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Une faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrum...

published by Martin Engelbrecht, engraver, 1684-1756 (artist notes) German (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Recto: l. l.: C.P.S.C. Maj.; l. r.: Mart. Engelbrecht excud. A.V.; u. r. :170.; l. c.: (tit... More

Benjamin West - [The calling of Isaiah]

Etched study for wing of altarpiece made for Royal Chapel, Windsor. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall.... More

Rose blossoms on stem with leaves

Typed on label attached to verso: This flower study was painted by William W. Thackara 1791-1839 water colors. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms par... More

Young Girl and Death - Engraving, Public domain image

Cliché verre by Corot. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cliché verre; youth; Death; Artists works; Shelf.

Miss Bateman, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. John Berchmans]

Public domain photograph of stained glass window, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing sailor waving hat in front of American fla...

Addressed to Mr. Wm. E. Tingley, Harford, Susq. Co., Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 29. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with fork, knife, plate, and cu...

Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: Military images. Henryville, P... More

[Woman in a blue dress] - Public domain portrait engraving

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The goddess protection - Print, Library of Congress collection

8922 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Ashmore, Sidney, copyr... More

[Dance at Cochiti Pueblo] / W. Cal. Brown & Co.

Photograph shows "San Buenaventura's Day Corn Dance, performed by the two moieties, first the Turquoise, then the Pumpkin, in front of the church and campo santo. The men wear either red or dull blue body paint... More

[Central Dome, interior view, showing exhibit of art work and vases, P...

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

[Neith Boyce Hapgood,full-length portrait, seated, left profile, weari...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 19th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A dark foreshading - on a flash picture, "Take us smilin' or we'll lay...

A man sitting for a portrait with his pet bulldog seated on a chair next to him, both scowling at the camera on the right. 39507 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale R... More

[Works of art hanging on wall, in Columbus room, at World's Columbian ...

55570Y U.S. Copyright Office. Issued by Souvenir Photograph Co., Chicago. Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Study for figures of Sculpture and Painting]

Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figures of Sculpture and Painting, for the painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building.

Wild flowers of Palestine. Yellow amaryllis (Sternbergia Clusiana Gawl...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Horace Mann statue, State House grounds, Boston, Massachusetts.

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

Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Valley of the Cascade from Tunnel Mountain, Rocky Mountains Park, Banf...

H27179 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10668. Copyright 1903 by B. L. Singley.

Birthplace of [Alexander] Hamilton, Island of Nevis, B.W.I.

Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 20514. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Photog. I.; St. C... 1905; Shelf.

Franz Schubert - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian Creek, Indian Creek, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The Indian Creek community centers on two sandstone structures - Casa Cielo (Sky City) and Case Abajo (Lower House) - associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in... More

Texans earning their way westward, bound for a new start in Oregon. Un...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003804-ZE; corrected 1998. Print in microfilmed lot misnumbered 38042-E. Title and other information from caption card... More

A black and white photo of a window with paper flowers. Ohio during Gr...

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

Fisherman. Key West, Florida. Great Depression public domain photograp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, a noted country day school fo...

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

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, noted country day school for ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Share The Meat" recipes. Braised stuffed heart. Fill hearts with stuf...

Public domain reproduction of still life painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Thanksgiving dinner at the house of Earle La...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Art at the Frank T. Bow Federal Building, Canton, Ohio

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Classic New York City brownstone apartment building in the Boro Park (...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, a Sioux chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bow...

Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.

Ukrainian American community post-fieldwork workshop; Art work of Anna...

Image numbers, descriptions: 1, 3, 4, at the Ukrainian American Post-Fieldwork Community Workshop, workshop participant Lubo Maciuk (tenor); 2, 5, fieldworker Robert Klymasz; 6-7, exterior of home of Anna Kulcz... More

Heermann Store, 4308 West Loop 1604, Somerset, Bexar County, TX

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: It stands as a rare surviving example of early commercial buildings in rural South Texas. Throughout its early history, the building was part of a small... More

The Rose of Paradise; being a detailed account of certain adventures t...

Also available in digital form.

In disem Puchlein stet verczeichet das hochwirdig Heiltum, das man so ...

Rosenwald 162 Goff B-46 Copinger 2904 GW 3234 Schramm, XVIII, p. 22 LC copy: provenance: Sylvain S. Brunschwig (bookplate).

[Design drawing for stained glass window with open book in Chatham, Ne...

Keinen kachōgafu fuyu no bu. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Old man warming his hands by the fire]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Cricket on the Hearth.

Pensacola Lighthouse, San Carlos Road, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

Significance: This structure was built in 1826. It was bombarded by Union forces during the War Between the States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-60 Survey number: HABS FL-147... More

U.S. Marine Corps - Service on land and sea / Sidney H. Riesenberg.

Poster showing a marine in dress uniform, marching along a dock, with ship, fort, and city skyline in the background. Enlist at 203 1/2 West Holly Street, Bellingham, Wash.

Castlewood, U.S. Route 25, Richmond, Madison County, KY

Significance: Castlewood remains today practically as it was built. Very few changes have been made. The plan and exterior are typical of the Colonial Georgian style in Kentucky, having a center hall flanked by... More

Giséle - Public domain scenic drawing

Illustration shows Giséle, seated under a tree and holding her hat as she appeared when meeting the male protagonist in the story. (DLC/PP-1933:0182). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

J. H. Hawes Elevator, Second Street, Atlanta, Logan County, IL

1998 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The J. H. Hawes Elevator is located in the small town of Atlanta, Logan County, Illinois. Built in 1904, it is an excellent surviving example of a heavy-timbe... More

[It has been a hard winter] / Castaigne.

Woman seated, with head bowed in front of stove and crib.

San Miguel Church, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, NM

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Dingmans Ferry, Pike County,...

Significance: This is a good example of "Carpenter Gothic" wood Church. The church still retains much of its original detail including celtic crosses, stained glass windows and open belfrey. Unprocessed Field... More

The reading of a will... - Public domain scan / engraving

Public domain photograph of painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wholesome - nutritious foods from corn / Lloyd Harrison.

Poster showing corn products, including corn oil, cornstarch and baked goods. Caption: Corn products are plentiful. Use them in cakes, candies, puddings, and preserving, for salads, shortening, and for frying. ... More

City Library, Aviles Street & Artillery Lane, Saint Augustine, St. Joh...

Survey number: HABS FL-13 Building/structure dates: 1755 Initial Construction

Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility Mike...

Significance: Beginning with the end of World War II and continuing to the present, the Cold War and the resulting arms race between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) has form... More

Uyōkanazawa hashōyakei - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

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

Jefferson Memorial, East Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columbi...

Significance: One of Washington's largest and most famous memorials, this structure serves as the southern anchor of the city's monumental plan, the other elements of which include the Capitol, Washington Monum... More

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Sculpture Garden, 2800 Grove Avenue, Rich...

Significance: Lawrence Halprin designed the Sculpture Garden at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1976. The garden is representative of Halprin's organic, free flowing, romantic people spaces that owe everyth... More

William Meirs House, Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-358 Survey number: HABS NJ-509 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1825 Subsequent Work

William Meirs House, Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-358 Survey number: HABS NJ-509 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1825 Subsequent Work

William Meirs House, Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-358 Survey number: HABS NJ-509 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1825 Subsequent Work

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... More

Explanation of the view of Venice, exhibiting in the Panorama, Strand

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lee, James.

United States & Macedonian - Public domain drawing

Preliminary drawing for an oil painting showing the sea battle between the USS United States, under the command of Stephen Decatur, and HMS Macedonian off the coast of Maderia on October 25, 1812. The original... More

Shya - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man, standing, holding a large bow and an arrow.

[Winter scene] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Otto Barth.

[Autumn scene with castle] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

Signed lower left: Gust. Jahn, Wien. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic print

Through to the Pacific - Public domain scenic engraving

Public domain photograph of 19th-century landscape print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A vision of holy mass - Engraving, Public domain image

E981 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed above title: 226. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower left. Stamped and inscribed... More

Mischievous little kitties - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4513

Flocking for Freedom, Washington, D.C.

Caricature of leading women suffragettes, including Anthony, Stanton, Stone, Walker, Cozzens & Hooker, leading a gaggle of geese toward the U.S. Capitol. Color lithograph by Joseph Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 187... More

The porker and the sheep - Drawing. Public domain image.

Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.9). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Aesop's Fables.

Devotion - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on original folder: Girls. Pr... More

Pilar Morin as clown/mime: head and shoulders, facing slightly right; ...

Photoprint copyrighted by B.J. Falk. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Mimes; Clowns; Shelf.

Rayon d'or, dernier mot de l'eclairage / Pal.

Poster showing a nude woman with gossamer wings reaching toward the light of a star and a Rayon d'Or light fixture. Gift; Judi Summers; (DLC/PP-1982:191).

The Chap-book No. 4: May. - Public domain book illustration

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895.

[Saratoga Springs, N.Y., grand stand, Race Track]

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The usurer, Gabriel Metsu - A black and white photo of a woman and a m...

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 507. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Indian man, woman, and child with a trader showing a blanket]

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

F. Walter Taylor - Japanese feeling

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0096). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Die Barnum & Bailey groesste schaustellung der welt Possirliches und W...

Poster showing clowns performing with geese, roosters and a donkey. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York. Printed in America.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The bathers

Photograph of a painting. Image on videodisc possibly laterally reversed. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029445. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The struggle of the Slav / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows a Russian man standing on a rowboat, using an axe labeled "Nat'l Assembly" to battle an octopus labeled "Bureaucracy", wearing a crown and royal robe, its tentacles are labeled "Graft, Exile,... More

Harry Tracy (boxer) - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painting by Jacques Suzanne - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

"The Heavy Cross" Sculpture by Constantin Isenberg

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

Suffragettes - London - Arrest of Suffragette - Oct. 1913

Policemen and plain clothesman escorting woman. Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Libra... More

F.R. Chopin - Public domain portrait print

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

Ariaki - Drawing. Public domain image.

Watercolor of ariaki (daybreak) cherry blossoms. Transfer; Asian Division; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:130).

The Birth of a pearl - Drawing. Public domain image.

Young woman wearing bathing suit and strings of pearls standing in large shell on beach. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. 15.

Fashion photographs. Woman with half-veil II

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

Blacksmith shop. Marshall, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Exhibition Metropolitan housing project sketches, sculpture, ceramics,...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of metropolitan housing project sketches, sculpture, ceramics, murals at the WPA Federal Art Gallery, 4300 Euclid Avenue. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1939. Work Proje... More

Jaffa Gate. Close up - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

The 1908 Fort Bend County Courthouse in Richmond, Texas, southwest of ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Out front stands a statue of Georgia native, later Richmond resident, Mirabeau B. Lamar, who held three offices, including president,... More

The Texas Theater in little Bronte, a town in Coke County, Texas, west...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The little musician. Christmas in Italy,

Cover title: Christmas in Italy. Also available in digital form.

New York ; the upper bay from lower Manhattan. New York Central System...

Promotional goal: U.S. E3. 192-? Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Heermann Store, 4308 West Loop 1604, Somerset, Bexar County, TX

2010 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: It stands as a rare surviving example of early commercial buildings in rural South Texas. Throughout its early history, the building was part of a small... More

Jedediah Hotchkiss Papers: Miscellany, circa 1846-1908; Newspaper clip...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Wayeeses, the white wolf, from "Northern trails,"

Also available in digital form.

Old Mother West Wind,

Also available in digital form.