1848

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

Mariko, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows the snow-covered village of Mariko during winter on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: T... More

The great sea serpent. The sea serpent when first seen from H[er] M[aj...

Long sea monster in front of ship. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1848 Oct. 28. Reference copy may be in SSF - Sea monsters. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More

Chiryū, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers leading horses and letting them graze in fields at the Chiryū station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists i... More

The Democratic funeral of 1848 - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... More

Suruga miho no ura Andō Hiroshige

Print shows groves of trees along the coast and the sails of ships on Miho or Suruga Bay, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Forma... More

[Pair of oxen with their drovers]

Case: variant of Rinhart 138. No electronic surrogate available. Purchase; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:060). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of... More

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fr...

Scale 1:3,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows area of U.S. west of the Continental Divide. Includes notes and "Profile of the travelling route from the South Pass of the Rock... More

[El Dorado, California. View of scattered log cabins]

Photograph shows four log cabins scattered along the hillside; prospectors stand near or atop piles of large rocks; a flume can be seen on the far left.

Ishiyakushi, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers on village street with many buildings, street lights (lanterns) and signs, and a large tree at the Ishiyakushi station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled... More

Augusta - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0331.

The siege of Limerick, from the 9th to 31st of August. 1690

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5909

Les membres du gouvernment provisoire Février 1848.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4465

Jesus nailed to the cross / Jesus posto em cruz

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3499

Philadelphia. 11, State-house / drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner ; li...

175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 175. Deposited in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York May 24, 1849. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Lib... More

Fort Harrison in 1812 - A drawing of a castle on a hill overlooking a ...

Print showing Fort Harrison from across the Wabash River, with four Natives in a canoe on the river. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by Modesitt & Hager in the Clerk's office of the Distr... More

The Presidential fishing party of 1848

The cartoonist takes a dim view of all but Zachary Taylor's chances for the presidency in his commentary on the election campaign of 1848. The candidates fish from opposing banks of a river filled with fish bea... More

Major-General Zachary Taylor--President of the United States / from an...

Zachary Taylor, full-length portrait, standing beside horse, facing front. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[Gold miners, El Dorado, California]

Photograph shows miner's camp and large log cabin on hillside; prospectors, some with shovels and pix axe pose near ditch and flume.

Wake, lady wake - 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

Wada yoshimori tomoe gozen yamabuki, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (423a), center (423b), right (423c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More

Marriage of the Free Soil and Liberty parties

A comic portrayal of the alliance between Free Soil Democrats and Whigs and the more extremist abolitionist Liberty party interests during the election campaign of 1848. The factions joined to form the Free Soi... More

[Sam Houston, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civ...

President of Texas, 1836-1838, 1841-1844; Democratic Senator from Texas, 1846-1859. Scratched on back of plate: 233; Sam Houston, Texas. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Identification from lithograph by Konrad in Huber, ... More

Battle of Buena Vista - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congres...

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

All around and all above thee, or, Maiden fair

The celebrated trotting horse trustee as he appeared in his 20th mile:...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1003.

Vive la republique - Public domain American piano sheet music

The physical atlas : a series of maps & notes illustrating the geograp...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

I seen her at de window - Public domain American sheet music

also sung by Kneass' Opera Troupe 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 bou... More

Marriage certificate - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

The landing, of the naval expedition, against Tabasco [Mexico]. Com......

Naval Portfolio. Naval Scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut US Navy, No. 6. Copyright by Sarony & Major.

The sleigh race - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5949

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men, probably actors, and a woman with a shoulder pole carrying two buckets.

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men, probably actors, and a woman with a shoulder pole carrying two buckets.

Bound volume---15 August 1848-20 April 1849

Bound volume---15 August 1848-20 April 1849

Who says gas? Or the Democratic b-hoy

A pro-Democrat satire, pitting Democratic candidate Lewis Cass against Whig nominee Zachary Taylor in a bout for the presidency. Cass (center) is the obvious favorite. He wears the stovepipe hat, boots, bold pl... More

Cass & his cabinet in 1849 - Political cartoon, public domain image

The satire imputes to the Democrats of 1848, led by candidate Lewis Cass, the corrupt practices of the Van Buren-era party. The artist also criticizes Whig repudiation of stalwart party leader Henry Clay in fav... More

William Jenkins Worth, 1794-1849

Half lgth., facing right. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Knock'd into a cock'd hat - Public domain scan / print

Zachary Taylor's presidential nomination at the Whig national convention in Philadelphia on June 9, 1848, is represented as a severe blow to Lewis Cass, nominated by the Democrats a few weeks earlier. The extre... More

Jesus imprints his face on a cloth. / Jesus impreso su rostro en un pa...

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

Grand set to between rough and ready and Genal. Gas

Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass engage in a bout of fisticuffs in their battle for the presidency in 1848. Taylor, clearly getting the better of his opponent, seizes Cass by the lapels saying, "A little more gra... More

[Ancient Indian burial mounds. Moundsville, W.Va.] Great Mound at Grav...

Engraving by J.W. Orr. Illus. in: Squier & Davis, Ancient Monuments..., 1848. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: W.Va. Moundsv... More

Self-inflating pillow. Book illustration from Library of Congress

American general Gideon J. Pillow's self-promoting attempts to discredit Mexican War commander Gen. Winfield Scott are ridiculed in this portrayal of Scott puncturing "Polk's Patent" pillow. Pillow's efforts we... More

The modern Gilpins. Love's labor lost

A parody of Democratic politics in the months preceding the party's 1848 national convention. Specifically, the artist ridicules the rivalry within the party between Free Soil or anti-slavery interests, which u... More

Dr. Wynkoop's, katharismic Honduras, sarsaparilla

347 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony & Major. Copyright deposit, southern district of N.Y.: Jan 31, 1848 no. 347.

Maria - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4328

Protector engine no. 2 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kellogg & Comstock.

Jesus bearing his cross / Jesus carregado da cruz

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3472

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

Hakata kojorō kezori kuemon komatsuya sōshichi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows three actors portraying a woman and two men on board a ship; one of the men holds a large ax. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (426a), center (426b), right (426c). Title and other descriptive inf... More

Zachary Taylor, people's candidate for President

Print shows a campaign banner for Whig presidential and vice presidential nominees for 1848, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Unlike Currier's other Whig banners (nos. 1848-5 and -7) this example is horizon... More

Wada yoshimori tomoe gozen yamabuki, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (423a), center (423b), right (423c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More

Castle garden, New York: From the battery

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0933.

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

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

Donizetti Alfin son tua - Public domain American sheet music

Also contains "I'll pray for thee" ("Spargi d'amaro") (Content) Translated by J. C. A. Smith.

Tanizawa tanomo wakatō kihei iwafuji meshitsukai chiyo, Kuniyoshi Utag...

Print shows actors portraying a woman and two men in an episode depicting the ritual suicide of one of the male characters. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (425a), center (425b), right (425c). Title and oth... More

Tanizawa tanomo wakatō kihei iwafuji meshitsukai chiyo, Kuniyoshi Utag...

Print shows actors portraying a woman and two men in an episode depicting the ritual suicide of one of the male characters. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (425a), center (425b), right (425c). Title and oth... More

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

Print shows Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing right. 217 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by Southworth & Hawes in the Clerks office of the District Court ... More

Columbian college, D. C. July 6, 1848. You are respectfully invited to...

Mss. note to Prof. Henry and family.; Invitation. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Co... More

The young housekeepers, the day after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Cu...

Man and woman seen through window, half-length, standing. Copyright by N. Currier. Below image: Deposited in the Clerk's office of Southern District of New York, Oct 2, 1848. No. 222; No. 5. Conningham no. 5710... 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

The naval expedition under Com..re Perry, assending [sic] the Tabasco ...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. Naval Portfolio. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut. U.S. Navy (No. 5).

Romping Nell - 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 soul released from feeble clay

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 mother's grave - Print, Library of Congress collection

Boy and girl at grave of their mother. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description