1851

Beverly Robinson, 1722-1792, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daniel Webster / painted by Chester Harding ; engraved by J. Andrews &...

Print showing Daniel Webster, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1851 by Chester Harding in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massa... More

[Map of the upper Great Plains and Rocky Mountains region] /

Shows territories of various North American Indian tribes. Relief shown by hachures. Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and colored ink. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 709 Cohen, Paul E. Ma... More

[Portrait of Luisa Fernanda, Dutchess of Montpensier]

Possibly made by British photographer Richard Beauford at the 1851 Crystal Palace Exposition in London; newspaper pasted to the back of the frame refers to Mr. Beauford and the Crystal Palace. Daguerreotype was... More

San Francisco, upper California / Lith., Britton & Rey.

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of city and harbor. Annotation on recto: Where my office was in S. Francisco in 1851. I have seen 2 or 3 times as many ships in harbor as here shown. Baird, California pictoria... More

[Notre-Dame de Paris] / E. Baldus.

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 24. 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 o... More

The bloomer costume. As sung by Lewis Knight, at the Dramatic associat...

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 200, Folder 22.

[Max Maretzek, half-length portrait, slightly to left, head three-quar...

Scratched on face of plate: 31. Scratched on back of plate: 65; 68. Hallmark: [asterisk] Identification provided by Owen Blevins (12/2012) based on a portrait published in "Teresa Parodi and the Italian Opera" ... More

Deîr - carrefour et habitation particulière / Félix Teynard.

General view of dwelling at crossroad at Deir. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louksor - dattiers et jardin de l'expédition du Louksor / Félix Teynar...

View of date palms and the garden of the Luxor expedition, Luxor, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Gou... More

Gournah (Thèbes) - colosse de gauche - décoration de la face nord-est ...

Detail showing hieroglyphics on the northeast side of the throne of the left colossus of the Colossi of Memnon at the entrance to the palace/temple of Amenhotep III, Thebes, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : ... More

Le Kaire - mosquée du Sultan Haçan (le tombeau) / Félix Teynard.

Exterior view showing the mosque of Sultan Hasan (the tomb), in Cairo, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris ... More

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) - temple de l'ouest - face occidentale vue du po...

View of columns and capitals on the west side of the western temple on the island of Philae, as seen from "point J" (see map, pl. 85 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants p... More

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) - premier pylône - inscription Française gravée ...

View of French inscription on the eastern embrasure of the pylon on the island of Philae, as seen at "point H" (see map, pl. 85 bis). Blind stamp on mount: F Teynard. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monum... More

Paris. Palais des Thermes / E. Baldus.

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 26. No. 51.

Abou-Sembil - grand spéos - statues colossales vues de profil / FT [mo...

Profile view of colossus, the large speos, at Abū Sunbul, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et C... More

Proposed plan of a building for Custom House, Post Office and United S...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tappan & Bradford.

[Stephen Allen Benson, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to ...

Second president of Liberia. Was part of LOT 8554. Identification from engraving in the Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New-York State Colonization Society. New-York : John A. Gray's... More

La grace - Public domain American piano sheet music

Les femmes révées--ideal beauties. Au bord de la mer--the sea-shore

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

The great industrial exhibition of 1851. Plate 1. The inauguration

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

Bell 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

I have something sweet to tell you! Or, I'm talking in my sleep

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

Sweet Annie of the vale, 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

Solitude and memory, op. 6 - 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

Grand, national, temperance banner: dedicated to every son & daughter ...

Print shows a young man standing in between two young women tempting him; woman on left dressed in white holds a glass with a white beverage; woman on right dressed in blue pulls on his arm while holding a glas... More

Practical illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law / E.C. del.

A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William ... More

Each word thy rosy lip hath breath'd

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

[George Pope Morris, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to ri...

Scratched on face of plate: 142. Scratched on back of plate: 185. Identified by Owen Blevins 8/2014 based on similar photograph of Morris in the Harvard University Library (FAL286206) . Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Tra... More

Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: Vassall, Bernard B. (nephew); Corr...

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

Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: Vassall, Bernard B. (nephew); Corr...

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

El-Nâcérah - dattiers, rives du Nil et barques / Félix Teynard.

Date palms and boats along the banks of the Nile. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858], pl.... More

[Statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown]

Photographer unidentified. In passe partout frame. Inscribed on back: Daguerreotype of statue of DeWitt Clinton by Henry K. Brown, Greenwood Cemetery. Gift; Henry K. Bush-Brown; 1934; (DLC/PP-1934:075). Forms p... More

Shankland's American fashions for the fall & winter of 1851 & 2

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View of the nave of the great exhibition building, Hyde Park

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[John M. Bradhurst, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly lef...

Case: variant of Rinhart 63. Accompanying note: John M. Bradhurst, Jr. [sic], son of Samuel. Embossed on inside of case: Anson 589 Broadway N.Y. Stamped on brass mat: Anson 589 Broadway. On back of plate: Walte... More

[Emma Gillingham Bostwick, half-length portrait of a woman, three-quar...

Concert singer. Scratched on face of plate: 237; E.G. Bostwick. Scratched on back of plate: 83. Identification from lithograph in Odell's Annals of the New York stage, v. 6, pl. 78. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transf... More

[Planetary systems of Ptolemy, the Egyptians, Tycho Brahe, and Coperni...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / Johann G. Heck. New York : Published by Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, vol. 1, division 1, vol. 2, pl. 7.

[William Bradhurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right...

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

Dendérah (Tentyris) - Temple d'Athôr - vue générale / Félix Teynard.

General view of the Temple of Hathor, Dandara, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858],... More

Dandoûr / FT [monogram] Félix Teynard.

View of ruins of the Temple of Dendûr at Dandūr, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - salle hypostyle - decoration de la paroi in...

Detail showing hieroglyphics and sculpture on interior wall in the hypostyle hall in the main temple as seen from "point L" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intére... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - salle hypostyle - fenêtre et chapiteaux des...

Transverse view of central colonnade of hypostyle hall in the main temple as seen from "point K" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'ar... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - partie postérieure - fragment de colonnades...

View showing fragment of colonnade with columns topped with the closed blossoms of papyrus in the rear section of the main temple as seen from "point S" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites... More

Abou-Sembil - grand spéos - statues colossales vues de face partie inf...

Front view the lower portion of colossuses at the large speos, Abū Sunbul, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Pa... More

Béni-Haçan - architecture hypogéenne - tombeau de Névothph / Félix Tey...

View of the Tomb of Khnumhotep III showing rock-hewn columns at entrance, Beni-Hasan, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix ... More

Tâfah (Taphis) - constructions a assises courbes - figure provenante d...

View of a figure from a sculpted niche on a wall of the ruins of buildings constructed with curved courses. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'hi... More

Boûlâk - Carrefour (Mosquée, café, &c.) / Félix Teynard.

Street view showing mosque, cafe, and other buildings in the Bulak suburb of Cairo, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Te... More

Dendérah (Tentyris) - Temple d'Athôr - face postérieure / Félix Teynar...

View of the back wall of the Temple of Hathor, Dandara, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie... More

El-Kab (Élethya) - architecture hypogéenne - tombeau de Phapé - sculpt...

Detail view of painted bas-reliefs on wall of the tomb of Pahery, El Kab, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Par... More

Paris. Pavillon Denon / E. Baldus.

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 16. No. 7.

Halloo! Turks in Gotham - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: WA. Title appears as it is written on the item. Purchase (Hubbard Fund); (DLC/PP-1976:041). Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Secchū kago ni noru mitsūji - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych, Genji-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and dr... More

[Unidentified man, about 30 years of age, half-length portrait, slight...

Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Written in pencil on back of plate: 505(X). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

New-York riflemen. 12th Regt. New-York State Militia

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

The opposition of Northern abolitionists, churchmen, and political figures to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is criticized in this rare pro-Southern cartoon. In two panels artist Edward Williams ... More

Syout (Lycopolis) - statue appartenant au Docteur Cuny / Félix Teynard...

Full-length statue of Egyptian male. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858], pl. 18. Surrogat... More

[Roman scenes] / G. Heck, dirt. ; Henry Winkles, sculp.

Includes captives in the forum, gladiators fighting in theater and at a funeral, and the funeral of an emperor on a pyre. Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / Johann G. Heck. ... More

The match by the Club of All Nations at Cowes [England]. The AMERICA y...

Wood engraving by Landells. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1851 August 30, v. 19, p. 264. Reference copy may be in SSF - YACHTING. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card t... More

Esneh (Latopolis) - construction ensablée - architrave, futs et chapit...

Detail view of columns showing architrave and capitals, at Isnā, Egypt.

The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nash, J. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y.

The election game / turning the cards

Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...

Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.

The pet 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

And so you call me happy - Public domain American music sheet

Perspective panoramic view of the lakes of Killarney

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Federalist Congressman from New Hampshire, 1813-1817; Whig Congressman from Massachusetts, 1823-1827; Whig Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-1841, 1845-1850; Secretary of State, 1841-1843, 1850-1852. Alternative... More

The farmer's home song - 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

Karnak (Thèbes) - premier pylône - ruines de la porte et des colosses,...

Ruins of gate and colossuses as seen from "point E" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : G... More

Roll on silver moon, or, The silver moon, with variations, op. 201

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

Mary's little pieces for the piano forte

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

Jenny Lind's bird song - 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

The forsaken, ballad - Public domain American music sheet

The admiration of the furloughmen

Satirical drawing showing a dandy being admired by a group of cadets. Changes in composition include figures moved or crossed out. Drawn while Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Possibly from the Alexander Web... More

[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in ar...

Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England. Scratched on back of plate: 170. Identical to DAG no. 183. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library o... More

[Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in ar...

Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster, England. Scratched on back of plate: 170. Identical to DAG no. 183. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library o... More

Daniel Webster - Public domain portrait engraving

Print showing Daniel Webster, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left.

Les fleurs Amřicaines, op. 18 - Public domain American sheet music

The engagement quadrille: The meeting; The courtship; The bridal; The...

Welcome sweet May - 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

Savourneen deelish Aileen oh - 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

Bordeaux gallopade - 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

The bloomer waltz, op. 29 - 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

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face]

Roberts arrived in Liberia in 1829 from Virginia. In 1839 Roberts was appointed Vice Colonial Governor of the Commonwealth of Liberia and took over as Governor of the Commonwealth, in 1841, when Thomas Buchanan... More

O cor amoris victima! - 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

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.

Grand, national, temperance banner: dedicated to every son & daughter ...

Print shows a young man standing in between two young women tempting him; woman on left dressed in white holds a glass with a white beverage; woman on right dressed in blue pulls on his arm while holding a glas... More

The New Orleans polka - Public domain American piano sheet music

Souvenir of New York / On stone by C. Gildemeister ; drawn from nature...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gildemeister.

Friendship polka - Public domain American piano sheet music

Première cataracte - rapides et roches [sic] granitiques a fleur d'eau...

General view of the Nile at the first cataract showing rapids and granite boulders. Blind stamp on mount: F Teynard. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art e... More

Crystal Palace, London. England in 19th century.

Written on back: Crystal Palace, London $2.00. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Lib... More

Médînet-Abou (Thèbes) - constructions antérieures - vue générale / Fél...

General view showing pylons at entrance to the Palace/Temple of Ramses III at Medinet-Habu, Thebes, Egypt.

Oxygenated bitters. A sovereign remedy for fever & ague, dyspepsia, as...

Print shows a female figure sitting on a large ball with two cornucopia-like vases of flowers as part of a scroll design around the margins. Printed at bottom: Reed, Bates & Austin, Wholesale Druggists, Boston... More

[Sculpture by Antonio Canova and sculpture and bas reliefs by Bertel T...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / by J.G. Heck. New York : Published by Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, plates, vol. II, division IX, plate 9. Detailed explanation of figures is in... More

The blessings of liberty or how to "hook" a "gentleman of color"

A diverse group of abolitionists try to drag an unwilling black man toward the left with a large gaff hook. Holding the hook are (left to right) an old hag, a Quaker man, and two other homely men. The hag dec... More

[Greek and Roman sculpture, including Phidias' statue of Pallas in the...

Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / by J.G. Heck. New York : Published by Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, plates, vol. II, division IX, plate 4. Detailed explanation of figures is in... More

Environs de Fîleh - palmier doum sur la rive orientale du Nil / Félix ...

Doum palms along the eastern bank of the Nile at Philae, Egypt.

Paris. Place St. Germain l'Auxerrois / E. Baldus.

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 17. No. 80.

View of western nave - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows Crystal Palace interior. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer brothers, 1852, v. 4, frontis.