1858

Musashi tamagawa, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows travelers crossing a bridge spanning the Tama River with a few people fishing and a view of Mount Fuji in the background.

John M. Allen to Ozias M. Hatch, Friday, October 29, 1858 (Senate)

The last ball of the season / A. Hoppin.

Print shows a dance in progress in a ballroom. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2, no. 60 (1858 February 20), p. 120.

Principal floor. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a floor plan for the Boston Public Library. Illus. in: Proceedings at the dedication of the building for the Public library of the city of Boston. Boston : prepared and printed by authority of the c... More

Shimōsa koganehara, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two horses grazing on open plains with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the se... More

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right]

Photo shows Abraham Lincoln in an image that was widely reproduced on presidential campaign ribbons in 1860. Lincoln reportedly liked the photograph and often signed prints for admirers. (Source: Ostendorf, p. ... More

The celebrated trotting Stallions "Ethan Allen" and "George M. Patchen...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1031.

Lying in State at the City Hall, New York [Funeral of Pres. James Monr...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 July 17), p. 457. Ref. copy in PRES FILE - Monroe, James Graves. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. (3); Cemeteries;... More

[Mental hospital, Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Distant view of building with dome and columned portico; people standing at the entrance. "Insane [...] Penn Hospital, West Phila[...]" written in pencil on slide label. "Published by Langenheim & Co., Philadel... More

Norman's chart of the lower Mississippi River,

Scale ca. 1:140,000. Alternate title: From Natchez to New Orleans. Hand colored. Cadastral map showing landowners. LC copy 2 imperfect: Pieces missing primarily along outside margin and discolored. Shows planta... More

[Jefferson Davis, three-quarter length portrait, facing right]

Gift; Miss M. Sweedale; April 23, 1921; (DLC/PP-46294) 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... More

Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

Burning of the Spanish camp at Chickasaw, Yalobusha Valley, Mississippi, by Indians.

Bartlemy's house, Esquimalt Harbor

Photograph shows an exterior view of a house with two people standing near the entrance, near the harbor, Esquimalt, British Columbia. In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861.

Abraham Lincoln to James N. Brown, Monday, October 18, 1858 (Slavery)

Map of Miami Co., Ohio. / - Public domain vintage map

"Entered accordingly to act of Coppy right secured this 17th June northern district Ohio." LC Land ownership maps, 654 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes directo... More

A print of Winan's new Iron Steamer, taken September 29th, 1858, on th...

Copyright deposit. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Case: back only - diamond motif. Barboza number: 6019.030. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Label adhered to cover glass: D5. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms ... More

The Great Eastern / photo. by Whipple & Black ; J.H. Bufford's lith., ...

Port view of the sidewheeler steamship Great Eastern. Copyright by Geo. Stimpson.

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, seated i...

Case: Rinhart 93. Hallmark: Rinhart 10. Barboza number: 6019.033. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype coll... More

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tōto ryōgokubashi kawabiraki han'ei zu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows boats crowding the river in Edo during fireworks display for the opening of the river celebration. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in ... More

Eliza 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

Sagami shichirigahama, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman and two children walking along beach at Shichirigahama, and two women watching from a pavilion or porch, with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Bound volume---3 April 1858-18 March 1859

Do you really think he did? Pleasing 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

Summernight's caress nocturne - Public domain American sheet music

For piano

New York Common Council - Public domain document scan

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

[Sagamigawa] / Hiroshige ga., Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji from the Sagami River, Province of Shoshu, with two men poling rafts and herons flying and diving. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing a young...

Case: Berg, no. 1-177. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, ... More

Daiichi no maki, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows a person, possibly Kiritsubo, holding a lantern in right hand and a blanket over left shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Attack on the Quarantine establishment [Staten Island, N.Y.] on Septem...

Mob burning Marine Quarantine Hospital, which was used for immigrants, in protest of the health hazard. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1858 Sept. 11. Reference copy may be in LOT 4383D. This record contains unveri... More

[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait, standing in front o...

Case: ornamental circle theme. Same sitter as in DAG no. 1380. Barboza number: 6019.020. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part... More

[En plein soleil] / Whistler. - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, three-quarter length portrait, holding a parasol, seated in the sun in the sand at a beach(?), facing slightly right. Title from Beall. Signed on plate upper left and lower left. American p... More

Illinois political campaign of 1858. Scrapbook assembled by Abraham Li...

[Electromagnetism described and illustrated (with horseshoe magnet, ro...

Illus. in: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the year 1857. Washington : The Institution, 1858, p. 105. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western... More

De Soto crossing the Sewassee fork / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

De Soto on horse falling from bridge, possibly in South Carolina. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, ... More

[The Acropolis, Athens] - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Title from inscription on mat. Signed in the image, lower right: "J.K." Acquisition source unknown.

Atlantic cable celebration, Walpole. N. H., August 19, 1858. Hymn, to ...

Trans-Atlantic cable.; 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 233, Folder 24.

[5 labels from soap and perfume pasted on sheet of paper with copyrigh...

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 122, Folder 29.

Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation

Negro slaves. Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. Ref. copy may be in P&P - A Pictorial History of Blackamericans - E185.H83 1973, p. 16. This record contains unverified data from caption card. C... More

[Exterior view of church, in the community around Fort Victoria on Van...

In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a ... More

[Emlen Cresson, three-quarters length portrait, facing front, with arm...

Possibly by Samuel Broadbent based on painted backdrop. Case: lilies on front and geometric design on back. Inscribed on case: Mascher's Improved Stereoscope, Philada., Patent March 8, 1853. Paper label adhered... More

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 18. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

Planta da cidade do Rio de Janeiro /

Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes indexed table: Estatistica de Cidade. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Fragile, torn vertically in 3 sect... More

[Lucy Stone with daughter Alice Stone Blackwell, half-length studio po...

Copy photo from LC-B613-02. Original photo taken by Notman Photo. Co., 480 Boylston St. and 3 Park St., Boston. Forms part of: Photographs from the Blackwell family papers.

Our exposure of the swill milk trade

2 captions: 1. Scene at the Offal Dock, foot of Forty-Fifth Street, East River, N.Y. Dissecting the cow, brought from the 16th St. swill cow stables. The picture of the cow shows the right side in a putrified s... More

Kansas sketches - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2, no. 64 (1858 March 20), p. 192.

Suruga satta no kaijō - Public domain drawing

Print shows waves crashing on rocks along the coast at Satta in the Suruga Province, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo prin... More

The Fireman. No. 1, Running to a fire. A colision [sic]

Print shows a fireman running down a street, blowing a horn; he has run into a street vendor's stand, upsetting baskets of fruit and knocking a cup and plate off a small table. 60 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscri... More

The March across the Plains in a Snow Storm [Gen. Albert Johnston's ma...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 April 24), p. 265. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sagami shichirigahama, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman and two children walking along beach at Shichirigahama, and two women watching from a pavilion or porch, with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Bound volume---3 April 1858-18 March 1859

Suruga miho no matsubara / Hiroshige-ga.

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji with a pine grove on a promontory in the Suruga Bay surrounded by sailboats. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

James Churchman to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, December 02, 1858 (Sena...

The surprise - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Louis Maurer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6367

[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.

The American fireman: facing the enemy

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

The American fireman: rushing to the conflict

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

Sarsfield's surprise and capture of Williams's siege train at Killenam...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait, standing in front o...

Case: mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Hallmark: Rinhart 30. Same sitter as in DAG no. 1384. Barboza number: 6019.024. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1... More

[En plein soleil] / Whistler. - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, three-quarter length portrait, holding a parasol, seated in the sun in the sand at a beach(?), facing slightly right. Title from Beall. Signed on plate upper left and lower left. American p... More

The last days of Webster at Marshfield / engraved by C. Mottram after ...

Library owns two impressions, one printed in black-and-white and one in color. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y. color impression (DLC/PP-46154).

[Trees near with a lake] - Engraving, Public domain image

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 58. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Battle between the Constitution and the Guerriere / painted by Alonzo ...

Print shows the Constitution and the wreckage of the HMS Guerriere, at sea in the aftermath of the battle between the two ships.

Raising and setting monolithic column, Genl. P.O. Building

Photograph showing construction of the north facade of the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 139. Notations: Gen. Meigs; north facade. Reference... More

Imperial crown brand Schiedam PMcC. [New York c. 1858].

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 122, Folder 27.

U. S. Frigate Constitution, (Old Ironsides) ready for launching after ...

Photograph shows individuals, on long gang plank, leaving the U. S. Frigate Constitution; crew standing on top deck. Photograph was probably taken by Albert Gregory of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and rephotograph... More

The telegraphic messages of Queen Victoria and Pres. Buchanan

Text of message and reply sent by trans-Atlantic telegraph cable on 16 Aug. 1858; illus. with vignette busts of the principals and scenes of the event; also inscribed are the names of 4 men who made the even po... More

The war in China - attack on the "Banterer's" boat in Sai-Lau Creek, C...

Opium War. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1858 March 6, p. 233. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; China Hist. 1858; Opium War.

Charles Marville - [Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, France] / Ch. Ma...

Photograph showing the Fontaine des Innocents as installed at the Marché des Innocents in Paris, probably in 1858, just prior to one of its several relocations and reconstructions. Inscribed in pencil: Fontain... More

Slaughtering the dogs - "Andy" in his glory

Print shows a man beating a dog to death at the dog pound, as other employees bring in more dogs. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 6, no. 141 (1858 August 14), p. 167.

Ise futamigaura, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the two large rocks just off the shore at Futamigaura, with a network of ropes, torii gate and shrine, with a view of Mount Fuji in the background.

[Edward Everett, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing sligh...

Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.). Room 88, N.W. Skylight. Pla...

In album: Engineering projects directed by Montgomery Meigs, Washington, D.C. ca. 1852-ca. 1860, p. 155, no. 269. Inscription: U.S.C. Ex. Sky light for room 88, N.W. Scaled.

Officers' quarters, N. A. B'y. Com'n. [i.e., North American Boundary C...

Photograph shows exterior view of the officers' quarters of the British North American Boundary Commission at Esquimalt on Vancouver Island. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subject... More

Map of Warren Co., New York / - Public domain old map

Cadastral map showing towns (townships), numbered township survey sections, large property tracts (with owners' names), rural buildings, and householders' names. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphas... More

[Gertrude M. Hubbard and baby daughter Mabel]

Woman holding baby girl. Photographer unidentified. Case: plain leather, push button. Accompanying note: Gertrude M. Hubbard, Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Form... More

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River t...

Scale 1:3,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis... More

Charles H. Ray to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, April 14, 1858 (Legal)

[Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, facing right]

The Library's print is a copy of a daguerreotype probably made by Charles S. German of Springfield, Illinois. Ostendorf, no. 9 Meserve, no. 9 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Os... More

The history of Minnesota; from the earliest French explorations of the...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Case: Mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.034. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype c... More

Belle Brittan on a tour at Newport, and here and there.

Also available in digital form.

Tōto meguro yuhhigaoka / Hiroshige ga. - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji from Meguro in Tokyo, with red maple trees in the foreground. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06... More

Old Boston. Beacon Hill from the present site of the reservoir between...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daiichi no maki, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows a person, possibly Kiritsubo, holding a lantern in right hand and a blanket over left shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Our daily bread for the year. The Bible in 52 divisions for weekly rea...

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 63, Folder 32.

The inaugural address of Thomas H. Hicks, governor of Maryland, delive...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site. Book found in stacks with call no., but no bib. records

Hot Sprints, [Bath Co., West Virginia]

Illus. in: Album of Virginia, 1858. Reference copy may be in LOT 4387-B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Part of the Camp at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory. [General Albert Joh...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 January 30), p. 72, bottom. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Monolith in lathe, Washington, D.C.

Photograph showing large column for the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C., in a lathe. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 71. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Dentistry and Thomsonism. Lahaska, Bucks Co,, Pa. Printedby F. P. Sell...

On verso: Gift, Sarah Mesrall, Jan. 7, 1954. 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,... More

Spaniards hunting Indians. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Soldiers under command of officers of Don Pedro de Avila chasing and killing Indians, 1519.

Columbia rules the sea - sheet music cover

An emblem of an eagle supported by two American flags, illustrates the sheet music cover for a song by Josiah D. Canning. The eagle's wings are spread and its mouth holds a streamer with the composer's sobrique... More