1850

Infantry at mess / lith. & pub. by George E. Leefe.

Young child feeding grapes to baby sitting in chair while dog watches. No. 67.

Hashiba Hisakichi, Miaso Gozen, Buchi Gujiro, Buchi Mitsuhide

Japanese triptych print shows Hashiba Hisakichi, Mistress Miaso with Buchi Jujiro, and on the right, Buchi Mitsuhide. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... More

Dutchman: Beacon course, N.J. August, 1st 1839. Match $1000 a side 3 m...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1780.

Kiss me quick! - Print, Library of Congress collection

Man embracing woman from behind, as she holds fan up to her face. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3614

[View of a horse and covered cart in front of white frame building wit...

Photographer unidentified, possibly L.J. Phillips. Phillips was active in Connecticut in the mid-1850s. His cloth sign most likely indicates that he worked as an itinerant daguerreotypist. Daguerrian researche... More

Kinsman's love - Public domain American music sheet

A brief practical treatise on the construction and management of plank...

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

Bouquet 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

[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

The devils thumb, ships boring and warping in the pack / Lithod. by Ch...

Print shows two ships, probably the Enterprise and the Investigator, ice bound in Baffin Bay off Devil's Point in the Arctic; the crews work to break up the ice and tow the ships to open water. Caption continu... More

[Occupational portrait of a salesman, three-quarter length, seated, di...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: back only, mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.16). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection... 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

The fight at Lexington, April 19, 1775, from a print of the time

Print shows Minute Men being fired upon by British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. Exhibited: "Revere's Ride and Longfellow's Legend" at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, 2004-2005.

... Clapp's telegraphic calendar. A table for instantly finding the da...

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 59, Folder 19b. Copy scanned: 1

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

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

Gasshukoku suishi teitoku kōjōgaki - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows three men, two seated and one standing, possibly Commander Anan, age 54; Perry, age 49; Captain Henry Adams, age 59. May be text of President Fillmore's letter to Emperor. Annotations, sta... More

Coblenz / Elsner; A. Carse., Landscape view print

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

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

Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

U.S.M. Steamship Atlantic, James West, Commander

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott, Wm., & Co. Copyright deposit, southern district of N.Y. Apr. 12, 1850

Norah McShane - Public domain music sheet scan

Der nördliche gestirnte Himmel / - Public domain old map

The good old plough, song of the New England farmer

[Bernard Palissy, inventor of enamelled pottery]

Japanese print shows Palissy, apparently in a frenzy, burning chairs to keep the furnace going as a woman breast feeding a baby and a boy run in fear. Annotation written in pencil on mount: Palissy, Bernard c.... More

Frankfurt A/M / Elsner ; A. Carse.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt.

Print showing view from hilltop of San Francisco, California, looking toward the bay.

San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt.

Print showing view from hilltop of San Francisco, California, looking toward the bay.

Le ballon de Mr. Godard! - Public domain 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

Truman Smith, Monday, July 08, 1850 (Printed Pamphlet on Compromise o...

Saroni's musical times, a weekly journal devoted to literature, music,...

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 134, Folder 21.

Lady Moscow - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

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

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.

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. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part ... 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

[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 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

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

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

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. Plate possibly from: Comic Natural History of the Human Race / Henry L. Stephens. Phila... 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

[Design for certificate for Massachusettsachusetts Charitable Mechanic...

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

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

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.

Ruined castle. Rhine - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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

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.

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

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

Slavery as it exists in America. Slavery as it exists in England

A challenge to the Northern abolitionist view of the institution of slavery, favorably contrasting the living conditions of American slaves (above) with the lot of the industrial poor in England (below). The fi... More

Erectheum / D. Constantin á Athénes.

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

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.

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

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

Francis Jackson, Head and Shoulders Portrait

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

Columns of Olympieum. Cityscape photograph

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

A bad egg for a southern stomach.

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

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

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

The Admiralty / Aubry., engraving, Library of Congress

Government building with arch in center, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Public domain image of 19th-century Saint Petersburg, Russia, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The hurly-burly pot - Public domain book illustration, Library of Cong...

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

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. 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

Le petit distrait - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

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

[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

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

Samuel M. Hopkins, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exterior. Theatre Herodes Atticus

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

[Ruins on ground at Ephesus] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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

Strahleck Pass. Grindelwald to Grimsell

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

Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of President John Tyler

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

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

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 photograph album ..., no. 16. Colo... More

Echo Lake: White Mountains - Engraving, Public domain image

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1803 Exchange; F.A. Conningham; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:025).

Views of New York--Exchange / drawn by C. Autenrieth ; J. Bornet.

Print show an exterior view of the Stock Exchange, New York City. 253 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by Hoff & Bloede, in the Clerks Office of the District Court o... More

Joseph N Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress from the Territory, and...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Exhibited: "Exploring the Early Americas" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009.

Panorama of Humbug. No. 1 - Public domain dedication image

The artist parodies the extravagant publicity campaign conducted by showman Phineas T. Barnum for the series of American concerts by Swedish songstress Jenny Lind, which he produced in the autumn of 1850. On a ... More

San Francisco, 1850 / P.S. Duval's Steam Lith. Press, Philada.

View of San Francisco and bay. Copyright by Theodore T. Johnson.

Wagner & McGuigan's Steam Lithographic Printing Establishment, No. 4 A...

Print shows printing plant, artists and printers at work, printing presses, and symbols of the printing trade and of the United States used to advertise the firm. The Library has two impressions, one with tint... More

The sacred heart of Jesus - Public domain portrait engraving

Jesus Christ, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding image of his heart.

The dark sett quadrilles - 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

Ah! may the red rose live alway

Lily of the valley - 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

La Sylphide, valse - Public domain American sheet music

La polka, Linda - Public domain American music sheet

A defence for fugitive slaves,

Text of acts of 1793 and 1850 (4 p.) precedes t.-p. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Dance The serious family polka - Public domain musical sheets

arranger handwritten on title pg, "Loder, Geo."; dance steps From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (addit... More

[Jefferson Davis, half-length portrait, facing right]

Tinted and hand-colored lithograph by Blelock & Co. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

[Unidentified girl and boy] - Public domain portrait print

Case: Rinhart 32. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.007. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Ripton: July 19the 1842, beat Confidence, in a match for $500 a side, ...

Horse trotting. Copyright by N. Currier. Conningham no. 4245. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983 no. 5585

Sugawara no michizane - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows Sugawara Michizane, full-length portrait, facing left; later copy of no. 17. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms pa... More

Freedom's flag - 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

[Vice-President John Adams, full-length portrait, standing next to glo...

After a painting by John Singleton Copley. Published in George Washington by Worthington Chauncey Ford. Paris : Goupil & Co., Manzi, Joyant & Co., successors, New York and New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ... More

Where's my thunder? - Political cartoon, public domain image

Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2013.

Alice 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

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

The voice of by gone days, ballad

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

Love not as a 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

[John James Audubon, bird naturalist] - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows Audubon discovering that his work was eaten by a rat.

[Manuel Lozada, half-length portrait, turned slightly right]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 10, upper right.

Young America hams and breakfast bacon, E.S. Baker, New York

Advertisement showing sailor, standing in front of an American flag, holding map of the United States; harbor and railroad in background.

[Occupational portrait of an unidentified stonecutter, three-quarter l...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: scroll design. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.7). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibit loan 4105-L.