1840

[Occupational group portrait of four shoemakers, one full-length, stan...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 137. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.13). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Tre... More

Genl. Harrison - from a picture of Benjamin Harrison of Berkley / R.T....

Print showing William H. Harrison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, and with arms folded across chest, holding sword in left hand. 158 or 1293 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed o... More

[Occupational portrait of a cooper, three-quarter length, with barrel ...

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, variant of Rinhart 114. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.19). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Lib... More

Voyage dans l’intérieur de l’Amérique du Nord, exe´cuté pendant les an...

Translated from the German. The atlas comprises 81 plates, in part colored, numbered 1-48 and I-XXXIII, the latter set being called "vignettes." The most remarkable are the portraits, in rich colors and from li... More

[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

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Public domain image of classical or neoclassical art inspired by classical Greece, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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...

The Smithsonian Institution. Book illustration from Library of Congres...

Engraving showing people standing in groups on the lawn and sidewalks at the front entrance to the Smithsonian Institute.

Funérailles de l'Empereur Napoléon. Intérier de l'église des Invalides...

Interior of the Church of Invalides, service in progress. Hubbard Collection.

[Two unidentified women seated on a sofa, two unidentified men standin...

Case: gold frame design. Accompanying label on case: "30." An inventory by Marian Carson attributes this daguerreotype to Collins. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:095.3). Forms part of: Daguerreo... More

[Adolphe Thiers, three-quarter length portrait, facing right]

Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[View of an unidentified village with ship in background]

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Lord Byron - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Eliphalet Brown, Jr. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4093

[Unidentified boy, three-quarter length portrait, seated in chair cove...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 119. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Tilton C. Reynolds Papers (Lib... More

Seife, Kerzen, Lichte. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows four men working in a shop making soap and candles. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

Slavery abolished by the laws of nature!!! Negroes not of the same spe...

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 155, Folder 24.

[David and Ellen Bell, three-quarter length portrait, seated]

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 131. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library o... More

[Mary Manuel Lisa, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, seated,...

Photographer unidentified. Identification based on an engraving by John Sartain published in Memorials of the life and character of Mary Manuel Lisa. Case: scroll motif. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1995; (DL... More

John Pym / J.F.E. Prud'homme sc., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows John Pym, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Stauffer, 2602 (DLC/PP-1921:R01) Forms part of: Stauffer Collection.

Utagawa Hiroshige - Tsubaki ni uguisu, Ando Hiroshige

Print shows a bird on a tree branch with camellia blossom. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Wakan rōei shū : Virile ... More

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

Photographer unidentified. May be copy daguerreotype. Hallmark: possibly Rinhart 46. Case: front, mixed flowers; back, quadrafoil. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[View of village with religious procession]

Signed lower left: Gust. Jahn, Wien. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

[John Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Republican Representative from Ohio, 1855-1861; Senator, 1861-1877, 1881-1897; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-1881. Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, oval frame design. Source unknown. Forms par... More

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

Case: Rinhart 195. Barboza number: 6019.057. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Log cabin, Hartford, Conn., dedicated to General William H. Harrison, ...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Lake Memphremagog--Owls Head - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows a shepherd, with three sheep, sitting on a knoll looking across Lake Memphremagog, with islands and mountains in background. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detro... More

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

Uncle Sam's pet pups! Or, Mother Bank's last refuge

A crude woodcut satire showing Harrison luring "Mother Bank," Jackson, and Van Buren into a barrel of "Hard Cider." Jack Downing chases Jackson and Van Buren toward the barrel as Mother Bank crawls into it. Whi... More

[Occupational portrait of an unidentified surveyor with a transit on a...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Hart Benton to Andrew Jackson, April 24, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Francis Preston Blair to Andrew Jackson, March 17, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

A black and white drawing of a man standing next to a cabin ["Harrison...

An untitled woodcut, bold in design, apparently created for use on broadsides or banners during the Whigs' "log cabin" campaign of 1840. In front of a log cabin, a shirtsleeved William Henry Harrison welcomes a... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, slightly to right]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Hallmark: [asterisk]. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguer... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

Hallmark: Rinhart 46a. Case: diapered center surrounded by frame design. Barboza number: 6019.071. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait] / W. & F. Langenheim's ... Ph...

On original folder: "From W. & F. Langenheim's Talbotype and Daguerreotype Establishment. Exchange, 3rd Story, Rooms 25-27. Philadephia. Talbotypes on paper , or daguerreotypes on plates of all sizes." Purchas... More

Johnson Rayburn & Co. to Andrew Jackson, Jr., August 20, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

White slavery!! or selling white men for debt! ... [Lexington 1840].

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 22, Folder 15.

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

191243 U.S. Copyright Office. Proof before letters.

[Hunter and Indian] - Public domain portrait drawing

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

[Occupational group portrait of four shoemakers, one full-length, stan...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 137. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.13). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Tre... More

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...

[Main street of the town of Ōmihachiman, Japan]

Shijo school sketch showing a warehouse in the foreground with inns further down the street. Information from exhibit website: Illus. in: Shasei-jō, ca. 1840. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : sha... More

Marion's brigade crossing the Pedee River, S.C.. 1778. On their way to...

Image shows Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" and his band of men in boats preparing to cross the Pee Dee River.

Der Gärber. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows men working in a shop tanning leather. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to righ...

President of Liberia. Was part of LOT 8554. Case: central diamond surrounded by leaves. Stamped on brass mat: McCartey. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-... More

[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing...

Grandmother and aunts of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40. Case: Rinhart 63. Accompanying note in case on stationery of the Arts Club of Washington, in handwriting... More

The philosopher & his kite / H.S. Sadd sc.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin and his son William flying a kite during an electrical storm.

Evenhanded justice of the breaking up of the star chamber

Another in the series of "Spoodlyks's" satires on the Glentworth affair. (See also nos. 1840-60, -61, and -63). Here the artist portrays Glentworth's attempt to remove evidence in the vote fraud inquiry from t... More

O.K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

A postelection Whig satire, "Respectfully dedicated to the members of the Eighth Ward Tippecanoe Club and inscribed to their Patriotic Chairman Charles H. Delavan, Esqr." The artist shows a crowd of Whigs assem... More

[William Pinkney Rodgers, half-length portrait, seated, with blue scar...

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

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

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 112. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Gilbert Stuart - G. Washington, Head and Shoulders Portrait

George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. From the original portrait by Stuart in the Boston Atheneum.

Ōka kaendaiko - Public domain drawing

Print shows banners hanging from a rope suspended between a tree and a pole, with a tsuri-daiko or similar drum behind the banners. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo ... More

By permission and under the patronage of the worshipful the mayor ... ...

Broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Richard Gypson from the Gas Works, Daventry, England, 1840. Includes a picture of a balloon in flight. Tissandier collection.

New England Convention, Sepr. 10th, 1840 / W.J. Rund, s[culpsi]t.

A campaign badge produced for the New England Whig Convention, held at Boston on September 10-11, 1840. From top to bottom: an eagle in flight with a banderole reading "Harrison, Tyler" and the words "One fire ... More

Das Oel. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two men working a screw press for extracting oil and a man with a horse working a stone press in the background. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Madame De Lara, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, three-quarter...

Photographer unidentified. Identification from label on front of case: Madam De Lara (Cuba). Case: central quadrafoil surrounded by scrolls. Gift; Mrs. G.M. Parkhurst; 1926; (DLC/PP-1926:46952). Forms part of: ... More

Papier. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows three men making paper; one standing at a vat with a screen, one working a press, and in the background, the third appears to be sizing the hand-made paper in a small vat before drying. In album: O... More

Der Schumacher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two men working in a shoe shop. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing right]

Photographer unidentified. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Battle scene with charging cavalry and artillery]

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