1848

Nihonbashi akebono no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows porters carrying sedan chairs and pedestrians crossing the Nihon Bridge. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: ... More

Stella and Alice Grey. lantern and whalebone: "passing the stand"

Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6227

Chiryū, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers, some with horses, and vendor stands at the Chiryū station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006... More

Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams.

Family around Christmas tree, depicted in an oval with border showing winter scenes and the fruits and animals of a bountiful harvest. Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, Christmas supplement, 1848, p. 409.

New-York, in 1849 / drawn by E. Purcell ; engraved by S. Weekes.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Public domain photograph of the city, skyscraper buildings, cityscape, downtown, urban environment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image -... More

Fuchū - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows travelers stopping at a rest stop at the Fuchū station on the Tōkaidō Road.

Place de la Concorde 24 Febrary 1848: courageous conduct of a young gi...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5190

Mr. F.S. Chanfrau "as Mose" in the new piece called "A glance at New Y...

Mr. F.S. Chanfrau, full-length, seated, facing left, making a fist.

Major Genl. Z. Taylor before Monterey: Sept. 20th 1846

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4252

Jane - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a full-length portrait of a young woman, standing, facing front, with table and large mirror in the background. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 393. Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. Feb. 18, ... More

Moscou / dess. d'après nat. par Indeisseff ; imp. par Lemercier, à Par...

Prints showing (in 10 parts) a panoramic view of Moscow from the Kremlin. From the mid-point, facing to the south and the Moscow River, the view extends about 270 degrees, from the palace and the Church of St. ... More

[William Hickling Prescott, half-length portrait, three-quarters to th...

Historian, author. Scratched on back of plate: 432. Hallmark: Rinhart 4b. Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 8 in Charles Edwards Lester's Gallery of illustrious Americans, 1850, publ... More

F.S. Chanfrau in the character of "Mose" as originally written for, an...

Print shows Francis S. Chanfrau in the character "Mose", full-length portrait, as a fireman in a defiant stance, standing in the street, facing left, as fire fighters man the hoses in the background. 130 U.S. C... More

The truest friend - Public domain American music sheet

La Alameda de Mexico The public park of Mexico.

Print shows a public park in Mexico, with people walking near a fountain in the park. Printed below title: 631. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the... More

Kusunoki masashige chihayajō rōjō no zu, Yoshifuji Utagawa

Print shows pedestrians bowing in greeting to others on roadways leading to a walled city across a river, also several porters carrying bundles into the city. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

Jesus and the Cyrenian / Jesus ajudado pelo Cirineo

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3467

Gipsey polka - 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

I see her at the window - Public domain American sheet music

sung by Campbells Ethiopian serenaders 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) I... More

The storming of Chapu[ltepec] Sept. 13th [1847] / drawn on stone, prin...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. "N. Currier, 152 Nassau St., N.York, [sole agent]" printed below title. LC copy has lost some text areas. Bracketed text supplied from America on stone / Harry T. Peters. Garden Ci... More

Genl. Scott's grand entry into the city of Mexico, Sept. 14th, 1847

Print shows General Winfield Scott, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing front, leading triumphant American troops into Mexico City during the Mexican War. Entered according to Act of Congress in t... More

Ibaragiya denzō ibaragiya kokonoe akita hideie hoka

Print shows actors and musicians performing for a nobleman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 sections: left (1497a)... More

Puppies / Kelloggs & Comstock, Hartford, Conn. ; D. Needham, Buffalo.

Two puppies, a barrel, and a basket of food. Public domain photograph of 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More

Grand, national, democratic banner. Press onward / lith. & pub. by N. ...

Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates in the presidential election of 1848, Lewis Cass and running mate vice presidential nominee William O. Butler. The banner is very similar to Currier's 184... More

May 31, 1848. And Act to provide for the purchase of the manuscript pa...

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Oh! Mr. Coon - 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

[Dolley Madison, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing fron...

Same image as DAG no. 064. Hallmark: [caduceus] Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Forms part of: Brady-Handy collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of C... More

Soga no taimen, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print showing a man sitting on a raised platform, with a warrior sitting on the left and a warrior standing on the right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Marriage certificate - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

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

Dōguya jinza hōkaibō bōkon shimobe gunsuke, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows three actors, two with swords and one who appears to be an evil spirit. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in... More

Soga no taimen - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows actors portraying the official Kudō Suketsune, a warrior, the two Soga brothers, and a woman in a Soga kabuki play.

She sleeps in beauty, 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

[A.A. Harwood, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left...

Captain, U.S. Navy. Hallmark: Rinhart 4b. Scratched on back of plate: 400. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathe... More

The day after the fair - Public domain book illustration, Library of C...

A pro-Cass satire, predicting the Democratic nominee's victory over Whig Zachary Taylor and Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren. After the "fair," or election, Lewis Cass appears at the window of the White Ho... More

[Full page of The Illustrated London News, Christmas Supplement, 1848,...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1848. Reference copy may be in LOT 4446. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street vendors; Gt. Brit. Hist. 1848; Holiday... More

[Walt Whitman, full-length portrait, standing with hand in pocket and ...

From portrait by Black. No. 8242-62. Saunders no. 2. Specimen Days no. 125. Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress).

Philadelphia State-house / / drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner; lith. ...

(DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Fujisawa, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers on a street at the Fujisawa station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tōkaid... More

Kagamiiwa Hamanosuke, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Kagamiiwa Hamanosuke, sumo wrestler, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: ... More

Levi Woodbury / Rowse ; from a daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes ; J...

Print shows Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing right. Inscribed in ink at bottom right: Briggs Coll. 41499. Sheet cropped and appears to have been removed from a bound volume.

Cock of the walk - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congres...

The title refers to Whig candidate Zachary Taylor as the probable victor in the 1848 presidential contest. Taylor is portrayed as a victorious fighting cock, standing over his dead opponent, another cock with t... More

The available party trying to get their villany endorsed by the every ...

Again partisan bitterness, over the perceived Whig betrayal of Henry Clay's hopes for the presidential nomination and over subsequent efforts to obtain Clay's endorsement of Zachary Taylor's candidacy, is vente... More

Yokkaichi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows travelers around the torii at the entrance to a shrine at the Yokkaichi station on the Tōkaidō Road.

Zachary Taylor: twelfth President of the United States

Artist: Risso (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7441

The Village Blacksmith - Engraving, Public domain image

Music cover. LOT subdivision subject: Daily Life. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by A & J.P. Ordway; lithograph by E.W. Bouvé.

Worrying the bull - Political cartoon, public domain image

In a ring a large bull, wearing a ribbon marked "The Rough & Ready" between its horns, faces five matadors. The bull represents Zachary Taylor, nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready." The matadors are prominent Whigs,... More

Ejiri, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows travelers crossing a bridge during a rain storm at the Ejiri station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Narumi, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers, including a group with a palanquin, in the commercial district of the Narumi station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pri... More

Zachary Taylor, the people's choice for 12th president

Print shows a Whig campaign banner for the 1848 presidential election. In the center of a facsimile cloth banner is an oval bust portrait of candidate Zachary Taylor in military uniform. Surrounding the oval, o... More

Rotundo [i.e. Rotunda] Gardens. Mr. Hampton's grand 77th ascent with h...

Broadside announcing an ascension and parachute jump from the Rotunda Gardens, Dublin, Ireland, by balloonist John Hampton. Includes a picture of his balloon "Erin-Go-Bragh." Tissandier collection.

Shiba sinmeisha nai no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows people, including many women and children, and roosters at the Shiba Sinmei shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

[Charles Hazen Peaslee, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the le...

Democratic Congressman from New Hampshire, 1847-1853. Alternative identification: William King Sebastian, 1814-1865. Scratched on face of plate: 213; Sebastian, Sen. [illegible] Scratched on back of plate: 162.... More

The very Reverend Theobald Mathew: this print is respectfully dedicate...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6878

Margaret - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4319

Signal fires on the Slievenamon Mountains - Ireland, 1848 / Lith. & pu...

Print shows a group of men surrounding a bonfire on a mountaintop during an insurrection in Tipperary. Three men hold weapons while other men tend the fire. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1848... More

The sisters - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5934

Genl. E. Cavaignac: appointed provisional president of the French repu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2492

Ellen - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1852

Sacred heart of Mary: sacre ́coeur de Marie / sagrado corazon de Maria

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5727

Henry Clay, of Kentucky, portrait print

After a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3018

Sacred heart of Jesus: sacre ́coeur de Jesus / sagrado croazon de Jesu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5720

Pioneer history : being an account of the first examinations of the Oh...

J. Winans in the character of "Joe" in the new play of New York as it ...

Print shows John Winans in the character "Joe", full-length portrait, standing in the street, facing front, as a beggar wearing tattered clothing, holding two apples in his right hand. 112 U.S. Copyright Office... More

Okamotoya uchi Shigeoka Sugataebiya uchi Sugatano : Tamaya uchi Hanamu...

Ukiyo-e triptych showing three courtesans (shin yoshiwara). Left section: Hanamurasak from Tamaya house on Edo Street. Center section: Sugatano from Ebiya house on Kyo Street. Right section: Shigeoka from Okamo... More

Nuestra senora de Guadalupe: our lady of Guadalupe

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4908

Three new American polkas, op. 160, no. 3

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

Heaven thy grace concede me [from] opera Bianca e Faliero

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

Tsubone iwafuji chūrō onoe meshitukai hatsu, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (424a), center (424b), right (424c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More

Scotch Fusilier's guards polka - 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

Kumasaka Chōhan to Ushiwakamaru - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 sections: left (649a), right (649b). Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie Diptych. Forms... More

Adeline - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0049.

Adeline - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0049.

Buffalo gals - Public domain American music sheet

Puppies / Kelloggs & Comstock, Hartford, Conn. ; D. Needham, Buffalo.

Two puppies, a barrel, and a basket of food. Public domain photograph of 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Olga polka - 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

John Mitchell, esq., proprietor of the "United Irishman", Dublin, Irel...

John Mitchel, half-length portrait, facing left, seated at desk, holding pamphlet "United Irishman" in left hand. 285 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J. Baillie, N.Y.

The U.S. naval battery during the bombardment of Vera Cruz on the 24 a...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony & Major. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... More

Grand democratic free soil banner, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a campaign banner for Free Soil Party candidates Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams in the presidential race of 1848. The two candidates, nominated at the third party's convention on August ... More

The fruits of temperance - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Cong...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2372

[Dolley Madison, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing fron...

Same image as DAG no. 064. Hallmark: [caduceus] Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Forms part of: Brady-Handy collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of C... More

Inklings of travel, up Salt River

A broad satire, ridiculing all of the candidates in the 1848 presidential campaign. Swimming up "Salt River" and pulling the "Salt River Barge" is fox Martin van Buren. Seated in the barge are (left to right):... More

Inklings of travel, up Salt River

A broad satire, ridiculing all of the candidates in the 1848 presidential campaign. Swimming up "Salt River" and pulling the "Salt River Barge" is fox Martin van Buren. Seated in the barge are (left to right):... More

Report of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Seneca Falls, New Yor...

Manuscript note of title page "I think this little book is valuable, as giving a description of the first of the first Convention of the of the kind that was ever held. Rhoda J. Palmer" Rhoda Palmer, who had ac... More

The first prayer in Congress / painted by T.H. Matteson ; engraved on ...

Print showing members of Congress with heads bowed, some kneeling on the floor, in prayer during session in September 1774. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by John Neale, in the Clerks Of... More

Marriage certificate - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wake, sister, wake! Glee song - 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 boy, half-length portrait, seated with arm resting on ta...

Case: Rinhart 219. Barboza number: 6019.004. Stamped on silk pad: J. Turpin. Partial hallmark showing the wing and foot of an eagle holding an olive branch. Gift; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms... More

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847

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

The Life and age of woman, stages of woman's life from the cradle to t...

Print shows a woman aging every decade from infancy to 100 years-old. Verses accompany the drawings at each stage of life.

Igami no gonta gonta nyōbō kosen shūme kokingo

Print shows a scene from the play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, with actors playing Igami no Gonta, his wife Kosen, the servant Kokingo, and another person. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichi... More

Union / Strong, N.Y., US Democratic party

An extremely large, color campaign poster for Democratic nominee Zachary Taylor. The victorious Mexican War general is shown mounted on a white charger. He holds a wide-brimmed straw hat. Above his head, in a b... More

Sanjō Kokaji no manebigoto zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows three actors as warrior/metalworkers hammering a sword. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: lef... More

Oyone magoshichi taheiji, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two warriors and a woman around a fire, one warrior appears to be protecting the woman from the other warrior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Mitanoshi to Yamauba, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows the characters of Yamauba, an old woman who lives in the mountains, and Mitanoshi, who appears to be an old priest or monk, in a shosagoto dance routine with a rabbit and a deer competing in a feat ... More

Momijigari no himegimi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptypch. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings... More

Hamamatsu, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows travelers warming themselves at a large fire on the Tōkaidō Road near the Hamamatsu station. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2... More

The fox hunt. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Again Van Buren's flirtation with radical interests is portrayed as his downfall. As in "The Modern Colossus" (no. 1848-56) antislavery activist Abby Folsom (here "Abby Fulsome") is prominently featured. Here s... More

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

Hallmark: Rinhart 44. Date based on hallmark. Case: front - flowers surrounded by frame design; back - geometric design. In Marian S. Carson's inventory, the sitter is identified as Dr. George W. Cardeza of Jef... More

Whig harmony - Political cartoon, public domain image

A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, preceded the party's convention in June 1848. Here Horace Greeley, one of Clay's most influential northern supp... More