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Little Nemo in slumberland. Oug! oug! glabble gick iggle gouck

Four panels of an eight-panel comic strip about the adventures of a boy, Little Nemo, in Slumberland. Impy is being attacked by a giant bee, which has attached itself to his head. Flip uses his cigar to kill th... More

Raniscapcolo Em. Dupuis - Public domain portrait print

Print shows reproduction of watercolor portrait of man with dark skin and a beard, wearing a fez, who fought at the front for the French. Forms part of: Straight collection of French graphic art relating to Wo... More

Camp Glenn, N.C., 1916 - A black and white photo of a train yard

J217504 U.S. Copyright Office No. 4. Landmarks labeled on image. Copyright deposit; Wootten-Moulton; July 14, 1916; DLC/PP-1916:45168.

Now I'm satisfied Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Departmen...

Poster shows a woman sitting in a rocking chair while sewing by hand near a table with a lamp. Gift; Lester Beall.

Curl. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Deb's Dictionary / Oliver Herford. Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1931.

[History of San Francisco mural "Torchlight Procession" by Anton Refre...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More

Trailer camp. McAllen, Texas. Great Depression public domain photograp...

Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ola, Idaho. Detail of cowboy on horseback

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a horse, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Greyhound bus that has been stopped while the driver fills the water...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Designed by the American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901 1974), the museum is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding architectural achievements of the modern era. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsm... More

"The Tin Family," Enchanted Highway, Regent, North Dakota

The Tin Family is part of the Enchanted Highway project. The idea of an Enchanted Highway originated in July 1993. The project features metal art works. It utilizes the welding skills of area residents and thei... More

Chopin Concerto 2 - Library of Congress performing arts encyclopedia

Set design for Chopin Concerto (Content) 1937 (date)

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

Christmas in Sweden; or, A festival of light,

Illus. t.-p. Also available in digital form.

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Prideaux, W.F. Stevenson, p. 39 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Captain Kidd, jr. and Sinbad the sailor;

Also available in digital form.

Christmas-tree land and a Christmas posy,

Also available in digital form.

Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass,

Also available in digital form.

American winter in the woods - Public domain graphic arts, Library of ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gibson & Co.

[Man, woman, and phonograph] - Public domain dedication image

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[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

Wawona Hotel, Long White, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-235 Survey number: HABS CA-1805-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1876 Initial Construction

Wawona Hotel, Long White, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-235 Survey number: HABS CA-1805-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1876 Initial Construction

Romance - nude study - Public domain portrait painting

Study drawing shows the allegorical figure of Romance nude. She bends her head to read a book on her lap. Romance was one figure in a painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the... More

John Wentworth Farmhouse, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-81 Survey number: HABS IL-156 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction

14-year old Fred cutting dies for a new job. Embossing shop of Harry C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

October 16, 1776, Miscellaneous, "Ten-thousand name" petition by Disse...

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, 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

Poster - The tree of temperance - Public domain lithograph

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Babylon is fallen! - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Drapery study for figure of Botany Library of Congress

Study drawing shows the dress and drapery for the allegorical figure of "Botany" for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building.... More

Casa Del Desierto, 685 North First Avenue, Barstow, San Bernardino Cou...

Significance: The Case del Desierto and Barstow Depot, designed by Francis W. Wilson and completed in 1911, is significant for its association with broad national and regional themes in the history of railroad ... More

Royal Lilliputians a gigantic organization of lilliputians, dwarfs, mi...

Created and "copyright 1900, The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4370. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Colonel Abraham Van Campen House, Old Mine Road, Millbrook, Warren Cou...

Significance: Colonel Abraham Van Campen was the first colonel of the French and Indian War in north Jersey, and was instrumental in the establishment of Montague Township in 1759. He built this one and a half ... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent ...

Significance: This Greek Doric structure, the most archeologically accurate example in Baltimore, set the standards for the city's early school architecture. Founded and endowed by John McKim, the private McKi... More

William McElwee House, Kings Mountain Recreational Area, York, York Co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS SC-11 Building/structure dates: 18t3 Initial Construction

[D. Brown, Vernon Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Sowell House, State Route 20, Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia

Significance: The Sowell House is an example of a vernacular structure which evolved in three stages. Beginning as a one bay, single pile, story-and-a-half structure, the dwelling was modified to a three bay, ... 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

Samuel Banta House, 1485 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, Bergen County, NJ

Survey number: HABS NJ-171 Building/structure dates: 1830 Initial Construction

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

Point Isabel Lighthouse, Northeast of Brownsville, Port Isabel, Camero...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22, FN-23 Survey number: HABS TX-33-AB-1 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction

Wawona Hotel, Annex Building, Wawona, Mariposa County, CA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-241 Survey number: HABS CA-1805-G Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

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

Sheridan Inn, Sheridan, Sheridan County, WY

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

Sheridan Inn, Sheridan, Sheridan County, WY

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

Leonardo da Vinci pitt. scul. e archi. Fiorentino / L. da Vinci pinsit...

Leonardo da Vinci, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus - Public domain dedication image

Cut within border. Woodcut by Lukas Cranach the elder, 1472-1553. Hollstein, 80 (second state); Bartsch, 59. Bradley Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.... More

The guitar / D.G. Johnson, sc. - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows a woman playing guitar as a man flirts with her. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 2. Library of Congress copy i... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Tsubaki ni uguisu, Ando Hiroshige

Print shows a bird on a tree branch with camellia blossom. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Wakan rōei shū : Virile ... More

[Mary Wollstonecraft, half-length portrait, facing left]

Photograph of a stipple engraving by James Heath, ca. 1797, after a painting by John Opie. Stamped on verso: Sewall Coll. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Little sunshine - Print, Library of Congress collection

5097 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower left: F. Jones chro. Signed on stone on lower right: J.G. Brown 1868. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Title, publication statement, a... More

[Girl holding tea pot and cup on tray]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information; possibly advertisement. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Thinking it over - Drawing. Public domain image.

Craftsman in shop holding Boston newspaper. Etching by Thomas Waterman Wood, 1823-1903. Reference copy may be in 4397 T. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Newsp... More

Ludwig van Beethoven. - Public domain portrait engraving

Marble bust, facing left. Public domain photograph - bust portrait sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two gypsy women standing, full lgth., Palestine - Frank G. Carpenter c...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Palestine. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by Sebah and Joaillier. No. 555. ... More

The hobby horse, 1819 - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows several men, dandies, riding on velocipedes, or bicycles without pedals, one man has a three-wheeled version with a platform and seat on the back, on which sits a woman. They are riding in the count... More

The Boston Sunday Hearld - ladies want it Feb. 24 / Boston Eng. Co. ; ...

Print shows a portrait of a woman, half-length, right profile, sitting, reading a newspaper, with flowers in the background. Possibly a self-portrait by artist Ethel Reed. Exhibited: "Craft and Modernity : Pro... More

Mrs. C.M. Depew - Public domain portrait print

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

[A Cape Ann fisherman, Gloucester, Massachusetts.]

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

In the shadow - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

A Load of cane on a Cuban sugar plantation

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Asteridea. - Seesterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows starfishes in the phyllum Echinodermata Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln ... More

Among the poppies / Jessie Willcox Smith

Three children in field of poppies. Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Erotic Art: Large nude - Public domain illustration painting

Title and attribution from jacket. Photograph of a painting, signed "W., '06." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043375. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Circle, Xmas 1907 - American Art Poster

Printed by Quadri-Color Co., N.Y. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. D41. 1907

Tenements under Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge tenements)

New York City. Diagonal view of crowded street, scribbled figures on sidewalks, wagon on street. In background, dominating scene is Brooklyn Bridge, twin arches of support showing sky beyond. Inscribed on recto... More

Mr. Thomas Edison walking in laboratory yard with Messrs. Miller Reese...

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

Dawson City, Y.T.. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

J209459 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. W. Sheelor; December 11, 1915.

Uphold our honor--Fight for us Join Army-Navy-Marines.

Poster showing figure of Liberty with the American flag. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Prague. Crippled children working in the garden of Yedlickas instituti...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Slides. Junior Red Cross. Group title: Czecho-Slovakia. Gift; American Natio... More

Ford Motor Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[Old man holding a cane] - Public domain portrait drawing

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; 1934 (DLC/PP-1934:137).

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.

Grandmother from Oklahoma and her pieced quilt. California, Kern Count...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. George's Cathedral belfry from olive grove

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

Frank Sinatra lighting a cigarette World Telegram photo by Al Aumuller

Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Jericho and Dead Sea area and River Jordan. Qumran: Close-up of sectio...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Jordan, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar Collection, 1750-1950

Frederick Greenberg, residence on Sawmill Hill Rd., Ridgefield, Connec...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mural on a wall of the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers F... More

Tales, traditions and antiquities of Leith, with notices of its trade,...

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

Carrie Chapman Catt Papers: Subject File, 1848-1950; Seneca Falls Conv...

The rabbit witch and other tales

In verse. Contents later published under title: Careless Jane and other tales. New York : E.P. Dutton, c1902. On verso of t.p.: Press of J.J. Little & Co., New York. Title, and some illustrations, in red and bl... More

Clara Doty Bates. Ted, Goldlocks, and others. Public domain book.

Also available in digital form.

The entertaining history of Giles Gingerbread, a little boy who lived ...

"Adorned with copperplate engravings." Each plate has two illustrations; numbered 1-8. Attributed to John Newbery. Cf. DNB; Mrs. E.M. Field, The child and his book; Nichols' Lit. anec. v. 3, p. 465. Shaw & S... More

Christmas-tree land and a Christmas posy,

Also available in digital form.

Christmas-tree land and a Christmas posy,

Also available in digital form.

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

Mary Donelson Caffery to Rachel Donelson Jackson, August 13, 1823

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

His Apocalypse of St. John, no. 5. Woodcut by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder, 167; Bartsch, 64. 2nd edition. Signed on block with monogram. Coll. mark: Henri Baron de Triquesi: (Lugt, 1304). Ref. copy may be ... More

The great otter climbed out on a pinnacle of rock just showing above t...

(DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Sea Otter" by Samuel Scoville, Jr., Ladies home journal, 38:34 (Sept. 1921).

Love or duty / chromolith. by Jehenné ; G. Castagnola, Firenze 1873.

Print shows a painter kneeling in front of a nun. D15112 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.E. Caldwell.

Yisrolik in sein eigen land, Yiddish-American song

"Little Israel, in his own land" from "The Essence of being a Jew." Libretto: Moses Seiffert Performed by Rose Zuckberg. "How proud we are of those jews who have returned to rebuild Zion. There, one day the ... 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

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chopin Concerto [1]

Costume design for Female Dancer in Chopin Concerto (Content) 1937 (date)

[Football game]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).