1858

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

Construction equipment and workers at the Treasury Building construction site; in background are residential dwellings. Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 16. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

Crossing on an Indian bridge / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

Hernando de Soto and his soldiers crossing a river on an Indian bridge. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer, Philadelphia : J.T. L... More

Portrait photo of Officers - Oregon Boundary Commission

Photograph shows group portrait of the officers of the Oregon Boundary Commission survey crew: Dr. Hilary Bauerman, geologist, Capt. Robert Wolseley Haig, R.A., Lt. Samuel Anderson, R.E, Capt. Charles John Darr... More

East portico - looking south. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Photograph shows east front of the U.S. Capitol including Horatio Greenough's sculpture "The Rescue" and Luigi Persico's sculptures "Discovery of America" and "War." In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs... More

The Fireman. No. 2, Near a fire. An unknown attachment

Print shows a fireman running down a street, carrying a ladder over his shoulder; the hooks at the top of the ladder have accidently snagged the coat of a pedestrian and he is on the verge of falling. A leaky w... More

Consistent democracy. The elective franchise for women. Twenty-five te...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 63, Folder ... More

Winnie bell - Public domain music sheet scan

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

Fra Diavolo - Public domain American sheet music

For guitar

Kai outsuki no hara - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows wild flowers and a small brook in a field, with mountains and a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More

Summer resort. Allegheny Mountain health institute. The hotels of this...

Page Order: Leaflet 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, Folder 35.

Soga no adauchi - Public domain city architecture drawing

Print shows actors portraying the two Soga brothers and other warriors in a Soga kabuki play. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych ... More

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

State of Maine. By the Governor. A proclamation for a day of public th...

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 27, Folder 14.

[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

Jonathan K. Cooper to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, May 07, 1858 (Recommen...

The American fireman: facing the enemy

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

[Alschuler photograph of Lincoln.]

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

Tōkaidō hidarifuji, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a view of Mount Fuji to the left of the Tōkaidō Road, with travelers passing in the foreground and workers in rice paddies.

A metrical description of a fancy ball given at Washington, 9th April,...

Originally published in the Evening star, Washington, D. C., May 10, 1858. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

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

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

Ostendorf, no. 12 Meserve, no. 4 Original photograph: The original tintype is at the National Lincoln Museum (Old Ford's Theatre), according to Ostendorf. Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album /... More

Map of Franklin County, Massachusetts : based on the trigonometrical s...

Reverend W. Otterbein, engraving, Library of Congress

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

Horse-slaughter camp on the Spokane River, 8th, 9th, 10th Sept. 1858; ...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 111. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

The best likeness - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0568

Tōto tsukuda oki, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows wooden ships anchored among reeds in harbor, with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Martenet's Map of Cecil County, Maryland : from the coast, and origina...

Shows county divisions and rural householders' names. Village insets show buildings and householders' names. Insets: Cherry Hill -- Rising Sun -- Brick Meeting House -- Port Deposit -- Charlestown -- Chesapeake... More

Chart of the submarine Atlantic Telegraph /

Shows land telegraph cables in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and north Africa, submarine cables, steamship routes, and proposed lines. Relief shown by contours. Depths shown by soundings. "Engraving ... More

Pulpit Rocks, Warrior Ridge, Huntingdon Co. / Lehman ; printed in colo...

Print shows rock formations and cliffs at the Pulpit Rocks on Warrior Ridge in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Illus. from: The geology of Pennsylvania; a government survey by Henry Darwin Rogers, State geolo... More

[Four scenes of European emigrants in America] / W.J. Hennessey del.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1858 June 26, p. 405. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winfield Scott. Lieut. General, Commanding U.S. Army

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

Town & village of Ovid, Seneca Co., N.Y. /

Wall map. Includes ill. of area residences. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Mounted on cloth. Attached to wooden rods along top and bottom of sheet. LC copy imperfect:... More

Explosion of the propeller PETROL, on the North River, [opposite the f...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 November 20), p. 749. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Kai inume tōge, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows travelers on a mountain pass along a steep canyon and river, with mountains and a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo ... More

Empire State - Engraving, Public domain image

LOT subdivision subject: New York State (Seals, Symbols, etc.). Copyright by DuBois & Vandervoot. Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 448 Broadway, N.Y. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.

McFarland, Evans & Co., 105 Market Street

Portrait of George Washington. LOT subject: Textile industry & fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from item. Copyright by J. Lea.

Karnak (Thèbes) Plan des ruines principales / / dessiné par Félix Teyn...

Map showing the principle archaeological ruins and geographical features of Karnak, 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

Young navigator - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Louis Maurer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7426

Ueno yamashita, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Yamashita quarter of Ueno, with the tops of many parasols in the foreground, and travelers and shops in the commercial district. Title and other descriptive information comp... More

A new and complete rail road map of the United States compiled from re...

Map of the eastern half of the United States showing cities, state boundaries, "finished railroads," and "railroads in progress." Scale ca. 1:4,500,000. LC Railroad maps, 35 Description derived from published b... More

Gillette's map of Monroe Co., New York : from actual surveys /

County cadastral map showing towns (townships), numbered town survey divisions, irregular rural property tracts, rural buildings, and rural householders' names. The Rochester and Brockport insets show buildings... More

Map of the Fremont and Indiana Rail Road and its connections, December...

Map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing drainage, place names, state boundaries, and the completed and proposed railroad network. Chartered April 25, 1853. Opened in 1859. Scale ca. 1:2,... More

[Abraham Lincoln posed in a borrowed coat, in Urbana, Illinois]

Original photograph: an ambrotype now known through copy prints. Library copy is reversed. Ostendorf, no. 4 Meserve, no. 5 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH:... More

Gustave P. Koerner to Abraham Lincoln, Monday, September 13, 1858 (wi...

The laying of the cable---John and Jonathan joining hands / W & P.

A crude but engaging picture, celebrating the goodwill between Great Britain and the United States generated by the successful completion of the Atlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Valentia Bay (I... More

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

[Civilians entering a theater] - Public domain document scan of drawin...

Title devised. Inscribed on placard within image: Picilu[ ] / Academy / Monda[y] / Don Gio[vanni]. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Union case manufactured by Littlefield, Parsons & Co. showing eagle w...

Case: Berg, no. 1-188. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

The American fireman - always ready / Louis Maurer.

Print shows a fireman, wearing hat and coat, pulling a horse-drawn fire engine. Copyright by Currier & Ives. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c198... 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.

[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

[Kazusa Kanōzan] / Hiroshige-ga. Andō Hiroshige

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji across Yedo Bay seen from Rokusozan, Kazusa, with a rural landscape including a large evergreen tree, cherry blossoms, a torii, people, and a horse in the foreground. (... More

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3370

Mark W. Delahay to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, June 13, 1858 (Kansas pol...

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

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

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

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

Nihonbashi tōri-itchōme ryakuzu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows pedestrians on a street in the business district near the Nihonbashi. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Mei... More

Battle between the United States and the Macedonian / painted by Chapp...

Print shows the warship United States, on the right, firing at HMS Macedonian on the left. From the original picture in the possession of the Publishers.

Mayor's Tiemann's race to the voting-place as the escort of United Sta...

Mayor Tiemann and soldiers running to the polls in New York City; the "voting-place" is a tavern. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2 (1858 Nov. 13), p. 724.

De Soto preparing to cross Long Swamp / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, 1858, p. 354. Reference copy in LOT 4409-D.

Our land a national song - A black and white image of a woman holding ...

An illustrated sheet music cover for a song by George W. Babcock (Thomas Comer, composer) and dedicated to Samuel R. Spinney, Esq. The design shows Columbia or American Liberty (center) wearing a gorgon's head... More

Maj. General G.A. Custer / From photographic negative in Brady's Natio...

Photograph shows portrait of George Armstrong Custer in uniform. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: Thomas Harris, New York, New York, May 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Co... More

First story. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the first 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 ... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The unsafe tenement]

Etching by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903. Whistler's twelve etchings from nature. Kennedy, 17 (state 3 of 4). Signed on plate. Also known as the French Set. Hubbard Collection. This record contains u... More

Clinton County Illinois Republican Party, Monday, May 03, 1858 (Poste...

The Fenian's comfort smoking tobacco

LOT subdivision subject: Fenian movement. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by J. B. Philp Lith., S. Spruce Street, N.Y.

Remains of President Monroe lying in state at the City Hall on Saturda...

Remains of Monroe lying in state before reburial in Richmond. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1858 July 17, p. 103.

Charlestown Navy Yard - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Broadside view ship docked at navy yard and two images of sailboats. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below ship: Ohio Frigate. Possibly by Alfred Waud. Published in: New York Illustrated News, 30 March 1... More

Gambrinus - Print, Library of Congress collection

104 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lewis, G.W.

The Fireman. No. 4, At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in F...

Print shows a fireman standing in the street, holding a water hose, which he uses to squirt a young boy who has gotten too close to the action. 63 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed in ink on the back: No. 63. F... More

Argument of Henry Addison in behalf of the corporate authorities and a...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

Thema von Mozart, weiter bearbeitet von Simon Sechter, 9 Nov. 1858

Contains three fragmentary themes (C Minor, F Major, G Major) by Mozart, worked out by Sechter

Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Two children playing checkers or draughts] War roll of the Weccacoe F...

Drawings show (recto, 1858 or 1859) a boy and a girl sitting at a table opposite of each other playing checkers or draughts, while a younger girl stands behind the table, facing right, gesturing toward her sist... 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

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

Tōto sukiyabashi, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows travelers and porters crossing the Sukiya Bridge, the waterfront with snow covered boats and buildings, and a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled b... More

Spring Grove Cemetery - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Middleton, Strobridge & Co.

Darling little blue eye'd Nell - Public domain American sheet music

[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

Suruga Satta no kaijō / Hiroshige-ga.

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji from Satta Point in the Suruga Bay, with breaking waves in the foreground. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialis... More

The first polka - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

Tōkaidō hidarifuji, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a view of Mount Fuji to the left of the Tōkaidō Road, with travelers passing in the foreground and workers in rice paddies.

Old Boston - Beacon Hill from Mt. Vernon St. near the head of Hancock ...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Map of Champaign Co. O. / - Public domain vintage map

LC Land ownership maps, 604 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes population statistical table, business directories, insets of Middletown (Wayne Twp.), Addison (Ja... More

Profile of Olive Street between Washington Street and Rock Creek : [Ge...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Rio Colorado of the West / - Public domain old map

Relief shown by shading and hachures. Also shows routes of exploration. At head of title: Explorations and Surveys, War Department, map no. 2. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... More

Voiles mobile. Systém Ate. Lanteigne menuisier / [...] Mo[...], '58.

Design drawings for a system of airship navigation proposed by Aug. Lanteigne, utilizing a series of 16 balloons on a single keel. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, Library staff, 1981-82). Tissandier collection.

Publications of the Academy of natural sciences of Philadelphia ... [P...

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

Central academy, Corner of E. and 10th street, Washington City, D. C. ...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 203, Folder... More

Map of Sagadahoc Co., Maine : from actual surveys /

Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 274 Includes 7 local maps, insets and business directories. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Abraham Lincoln to Elihu B. Washburne, Monday, May 10, 1858 (1858 cam...

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

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 26. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

The undersigned ... will open a school for young ladies, at Nos. 159 a...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 203, Folder 22.