art work

Sawyer. Renshaw - Public domain portrait drawing

Portrait of a soldier & gentlemen. Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, 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.

False weights and measures in the New York custom-house / Gillam.

Illustration shows Customs official Edward L. Hedden holding a balance scale labeled "H.O. Thompson's Pat. Scales" with a man wearing a pin-stripe suit, holding a bottle of "Rum", and with papers extending from... More

Animal Locomotion: [24 frames of hands clasping, plate 533]

Motion picture sequenced photographic plate by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pictures; Rear views.

[Bedouin Chief of Palmyra, Holy Land (i.e., Tadmur, Syria)]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "15126". Forms part of: Views of the Holy Land in the Photochrom print collection.

Sponge exchange on wharf, Key West, Fla.

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

Sidney R. Ellis' Bonnie Scotland

A245758 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: At Paldy's Fair. Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti. = N. Y." No. 6666. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Zoology - Public domain scenic drawing

Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figure of "Zoology," seen from behind, for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building.

Genius with telescope Library of Congress

Study drawing shows a putti holding a telescope to one eye, for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid covers the drawing.

[Shapes and forms] - Public domain document scan of drawing

Study drawing shows geometric shapes and forms. A grid covers the drawing.

"He laughs best who laughs last" / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a happy Christmas gathering of the family of "Tom Popleigh" as they decorate a Christmas tree; in a vignette at left, a well-dressed man gestures toward the growing family of "Tom Popleigh" and vows... More

Sinai. Ras Safsaf (Mt. Sinai), near view from Wady er-Raha. / American...

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

Pulpit Rock, Presque Isle [Park], Lake Superior

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

[Fūkeiga] - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a moonlight night with small boats heading toward village and a flock of geese flying overhead.

Ave Maria - Public domain print

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

At Atlantic City - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Miss Whitlock, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders of woman, with flowers in hair, holding flowers. Photo copyrighted by Burr McIntosh Studio. No. 1. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Phot... More

The Aborn Company presents Dolly Varden the musical delicacy with a gr...

Caption: Stolen sweets. Created and "copyright 1906 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 10054. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Apache squaws basket work - Public domain scan /

Her-Loo-A-Lah, Apache woman, posed with willow jugs and woven wash basins. H123796 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. No. 16.

Rona - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows European dancer Germaine Lauret from an old postcard. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Lombaert Cyde Em. Dupuis - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows reproduction of watercolor portrait of man with dark skin, light eyes, and a beard, wearing a turban, who fought at the front for the French. Forms part of: Straight collection of French graphic ar... More

Alfred Stieglitz - Two towers--New York

Print shows snow-covered street scene with two large towers (Madison Square Garden at left and Metropolitan Life Insurance Building at right) in background. Illus. in: Camera work, no. 44, Oct. 1913, published... More

[Opium den on Malinta Street, Manila, Philippine Islands] - Frank G. C...

Photo shows an interior view of an opium den with several men reclining, smoking long opium pipes. Title devised by Library staff Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

History of civic services in the city of New York Fire Department No. ...

Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing a horse-drawn steam fire engine racing to the scene of a building fire in 1841. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Li... More

A drawing of two soldiers talking to each other, Harris and Ewing, Was...

A drawing of two soldiers talking to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washingto... More

Harlem / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsica.

Photograph shows a group of Puerto Ricans, at Newark airport, who just arrived by plane from Puerto Rico waiting to be transported to New York. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. F... More

[Young girl, half-length portrait, standing against wall displaying ar...

Frame 6 of contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Architectural detail, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

[Official portraits of the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court: Justice Thurgood M...

Portrait photograph of Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall, wearing judicial robe, seated, facing front. Color negative by Robert S. Oakes. LC-USZC6-31 (color film copy transparency) not found 1990.

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

Also available in digital form.

Cadets embarking on U.S.S. Constellation for summer cruise, U.S. Naval...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nicholas Jarrot Mansion, State Route 157, Cahokia, St. Clair County, I...

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

Our father who art in heaven ... / A. Hoen & Co., engravers, Baltimore...

Print shows the Lord's Prayer, ornately illustrated with biblical scenes. G4575 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by H.M. Crider, in the Office of the Librarian of ... More

Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (T...

Contains list of season's repertory and list of season's artists; set designs for Le Renard and Mavra; costume design for Le Renard, Aurora's Wedding, and Mavra; photographs of Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stravin... More

Portrait photo of Oscar Wilde / Sarony., Cabinet photograph

Oscar Wilde, full-length portrait, standing, facing front with head turned slightly to the left, window behind left shoulder. 676 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10. Copyright by N. Sarony. Exhibit loan 4221-L.

[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

Albrecht Durer - Nemesis (the great fortune)

Allegorical figure of winged goddess of divine retrobution. Engraving and etching by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 72; Hollstein 72; Bartsch 77; Panofsky 184. Signed with monogram on plate. Coll. mark on ver... More

Sœur de la bonne femme de Normandie d'apres le desein de son fils Pier...

Print shows Print shows an elderly woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, holding a tulip in her right hand at her left shoulder, wearing a bonnet and scarf. Caption continues: Dédié àe Mons... More

Lismore Castle: County Waterford, engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Livezey's mill, Wissahickon

Photograph shows mill with Livezey house, Glen Fern, alongside Wissahickon Creek in Pennsylvania. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library o... More

Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. "Ready! All ready your hon...

Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry speaking to gunners aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie.

[Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe] / Howell, 867 & 869 B'...

Notation on verso: "Mrs. H.B. Stowe." Label on verso: "From E.B. Fay, dealer in photographs, 100 Nassau St." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Aucti... More

Bailey's fine candies, 45 West Street, Boston

Trade card shows a smiling boy sledding down a snowy hill to promote the sale of Bailey's candy No. 204. DCRM(G) example 1B6 - Insufficiently descriptive title

[General view, Lourdes, Pyrenees, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890...

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

"A fairy moon and a lonely shore"

Print shows a man with a shoulder pole walking along a moonlite shore. Stamp on verso: Matsumoto print, no. 39. The Matsumoto Do, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Woman, probably mother, holding baby

Title devised by cataloger. "Charles Scribner's Sons, frontispiece" on jacket; possibly book illustration. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042232. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Picture of Cleopatra on wall of temple, Denderah, Egypt

No. 9796. Public domain photograph of Egypt, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Small nude] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beatrice - Public domain portrait drawing

Title from jacket. Photograph of a drawing signed Hellen or Helleu. "Prohib." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090331. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Woman, full-length portrait] - Public domain portrait engraving

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

Looping the loop, Atlantic City

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

[Cuba and the U.S. sugar trust profits]

Cartoon shows a man "Cuba" lying on the ground tied with ropes "Platt Amendment" and "Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209." The head of the American Sugar Refining Company Henry Osborne Havemeyer, surrounded by bags... More

Bird's-eye view from De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Tower, 300 feet hig...

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

[Father Isaac Jogues, S.J., half-length portrait, facing right]

Reproduction of a painting(?) signed Danton 1904. H49865 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.C. Langill, New York.

Str. City of Detroit III, pilot house and bridge

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agriculturalist wields brush for posterity. Royal C. Steadman, 20-year...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Children's art work in window of school, Jackson, Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Amateur contest, July 23rd - Du Page County centennial, Warrenville / ...

Poster showing a stylized drawing of a woman singing. Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

A cross roads store, bar, "juke joint," and gas station in the cotton ...

Photograph shows Sign on left building: Frenchies Beer Garden; above porch: Frenchies Bar.

National Cathedral. Lebanon cedars on National Cathedral grounds

Old negative number: 222-39. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 19... More

Berwyn car spindle, Berwyn, Illinois

Spindle was a sculpture created in 1989 by artist Dustin Shuler. It consisted of a 50 foot spike with eight cars impaled on it. From 1989 until its demolition on May 2, 2008, it was located in the parking lot o... More

Mural, Balmy Alley, San Francisco, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Tuscumbia, Alabama

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alice's adventures in Wonderland,

Also available in digital form.

Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g

Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More

Xi yuan lu xiang yi : si juan, juan shou yi juan : Zhi yi, Zhi yi bu f...

Detailed commentary on the Records of redressing injustice by Song Ci; originally published in the 4th year of Xianfeng, 1854; reprinted by Pan Wei dated 1877; this edition dated the 16th year of Guangxu, 1890.... More

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

Also available in digital form.

Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there,

Also available in digital form.

Lexicon and history of freemasonry;

Also available in digital form.

Makepeace, Johnson Creek vicinity, Crisfield, Somerset County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-698 Building/structure dates: before 1700 Initial Construction

McKendrick House, 1474 Magazine Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, L...

2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: This beautiful three story masonry home is located in the Historic Lower Garden District of New Orleans, one of the few remaining nineteenth century Greek Rev... More

She walks in beauty - Public domain American sheet music

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

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

Poster - Don't mix 'em - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing whiskey bottle, gas pump, and a skull. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angel... More

Joseph Pennell - [Rose cloud] - Public domain city architecture drawin...

England, London. As Wuerth described, "View of St. Paul's Dome under a rose colored cloud, in a high and clouded sky. Colors, rose, gray, violet, blue and white on bluish-gray paper." Date from Wuerth inventory... 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

[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

Joers-Ketchum Rowhouse, 6108 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, San Dieg...

Significance: The Joers-Ketchum Rowhouse was one of the first structures built during the second phase of development in Rancho Santa Fe's Civic Center, when individual landowners, not the Santa Fe Land Improve... More

National Park Seminary, Main, Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Montgomery C...

Significance: Main exemplifies the site's evolving history. It is a conglomeration of eight buildings with adjoining extensions and adaptations that were completed between 1887 and the 1940s. It is the core o... More

Baker-Megrew Rowhouse, 6122 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego...

Significance: This building, commissioned by the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company as small-scale pre-sold speculative housing in the midst of the commercial center of the town, is one of a group of four rowhou... More

John Coward House, Prospertown, Ocean County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-461 Survey number: HABS NJ-555 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

John Coward House, Prospertown, Ocean County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-461 Survey number: HABS NJ-555 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Antes House, Colonial Road, Frederick, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: The Antes House is an excellent example of a German three-room plan house. The house is unusual because so much of its original interior finish, including ceilings and board partitions walls, have... More

Pembroke, State Route 603, Suffolk, Suffolk, Virginia

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-118 Survey number: HABS VA-181 Building/structure dates: 17t1 Initial Construction

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.

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

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

Grumblethorpe, 5267 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Coun...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS PA-7-1 Building/structure dates: 1744 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1799 Subsequent Work Building/structu... More