1840

[Electoral ticket, "Jackson and liberty"; Maryland, 1840?]

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Funérailles de L'Empereur Napoléon. Passage du cortège dans les champs...

Funeral procession of Napoleon passing on the champs Elisées. Hubbard Collection. Signed on stone. No. 5.

Francesco Arban di Lione / Stani[...]é Morelli.

Half-length portrait of French ballonist Francesco Arban standing in the basket of a balloon, waving his hat. Tissandier collection.

Robert Carter Nicholas, Senator from Louisiana

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[Horses at auction or races?] - Public domain book illustration

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Full-length statue of Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, standing faci...

Public domain photo of Italian sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vignettes in the life of General William Henry Harrison, printed in Ge...

Reference copy may be in PRES FILE. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Broadsides; Pres. contests; Pres. I.; Shelf.

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seat...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: [asterisk]. Case: back only, Rinhart 163. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, possibly John Bannister Gibson, head-and-shoulders ...

Case: front - Berg 44-55G; back - bouquet of mixed flowers. Label on case: 37. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.13). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part o... More

[Landscape with cattle]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Title from P&P Bradley Collection inventory card. Faint signature, in image, lower right: "Daubigny". Inscribed in pencil on back of drawing: "Th. R. 1.?" Insc... More

[Lucy Stone, half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: bouquet of flowers. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; LC Manuscript Divi... More

[Flogging on a Man-of-War] - Public domain book illustration

Woodcut copyrighted by Henry Howe. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[R. McGill, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, with ...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Case: similar to Rinhart 123. Accompanying hand-written note: R... McGill born in Baltimore, died at Cape Palmas. One of the original trustees of Hall Free Scho... More

Henry Fielding / engraved by J.C. Buttre.

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Notice!! Taken from the subscriber, on the night of April 16th, at Nut...

Reward.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 5.

Crimson fronted Purple Finch / Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R....

Print shows bird on flowering pea vine surrounded by border of vines, birds, a woman, and a bird's nest. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

The original silver medal presented by George Washington to Red Jacket

Etching of medallion: on recto: Red Jacket smoking long pipe, George Washington on left with right hand extended, below inscription: George Washington / President / 1792; on verso: presidential seal.

[Unidentified man, possibly David Roberts, three-quarter length portra...

Photographer unidentified. Accompanying note in case: I think this is a photo of David Roberts, father of Coolidge S. Roberts, but I am not sure. I think the mother-of-pearl frame is most interesting. E. C. St... More

[Unidentified man with cat, three-quarter length portrait, full face, ...

Photographer unidentified. Case: front, Rinhart 66; back, urn with leaves. Purchase; 1967; (DLC/PP-1967:040). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the ... More

Battle of New Orleans / Robt. Hinshelwood ; Smillie & Hinshelwood.

Print shows an officer on horseback behind American soldiers as British soldiers storm the barricades, during the Battle of New Orleans. Published in Graham's magazine, 27, 1 (July 1845), between p. 40 and 41.

John Forsyth, Secretary of State, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fenderich, Ch.

The soldiers return - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: William K. Hewitt (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6002

Moosehead Lake - Print, Library of Congress collection

Deer standing on bank of Moosehead Lake with mountains in background. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4551.

Log cabin anecdotes. Illustrated incidents in the life of Gen. William...

A Whig campaign broadside, with text describing a series of 12 incidents in the life of William Henry Harrison, illustrated with wood-engravings. The incidents are (counterclockwise from upper left): "Harrison'... More

[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

[Vigilant Fire Company, Baltimore, firefighter, half-length portrait, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General Marion in his swamp encampment inviting a British officer to d...

No. 1. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JF. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Occupational portrait of a carpenter, three-quarter length, seated, f...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif surrounded by lillies and leaves. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.14). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Hark! A song of joy and gladness

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Scalptanz der Mönnitarris Danse du scalp des indiens Meunitarris / / d...

Print shows large group of Hidatsa Indians engaged in a ceremonial dance. Tab. 27. Blind stamp: C Bodmer. Karl Bodmer traveled the American west between 1832 and 1834 as an artist accompanying Prince Maximilia... More

[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing fro...

Case: plain leather, push button. Stamped on mat: Myers. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Rufus Porte... More

Genl. Franklin Pierce, democratic candidate for the presidency

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The people's line--Take care of the locomotive

Incumbent President Martin Van Buren drives "Uncle Sam's Cab," a carriage pulled by a blindered horse, which wrecks on a pile of "Clay." The carriage founders in the path of a locomotive, really an assemblage o... More

[Mount Vernon estate, Virginia]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Niagara Falls from the Canadian side] / drawn on the spot by Captn. J...

191243 U.S. Copyright Office. Proof before letters. Public domain photograph - historical image of Canada, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

[Henry and William Pinkney Rodgers, three-quarter length portrait, sea...

Photographer unidentified. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 123; back, variant of Rinhart 125. Label on front of case: William Pinkney Rodgers, 1821-1893, Henry Rodgers, 1823-1854. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1... More

[Castle Garden from the water] - Public domain city architecture drawi...

Drawing shows Castle Garden, now known as Castle Clinton in Battery Park, in lower Manhattan, New York, from the water.

Alton Institute. A lecture will be delivered this evening, at the Bapt...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 3.

John Tyler - Public domain portrait engraving

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[William Pinkney Rodgers, half-length portrait, seated, with yellow sc...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Case: variant of Rinhart 125. Label on back of case: William Pinkney Rodgers, 1821-1893. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:307). Forms part of: Rod... More

General William H. Harrison, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders portrait, of William H. Harrison, facing right. Silk handkerchief. Reference copy may be in Pres. File Misc. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings... More

Baltimore Convention, Old Tippecanoe, a patriotic song

An illustrated sheet music cover for a "Patriotic Song. Written, to be sung at Baltimore during the Young Men's Whig Convention" of May 1840. The composer is identified as "a Pennsylvanian." The illustration, l... More

A bivouack in safety or Florida troops preventing a surprise

Another parody of Van Buren administration efforts to end the long and costly Second Seminole War in Florida. The War Department was regularly subjected to public and congressional attacks for cruelty, waste, a... More

The fox chace. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The artist's portrayal of Harrison's rout of Van Buren reflects strong Whig confidence late in the presidential campaign of 1840. Van Buren is shown as a fox, with a bird (an albatross?) labeled "Treasury" aro... More

Mabel Payne and Luke Harvey - Public domain book illustration

(DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece for: "The Quaker City."

Banque, Bourse et palais du Lord Maire, Londres The bank, the exchange...

Print shows a view of the Tuileries Palace with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel and a large plaza with pedestrians and carriages in the foreground. Signed on stone on lower right: Tuonra [Arnout spelled backwards].

National democratic republican nomination, US Democratic party

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Photographer unidentified. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:003). Forms part of: Papers of Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, 1824-1979 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype col... More

[Cabin in landscape] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Federal-Abolition-Whig trap, to catch voters in

An illustrated anti-Whig broadside, designed to combat the "Log Cabin campaign" tactics of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The text warns the people of New Orleans of Whig election propaganda: "P... More

All the West going for Matty - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

A Whig cartoon spoofing Democratic claims of Western support for Van Buren during the election of 1840. Pursued by animals from the "Alleghany Mountains" and the Mississippi River, including among others a buf... More

A. Mouton. Senator from Louisiana / from life on stone by Chas. Fender...

Print shows Alexander Mouton, half-length portrait, facing left, with coat over right shoulder. 65 U.S. Copyright Office. No known restrictions on publication. Title and facsimile signature are printed on larg... More

William Henry Harrison of Ohio - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

27 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sartain, John.

Gipsey's prophecy - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Mechanischer Welt Globus zum Gebrauche des kleinen Geographen /

Relief shown by hachures. Title from envelope. Gores for a 13 cm. globe. Six gores linked by a cloth strip and mounted on blue paper, attached at both poles to six brown cords bound with a cardboard strip. Glob... More

[Two unidentified women, three-quarter length portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. In passe partout mat in thermoplastic frame. Written on back of frame: 2194. Gift; Charles W. Millard; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:096). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

The star spangled banner

Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

Le souvenir - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Elsser quadrilles, no. 2 - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait]

Case: front - Rinhart 262; back - Rinhart 91. Transfer; Manuscript Division (John Franklin Jameson papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of:... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

The evergreen - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Joseph made known to his brethren / painted by F. Hartwich.

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Joseph made known to his brethren / painted by F. Hartwich.

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Christophe Colomb a la cour d'Isabelle II / Pairs, Vve. Turgis ; Lith....

Christopher Columbus kneeling in front of Queen Isabella I. Title in French and Spanish.

Bothwell Bridge, on the Clyde - Lithograph, public domain, Library of ...

Picturesque view of Scotland, with cattle in river in front of stone bridge with four arches.

[5 Ohio election tickets For President Martin Van Buren For Vice Presi...

5 tickets. various sizes. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 232, Folder 1.

The Ben Hur chariot race / E. Cameron.

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A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, ...

View of mansion of Timothy Dexter, Newburyport, Massachusetts, with key to the statues and several lines of explanation below picture. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the... More

The life and public services of William H. Harrison / stereotyped by J...

A large Whig campaign broadside for the presidential election of 1840. Three columns of text outline the career, military accomplishments, and other distinctions of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison... More

[Hunter and Indian] - Public domain portrait drawing

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

A squall off Cape Horn - Engraving, Public domain image

A three-masted ship, with bow to left, on high waves in a storm. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no.6080. Exhibit loan 4093-L.

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

Exposition of the proceedings of John P. Darg, Henry W. Merritt, and o...

Ishibe, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows an interior view through open panels of an inn with travelers bathing and having tea at the Ishibe station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponso... More

Der Uhrmacher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a man making a small clock in a clock making shop.

The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York

The title continues: "Breaking up of a Grand Spree in the Tea Room & total abflustification of the common scoundrels." Weitenkampf calls the print a satirical look at members of the New York Common Council "aft... More

[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm restin...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 141. Accompanying note: Jerusha Field, Quaker of N.Y. & Peekskill. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collect... More

[Farmer with scythe walking down road after livestock]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Case: gothic design. Purchase; 1967; (DLC/PP-1967:040). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

The philosopher's stone! Gold & silver plating, by the electro-magneti...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 35.

The truth: or, A review of a circular addressed "To the electors of th...

[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label: Unidentified friend of C. B. Was part of LOT 8492. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms part of: Clara Barton Papers, 1834-1918... More

[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

[Battle scene with line of bayonets]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The Tippecanoe quick step / J.B.N. ; John Bufford's Lith. Boston.

Print shows a music sheet cover with an illustration for the Tippecanoe quick step showing William H. Harrison on horseback, leading troops against Native Americans at the Battle of Tipecanoe, Indiana, in 1811.

[Walking hunter with two hounds]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in cha...

Case: oval design surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.059. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Harrison quadrilles. Book illustration from Library of Congress

An illustrated sheet music cover for a set of "popular airs" for the piano, dedicated by the publisher to "Whigs of the United States." A Whig campaign piece, the work eulogizes the supposed humble rusticity of... More

[Copy of a painting of an unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portr...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral medallion. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Battle scene] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Nathaniel Green, half-length portrait, facing front, seated with arm ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 36a. Case: variant of Rinhart 166. Accompanying note: Nathaniel Green, brother of Levi Green and son of William Green who was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill. S... More

[Donkey cropping grass]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

President Robert's house, Monrovia / Wagner & McGuigan's Lith. Phil.

President Joseph J. Roberts' house, Monrovia, Liberia. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Leech - A row in a city kitchen / JL.

Cartoon shows an uproar in a kitchen. One cook wearing a white jacket attacks another with a large fish. Men dressed in horse costumes joust with each other and other men wave various kitchen utensils. Leech... More