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The presentation (of Jesus) in the temple (oblong)

Hannah approaches Simeon who is holding Jesus. Etching by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. Rovinski, 49. Bjorklund 40-1 (2nd state). Trimmed inside upper platemark. Gardner Greene Hubbard Collection. ... More

[St. Jerome beside a pollard willow] / Rembrandt.

Print shows a bearded St. Jerome seated, at work on his books at the foot of a large tree trunk. A lion looks out from behind the tree. Hubbard Fund 440061. Title devised. Second state. Rovinski, 103. Bjorklun... More

[David and Goliath]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Etching by Rembrandt. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, OT; Artists works; Shelf.

Artilleryist group - Mathew Brady seated on left

Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More

A print of Winan's new Iron Steamer, taken September 29th, 1858, on th...

Copyright deposit. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The plantation police or home-guard examining Negro passes on the leve...

Illustration showing a guard with a lantern checking the passes of African American men traveling on a levee road at night. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 406 (1863 July 11), p. 252.

Grant's campaign south of the James--reinforcements to General Warren ...

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Brandy Station], [Virginia]. Alfred R. Waud, artist for "Harper's Wee...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The invasion of Maryland--capture of a train on the Philadelphia, Wilm...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 July 30, p. 289.

Southern tombstones; an inside view of Dixie. Taken by our "Special Ar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape, ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five P...

Group of people gathered outside tenement house watch men carry out a coffin; in the street, two boys drag a dog by one leg. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 20 (1865 July 1), p. 225.

Appalling calamity at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Sept. 14th, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public bu...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 Oct. 28, p. 101.

The Centennial - Bits from our artist's sketch-book

Wading thru mud, napping at a refreshment area, selling cigars, man with eyeballs all over his head in order to "see everything in a day". Caricatures of people at the Phila. Centennial Exhibition.

[The buglers of the military engineers] / the photograph studio of the...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 31. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[The roller for the willow coal at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / t...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[The back view of the Imperial Artillery Range on the Kağıthane] / the...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 24. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Mural by artist Stylle Read inside the Stockyards Visitor Information ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The arrival of railroads in 1876 made Fort Worth an important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for... More

Lyric poetry; Ganymede / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting Ganymede being carried off by Jupiter in the form of an eagle. Copyley print copyright 1899 by Curtis & Cameron.

Rembrandt Peale - George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait

Title devised by cataloger. Photograph of a painting inscribed "Patriae Pater" by Rembrandt Peale in the United States Capitol. Listed in Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09832. ... More

Celebrities under the camera / By Zaida Ben-Yusuf.

Article with photographs by Zaida Ben Yusuf shows a self-portrait of Ben Yusuf and portraits of F. Marion Crawford, Ernest Seton-Thompson, Anthony Hope, and W.D. Howells. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 1... More

[Rembrandt, half-length self-portrait]

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

The artist's dream, World's Fair, St. Louis, U. S. A.

H53337 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Self-portrait with male model] / Lovis Corinth.

Title from shelflist card. Signed in pencil. Schwarz, 298. Watermark: van Gelder. Pennell Fund, 570028.

Electric Institute of Washington. Copy of artist's drawing for June br...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rene Seligmann of Paris (artist), Nancy Cox McCormack (sculptress), an...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

The Athletic & Recreation Dept. presents Nassau Suffolk W.P.A. Symphon...

Poster announcing concert by the Nassau Suffolk W.P.A. Symphony Orchestra at the Post Gym at Mitchel Field. Date stamped on verso: May 14 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Bosses of Senate and House admire s by Christy. Washington, D.C., Marc...

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Deterioration level 5, ca. 1992.Joe Jones, artist. Saint Louis, Missou...

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

Two children sitting at a table drinking from cups, New Jersey. Farm S...

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

"Open the doors," says Jean Carlu, eminent poster artist, to Manager S...

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

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Assembly workers are n...

Public domain photograph of building construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking over a dummy ...

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

Four Freedoms and Arsenal of Democracy posters. Checking the finished ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dorothy McKay with glasses] - Public domain portrait drawing

Drawing shows self-portrait caricature of cartoonist Dorothy McKay. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Artist Nall poses with his art, Fairhope, Alabama

A Southern artist with an international following, Nall has a unique style that has captivated the attention of the world. The gifted artist grew up in Troy, Alabama and began drawing, arts, and crafts at his f... More

Sculptural mural building by artist Brian Goggin on the corner of 6th ...

The piece consists of tables, chairs, lamps and even a grandfather clock, all hanging precariously out of the building's windows. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. ... More

Portion of the mural "Domingos Blacksmith Shop," painted in Lompoc, Ca...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Mural by an unknown artist or artists on the wall of a small business ...

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

"SMU Mustangs," a 2005 sculpture by artist Miley Frost, on the campus ...

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 attempted assassination of the President - a morning greeting by t...

Print shows President Garfield, following assassination attempt, lying in bed during visit from his wife and daughter. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 52, no. 1347 (1881 July 23), p. 341.

The Avis, I'se gwine to weep no more, See saw.. [and] Artist

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Betty Carper and Group in Concert Martha Graham Guest Artist

New York City - the Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, in the Great Hall of the C...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1870 July 2, p. 241. Title transcribed from item.

Secrets of the prison-house--the black hole of Washington, D.C. / from...

Composite of views of the Washington, D.C. jail and people inside the jail. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Dec. 28, pp. 88-89.

[African American man, full-length portrait, facing right] / photograp...

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV100; contraband. Two one-cent tax stamps on back of the mount. "EE1083" written in pencil on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.172)

View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Samuel W. Doble of Company D, 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, with drum...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Frame: Berg, no. 7-55. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:1... More

[Samuel W. Doble of Company D, 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, with drum...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Frame: Berg, no. 7-55. Additional information in collections file. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:1... More

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

The land of the bluebird / / Bertha Lum.

Print shows two bluebirds flying down from tree with fairy children behind branches.

[Vertumnus and Pomona?]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Title from inscription on mat. Drawing also attributed on mat to Rembrandt. Inscribed in pencil on mat: "V. Roman God married to nymph Pomona." Inscribed in pe... More

[Flight into Egypt] / Rembrandt., Rembrandt van Rijn

Second state. Public domain scan of 17th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Flight into Egypt is a biblical event in which Mary and Joseph, with the ... More

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Flight into Egypt: night piece]

Print shows Joseph, holding a lantern, leading a donkey on which Mary and Jesus are riding. Title from shelflist card. Paper shows a watermark of three balls on the right margin. Ex. Coll.: J.A. Boerner (Lugt 2... More

A club of artist's, British Cartoon Print

Etching shows four persons seated at a table, a waiter drawing a cork from a jug, and William Hogarth, "A", standing, saying, "Give me some waste paper Jack." Two artists at the table offer him their work to be... More

[Self portrait painting with a woman looking on]

Title from vendor. Signed with initials and dated in crayon. Foxing. Hubbard Fund, 64-89.

[Rembrandt leaning on a stone sill] / Rembrandt, 1639.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated in pencil. Trimmed inside plate mark. Ex. coll.: Kupferstich kabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt, 1612; sale stamp dated: a. 86). Baron H.A. von Derschau (L... More

[Statue of Nebuchadnezzar]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Etching and drypoint by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. "Spanish book." Revinski, 36 (3d state) Bjorklund, 55-C-A (3d stste). Collectors' marks of Aylesford (Dugt 58); Buccleuch (Lugt 402). Gardiner ... More

Christ driving the money changers from the temple

First state.

The Civil War in America--drumming out a soldier of the Federal Army t...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, 1861 Dec. 28, p. 666.

Reading the war news in Broadway, New York / /from a sketch by our spe...

Illustration from: Illustrated London news, 1861. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The ordnance armory, Charleston, S.C. - the volunteer troops trying th...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 16, p. 205.

[Portrait of Lincoln, artist's proof].. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The war in Virginia - the 18th Army Corps storming a fort on the right...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 July 9, p. 244.

Point Isabel, Texas / from a sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. Bonw...

Soldiers digging trench in foreground; buildings and steamboats in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Feb. 13, p. 321.

Captain Joseph Fry / / from a photograph by T. Lilienthal, New Orleans...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Fry, Captain of the Virginius, and view of United States steamer Despatch, fishing smacks, the Virginius, gig from La Favorita, Spanish sloop La Favorita. Virginius was captured d... More

Giovanni Fattori - [Self portrait]

Title from shelflist card. Signed on plate with initials. Blind stamp: Prandi. Pennell Fund, 65-3.

[The soldiers of the military engineers] / the photograph studio of th...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 32. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[The barracks of the Sırataş fort on the Black Sea straits (Bosporus)]...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empire... More

[The machinery for making prisms at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 48. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster ...

22485S U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and sal... More

[Sand sculpture and artist, beach, Atlantic City, N.J.

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

The compliments of the season a la carte

A full-length self-portrait of Nast exposing his empty suit pockets to the viewer and hanging his head. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Th: Nast. / Jan. 1, 1894. Title inscribed a... 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

Lyric poetry; Endymion / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting Endymion asleep on a mountain. Copley print copyright 1899 by Curtis & Cameron.

[Photograph of a chalk drawing self-portrait by James McNeill Whistler...

Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robbins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.

An artist's dream / motion picture

"The scene opens in the interior of an artist's studio. Mephisto appears mysteriously and signals the pictures to come to life. They step down from the frames and walk forward, admiring their costumes. Mephisto... More

Henry Cleews [i.e., Clews] III - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photo shows Henry "Bamboo" Clews III siting atop a steamer trunk with his dog and parrot in a small cage upon his return trip from France. Clews was the son of artist Henry Clews, Jr. and grandson of businessma... More

[Artist's rendering of the new Union Station building in Kansas City, ...

G44755 U.S. Copyright Office. Submitted for copyright September 19, 1913. Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

KEY, JOHN ROSS. ARTIST - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

The accidental cubists / drawn by De Zayas.

Illustration shows a three panel cartoon with Rembrandt's painting "The anatomy lesson" at top, and at center, a group of angry suffragettes with knives and hatchets transforming the painting, at bottom is the ... More

Dorothea Warren O'Hara - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows American artist Dorothea Warren O'Hara (1873-1972). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows actress Helen Roche (Bonnie Glass) who married artist Ben Ali Haggin in June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

To counteract the results of war conditions the American Red Cross has...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Civilian relief, France. On caption card: 392. Data: Picture taken especially for the Woman's Home Companion by the American Artist H.B. Lach... More

[Self-portrait] / Lovis Corinth.

Title from shelflist card. Signed in pencil. 1/10. Muëller, 468. Pennell Fund, 64-19.

[ self-portrait]

Ilka Kolsky's watercolor self-portrait. (General)

Mural showing Native Americans on horseback by artist Crumbo at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Primitive American art, work of local artist in store, La Forge, Misso...

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

Statue by local artist. Cimarron, New Mexico

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

Homer Tate, self-trained artist, looking at his model of a hanged hors...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plant a victory garden. Poster distributed by the Office of War Inform...

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

A poster comes to life. Searching for just the right faces to use for ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

And, furthermore, ladies and gents -- at any rate, that's what the spe...

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

Frankfort, Michigan. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Muehlman who made money...

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

Rembrandt Lamps, business at 206 Lexington Ave., New York City. Interi...

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Artist Julie P. Carpenter poses with her wire dresses at the Kentuck A...

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

[Mural located at 998 Market Street by artist Robert Harris showing Ma...

Date and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural title information from the San Francisco Art and Architecture website, 2013. Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographe... More

"Bliss Dance" sculpture created by artist Marco Cochrane, San Francisc...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More