Topic: 1850

The nightingale or lines by Dr. S. Bronson, of N. Y. to Md'lle Lind, o...

On verso: 231. Depositied in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. N.Y., Dec. 16. 1850. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. P... more

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: either Rinhart 2 or Rinhart 29. Case: front, variant of Rinhart 140; back, Rinhart 120. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Advertisements for the printing establishment of A. Kollner, Philadel...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [verso of last page]

Topographical map of Seneca County, N.Y. /

[Thomas Corwin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Austellung der Leiches Raphaels / Thiel.

Raphael lying in state, with mourners gathered around his open coffin. Reproduction of painting by Thiel. Blind stamp: M. Radermacher, Maler, photograph, Desseldorf.

Odeum of Herodes Atticus

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

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

[William Y. McAllister, full-length, seated in chair with arm resting ...

[Mrs. William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated, with arm resting on ...

Written on back: Mrs. W. Y. McAllister. 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)

[Woman with unopened parasol, 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. 45, lower left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers.

[Mary H. Lee, half-length portrait, seated, holding a book]

Orandasen

Japanese print shows two views, side and front, of a Dutch ship. Title from item. Nagasaki print. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 165; 47623a (white label); LC2585. Earlier control number: 236.3-8.... more

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.

[Stephen Arnold Douglas, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left...

Democratic Congressman from Illinois, 1843-1847; Senator, 1847-1861. Produced possibly by Mathew Brady's studio in New York or Washington; or Alexander Hesler, Chicago. Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington... more

[William Wierman Wright, head-shoulders portrait facing right]

Title devised by Library staff.

The fall term of this institution will commence on the 20th of August ...

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 93, Folder 22.

Map of the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad with its connections.

The map covers parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Indicates counties and major cities. Chartered on June 9, 1832. Opened to traffic in 1854. Name changed in 1860 to Elmira and Williamsport... more

Map of Essex County, New Jersey : with the names of property holders &...

Relief shown in hachures. Inset of Newark, N.J. with index. LC Land ownership maps, 446 LC Ward maps, 165 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 3 views.

The negro woman's appeal to her white sisters ... Richard Barrett, pri...

Verse. 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 65, Folder 8.

The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...

Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Title from item. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07

Birthplace of Allan Pinkerton, Muirhead Street and Ruglen Loan, Gorbal...

[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.

The Sons of Columbia. A national song. Written for the Fourth of July ...

Music cover showing soldiers on parade, probably in Philadelphia, Pa.

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Photographer unidentified. Alternately identified as Nathaniel Green based on similarity to DAG no. 1059. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: double case, Rinhart 185. Note on inside of case behind image of man: Mrs. M... more

Tomb

Sculpture of two women. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 20, right side.

The Clay statue. A model of a man. Designed by the goddess of liberty

The artist lionizes Kentucky senator Henry Clay, author of the Compromise of 1850, and slams his political foes and critics of the compromise, particularly those in the Taylor administration. A text in the lowe... more

Le diamant de bluze est une nouvelle découverte qui vient de jeter une...

Advertisement for a Paris jewelry store depicting a man sitting in a ring tied to a balloon labeled "Palais des diamants." Title from item. Tissandier collection.

[Small girl leaning against an overturned wash tub on which two puppie...

[Felipe N. Chacón, 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. 11, upper left. On verso: Montes de Oca y Comapañia, 1? calle de Plateras... more

Map of Liberia /

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Annotated in pencil to change statement of responsibility to "by the American Colonization Society," and to add place names. Gift; 1968; American Colonizatio... more

Erectheum / D. Constantin á Athénes.

Medinet-Abou à Thèbes. Debris de l'interieur / P. Sebah, Phot.

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 24. Printed on photograph: No. 79.

[Charles M. Norton, three-quarter length portrait]

Case: Rinhart 96. Stamped on brass mat: Meade & Bro. Embossed on velvet lining inside case: Daguerreotype Galleries, Meade Bros. 233 Broadway New-York. Accompanying label: Charles M. Norton Hightstown, N.J. Acc... more

Finn & Rockwell's counting-house calendar! for time without end. Aubur...

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 121, Folder 7a.

The great explosion in New-York, February 4th, 1850. [New York, 1850].

On verso: Filed March 18, 1850, Daniel Grant Pro. 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

[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on back of plate: 215. One corner trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 2. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew... more

Map of the central portion of the United States showing the lines of t...

Strip map of the United States between 36 degrees and 47 degrees north latitude. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, place names, and some trails in the western half of the map. Indicates the ... more

Delaware Water Gap

Drawing show a sweeping bend in Delaware River with a stand of trees on an embankment on the left and the gap between the mountains visible in the middle distance. Title from item. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part... more

[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orla...

Hon. Charles Francis Adams

Portrait print showing Charles Francis Adams, head-and-shoulders, facing front. Title from item.

[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.

The Fugitive slave law. [Hartford, Ct.? : s.n., 185-?]

Text of the law.; Includes "Synopsis of the law," critical of the legislation, signed by S.M. Africanus, Hartford, Ct., and poem in three parts.; Fugitive slaves--United States.; Slavery--United States.; Afric... more

Pelham: July 2nd, 1849 trotted one mile in harness, over the Centrevil...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5139

[Print speciman of American Indian man on horseback killing bison] / A...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 7]

Entrance to Temple Medinet Habu

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 25, lower left. Frith no. 1867.

Lithographic establishment of Edward Weber & Co. Maps, title pages, pl...

Print shows advertisement for lithographer with ornamental border and scene from Hamlet.

Southern travellers. Look out for monopoly! Great reduction of fare!! ...

Transportation. 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 31, Folder 37.

"Searching for stowaways"

Men holding candles and lanterns, searching among baggage on board ship. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News?. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Juan Antonio de la Fuente, 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. 25, upper right.

[Print speciman of anatomical illustrations of human pelvis and hip bo...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 7]

[General Zires, three-quarter length portrait, seated, 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 left.

Bahia Honda Bridge spanning one of the Florida Keys -- near Key West, ...

Title devised by Library staff. On recto above item: Gral. ... Velez. On verso: P. (?) Velez. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 15, lower left.

[Carlos Peza, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. On verso: Carlos Pera, Ministro de Hacienda Epoca de Miramon. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 15, lower r... more

[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

Horse-matic readings, or the "Woolly" question settled, and intellectu...

Horse-matic readings. 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 4.

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

[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

Gojō nai tsuribashi no zu

Japanese print showing drawbridge with Japanese and foreign people in foreground. Title from item. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 180; LC2585; 47623a (white label). Earlier control number: 236.3-2... more

Jenny Lind

Print shows Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait, seated to the right, facing slightly left, wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, with flowers in her hair and with her hands on her lap. Title from item. At h... more

[Greek tablets at Qirṭāsī, Egypt]

[Manuel Doblado, 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. 23, upper right.

Combination railways

A man wearing a coronet, who resembles British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, touches the arm of a bearded man in a modest suit, carrying what may be a bag of tools. They stand before a ticket window... more

Acropolis from Stadium Bridge

View toward the Acropolis showing Temple of Jupiter and Arch of Hadrian, and Ilissus River. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 6.

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

The progress of the age! A new paper, bearing this title, edited by D....

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 22, Folder 20.

J.H. Wade / Ambrotype by Brady ; engd. by J.C. Buttre.

Jeptha Homer Wade, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Engraved for Shaffner's Telegraph Manual.

Exterior. Theatre Herodes Atticus

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

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

Houses of Parliament / Pearson sc.

Print shows Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, on the banks of the Thames River. Title from item. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; ph... more

Map of Crawford County, Ohio /

LC Land ownership maps, 612 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes views of public, residential, and commercial properties, distance table, statistical table, insets... more

Belshazzar's feast--A monarch's revel and a nation's ruin--Daniel, Cha...

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

Jenny Lind

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.

[General José Lopez Uraga, full-length portrait, standing, facing fron...

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 9, lower left.

Ezra Stiles / D.C. Hinman, sc.

Print shows Ezra Stiles, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Another version published in: The history of Connecticut ... / G.H. Hollister. New Haven : Durrie and Peck, 1855, opp. p. 234.... more

Disturnell's new map of the United States and Canada.

Showing all the canals, rail roads, telegraph lines and principal stage routes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Columns of Kiosk of the Emperor Trajan (Pharaoh's Bed), Philae, Egypt...

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 27, upper left. Frith no. 1827.

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.

To the people, who wish to do right! There are thousands of persons in...

Slavery. 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 22, Folder 23.

Esteva Mtro. de Governación de Max

Esteva, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Title written above item in album. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, lower left.

Gateway. Karnak

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 25, upper left. Probably photographed by Francis Frith.

[General Félix Charles Douay, 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. 14, upper left. Above recto of item: Gral. Douai.

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

Map of Liberia /

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Annotated in red ink to show additional place names, rivers, and boundaries. Gift; 1968; American Colonization Society; Available also through the Library of... more

L'Aiglón

Title from item. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris, Déposé. Aiglon, or e... more

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: back only, Rinhart 219. Accompanying note in case: From Wm. Shew's Miniature Case Manufactory, corner of Court and Howard Streets, Boston. Gift; Charles W.... more

[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Date and photographer information from: Picturing Frederick Douglass / John Stauffer. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015, p. 185.

[Pieta]

Drawing shows a Madonna and child. The mother wears woven cloth as a head scarf, as well as a scarf draped around her shoulders. Gift; Stockton W. Jones; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47678).

Arch of Hadrian / D. Constantin á Athénes.

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 7.

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

Scratched on back of plate: 220. Corners trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

"Have ye beheld the young god of the seas" / Ward ; Sartain.

Print shows a young boy with wings borne across the sea by three female figures. Title from item. The title is a line from John Keats' poem "Hyperion". (DLC/PP-1998:151.32) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson colle... more

[Zina Hitchcock Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandfa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Peter Cooper, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

From photograph by M.B. Brady.

[Full-length portrait of a woman, standing, turned right, facing front...

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 45, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On vers... more

The serious family 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

[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]

From Brady daguerreotype. LC-BH821-6628.

[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.

Description of the design of the Washington National Monument, to be e...

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 233, Folder 1.

L'air

Print shows balloon floating in background near a windmill, while in the foreground a man plays the piano for a woman (singer?), and children play with a kite and other toys. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical... more