large book labeled "Law", he is wearing 17th century court dress, a large hat with four plumes labeled "Amer... More

Sinaihalbinsel Westseite, ʻAjûn Mûsā (Mosesquellen), südöstlich von Suês. 1910.

Sinaihalbinsel Westseite, ʻAjûn Mûsā (Mosesquellen), südöstlich von Su...

Plate 100 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Translated title by Library staff. Photograph taken from Sinai's wester... More

Motets of the 17th century in score

Motets of the 17th century in score

Ms., 18th cent., said to be in the hand-writing of Thomas Pinto (1714-1783), whose autograph appears on p. 3, and containing 56, 2 to 4 part motets, etc., with and without continuo, by 24 composers. Twenti-five... More

Madrigali di Luzzasco Luzzaschi per cantare, et sonare a vno, e doi, e tre soprani

Madrigali di Luzzasco Luzzaschi per cantare, et sonare a vno, e doi, e...

Music is in score with instrumental accompaniment. This copy evidently was at one time in the Wagener collection at Marburg. Preface to Cardinal Poietro Aldobrandino, dated Ferrara, October 1601, signed by Luzzasche.

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

For the furthur improvement of dancing, A treatis of chorography or ye art of dancing country dances after a new character : in which the figures, steps & manner of performing are describ'd, & ye rules demonstrated in an easie method adapted to the meanest capacity /

For the furthur improvement of dancing, A treatis of chorography or ye...

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Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Compressor Station Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Compressor Station Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, ...

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant in... More

Kurtze Breschreibung - dess auss Irrland - kœnigl. majestat in Schweden ... In solchem habit gehen die 800 in Stettin angekommen Irrländer oder Irren / / G. Koler excud.

Kurtze Breschreibung - dess auss Irrland - kœnigl. majestat in Schwede...

Broadside shows four "Irish" soldiers in kilts with battle scene in the background. 800 Scottish troops arrived to battle in Stettin on the side of Swedish troops in 1631. Lengthy descriptive text in German bel... More

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Muni...

Significance: It was built between 1765-1773 as part of the landward defensive ensemble of San Juan. Its design evolved into a non-classical configuration in order to strengthen the existing adjacent 17th centu... More

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Muni...

Significance: It was built between 1765-1773 as part of the landward defensive ensemble of San Juan. Its design evolved into a non-classical configuration in order to strengthen the existing adjacent 17th centu... More

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Recueil de dances, 17th century

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Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

St. John's Cathedral, 812 North Jackson Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI

St. John's Cathedral, 812 North Jackson Street, Milwaukee, Milwaukee C...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The history of St. John's Cathedral dates back to early Jesuit missionaries of the mid 17th century, yet it is of popular belief that Milwaukee's first mass w... More

Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Significance: The Richards House, Locust Grove, is one of the most outstanding examples of domestic architecture in the late Georgian style in Northwest Fork Hundred and Sussex County, Delaware. The 3-bay Flem... More

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, Virginia

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, ...

Significance: This is a story and a half building of brick laid in Flemish bond. It is covered with a gambrel roof with unusually steep lower slope, which is pierce by gabled dormers. In plan the house is L s... More

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, Virginia

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, ...

Significance: This is a story and a half building of brick laid in Flemish bond. It is covered with a gambrel roof with unusually steep lower slope, which is pierce by gabled dormers. In plan the house is L s... More

Casa Blanca, San Sebastian Street (West End), San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Casa Blanca, San Sebastian Street (West End), San Juan, San Juan Munic...

Significance: Casa Blanca was built as a residence and fort for Juan Ponce de Leon and his family, although de Leon died in an expedition to Florida without ever getting to occupy the structure. He was the firs... More

Casa Blanca, San Sebastian Street (West End), San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Casa Blanca, San Sebastian Street (West End), San Juan, San Juan Munic...

Significance: Casa Blanca was built as a residence and fort for Juan Ponce de Leon and his family, although de Leon died in an expedition to Florida without ever getting to occupy the structure. He was the firs... More

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Excellently preserved specimen of 17th century construction. / The front or "half house" portion of this structure, which is believed to have been built in 1671, has had a gambrel roofed addition ... More

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain  drawing

Kinko echizen 17th century - Public domain drawing

Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor applying makeup. Title and other descriptive information compi... More

Hill Road Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hill Road Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Burbank-Hatheway House, Main Street, Suffield, Hartford County, CT

Burbank-Hatheway House, Main Street, Suffield, Hartford County, CT

Significance: This house is interesting because various sections of it were built in three periods: probably late 17th century, middle 18th century, and late 18th century. It contains some well-preserved decora... More

Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Hartford Cou...

Significance: Birthplace (1758) of Noah Webster author of textbooks, histories and "An American Dictionary of English Language" (1828), the basis of today's American dictionary. Characteristic of late 17th cen... More

Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Hartford Cou...

Significance: Birthplace (1758) of Noah Webster author of textbooks, histories and "An American Dictionary of English Language" (1828), the basis of today's American dictionary. Characteristic of late 17th cen... More

Pencoyd Farm, 355 East City Avenue (Lower Merion Township), Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery County, PA

Pencoyd Farm, 355 East City Avenue (Lower Merion Township), Bala-Cynwy...

Significance: "Pencoyd" is a well-known early Philadelphia- area house, whose earliest parts date from the 17th century. It is believed to have been the first erected in the "Welsh Tract," and has been lived in... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22

Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly ... More

The  Flute Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

The Flute Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Otto Vorsterman, painter, 17th century (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Vorsterman, Otto, 17th century (original artist) Recto: u. l.: (engr... More

The Virgin and Child / Bart. Coriolanus Fecit. Bononiae anno 1630.

The Virgin and Child / Bart. Coriolanus Fecit. Bononiae anno 1630.

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke albu... More

Musical Instruments - DCM 0640: Anonymous, English Whistle

Musical Instruments - DCM 0640: Anonymous, English Whistle

DCM ledger: "Said by Fenton to be 'English 17th century'". Instrument type: Whistle Medium: 6.8 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Fipple block missing; closed at crown end with wooden plug. Provenance: Fen... More

Christ at the table of Simon the Pharisee / Raphel VRB in Ven, In Mantoua, 1609.

Christ at the table of Simon the Pharisee / Raphel VRB in Ven, In Mant...

Print shows Jesus sitting at one end of a table at which others are seated. He talks to Simon while another person washes his feet. Earlier attributed to Raphael. Monograpm of Andreani. Title from Graphic samp... More

[Courtly outdoor scene, with fountain and men on horses (recto) ; faint red chalk sketch (verso)]

[Courtly outdoor scene, with fountain and men on horses (recto) ; fain...

Drawing shows mounted man pointing with sword to hunter with hounds and gun; another mounted man behind; woman and little girl standing at the right; also woman seated near fountain arranging hat of child (from... More

Baldassare Franceschini - [Studies for a church]

Baldassare Franceschini - [Studies for a church]

Inscribed in pencil: Lot no. 8, srB. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Item conserved and/or rehoused. See Supplementary Material for prior mats and mounts. Gift; Kenneth H. Walker; 1999; (DLC/PP-2000:029). Exhibi... More

[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.

[St. Jerome beside a pollard willow] / Rembrandt.

[St. Jerome beside a pollard willow] / Rembrandt.

Print shows a bearded St. Jerome seated, at work on his books at the foot of a large tree trunk. A lion looks out from behind the tree. Hubbard Fund 440061. Title devised. Second state. Rovinski, 103. Bjorklun... More

[First sketch for the chapel of Bonaventura at Potenza (Italy), in (church) San Francesco]

[First sketch for the chapel of Bonaventura at Potenza (Italy), in (ch...

Inscribed: Primo schizzo p[er] la capella dal Bonaventura a Potenza in S. Francesco. Drawing not signed; attribution to Franceschini (known as "Il Volterrano") based on Walker Collection files. Item conserved ... More

Martinus Hemskerkus Harl / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Martinus Hemskerkus Harl / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Martin Van Heemskerk, half-length portrait, standing, facing left. Illust. from: Academia des sciences et des arts ... /Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, LIV. VI., p. 435. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 51

Mandarina Tottidumpa, original dancing mistress to the first Emperour of China [dancing with] Philobanter Suckbottle, Prime Dancing Minister to ye Ancient Noddificators of the famous city in the Land of Nod

Mandarina Tottidumpa, original dancing mistress to the first Emperour ...

Caricature. Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Trinity Episcopal Church, Church Creek Road (State Route 16), Church Creek, Dorchester County, MD

Old Trinity Episcopal Church, Church Creek Road (State Route 16), Chur...

Significance: Old Trinity Church has been carefully restored to its original appearance in the late 17th century and furnished according to orders of Queen Anne issued in 1703. The restoration was carried forw... More

Chapel of the Miraculous Image of Christ, from Vigovo village (late 17th century?), west view, Kizhi Island, Russia

Chapel of the Miraculous Image of Christ, from Vigovo village (late 17...

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Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Some of the materials used in this building were brought from the earlier Swedish Church at Tinicum, built in the 17th century, and Gloria Dei was erected by the same carpenters and bricklayers wh... More

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Some of the materials used in this building were brought from the earlier Swedish Church at Tinicum, built in the 17th century, and Gloria Dei was erected by the same carpenters and bricklayers wh... More

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Gloria Dei (Church), 929 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphi...

Significance: Some of the materials used in this building were brought from the earlier Swedish Church at Tinicum, built in the 17th century, and Gloria Dei was erected by the same carpenters and bricklayers wh... More

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Muni...

Significance: It was built between 1765-1773 as part of the landward defensive ensemble of San Juan. Its design evolved into a non-classical configuration in order to strengthen the existing adjacent 17th centu... More

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo de San Cristobal, San Carlos Ravelin, San Juan, San Juan Muni...

Significance: It was built between 1765-1773 as part of the landward defensive ensemble of San Juan. Its design evolved into a non-classical configuration in order to strengthen the existing adjacent 17th centu... More

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Recueil de dances, 17th century

Recueil de dances, 17th century

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Recueil de dances, 17th century

Recueil de dances, 17th century

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Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Significance: The Richards House, Locust Grove, is one of the most outstanding examples of domestic architecture in the late Georgian style in Northwest Fork Hundred and Sussex County, Delaware. The 3-bay Flem... More

Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Locust Grove, State Roads 34 & 32, Greenwood, Sussex County, DE

Significance: The Richards House, Locust Grove, is one of the most outstanding examples of domestic architecture in the late Georgian style in Northwest Fork Hundred and Sussex County, Delaware. The 3-bay Flem... More

Nymphs bathing / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani] 1605.

Nymphs bathing / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani] 1605.

Print showing a group of nymphs bathing, attended by putti. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After Par... More

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, VA

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, ...

Significance: This is a story and a half building of brick laid in Flemish bond. It is covered with a gambrel roof with unusually steep lower slope, which is pierce by gabled dormers. In plan the house is L s... More

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, Gloucester County, Virginia

Toddsbury, Vicinity of State Routes 622 & 3-14 Intersection, Nuttall, ...

Significance: This is a story and a half building of brick laid in Flemish bond. It is covered with a gambrel roof with unusually steep lower slope, which is pierce by gabled dormers. In plan the house is L s... More

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Excellently preserved specimen of 17th century construction. / The front or "half house" portion of this structure, which is believed to have been built in 1671, has had a gambrel roofed addition ... More

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Excellently preserved specimen of 17th century construction. / The front or "half house" portion of this structure, which is believed to have been built in 1671, has had a gambrel roofed addition ... More

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Excellently preserved specimen of 17th century construction. / The front or "half house" portion of this structure, which is believed to have been built in 1671, has had a gambrel roofed addition ... More

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Narbonne House, 71 Essex Street, Salem, Essex County, MA

Significance: Excellently preserved specimen of 17th century construction. / The front or "half house" portion of this structure, which is believed to have been built in 1671, has had a gambrel roofed addition ... More

Hill Road Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hill Road Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Pointed Butte Pueblito, Cibola Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Pointed Butte Pueblito, Cibola Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant in... More

Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: Paul Revere silversmith, pioneer, industrialist and a leading Revolutionary activist owned this house in North Square from 1770 to 1800. Constructed c. 1678=1680, the building is the sole survivo... More

Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: Paul Revere silversmith, pioneer, industrialist and a leading Revolutionary activist owned this house in North Square from 1770 to 1800. Constructed c. 1678=1680, the building is the sole survivo... More

Pencoyd Farm, 355 East City Avenue (Lower Merion Township), Bala-Cynwyd, Montgomery County, PA

Pencoyd Farm, 355 East City Avenue (Lower Merion Township), Bala-Cynwy...

Significance: "Pencoyd" is a well-known early Philadelphia- area house, whose earliest parts date from the 17th century. It is believed to have been the first erected in the "Welsh Tract," and has been lived in... More

Bluebeard's Castle, Frederiksberg Estate, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, VI

Bluebeard's Castle, Frederiksberg Estate, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas...

Significance: One of the earliest fortifications on St. Thomas, "Bluebeard's Castle" is a good example of a simple 17th century fortified tower. It has been a favorite object with tourists since the 19th centu... More

Parmigianino - The  Young and Elder Goatherd

Parmigianino - The Young and Elder Goatherd

after a drawing by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino, painter, draughtsman and etcher, 1503-1540 (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Parmigiani... More

Fraunces Tavern Museum Complex, 54-58 Pearl Street,101-103 Broad Street & 24-26 Water Street, New York, New York County, NY

Fraunces Tavern Museum Complex, 54-58 Pearl Street,101-103 Broad Stree...

For more information see HABS No. NY-267, Fraunces Tavern Block Sheet # 11 not received in 2008xx01 transmittal Significance: It is located in the oldest settled district in Manhattan. It occupies a site that w... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady Er-Raha

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady E...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking northwards and showing a w... More

To Sinai by car. Car rushing a sand dune near Bir Hassana

To Sinai by car. Car rushing a sand dune near Bir Hassana

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the vicinity of Bir El Hassana. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Paleolithi... More

Christ curing the lepers / Ain mantoua, 1608.

Christ curing the lepers / Ain mantoua, 1608.

Print shows Jesus, with his disciples, raising his arm to ten lepers who kneel before him. Monogram of Andreani. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... More

[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress

[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Symbola avreæ mensæ dvodecim nationvm. Francofvrti : typis A. Hummij, impensis Lucæ Iennis, 1617. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. ... More

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smith 1606 [?] William Hole.

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smi...

1606 map of Virginia as described by John Smith showing the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, other geographic features, and a vignette of the Native leader, Powhatan, in council. Illus. in: The generall historie ... More

[Images showing a shipwreck and people in a boat sailing toward the wreck]

[Images showing a shipwreck and people in a boat sailing toward the wr...

Illus. opposite p. 10. Illus. in: Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrandsz. Ovrnael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe vande Oost-Indische reyse..., Hoorn : Ghedruckt by I. Willemsz, 1646. "No. 2" upper right corner. This r... More

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hubbard Collection. No. 2829-1. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To Sinai via the desert. Near view of one of the Springs of Moses

To Sinai via the desert. Near view of one of the Springs of Moses

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez to the south of the town of Suez at Uyun Musa (Biblical Twelve Springs of Moses... More

Ordinary seaman Jackson becomes a D.E.M.S seaman gunner. After a four months' course at a naval training establishment, ordinary seaman Jackson became a seaman gunner on board a merchant ship, a member of the Navy's Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships Service. D.E.M.S gunners and gunners of the Maritime Regiments, soldiers who now serve beside them, have destroyed or damaged 228 enemy aircraft since the beginning of the war. Equipped with a great variety of new weapons and anti-aircraft devices, the D.E.M.S Service has grown from a nucleus of 1,300 men to nearly 20,000 trained seamen gunners and gunslayers. Soldiers originally recruited from the Army as a temporary augmentation, later took the name Maritime Regiments, thus reviving and carrying on the 17th century regiment of that name. Jackson, now a D.E.M.S seaman gunner arrives to join his first ship

Ordinary seaman Jackson becomes a D.E.M.S seaman gunner. After a four ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Randy Sprouse inspecting the ginseng he's dug

Since the 17th century, when a Jesuit priest in Canada identified ginseng (Panax quinquefolia) as a root prized in Asia and therefore exportable, ginseng has provided an annual source of cash for people living ... More

Log fort tower (late 17th century), Bel'sk, Russia

Log fort tower (late 17th century), Bel'sk, Russia

Number assigned by photographer: bels007. Title, date, and place from photographer's inventory. Credit line: Brumfield photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gould Pass Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

For the furthur improvement of dancing, A treatis of chorography or ye art of dancing country dances after a new character : in which the figures, steps & manner of performing are describ'd, & ye rules demonstrated in an easie method adapted to the meanest capacity /

For the furthur improvement of dancing, A treatis of chorography or ye...

Public domain scan of 17th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster County, NY

Whittaker-Hoffman House, North Front & Green Streets, Kingston, Ulster...

Significance: This structure is an example of a large rubble residence which started as a small construction in the 17th century, was rebuilt and incorporated additions as required by successive owners. The hou... More

Jacques Dassonville - Les  musiciens champêtres (Country musicians)

Jacques Dassonville - Les musiciens champêtres (Country musicians)

French (artist nationality) painter and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l.: (within plate) I Dassonneuille fecit ; verso: center: (oval red stamp) [MEWES] ; l. l. (oval blue stamp, with stars inside and text aro... More

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