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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.

Huntington. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Huntington. Artist? Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photo... More

[General William Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua] Scene in the Battle of Ri...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 2, no. 32 (1856 July 19), p. 89. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE.

[Unidentified young man] / C. Gullmann, artist, Po'Keepsie, N.Y.

Portrait of same man by same photographer processed as LOT 6286, p. 50.

Arrival of the New York seventy-first regiment at the railroad depot, ...

Wood engraving showing crowd watching regiment gathered at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station at New Jersey Avenue and C Street in Washington, D.C.

Arrest of Marshal Kane, at his house in Baltimore, at three o'clock A....

Print shows Union troops taking Marshal Kane into custody outside his home in Baltimore, Maryland. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 12, no. 294 (1861 July 6), p. 113.

[Studio portraits of a Japanese soldier in amor, a woman with a paraso...

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

Consecration of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Philadelphia, Nov. 20 ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1864 Dec. 17, p. 193. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The barracks of the elevated fort in Kireçburnu on the Black Sea stra...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 3. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empire... More

J.M. Whistler & lady in studio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows artist James McNeill Whistler, standing and speaking with a woman in his art studio. Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: Pennell Coll. Film copy negative: LC-J201-6. James and Eliza... More

[The Mauser cartridge factory at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[The powder roller at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph...

Rolling mills. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: Th... More

Educating the Indians--a female pupil of the government school at Carl...

Cover illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated newspaper, 1884 March 15, p. 49.

[Max Kruse, German artist, half-length portrait, facing right] / Wilh....

Written in ink on verso: K Judge; Max Kruse. Berlin, Wilmersdorf(?). Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Autobiographical statement is in the Supplemental Biographical File. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portr... More

[Thomas Hovenden, artist, seated, holding a photograph(?), facing fron...

H42552 U.S. Copyright Office. On verso: Painter, Cincinnati, "Breaking Home Ties." Identical photograph available in P&P Biog. File. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston i... More

[Franconia Notch and Echo Lake from artist's bluff, White Mts., N.H.]

Public domain photograph of a lake, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The artist's dilemma / magic tricks

From Edison films catalog: The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her p... More

Miss Zaida Ben Yusuf - Public domain portrait print

Illustration showing a self-portrait of the photographer accompanying her article "The New Photography-What it has done and is doing for Modern Portraiture. Illus. in: Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. XIV, no. III (... More

CHANDOR, DOUGLAS. ARTIST WITH PAINTING

David Lamar - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows David Lamar (1876-1934), a con artist, also known as the "Wolf of Wall Street." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Albert Herter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows artist Albert Herter (1871-1950) dressed as Byzantine Emperor Justinian for a Venetian pageant which was part of the fine arts ball arranged by the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, held at the Hote... More

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. MODEL WITH WWI POSTER

Photo shows poster artist Gerrit A. Beneker. Public domain photograph of primitivism, folk art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross post for food distribution, Oderzo, Italy, after th...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, American Red Cross Comm. to Italy. Group title: Food, Italy. Data: Atlantic.... More

Copy of water color by a French artist. The Red Cross protecting manki...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Ex. Indef to Mr. Odlin. Group title: Posters. Gift; American ... More

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

Callers at White House. Howard Chandler Christy, noted artist, with Mr...

A man and a woman standing on the steps of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Whorf, watercolor artist, in white shirt, Provincetown, Massachu...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Artist's drawing of business center for Greenbelt project, Maryland

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Off with the yoke of Uncle Sam depicted in post office mural, is charg...

A woman standing in front of a large painting, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. G... More

Many errors found in Department of Justice mural. Washington, D.C., Au...

A woman standing in front of a painting on a wall. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lieutenant Milton Marx of New York City, attached to the Public Relati...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Self portrait of photographer Carol M. Highsmith, via a broken mirror ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Curator examines an artist's book in the Rare Books Collection at the ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This string book has a different string configuration o... More

Sculpture "Eos" by artist Dessa Kirk. Columbus, Indiana

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

The sculpture "Companion (Passing Through)," by the artist KAWS (Brian...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Widely referred to as "The Modern," the museum collects and displays post-World War II art in various media. The buildi... 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

A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City...

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

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

A statue by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, part of his "Wings of the City...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

[Excelsior Banner awarded to the 50th Illinois Infantry Regiment as fi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified man, possibly John Jabez Edwin Mayall, three-quarters le...

Case: Rinhart 172. Label attached to case: 209. Identification from Marian S. Carson inventory, possibly a self portrait. Attribution based on table used as studio prop. Hallmark: Rinhart 10. Robert Cornelius: ... More

Young artist's coloring guide, no. 12.

Cover title. Sets of facing plates, one colored, the other uncolored, pictorially representing words beginning with the letters R-Z.

Skedaddlers Hall, Harrisons Landing, engraving, Library of Congress

Signed lower right: Waud. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower left: Sk[etch in Sutlers's] store Excelsior Brigade July 3rd. Note that the figure seated to the left of the doorway bears a close resembla... More

Emmitsburg, Maryland. Farmer's Inn and Hotel where our special artist ...

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

[Unidentified soldier in Union infantry uniform and Volunteer Maine Mi...

Case: Leather; unique geometric design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Picket Post, Fredericksburg, Va., 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogr... 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

Sketch of Genl. Custer staff and prisoners

There is a self portrait on horse to right of center. Inscribed: Col. Sweitzer; Waud; Capt. Ash. Published in: Harper's Weekly, March 26, 1864, pp. 200-201, as part of the series: Scenes connected with General ... More

[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