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Public domain art prints - Public domain drawing

Ilka Kolsky's drawing. (General) Public domain drawing of children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white drawing of a lighthouse. Great Depression and Dust B...

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

The Miller Blues Band San Francisco - Jan. 10, Tues.-Jan. 15, Sun. - M...

Print shows psychedelic design with nude woman wearing jewelry. Public domain photograph related to electrical equipment, industrial development, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Convention Center, part of the restored and repurposed Re...

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

Artwork in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building, Washin...

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

Artwork by Do-Ho Suh at the Food and Drug Administration building, Sil...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,... More

The Boxing Hall of Fame mural, saluting famous boxers from El Paso, on...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Artist: Jose [?]oz and Moises Garcia. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Proj... More

Louis Haghe - Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives April 8th 1839

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions by the Revd. George Croly, L.L.D. ; lithographed by Louis H... More

Delicious Coffee! - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1677.

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her ...

Poster shows Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Black Patti, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, with many medals pinned to her dress. Created by "Metropolitan Print, N.Y." No. 1405. Forms part ... More

Globe map of the world - Public domain book illustration

F69929--69932 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1900, by Wm. M. Goldthwaite, Chicago, Ill." Relief shown by hachures. At head of title: Goldthwaites handy hemispheres. Includes inset showing torrid, temperate, a... More

[Oh, don't hurt me! cried Tom. I only want to look at you; you are so...

Caption from Drawn to Purpose exhibit: Through the Eyes of a Child. Jessie Willcox Smith employed her keen ability to imagine and evoke the angst and innocent wonder of a child in this breathtaking underwater s... More

The battle of New Orleans, fought Jany 8th 1814

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0466

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket. Landauer Co... More

The savages let loose, or The cruel fate of the Loyalists, British Car...

Cartoon shows three Natives, representing America, murdering six loyalists, four are being hung, one is about to be scalped, and the last, appealing to Fate, is about to be killed by an ax-wielding Native. Cata... More

Fred R. Hamlin's musical extravaganza, The wizard of Oz

Caption: The Tin Man. Created by "The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 7007. Signed: To Spider Rathburn, now I'm oil-right. Dave Montgomery by Fred Stone. Jan. 14, 1936. Gi... More

The High Rollers Extravaganza Co.

34899 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Initiating a High Roller. Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2693. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Kiralfy Bro's., Enchantment, American vaudeville and popular entertain...

R28002 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bro's." Created by "Central Litho. & Eng. Co, N.Y." No. 278. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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.

The Tarrytown widow a big comedy success.

C252450 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The same old game! Simple but neat! Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." Direction, D.W. Truss & Co. N.Y. no. 7753. Forms part of: Theat... More

Lost in Siberia, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 19...

Caption: Lost amid Siberian snows: An American uses drastic measures with rascally guides. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8226. Forms part of: Theatr... More

J.Q. Adams - Public domain portrait engraving

John Q. Adams, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding book. Engraving from original painting by J.P.A. (i.e. G.P.A.) Healy. Copyright by J.C. Tichenor.

Emily Bancker in the screaming comedy, Our flat

A245926 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: That don't belong to your firm!" Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cinti - N.Y." No. 6696. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The Fairie's home - Print, Library of Congress collection

Gale no. 1958. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu

Japanese triptych print shows large groups of women pilgrims visiting Enoshima shrine to worship an image of Benzaiten, the Goddess of Good Fortune. They are walking towards an island on a causeway with sailboa... More

The great naval battle off Cavite (Manila Bay), fought May 1st, 1898, ...

Copyright by Kurz & Allison. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Alexander the Great at the altar-fire on the eve of the Battle of Gau...

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Alexander the Great" by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Century, 58:233 (June 1899). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Cornell - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a baseball player, from Cornell University, holding bat. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Base ball / aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.

Baseball game. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

King Andrew the First - A drawing of a man dressed in a king's robes

A caricature of Andrew Jackson as a despotic monarch, probably issued during the Fall of 1833 in response to the President's September order to remove federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. The pr... More

Thurston the great magician the wonder show of the universe.

Caption: Do the spirits come back? Created and "copyright 1915 by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 14335. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms ... More

Bicycling / Hy Sandham ; aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.

Woman, on three wheel bicycle, followed by men on high-wheelers.

La lutte pour la liberte / L. Jonas, 14 Juillet 1918.

Print shows the Statue of Liberty and an American soldier behind Allied soldiers in World War I. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. "Copyright in the United States 1918 by Otis A. Mygatt."

Harry Houdini, king of cards - Public domain portrait print

Created by "National Pr. & Eng. Co., Chicago." No. 1838. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Forms part of: McManu... More

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution ...

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

The famous Rentz Santley Novelty and Burlesque Co. first time in Ameri...

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

Remember Wounded Knee - A black and white photo of a man holding a kni...

Poster showing Bobby Onco, a Kiowa, and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), holding up rifle. Photograph was taken after a ceasefire agreement between AIM forces and federal marshals at Wounded Knee, ... More

Public Domain Images - Winter / Bertha Lum.

Japanese walking with umbrellas in snow. Signed in pencil on image. Exhibit loan 4150-L.

Matsumoto kōshirō, iwaya hanshirō, nakamura shikan

Print shows two actors on the shoulders of a giant and the third actor leaping onto the giant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forma... More

Un peuple est sans honneur, et mérite ses chaines Quand il baisse le f...

Print shows a nude woman pulling back the curtain to a tent to reveal a female figure or mermaid on a bed stabbing a king sitting in a chair; a bust of a satyr is at the head of the bed, and two-faced Justice s... More

[Allegorical representation of Time rewarding Industry and punishing I...

Bradley Collection. Inscription: Praemia virtutum .. Pigritiae. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Self-, aged 28] - Public domain engraving

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Bartsch, 188, 245. Hollstein, 188. Inscription, above: Aldegrevers hec est ... anno sue aetatis XXVIII; inscription, below: Anno domini MDXXX. Coll. mar... More

Christ carrying the cross / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]; Andr...

Print shows Jesus Christ struggling under the weight of the cross. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Fabio Buonsignori Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints... More

William Hogarth - The Enraged Musician, Dayton C. Miller Collection

British (artist nationality) painter, etcher, and engraver (artist role) Recto: l. c.: The Enraged Musician ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Design'd, Engrav'd, & Publish'd by Wm. Hogarth Nov.br the 30.th 1741. Ac... More

Hercules and Telephus, after Charles-Nicolas Cochin

after an etching by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, draughtsman and engraver, 1715-1790 (artist notes) Unknown (artist nationality) Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, the younger, 1715-1790 (original artist) Recto: t... More

A voluptuary under the horrors of digestion / Js. Gy. design et fecit....

Caricature of George IV as the Prince of Wales, languid with repletion, leaning back in an arm-chair, at a table covered with remains of a meal, holding a fork to his mouth. His waistcoat is held together by a ... More

A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y] / drawn by Experience ...

Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's S... More

[The repeal or the funeral of Miss Ame=Stamp], British Cartoon Print

Print shows a funeral procession on the banks of the Thames, with warehouses in a line in the background, one of which is inscribed "The Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods now ship'd for America." George ... More

Segawa kikunojō, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows an actor portraying a woman holding an umbrella. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; ... More

[Woman stands in the basket of a balloon holding flags]

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yanagi no kezuribana, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the text of two poems. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kokonotsugiri-ban Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanes... More

Proclamation de la Constitution, place du Marché des Innocens, le 14 s...

Print shows a large crowd hearing the news that the new constitution is proclaimed, substantially reducing the power of the monarchy. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révol... More

A high wind in the park! / J. Baker fect., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a strong wind blowing down men, women, and children, catching up dresses, hats, and umbrellas, and tearing limbs from trees. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

[Domestic cat and kitten drinking milk from a saucer] / CF.

Signed on lower right "CF". Printed with number in upper right corner: 3.

Kiseru o motsu onna - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman holding a pipe (kiseru). Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sōshū umezawa zai, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows cranes on the ground and in flight with Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: F... More

Le pilote, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows two men standing in basket of balloon, "Le Pilote". Tissandier collection.

Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre April 10th 1839 / David Roberts.

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. 1, pts. 1-2, p. 14. Surrog... More

Convent of St. Saba April 4th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.

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. 7-8, p. 7. Surroga... More

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States / on stone by A. ...

Print showing Thomas Jefferson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in ornately framed oval.

Altar of burnt offering. Exod. xxvii / lith'y. of A. Kollner Philadelp...

Print shows a priest standing before a large altar with a grill on top, on which a ram's head is being consumed by flames. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Public domain art prints - Public domain portrait print

Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co. Frankl...

Print shows front and side views and a cut-away view of a steam engine. Printed at top right corner: Pl. 1. Illus. from: The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant : designed for practical wor... More

Laird's bloom of youth, for perserving the complexion & skin or liquid...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Laird, James, copyright claimant. Category designa... More

Roses, and rosebuds - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5656

Glimpses at the Freedmen's Bureau. Issuing rations to the old and sick...

Print shows African Americans gathered outside the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond, Virginia. A woman is handing a slip of paper through a window to a man seated inside. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated news... More

Paillettes de glace eclairées par les rayons du soleil observées en ba...

Print shows the balloon "Zenith" piloted by Gaston and Albert Tissandier on an expedition to observe upper air meteorological conditions ascending into the clouds amid rays of sunlight. "Fig. 3." Illus. from an... More

Pope Pius IX, three quarter length portrait

Print showing Pope Pius IX, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left.

Going into bath - Print, Library of Congress collection

D9620 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. Jacoby, Max & Zeller,... More

My playmate - Print, Library of Congress collection

4532 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. Kelly, Thomas, publish... More

Woman's holy war. Grand charge on the enemy's works

The "Holy War" was the nineteenth-century crusade for temperance and prohibition, whose advocates were predominantly clergymen and women. Here a young woman in armor on a black horse leads a group of similarly ... More

Nelson W. Aldrich / F. T. Stuart.

Portrait print showing Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, head and shoulders, facing slightly left.

The Victoria Loftus British Blondes

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

"Playmates" Young girl in a field playing with rabbits

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., copyright claima... More

Ibaraki, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Public domain drawing

Print shows an elderly woman or demon, possibly Ibaraki of Rashomon, flying through the air. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ... More

Lizzie Evans, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

P8899 U.S. Copyright Office "R.H. Eichner & Co. copyright 1884." Created by "R.H. Eichner & Co. Lith., Baltimore, MD." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

"The prisoner" - from the water-color painting by H.F. Farny

Print shows a man stripped to the waist lying on the ground with arms spread, tied to stakes at the hands and feet; a Native, holding a rifle, is seated next to him, in the background is a Native encampment. I... More

Lewis Morrison's magnificent new Faust

U2744 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted 1889 by Edw. J. Abraham." "Under the management of Edw. J. Abraham." Caption: The duel. Created by "The Springer Litho. Co., N.Y." No. 144. Forms part of: Theatrical pos... More

Glycerine tooth paste -- Gellé Frères perfumers 6, Avenue de l'Opéra, ...

Poster showing a woman holding a toothbrush and a container of toothpaste. Caption continues: Always used once used - Process of Eug. Devers chemist laureate - Gold medal Paris 1878. Signed on stone, lower left .

David Higgins, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

"Newman Photo, N.Y." Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." No. 9153. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The marvellous Bard, phenomenal trick swinging wire artist

Caption: This act is entirely different to all others and must be seen to be realized. Created by "Moody Bros., Birmingham." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of:... More

Bench show. New England Kennel Club

Poster showing a variety of dogs at the New England Kennel Club's dog show. 9730(1?) U.S. Copyright Office. Mechanic's Hall, Huntington Ave., Boston.

1 sheet poultry no. 73 - Drawing. Public domain image.

3706 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. Courier Lith. Co., lit... More

Hush! Baby's asleep - Print, Library of Congress collection

16242 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. Knapp Co., copyright ... More

Hennessy Leroyles big dramatic production, Linked by law

Z62745 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Col. Jelleby Jordan : his great original creation. Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 850. Forms part of: Theatrical poster co... More

Poster - Bock Miranda no. 199 - Public domain lithograph

12640 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. [Schile (H.) & Sons, ... More

[Explosion in rock formation with people running, man diving into wate...

Created and "copyrighted 1895 by H.A. Thomas & Wylie Lith. Co., 130-134 W. 24th St., N.Y." Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Caricature, Their nightmare / C.J. Taylor., public domain cartoon imag...

Print shows David B. Hill and Charles F. Crisp lying awake in a bed, suffering the nightmare of a spirit dragon labeled "Third Term". Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 969, (1895 October 2), cover. Copyright 1895 b... More

Girl pushing cat in green wheelbarrow

26720 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. Bien (Julius) & C... More

Famous religious paintings. The Agony in the Garden, by Repen, in Russ...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Agony in the Garden refers to the event in the life of Jesus Christ when he went to the Garden of Ge... More

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry ...

"Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: The shades of the Von Spitzenhofers. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3543. Under management of the author, Sidney R. Ellis. Forms part ... More

Caricature, Futility / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Print shows a winged female figure labeled "Peace" sitting on one side of a mountain pass and Mars, the Roman god of war, sitting on the opposite side; a man wearing a crown and robe labeled "Czar" is walking d... More

Japan makes her début under Columbia's auspices / Keppler.

Print shows Columbia introducing "Japan" to Britannia as a group of women labeled "Russia, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Spain, [and] France" gather around, with Minerva is sitting on the left; a woman labeled "China... More

The open door / J.S. Pughe. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows John Bull standing on the left at an entrance labeled "India" and Uncle Sam standing opposite at an entrance labeled "Philippines" inviting men labeled "Germany, Russia, France, Italy, [and] Austria... More

[Trained dog act], American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 ...

71302 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 599. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Josephine and Mercie - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

First Thanksgiving - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Photograph of a photo of a painting signed "J.L.G. Ferris." Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090423. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hello! Hello! Is that so? Whitney Opera Co.? All right save me a box. ...

Created by "... rdson & Foos ... N.Y." Different version of poster: POS - TH OPT - .N65, no. 1a (C size). Lower left and right corners missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Forrest & Company man of many mysteries.

Created by "The Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, KY." No. 5785. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)