1850

Persia and Cabool / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown in hachures. In upper right corner: National atlas, 25. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

British Empire throughout the world exhibited in one view.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Espérons que ce ballon d'essai ne deviendra pas un ballon captif / A. ...

Cartoon shows a hot air balloon labeled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labeled "Espagne". Illus. from: Actualités, no. 248. Tissandier collection.

Planisphaerium coeleste. - Public domain vintage map

Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 76A. Includes 6 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The great conflagration in Philadelphia on Tuesday July 9th 1850

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Leefe, G.E.

Appian Way / Jno. G. Chapman, fect. Roma.

Print shows a stone house and ruins along the Appian Way. Signed in pencil. Title in Beall: Via Appia. Date based on period when Chapman lived in Italy. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog o... More

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2076

La fille du regiment - Public domain print

Portrait of Jenny Lind, in full costume, on stage. No. 22[9]. On lower right: Lith of Sarony New York. Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by William Hall & Son, in the Clerk's O... More

My childhood's happy days are past

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 son of A[...] 18 yrs -- A[...] 50 years

Print shows a father at age 50 and a son at age 18, half-length portraits. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Georgia waltz. Charles Grobe - 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

Prendi per mei sei libero, loved one I bid the pause, scena and aria f...

Jenny Lind 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 D... More

Impromptu capricieux - 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

[Children of Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, in donkey cart with dog, probabl...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: variant of Rinhart 131. Illegible inscription scratched on back of plate. Accompanying note in case: The children of Lt. M.C. Meigs, Eng. Corp U.S.A. take... More

Symphonie No. 1 in B dur, op. 38

Copyists ms., in ink, with additions and corrections in Schumann's hand. Copyist indentified as Carl Brückner of Leipzig. "Revidirt zum druck v. 26 April 1852" in Schumann's hand at end (p. 209). Note inside f... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left, seated in chair]

Case: mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Hallmark: partially cut off. Appears to be Rinhart 29. Barboza number: 6019.046. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype colle... More

[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni torai su]

Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel; map of the coast of Soshu in left panel; various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels. Diptych matted in 2 sections: 2a (rig... More

[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni torai su]

Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel; map of the coast of Soshu in left panel; various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels. Diptych matted in 2 sections: 2a (rig... More

Turner leben in Cincinnati / gez. und lith. von F. Bertsch, c.o. Turne...

Composite of 74 men identified in caption at bottom with cityscape of Cincinnati in the background.

[View from the 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Comre. John Rodgers,...

Reference copy in LOT 4386-34. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: Barton, David and Julia Porter (br...

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

[Yokohama hatoba], depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows three-masted ship in Yokohama harbor with Mount Fuji in the background. Single panel of a triptych. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 184; 47623a; LC2585. Earlier control number... More

Music fills my soul with sadness

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 children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice "Pett" Barbour]

No case, only velvet pad remains. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Lucian Barbour Papers); 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:087). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)... More

I would not die in winter - Public domain American sheet music

reply to "I would not die in spring time" 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

Solitude, or, I am all alone - 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

Redowa waltz. Charles Grobe - 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

North Star Ledger Book, 1850-1853

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

North Star Ledger Book, 1850-1853

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Republican Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1810-1811; Congressman, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 1823-1825; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-1829; Whig Senator, 1831-1842, 1849-1852; Democratic Republican candidate for ... More

Jeanette and Jeannot, or, The conscript's departure

Dance Susanna quadrilles, no. 1 - Public domain musical sheets

Springfield, 1850 / drawn on stone by D.W. Moody ; printed by Sarony &...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View of Lowell, Massachusetts], Landscape view print

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

[Group portrait of Freemasons of Anglo-Saxon Lodge, seated and standin...

Label stating "Anglo-Saxon Lodge" is damaged. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group portrait of Freemasons of Anglo-Saxon Lodge, seated and standin...

Label stating "Anglo-Saxon Lodge" is damaged.

[Man standing on a platform manipulating a set of paddle-like wings fo...

Tissandier collection.

View of Washington - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Print showing bird's-eye view of the U.S. Capitol building with the Smithsonian and the Washington Monument in the distance.

Black Hawk: Union course, L.I. Tuesday September 25th 1849 / lith & pu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0622.

[Thomas Corwin, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, stan...

Whig Congressman from Ohio, 1831-1840; Governor of Ohio, 1840-1842; Senator, 1845-1850; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1850-1853; Republican Congressman, 1858-1861. Scratched on face of plate: 100; Corwin Thos... More

Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American deser...

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

New York et Brooklyn--Vue prise au dessus de la batterie / dessiné par...

Bird's-eye view of New York and Brooklyn from the Battery. Title also in Spanish.

The wonders of a toy shop. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only; printed pages face each other. First and last leaves mounted on the inside of the paper cover. Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of cover. Also available in digit... More

The Marietta 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

[Juan Antonio de la Fuente, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 25, upper right.

[The return home] / Lalanne ; Maxime Lalanne inv. & sc.

Signed on plate. No. LC 1041. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ruins at Ephesus] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 21, bottom left.

[Temple at Qirṭāsī, Egypt] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Copy of curious love letter from a gentleman to a lady. [185-?].

Title. 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 40.

Monument to the memory of the "Herveor of Tripoli." The birth of the A...

Photograph shows the Tripoli Naval Monument on the grounds of United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Moved in 1860 to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

Capture of the ANN D. RICHARDSON slaver [flying U.S. flag] by H.M. Ste...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1850 July 6, p. 36. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422 A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Thomas Carlyle, author] - Public domain print

Japanese print shows Carlyle horrified to see his manuscript burn after his dog upsets a lamp. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 181; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 43. Earlier control number: 236.3-... More

Verona - Piazza Erbe, Italy. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

No. 239. Stamped on back: Gi[ft], Mrs. D.M. De Bard, May 18, 1953.

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

Anti-slavery meeting. Benj. S. & J. Elizabeth Jones will hold anti-sla...

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 137, Folder 4a.

[Unidentified man, possibly David Hostetter, head-and-shoulders portra...

Case: Rinhart 271. Embossed on inside of case: H.B. Swift, No. 312, Market Street. Labels on case: "33" and "64." Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.12). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection ... More

[Virginia Louisa Minor, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / p...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Syra. Cityscape photograph - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Three photographs put together to create a panoramic view of Syros Island, Greece.

[Battle scene surrounded by portraits of American presidents]

Print shows miniature portraits of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Tayl... More

[U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia]

Exterior view of the U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999 (DLC/PP-1999:126.011) Published in: Gat... More

[Greek tablets at Qirṭāsī, Egypt]

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Friendship waltz, op. 40 - Public domain American sheet music

cover page only 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: Copyri... More

Francis Frith - [Facade of Great Temple at Abū Sunbul, Egypt]

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 27, upper right. Frith no. 1794.

[Ignacio Zaragoza, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 22, upper left.

Chūgoku nenga - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a warrior or supernatural being riding on a tiger. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Forms part of: Japanese prints and draw... More

[Unidentified boy seated in chair with child standing to left, three-q...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Francis Frith - [Ramesseum], Egypt

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 25, lower right. Frith no. 1860. No. B57.

Christ Church Cambridge Massachusetts. - Public domain historic place ...

Cityscape drawing shows Christ Church in Cambridge, MA in the days when dirt roads led across the town. Gift; Ladies Mount Vernon Assoc.; 1935; (DLC/PP-1935:019).

[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.

Map of the route surveyed from the Mississippi at Lake Providence in L...

Harriet Lane Johnston, White House hostess for President Buchanan

Photograph showing Harriet Johnston, head and shoulders portrait, left profile. Photo of engraving by J.C. Buttre. From Laura C. Holloway, The Ladies of the White House, 1881, opp. p. 442.

Paris moderne. Les Tuileries, le Louvre, et la rue de Rivoli, vue pris...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. No. 5 handwritten at bottom of print Plate from Souvenirs de Paris et de ses environs. Monuments et sites les plus remarquables, dessinés d'après na... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length, seated, with arm resting on table wi...

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

Tomb - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Relief sculpture of woman. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 20, left side.

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

From photograph by M.B. Brady. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman, full-length portrait, standing, turned left]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 43, upper right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscr... More

[Thomas De Witt, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly facing front]

Scratched on back of plate: 50; 283. Corners trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 16. Identification provided by Owen Blevins (12/11/2012). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreot... More

Genl. Lopez the Cuban patriot getting his cash

A satiric portrait of Venezuelan-born general Narciso Lopez, leader of an 1850 expedition to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. Lopez's army of American volunteers captured the Cuban coastal town of Cardenas in ... More

Fire! Fire!. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Public domain scan of printed performance advertisement, dance, musical, opera, operetta, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[General Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, full-length portrait, seated, facing...

On recto: Cruces y Campa, México, 2d de S. Francisco, no. 4. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, upper right.

Francis Frith - Entrance to Temple Medinet Habu

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

[Empress Eugenia of France, three-quarter length portrait, seated, tur...

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

N. P. Willis - Print, Library of Congress collection

372 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Goupil,Vibert & Co..

[Fanny Longfellow, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated,...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: Rinhart 228. Was part of LOT 6837. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1955. Forms part of: William Gibbs McAdoo Papers, 1786-1941 (Library of Congress). Forms... More

Map of Somerset County, New Jersey /

Relief shown by hachures. Inset : Plan of Somerville. Includes names of property owners and 7 views. LC Land ownership maps, 465 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map showing the position of Chicago in connection with the North West ...

Map of the north-central United States, east of the Mississippi River, showing the railroad network. Scale ca. 1:2,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 115 Description derived from published bibliography. Inset: Illinois... More

South front of the City Hall, Washington City

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Anon. Reference copy in LOT 4386-17. Bears stamp from Map Division: Dec. 8, 1933. Pencilled on front: "185-"

United-States firemen - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

Rt. Revd. Dr. Hughes, Bishop of New York / drawn on stone by Hoffmann ...

Rev. John Hughes, half-length portrait, seated, facing right. Copyright by Nagel & Weingärtner. No. 258.

Millard Fillmore / F. D'Avignon lith. ; from Dag. by Brady.

Print shows Millard Fillmore, half-length portrait, facing left. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Fillmore, Millard Prints Bust. Illus. from: The Gallery of Illustrious Americans / edited by C.E. Lester, New York... More

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5315

Strassenbilder / bei F.G. Schulz in Stuttgart.

Print shows six scenes of people engaged in various occupations: a milk maid; a fishmonger; figurine seller; a coachman with coach; an organ grinder; and a fruit seller. Captions under the images are in English... More

Bowling Green / Lith of Chs. Magnus N.Yk.

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. mail steam ship Atlantic - Public domain image of steamship

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6831

A cheerful giver / E. Brown, Jr. lith., N.Y.

Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial r...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Pu... More

[Levi Woodbury, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing judicial r...

Governor of New Hampshire, 1823-1824; Democratic Senator, 1825-1831, 1841-1845; Secretary of the Navy, 1831-1834; Secretary of the Treasury, 1834-1841; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1845-1851. Pu... More

Burnet House ; Hôtel Burnet, Cincinnati, Ohio / A. Forbriger, Lith. ; ...

Exterior of Burnet House, Cincinnati, Ohio. Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The son of A[...] 18 yrs -- A[...] 50 years

Print shows a father at age 50 and a son at age 18, half-length portraits. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).