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

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

[Caricature of Charles Scribner as an angel]

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Pen and Inklings" by Oliver Herford, Harper's weekly, 58:22 (Feb. 21, 1914)... More

Josiah the first / Wm. Charles, Sc.

Caricature of wealthy American politician and civic reformer Josiah Quincy, an outspoken apologist for Great Britain and an opponent of the War of 1812. Quincy stands stiffly on a rocky shore while fish frolic... More

A full hand, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders caricature of African American man holding a package of tobacco. Copyright 1890 by Knapp & Co.

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).

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

Nabobs, British Cartoon Print - Public domain print

Print shows profile portraits of 20 men, called nabobs, who are representatives of the East India Company that have returned home with newly acquired wealth, generally through dubious or corrupt means. This re... More

Loco Foco persecution, or custom house, versus caricatures

A satire on the publisher's own troubles with the Democratic establishment in New York. In his print shop Henry R. Robinson is confronted by an unidentified man (center, arms crossed) who says, "I am determined... More

Col Strang - Public domain portrait drawing

Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed on verso: Capt. Stirling. Formerly Waud no. B-71. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.836) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The ladies' gallery in the Senate chamber, Washington, D.C. The gentle...

Illustrations show (top) women observing congressional proceedings with varying degrees of interest; (bottom) African American men drowsing as white men observe legislators with interest. Illus. in: Frank Lesli... More

The Honorable Buck Kilgore in his great act of kicking the capstone fr...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

An unexpected blow / J. Keppler.

Cartoon shows Ulysses S. Grant and J.D. Cameron flying kite, with portrait of Grant with tail "third term" from top of building. Lightning from cloud "independent press" strikes the kite, and wind gust "public ... More

Caricature, [Polly in the peanut patch], public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Caricature, [Watermelon Jake], public domain cartoon image

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

The proper way to kill the White House turkey Now that the president's...

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Doctor Bixby giving a turkey chloroform as Theodore Roosevelt cries in the background.

"Is that the best care you could take of my cat?"

Theodore Roosevelt talking to a smiling William H. Taft and looking horrified at scraggly cat labeled "my policies." Wood engraving by Wilder. Illus. in: Puck, 1912 Mar. 27.

We wouldn't say "blockhead" Made out of a "square deal" / / E. G. Lutz...

Photograph of a cartoon showing a square-shaped Theodore Roosevelt built of wood. Illus in: Satire (1912 July 20).

[A long man with a long head] - Public domain portrait drawing

Fornaro's bust-length caricature of McAdoo, executed during his term as Secretary of State, shows the politician, dressed in a suit and portrayed with angular features. No copyright information found with item.... More

Diagram comparing the situation of the soul in the brain of civilized ...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 72:50 (July 11, 1918).

[Raymond Poincaré] - Public domain portrait drawing

Bust-length caricature of Raymond Poincaré, Premier of France. Inscribed on verso: PoincarÚ 4000, No 31. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: Boardman Robinson. Stamped on verso: Board... More

He kept our boys out of Northern Ireland

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caricature, A Dude belle / Thomas Worth., public domain cartoon image

Print shows a caricatured African American woman, in elegant dress with large floral display pinned to her left shoulder, carrying a parasol and a pug-like dog, walking on the sidewalk; also shows, in the backg... More

[M. Gustave Rives, grand organisateur du salon de l'automobile]

Rives, a corpulent man half in the form of a peacock, sports a compass around his neck and numerous medallions around his waist. He takes a bow, while holding a hoop in one hand through which several cherubic ... More

Arnold Bennett / O. Herford. - 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," American magazine, 75:75 (Jan. 1913); and Confessions of a ca... More

Caricature, ["Six little pickaninnies"], public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Idi Amin - Engraving, Public domain image

Caricature shows Idi Amin, President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979 as a bloated, powerful figure in military dress covered with medals and insignia, holding a sceptor, and crowned by a small head with heavy featu... More

John Drew - Public domain drawing

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

Cleveland. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

General Stewart of the Black Horse Cavalry

Photograph shows a caricature of General Jeb Stewart riding a horse, represented as an African American man. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV39 ; CSA Generals. "DE285" written in pencil on back of t... More

The ghost of a dollar or the bankers surprize / W. Charles, Del et Scu...

A caricature of Philadelphia merchant and financier Stephen Girard, here called "Stephen Graspall, Banker & Shaver." He stands behind a counter with a small slot in it, staring at an apparition of an 1806 Span... 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.

A galvanized corpse - Public domain drawing

Jacksonian editor Francis Preston Blair rises from his coffin, revived by a primitive galvanic battery, as two demons look on. A man on the right throws up his hands as he is drawn toward Blair, saying: Had I n... More

Heinrich Ibsen. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Pulitzer / O. Herford. Joseph Pulitzer

Caricature of Joseph Pulitzer, full-length, standing, facing left. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congre... More

Un Sans culotte instrument de crimes dansant au milieu de horreurs ...

Print shows a sansculotte waving banner labeled "Fête du 21 Janvier" at a female figure labeled "Humanité"; in the background is a scene of murder and mayhem. Satire on the death of Louis XVI. Forms part of: F... More

Grandes fêtes aérostatiques le mardi 14 juillet 1868 gayant sʹélevant ...

Balloon on left identified as "Le Jupiter". Hand-colored lithograph mounted on letterpress poster. Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

Tarantula, México, Noviembre 2 de 1902, núm 49

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

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

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

General Oglethorpe. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Britis...

Print shows James Oglethorpe, bust portrait, right profile. Print attributed to Charles Bretherton. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no.... More

The Shell--born Jess-t / Ignatius Loyola invt. ; K., British Cartoon P...

Print shows the Earl of Shelburne, full-length portrait, left profile, as a Jesuit. Title, handwritten in ink, from item. Caption: He wou'd & he wou'd not &c. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Mus... More

The pride of Iowa -- cold water and Wheeler -- 'till death

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

The main trouble, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

-- The watchdog of the Treasury

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Three little (old) maids from school

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

The difference between trimming a hedge and cutting it down Uncle Sam,...

Political cartoon showing Thomas Brackett Reed as a boy, crying to Uncle Sam, with another boy pulling small wagon "pig iron, Kelley," while President Grover Cleveland trims "tariff, the protection hedge" to re... More

Into the ring - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

A fog-horn conclusion - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

That South Carolina cyclone, or the terrible tantrums of the untamable...

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

G.I.'s, have problems??? : with A.W.O.L., discharge, courts-martial, e...

Printed (by mistake?) over an advertisement for the Chelsea Neighborhood Clinic. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Celestial empire in California : Miners ; gamblers Lith. & published b...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) caricatured Chinese miners in camp eating and nitpicking; and (bottom) playing a game of chance; attached leaf contains an annotation. Baird, Calif... More

Les belles villes gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, lithographies ori...

Folder containing original lithograph showing a bird's-eye view of "Thann" with the Thur River and the Witches' Tower in the foreground and the church of St. Theobald in the middle distance, with remarque showi... More

Les belles villes gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, lithographies ori...

Folder containing original lithograph showing a bird's-eye view of "Metz" and the waterfront along a river in the foreground and the Metz Cathedral in the middle distance, with remarque showing the German eagle... More

Do it now! The President would jump right into river improvement and g...

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt deeping the Mississippi River with a shovel. Inthe background Uncle Sam is digging the Panama canal and a man labeled Germany says "Der selfish pig vas g... More

Tarantula, México, Marzo 16 de 1902, núm 17

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

The adventures of General Beauregard and his charger--In four parts

A folding comic puzzle in which the heads of Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard and a donkey switch bodies. An example of mass of anti-Beauregard material published in the north after the outbreak of hostili... More

Reed as Cupid - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Latest war map of Europe : as seen through French eyes perpared by Had...

"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870 by L. Prang & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress of Washington." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Pu... More

Uncle Samuel Richelieu - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Armour - Drawing. Public domain image.

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Polished Off. "Golly--he's licked!"

Print shows several African American men carrying along a sidewalk a boxer who has received many injuries during a boxing match; a small crowd follows them T28759 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based ... More

The political sphynx [i.e. sphinx]

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

And the wind blew through their whiskers

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Nero - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

An uneven contest - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S.S. New York, "Lord Cassidy" selling pools, anniversary of Santiago...

Attribution to Hart based on style of numbering. "1006" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020792. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

Another bear for president Louisiana is not the only place for bear.

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing a bear in a tree labeled "Wheat Market" attacking a figure composed of a bag of wheat. The figure cries out, "Teddy help! Here's a bear for you!" In the background Theodor... More

Manon. G. Massenet. Acte I Mentore

Postcard shows a scene from the opera Manon, where Manon is a caricature of Emperor Franz Josef, and her suitor is portrayed as Kaiser Wilhelm. The lyrics, given in French, translate as We will not go to Paris!... More

Private Mitchie M. Miyamoto, U.S. Army. "Second only to Walt Disney"--...

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

Mao Zedong - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature of a smiling Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong. Mao rose from humble origins to become chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and main founder of the People's Republic of China. As a young man he... More

Star Whiskey Distilled and warranted pure by C.L. Dixon, Cynthiana, Ky...

Advertisement for whiskey shows a caricature of an African American man holding a jug, saying "It 'zackly suits dis chile!" Date based on year lithographic studio was active.

Fisk, Jr.. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

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

The cradle of liberty in danger / Th. Nast.

Print shows General Benjamin Butler as a monstrous genie frightening an infant lableled "Boston, Mass." in a cradle labeled "Common Wealth of Mass." Captioned: "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum!" The Genie of Massachusetts smell... More

Childlike and -- Bland - 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 / 860224.

A pair of Caesars - 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.

The broken slate - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S.S. New York, Lord Cassidy, the colored mascot, anniversary of Sant...

Title transcribed from item. Attribution based on negative D4-20793. "1012" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020791. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photograph... More

[William Jennings Bryan], Library of Congress drawings collection

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Pen and Inklings" by Oliver Herford, Harper's w... More

Johnson and Ainsmith, the big gun / Dunn, 1914.

Drawing shows caricatures of Washington pitchers Walter Johnson and Eddie Ainsmith behind a cannon. Vignettes show Johnson "mowing" over his opponents, while Ainsmith, dressed in armor, puts cement on his hand... More

Shanice, Royal, and Marquita Harris the caricatures just completed by ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Horse car sports going to a chicken show: all flush

R653[?] 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... More

Do it now! The President would jump right into river improvement and g...

Newspaper clipping of cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt deepening the Mississippi River with a shovel. In the background Uncle Sam is digging the Panama canal and a man labeled Germany says "Der selfish pig va... More

Les belles villes gauloises d'entre Rhin et Moselle, lithographies ori...

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

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

Caricature, ["Six little pickaninnies"], public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bluebeard of New Orleans, Confederate States of America.

Carte-de-visite reproduction of a drawing shows a caricature of Gen. Benjamin Butler, military governor of New Orleans, May-Dec. 1862, as Bluebeard, for challenging the behavior of the city's Confederate women ... More

Le pierrot je ne sais pas ... Mais la pierrette, pour etre la femme c'...

Drawing of a man with a long, pointed nose, in ragged clothes and a cap, standing behind and to the right of a masked figure, with a pot on his head, perhaps the mime, Pierrot. No copyright information found wi... More

Uncle Samuel Richelieu - 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 / 860224.

Puck's gallery of celebrities--The king of a-shantee / F. Opper.

Cartoon showing Irish man seated on wash tub and Irish woman standing inside shanty. Illus. in: Puck, 1882 Feb. 15, p. 378.

Table talk below stairs. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

"Dinah: Lord a massy, Liza, be prepared for great 'sturbance in de heabens, chile. Dey's been talking at de dinner table 'bout no mo' p'otection. Massa, he say de world gwine one way, and de sun gwine de odder,... More

Between three stools one may come to the ground

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Childlike and -- Bland - Public domain document scan of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

"Gee whiz! Don't I get any encore?"

Cartoon showing a large William H. Taft in theater wing waiting for an encore demand. Illus. in: Puck, 1912 Feb. 28, p. 5.

Big Chief Wind in the Face's family totem pole

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life magazine, 86:7 (July 16, 1925).

Caricature, The boss of the ring, public domain cartoon image

A caricature of New York financier James Fisk as a bulldog. The print may have been issued around September 1869, when Fisk and a few associates precipitated a financial panic by their attempts to corner the go... More

Bernhard i.e. Bernard Shaw - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature of Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw. Shaw's creativity not only served as a form of entertainment for the public, it also provided him an outlet to express his social and ... More

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