art work

[Clothed study for female figure of Architecture, for mural1. "The Art...

Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-2005.

Estate Rust-Op-Twist, Steam Engine & Cane Mill, Christiansted, St. Cro...

Significance: Rust-op-Twist's long and troubled history as a sugar producing estate is typical of many other St. Croix plantations. An animal mill, and windmill, and a steam mill - representative of the evoluti... More

Moravian Church, Moravian Street, Green Bay, Brown County, WI

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS WI-28-3 Building/structure dates: 1852 Initial Construction

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...

Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More

Polar bear polka - Public domain American piano sheet music

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Wawona Hotel, Hotel, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-236 Survey number: HABS CA-1805-B Building/structure dates: 1879 Initial Construction

Cares of a family / painted by A.F. Tait ; lith. by N. Currier, N.Y.

Original best fifty #44. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné ... More

Naval heroes of the United States: no. 1 / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows portraits of Oliver H. Perry, Stephen Decatur, Johnston Blakeley, William Bainbridge, David Porter, and James Lawrence surrounding a vignette of the battle of Lake Erie. 272 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Indian Hill Farm, Indian Hill Street, West Newbury, Essex County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-1339 Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Darrynane Abbey - Ireland the Home of O'Connell.

Print shows a view from a hillside of Darrynane House, home of Daniel O'Connell, with Darrynane Bay and mountains in the background, and cows grazing among trees in the foreground, County Kerry, Ireland. Enter... More

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop, 107 South Fairfax Street, Alexandr...

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

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

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88 Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[Teapot with cherry or plum blossoms]

Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Shiba atagoyama no zu - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows wide promenade and shrine buildings at the base of Mount Atago. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Chuba... More

[Frontispiece showing young man seated, with Genius holding a plaque]

Mitchell collection of American book illustrations and portrait prints Formerly found in: PAGA 4 - 1921 : R1 - Tiebout Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1921:R01, Container 16.

His excellency George Washington Esq'r. captain general of all the Ame...

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing military uniform, gesturing with right hand holding a swagger stick, left hand resting on cannon barrel, military camp in the ... More

Die Christnacht gez. u. rad. v. L. Richter

Print shows angels carrying a pine tree illuminated with candles and many cherubs clustered around the baby Jesus on a cloud above city buildings, with cherubs offering baskets of fruit and small toys. Printed... More

Athletes. Flip flap. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows nine consecutive images of a man doing a "flip flap" or a back hand spring. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assum... More

Gleason Railroad graders at Sargent, Nebraska.

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

[Elizabeth Blackwell, medical doctor and activist for women in the med...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jamaica, irrigation canal on sugar plantation - Frank G. Carpenter col...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Copyright by Publishers Photo Service, New York City.

Drapery study for figure of Music Library of Congress

Study drawing shows the dress and drapery of the allegorical figure of Music, for the painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid... More

He must be kept out / Keppler. - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows Uncle Sam as a policeman using a billy club labeled "Votes" to prevent a diminutive figure labeled "Free Silver" and "16 to 1" from entering the White House with papers labeled "Populism" and "Disho... More

[Club house at the race track, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.]

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Del Ray Salt Co - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Second number on negative: 2041. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Girl in red coat with Christmas wreath, umbrella, and puppy in the sno...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Gray Lith. Co., copyright claimant. Category d... More

Chapeau blanc - Public domain portrait painting

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

How long must I keep praying for you and papa?

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 37:319 (April 18, 1901).

Alaska stage entrance to Keystone Canyon

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

But my young'uns - little Anderson and Elviry?

(DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Exit of Anse Dugmore" by Irvin S. Cobb, Saturday Evening Post, 183:13 (Dec. 17, 1910).

Canadian Soldier at Ypres. Painted by R. Thompsen i.e. Thomsen, Oct. 1...

On caption card: Soldat Canadien Ypres, Mai 1917. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Henry D. Sedgwick. Date receive... More

First Division First - last - and all the time.

Service Series poster promoting the First Division as a unit that works around the clock, showing half-length drawing of a soldier, holding rifle, on the face of a clock.

Jose Celso Barbosa House, 16 Calle de Barbosa, Bayamon, Bayamon Munici...

2017 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Jose Celso Barbosa House Museum is a nineteenth century building located on Barbosa Street #16 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The construction show... More

Granger, Iowa. First baby born on Granger Homesteads

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

My name is Marc and my friend Joey worked on the 105th floor of No. 1 ...

Portrait of a boy next to stars and strips of the American flag, with text describing his reaction to the loss of his friend during the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City. Forms part of: Exit Art ... More

Mural, Baltimore, Maryland - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

The "Moses Fountain" in Albany, New York's Washington Park. But it off...

Completed in 1893, the fountain shows Moses on the Rock of Horeb. According to the Bible, God tells Moses that "thou shalt smite therock, and there shall come water out of it, that people may drink." The figur... More

Be Seated: Aunt Jemima - Drawing. Public domain image.

Venue unknown (venue) Public domain scan of 1930s theatrical costume design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New Deal program created ... More

Little Bobby Bumpkin, and other juvenile verse

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

Middleburg, Cooper River, East Branch, Huger, Berkeley County, SC

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS SC-13 Building/structure dates: 1699 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000568

[Design drawing for stained glass window for First Presbyterian Church...

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

Archer House, Lot No. 123, Water Street, Yorktown, York County, Virgin...

Significance: The Archer House, on Lot 107, is currently the only visible structure on the Yorktown waterfront with colonial associations. The fire of 1814 has been assumed to have destroyed the house but short... More

[Encyclopedic manuscript containing allegorical and medical drawings]....

Manuscript on vellum. Gothic script in black and red. Pen-and-ink drawings, some slightly colored, with explanatory text in German or Latin. Subject matter and form of presentation is similar to that in 15th ce... More

Dr. Charles L. Marlatt House, Sixteenth & Church Streets Northwest, Wa...

Survey number: HABS DC-541 Public domain photograph of church architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alan M. Scaife House, U.S. Route 30 (Ligonier Township), Laughlintown,...

Survey number: HABS PA-620 Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peavey Park Plaza, 1111 Nicolet Mall, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Significance: The plaza is significant for its association with the series of post-WWII urban renewal projects that begun in the late 1950s and continued into the 1970s in downtown Minneapolis. The plaza is a d... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Agony with city, thor...

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

Governor Simon Bradstreet House, 159 Osgood Street, North Andover, Ess...

Survey number: HABS MA-2-63 Building/structure dates: 1667 Initial Construction

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Caribbean Motel, 5600 Ocean Avenue, Wildwood Crest, Cape May County, N...

1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: Well-preserved Wildwood motel with distinctive original 1950s architectural features: "levitating" concrete ramp, lean in/lean out glass walls on the s... More

Elihu Coleman House, Hawthorne Lane, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: The only house still standing on the site of the old settlement of Sherburne, it is an excellent example of early eighteenth century Nantucket architecture. Survey number: HABS MA-2-86 Building/... More

The various shapes of the human form that we provide for

Print shows nineteen different male body shapes illustrating the range of clothing the advertiser, Hammerslough, Saks & Co., can accommodate. Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., copyright claimant.

Suruga Satta no kaijō / Hiroshige-ga.

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

Navajo Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at U.S. Highway 89 Alternate, P...

Significance: As the only crossing of the Colorado River for some 600 miles, the Navajo Bridge has had a profound impact on the commerce and transportation of a rugged, remote and isolated part of Arizona. Its ... More

Kershaw County Courthouse, Broad & King Streets, Camden, Kershaw Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS SC-13-9 Building/structure dates: ca. 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1847 Subsequent Work

Griffin House, 410 West Francis Street, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Vi...

Significance: This unrestored brick dwelling house was built by Colonel William Allen just prior to 1770. William Byrd III of Westover acquired the house in 1771 and used it as his house in town until his deat... More

Virginia State Capitol, Bank and 10th Streets, Capitol Square, Richmon...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Virginia State Capitol, Bank and 10th Streets, Capitol Square, Richmon...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church of St. Louis of France (Roman Catholic), Third & Walnut Streets...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-165 Survey number: HABS MO-31-1 Building/structure dates: 1834 Initial Construction

Old Post Office, Merchant & Bethel Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County,...

Significance: The two-story building of classic design was at the time of its erection one of the outstanding public buildings in the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is particularly significant in the history of building... More

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

Dancing

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

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