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Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 ...

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text. Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14.

Puck magazine cover - The Cuban melodrama / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Uncle Sam in the role of the "Noble Hero" in a melodrama, defending a young woman labeled "Cuba" from the "Heavy Villain" labeled "Spain". Caption: The Noble Hero (to the Heavy Villain) Stand back... More

Ugo da Carpi - The resurrection, 16th century

Print shows Jesus, dressed in a shroud, stepping out of his tomb as it rests in a cave. On the right, the women weap, and on the left, the guards tumble over each other in fright. Title from Graphic sampler / ... More

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

Title from caption card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. No call number on caption card

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

Richard Low 17th century - Public domain engraving

after a painting possibly by John Hayls, portraitist, 1600?-1679; published by John Smith, painter, draughtsman, and engraver, 1652-1743 (artist notes) British (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (art... More

Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecedebant Victimam...

Unknown (artist nationality) Recto: top center: (in Latin) Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecede- / bant Victimam et Hecatoniben. / Sacra enim sua nunquam / celebrabant antiqui sine musicis ... More

Das Weisskunigs Erfahrung in Mummerei (Of the White King's Introducti...

German (artist nationality) painter and woodcut designer (artist role) Recto: l. c.: (initials in border of tablecloth) H B ; l. l.: (in pencil) H B Wm ; l. c.: (arrow, pointing upward) ; verso: (in pencil) l. ... More

Le Fluteur (The Flutist) - Public domain scenic engraving

after a painting by Alexis Grimou, painter, 1678-1733 (artist notes) French (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Grimou, Alexis, 1678-1733 (original artist) Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) Peint par G... More

Ōkawabata yūryō, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women, two standing and one sitting on a bench next to the Sumida(?) River, enjoying the cool evening air. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print s... More

Koto to shō, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain drawing

Print shows two women playing musical instruments, one playing the koto and the other panpipes. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

Tsuchiyama, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three combs. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Tōkaidō Road. Format: horizontal Yatsugiri-ban Nishikie. L... More

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI, a bishop, and a member of the aristocracy riding on the back of a man, representing the people, who's blindfolded and in chains and crawling on his hands and knees. de Vinck, 10309 Pur... More

Shya - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man, standing, holding a large bow and an arrow.

[Domestic cat napping with three playful kittens and a saucer on the r...

Signed on lower right "C.F." Printed with number in upper right corner: 6. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

The aristocracy of color - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: J. Cn. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Bethlehem April 6th 1839

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 2, pts. 11-13, p. 12. Surr... More

General view of the ruins of Luxor from the Nile 1838 / David Roberts,...

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

Her most excellent majesty Charlotte Queen of Great Britain / Frye ad ...

Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Bryan, 2 Smith, 2 Duplessis, 9194:15 Dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection.

Gekka momo ni tsubakura - Public domain drawing

Print shows two swallows with peach blossoms and a full moon. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Otanzaku-ban Nishikie. Adachi mo... More

Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill

William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More

Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850

A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic drawing

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

[Print speciman of botanical illustrations for Aethusa Cynapium, an he...

Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 6]

Public domain art prints - Public domain scenic print

Unicorn drops - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Utagawa Hiroshige - Tsunohazu kumano jūnisha zokusyō jūnisō

Print shows a pond ringed with trees and small raised structures that provide some shelter for tea or meditation, and larger buildings in the lower left, in a pastoral setting. Title and other descriptive infor... More

Angels playing music in heaven, harpies playing music in Hell

Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. Cochran, 626 (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Popular graphic a... More

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

Kiralfy's grand spectacle of Paradise lost

Includes portraits of Julia Seaman, Kiralfy Brothers, and others. "Printed by Stannard & Son, 7, Poland St., London ...." Copyrighted by Imre and Bolossy Kiralfy, 1874. Signed: R.J. Hamierton(?), London. Forms ... 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

A lʹhippodrome - l'equilibre dans l'air / Lefman, sc.

French caricature shows the balloonist Camille Dartois in a balloon labeled "Hippodrome" and Bradbury, a circus performer, standing while riding a horse at the Hippodrome, Paris. Illus. from: La grenouille, pr... More

General Gordon and the slave hunters of Darfour

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Stanley-Berkeley, printer. Category designation on... More

Hitotsuya no tsuki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows an old woman holding a small firebrand or torch as she sneaks around the corner at the entrance to a room in a lonely, isolated house, with the moon shining in the background. Title and other descri... More

Fanny Davenport - Public domain portrait photograph

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

De Wolf Hopper, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 192...

Created by "The Metropolitan Printing Co., N.Y." Newspaper clipping encased in mylar. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Bavarian bock - Print, Library of Congress collection

2868 U.S. Copyright Office. 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. [Schile, H., litho... More

Robert B. Mantell as Monbars - Public domain portrait engraving

S26672 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted 1887 by Augustus Pitou. Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti, N.Y., London." N.Y. 1950. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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

[Ballerina in white costume with flowers in dance pose]

V35184 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1890 by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 2. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Profile heads of three horses - Public domain engraving

13863 U.S. Copyright Office. 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. Schlecht, C., eng... More

Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Z29088 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 5803B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. in Utopia, limited Gilbert & Sullivan's new o...

Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cincinnati & New York." No. 5762. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Too much Johnson with William Gillette.

Z60954 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Say! Hold on a minute. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti. N.Y." Management, Charles Frohman. No. 6268. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collec... More

Caricature, Called out again / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Print shows Otto von Bismarck and William E. Gladstone standing on a stage labeled "Political Stage"; Bismarck is wearing a suit of armor and Gladstone has an axe hanging from a rope, there are bouquets of flow... More

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).

Merely wants to know / F. Opper.

Print shows Uncle Sam with a feather in his hat labeled "Victory", holding America's Cup labeled "Yachting Champion", a cricket bat labeled "Cricket Champion", and a medal labeled "Athletic Champion", and with ... More

In the hands of his philanthropic friends / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Uncle Sam walking between two bloated businessmen labeled, on the left, "Monopolies" and on the right, "Trusts"; each one is picking a pocket while Uncle Sam is blissfully unaware. Illus. from Puck... More

Citizens for trouble-making only / Keppler.

Print shows Columbia standing with two "troublemakers" labeled "Cuban Filibuster" and "Irish Agitator" hiding behind her skirt; they are holding papers that state "Certificate of U.S. Citizenship". Illus. from... More

Another shotgun wedding, with neither party willing / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a shotgun wedding between Uncle Sam and a young woman labeled "Hawaii"; a former Confederate general labeled "Sen. Morgan" with a "Jingo" feather in his hat, stands behind them, holding a shotgun la... More

Puck magazine cover - The Russian-French alliance / Keppler.

Print shows the Russian Bear playing a fiddle labeled "Politics", around it's waist is a belt with papers labeled "French Military Secrets" tucked behind, and a cord extending from it's right wrist is connected... More

Le Frou Frou 20', journal humoristique / L Capiello.

Poster showing a can-can dancer holding a copy of "Le Frou Frou" while she dances.

Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks everything new.

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

Chas. E. Blaney's big extravaganza success, A female drummer

21279 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Blaney and Vance, managers. Caption: Nellie O'Neil - the acrobatic comedienne. Created by "The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3715. Forms part of: Theat... More

Lost in the desert the sensational event of the year : a drama on new ...

D14741 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Then you die together. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Seer Print, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for witchcraft

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Waterfall] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

General Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur Klaw & Erlanger's stupendous production.

G xxc 502 U.S. Copyright Office At head of title: Illinois Theatre, Chicago commencing Sept 2d. matinees Wed & Sat. Created and "copyright 1901 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati, O." Dramatized by Wm. You... More

Fucoideae. - Brauntange. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows algae. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, allgemei... More

[The flower girl] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Gorton's famous Minstrels, American vaudeville and popular entertainme...

G xxc 11253 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1905 by The Courier Co. of Buffalo." Featuring: Jos. Gorton, Jake Welby, C.C. Pearl. Jos. Gorton, originator and founder; C.C. Pearl, manager. Forms part... More

Washington in headquarters at Newburgh, after the close of the America...

F70654 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Browncombe, Jennie, ... More

"The Heavy Cross" Sculpture by Constantin Isenberg

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

Du Pont smokeless shotgun powder - the standard of the world

Print showing a brood of quail nesting in tall grass. Copyright 1913 by E.I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Company, Wilmington, Del.

Have you a Red Cross service flag? / Jessie Willcox Smith.

Boy putting Red Cross service emblem on window. Promotional goal: U.S. G21. 1918. Copyright by the American Red Cross.

Bansy (Bunsee - Bamboo Nose Flute), Dayton C. Miller Collection

Flemish (artist nationality) marine painter, etcher, and ethnographer (artist role) Recto: l. l.: 2.me Section. ; bottom center: BANSY. ; l. r.: Livraison. 24.me ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Paul Ritti / July 19... More

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain art prints - Public domain print

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exhibition Oil paintings from the easel division : N.Y.C. WPA Art Proj...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of oil paintings. Date stamped on verso: Mar 24 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Adolf Hitler - Print, Library of Congress collection

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. Wilk, Josef, artist. Number on verso: 46353. C... More

East Jesus is an experimental, habitable, extensible artwork in progre...

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

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...

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

The Union volunteer, Confederate States of America.

One of several patriotic prints issued by Currier & Ives in May 1861, closely following the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln's appeal to the states for troops to suppress the rebelli... More

The Branch cannot bear fruit, except it abide in the vine

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0722.

We've fought in the open - bubonic plague, yellow fever, tuberculosis-...

Poster shows emaciated human figures, representing various diseases, cower beneath a partially nude female figure, representing venereal disease, chained to a vulture. Designed in collaboration with D.P.P. No.... More

Angela Davis, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Altra veduta degli avanzi dell Pronao del Templo della Concordia Caval...

View of the temple of Concordia, with numbered key. Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Angela Davis, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Clasped hands, one white, one black, with dove on sunflower

Gift: Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Serv...

Poster showing four young women carrying tools and a basket of produce, and leading a team of horses.

Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th 1862

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0470.

Selden's funny farce, A spring chicken

Includes image of theater poster advertising play: Coming! Selden's funny farce, A spring chicken. Caption: Gosh! Ain't that a bird! Created and "copyrighted by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 6171. Forms ... More

[ Soldier playing flute, recto; fisherman, verso]

German (artist nationality) history and battle painter (artist role) Recto: (in blue pencil, erased?) l. r. 1796; verso: (in pencil) u. l.: Henning Oppermann / Nov. 1928 / $28.00; l. c.: Jac. Matth. [?]; l. l.:... More

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels

B252649 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Our great champion cake walk, open to all comers. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." No. 7325. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection ... More

Gerard Valck - The Flute Lesson, Wurlitzer catalog of musical instrum...

after a mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant, painter, draughtsman, and mezzotint engraver, 1623-1677, based on a painting by Gerard Pietersz. van Zyl, called Geraers, or Gerards Geraers, portrait and genre painter,... More

Lincoln's address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemeter...

Print showing Abraham Lincoln standing on stage before a ground of people.

Emily Bancker in A divorce cure from the French of Sardou by Harry Sai...

Caption: Ice-water sah? Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti - New York." Management of Thos. W. Ryley. N.Y. no. 7536. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Tsuribune no fuji - Public domain drawing

Print shows wisteria plant and blossoms in a hanging pot made from a large piece of bamboo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attribut... More

The Fifteenth Amendment and its results / drawn by G.F. Kahl.

Another of several large prints commemorating the celebration in Baltimore of the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3.) A group of black men, on horseback and wearing top hats... More

Yvette Guilbert / F. Bac. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Poster showing Guilbert standing before an audience. Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Betsey [sic] Ross - A painting of a woman holding an american flag

Betsy Ross sewing flag. From painting by G. Liebscher. Copyright by F.A. Schneider.

Projet d'une traversée du pole Nord en ballon / Poyet.

Print at bottom of page shows a cross section of the basket beneath the balloon, "Le Sivel" during its expedition to the North Pole. Interior of cabin includes a central living area occupied by four men, an are... More

That brilliant psychic star, Newmann the Great

Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of the entrance of the harbour of the Havana, taken from within...

Print shows a battleship being towed by men in rowboats, a boat under sail, and men in rowboats in the harbor, with the masts of ships sunk at the entrance of the harbor. Includes numbered key showing: 1. The s... More

Gentoku uma o odorashite tankei o koeru zu

Print shows Liu Bei (Xuande) on horseback struggling to cross the swiftly flowing Caoqi river. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptyc... More

Resignation / R. Westall R.A. pinxt. ; on stone by D. Fabronius.

Shepherd with sheep and dog. No. 392. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington as a Freemason / Strobridge & Gerlach lithographers, Pike's...

George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in masonic attire, holding scroll, and trowel; also head-and-shoulders portraits of Lafayette and Andrew Jackson, and biblical scenes.