benjamin franklin

The election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor...

Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men,... More

"Jeff wants to get away", Confederate States of America.

An illustrated sheet music cover for an anti-Confederate comic song. Confederate president Jefferson Davis stands on a bale of cotton and asks John C. Breckinridge, former U.S. Vice President and fellow secess... More

Martin, Honorable Benjamin Franklin of W.Va.

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Benjamin Franklin, Supt. P.N.D.A., Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, 1873-18...

Photograph shows portrait of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency superintendant and former chief of detectives at the Philadelphia Police Department. Forms part of: Visual material from the records of Pinker... More

Rushing the season / J. Keppler., Political Cartoon

Print shows the interior of the "Political Hot House" where many plants with the heads of politicians are potted and labeled with botanical names, for example "Butleria Cockeya", "McVeaghia No Chancea", "Tilden... More

A new way of "waking" the Democratic shaughraun / Gillam.

Print shows a small, rustic room crowded with members of the Democratic Party, some dressed as old women, others drinking and smoking clay pipes; one man, the "Shaughraun" labeled "Democratic Party" is lying on... More

The end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" b...

After a large painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach showing the "destruction of Jerusalem", this print shows the demise of the Republican Party with various Republicans, Mugwumps, Democrats, and allegorical figures,... More

Statues and sculpture. Benjamin Franklin statue II

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A painting of a large group of people Franklin before the lord's counc...

Benjamin Franklin standing before the Lords in Council in Whitehall Chapel, London in 1774, presenting the concerns of the American colonists. There is a key for the original painting, printed by John H. Butle... More

Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1864, pp. 712-713, as part of: Yankee Improvements in Front of Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print avai... More

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

The fifteenth amendment. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print showing President Grant sitting at the center of a large table, with several men clustered around, signing the 15th amendment granting that the right to vote cannot be denied on basis of race or color. Fr... More

[Ben Franklin] - Public domain portrait engraving

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Maen-Coch, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware C...

Significance: Maen-Coch, currently known as The Grange, owes its significance to its high-style Gothic design with an 18th century core, its association with prominent individuals, and to its old and extensive ... More

Second days action at Hatteras inlet

Broadside views of ships bombarding Fort Hatteras. Signed lower right: Alf.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: No top gallant masts up; Susquehannah; Cumberland; [Adnatie]; Minnesota; Wa... More

Battle of Darby Town Rd. Gen'l Butler & his staff

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed above image: 1st Connecticut Battery Capt. Clinton. Our skirmish firing at the rebels in the woods. The Gerhadt House. Inscribed on verso: View of the action on Thursday 27th... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

James Lovell and William C. Houston to Benjamin Franklin, July 11, 178...

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Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. - envoy from the American Congress to the Fre...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing right with left arm resting on arm of chair. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain an... More

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (... More

The last card. Tip overthrown - Public domain book illustration

A satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years l... More

Dr. Franklin. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, looking to his right at an electrical device, in his left hand are papers upon which he is taking notes, and visible through a windo... More

[Benjamin Butler] - Public domain drawing

Three-quarter length profile portrait of Gen. Benjamin Butler. Title devised. Profile bust portrait, right margin, inscribed: McMarkin Chun [?] Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.582) Forms part of: Morg... More

What I know about raising the devil

Horace Greeley's famous and widely ridiculed 1871 pamphlet "What I Know of Farming" provided the pretext for the title here. With the tail and cloven hoof of a devil Greeley (center) leads a small band of Liber... More

Shively, Honorable B.F. Benjamin Franklin, Portrait photo, Library of ...

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Full name of sitter from Congressional Biographical Directory. Date based on proba... More

Who killed Hancock? / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows the ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sitting on a throne in a banquet hall, Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock, Dana makes wild statements while waving a... More

Decoration-day, 1883 / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a large group of politicians and others in a cemetery on Memorial Day, each seems to be grieving at gravestones that bear special messages, such as Pope Leo XIII standing in front of a stone ... More

Too many leaders / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a winter scene with a soldier labeled "Democracy" standing in front of a road sign that points in four directions "Free Trade, To Tariff Reform, To Protection, [and] No Policy", between his f... More

The olympus of corruption - "Apollo strikes the lyre and charms the go...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine as Apollo playing a lyre labeled "N.Y. Tribune" fashioned from the body of Whitelaw Reid, before a gathering of the gods on Olympus; among those present are Cyrus Field as Mer... More

A lenten dream / J. Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a mermaid labeled "Presidency" swimming in water with a clear view of the fish that are attracted to her. Depicted are David Davis, Grover Cleveland, Joseph E. McDonald, Benjamin F. Butler, R... More

Mr. Hill tries it on / Gillam. - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Illustration shows the Governor of New York, David B. Hill, riding backwards on the Democratic donkey labeled "Democracy" running on railroad tracks near a sign that states "Look Out for the Enlightening Expres... More

The new leader and the old chorus / Gillam.

Illustration shows John Logan labeled "New Leader" of the Republican Party, the "party of Reform and Puritee", holding a paper that states "Logan Speec[h] at Boston July 1885", standing in the street between th... More

Charles Willson Peale - Benjamin Franklin, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. J188196 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of last portrait made during Franklin's lifetime, painted in 1787. No. M 311. Pennsylvania Academy of the... More

Franklin experiment with the Kite

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, three-quarter length portrait, standing, rear view. J198442 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills ("original at Franklin Inst. of Boston Library"). Co... More

Benjamin Franklin University. Entrance to School of Accountancy, Benja...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Victory Corps boy l...

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High school Victory Corps. A student at Benjamin Franklin High School ...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys in...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys of a gymnasium...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys gr...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys in the "comman...

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Autobiografía de Benjamín Franklin,

Also available in digital form.

Benjamin Franklin Papers: Series I, 1772-1783; Correspondence with Dav...

Poor Richard illustrated, lessons for the young and old on industry, t...

Print showing a small portrait of Benjamin Franklin, surrounded by 24 vignettes illustrating maxims taken from his writings. Ford, P.L. Franklin bibliography, 216 (DLC/PP-47083). Copyright 1887 by T.O.H.P. Bur... More

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...

Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maen-Coch, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware C...

Significance: Maen-Coch, currently known as The Grange, owes its significance to its high-style Gothic design with an 18th century core, its association with prominent individuals, and to its old and extensive ... More

Now let the show go on! / F. Opper.

Print shows Benjamin F. Butler standing on a stage dressed as a clown, a list of nominations for the 1884 presidential election trails from his pocket: "Last ... Greenback ... Convict Party ... Tewksbury Pauper... More

Gen Butlers Head Quarters--Army of the James

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed within image: Gen Butlers Tent. Inscribed below title on verso: The Gen'ls Tent is the last one on the left, the House is used for the Adjutant Gen's Telegraph & other office... More

D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electri...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal. After portrait by Cochin. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and p... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Frankli...

Print shows right profile head-and-shoulders portrait of George Washington in oval facing oval containing left profile bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscell... More

[Six bust sketches: Benjamin Butler and others]

Title devised. See also Waud, no. 863a. Formerly Waud no. B-100a. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.864) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Benjamin Franklin, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. "Engraved by H.B. Hall from the original picture in Passel painted from life by J.A. Duplessis in 1783, and now (1868) in the possession of John Bigelow, Esq." This ... More

Puck's pyrotechnics - Fourth-of-July fireworks free to all / Opper & C...

Print shows a fireworks display with Puck bowing on a stage in front of a "Fan Light" featuring the likenesses of William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and Jay Gould; on stage with Puck is a hand... More

Blundering again! / Gillam., Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

Print shows a group of Democrats on a log raft that is breaking up within sight of land, with two logs labeled "New Jersey [and] New York" coming loose and drifting away; there is a small sail labeled "Democra[... More

"Stop thief!" / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration, reminiscent of Thomas Nast's cartoon of the same title published in Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871, hence "That trick is very stale", shows a group of monopolists and Blaine supporters scatterin... More

Helping the rascals in - a burglarious scheme that may be suddenly spo...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine wearing a top hat with three plumes, a sack labeled "For the Plunder" hanging from his neck, and a paper tied at his waist that states "20 Years on the Make", attempting to br... More

A chilly Christmas for the outcast orphans / Gillam.

Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler and Belva Lockwood as orphans wearing tattered clothing and standing in the snow outside a store labeled "G. Cleveland Holiday Goods" where a variety of foods are on displa... More

A hard job with the hogs / Gillam.

Illustration shows President Cleveland as a pig farmer getting tangled in leashes attached to the hind legs of several hogs, each with a distinctive brand, labeled "Hugh McLaughlin, H.O. Thompson, Higgins, Beat... More

[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of I...

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Benjamin Franklin, the United States first ambassador at the Court of ...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. De Paredes, V., artist. Stehli Freres, copyright c... More

SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916

A man in a coat and hat walking down a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Benjamin, Franklin, 1706-1790, "Franklin opening 1st subscription lib...

Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills, copyright by Detroit Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916

A man walking down a sidewalk with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Statues and sculpture. Benjamin Franklin, Jackson Square statue

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Benjamin Franklin High School, Queens, New York. Victory Corps boys ge...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys in the "comman...

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Ben Franklin - Public domain portrait engraving

Title from jacket. "David Martin" at top center. Photo of a painting, possibly by David Martin, 1736-1798. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. M 317, 050297. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Benjamin Franklin Papers: Series II, 1726-1818; 1726, July 22-1774, Ma...

Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, and Franklin Benjamin, July 29, 1...

"Scheme of a Convention" for Foreign Consuls; in French; with Copy and Printed Translation

Gen Butlers Head Quarters--Army of the James

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed within image: Gen Butlers Tent. Inscribed below title on verso: The Gen'ls Tent is the last one on the left, the House is used for the Adjutant Gen's Telegraph & other office... More

[Sergeant B. F. Smith of Company B, 52nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, a...

Photo shows identified soldier in Confederate uniform. Additional information in collections file. Not in case. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).... More

Kautz's Cavalry coming back to camp in Gen Butlers lines after their r...

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below title: more figures can be shewn[sic]. Inscribed lower left : Front P[age?]. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 508. Reference print available in the ... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

The philosopher & his kite / H.S. Sadd sc.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin and his son William flying a kite during an electrical storm.

[Three bust portraits, including Benjamin Butler]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-104. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.868) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[The Louisiana and Minnesota] - Public domain drawing

Two broadside views. Titled devised. Inscribed vertically under rough sketch: Gunboat Louisiana, afterwards Butlers powder ship at Fort Fisher. Inscribed under second ship: Minnesota. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (D... More

Political caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the Novembe...

Lincoln's support of abolition is portrayed here as a liability in his race to the White House against Democratic candidate George B. McClellan. At top a smoothly run train "Union" heads straight for the White... More

Furankurin to kaminari no zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man (Benjamin Franklin) and a woman sitting at a table in a house during a thunderstorm as lightning strikes a length of chain extending from a tub of water on the ground to a rod attached to the ... More

[Bank note vignettes showing explorers including Christopher Columbus(...

In album: Engravings of the American Banknote Company ... p. 86. Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, facing right] / Etch. by H.B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Evacuation day" March 4th, 1885 - a Democratic dream / Gillam. Joseph...

Print shows the Republican Party, laying down their arms, lead by Chester A. Arthur, with George M. Robeson, James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Charles J. Folger, Robert... More

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

An old book with a cartoon of a woman talking to a man, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Wa... More

"The Mulligan guard lies, but - surrenders" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows an explosion at the "Claim Agency, Formerly Republican Head Quarters" with William M. Evarts peeking through the opening in the tent to survey the damage; several small kiosks labeled "Machin... More