1850

Statue of Venus Vitrix. Removing her sandal to remain at Athens

Bas-relief from Temple of Athena Nike. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 19, right side.

South American fever & ague remedy is a cheap, safe ...

Patent medicine label of G.A. Leonard, New York, with three illustrations showing people with boxes on shore, sick person in cabin, and two men clearing land. Copyright by Snyder, Black, & Sturn, N.Y. 1863.

[Unidentified woman with spectacles, seated beside table with tableclo...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 2. Case: front made by LC Conservation Office, 1994; back, flower inside circle surrounded by scroll design. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection ... more

Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of President John Tyler

Photograph showing Letitia Semple, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, leaning on rail. Title from item. Photo of portrait.

Charles Town, showing rear of courthouse, Charles Town, W. Va.

Shows rear of courthouse where John Brown was tried.

Robert Fulton

Erectheum / D. Constantin á Athénes.

Amelia polka

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 Pnyx. Museon Hill

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 10.

Refugees overtaken

Bankettsaal und Gabentempel des dritten Amerikanischen Bundes-Schiesse...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Magnus, C. Purchase, Hubbard Fund, 1965.

[Guillermo Prieto, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, lower left. On recto: Guillermo Prieto.

Lady Moscow

Artist: S.B. Jones (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3648

[Ruins on ground at Ephesus]

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 21, upper right.

[Design for certificate for Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Associa...

Allegorical drawing shows such Greek muses as Minerva, goddess of war and knownledge (center), and to her left muses of the arts and to her right, such artisans as shipbuilders, blacksmiths, silversmiths, archi... more

Strahleck Pass. Grindelwald to Grimsell

Four men on glacier. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 42, lower left.

Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix--Wingless Victory / D. Constantin...

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 12.

Ruined castle. Rhine

Ruins of castle above Rhine River. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 28, upper left.

Map of the city of Washington : established as the permanent seat of t...

Shows block numbers, wards, and major buildings. Includes index to points of interest and inset "Map of the District of Columbia." LC copies fold-lined and mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the L... more

City of Washington.

Shows wards, built-up areas, and major buildings. Also covers Georgetown. "Entered according to act of Congress ... 1850, by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Includes note, inde... more

Francis Jackson

Photograph shows abolitionist Francis Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Stamped on verso: Sewall Coll. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[William Y. McAllister with wife, full-length, seated in decorative ch...

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

Columns of Olympieum

View of Columns of Olympieum (Temple of Olympian Zeus) with Acropolis in background.

[Bust of William Robertson Grant]

Written on back: Plaster bust, Dr. W. R. Grant. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Li... more

Pennsylvania's great highway and its tributary lines.

Map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, some relief by hachures, cities and towns, the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and connecting lines. Scale ca. 1:1,575,000. LC Railroad maps, 77 Description de... more

[Certificate of membership for the Washington National Monument Societ...

Certificate to raise funds to erect the Washington Monument shows two designs for the monument and two vignettes.

[View of Paris with church steeple in foreground]

Hallmark: Houssemaine Garanti 40. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

[Unidentified man, possibly Chester Fitts of Charlton, three-quarter l...

Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies nor...

Outline map of the north-central United States showing the canals and the railroad network and naming the Michigan Central and the Michigan Southern Railway. John B. Jervis was chief engineer on the Mohawk & Hu... more

Skeleton map, showing the position and connections of the Michigan Sou...

Outline map of the northeastern United States showing railroads in operation, under construction, and under proposal. Chartered in 1846 and consolidated April 1855 with the Northern Indiana Railroad under the n... more

Burial ground "Agia Triada". Tomb of Dexileus, B.C. 393

Monuments at Hagia Trias; on left, monument to Dexileus. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 18, left side.

Samuel M. Hopkins, D.D., Hyde Professor of ecclesiastical history and ...

Samuel M. Hopkins, half-length portrait, facing slightly left.

[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated]

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

Sr. Del Villar

Del Villar, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title taken from above item in notebook. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, lower right.

Infirmary. Dr. Sherrill has taken a house with good and airy rooms ple...

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 122, Folder 37.

Complete railway map designed and engraved from the original maps, cha...

To the right of the map is an advertisement stating "American Railway Guide for the United States. Published Monthly." Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]. Inset: Railway map of New England, together with sections of New Y... more

Whitemarsh Hall, Phila., Pa.

Interior showing staircase and statue of woman and cupid. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

Map of the Portland and Ogdensburg Rail Road line, and connections.

Map of parts of New England and New York showing the railroad network and the progress of track construction along the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad line. A reference table in the upper left of the map provi... more

Instructive lecture. Chief Maungwudaus of the Chippeway nation of the ...

[Wassweburg mit ausreitenden soldaten im Kostüm des 17. Jahrhunderts]

17th century soldiers riding over drawbridge of castle into forest. Title from: Carl Friedrich Lessing, 1808-1880 : Handzeichnungen aus dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio/USA : Ausstellung, 6. September, 2. Novemb... more

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seat...

In passe partout mat. Label on back of frame: "Portraits au daguerreotype sur papier et sur plaque de la maison eu en Clement, Rue de Rivoli 29, Pres la Place du ... au coin de la rue ... Pygmalion." Shows a po... more

Charles F. Anderson, Monday, September 30, 1850 (Extract of Appropria...

Odeum of Herodes Atticus

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 9.

The Admiralty / Aubry.

Government building with arch in center, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

[Palace in India]

High fall on the Catskills / from nature by "James Queen" draughtsman ...

Drawing shows water cascading over cliffs at the Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskill Mountains in New York. Title from item. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:... more

[Martin del Castillo y Cos, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper right. On verso: Aubert y Cia, 2? C. San Francisco, Mexico.

George Peabody / phot. by Brady ; engd. by J.C. Buttre.

Half-length portrait of the philanthropist, facing right.

Map of the Old Colony Rail Road with its branches & connecting roads, ...

Map of eastern Massachusetts covering the area from Boston to Wood's Hole and west to Providence, R.I. Shows drainage, place names and counties, and indicates mileage between stations. The Old Colony Railroad i... more

[Mrs. Stevens Everett, bust-length portrait, facing right]

Case: plain leather, push button. Label in case: Mrs. Stevens Everett (Dear). No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Henry L. Abbot family papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:044). Forms part... more

[Jose Maria Lacunza, full length portrait, standing, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, lower right. On verso: E.A. Martinez y C[superscript a]., Escalerillas, No. 14.

"Scene Between Decks"

Men, women, and children standing and seated, crowded below deck on ship. Negative includes fragments of text above the image. Illus. in: Supplement Illustrated London News, 1850 July 6, no. 135. This record co... more

Map of the mining district of California.

[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right]

Print shows General Twiggs, who became a general in the late 1840s during the Mexican-American War, commanded the Department of Texas for the U.S. Army, and accepted a commission in the Confederate Army in 1861... more

Capt. Partridge would inform the public that the fall term of the abov...

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 177, Folder 32.

[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York]

Perspective drawing showing interior of church.

[Lieutenant Colonel Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Trebra, Union officer ...

Title devised by Library staff. Sitter identified by Michael Peake. Date based on Trebra's emigration from Germany in 1854 and death in 1863. Subject is wearing a German military uniform. In: Adolph Metzner pho... more

Oregon City.

LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.) 718 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

[Two unidentified children, a boy and girl, full-length portraits, sea...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 7060. Hallmark: Rinhart 19. Accompanying note: Sewell. I find the enclosed in the writing of Ada T. Stowell. I do not feel sure this is correctly indicated. E.C. Stowe... more

[John Griffin Carlisle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Map of Liberia /

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Copy one annotated with place names in pencil. Gift; 1968; American Colonization Society; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... more

A bad egg for a southern stomach.

Hudson's Bay's country after La Veranderie, about 1740.

Relief shown pictorially. Shows lakes, rivers, fortifications, and Indian tribes in the western region of the Hudson Bay south to the northern part of Lake Superior. French. Title and accompanying text in Engl... more

Mac-arel / lith. of L. Rosenthal.

Print shows a fish on land, a mackerel, with the head of an Irishman, wearing a necktie and hat, and smoking a clay pipe. Title from item. Plate possibly from: Comic Natural History of the Human Race / Henry L.... more

The departure

Large group of people on ship.

[Full-length portrait of a man holding top hat and cane, standing besi...

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower right.

Daniel Carroll of Duddington's family on porch of house, F and 2nd Str...

Photograph shows members of the family of Daniel Carroll (1764-1849) with African American man, seated and standing on the porch of Duddington house, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Caption from another copy of ... more

[General Toboado half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner des...

Print shows title page of specimen book with decorative border. Title from item. Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & ... more

[Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale, 1788-1879, oval, half-length portrait]

Painted by W.H. Chambers and engraved expressly for Godeys Lady's book by W.G. Armstrong. Printer - H. Quig. Date based on publication date range for Godey's Lady's Book and date cited by Library Company of Phi... more

The nearest way in summer time

Print after 1854 painting by Thomas Creswick shows a horse-drawn cart carrying logs and fording a creek. Title from item. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by... more

[Juan Bautista Ceballos (Cevallos), half-length portrait, facing front...

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, upper right. On recto above item: Ex-President Gral. Ceballos.

Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzu

Japanese print shows a map of the world with sailing ships on the seas and American and Russian soldiers. Title from item. Typewritten annotation on back mount: A table of mileage from Nagasaki to various parts... more

[Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fron...

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, upper right. On recto: Gral. A. Lopez de Santanna.

Map of the Town of Attleborough, Bristol County, Massachusetts /

Shows buildings and householders' names. Also covers present Town of North Attleborough. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ima... more

[Church and its details. Design for front and side of church. Elevatio...

Illus. in: The Builder's Guide, plate LIX. Title devised by Library staff.

Ambrotype house of James & Co., No. 4. Summer Street, .... Boston. Whe...

The landing of the Pilgrim fathers on the coast of America. A. D. 1620...

Copy 2 is a negative Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio... more

Just in time

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

Map of Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road and connecting lines.

Outline map of the north-central and northeastern United States showing the rail network. Chartered in 1847. In 1865 name changed to the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad. Scale ca. 1:1,625,000. LC Railroad... more

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

[Blank check of the Manhattan company, New York. 185-?].

A fight with a grizly [i.e. grizzly] / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey,...

Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of a hunter winning a fight with a bear. Title from item. No. 18. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 76. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.05

The true friends of our Union as a nation. The origin of James Roberts...

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 200, Folder 5a.

The hurly-burly pot

The artist attacks abolitionist, Free Soil, and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union. He singles out for indictment radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Pennsylvania Free Soil ad... more

[Napoleon III, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 10, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris; Déposé.

[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Title devised by Library staff. Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

[General Tomas Mejía, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Exterior. Theatre Herodes Atticus

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 18, left side.

[Abraham de la Peña, half-length portrait, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, lower right.

Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies / Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.

Advertising card for Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies, showing seven little girls with jars of preserves and jelly on shelves.

A valuable invention for booksellers, librarians, clergymen and readin...

Judicial districts and salaries of the judges. Statement showing the c...

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 156, Folder 6.

Part of Frieze. Parthenon / D. Constantin á Athénes.

Bas-relief from Parthenon frieze. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 15.

Paulina W. Davis / photo. by Manchester Bros. ; engraved by J.C. Buttr...

Paulina W. Davis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. May Wright Sewall Collection.

Le petit distrait

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

Evangelic measures

No accession number; "1628F" and "Apr. 47" on verso. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Puck, June.

Areopagus. Mars Hill. Temple of Theseus / D. Constantin.

View toward Temple of Theseus (Hephaisteion) from the Areopagus (Mars Hill). In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p.11.

Map of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad and connecting lines, Solomo...

Outline map of the northeastern and north-central states showing major drainage, relief by hachures in Ohio, place names, canals, and the railroad network. Chartered in 1848. Consolidated to form the Pittsburgh... more

Dorfgeschichten

Illustration shows scenes from village tales.