animals

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Animals at La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More

Japanese garden at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasional...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More

Denton Offutt to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, September 07, 1859 (with...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with saber and horse]

Photograph shows horse with a McClellan saddle and roll behind the saddle labeled 4. Case: Berg, no. 3-29. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photogr... More

[Life was made for love and cheer]

Illustration depicts Green, her colleagues and housemates Jessie Willcox Smith and Violet Oakley, and other friends enjoying one another's company amid the blossoms on the grounds of the Red Rose Inn, one of th... More

Army wagon going to commissary depot, City Point, for supplies

Stereograph shows four-mule team pulling covered wagon. Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-2586A, left, and LC-B811-2586B, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives from the studio of Mathew Br... More

[John E. Cummins of the 50th, 99th, and 185th Ohio Infantry regiments ...

Photo shows identified soldier John E. Cummins, who enlisted at the age of 31 as a Lt. Colonel in the 99th Ohio Infantry. In December 1864 he was transferred to the 50th Ohio, and was then promoted to the rank ... More

Thus did the Great Squab Syndicate soar

(DLC/PP-1934:0221). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Great Squab Syndicate" by Marie Manning, Harper's magazine, 114:715 (April 1907).

Brookfield Zoo - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster showing a black leopard. Designed by Carken. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Promotional goal: U.S. K5. 1936. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: W... More

General Grant's horse "Cincinnati" - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing a man holding the reins of one of General U.S. Grant's favorite horses, "Cincinnati", at City Point, Virginia. No. 2590. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861... More

[Feeding and resting horses] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.655) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Louisiana murders - gathering the dead and wounded The disputed pr...

Top illustration shows Negroes pulling a man on a luge(?), and two men lying in field. Bottom illustration shows jackal and eagle disputing the possession of a dead antelope. 2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly... More

Old Abe, the live war eagle of Wisconsin, from the Centennial

Photograph shows eagle mascot of Co. C, 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, at the time of the U.S. Centennial.

Dom. animals / drawn by Watanabe.

Drawing shows a domestic chicken. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Drawn by Watanabe Dec. 1878. From the "Agriculture" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray... More

She applied her thin, freckled little face to the crack between the ra...

(DLC/PP-1936:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Processing Pardee's Land" by Charles Egbert Craddock, Harper's weekly, 30:798 (Dec. 11, 1886).

[Bear pit, Berne, Switzerland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6118". Forms part of: Views of Switzerland in the Photochrom print collection.

[Hampton Institute, Virginia 1899 - Classroom scenes - testintg combi...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Agricultural Science. ... More

Skins of animals killed on Show River [i.e. Snow River] on line of A.C...

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

South African zebra (Equus Burchelli) in the zoo, Lincoln Park, Chicag...

100745 U.S. Copyright Office No. 232. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co.

Australian kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), male and female, Lincoln Par...

100746 U.S. Copyright Office No. 231. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co.

Bear, zoo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bears at zoo] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Animals. Pictures of a dog I. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Animals. Elephant (head with trunk twisted)

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

Animals. Goat, Washington State region

Picryl description: Public domain image of cow, cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Animals at the zoo - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A black and white photo of a llama in a fenced in area, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in sam... More

Animals. Pictures of a dog - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mosaics in Church of the Nativity

Picryl description: Public domain image of a zoo, safari park, wild animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kenya Colony. Nairobi. The Salisbury Hotel swimming pool

Picryl description: Public domain image of a zoo, safari park, wild animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people with donkeys, Great Depre...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery, Alabama

The Montgomery Zoo was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. It grew and thrived there until the 1960s. Eleven years later, the Zoo was re-established and moved to its current located in north Montgomery. In... More

Water treatment at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington,...

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

Giant pandas, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Nat...

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

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Front entrance, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Connecticut Ave....

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Burritt on the Mountain, a living museum and historic park, Huntsville...

Park includes Dr. William Henry Burritt's eclectic mansion, a barnyard, and animals. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alab... More

This is neither a zoo nor a water park, but it's Jungle Jim's Internat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The place is technically a food market, but is more like a wacky theme park, full of offbeat displays such as this one. Credit line: P... More

Bown bear, maybe smiling, at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre ani...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Spot, Cuban Bloodhound, used for capturing escaped Union prisoners at ...

Printed on verso: Detailed description of the dog. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: James C. Frasca, Croton, Ohio, October 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist ... More

Just so stories for little children,

On spine: Authorized edition. Also available in digital form.

Forest friends,

Also available in digital form.

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

Visit the zoo - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting the zoo as a place to visit, showing three penguins. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Denton Offutt to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, September 07, 1859 (with...

Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his...

Print shows illustration for the New York Sun relating to the Great Moon Hoax with human-bat creatures, unicorns, and other imaginery beings on the Moon. 246 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on co... More

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing Nativity wit...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union officer's uniform on horse]

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Bal masqué. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animals wearing caricature masks of prominent persons. Reference copy in LOT 4624. Illus. in: Grandville, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard / Un autre monde; transformations, visions, ..., 1844, p. 43.

Moritz von Schwind - Die guten Freunde. Book illustration from Library...

Illustration shows six scenes: 1. Wie der Fuchs mit der Kasse ewige Freundschaft schleist, bei der erften Gefahr aber von ihr im Stich gelassen wird showing dog chasing fox as cat climbs a tree; 2. Wie der Wolf... More

[Farm buildings with courtyard and animals, and two figures standing o...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 229. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Maxime Lalanne - Animaux au pâturage (Berchem) / Lalanne.

Print shows cows, goats, and other farm animals grazing along the edge of a pond or river, a boat and buildings are in the background. Title from Beraldi: Graveurs du XIXe siècle, 8-9. Signed on plate. Print af... More

[A dead horse] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Inscribed and erased below image: the last of [ ] on the spot. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.675) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Momentoes [sic] of the Battlefield

Sketch of a dead horse, partially decomposed. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.612) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Stuffed eagle and wildcat in forest setting] / by C.A. Sweester, Spri...

Copyright by R.H. Horsford. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The blind man and the whelp - Public domain book illustration

Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.26). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Aesop's Fables, p. 88.

[Black badger in forest] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1938:0056, DLC/PP-1938:0066, DLC/PP-1938:0071, or DLC/PP-1938:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Hippopotamus - Central Park, New York, U.S.A

64669aap2s U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York, Liverpool, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.

An historic feat / motion picture

"Gen. Franklin Bell's famous mule pack train swimming the Agno River in Northern Luzon. This is one of the most notable incidents of the Philippine War. The picture has made a decided sensation wherever it has ... More

Zebu, sacred oxen of India, the zoo, Belle Isle [Park], Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Bide-A-Wee Home for Animals, New York, N.Y.: woman bandaging a dog]

Photoprint copyrighted by Byron, N.Y. No. 3. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Mural in Mexican Embassy, Washington, D.C., showing children, trees, ...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 1865. Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

When the library lions review the animals

"Parade of the animals from Central Park (and elsewhere)" on building. Tammany tiger leading procession of sheep, bull, bear, elephant, donkey, and moose, representing political parties, in front of New York Pu... More

Coney Island [N.Y.], animals bathing

Bird's-eye view of people and horses in water. Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Animals. Pictures of a dog XIV. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Animals. Rabbits in nest II. 1920s Washington DC. Public domain.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection - architecture and social life of Washington DC in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Animals. Plow horses eating at feed box I

Public domain photograph of Washington DC area, 1920s-1930s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Animals. Horse show, Rock Creek Park II

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Denby and kids at zoo - Public domain scan / photograph

A group of people standing around a zebra. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Animals. Squirrel (side view, eating nut)

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Animals. Antelope's head (turned)

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Animals. Monkey (full face), Washington DC

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sudan. Khartoum. Khartoum Zoo. Aquatic birds (Abidmia, Abdimi)

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George Hutton, Jr., standing by mounted animals which he killed. Pie T...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. The flies are so bad in Lower Jersey that the a...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Children enjoying the animals at the National Zoologi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Millburn, New Jersey. Boy and animals

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Postcard of Pure Bred Herefords from Chandlers, Baker, Ore., 1938

Cattle bought for the Pasquales' ranch Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elephants at the Washington National Zoo, Washington, D.C.

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

Entrance horizontal, Tote Em in Zoo, Wilmington, North Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Wanda Newman and Teresa Phillips and their dog Cammi pose in Batman ou...

Do Dah Day is an event that has been going on for more than 30 years and is an opportunity to dress up your pets (mainly dogs) and parade them through the streets. The funds raised go to local animal charities.... More

Young animals are everywhere in the spring in rural Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Do Dah Day, Birmingham, Alabama

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California]

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Giraffes at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Lions in the grass at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre animal ref...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The hogs and piglets at the Salisbury Hog Farm in Salisbury, Vermont, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Strenuous animals : veracious tales

Verso of t.p.: Published in September, 1904. Verso of t.p.: University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Frontispiece and illustrations on p. 5, 6, 11, 14, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 39, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50, 57, 62, 65, 68, 70,... More

Adventures in Beaver Stream camp, lost in the northern wilds, by Capta...

Also available in digital form.

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--A glance at the great et...

Poster showing people of different nationalities and various animals. Copyright by the Strobridge Lith. Co.

La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille (The Artistic Struggle / Quadrille)

printed by Guillet, Paris, lithographer (artist notes) French (artist nationality) genre painter, illustrator and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l. (signed) J Worms ; u. c.: La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille; l. ... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Sacrament typology: P...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The square book of animals - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

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

The Third-term Panic. "An ass, having put on the lion's skin, turned a...

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Veterinary Corps, U.S. Army, teaches men care and treatment of sic...

Poster showing soldiers helping a sick horse out of an "animal ambulance." Text continues: See Army recruiting officer at [blank]. Medical Department, Recruiting Poster No. 2 ; Government Printing Office ; R.S.... More

[Mexican news]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Group of people on porch of the American Hotel reading news of the Mexican War.

[John E. Cummins of the 50th, 99th, and 185th Ohio Infantry regiments ...

Photo shows identified soldier John E. Cummins, who enlisted at the age of 31 as a Lt. Colonel in the 99th Ohio Infantry. In December 1864 he was transferred to the 50th Ohio, and was then promoted to the rank ... More