1849

The tree of intemperance - Drawing. Public domain image.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6614

Dance Come and dance to night - 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

The presidents of the United States and Declaration of Independence / ...

Deposited in the clerks office So. Dist., N.Y. Jany. 23, 1849. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card, with subsequent revisions. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott

Dance Hungarian patriot's 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

Pekin Illinois Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, Tuesday, May 01, 1849 (Re...

Gems of the Germania - 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

Bound volume---21 April-23 October 1849

Dance Guadalquiver 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

Serenade Andalouse - 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

Souvenir de l'Amerique. Maurice Strakosch - American sheet music, 1870...

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

[James Knox Polk, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the...

President of the United States, 1845-1849. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave /

"Preface" by W.L. Garrison: p. [iii]-xii. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Louis Haghe - Excavated mansions of Petra, Petra, March 7, 1839

General view of facades of several tombs cut from rock cliff, Petra, Jordan. Lithograph by Louis Haghe. Drawing by David Roberts. Illus. in: The Holy Land, v. 3, pts. 14-15, p. 3. This record contains unverifie... More

La Latona, valse brillante - Public domain American sheet music

The glorious land of liberty, a patriotic ode

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

National Intelligencer. ---- Extra. President Taylor's inaugural addre...

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 Collection; Portfolio 199, Folder 19c.

The star of the road - Engraving, Public domain image

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6110

Defense of the California Bank - Public domain book illustration, Libr...

A mildly jingoistic satire voicing American suspicions of foreign designs on California after the discovery of gold there in 1848. The bay and coastline of San Francisco are shown, menaced by foreign invaders ... More

Map of North America. - Public domain vintage map

The very revd. Theobald Mathew the great apostle of temperance

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Duval, P.S.

Though now I leave thee - 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

Narrative of events which occured in Baltimore town during the Revolut...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

The way they go to California / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Gold rush cartoon, showing dock crowded with men with picks and shovels, and men jumping from the dock to reach departing ship; a crowded airship and a man on a rocket fly overhead; and a man with a pick and sh... More

Gems of the Germania - 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

[Winfield Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the le...

General, U.S. Army officer, Commander in chief. Scratched on back of plate: 429. Hallmark: 40 (corner trimmed obscuring hallmark). Identification from a lithograph by Francois d'Avignon, plate 9 in Charles Edwa... More

Bound volume---21 April-23 October 1849

Twilight is closing, ballad - Public domain American sheet music

melody from "Chant Bohemienne"(de Meyer) 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)... More

President Taylor and his cabinet / drawn on stone by Davignon & Hoffma...

Print showing President Taylor standing in front of his cabinet officers, seated from left, Reverdy Johnson, Attorney General, William M. Meredith, Secretary of the Treasury, William B. Preston, Secretary of th... More

View of the water celebration, on Boston Common October 25th 1848

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tappan & Bradford's Lithography.

The officer's funeral - 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 officer's funeral - 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

Saint Louis carnival 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

Norah dear, ballad - Public domain American music sheet

The mosquito 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

View of Washington City and Georgetown / lith. by E. Weber & Co., Balt...

Composite of view of Washington from the portico of the Capitol surrounded by twenty other views of government buildings, monuments, Navy Yard, and aqueduct near Georgetown.

Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

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Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

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Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

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Daughter of the regiment - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congr...

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

Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter... More

[Americans convertng canoes into schooners, in the Bay of Panama]

California Gold Rush. Wood engraving in Illustrated London News, July 14, 1849. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Unidentified man, possibly Hosea Curtice, seated in chair, facing fro...

No electronic surrogate available. Case: back only Rinhart 144. Stamped on brass mat: Senter, Auburn. Paper note with daguerreotype: "Hosea Curtice." Transfer, Mauscript Division (Cooper Curtice Papers); 2001; ... More

Sweet Memories of Thee - Engraving, Public domain image

Music cover showing beautiful woman standing on small wooden bridge. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. Hall & Son... More

The high bridge at Harlem, N.Y.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3039

Niagara Falls general view, Landscape view print

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

Fantasie sur un Air Tyrolien - 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

Bound volume---21 April-23 October 1849

Bound volume---21 April-23 October 1849

Reminiscences of a Virginia physician

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

Great fire at St. Louis, Mo.: thursday night May 17th

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2837

Rural felicity waltz - 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

Saucy Kate - 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

Urania waltz - 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

Dig! Dig! Dig! - 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

Our own fair Italy, or, The return of the Neapolitan wanderers

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 man, three-quarter length portrait, full face, with arm ...

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

Maria valses - 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

Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Speeches a...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Anson S. Miller to Anson G. Henry, Friday, June 08, 1849 (Edward D. B...

Subpoena in Chancery in Yocum et al. v. Yocum et al, [Law papers].

Summary: At the time of his death, Jacob Yocum owned 521 acres of land in Sangamon County, Illinois. Jacob Yocum's widow Mary Yocum had not yet received her dower. William Yocum and some of Jacob Yocum's other ... More

Solomon Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 26, 1849 (Lincol...

United States Patent Office. Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, Illinois....

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christ is our light - Our star of redemption

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1173.

Christ is our light - Our star of redemption

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1173.

United American. Patriotism, charity, harmony., engraving, Library of ...

An idealized portrayal of a member of the nativist Order of United Americans, a society founded in New York in 1844 as the American Brotherhood. (The organization acquired its present name the following year.) ... More

Three Ave Marias, op. 1 - 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 emigrant churchman in Canada.

Later edition issued under title: Canada in 1849. Includes description of a short trip to the United States. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

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Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

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Wells, Miller, and Provost's Compound Extract of Blackberry

LOT subdivision subject: Bible-Picture illustrations, etc. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by Wells, Miller and Provost.

Saucy Kate. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Music cover showing beautiful woman in field, holding flowers. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by A. Fiot. Lithograph ... More

Interior of Grace Church, New York / Renwick, archt., Ackerman's, lith...

Published in Hints on Public Architecture by Robert Dale Owen (1849), before p. 49. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Ackerman.

[Unidentified boys, half-length portraits, probably George F. Becker a...

Identification based on similarities to carte-de-visite photographs in LOT 6507. Case: front - mixed flowers; back - cross motif. Originally in LOT 6507. George Ferdinand Becker Collection. Date based on age of... More

Specimens of stereotypes - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baldwin, J. Lewis.

New York city hall, park and environs

493 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bachmann, John.

Republican extra--- St. Louis, March 5, 5. P. M. President Taylor's in...

0675 E 7 D 45.; $15.00.; On verso: 06755, .7245. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Sheet removed from atlas publication. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Removed from atlas, rubber-stamped in lower margin "... More

Baltimore Washington's monument - Print, Library of Congress collectio...

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

Saratoga part of Saratoga - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

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

General Tom Thumb: born in 1832, is 18 inches high, and weighs only 15...

Caption continues: Now performing with Barnum's travelling museum and menagerie. Printed at top: Barnum's Gallery of Wonders, no. 1. Artist: after a daguerreotype by John Plumbe, Jr. (signature on image). Gale, 2463

Maternal happiness - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4427

Philadelphia merchant's exchange - Print, Library of Congress collecti...

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

When the morn's red light is glowing, cavatina from the opera Giovanna...

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

Dance Diligent Hose Co. 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

Let all obey - 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

Map of New Castle County, Delaware : from original surveys /

General-content county map showing hundreds (townships), school districts, rural buildings, and householders' names; Wilmington inset shows built-up areas. Hand col. to emphasize city/hundred boundaries. Relief... More

View of the water celebration, on Boston Common October 25th 1848

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tappan & Bradford's Lithography.

, musical notation - Public domain American music sheet

[James Knox Polk, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the...

President of the United States, 1845-1849. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tarantella Siciliana - 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 holy place / lith'y. of A. Kollner cor. of Dock & 2nd, Philadelphi...

Print shows, at center, a priest putting incense into a censer on "The Altar of Incense", a large portable stand with carrying rods on two sides; a small censer sits on the floor nearby. On the left is "The Gol... More

[George Washington Whistler's grave]

Drawing shows trees and grave of Whistler's father, Maj. George Washington Whistler, in the old cemetery at Stonington, Conn. Title from catalogue raisonné. Signed: J. W. Widow Anna McNeill Whistler and her two... More

William Shakespeare / Samuel Cousins, A.R.A., engraving, Library of Co...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fūki kusa sono no yūran - Public domain drawing

Ukiyo-e triptych showing a wealthy visitor at a villa garden with giant flowers. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban... More

Washington delivering his inaugural address April 1789, in the old cit...

Print showing George Washington delivering his inaugural address before members of the Congress. Includes text of speech. Key that identifies people in the image is in LOT 11507. Caption continues: From the ori... More

Satō norikiyo nyudō saigyo Yoshinaka., Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Japanese diptych print shows Saigyo surrounded by men trying to prevent him from leaving his house to become a priest. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

To the freemen of the Fourth Congressional district of North Carolina ...

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 Collection; Portfolio 135, Folder 8a.

Bound volume---24 October 1849-19 March 1850

Once the potential suggested by Morse's 1844 success began to be realized, other rival systems soon would emerge, naturally claiming to provide better and faster communication. This poster advertises a forthcom... More

Hymenial expositor, or, matrimonial chart / desigd. by A. Kollner ; Tr...

Print shows at top, a wedding being performed; at left and right are spaces for recording marriages; at center is "The Great Ocean of Love" dotted with many small islands, bays, straits, gulfs, and rivers, the ... More

Main entrance, north front, Smithsonian Institution / W. Wade del.

Photographic reproduction of a lithograph showing people standing at the front entrance to the Smithsonian Institution castle. Lower left corner: W Wade, del. Published in Historic of Public Architecture by Rob... More