8,507 1850 Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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[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

Gekka momo ni tsubakura - Public domain drawing

Print shows two swallows with peach blossoms and a full moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Otanzaku-ban Nishikie. Adachi mo... More

Entrance. Painted Tomb. Beni Hassan

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 25, lower right. Probably photographed by Francis Frith.

[Pylon, Temple of Isis, Philae]

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 26, upper left. Probably photographed by Francis Frith.

The Leap for Life - Public domain book scan / engraving

Music cover showing broadside view of US Navy warship. LOT subdivision subject: Clipper Ships. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by B. Covert. Engraving by Stratton. ... More

[Millard Fillmore, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]...

Similar image in PRES FILE - Fillmore, Millard Photo Three-quarters. NOS 11/96.

Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... More

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

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[P. J. Espenscheid store, Nevada City, California]

Daguerreotype shows: P. J. Espenscheid's shoe store with an array of men in jackets with white shirts and ties, probably local merchants, standing in front of the store, a pile of litter beside the store, legib... More

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.

John Leech - [Page of five sketches]

Page of five sketches. Beginning at the upper left, a group of children are staring at a soldier standing by a gate. The second scene shows a man carrying a huge strawberry on a platter, through a door. A capi... More

Parthenon. Interior - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 15.

[Louise-Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, Princesse de France] / Luigi Rossi d...

Print showing Louise-Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, with right hand resting on a table, in front of a picture of a man with two children. Inscribed in pencil on ... More

[General Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, half-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 left.

[Three-quarter length portrait of a man, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, upper left. On verso: Cherub with elbow resting on camera on tripod with banner reading: F.A. Martin... More

[Two unidentified girls, full-length portraits, seated on chairs next ...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8775. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: variant of Rinhart 112. Accompanying note: Myron Shew, dealer in daguerreotype materials, No. 116 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Tran... More

[William E. Burton, actor and theatrical impresario, three-quarter len...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Y. McAllister with wife seated in decorative chair]

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)

[Large group of school children, with their teacher, standing in a tow...

Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:149). Forms part of: Daguerrreotype collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

[Pieta] - Public domain drawing, engraving, Library of Congress

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).

[Two women conversing, one seated on window sill stitching cloth, the ...

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

[Print speciman of botanical illustrations for Aethusa Cynapium, an he...

Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 6]

Kermesse au jardin des plantes (8 septembre) / A. J. Lallemand, sculpt...

Print shows a woman in the basket of an inflated balloon on the ground at right ready for ascent and a crowd in the foreground gathered to celebrate a September fair in the Royal Gardens, Paris, France. Tissan... More

[Two Japanese men and one foreigner riding on a horse while a Japanese...

Annotions, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 185; 47623a (white label). Also untranslated text. Earlier control number: 236.3-33. Gift; Mrs. E. Crane Chadbourne; 1930; (DLC/PP-1930:47623a). Forms part of: Chadbo... More

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

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

Gibraltar: La ville et le rocher, vus de crètes

L'Espagne à vol d'oiseau. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the great fire at Oswego, on the morning of July 30. 1850

19 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott & Company

Mrs. Rachel Jackson, late consort to Andrew Jackson, President of the ...

Print shows Mrs. Rachel Jackson, full-length portrait, seated, facing left, holding book with her right hand. Mounted with print: Mrs. Rachel Jackson, late consort to Andrew Jackson, President of the U. States... More

Death of Genl. Z. Taylor / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Taylor on his death bed, in the White House, July, 1850. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1615.

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

I would I were a favorite flower

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 woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to l...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: double case, Rinhart 185. Note on inside of case behind image of man: Mrs. M.M. Bradford, 79 Center St., Rutland, Vermont. Source unknown. Forms part of: D... More

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly to l...

Laurel polka - Public domain American sheet music

Sacramento city, Ca. from the foot of J. Street, showing I., J., & K. ...

Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Tsukiji hotel] - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese diptych (or possibly incomplete triptych) print showing large hotel building with Japanese and foreign people in the foreground. Signature: Kunishige ga. "Katada Hori Chō." Seal date is illegible. Dip... More

Die Helden der Revolution / gest. von F. Girsch, N.Y.

General Washington standing with Johann De Kalb, Baron von Steuben, Kazimierz Pułaski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Lafayette, John Muhlenberg, and other officers during the Revolutionary War.

Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law

An impassioned condemnation of the Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in September 1850, which increased federal and free-state responsibility for the recovery of fugitive slaves. The law provided for the ap... More

The belle of Apalachee, plaintive negro ballad

Whisper one gentle word, ballad - American sheet music, 1870-1885

Retour de Christophe Colomb / lith. de Turgis.

Christopher Columbus being greeted by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on his return to Spain. Title also in Spanish.

[John McLean, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, wea...

Democratic congressman from Ohio, 1813-1816; U.S. Postmaster General, 1823-1829; Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1829-1861. Purchase; Wm. Hallam Webber; 1996. (DLC/PP-1996:033). Forms part of: Dagu... 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

Oshkosh, Wis. From H.L. Cottrill's Block / / lith. & published by Kurz...

Bird's-eye view of Oshkosh, Wisconsin showing streets with horse-drawn carriages and pedestrian traffic.

Music fills my soul with sadness

Congressional scales. A true balance, Political Cartoon

A satire on President Zachary Taylor's attempts to balance Southern and Northern interests on the question of slavery in 1850. Taylor stands atop a pair of scales, with a weight in each hand; the weight on the ... 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

Emblematic chart and Masonic history of F[ree] and A[ccepted] M[asons]...

Depicts numerous emblems of masonry including all seeing eye, ark, beehive, lamb, globes on top of columns, square and compass, trowel, and anchor. 5697U(?) U.S. Copyright Office.

[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Schoff...

Based on the unfinished Gilbert Stuart portrait. Public domain scan - bust portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James K. Polk, Union Course, L.I., Friday, Oct. 15, 1847 / lith and pu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3418

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

Case: Rinhart 131 variant. Hallmark: partially cut off. Appears to be Rinhart 29. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.051. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Dag... More

Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving ...

J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Similar to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 11, street sign in foreground has been eliminated from negative.

Toso o nomu kanjo - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Chuban Nishikie Surimono. Shunkyo Haikai Surimono. Calendar Print: Year of the Dog.... More

[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to ri...

Scholar; Whig Congressman from Vermont, 1843-1849; U.S. Minister to Turkey and Italy. Identification from painting by George P.A. Healy in possession of Dartmouth College. Scratched on back of plate: 101. Hallm... More

[Jenny Lind, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, three-quarters ...

Identification based on a lithograph of Lind copyrighted in 1850 by D'avignon from a Brady daguerreotype." Date provided by researcher George Jones, 2007. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. This daguerreotype h... More

Bird's eye view of Boston / drawn from nature and on stone by J. Bachm...

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

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Transfer; Manuscript Division. The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. Forms part of... More

[Freemasons membership certificate] - Print, Library of Congress colle...

75 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Menzel (G.A.) & Co.

[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

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

Le ballon de Mr. Godard! - Public domain scenic drawing

Humorous drawing shows a woman pointing up in surprise at a cow and person apparently falling from a balloon associated with Godard's experiments with lighter-than-air flight. Another cow stands nearby. "Dièu d... More

[G.W. Armstead, head-and shoulders portrait, facing front]

Photographer. Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 6271. Accompanying note: G. W. Armstead. Gift; W.C. Armstead; 1953. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[De la Garza, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 17, upper right. On recto: Cruces y Campa, México, 2[superscript a] de S. Francisco, no. 4.

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

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

Tomb - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

John C. Calhoun, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Athens. Cityscape photograph - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Panoramic view of Athens, Greece. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 2.

Tomb - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Relief sculpture of two women and a child. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 21, right side.

Alexandre Farnese III duc de Parme--Gouverneur des Pays Bas + 1592

Alexandro Farnese, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Ross, full length portrait, facing front standing next to a smal...

Photograph shows portrait of John Ross, also known as Guwisguwi, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828-1866 and founder of Ross's Landing in 1816, site of the original settlement of Chattanooga, Tenn... More

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.

The voyage of life - youth / painted by Thomas Cole ; engraved by Jame...

Print showing a young man in a boat floating on a river toward a celestial kingdom; an angel is standing on the shore to set him on his way through life. Caption continues: From the original painting distribut... More

[Boy wearing suit, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

[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

Portico. Denderah Egypt - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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

James Marshall, discoverer of gold, at Sutter's Mill

Photomechanical reproduction of the 1850(?) daguerreotype by R. H. Vance shows James Marshall standing in front of Sutter's sawmill, Coloma, California, where he discovered gold.

[Kiosk of the Emperor Trajan (Pharaoh's Bed)]

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 26, upper right. Probably photographed by Francis Frith.

Auburn College, Ala. / T.B., Landscape view print

Print shows a front view of the main building; includes list of members of the "Executive Committee", "Agents", and "Building Committee", with "Revd. A. A. Lipscomb D.D. Chairman, Montgomery, Ala." as chairman ... More

Lady Suffolk and Lady Moscow: hunting park course, Philadelphia. June ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3659

[Interior of Temple of Medinet Habu, Thebes

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

Temple of the Winds - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 3. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with ... More

City of New-York, Brooklyn, Jersey City & Quarantine Station on Staten...

Small panoramic print shows the waterfront of New York City and New Jersey ca. 1850. Places identified include: Jersey City; Hoboken; Bedlow's Island; Ellis Island; Hudson River; Robbins Reef Light House; New-Y... More

[General Élie Frédéric Forey, commander-in-chief of French troops in M...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, upper right. On recto: Disdéri Phot., Déposé. On verso: Disdéri Photographie de S.M. L'Empereur, 8 Bo... More

Kōmōjin no zu: Kurobō - Public domain dedication image

Japanese print shows red-haired man in uniform standing holding a pipe looking down at dark-skinned attendant carrying a tray. Annotation in pencil on back mount: Nagasaki print. Annotations, stamps, etc. on v... More

[Leandro Valle, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, lower right.

Temple of the Mysteries, Eleusis / D. Constantin á Athénes.

Men standing among ruins, Temple of the Mysteries. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 16.

Lafayette / dessine par Aug. Sando[?] ; gravé par Budzilowicz.

Print shows a presentation cover sheet for a portrait of Lafayette, "Général en chef des gardes nationales de France. Né en 1757 à Chavagnac (Auvergne): - mort à Paris le 20 mai 1834. Peint par Henri Scheffer, ... More

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

Music cover showing soldiers on parade, probably in Philadelphia, Pa. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John McAllister, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

Printed on back: Stereoscopes. Written on label on back: J. McAllister, Jr. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Mar... More

Francis Frith - Sculptures. Denderah

Sculpture and hieroglyphics from Temple of Hathor, Dandarah. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 25, upper right. Frith no. 1903.

[Man lecturing native people under a tree]

Drawing shows a man wearing a hat and jacket standing under a large tree while indigenous people sit in a circle around him as well as other men dressed in uniform. The inclusion of palm trees indicates that th... More

Arch of Hadrian / D. Constantin á Athénes.

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 7. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with ... More

Front of unfinished church in Chihuahua

On verso: Built 150 years ago; used in time of Mexican War by U.S. troops as hospital. No. 43298.

[Woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 43, lower left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. Handwritten on verso: Srita Vallejo.

[Print speciman of vignettes of Wincohocking Mills, Philadelphiadelphi...

Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 4]