ancient history

[Leone Battista Alberti, 1404-1472, bust portrait, facing right, witho...

Illus. in: Giorgio Vasari, Le vite de piv eccellenti pitteri..., 1568; part 2, vol. 1, p. 366. Reference copy may be in Biog File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Jonathan's Coffee House or An analysis of change alley with a group of...

"An engraving by the hand which produced "Dr. Squintum's Exaltation", No. 4005, showing the interior of "Jonathan's Coffee House", Change Alley, Cornhill, London, a place frequented by dealers in stocks, public... More

[Home of Lord Timothy Dexter, Newburyport, Massachusetts with wooden s...

(DLC/PP-1996:023.96) Philadelphia Print Shop inventory no. 682. Erroneously inscribed below image: "John Rubens Smith, pinxt" before leaving England some time before 1807.... See also: PGA - Bufford View of ...... More

A chart of the coast of America : from New York and Philadelphia to th...

Nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures in selected areas. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin of each of the original sheets: A New Edition. London, Published as the Act directs, March 1st 1837, by J.W... More

Albertus Durerus Noricus Pictor Eminentiss, engraving, Library of Cong...

Head and shoulders, left profile; circular portrait of Albrecht Dürer. Ref. copy may be in Curatorial Section. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I. (Unid.); BI... More

Illumination of Solomon and Sheba - Old Testament I

Kings, X, "Giant Bible of Mainz." Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. Illus. in: "Giant Bible of Mainz." Bible. Manuscripts. Latin. Biblia latina. April 4, 1452-July 9, 1453. N... More

Keystone marble works S.F. Jacoby & Co. Market St. betw: 20th & 21st P...

Print shows five vignettes, at top, an exterior view, from the street, of the Keystone Marble Works, S.F. Jacoby & Co., with four interior views showing the "Cutting Room", "Machine Room", "Polishing Room", and... More

Tebessa. L'Arc de Caracalla et les remparts de la citadelle Byzantine ...

Man in wagon at Roman arch at Tébessa, Algeria. No. 208.

Epicerie arabe / Zangaki. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Men standing next to shop stall open to street, Egypt(?). Photograph by Adelphi and Constantine Zangaki. No. 664.

Valencia. Puente del Cabriel - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Bridge over Cabriel River, Spain. In album: Spain, p. 58. No. 499.

Map of Roanoke Island. [February 8, 1862].

Trinity Church New York City. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscop...

Photograph shows a south side view of Trinity Church, part of cemetery and people standing outside church, Broadway, New York City, New York. Publisher attribution based on provenance. "A 11-16-45" written on ... More

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Tsitadel' kysh. Zaamin

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 44.

Débris de statues trouvées à Palmyre / Bonfils.

Remains of statues found in Palmyra, Syria. No. 1328. 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

Grand Union Hotel dining room, Saratoga, N.Y

No. 6. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Vanderbills Mansions, 5th Avenue, New York

On mount: American Series. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 1880

Photo by Detroit Publishing Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Aztec calendar stone, City of Mexico

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51150. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

George W. Butcher near Jefferson post office, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mosquée Suleymaniè. Vue générale de l'entrée / Sébah & Joaillier.

Facade and entrance of the Süleymaniye Camii (mosque). 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

[Exhibit of textiles and other objects of art at the Romanian exhibit,...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Silver mining: Virginia City, from Cedar Hill

Albertype photo-reproductions in Souvenir of the Comstock, photographed and copyrighted by Jas. H. Crockwell, Virgnia City, Nevada. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card trac... More

[San Simeone Piccolo, Venice, Italy]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Print no. "1122". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy in the Photochrom print ... More

[Drachenfels ruins, the Rhine, Germany] view, photochrome print postca...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1358". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[The Opera House, the inauguration of the opera, Paris, France]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The bicycle problem / Ehrhart. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting aspects of the cycling craze, such as "beneficial" or "injurious" to one's health, problems with trying to dress appropriately and being excluded if not, the concern tha... More

Armed monks gathering wood for the Meteora monasteries during the Turk...

40365 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women at Work for the Right to Vote: Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howa...

Clipping illustration of woman on horseback marching toward a "Franchise" sunrise with photomechanical prints of Carrie Chapman Catt and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw

Petra. Front view of Temple of el-Khazneh

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. On negative: 5579. Copy print verso: Front view of Temple of el-Khazneh, Jordan. Similar image in LOT 13847, p. 45, no. 22. (http://hd... More

Baalbek (Heliopolis), etc. Columns of Temple of Bacchus

Public domain photograph of classic architecture, sculpture, antiquity, ancient Greece, Rome, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petra. Obelisk of Zibb'Atuf / American Colony, Jerusalem.

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Sugar Loaf Rock, Mackinac Island, Michigan

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of 20th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Model of 19th Ward Bank, Seventy-second Street branch, New York, N.Y.

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043397. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sacred to the "Son of Heaven"--grand throne in the emperor's palace, F...

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Drum Tower in the center of the native city. Tientsin, China

H24373 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11. Copyright 1902 by C. H. Graves.

Liberal Arts Palace. German postcard

Postcard shows an ornate building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis. G 6755 U.S. Copyright Office. "A Glimpse of the World's Wonder #17" Copyright 1904, Lou. Pur. Exp. Co. Samuel Cupples Envel... More

Hotel Potter, Santa Barbara - A black and white photo of a large build...

H126567 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; February 11, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.

[Soldiers' and Sailors Monument, Detroit, Mich]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Artillery Hill, Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.; Commanding General, Kernan; ...

J225931 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; L. Shapiro; October 15, 1917; DLC/PP-1917:45491. No. 10006.

Treasury Dept. old pt., [Washington, D.C.]

Public domain photograph of large public building, square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prague bridge - A black and white photo of people walking across a bri...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Mr. Scull. Data: Junior Red Cross, Feb. 1922. Classification: General. Gift; Amer... More

Bird's-eye-view of Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - ... More

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). Remains of Dub-lal-Makh. Called...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. Ishta...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). The ziggurat from the S.E

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Christian Arab girls wearing head-dress symbolic of Arab nationalism

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Egypt. Cairo. Hotels. Mena House & pyramids from the gardens

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Temple area across the Tyropean

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman holding a camera, Brick wall, Frede...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Petra. The Khazne. Side view fr[om] N.E.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Entrance to mine tunnel. San Juan County, Colorado

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Church. Concho, Arizona - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Active mining town. Silver Peak, Nevada

Additional number written on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. Mo... More

San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. On the plaza in front of the church

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cairo and the pyramids. Pyramids and the Sphinx. Taken from the S.E.

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Tourist Attraction - Rural Desert, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain image of a world heritage landmark, natural or regular park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Patriotic plaque on the steps leading to the main entrance of the Iowa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Sketches. Princeton sesqvicentennial celebration

Also available in digital form. Public domain image of a banknote, paper money, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Activities in the park of Boston Common]

Stereograph showing several hitched horse and carriages and people attending activities in park. On mount: BCL.

Alongside the vast dock warehouses, native stevedore at noon lunch in ...

J191825 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 21814. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Genl. La Fayette's grand march, as performed by the Boston Band

Dimitrios and Irene; or, The conquest of Constantinople, a historical ...

Also available in digital form.

Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain portrait print

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Unauthorized reprint containing a number of additions not by Brant. Cf. Goedecke's Grundriss, 2nd ed., I, p. 385. Rosenwald 172 Goff B-1084 GW 5050 (variations) IGI 2042 Schramm, XX, p. 4 and illus. Bound with ... More

Alice's adventures in Wonderland,

Also available in digital form.

Emile Zola. The markets of Paris. Public domain book.

Vol. 3 of the author's Rougon-Macquart series. Also available in digital form.

The novels of Jane Austen

Also available in digital form.

Liber cronicarum, cum figuris et ymaginibus ab inicio mundi

Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1a]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum ... Illus. by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Rosenwald 163 Goff S-307 Hain-Copinger ... More

Majmuʻah, or, Collection - Persian manuscript

A scholar's collection of bits of text, mostly in Persian with some Arabic, accompanied by extensive comments. Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe/owner not identified. Written i... More

Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky : with a survey of the ancient...

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

Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...

Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More

Louis Haghe - Petra March 8th 1839 / David Roberts.

Eastern end of the valley. Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v.... More

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Independence National Historical Park, Walnut, Sixth, Chestnut & Secon...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Fort Jefferson was part of Fort Jefferson National Monument from 1935 to 1992. Since then it has been part of Dry Tortugas National Park. The address for the survey has been updated to reflect this change. Sign... More

La almoned del diablo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a winged devil with whip and pitchfork hovers behind a man who is auctioning skulls and animal heads to a group of townsfolk. The script concerns the play's personages pu... More

The United States Well at Pithole was struck Jan. 8th, 1865 and flowed...

Stereograph showing large storage tanks, derricks, and horse-drawn wagons at the United States Well in Pithole, Pennsylvania.

Death Valley Ranch, Wishing Well, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-161 Survey number: HABS CA-2257-N

Atlas of Athens county, Ohio, to which is added a township map of the ...

Phillips, 2355 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 677.1, 693.1, 709.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Kate Greenaway - The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge. "Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd."--P. 48. Also available in digit... More

Dr. Squintum's exaltation or the reformation, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon showing Rev. George Whitefield standing on a three-legged stool, and preaching in the open air; an imp pouring inspiration through a clyster-pipe into his ear; a grotesque Fame, being a female evil-spir... More

Bolossy Kiralfy's Siege of Troy

S20474 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted by Bolossy Kiralfy, 1887, New York." "From sketch by Matt Morgan; Art Goodman lltho. [sic]." Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Print., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrica... More

[United States Capitol ("Federal Capitol"), Washington, D.C. Cross sec...

Presentation drawing showing scheme "E" for cross section of the U.S. Capitol. Inscription on recto: E-1 A ground plan accompanied this which Doc. Thornton sent for together with the plan in pencil. Inscripti... More

Grey Towers, 450 South Easton Road, Beaver College, Glenside, Montgome...

Significance: Grey Towers is a grand American Gothic Revival castle that demonstrates the eclectic nature of architecture in the late 19th century. Its opulence, replete with the finest examples of craftsmanshi... More

Horrid massacre in Virginia - A cartoon of a massacre in virginia

Composite of scenes of Nat Turner's rebellion. Illus. in: Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County. [New York], 1831. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.

Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert Cou...

Significance: The Pearle Cotton Mill is an industrial archeological site that once served as the focus of a mill village known as Beverly, Georgia. The factory was built in 1895 by Thomas M. Swift of Elberton,... More

Algeria : a country study /. Library of Congress Federal research divi...

"Research completed December 1993". Supersedes the 1986 ed. of Algeria : a country study, edited by Harold D. Nelson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index. Also available in digital form.

The Discovery of Witchcraft - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delights for ladies - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

ESTC R226995 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2019-02-11 update (1 card)

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I. : shewing the streets as at present ...

Shows wards (numbered), building coverage, and lot lines. Hand colored to emphasize ward boundaries. Originally printed on 2 sheets (western/eastern). LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, shellacked, brittle, dar... More

An exact prospect of Charlestown, the metropolis of the province of So...

Print shows a view of the waterfront at Charleston harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, with several ships and small boats in the harbor and men, some with fishing nets, standing on a bit of land in the lower le... More

Shamokin from Mount Carmel road 1851

Drawing shows houses and other buildings at Shamokin, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community, with mountains to the right and in the background, and a heavily forested area on the left; shows many buildings on b... More

At Memnonium. Thebes - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Four headless statues standing before colonnades. No. 1863. On verso: Thebes. The Ramesseum. Similar photograph in LOT 7738.

Tlemcen. Intérieure de la Mosquée de Sidi Bou Médine / ND Phot.

Man seated in front of mihrab in the Mosque of Sidi Boumediene (Abū Madyan), Tlemcen, Algeria. No. 224.

"Lincoln Monument, Wash., D.C., designed and executed by Clark Mills"

View of tiered monument with Abraham Lincoln seated atop, and U.S. Capitol from N.E., Washington, D.C.

Greece, Athens (Ancient). Erecthion - Caryatide Porch

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

Soldiers' Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows Soldiers' Cemetery which was founded in 1862 and may have been one of the first Civil War cemeteries. No. 187. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J... More

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vid medrese s vostochnoi s...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 88.