audiences

The end of a bad show / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows a scene in the "Grand National Congressional Theatre" at the conclusion of the performance of "Fair Promise Combination No. 47 - Great Reform Bill - Act I Tarif Reform - Act II Civil Service ... More

Dedication speech by Gr. Ch. Watson, K. of P. Home, June 9, '10

J144942 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; International Stereograph Co.; September 3, 1910. On front: "Copyright 1910 by International Stereograph Co., general photographers, Decatur, Ill".

A narcotic quality pervades the warm, fetid air

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Majestic Movies" by Harrison Rhodes, Harper's magazine, 138:191 (Jan. 1919).

Opening prayer. Republican National Convention, June 21, 1904

Photograph shows hundreds of attendees at the opening prayer of the Republican National convention, Chicago. Photo and copyright 1904 by S. L. Stein, Milwaukee.

Primrose & Dockstader's Huge Minstrel Company

D7512 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The first complete canvas theatre ever erected in America. Seating 3000 people. 2 performances daily. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y."... More

Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving ...

J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Similar to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 11, street sign in foreground has been eliminated from negative.

He was evidently on exhibition - Public domain book illustration

Variant title on verso: He was talking to her with studied affectation. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Clique of Gold by Emile Gaboriau,... More

Circus scene showing a man (magician?) standing on a table holding a c...

Woodside's drawing may be a copy after an illustration from an 1815 English edition of "Songs of the Chase." Inscribed in pencil on verso: This is a copy by John A. Woodside of a vignette cut in the book "Songs... More

The universal church of the future - from the present religious outloo...

Illustration shows an interior view of a hall in a museum with four men sitting quietly beneath a shelf of "Books of Religious Reference"; there is a small crowd gathered before them. Further along the hall is ... More

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78307 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 506.

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle. Gallice, Iucatan &c. : et autr...

Appeared in Sanson's Cartes générales de la géographie ... 1676. Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 486 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Vanity fair H.L.S. monogram ; Wevill sc

Print shows a cover design for Vanity Fair magazine showing a harlequin standing on the left gesturing toward a theater stage for a puppet show and a large audience at his feet, in the foreground. 317 U.S. Copy... More

[Puppet show operated by a man standing on the left, with spectators i...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 36. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of the Grand Duke's Theater - The audience during the perform...

Newsboys and bootblacks' theater, Five Points neighborhood, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 37, (1874 Jan. 17), p. 316.

The effervescent ecstasy, Whose baby are you? by Mark E. Swan.

D11695 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Ach! - Sooch a singings. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co, Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Direction, Fitzgerald Murphy. No. 4535. Forms ... More

[Third concert, twenty-first season, Rubenstein Club]

H109647 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence; April 23, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43487. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

[National Republican Convention, June 17, 1896, St. Louis, Mo.]

Photograph shows hundreds of attendees at the National Republican convention, St. Louis, at the opening prayer, Wednesday, June 17, 1896. Copyright 1896 by M. F. Doud. A photograph by Genelli. M. F. Doud - proprietor.

[Calvin Coolidge speaking in House of Representatives chamber]

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph related to President Calvin Coolidge, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Police officer in front of crowd of children and adults at Federal Th...

Photograph by Dick (Richard) Rose, head of the Federal Theatre Project's Photographic Division. Exhibited: "Circus and the City" at the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, ... More

Marian Anderson, facing the Washington Monument, sings to an audience ...

"Photo by Abbie Rowe Courtesy National Park Service." Forms part of: Harold L. Ickes collection (Library of Congress).

The picture palace has become part of the life of the American people

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Things I Like in the United States" by Philip Gibbs, Harper's magazine, 139:676 (Oct. 1919).

Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving ...

J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Similar to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 11, street sign in foreground has been eliminated from negative.

Interior view of West Branch camp meeting, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania /...

1187 D. U.S. Copyright office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Primrose & Dockstader's Great American Minstrels

45628 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Back again, Lew Dockstader : "the man who makes millions laugh." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Library of Congress. Prints and Photograph... More

"St. Paul preaching at Athens" - A drawing of a man laying on a bed

Photograph shows a design by Edward P. Sperry for a stained glass window depicting Saint Paul in the center panel preaching to a crowd gathered at the sides; also shows a temple in the background. 92578 U.S. Co... More

National Democratic convention No. 2.

Photograph shows an overview of the hall with hundreds of attendees at the National Democratic convention, Chicago, Ill. Photo by Whipple & Co., c1896.

Liberty loans. Liberty loan crowds

Photograph shows a large audience listening to a speaker, possibly Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, at a Liberty Loan rally in Washington, D.C. Title from unverified caption data received with the H... More

He takes a half hitch around her waist and holds her beside him while ...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Fresh Guy" by Stuart Rivers, Metropolitan magazine, 51:31 (Feb. 1920).

[President Theodore Roosevelt speaking outside in Colorado]

Copyright by Rev. Horace Mann, Rifle, Colorado. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78307 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 506.

The dog performance, Saratoga New York

Photograph shows a dog performing for visitors at Saratoga Springs, New York. Card number: "No. 652." Gottheim collection code: GNS 40. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Forms part of the Larry Gotthe... More

Night scene, Fairmount Park, Kansas City, Mo.

H96905 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; July 22, 1907; DLC/PP-1907:43288. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago.

The picture palace has become part of the life of the American people

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Things I Like in the United States" by Philip Gibbs, Harper's magazine, 139:676 (Oct. 1919).

Primrose & Dockstader's Great American Minstrels

45628 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Back again, Lew Dockstader : "the man who makes millions laugh." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Library of Congress. Prints and Photograph... More

The war in the southwest - Adjutant-General Thomas addressing the Negr...

Print shows a large crowd of African American men, women, and children, some wearing military uniforms, listening to Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas speak "on the duties and responsibilities of freedom."

[President Wilson addressing Associated Ad Clubs at Independence Squar...

J217684 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Caywood, Bell & Fischer; July 19, 1916. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

She was Paris--Paris personified--Paris unclothed and in her right min...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Last Million" by Major Ian Hay Beith, Metropolitan magazine, 50:25 (June 1919).

President Roosevelt's western tour - one of his audiences, Lincoln, N...

H33967 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R. Y. Young. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Primrose & Dockstader's Huge Minstrel Company

D7512 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The first complete canvas theatre ever erected in America. Seating 3000 people. 2 performances daily. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y."... More

[President Theodore Roosevelt speaking outside in Colorado]

Copyright by Rev. Horace Mann, Rifle, Colorado. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pryor's Band concert, Royal Palm Park, Miami, Fla.

J247301 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. A. Fishbaugh; April 8, 1921. Copyright claimant's address: 152 E. Flagler St., Miami, Fla.

Pryor's Band concert, Royal Palm Park, Miami, Fla.

J247301 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. A. Fishbaugh; April 8, 1921. Copyright claimant's address: 152 E. Flagler St., Miami, Fla.

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78308 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 507. Exhibited: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama, the Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y., 2005-2006.

[In the ladies' gallery, House of Representatives] 35:1017 (Dec. 19, 1...

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's weekly, 35:1017 (Dec. 19, 1891).

Interior of the Hippodrome, Milwaukee, Wis.

H90452 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; February 14, 1907.

[Theatre meeting to demand the Susan B. Anthony amendment for the enfr...

Photograph shows several women seated on stage with one woman standing addressing the large audience; banner on stage reads "We demand the Susan B. Anthony amendment for the enfranchisement of women".

Pres. Taft at the State Fair, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 18, 1911

J161803 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. N. Nelson; October 1, 1911. Copyright claimant's address: 48 Adams Ave. W., Detroit, Mich.

Colonel Roosevelt giving public address in Birmingham N.C.L.C. Confere...

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

President Harding snaped [i.e., snapped] at the dedication ceremonies ...

President Warren G. Harding speaking from top of steps of the Lincoln Memorial. National Photo Company Collection. In album, p. 52, no. 18894.

A presidential conjuror / J. Keppler., Political Cartoon

Print shows President Chester A. Arthur as a magician on a stage, pulling cards out of a hat and tossing them into the audience; the cards are labeled "Secretary of Navy, Foreign Minister, Interior, Consulate, ... More

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth--the peerless prodigies of ...

Circus poster showing numerous human curiosities being presented on stage before an audience. (No. 99.B No. 76).

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78308 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 507. Exhibited: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama, the Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y., 2005-2006.

National Democratic convention No. 3.

Photograph shows an overview of the hall with hundreds of attendees at the National Democratic convention, Chicago, Ill.; band in foreground. Photo by Whipple & Co., c1896.

Arbor Day at park, 1908, Panoramic Photograph

H110909 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Thomas H. Mills; May 23, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43452. Probably Roger Williams Park in Providence.

Col. Roosevelt giving public address N.C.L.C. Conference Birmingham. ...

Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wendell L. Willkie Notification Ceremony, Elwood, Indiana, August 17, ...

J 30984 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Charles J. Bell; September 16, 1940. Copyright claimant's address: Indianapolis, Ind. No. 1934.

[Teddy Roosevelt seated in an outdoor stage box, surrounded by other a...

H117243 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A presidential conjuror / J. Keppler., Political Cartoon

Print shows President Chester A. Arthur as a magician on a stage, pulling cards out of a hat and tossing them into the audience; the cards are labeled "Secretary of Navy, Foreign Minister, Interior, Consulate, ... More

Ovation to Lieutenant General Grant at the Cooper Institute, New York,...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 20, no. 508 (1865 June 24), p. 209.

[Booker T. Washington standing on a stage before large crowd in Lakela...

Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress).

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" - Pres. Roosevelt and his frien...

H33934 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Col. Roosevelt giving public address at Birmingham, N.C.L.C. Conferenc...

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

Col. Roosevelt addressing crowd at Ensley, Ala., on the occasion of N....

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2003-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Scene at notification of Gov. Marshall, Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 20th,...

Gift; Wm. J. Martin; March 14, 1962. Photographer's address: 539 N. Meridian, Indianapolis. Governor Marshall announces candidacy for Vice-President.

[Ceremony of "Turning the Sod" of the New Masonic Temple, Thanksgiving...

J245245 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; December 15, 1920. Title based on similarity to PAN SUBJECT - Events, no. 10. Stamped on verso: "Spencer & Wyckoff, Commercial Photographers, ... More

National Educational Assn., National Photo Company, Washington DC

President Coolidge addressing members of the National Educational Association seated in stadium. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Item in album: v. 2, p. 8, no. 31305.

Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P., President of the Irish Land League, addr...

Print shows Charles Stuart Parnell standing behind a stone retaining wall, speaking to a large crowd gathered in the foreground, several men are waving their hats and one woman is waving a handkerchief; standin... More

The Blue and the Gray at Gettysburg, Assembly Tent, Gettysburg Celebra...

Photo shows two veterans seated on steps and shaking hands; one has his arm on shoulder of the other.

Interior view of West Branch camp meeting, Clinton Co., Pennsylvania /...

1187 D. U.S. Copyright office. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Primrose & Dockstader's Great American Minstrels

45628 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Back again, Lew Dockstader : "the man who makes millions laugh." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Library of Congress. Prints and Photograph... More

[Two men and a woman in a theater balcony]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Republican National convention at Chicago, June 2, 1880 Independent Am...

Photograph shows the President, delegates, reporters, prominent men on the platform, and the visitors' gallery watching as Gen. Garfield delivers a speech to hundreds of attendees at the National Republican con... More

Puck magazine cover - Our rampageous preachers / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows a preacher in the pulpit haranguing his congregation with a speech that begins "Noise or Nothing!"; there are two police officers, with large billy-clubs, in the pulpit with him, they exchang... More

Saturday evening at Lotos Club, 149 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Photomechanical reproduction of drawing shows a singer performing in front of an audience. Original drawing by Robert Reed of Paris (Source: New York Tribune, March 23, 1890, page 4). Accession box no. DLC/PP-1979:263

[President Coolidge standing on steps outside the White House, address...

National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 1, p. 19, no. 27056.

[President Coolidge addressing crowd at Arlington National Cemetery]

National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 1, p. 44, no. 30817.

Lindbergh Day, Springfield, Vt., July 26, 1927

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

Madison Square Garden as Lions' convention opened today / World Telegr...

Photograph showing a man standing at podium before thousands of Lions Club convention attendees in Madison Square Garden; each group has a sign to indicate which state they represent; audience crowd covers enti... More

[Teddy Roosevelt seated in an outdoor stage box, surrounded by other a...

H117243 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Blue and the Gray at Gettysburg, Assembly Tent, Gettysburg Celebra...

Photo shows two veterans seated on steps and shaking hands; one has his arm on shoulder of the other.

Comedy in the country. Tragedy in London / Rowlandson, scul., British ...

"Two designs on one plate. Above, two rows of burlesqued yokels (with two comely women, and an ugly old one), seated behind the orchestra and backed by a rough brick wall...Below, three members of the orchestr... More

Theatrical reflection, or a peep at the looking glass curtain at the R...

Print shows the mirrored curtain reflecting the audience at the Royal Coburg Theatre (Old Vic Theatre) and Ramo Samee, a juggler, magician, and sword swallower, juggling on stage. Forms part of: British Cartoo... More

[Interior view of a large convention hall filled with people sitting i...

Gift; Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, Massachusetts; 1933; (DLC/PP-1933:0070). Date based on use of the 35-star flag in decorations around the hall.

A theatre party - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as cover of: Harper's bazaar, 21:409 (June 23, 1888).

[National Republican Convention, June 17, 1896, St. Louis, Mo.]

Photograph shows hundreds of attendees at the opening prayer of the National Republican convention, St. Louis, Wednesday, June 17, 1896. Copyright 1896 by M. F. Doud. A photograph by Genelli. M. F. Doud - proprietor.

National Democratic convention No. 1.

Photograph shows an overview of the hall with hundreds of attendees at the National Democratic convention, Chicago, Ill. Photo by Whipple & Co., c1896.

[National Republican Convention, June 18, 1896, St. Louis, Mo.]

Photograph shows hundreds of attendees at the National Republican convention in session before the nomination of McKinley. Copyright 1896 by M. F. Doud, St. Louis, Mo. A photograph by Genelli. M. F. Doud - proprietor.

Professor William W. Keen's Clinic, Jefferson Medical College Hospital...

Photograph shows surgeons around a person on the operating table with medical staff gathered nearby, and with spectators, medical students?, seated in the background in the clinic amphitheater. H26824 U.S. Copy... More

Booker T. Washington standing on a stage in Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth--the peerless prodigies of ...

Circus poster showing numerous human curiosities being presented on stage before an audience. (No. 99.B No. 76).

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act...

H78308 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42938. No. 507. Exhibited: Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama, the Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y., 2005-2006.

He was evidently on exhibition - Public domain book illustration

Variant title on verso: He was talking to her with studied affectation. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Clique of Gold by Emile Gaboriau,... More

Return of Martha Graham Large Audiences Acllaim Dancer in Two Appearan...

Sixth Symphony Concert, Greek Theatre, Panoramic Photograph

H78303 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 28, 1906. No. 501.

Colonel Roosevelt giving public address in Birmingham N.C.L.C. Confere...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2000-B. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Audience of men and women seated in room, possibly a church

Part of LOT 12412, "The Riis family, and views of the United States and Denmark." Caption in microfilm compiled by Library staff for LOT 12412: "Unidentified, negative by N.G. Piffard, pistol flash, slide by Rich."

The Alamo, the shrine of Texas heroism - from President Roosevelt's st...

No. 7695. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View from stage of a Serbian army audience in an outdoor theater at th...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18885. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

View from stage of a Serbian army audience in an outdoor theater at th...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18885. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

President Roosevelt's western tour - one of his audiences, Lincoln, N...

H33967 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R. Y. Young. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description