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The salamander safe. A millerite preparing for the 23rd of April

A playful caricature of a Millerite, an adherent of the Adventist preacher William Miller who predicted that the world would end on April 23, 1844. The man sits in a large safe labeled "Patent Fire Proof Chest,... More

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

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

The Appomattox of the third termers - unconditional surrender / J. Kep...

Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant, wearing Civil War uniform, in front of tents "Camp Bourbon," "post trading tent," etc., and Belknap, Cameron, Williams, and Murphy, as soldiers with unhappy faces, handing dama... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

A sop to Cerberus / Gillam. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon showing Chester Arthur, carrying rope "2nd term aspiration" and holding out "bill excluding Chinese for 10 years" as sop to three-headed dog "western vote." Illus. in: Puck, v. 11, 1882 May 17, p. 163.

[African American dandy strikes another dandy with an umbrella]

V35189 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12. Copyrighted 1890 by The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich.

Please go 'way and let me sleep

Title transcribed from original jacket. "G-3952" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 34362. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The crematory money-bilt [sic] system. "The cost of the equipment is g...

Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Central Railroad Company caricatured as a railroad cart stove. In the caption, the "s" in the word "system" is written as a "$" and the quotation marks are also repr... More

Rice's beautiful Evangeline, American vaudeville and popular entertain...

Caption: Chief of police. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cincinnati = New York." NY 7083. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Caricature, "Nigger in the wood pile", public domain cartoon image

Public domain photograph of 190ss woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

He jes bus' right into a lady's house an' stole all her jew'lry

(DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Book for Mothers" by Lucy Pratt, McClure's magazine, 30:505 (Feb. 1908).

Election Day! - Public domain drawing

J72583 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Gustin. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"All alone! All alone! Nobody here but me!"

William H. Taft in dress, seated, holding "farewell" letters from a conservative republican and from a radical republican. Illus. in: Puck, 1911 Nov. 22.

Wilson's suggestion for a cartoon / Ireland.

Photograph of a cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt holding a club marked "legalized monopoly" for a baton as he leads a hallelujah "trust" chorus of rotund corporate men choir singing "Control us again." Publi... More

[The growth of democracy] - Drawing. Public domain image.

In the midst of a battle of flying artillery, two soldiers in the British army, one white and the other black, sit in a trench lighting cigarettes. In the distance a house explodes. No copyright information fo... More

You can't fool all of the people all the time unless they're Germans

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 72:560-561 (Oct. 17, 1918).

Karl Kautsky, Beigeordneter des Staatssekretärs des Auswärtigen, Berli...

Caricature of Karl Kautsky. F.J.M. Rehse Archiv f. Zeitgeschichte u. Publizistik, München.

Papa love mama - Public domain dedication image

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Happy Endings," Life, 79:5 (Jan. 19, 1922).

Caricatures on the side of a Wimpy's Restaurant in a working-class nei...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, was one of the characters in the long-running Popeye comic strip, created by E.C.... More

Agnew - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, standing before a microphone, holding an axe behind his back. Agnew was well known for his controversial speeches attacking liberals and anti-war demonstrators. He... More

Reed as Cupid - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860221.

Oscar the apostle. Puck's "Wilde" dream of an aesthetic future for Ame...

Cartoon showing Oscar Wilde, with people and things dealing with aesthetics. Illus. in: Puck, 1882 Jan. 11, p. 308.

William Heath - The royal milling match, British Cartoon Print

Caricature showing Lord Yarmouth hitting the Prince Regent in the eye, as Lady Yarmouth looks from behind screen covered with caricatures. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress... More

John Drew - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The bird to bet on - Public domain print

Caricature showing game-cock with head of Gen. W.S. Hancock. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0589. Old Conn. no. 416.

A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjec...

Cartoon showing the artist, Joseph Keppler, sleeping and dreaming of 10 well-known people of the time, including Butler, Grant, Talmadge, Beecher, Kelly, Bennett, S. Tilden, Whitelaw Reid, Tonans, and Peter Coo... More

Winooski - Public domain portrait drawing

Sidewheel steamship at dock. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: white river. Seated figure sketched in caricature on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-156. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.108... More

The Trollope Family, from a sketch taken from life, made in Cincinnati...

Print shows a caricature of Mrs. Trollope seated on floor with her book, Refugee in America, which caused much resentment. Six other people are present in the room, with an artist making an equestrian painting ... More

"Among those noticed on Main Street were --" / caricatures by Marius d...

Caricatures of 52 well-known people of the time, including across the top, left to right, Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Astor, Jacob H. Schiff, George J. Gould, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Herman Sielcken, Andrew Carnegie... More

N. Tom o' logical studies. The great tumble bug of Missouri, bent-on r...

A caricature of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton, as an insect rolling a large ball "Expunging Resolution" uphill toward the Capitol. The print employs Benton's own metaphor of rolling a ball for his uphill ... More

Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World Joseph Pulitzer

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la decouverte de leurs complots

Print shows a 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 "La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français", a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding "Correspondance de Mr. Dra... More

Caricature, Bliss, public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A literary debate in the Darktown Club--The question settled / Tho. Wo...

Caricature of two African American men, seated on floor, after a fight over a political debate. One with picture of G. Washington broken over his head, the other seated on poster advertising "De lions ob debate... More

Défaite des contre révolutionnaires, commandés par le petit Condé

Print shows the retreating counterrevolutionary army of the Prince de Condé following its failed attempt to restore the monarchy in France. Among the caricatured cast of counterrevolutionaries forming Condé's a... 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

Moritz von Schwind - Herr Winter. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Illustration shows seven scenes: 1. Wie der gestrenge Herr Winter sein Regiment antritt, die Eisdecke bei stiller Nacht über den Storm spannt und mit emsigem Fleisse ebnet und glättet showing bearded Father Win... More

General Mitchell, Oregon. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

A first lesson - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as comic in: Harper's bazaar, 18:504 (Aug. 1, 1885).

Lan' sakes, Allsbury Ferguson, ef dat statoo [i.e. statue] hain't turn...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as comic in: "A Change of Base," Harper's bazaar, 20:576 (Aug. 13, 1887).

Edward Rex / Keppler. - Public domain portrait engraving

Illustration shows Edward VII, King of Great Britain, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with an insert showing "(Caricature of Louis XIV, by Thackeray) 'You see at once that majesty is made out of t... More

A bear was on the engine of the President's Special, it was in a bad h...

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as the train's fireman, attempting to board a locomotive labeled "second term" as a bear labeled "the trusts" snarls at him and Uncle Sam, the t... More

Caricature, Black tee, public domain cartoon image

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

Athletics collect a double bill / Dunn.

Cartoon drawing shows the Philadelphia Athletics team represented by an elephant in uniform handing "bills," for two games (7-1 and 8-0) to a member of the losing team. Vignettes show caricatures of various pl... More

Paderewski - Public domain print

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Irvin S. Cobb of Kentucky - Public domain portrait engraving

Author and journalist Irvin S. Cobb appears in a bust-length caricature, framed within a circle. Wearing a coonskin cap and fringed frontier outfit, he smokes a cigar and holds a rifle. A small vignette below... More

Salle du Trocadéro . . . Grande matinée artistique en l'honneur de Rae...

A man (Raemaekers, 1869-1956) pointing an artist's double-ended pen at a surrendering caricature personification of Germania. This performance was to benefit the Franco-Holland war fund. Translation of title: ... More

"Six little pickaninnies", Detroit publishing company photo

Title, locale, and photographer attribution taken from entry for photo no. 7939 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc fram... More

William Heath - The royal milling match, British Cartoon Print

Honorable Paynter of Kentucky -- the effect of a cyclone upon Beauty

Title from typed caption on verso of mat. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Man singing] - Public domain portrait drawing

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

Nadar / And. Gill., Nadar Collection 1850-1910

French caricature of photographer and balloonist Nadar, standing next to his camera and holding a quill pen in right hand. A balloon hovers in the background. Illus. in: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 8, 1st no... More

Tarantula, México, Marzo 16 de 1902, núm 17

Director, F. Herrerias. Formerly filed under call number: LOT 6659. Gift; Alice Lee Parker; 1952.

John Drew - Public domain print

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Prodigal son], British Cartoon Print

Print shows scene in a bordello where the Prince of Wales lounges on a sofa next to a large, bare-breasted woman, probably representing Charles James Fox. A second bare-breasted woman,lounges at the feet of the... More

The great surrender America surrenders the great commissioners - Engla...

Photograph shows reproduction of montage with portrait photographs of heads of John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, James Murray Mason, John Slidell, and William H. Seward on caricature drawings of bodies at seashor... More

Symptoms of a locked jaw. Plain sewing done here

The caricature reflects the bitter antagonism between Kentucky senator Henry Clay and President Andrew Jackson, during the protracted battle over the future of the Bank of the United States from 1832 through 18... More

Winooski - Public domain drawing

The big type war of the yellow kids / Leon Barritt.

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, full-length, dressed as the Yellow Kid, each pushing against opposite sides of a pillar of wooden blocks that spells WAR. Illus. in Vim, v. 1, no. 2 (29 June 1898).

Caricature, Bliss, public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Great God(kin) -- E.L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Pos...

Drawn on verso of invitation, Grand Conservatory of Music of the City of New York, dated 1899. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

G.K. Chesterton - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Celebrities I have not met" by Oliver Herford, American magazine, 75:77 (Feb. 1913).

Grand chemin de la posterite / Benjamin.

Print showing a procession of French artists and writers as caricatured by Benjamin Roubaud. Those depicted are: Hugo, T. Gauthier, Cassagnac, Francis Wey, Paul Fouché, Eugène Sue, A. Dumas, La Martine, Soulié,... More

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

[Caricature of a woman dancing] - Ukiyo e print

Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

The rival managers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Britis...

Print shows Prime Minister William Pitt and Richard B. Sheridan arguing while seated at a table. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Hyōshigi o utsu bushi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows a samurai with a pair of clappers, a man pulling a rope, and a man fallen on the ground in front of the samurai. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print s... More

Boston minstrels. The celebrated Ethiopian melodies ...

Music cover illustrated with caricatures of six minstrels in two scenes.

Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus

Print shows the Prince de Condé as Don Quixote on a white horse and vicomte de Mirabeau (Mirabeau Tonneau) as Sancho Panza riding on a barrel-shaped ass on wheels, surrounded by a ragged group of counterrevolut... More

New York City--A hot day in Wall Street

Eleven illustrations showing various types of people and life in Wall Street, such as speculators, telegraph messengers, and clerks. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 36, (1873 August 9), p. 345.

Beecher and his regiment in Canada--celebrating the Queen's birthday /...

Composite of caricatures of Henry Ward Beecher. Illus. in: Puck, 1879 May 21, pp. 168-169.

"New York Herald" / Nemo ; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, lith.

James Gordon Bennett, full-length portrait, seated on suitcase, facing right, holding walking stick. Illus. in: The Vanity fair album: a show of sovereigns, statesmen, judges, and men of the day / Jehu Junior. ... More

Caricature, Living easy, public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

P'lice say, 'Wuz you de cause o' dis disfiggerment, boy?

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Looks different on the other side of his face U.S. Senate - Oh, come n...

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt holding a piece of paper "Decision not to go to the United States Senate" while an oversized man "The U.S. Senate" extends him a hand while wiping away a tear.

Another Saint Patrick? / L. Glackens.

Cartoon showing William H. Taft, dressed as St. Patrick, carrying a club, with "his policies" wrapped around it, walking toward Aldrich and Cannon as reptitles, Rockefeller as train, land grafter and ship subsi... More

[Lake Erie might do, though I think I should prefer Superior]

Irvin Cobb, wearing a suit and hip waders, sits on the shore of a lake, wiping his forehead and leaning against a rock, after reeling in a small fish.

La Traviata. G. Verdi. Atto terzo duetto

Postcard shows a scene from the third act of the opera La Traviata, where Violetta is a caricature of Emperor Franz Josef, and Alfredo is portrayed as Kaiser Wilhelm. The Italian lyrics translate as Paris, oh d... More

Dubious Achievement Award : easy rider

Cf. POS 6 - U.S., no. 1338. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Horse car sports on the back track: dead broke

R6532 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower right. Stamped on lower right: Library of Congress C... More

J. Pierpont Morgan - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Celebrities I have never met" by Oliver Herford, American magazine, 75:122 ... More

[Prodigal son], British Cartoon Print

[African American banjo player]

Print shows an African American man playing a banjo and singing. V35185 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5. Copyrighted 1890 by The Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich.

Rudyard Kipling - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature of Rudyard Kipling. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Public characters, British Cartoon Print, Thomas Rowlandson

Heads of well-known people, arranged in a medley, placed behind lines intersecting diagonally which simulate crossed tapes forming a rack for cards or letters. In the center are Fox and Pitt facing each other. ... More

"22 - 98 - 49 - C. - O. - D. - charge!" / Albert Levering.

Prints shows caricature of women shoppers posed as football players as porter opens door to store. Copyright by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1497 (1905 Nov. 8), p. 5.

Roosevelt's idea of reorganization / Mirs.

Cartoon showing Vice President Theodore Roosevelt fiercely grinding policemen with mortar and pestle. Illus. from: The Verdict, 1899 March 13, cover.

King Andrew the First - Engraving, Public domain image

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

Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la decouverte de leurs complots

A darktown race - facing the flag. Match between "his lowness" and "th...

Print shows two African American men, one holding a baseball bat or club and the other holding a long spike, sitting on horses on a racetrack; another African American man is standing on a barrel, next to the "... More

The Christmas Surprise Teddy - wonder if old Santa Claus could have ma...

Newspaper clipping of a cartoon showing the Norwegian Parliament dressed as Santa Claus delivering the Nobel Peace Prize in a Christmas stocking to Theodore Roosevelt in a child's body; with "big stick," sword,... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Caricature curiosity / Woodward, delt., British Cartoon Print

Caricature of a porcine clergyman and a skinny volunteer officer examining caricatures of themselves in what is probably William Holland's printing shop window. Parson Puzzletest is furious, but his companion, ... More

Reform and no reform, or the lovely pair's gentle fracas

Print shows "with the Head of Boreas", Lord North, standing to the left of a platform labeled "Reform Janus", and "with the Head of Reynard", Charles Fox, standing on the right; on the platform is a devil/human... More

[Madame d'Eon alias Chevalier D'Eon], British Cartoon Print

Caricature of Charles Eon de Beaumont dressed as a woman. Windsor Collection. Forms part of: British cartoon Prints collection (Library of Congress).

Symptoms of a duel - Public domain portrait drawing

The second of two particularly well-drawn caricatures by the same artist, on the subject of the 1839 congressional probe of Van Buren's Treasury Department. (See above, nos. 1839-6 through -9.) The inquiry was ... More

Caricature, An interesting family, public domain cartoon image

A caricature of Martin Van Buren as an opossum. The marsupial, with a smirking Van Buren's head, rises on its hindquarters and displays in its pouch three of its "young." They are administration insiders (left... More

T. Nast & Frank Leslie - Public domain portrait engraving

"Nast's first interview with Frank Leslie" on mat. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0065.24). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).