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The night mare, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a scantily clad woman asleep on a bed, a little man sitting on her chest pulling back her see-through covers, as one of her arms hangs to the floor near a chamber pot written on it... "Source of N... More

A view of the city of the Havana, taken from the road near Colonel How...

Print showing a group of people resting or having a picnic, with distant view of the harbor and city of Havana. Trimmed within plate mark.

John Bull fighting the French single handed / P.F.L.B. fecit., British...

Print shows John Bull rapping a French soldier on the head with a cudgel, stomping on a French officer with his right foot, and using his left foot to kick the French nobility out of England and back to France ... More

Whipping John of Islington, British Cartoon Print

Print shows an interior view of a room in which a man holds a bare-bottomed woman with a pained look on her face on his back as another woman holds up the woman's dress and points to her naked backside; a man, ... More

A map of the British and French settlements in North America.

Scale ca. 1:11,000,000. Covers the eastern half of North America from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory,... More

A map of the British plantations on the continent of North America, ac...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "West longitude from Ferro." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 87 Includes historic notes and text on "Fourteen British colonies including Newfo... More

Jonathan's Coffee House or An analysis of change alley with a group of...

"An engraving by the hand which produced "Dr. Squintum's Exaltation", No. 4005, showing the interior of "Jonathan's Coffee House", Change Alley, Cornhill, London, a place frequented by dealers in stocks, public... More

"The rights of man; or Tommy Paine, the little American taylor, taking...

"Tom Paine, lean, and grotesquely caricatured, crouches, kneeling on one knee, to apply his tape-measure to a gigantic crown standing on the ground, the greater part of which is cut off by the right margin of t... More

[Cartouche from A map of the British Empire in America with the French...

The Farmers toast, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing six fat farmers eating and drinking at a table. The farmers are 'monopolists', accused of holding corn in hopes of a still higher price. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collectio... More

Love and beauty--Sartjee the Hottentot Venus, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Sarah Baartman, a South African woman known as the Hottentot Venus, mostly naked, holding a long pole and smoking a pipe. A cupid sits on her exaggerated derriere saying "Take care of your hearts." ... More

Fort Niagara taken from the British side of the river at Newark / Stri...

Print shows Fort Niagara on a peninsula at the mouth of the Niagara River in Lake Ontario. Published in Port Folio Magazine October 1814, p. 297. Stamped on lower right on mount: Map Division Oct 4 '21 Library... More

Lord Mayor's day. Bringing the Baron of Beef into Guildhall

Several male kitchen servants carry beef on a litter and into a banquet hall. The two head cooks supervise the proceedings. Several men in offical dress watch. Inscribed below image: Mr. Young Husband the chi... More

Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, Mexico, th...

Wall map. Shows Canada only along United States border. Relief shown by hachures. Gift; Buffy Cafritz, Madison Council; 2004. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Differs from other 1849 ed. by omiss... More

[A tarred and feathered man standing on hands and feet with a rope att...

Possibly from series published by Carrington Bowles; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5232. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prin... More

L'Affaire d'orient 1854. 20, Balaklava. Charge heroique des Hussards A...

Print shows a vastly outnumbered British Light Brigade cavalry engaging Russian soldiers at the artillery battery at the end of the valley during the disasterous charge of Light Brigade at Balaklava, Ukraine, d... More

Reading-room of the British Museum

Print shows the domed reading of the British Library at the British Museum. Illus. in: Memoirs of libraries: including a handbook of library economy / By Edward Edwards. London : Trübner & Co.,1859, p. 701.

Napoleon's return from the Island of Elba, March 7th 1815 / painted by...

Print showing Napoleon I greeting French soldiers and citizens after his escape from Elba. Trimmed within plate mark.

Man building railway planned by Cecil Rhodes near Broken Hill, Rhodesi...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Uganda. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

The Quartier Latin. A magazine devoted to the arts / Louis Rhead.

Poster with art nouveau aspects showing a seated woman holding a palette and paint brushes. Promotional goal: Fr .D41 189-. Publication Artistique de La Plume.

Louis Rhead - Winter tales for winter nights

Color poster by Louis John Rhead, 1857-1926. [Issued by] the New York Sunday Press. New York, Ellery-Howard Co. Signed iwth the artist's monogram. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 189-. This record contains unverifi... More

St. Nicholas, "the ideal magazine for young folks." The beautiful Chri...

Printer's note lower left: G.H. Buek & Co., N.Y., lith. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1895 Gift; J.H. Corning estate.

Louis Rhead - Louis Rhead - Scribner's for Xmas

Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title.

British royal family - Victorian era public domain image

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

E. Johnson, Sir. J. & Lady Eaton, Sir E. Shackleton

Public domain photograph of 1900s official event, publicity shot, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lady Cayzer, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Wounded British in trench - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord Mountbatten (Prince Leopold of Battenberg) seated

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

H.M.S. Bedford. Warship photograph collection

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0863. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Lieut. E.H. Shackleton Cigarette Card

Cigarette card for American Tobacco Company's Hassan Cork Tip cigarettes shows portrait of Ernest Shackleton in parka in front of frozen landscape. Issued by: American Tobacco Company.

Captain Robert F. Scott writing in his diary

Photograph shows Captain Robert F. Scott, sitting at a table in his quarters, writing in his diary, during the British Antarctic Expedition. J181351 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1913 May 12, by Herbert G. ... More

Camp at the South Pole - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows expedition members Edward A. Wilson, Robert F. Scott, Edgar Evans, Lawrence Oates, and Henry Robertson Bowers at the South Pole standing in front of Roald Amundsen's tent. J195226 U.S. Copyrigh... More

Conan Doyle, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conan Doyle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Scottish physician and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Ellen Terry, at the age of sixteen / Julia Margaret Cameron.

Print shows Ellen Terry, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, leaning against wall, holding necklace. Photomechanical print made from a photograph taken in 1864 probably at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Engla... More

J.P. Morgan - Haldane - Sir K. M. McKenzie

Photo shows J.P. Morgan, Jr., Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1856-1928); and Sir Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir-Mackenzie (1845-1930). (Source: Flickr Commons project, ... More

Bandages from kit of British Dog

Photograph shows man getting bandages from a dog, during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Your king & country need you to maintain the honour and glory of the B...

Poster showing an old veteran, wearing his decorations, shaking hands with a young soldier. Caption: A chip of the old block. Copyright by Dobson, Molle & Co. Ltd. Poster no. 18.

American, British, French, & German masks gas

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Everyone should do his bit. Enlist now / Baron Low 1915 ; printed by R...

Poster showing a young man in uniform, posed with a drum, before a wall displaying enlistment posters by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Some of the posters are recognizable as items in the Library of C... More

We're both needed to serve the guns! Fill up the ranks! Pile up the mu...

Poster showing a soldier, with a battle in the background, shaking hands with a worker, with an industrial landscape in the background. Poster no. 85c.

Join the Royal Marines. Help to man the guns of the fleet / W.H. Smith...

Poster showing marines operating a large cannon on a ship. Public domain photograph - World War One artillery, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Our country's urgent need. Every physically fit and hardy man required...

Text continues: Age 19-45. Minimum height 5 ft. 5 ins. Minimum chest 35 ins. Separation Allowance & Pay at Army Rate. Apply E. Cunliffe-Owen, Hotel Cecil, Strand, London, or Management. Poster is text only.

Sir E. Shackleton - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows arctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

British at Etaples, Feb. 1915 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photograph shows British soldier bathing at Étaples, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Mr. Joseph Devlin, M.P., and the Irish brigade. Irishmen, do your duty...

Includes quote from Devlin, wishing the Irish Brigade well. Poster is text only. 5,000, Wt./P.651, 3,15.

[Children protesters with signs: "Mr. Wilson is busy protecting Americ...

A group of people holding signs in a park. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Second line coming up amid shell fire to win the trench

British soldiers in World War I. J217084 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Realistic Travels.

The great naval battle: the first sight of the enemy. The fleets in to...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

British officers' luncheon in wrecked village

Photograph shows British officers eating lunch in the ruins of a building at Étreillers, Aisne, France on April 25, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and the Imperial War Museums we... More

[Bust of Sir William Blackstone by Marius Azzi]

G54090 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - bust portrait sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bayonet practice, British training

Photograph shows soldiers being instructed on the use of the bayonet by charging dummies at Tadworth Camp, England during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial War Mus... More

[British soldiers with Lewis guns inside the Lion's Gate (St. Stephan'...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[David Lloyd George at White House, Washington, D.C.]

A black and white photo of a man in a top hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Standing, left to right: Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Premier Stanley Bald...

Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Palestine disturbances 1936. Arrival at the war graves cemetry [i.e., ...

Public domain image of aristocratic military leader, general, monarch, 18th-19th century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

London is still "taking it" - A black and white photo of a city

Photo shows St. Paul's Cathedral, London, amid smoke and flames of night air raid, Dec. 1940. Photograph from International News Photo. No. 924119. Gift from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

Photograph shows black smoke from a fire set by British forces in Malaya.

Production. Parachute making. What a boomerang these shroud lines may ...

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

U.S. record production of lend-lease locomotive. America recently buil...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Partial view of North Ameri...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. P-51 ("Mustang) fighter planes. A group of North American ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sir Francis Drake, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing left. Engraving by W. Hall. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. "From an original Picture in the possession of Sir T.F. E... More

The Century containing...the new life of Napoleon, Christmas number

Poster shows a woman in an Aesthetic dress holding peacock on a platter. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1894.

[The S.S. OLYMPIC, 1911: Grand stairway, second landing]

Photoprint copyrighted in 1911 by William H. Rau. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irishmen - avenge the Lusitania. Join an Irish regiment to-day / W.E.T...

Poster showing the Lusitania in flames and sinking, with people in the water and lifeboats in the foreground. Wt. P. 110 - 7,500. 5/'15. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in t... More

Sin, Death, and the Devil - vide Milton, British Cartoon Print

A satire on the struggle between Pitt and Thurlow travestied as a scene from Paradise Lost. Pitt is Death, wearing only the king's crown. Thurlow is Satan. The Queen is Sin, naked, with two writhing serpents fo... More

Sir Cote Male Taile - Public domain book illustration

(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 192.

A general map of the middle British colonies, in America. Containing V...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of the war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." From the author's The American mil... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

William & Mary College, Main Bulding, College Yard, Williamsburg, Will...

Significance: The construction of this main building of the College of William and Mary was begun in 1695. It is the oldest known college structure extant in the country and has been attributed to Sir Christop... More

America in flames, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman representing "America" seated in flames fanned from above by two men in clouds wielding British measures, "Quebec Bill" and "Masachusets (sic) Bay", against the colonies; four British men, r... More

Vauxhall. Mr. Green, Wednesday, July 31st / G. Webb, sc., 3 Snow Hill.

Poster shows balloonist Charles Green on horseback suspended from an ascending balloon to advertise balloon ascensions in Vauxhall Gardens, London.

Hints to managers, actors and authors / G.M. Woodward, del., British C...

Printed on item: In Holland's Exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of humorous prints. Admit.ce one Shillg. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Most images available on microfi... More

The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the...

Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3370

Fashion before ease;--or,--a good constitution sacrificed for a fantas...

Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscri... More

Dr. Squintum's exaltation or the reformation, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon showing Rev. George Whitefield standing on a three-legged stool, and preaching in the open air; an imp pouring inspiration through a clyster-pipe into his ear; a grotesque Fame, being a female evil-spir... More

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Virginia Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

The First Woman Physician, Elizabeth Blackwell

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks! - or - An exp...

A satire on the fashionable lectures at the Royal Institution, showing Thomas Young(?), doing an experiment, holding Sir J.C. Hippisley by his nose, and applying to his mouth a tube from an apparatus in which a... More

A view of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the Br...

This famous watercolor view by William Birch shows the only section of the Capitol that had been completed when the government moved to Washington in 1800. Workmen are still cutting stones in the left foregroun... More

A new map of the British Dominions in North America; with the limits o...

Scale ca. 1:3,200,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. west from London." "Engraved for the History of the War in the Annual Register, and to be placed at the end of the volume for 1763." Includes inset. LC ... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean : a regional study /

Maps on lining paper. "Research completed September 1987." Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-728) and index. Also available in digital form.

Islands of the Commonwealth Caribbean : a regional study /

Maps on lining paper. "Research completed September 1987." Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-728) and index. Also available in digital form.

Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoo...

The print shows evangelical Methodist minister George Whitefield preaching at Moorsfield, London.. He is supported by two females, one holding a mask and labeled "Hypocrisy", the other a Janus-faced "Deceit". O... More

Harris's list; or, Cupid's London directory / R. Newton del. ; etch'd ...

Print shows a man with a copy of "Harris's list" open to the page for "Miss Love" standing in front of Miss Love's establishment; there is a young woman standing at the door, one leaning out a first floor windo... More

Vue de la prise des forts et ville de Havane par les Anglois en 1762

Print shows a perspective rendering of the bombardment of Havana by British ships and the landing of English troops where the fortress wall has been breeched to capture the city. Caption continues: Vista presp... More

Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Napoleon convincing the Spanish royalty, who are enclosed in a bubble, of his friendship as he fires a cannonball at Madrid. Information from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Soc... More

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territo...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Creased, soiled, small tears along edges of sheet. Acquisitions control no. 99-83

Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. "Ready! All ready your hon...

Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry speaking to gunners aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie.

The balance of trade with Great Britain seems to be still against us--...

Page of advertisements with cartoon showing people on steamship carrying "Poor house from Galway." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 27, 1883 April 28, p. 272.

[Abraham Lincoln], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Fabric tag showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing right, within a wreath, beneath two hands glasped in a handshake, flanked by British and American flags; includes "No. 3474" and "Yds. 5... More

[Sir Francis Drake's House near Severn Bridge, Gatcombe, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11014". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

H.M.S. Blake. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

British military copies - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A man in a suit smoking a cigarette. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sir Youssouf Sadik Pasha - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

[Sir Walter Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait]

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

Sir Donald from Mt. Abbott, Selkirk Mountains

Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Sir Donald from Mt. Abbott, Selkirk Mtns. Captions for similar images (LC-D43-10257) lists titles as: Heart of the Selkirks, British Columbia... More