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Shi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan

Also available in digital form. Bequest Mary L. McClure December 20, 1944. 明成化間刻本。四卷. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1465-1487. 十四行二十三字。色彩極豐富，請加強表現。部分中縫斷裂，請小心不要錯掃空白葉。 Fourteen lines with twenty-three characters per ... More

Xiang zong shu : si juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

Once widely circulated among Muslims, the text is now scarce. Ms. In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. January 27, 1941 600022. 舊鈔本無欄格無版匡全幅高29.1寬17.8公分；補：書寫較草. 十行十八字 .... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...

Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...

Xin'an Bi shi zu pu : shi qi juan

In case. Also available in digital form. 頁260-261. 提要400字. 述畢族傳承及本書謹嚴之體例. 又云是譜僅刷印百餘. 十二行二十五字小字雙行. Twelve lines, with twenty-five characters per line, and paired lines of small characters. 明畢蕙畢蘭畢濟川等撰，詳"執事名氏"葉，其... More

Bushō no zu - Public domain portrait drawing

Prints show paper samples of one before and two after illustrations; the before print shows a warrior wearing brightly colored garments, and the two after prints show this warrior and another warrior blending i... More

William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1 and 2

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

[Cattle pulling carts on a street in an unidentified location, probabl...

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

Uniformed soldier "New China" cutting off pigtail "long ages of graft" from kneeling Manchu in traditional garb. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Publis... More

[Musicians accompany two men eating, attended by three servants]

Drawing shows two older gentlemen seated at the head of a table being served by three young servants while three musicians accompany the feast in a well-furnished home with a western clock on a shelf at right a... More

Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA

Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More

[Destroying a fleet -- battleship Pallada struck by a 500 lb. Japanese...

H63425 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7739.

William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1

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

Nankin, Oroshiy, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows Chinese man holding a paintbrush while an assistant mixes ink as a Russian military officer looks on. Signature: Motome ni ōzu Hiroshige ga (by request). Seal date: Monkey 12. Annotations,... More

Ch'ŏnha chido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Gift; Robert A. and Rosalinda Yangas; 2011. Leaves are joined end to end in a scroll. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes description of 13 provinces in China. Im... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

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

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of fabric, textile pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

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

Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadru...

Chinese admiring Frenchman and pig in the Garden of Plants, Peking. Signed with initials on stone. Delteil, 2597 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... More

[Russian warships in harbor; in background smoke from a fire near Gold...

H6363447 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

[Sunken warships, Port Arthur] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

H63457 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, Randsburg Wash Facility Target T...

Significance: The Randsburg Wash Target Test Towers (Buildings 70021 and 70022) are significant for their role in the naval testing of proximity or variable time (VT) fuzes, a vital element of the Navy's weapon... More

Buruburu taishō - Public domain drawing

Print shows a jagged-edged depiction of a man on horseback, holding raised sword. Verbal puns. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From ... More

[The heroine of Port Arthur -- the only woman soldier, killed here a f...

H63423 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7733.

[Early morning in a Russian battery during the siege of Port Arthur]

H63422 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7741.

6th U.S. Cavalry honoring Count Waldersee on his arrival--between Chie...

H2185 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ikaiei kōgeki - Public domain drawing

Print shows Japanese troops surprising Chinese soldiers at Weihaiwei and the death of a Chinese officer on horseback leading his troops into battle during a snowstorm. Title and other descriptive information co... More

Si sheng Yunhe shui li quan yuan he dao quan tu.

Scale ca. 1:400,000. Covers Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhili. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated with descriptive notes in Japanese. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial m... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...

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

[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain dedication image

Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also... More

Descripción del Río Tigris desde Canton hasta la Ysla de Lankeet.

Relief shown pictorially and by shading and form lines. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: J. Honig & Zoonen; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters JH & Z. Watermark dated from 1737-87. Pen-and-in... More

[A residential compound with fence and outbuildings near grove of tree...

Chinese script and two chops in upper left corner.

[Tōjinbutsu], portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a Chinese official, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing slightly right, holding papers in his right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

A young nobleman, Iran, watercolors

"Azerbaijan or North Iran" upper right side of mount. Sheet has a blind stamp at center left of fold line. Purchase; Brad Verter, Carpe Librum; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:006). Forms part of: Qajar paintings commissio... More

[Buildings inside the imperial palace compound in Beijing, China, show...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 158. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Amerika, Furansu, Nankin, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows three spectators viewing an unseen object or event: a woman holding a drinking vessel sits beside a man gazing through binoculars while a Chinese man touchs his head. Signature: Motome ni ... More

[Street scene, possibly outside a temple, with adults and children, so...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 190. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dancers or acrobats with cymbals tumbling, with marchers in the backg...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 39. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Elderly Chinese man, possibly a scholar, three-quarter length portrai...

Blind stamp in upper left corner: Bristol [Crown] Paper. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 148. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Summer scene with an elderly man resting against a tree on the left, ...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 221. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Seisha - Orandajin, Nankin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows a Dutch merchant holding a goblet seated on a chair, a Chinese man holding a bottle stands next to him and there is a small table on the right in the foreground. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu... More

Johnson's China Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas, with descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical. New York, 1862. Inse... More

Commercial and geographical relation of New York to Europe and Asia, w...

Composite of seven illustrations showing: Aspinwall, New Granada, Central America; Honolulu, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; Panama, New Granada, Central America; snow shed on the Central Pacific Railroad; map of the... More

Group of Chinese women - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows three Chinese women, two seated, one standing. Title from front and back of item. Caption on back of item: "Group of Chinese women. The gentler sex are all particularly fond of adorning their h... More

Foochau woman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a Chinese woman from Foochau, full-length portrait, standing, facing right. Title from front of item. Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009) In al... More

Hong Kong--Dock workers - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Laborers pulling loaded cart on wharf, Hong Kong. Photo by De Cou. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Ewing Galloway, New York.

Hong Kong--Sampans at a suburb - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Sampans in water. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Hong Kong--Cheap labor - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Laborer carrying two bags on pole across his shoulders. No. 15. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photo by Ming Yuen, Hong Kong.

Tennis club, Shanghai, Kiangsu province, China

People around 2 tables in foregrd.; people on tennis courts in backgrd.

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] on bridge of Chinese ship

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

On the grand canal between Tong-chow and Peking

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Peking - view along wall and Emperor's Palace

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-USZ62-78829. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library... More

Boatmen towing sailboat against the wind up the Pieho to Peking

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Family living in an arch under the Great Wall

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colorful dragon painted on wall, Qingdao China

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Coolies working on barge, Qingdao China

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... More

Canton - junks on Pearl River. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Queens Road street scene. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street view with San Francisco Restaurant at right

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] members inside their privat...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Shanghai - two Chinese men being carried in wheelbarrow

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Central office of the Imperial Mint, Canton, China

[Wedding of Crown Prince Yoshihito and Princess Kujō Sadako]

Print shows the Crown Prince and the Princess during their wedding ceremony; Meiji, Emperor of Japan, and other members of the imperial family are present. Title from accompanying material.

Eki Hioki at Jap[anese] legation, Peking

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

General Chang Skao Tseng - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Prince Tsiahsun with others - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Boxer-Aufstand in China : Karte der weiteren Umgebungen von Peking und...

Relief shown by shading. "Fur Erläuterungen s. v. Richthofen, China Bd. II (Berlin, Dietrich Reimer, 1882) S. 276-350, und 373-398." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

"King of the beggars" - the chief of a beggar guild - vain of his exce...

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

International Post Office in Shanghai

Public domain photograph of large public building, square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Landmark of an ancient religion-Pagoda, 1600 years old-Soo-chow, China

Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yuan Shin Kai - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Independence arch and Peking Pass, Seoul, Korea - mourner in sackcloth...

Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 14075. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arches; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied ...

D24252 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12027. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near W...

Boxer Rebellion. H7968 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Box... More

"A Hansom Cab,"-first class transportation in Peking, China

No. 3748. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Str. Tashmoo leaving wharf, Detroit

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

After the city's capture--burning bodies of Chinese outside the wall a...

XXc4259 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Western Gate, general view from the wall, Peking, China

People and merchants with small shops outside city wall, multi-story building on other side of wall. H11346 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3769. Copyright by H.C. White Co.

On the Old City Road,-Donkey vs. man power for haulage, Peking, China

No. 3750. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"John always takes his smoke after Chow" (meals), Peking, China

No. 3756. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Y.M.C.A. rooms for soldiers of the allied armies--formerly a notorious...

Photograph taken by photographer James Ricalton during his trip to China in 1900. (Source: China through the stereoscope; a journey through the dragon empire at the time of the Boxer uprising ... personally co... More

An elaborately wrought bronze dragon in the Summer Palace. Peking, Chi...

No. 58. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Porta de Cero, boundary mark of Portuguese China and the Chinese E...

From the Imperial Bank of China (N.) along Whangpoo River, over Englis...

H16936 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The courtyard of the Joss House. Shanghai, China

H24561 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 199. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baling dried fish, Korea - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves. No. 14. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Industry Food; Fish processing.

The destruction of Russ[i]an torpede [sic] destroyers by Japanese torp...

Print shows sailors from the Japanese torpedo boat, Sazanami, boarding a Russian torpedo boat during a heated sea battle off Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war. From series: Illustrated Russo-Japanese War. No. 5.

Japanese sailor with rifle holding three Chinese battleships at bay

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō : Long live ... More

The Eastern Kilkennies - may the knot hold / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows two cats, one labeled "Japan" attacking the other labeled "Russia", their tails are tied to a rope labeled "Manchuria" with a ribbon labeled "Neutrality". Illus. in: Puck, v. 55, no. 1411 (1... More

May 1904 Japan seconds army preoccupation Furanten, China, and is pict...

Print shows the Japanese Second Army destroying a bridge at Pu-lan-tien during the Russo-Japanese war. From series: Memorial Picture for the victory in the Russo-Japanese War.

[Russian officers watching Japanese assault on one of the forts -- dur...

H63424 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7734.

[After a fierce assault -- every man killed -- looking from Russian fo...

H63417 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7724.

A dead war monster--Russian battleship 'Peresviet' wrecked by Japanese...

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

The shattered remains of Russian heroes who were killed near 203 Metre...

Two soldiers survey the carnage of battle. 42813 U.S. Copyright Office. U82374. No. 7728. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

A Japanese field battery firing shells over the mountains into doomed ...

H64023 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description