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PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TODAY PRESENTED A GOLD MEDAL TO GEORGE M. COHAN IN BELATED RECOGNITION OF COHAN'S SERVICES AS COMPOSER OF TWO PATRIOTIC SONGS DURING THE WORLD WAR, 'OVER THERE' AND 'THE GRAND OLD FLAG.' COHAN WROTE THE SONG, AND MONEY FROM SALES WERE GIVEN TO CHARITY. THE MEDAL WAS AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS IN 1936. IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS SOME RESEMBLANCE IN COHAN TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WHOM HE CHARACTERIZED IN A RECENT PLAY

PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT...

A man in a suit is holding a medal. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Frank Sinatra and Axel Stordahl, Liederkrantz Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. 1947]

[Portrait of Frank Sinatra and Axel Stordahl, Liederkrantz Hall, New Y...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Faithfully reproduced kitchen set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I Love Lucy" television comedy show at the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, part of the Comedy Center complex in Jamestown, New York, Ms. Ball's hometown

Faithfully reproduced kitchen set from at the 1950s smash-hit "I Love ...

The show followed the madcap adventures, many improbable but all hilarious, of New York apartment-dwelling Ball and Arnaz, as "Lucy and Ricky Ricardo," and their best-friend neighbors, "Fred and Ethel Mertz." T... More

[ Danny Kaye plays cards with company actors onstage in 'Let's Face It']

[ Danny Kaye plays cards with company actors onstage in 'Let's Face It...

Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes ... More

[Charlton Heston and Harry Belafonte walking past marshals at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington,1963]

[Charlton Heston and Harry Belafonte walking past marshals at the Linc...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10361, frame 27.

[Actor in the role of a grandmother in the Peking Opera]

[Actor in the role of a grandmother in the Peking Opera]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Actor dressed up as one of the Union Station statues poses in Union Station on the day before it opened to the public in 1988. Washington, D.C.

Actor dressed up as one of the Union Station statues poses in Union St...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

A water feature at the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Country Club, a favorite haunt of local wintertime residents Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Jackie Gleason in Palm Springs, California

A water feature at the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Cou...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The resort is now owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. H... More

Bob Hope attends the ceremony to name the USO Headquarters the Bob Hope USO Building, Washington, D.C.

Bob Hope attends the ceremony to name the USO Headquarters the Bob Hop...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Bob Hope at the opening of the Bob Hope USO Building in Washington, D.C.

Bob Hope at the opening of the Bob Hope USO Building in Washington, D....

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Lithuanian Americans. Paulina Barauskas, actress, Chicago, Illinois.

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-13, Mrs. Paulina Barauskas, actress, in living room, 732 W. 19th St... More

Charlie Chaplin in the vagabond / Greenwich Litho. Co. N.Y.

Charlie Chaplin in the vagabond / Greenwich Litho. Co. N.Y.

Motion picture poster for "The Vagabond" starring Charlie Chaplin, showing him playing a fiddle for a woman washing clothes in a washtub. "Mutual Chaplin Specials." Copyright 1916 by Lone Star Corporation. Pur... More

Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain scan / drawing

Iga goe norikake kappa - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows several actors in a battle scene with one warrior defending himself against several attackers during an assault on a fortress, with bridge in the background. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Segawa kikunojō no nuregami no chōgorō to nakamura shikan no hanaregoma no chōkichi

Segawa kikunojō no nuregami no chōgorō to nakamura shikan no hanaregom...

Print shows two actors in the role of warriors during a sword fight. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie ... More

Arashirikan no mashiba hisatugu; nakamura utaemon; ichikawa hakuen

Arashirikan no mashiba hisatugu; nakamura utaemon; ichikawa hakuen

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (1930a), center (1930b), right (1930c). Format: vertical Oban Nish... More

Hamlet--"To be or not to be, that is the question"

Hamlet--"To be or not to be, that is the question"

Photograph shows Edwin Booth, full-length portrait, seated, in costume as Hamlet. Copyright by J. Gurney & Son, N.Y.

John McCullough as Othello - Public domain portrait print

John McCullough as Othello - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I V 12. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Sanogawa ichimatsu to segawa kikunojō no aiaigasa

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Sanogawa ichimatsu to segawa kikunojō no aiaigasa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ishikawa goemon ichidai banashi sawamura gennosuke ichikawa danjūrō

Ishikawa goemon ichidai banashi sawamura gennosuke ichikawa danjūrō

Print shows two actors in the role of Ishikawa Goemon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Dipty... More

Hikyoku no biwa no hana matsunami kengyō jitsuwa akushichibyōe

Hikyoku no biwa no hana matsunami kengyō jitsuwa akushichibyōe

Head-and-shoulders portrait of the actor Aku Hichibei. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie (Chirimen-e). Fr... More

Kinokuniya, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Kinokuniya, portrait - Public domain portrait print

A full-length portrait of the actor Sawamura Sanj-ro III, facing left, holding a fan, in the role of Oboshi Yuranosuke.

Iwai kumesaburō ichikawa danjūrō iwai shijyaku

Iwai kumesaburō ichikawa danjūrō iwai shijyaku

Print shows actors in a fight scene. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (1499a), center (1499b), righ... More

German dialect comedians - Drawing. Public domain image.

German dialect comedians - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0030). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Vaudeville Theatre" by Edwin Milton Loyle, Scribner's magazine, 26:494 (Oct. 1899).

The new 8 bells the famous Brothers Byrne in the everlasting success : the world's greatest acrobatic actors.

The new 8 bells the famous Brothers Byrne in the everlasting success :...

50793 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: John F., James, Andrew, Matthew. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin. & N.Y." No. 3871. Forms part of: Theatrical poster coll... More

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 35. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

[Portraits of actors, often playing roles]

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Fritz Emmet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

N8858 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 112 Fourth Ave., N.Y.; copyright 1882 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune.

Kurando Yukinaga Saitō go Kunitake onnagyōja : Osada no tarō Nagamune.

Four actors (right to left): Kurḡoda Ukinaga, Saitogo Kunitake and Onna Gyōja, and Nagata no Tarō Nagamune. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Saitōgo kunitake; kurando yukinaga; osada no tarō nagamune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (2122a), center (2122b), right (2122c). Format: vertical Oban Nish... More

Kō no moronao [to] kaoyo - Public domain  drawing

Kō no moronao [to] kaoyo - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tyuushingura meimeiden : Various biographies of the major characters from Chushingura... More

Seki sanjūrō sakata hangorō - Public domain  drawing

Seki sanjūrō sakata hangorō - Public domain drawing

Print shows two actors, Seki Sanjūrō and Sakata Hangurō, one with a large sword and the other carrying a large anchor over his shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored... More

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Tamashima ittō tenjiku tokubei tsukimoto inabanosuke, Kuniyoshi Utagaw...

Print shows three actors portraying the roles of Tamashima Itto, possibly from the popular play known as Benten Kozō, Tenjuku Tokubei, perhaps the adventurer/magician, and Tsukimoto Inabanosuke. Title and other... More

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Print shows three actors in a line, the one in the middle is wearing oversized garments, which are being pulled to the right and left by the other two actors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Taira no munemori mikazuki osen ebizako no jū

Print shows three actors in a line, the one in the middle is wearing oversized garments, which are being pulled to the right and left by the other two actors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijūrō, full-length portrait, holding a bonsai on a tray, in the female role of Ōiso no Tora.

John T. Raymond as the insurance agent in Bartley Campbell's comedy, Risks

John T. Raymond as the insurance agent in Bartley Campbell's comedy, R...

At head of title: Grand Opera House, one night only, Friday, Jan. 3. Created by "Ledger Job Print., Phila." Signed: Matt Morgan. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Mimasu tokujirō no san - Public domain  drawing

Mimasu tokujirō no san - Public domain drawing

Ukiyo-e actor print, full-length portrait showing the actor Mimasu Tokujirō in an onnagata role as San fixing her hair and holding large wooden container in left hand. Title and other descriptive information co... More

Rokudaime iwai hanshirō shichikaiki tsuizen (shigenoi ko wakare)

Rokudaime iwai hanshirō shichikaiki tsuizen (shigenoi ko wakare)

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshiro VI, full-length, standing, facing slightly left, holding dish of rice cakes as a memorial offering, with a child at his feet holding a broadside or paper gameboard. Title and... More

[Kabuki scene of early photography] / Yoshiiku.

[Kabuki scene of early photography] / Yoshiiku.

Triptych shows four actors: two men on the left, a man in the center holding a book and some prints or photographs, and a woman on the right standing with a large camera behind her. Triptych matted in 3 sectio... More

Sogano jūrō sukenari soga no gorō tokimune tegoshi no sukuna

Sogano jūrō sukenari soga no gorō tokimune tegoshi no sukuna

Print shows a scene from a Soga play, with the Soga brothers and a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 section... More

Cohan & Harris present Thomas E. Shea in standard plays

Cohan & Harris present Thomas E. Shea in standard plays

Caption: Othello, Mathias, Napoleon, Shea, Ajax, Mr. Hyde, Richelieu. Created and "copyright 1907 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

Nidaime bandō mitsugorō no asahina, Shunk Katsukawa

Nidaime bandō mitsugorō no asahina, Shunk Katsukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a set of Hosoban Nishikie. Set includes 2234. Forms part of: Japanese prints and ... More

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 39. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Begged me "to soften asperities"

Begged me "to soften asperities"

Title on verso. Drawing probably traced from recto to verso. Drawing signed on recto. Either recto or verso published in "The Vaudeville Theatre" by Edwin Milton Loyle, Scribner's magazine, 26:486 (Oct. 1899). ... More

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXV T 8. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXV T 8. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Mukashigatari kuwana matsuri no furugoto - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men, probably actors, and a woman with a shoulder pole carrying two buckets.

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original address of 531 Farmington Avenue), Hartford, Hartford County, CT

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Attributed to: Enryosai Shigemitsu. Triptych matted in 3 sect... More

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Attributed to: Enryosai Shigemitsu. Triptych matted in 3 sect... More

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Chotto hitokuchi hauta no ateburi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several actors in various costume, posture, and roles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych matted in 3 sections: left... More

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Memphis, Tennessee, 2013-08-13.

D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...

D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More

Takenuki gorō, Kiyomasu Torii - Public domain  drawing

Takenuki gorō, Kiyomasu Torii - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man, possibly Tokimune Soga (Gorō), uprooting bamboo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Pur... More

Ichikawa danjūrō [to] ichikawa monnosuke - Ukiyo e print

Ichikawa danjūrō [to] ichikawa monnosuke - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke as a courtesan and Ichikawa Danjūrō as a merchant.

Sawamura sōjūrō no kudō suketsune [to] ichikawa danzō no soga no gorō

Sawamura sōjūrō no kudō suketsune [to] ichikawa danzō no soga no gorō

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Onoe matsusuke, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Onoe matsusuke, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Yodaime matsumoto kōshirō [no yamato no yabodaijin to] shodai nakayama tomisaburō [no shinmachi no keisei umegawa]

Yodaime matsumoto kōshirō [no yamato no yabodaijin to] shodai nakayama...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms p... More

Shinozuka uraemon no (miyako za) kōjō zu

Shinozuka uraemon no (miyako za) kōjō zu

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms p... More

[French actor, full-length portrait, facing slightly right, right hand raised, skipping or dancing, wearing a plumed turban-like headdress]

[French actor, full-length portrait, facing slightly right, right hand...

Inscribed in ink on lower right: Louis[?] Opera 1770. Paper has a portion of a watermark on the right side. No. 44044 2.

Bijin to otafuku, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Bijin to otafuku, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows two actors, one wearing an otafuku mask and drinking from a cup, head-and-shoulders portrait. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

Hachidanme, depicting Mount Fuji, Forty Seven Rōnin

Hachidanme, depicting Mount Fuji, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows Tonase, Honzō's wife, and her stepdaughter Konami passing Mount Fuji on Konami's bridal journey to find Rikiya; many pilgrims are visible behind them traveling on the Tōkaidō Road. Scene from act ei... More

Segawa Kikunojō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Segawa Kikunojō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print showing the actor Segawa Kikunojō, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, on a low pier with flowers growing around it. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo ... More

Kataoka nizaemon no sasaki ganryū, Hokushū Shunkōsai

Kataoka nizaemon no sasaki ganryū, Hokushū Shunkōsai

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie, Osaka-e print. Formerly attributed to: Katsukawa, Shunsen, 1762-ca. 18... More

Rokudanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Rokudanme, Utagawa Kuniyasu, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows a woman, Osai, owner of a brothel, in a palanquin with porters at the front and back. She has come to Yoichibei's cottage to make the final payment for Okaru, Yoichibei's daughter. She is confronted... More

Shinshō, Shunkōsai Hokushū - Public domain  drawing

Shinshō, Shunkōsai Hokushū - Public domain drawing

Print shows a warrior climbing through a hole busted through a wall; above is a poem by Shunkosai, Hokushū. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Onoe kikugorō no hayano kanpei, Forty Seven Rōnin

Onoe kikugorō no hayano kanpei, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows the actor Onoe Kikugorō, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in the role of Hayano Kampei (Kayano Sanpei), a retainer of Enya Hangan from the Chūshingura. Title and other descripti... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川 春扇) - Nakamura utaemon no katō masakiyo [kiyomasa], Hokushū Shunkōsai

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川 春扇) - Nakamura utaemon no katō masakiyo [kiyomas...

Print shows the actor Nakamura Utaemon, head-and-shoulders portrait, as a warrior in the role of Katō Kiyomasa (Masakiyo). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Wolves triumphant or A fig for public opinion / R C [Cruikshank]., British Cartoon Print

Wolves triumphant or A fig for public opinion / R C [Cruikshank]., Bri...

"A corner of the stage (right) at Drury Lane, with a section of the pit in the foreground (left). Kean, as Richard III, postures before his tent, frantically flourishing his sword, and exclaiming Richard is not... More

Issei ichidai nakamura utaemon no shunkan

Issei ichidai nakamura utaemon no shunkan

Print shows the actor Nakamura Utaemon as a priest holding a mirror in a snowy landscape. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vert... More

Nakamura utaemon no denkaibō - Public domain portrait drawing

Nakamura utaemon no denkaibō - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows the actor Nakamura Utaemon portraying Den Kaibō dancing with a fan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban ... More

Tamaya yoji, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Public domain image related to music prformance, drawing

Tamaya yoji, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Public domain image related to music ...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a set of vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Lib... More

[Charlotte Cushman, half-length vignetted portrait, facing right]

[Charlotte Cushman, half-length vignetted portrait, facing right]

Photograph shows the American stage actor Charlotte Saunders Cushman, who was known as one of the greatest actresses of her day. Case: plain leather case with push button and dark red velvet pad with an urn emb... More

T.H. Glenney. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

T.H. Glenney. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actor. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 195... More

Ushiwaka denji shinzo shiratama - Ukiyo e print

Ushiwaka denji shinzo shiratama - Ukiyo e print

Print shows actors portraying the roles of a man and a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms pa... More

Edwin Rostell as Richelieu - Public domain portrait print

Edwin Rostell as Richelieu - Public domain portrait print

Z62748 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 862. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Otis Skinner, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Otis Skinner, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." Joseph Buckley, manager. No. 2816. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

J.K. Hackett & Charlotte Walker, "The Crisis"

J.K. Hackett & Charlotte Walker, "The Crisis"

Photograph shows actor James Keteltas Hackett (1869-1926). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Rob't B. Mantell assisted by Miss Marie Booth Russell and a company of players in classic and romantic productions

Rob't B. Mantell assisted by Miss Marie Booth Russell and a company of...

G xxc 8587 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1904 by The J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y." No. 4569. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Actors Benefit for Crippled Children [group seated on ground]

Actors Benefit for Crippled Children [group seated on ground]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Muratore & Cavalieri, George Grantham Bain Collection

Muratore & Cavalieri, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows French actor and opera singer Lucien Muratore (1876-1954) and his wife Italian opera singer Lina Cavalieri (1874-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the B... More

[John P. Sousa, Charlie Chaplin, and Clifford Harmon, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

[John P. Sousa, Charlie Chaplin, and Clifford Harmon, full-length port...

Photo shows group probably gathered for the concert where Chaplin conducted the Sousa band at the Hippodrome, New York City, Feb. 20, 1916. J211576 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by White(?), N.Y.

Lou - Tellegen & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Lou - Tellegen & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows silent film actor Lou Tellegen and his wife, opera singer Geraldine Farrar on their wedding day, February 8, 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano ... More

Irish Demonstration, 4120 - A group of women standing next to each other

Irish Demonstration, 4120 - A group of women standing next to each oth...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: WOMEN MARCH FOR FREE ERIN. Carrying banners urging the ... More

Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford

Doug. Fairbanks & Mary Pickford

Public domain photograph of actress, group of people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Folger Library copy work. Gravure of Henry Irving as Hamlet

Folger Library copy work. Gravure of Henry Irving as Hamlet

Titles devised. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actor Arthur Byron (1872-1943) fishing off a boat. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain ... More

[Actors and motion picture camera]

[Actors and motion picture camera]

Public domain photograph of an actor, movie film scene, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photographic Negative from production of Power (Cast Portraits --Steiner # 12). Finding Aid Box 1228

Photographic Negative from production of Power (Cast Portraits --Stein...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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