1848

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.

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagaw...

Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto, possibly from the popular play known as Benten Kozō, Tenjuku Tokubei, perhaps the adventurer/magician, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Title and other... 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

Lewis Cass - Print, Library of Congress collection

226 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y. Jun. 10, 1848 No. 226." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robinson, H.R.

Political game of brag. Shew of hands

The artist resorts to the familiar metaphor of a card game for the presidential stakes in his rendition of the 1848 contest. The major contenders play a game of "brag" (an early form of poker). Around the tabl... More

Shimada kanaya, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a long trail of travelers crossing the Oi River between the Shimada and Kanaya stations on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speci... More

Mishima, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows two women(?), one carrying a tray of rice or grain on her head and the other is holding a parasol from which wooden cooking utensils are hanging. Mishima is the 12th station on the Tōkaidō Road. Tit... More

Lamartine membre du gouvernement provisoire - ministre des affaires et...

Print shows Alphonse de Lamartine, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing left, with right elbow resting on a table and right hand at his chin. Signed on stone on lower left: M. Alophe. Incl... More

Le Général Cavaignac. President du Conseil-Chef du Pouvoir execeutif /...

Louis Eugène Cavaignac, half-length portrait, standing, facing right. Paris, Goupil, Vibert & Cie. Reference copy in Biog. File. Copyright by Goupil, Vibert & Co.

Futagawa - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows travelers with palanquins and approaching on foot, a shop with the merchant sitting on a bench in front, at the Futagawa station on the Tōkaidō Road.

Utagawa Hiroshige - Hara, Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Print shows travelers, including a person riding in a basket on horseback, pass rice fields near the Hara station on the Tōkaidō Road, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive info... More

[Unidentified man, about 50 years of age, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Scratched on back of plate: 194. Hallmark: Rinhart 21. Same sitter as DAG no. 177. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced ... More

Plan stolichnago goroda Pekina s okrestnostīi︠u︡ /

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Yui, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers on a street at the Yui station on the Tōkaidō Road, with cliffs and view of the sea in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print s... More

A map of the internal improvements of Virginia; prepared by C. Crozet,...

The map indicates drainage, county boundaries, mines, cities and towns, roads, canals, and railroads. Scale 1:950,000. LC Railroad maps, 307 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also throu... More

Valley Falls--Virginia - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6864

Millard Fillmore: whig candidate for Vice President of the United Stat...

After a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4488

William O. Butler: democratic candidate for Vice President of the Uni...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7292

The two pets - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6574

Ascension of the virgin / Na.Sa. de Transito

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0304.

Gustav Struve - Wur durch entschiedenheit, festigkeit und kühnheit kön...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2905

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

Unkle Ned, an Ethiopian melody, Stephen Collins Foster

composer handwritten, "Stephen Collins Foster" From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical... More

The sun is in the west, ballad

[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

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

Madame Celeste as Miami: in Buckstone's celebrated drama "green Bushes...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4178

Somagahana Fuchiemon, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows sumo wrestler Somagahana Fuchiemon, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing robes with two swords. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo... 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

Baltimore bakery. Thomas Ritchie & Co. from Richmond--Bakers and confe...

Influential Richmond publisher Thomas Ritchie is attacked for his support of Lewis Cass's nomination at the Democratic national convention in Baltimore. The convention, held in late May 1848, selected Cass, an ... More

Baltimore bakery. Thomas Ritchie & Co. from Richmond--Bakers and confe...

Influential Richmond publisher Thomas Ritchie is attacked for his support of Lewis Cass's nomination at the Democratic national convention in Baltimore. The convention, held in late May 1848, selected Cass, an ... More

My mountain home, 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

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

Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty, and with the oth...

A strongly pro-Van Buren cartoon, espousing the antislavery platform of the Free Soil party and condemning Whigs and conservative Democrats alike. The artist also reflects the lingering bitterness among many De... More

Attack on the Castle Chapultepec / Ataque del Castillo de Chapultepec

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0323.

Adeline - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

John Quincy Adams / sketch'd by Arthur J. Stansbury Esqr. a few hours ...

Sold by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St., N.Y. Copyright 1848 by A.J. Stansbury. Library has two impressions: Full print PGA - Currier & Ives John Quincy Adams; and print trimmed and attached to sketchbook in Unproc... More

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0044.

Son of temperance / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows a young man with declaration: "No Brother shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt, liquors, wine or cider". Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Resear... More

Son of temperance / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows a young man with declaration: "No Brother shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage, any spirituous or malt, liquors, wine or cider". Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Resear... More

United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...

A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More

Washington. 34, Chamber of representatives / drawn from nature by Aug....

Print shows an interior view of the House of Representatives chamber during session with many congressmen seated, some standing, and with audience in the galleries. 187 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 34. Inscribed... More

Washington. 34, Chamber of representatives / drawn from nature by Aug....

Print shows an interior view of the House of Representatives chamber during session with many congressmen seated, some standing, and with audience in the galleries. 187 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 34. Inscribed... More

The Life and age of man, stages of man's life from the cradle to the g...

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

Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley

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

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

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

The mother's grave - Print, Library of Congress collection. Book illus...

Boy and girl at grave of their mother.

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagaw...

Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto, possibly from the popular play known as Benten Kozō, Tenjuku Tokubei, perhaps the adventurer/magician, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Title and other... More

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glan...

Print shows Miss Taylor and Mr. Chanfrau standing next to each other outside a building; he is wearing an apron, has his right arm on her shoulders, and is holding her left hand. She is gazing up at him.

Gen. Scott's entry into Mexico - Public domain sheet music. Piano, mar...

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 young housekeepers, a year after marriage / lith. & pub. by N. Cur...

Man and woman seen through window, with the woman holding a baby. Below image: Deposited in the Clerk's office for the Southern District of New York, October 2, 1848. No. 608; No. 6. Conningham no. 5711. Currie... More

The sisters - 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

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Attributed to: Enryosai Shigemitsu. Triptych matted in 3 sect... More

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

Washington's reception by the Ladies on the bridge

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

Hiratsuka, Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Print shows travelers at an open-air rest stop near shrines at the Hiratsuka station on the Tōkaidō Road; view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sp... More

Yui - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows thatched roof buildings on coastline with mountain in the background and harbor with three ships under sail, and travelers stopping at the rest stops at the Yui station on the Tōkaidō Road.

A correct chart of Salt River - Public domain book illustration

"Salt River," the fictitious river of political doom, is charted here as a meandering stream of Democratic misfortunes. The chart was purportedly "prepared by Father Ritchie," i.e., Democratic editor and Polk a... More

The telegraphic candidates - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

In a race between the railroad and the telegraph the "telegraphic candidates," Lewis Cass and William O. Butler, are first to the White House. The artist ridicules Zachary Taylor for his hazy stance on major ca... More

Mishima, Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Print shows porters carrying three palanquins near thatched roof buildings at the Mishima station on the Tōkaidō Road; view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

Matsuchiyama yukibare no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows a winter scene with a bridge spanning a canal and boats on a river. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Nishikie, prob... More

The fruit, no. 1 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2357

Mexican guerrilleros: Mexico in 1848

Print shows a Mexican guerrilla holding a long pike, riding on horseback, leaping over rocks where another guerrilla has been slain; further up the path, on the left, lies another guerrilla, with more guerrilla... More

Elizabeth - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1840

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

Forest River white and sheet lead works, Salem, Massachusettsachusetts...

Print shows a view from the rivr of the Forest River Lead Company factory buildings, with sailboats on the river, a railroad bridge with locomotive labeled "Forest River", and with countryside in the background... 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

The kind word, 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

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

Dance True love quick step - Public domain musical sheets

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

Tsurishinobu mebae no futsuzuka - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a dance performance from a play with a woman dancing with musicians in the background, also a portrait of a warrior hanging on the wall in the upper right.

Te Deum laudamus, hymn - 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

Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu

Japanese triptych print shows large groups of women pilgrims visiting Enoshima shrine to worship an image of Benzaiten, the Goddess of Good Fortune. They are walking towards an island on a causeway with sailboa... More

Nagoya sanzaburō fuwa banzaemon katsuragi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows the courtesan Katsuragi outside a sedan chair between two rival lovers and samurai, one is her husband Nagoya Sanza and the other is Fuwa Banzaemon. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (422a), cente... More

Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president

Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates Lewis Cass and William O. Butler produced for the 1848 presidential election. The banner is designed in a horizontal format, similar to Currier's "Zachary... More

Studying political economy. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A crudely drawn but complex satire mocking Zachary Taylor's military background and lack of political experience. Student Zachary Taylor, wearing a paper cap made out of the journal "The True Whig" is seated on... More

United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...

A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More

Jūshi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan (Genji Monogatari)

Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, courtesans or geshia and members of the nobility, in a building. Title and oth... More

Taylor / designed & drawn by J.G. Bruff, Washington, D.C.

A campaign print, grandiose in design and imagery, for Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor. A corona of thirty stars appears in a burst of light. Emanating streams of light illuminate a broad expanse of ... More

Dancing for eels A scene from the new play of New-York as it is, as pl...

Print shows Frank S. Chanfrau as the character "Mose", sitting on a barrel watching an African American man dance on a dock along the waterfront, with a crowd of spectators gathered aound. A poor boy, actor Joh... More

[Men pulling Reliance Fire Company hose carriage]

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996 (DLC/PP 1996:087.14) Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

The sleigh race - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

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.

Fukuroi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows travelers resting and cooking near the Fukuroi station on the Tōkaidō Road, includes a woman seated sidesaddle on a horse.

Great Mound at Marietta, Ohio, engraving, Library of Congress

Lithograph by Sarony & Major, Chas. Sullivan. Illus. in: Squire, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, (1848) plate XLV. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings... More

Voyage of life - childhood From the original painting by Thomas Cole, ...

Print showing allegorical scene in a landscape with a child in a boat with an angel at the helm. Entered according to Act of Congress U.S.A. [...] by James Smillie, in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Co... More

Fording Salt River. Book illustration from Library of Congress

An election-year satire favoring Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren in the 1848 presidential contest. A long-legged John Van Buren carries his father piggyback through Salt River, heading toward the White Ho... More

Sumida tsutsumi hanami no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows sightseers walking along pathway viewing cherry blossoms on the bank of the Sumida River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006... More

Trial of the Irish patriots at Clonmel, Oct. 22nd. 1848 Thomas F. Meag...

Print shows Lord Chief Justice Doherty, standing (left), delivering a death sentence to members of the rebel group, Young Ireland, standing (right). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Rese... More

Otsuka, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows porters carrying goods and palanquins near the Otsuka station of the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From ... More

Chart. Historic map, Library of Congress

"...to accompany Report no. 596, made by T. Butler King,..." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Sam Houston - Print, Library of Congress collection

74 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel, L.

Inconvenience of wearing coffee bag skirts

241 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baillie.

View of Boston: vue de Boston / ansicht von Boston

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6903

Eliza - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1829

The nosegay - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4890

The virgin Mary: la virjen Maria / la sainte vierge

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6997

Jesus fall's for the first time. / Jesus cahido pela primera vez.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3486

Mary - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4390

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