1840

This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend . . .

A Whig campaign print, showing William Henry Harrison greeting a wounded veteran before a log cabin by a river. The cabin flies an American flag with the words "Harrison & Tyler" and with a liberty cap on its s... More

[Bunker Hill] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Soldiers digging and pulling artillery, horse pulling, and battle scene. Title devised by cataloger. Purchase; Childs Gallery; (DLC/PP-1984:368). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Distant view of a house and yard]

Photographer unidentified. Case: flowers in central quadrafoil. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Matty's dream. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Clay portrays Martin Van Buren driven from the White House by nightmares of cider barrels and Whig presidential challenger William Henry Harrison. Van Buren flees the presidential mansion in his nightshirt, dro... More

[Scene from the life of Washington?]

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

[Robert Emmet, three-quarter length portrait, standing, turned to the ...

Printed at bottom: Copyrighted. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with ot...

Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:4,900,000. LC Railroad maps, 334 Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ras... More

[Two women standing over seated reading woman]

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

Camp of the Gros Ventres of the prairies on the upper Missouri Lager d...

Print shows a large Hidatsa Indians camp in the background; a group of Indians in the foreground are dancing on the shore while others are in the water boarding and attacking passengers on a ship. Tab. 38. Sam... More

J.J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows John J. Crittenden, half-length portrait, facing slightly left; includes a facsimile signature. 174 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. In... More

William R. King, Senator from Alabama

63 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fenderich, Ch. Title inscribed on stone.

James Buchanan / painted by J. Eichholz ; engraved by J. Sartain.

Print showing James Buchanan, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding papers; above facsimile signature. The 1834 painting by Jacob Eichholtz is in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Mu... More

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

Jumbo Jum - 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

The artist's dream / painted by George H. Comegys ; engraved by J. Sar...

The artist, with his head down on a table in his studio, perhaps seeking divine intervention, is having a vision of great artists from the past, such as: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Leonardo... More

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

Gen. William Henry Harrison / lith. of Endicott.

Print shows a campaign banner with Harrison on horseback; surrounded by 12 vignettes of his home, military service, and political activity.

[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

Robert Strange to Andrew Jackson, June 17, 1840

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

General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step

An illustrated Whig campaign music sheet. Before a log cabin in the wilderness Harrison greets a crippled veteran in a fashion similar to "This log cabin . . ." (no. 1840-17). In the distance is a somewhat lar... More

Harrison, union, liberty, and independence / designed, written & publi...

A large Whig campaign broadside, very similar to "Westward the March of Empire" (no. 1840-31) with the same lengthy text, here entitled "Epitome of the life of William Henry Harrison ..." Framing the text are t... 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...

Crockett scared by an owl

Illus. in: The Crockett Almanac, 1840, v. 2, no. 2, title page. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Medicine / engraved by G. Stodart from the statue by Ernst Hähnel.

Statue of a seated female figure in classical robes, holding a lamp in one hand and a scroll in the other.

The trap sprung! The kinderhook fox caught!

A parody of Democratic efforts to reelect incumbent Martin Van Buren in the face of broad popular support for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. The print is a crude woodcut evidently based on Napoleon Saro... More

Notice to quit. March 4th 1841 - Public domain book illustration, Libr...

An optimistic Whig artist (probably Edward Williams Clay) portrays Martin Van Buren's evacuation of the White House on Inauguration Day 1841. A disgruntled Van Buren descends the steps, muttering "Our sufferin... More

Easter card--Cape Mount--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missiona...

Easter card showing Cape Mount, an island in Liberia. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Collection (Library of Congress).

The sylvic gas light B. Franklin Coston, patentee, Washington City, D....

Print showing a gas light generator for use in "Hotels, Light Houses, Steam Boats, Cottages, Factories, Churches" with vignettes of buildings, boats, and gas lights.

Log cabin march and quick step - Public domain American piano sheet mu...

Treasury, Washington, D.C. - Public domain palace architecture engravi...

Engraving showing man riding horse, pedestrian, and horse and carriage in front of Treasury Department building. On verso: In Haas Public Buildings & Statuary 1840.

Emotions Parisiennes. L'or est une chimère - pour ceux qui n'ont pas l...

Print shows a man in a tall black hat with his hands in his pockets, looking sardonically at a window, covered by a grill, behind which sit bowls of coins. Daumier was a French caricaturist and cartoonist, who... More

Silver Cascade--White Mountains, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a man fishing from the shore of a cascading mountain stream; sheep graze in the background. Inscribed in ink on verso: 420062. Stamped on verso: L.C. Fine Arts Division. Currier & Ives : a catalogu... More

A mountain ramble - Print, Library of Congress collection

Men and women walking along trail through wooded hills with waterfall to the right. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4610.

James K. Polk: eleventh President of the United States

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3411

Battle of New Orleans - January 8, 1815 / desd. on the field of battle...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the battlefield showing troop alignments and barricades, with the river in the foreground. 319 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed below image: U.S. Military Magazine. Army & Navy, ... More

Log cabin anecdotes. Illustrated incidents in the life of General Will...

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

For me let fall a tear, ballad - 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

[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).

[Unidentified woman, possibly Mrs. Lucian Barbour]

Case in fragments. Wooden portion has pencil notation: Ma had pretty...(?) Transfer; Manuscript Division (Lucian Barbour Papers); 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:087). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Con... More

Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound o...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 356.

[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

[Occupational portrait of an unidentified man with an engine]

Photographer unidentified. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.1). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

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

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, ornamental circle design. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.18). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Occupational portrait of a man pressing cloth with iron]

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

[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

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

General Harrison's log cabin marc & quick step

An illustrated Whig campaign music sheet. Before a log cabin in the wilderness Harrison greets a crippled veteran in a fashion similar to "This log cabin . . ." (no. 1840-17). In the distance is a somewhat lar... 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).

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...

The Eugenie garter--Manufactured by the American Garter Company / Rae ...

Advertisement poster showing woman putting on garter. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Takaodayū, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Takao, a courtesan, full-length, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: one part of a larger Nis... More

[Former President Martin Van Buren, half-length portrait, facing right...

LC-BH824-5239. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified man wearing spectacles, half-length portrait, seated, fa...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Erasmus Darwin and Emily Cooper, three-quarter length portrait, seate...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 138. Accompanying note inside case: Brother and sister, Darwin and Emily Cooper. Addie Hatch, Feb. 28, 1863, Moravia. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1980; (DLC/PP-1980:0... More

Franklin in the National Convention / Lossing-Barritt.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Pinkney Rodgers, half-length portrait, seated, holding white ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40 [asterisk]. Label on back of case: William Pinkney Rodgers, 1821-1893. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:307). Forms part of: Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-19... More

Prof. Morse reading a newspaper / A.J.S.

Drawing shows Samuel F.B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, with a newspaper in one hand. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, 2005-2006.

[Revolutionary War battle between civilians and British soldiers]

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

Die Fischerei. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a fisherman holding oars, standing on the shore next to a lobster, eel, fish, and shellfish, with a man fishing from the opposite shore, a man with net in a boat, and large fishing boats in the bac... More

[Unidentified man and woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:575). Forms part of: Harvey Washington Wiley Papers, ca. 1854-1944 (Library of Congress). Forms part o... More

Granny Harrison delivering the country of the executive Federalist

A satire on the Van Buren administration challenged by Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. Harrison, dressed as a woman, tries to remove Van Buren from his throne with a midwife's forceps. Van... More

Fanny Ellsler's last seranade or the soap-locks disgraceful attack upo...

A riot scene: German parade musicians (possibly accompanying touring ballerina Fanny Elssler) are attacked and beaten with their own instruments by a gang of toughs (or "Soap-Locks" for the long, soaped hair lo... More

[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seate...

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

Elbridge Gerry / engraved by J.B. Longacre.

Elbridge Gerry, half-length portrait, seated, facing left. From a drawing by Vanderlyn.

[The boys that run with the engine -- ]

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

New Hampshire delegation. Young Men's National Convention

A campaign badge produced for the New Hampshire delegation to the Baltimore "Young Men's National Convention" of May 4, 1840. It is quite similar to the "Poor Man's Friend" badge (no. 1840-9), having the rounde... More

The Egyptian beauty - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1820

Martin Van Buren. Eighth president of the United States

Half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mássika ... Wakusásse ... / Carl Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; imp. Bougeard ...

Half-length portraits of Mássika, a Saki Indian, and Wakusásse, a Musquake Indian.

Forest scene summer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2263

[Indian council]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Thomas Jefferson--Third president of the United States / lithographed ...

Thomas Jefferson, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right. Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

Westward the march of empire takes it flight / lith. by Baker, 8 Wall ...

A grand Whig campaign broadside, with text "A brief sketch of the principal events in the lives of William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler . . ." written by Benjamin Owen Tyler. The biographies highlight the can... More

John F. Gannon et al., April 29, 1840

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

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg to Andrew Jackson, December 30, 1840

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

Genl. Franklin Pierce, democratic candidate for the presidency

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - 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

Bill to Foreclose Mortgage in Sackett v. Miller & Miller, [Law papers]...

Summary: Sackett bought forty-eight acres of land in Menard County, Illinois, from William Miller for $400. William Miller gave Sackett a bond for deed, but Sackett refused the bond unless William Miller gave S... More

Andrew Jackson to William McKendree Gwin, January 20, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, 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...

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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

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

Case: front - Rinhart 257; back - Rinhart 131 variant. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Cat]. Book illustration from Library of Congress Andō Hiroshige

Ukiyo-e drawing showing a cat. Illus. in: Hiroshige gajō, early 1840s. Number "11." Possibly exhibited: "The Floating world of Ukiyo-e: shadows, dreams and substances," organized by the Library of Congress, 2001.

Native village - Drawing. Public domain image.

View of village showing traditional dwellings. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mrs. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[William Robertson Grant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Printed on yellow paper label pasted to the paper seal: Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut [sic], Philadelphia. Written on paper seal: Dr. Grant, 1840. Labels on cover glas... More

Die Weintraube und der Wein - Public domain book illustration, Library...

Print shows two men working a screw press for crushing grapes and a man pouring liquid through a mesh(?) into a barrel. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Schuylhill, Fairmont Water Works, Philadelphia]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Man sitting down on stoop] - Public domain dedication image

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

The death of locofocoism - Political cartoon, public domain image

In his satire Johnston celebrates the defeat of "Loco Foco," i.e., radical Democratic interests, in the presidential election of 1840. The "Loco Focos" were the largely working-class constituency who supported... More

Map of Texas. Historic map, Library of Congress

Signed by W. Bollaert. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, f...

Possibly maternal grandmother of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 133. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Libra... More

The author of Vanity Fair - Public domain portrait engraving

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

[Winter scene] - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

Honorable Cadwallader D. Colden Esqr. / Painted by Waldo & Jewett ; En...

Cadwallader D. Colden, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. After a painting by Samuel Waldo and William Jewett.