1852

Details of dome, carriages "c" of stairway in drum

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of dome, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

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

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)

[Track leading into tunnel in rock, with five men]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Pillars in pillasters of drum of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Sculpture of reclining woman with a child in her arms]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of sculpture, statue, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louis Haghe - Entrée principale de la mosquée

Print shows main entrance hall of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as recently restored... More

The death cry. / S. Eastman, U.S. Army del. ; executed on stone by C. ...

Native American holding knife and scalp over body of man. Date from reference to print in Godey's magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, v. 44-45, 1852, p. 201. DCRM(G) example from GIHC no. 11

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

Give me my old seat, mother - Public domain American music sheet

Peri raikō - Public domain drawing

Polyptych matted in 5 sections: left (430a), left center (430b), center (430c), right center (430d), right (430e). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

The Sandusky polka [and] waltz - American sheet music, 1870-1885

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 great footrace for the presidential purse (100,000 and picking) ov...

Satire on the presidential election of 1852, showing Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and Franklin Pierce competing in a footrace before a crowd of onlookers for a $100,000 prize (the four-year salary for a pres... More

[G. Washington] / P.F. Rothermel pinx ; A.H. Ritchie sc.

Print showing George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, right hand on book, left hand holding sword.

The old folks are gone - 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 midnight moon - 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

Daniel Webster - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Wagstaff. Copyright Deposit, District Court of Mass.: 1852. Check 500 field.

Irene 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

Eva and Topsy / Louisa Corbaux delt. et lith.

Print show Eva and Topsy seated on floor. Caption continues: I love you because you haven't had any father, or mother, or friends because you've been a poor abused child! vide "Uncle Toms Cabin".

Iranistan, an oriental ville (near Bridgeport, Connecticut) / Lith. of...

Home of P.T. Barnum. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 148.

Iranistan, an oriental ville (near Bridgeport, Connecticut) / Lith. of...

Home of P.T. Barnum. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 148.

General Franklin Pierce / designed and engraved on steel by W.L. Ormsb...

Franklin Pierce in uniform, on horseback, in foreground; Mexican War battle scene, showing Chapultapec castle and Popocatépetl volcano, in background.

Linn Boyd to Andrew Jackson, Jr., August 28, 1852

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The seven stages of the office seeker / Clay, fecit.

A satire on patronage and corruption in New York State politics, based on the medieval theme, perpetuated in American folk art, of the "life and ages of man." Here the seven stages are illustrated as key points... More

Theodore Roosevelt, the master mason. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows Roosevelt wearing freemasonry accessories standing with gavel. J10119 U.S. Copyright Office On image: ©1912 J. L. Phelps, Spokane; on border of photograph: copyright 1931, by Paul V. Bunn, New... More

Washington, D.C. with projected improvements

Print showing bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C., with proposed Washington Monument. Exhibited: Unbuilt Washington, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2011-May 2012. Conservation control number 8.89.811.

When soft stars are peeping, 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

Sweet home - American song, public domain sheet music

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by L. Swormstedt & A. Poe, In the Cleck's office in the District Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. (Copyright) Full title of book, "Deu... More

Les Boissons - Public domain scan / engraving

People around large wine bottle, just uncorked by a demon, and people drinking. Engraving by Bertall. Illus. in: Jean Antheime Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout (Paris, 1852). Ref. copy may be in Leonard Bac... More

Discovery of the American contintent by Americus / Frank Bellews, del....

Print shows Amerigo Vespucci and others greeting natives upon landing in the Americas. Illus. in: The life and voyages of Americus Vespucius, with illustrations concerning the navigator, and the discovery of th... More

[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing the Georg...

Case: (front) Berg, no. 1-3S; (back) 1-3S variant. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

[Seven men on a bridge construction]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Design for desks for Halls of Congress

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Iron risers for steps of gallery, Senate Chamber, n.w.

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Support for coil of House of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Louis Haghe - Vue des turbé, ou tombes impériales

Print shows exterior view of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, courtyard of mausoleums in the foreground; with groups of men and women in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in:... More

Details of dome, floor plates and balustrade on top of peristyle

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Column being raised into setting during construction of U.S. Post Off...

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"I am going there, or the death of little Eve"

LOT subdivision subject: Negro History - Uncle Tom's Cabin. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Oliver Ditson; lithograph by Bufford's Lith., Boston.

Plan showing arrangement for lighting new Hall of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Key of windows on colonnade of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

A dish of "black turtle" - Political cartoon, public domain image

The cartoonist mocks the opportunism evident in Winfield Scott's endorsement of both the abolitionist cause and the Missouri Compromise. Scott, in military uniform, is seated at a table with a plate of soup be... More

Details of dome, stairway beginning at floor of peristyle

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of arcades under western porticoes

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of boiler fronts - Public domain drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Gallery fronts, Hall of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

U.S. Capitol extension, ground plan of cellar, north wing

Drawing. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the... More

Details of peristyle of dome - Public domain architectural drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Louis Haghe - Nartex, ou porche. Book illustration from Library of Con...

Print shows narthex, or porch, of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as recently restored... More

Railing on gallery, back of Speaker's chair, Hall of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Quartette from the new opera of the "Whig celebration at Lundy's Lane....

Winfield Scott's controversial performance as commander in the War of 1812 battle at Lundy's Lane turned to account by the artist in this parody of the general's candidacy in 1852. The battle of Lundy's Lane ag... More

Details of key of windows, interior of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Panorama de Constantinople, pris d'un des minarets de Ste. Sophie

Print shows a section of a panorama of Istanbul made from a minaret of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, including St. Irene Church, the treasury, the mint, and the walled gardens around Top... More

Plan and elevation of pilaster base, interior of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Title page of book showing Afro-American woman with bucket on head an...

Illus. in: Aunt Phillis's cabin; or southern life as it is, by Mrs. Mary H. Eastman. Philadelphia, 1852. Published in: The African-American mosaic, a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black hi... More

Railroad map of Indiana. - Public domain vintage map

Shows counties and county seats. A projected railroad is shown between Crawfordville and Gosport, and from Bloomington to Bedford. The "Easter Line of Coal Formation" is shown.

Annals of the United States illustrated. The pioneers, no. 4. Simon Bu...

469 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card, with subsequent revisions. Associated name on shelflist card: Goupil & Co. On print: "Composed & Drawn on stone by K. Bod... More

L'enfant polka, or, The golden pippin 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

Give me my old seat, mother - 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

Merit its own reward, or, The best man leads off the squad

Satirical drawing showing a cadet lining up three men in civilian clothes. Drawn when Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Probably from the Alexander Webb album. Signed: J.W. On front, in pencil, lower right, ... More

A bad egg. Fuss and feathers - Drawing. Public domain image.

Whig presidential candidate Winfield Scott is pictured as a fighting cock with human attributes. The cock wears fringed military epaulets, a sword, spurs, and a plumed hat. He is just emerged from an egg marked... More

Donizetti Thee alone adoring = Toi ma seule amie

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

Leaving Bogota - Print, Library of Congress collection

225 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia Oct. 19th. 1781

Print shows British officers walking next to General Lincoln between lines of American and French soldiers.

The haunted stream, ballad - 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

Do I not love thee - 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

Yankee doodle with concert variations. Maurice Strakosch

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

Kitty Neil, Irish ballad - Public domain American music sheet

A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / / Earle.

Poster shows three men and a woman holding flags while sitting in the basket of an ascending balloon labeled "Royal Hippodrom[e]" to advertise a public ascent at Batty's Grand National Hippodrome in London, Eng... 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.

Fi, I. I. 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

Gas and glory - Political cartoon, public domain image

A satire on Franklin Pierce's alleged ineptness as an officer during the Mexican War. There are two scenes. In the left frame, in "New Hampshire," Pierce trains a band of volunteer militia, exhorting them, "Fo... More

One of the people's saints for the calendar of liberty 1852

The artist registers the widespread American sympathy with certain revolutionary movements in Europe. More specifically, the print extols Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot who led an 1848 revolt against the... More

Middlesex, ss. To Horatio N. Cate, Constable of the Town of Reading. I...

Handwritten on verso: Oct 1852. 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 61, Folder 10a.

Details of stairways - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. General Post Office extension (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Map of the Philadelphia, Easton & Water Gap Rail Road.

Outline map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network. Chartered April 8, 1852. Name changed to North Pennsylvania Rail Road. See entry 496. [From published ... More

Details of architrave, full size interior order of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The champion of despotism - Political cartoon, public domain image

A satire critical of New York "Courier and Enquirer" editor, James Watson Webb for his journalistic assaults on exiled Hungarian revolutionary leader Louis Kossuth. Weitenkampf dates the cartoon 1852, but it m... More

Floor for room over coil - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Map of the town of Medfield / - Public domain old map

General map showing selected buildings and householders' names and election districts. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistical i... More

Order of exercises at the Old South Church, Wednesday, June 16,1852. a...

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 61, Folder 6.

A true history of how Winfield Scott got nominated and tried to be pre...

Verse.; Scott, Winfield. 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 6.

Capability and availability - Political cartoon, public domain image

Sharply critical of both the Democratic and Whig choice of presidential candidates in 1852, the artist laments the nomination of two soldiers, Winfield Scott (center) and Franklin Pierce (far right), in prefere... More

U.S. Post Office - Public domain historic place drawing

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Extension of U.S. Capitol, south wing

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol ... More

Map of Livingston County, New York : from actual surveys /

General-content county map showing towns (townships), rural buildings, and householders' names; the village insets (including Geneseo and Dansville) also show building coverage and occupants' names. Hand colore... More

Buckingham Hall. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Book title page and frontispiece showing large plantation house. Illus. in: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the planter's home, or a fair view of both sides of the slavery question, by Robe... More

Details of dome, supports of face plates of base of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Plan of vaults for heating apparatus

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Dome of U.S. Capitol, exception in first section of main ribs

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

' Tis pleasant to be young, 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

Colonial ancestors and descendants,

Also available in digital form.

48 preliminary exercises in singing and elementary vocalises

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

Colonial ancestors and descendants,

Also available in digital form.

Colonial ancestors and descendants,

Also available in digital form.

Dance Air line quick step - Public domain musical sheets

Farewell but when ever you welcome the hour

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

Position of a soldier: annihilation of the bowels

Satirical drawing of a cadet pointing at a man in civilian clothes who is trying to stand at attention. Drawn while Whistler was a cadet at West Point. Probably from the Alexander Webb album. Signed: J.W. On f... More

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More