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[Dell Darling, Chicago White Stockings, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: W.S. Kimball Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Clowns with Mules] - Public domain engraving

Color woodcut. Printers: Warren, Johnson & Co. Designers, Engravers and Printers. Caption card tracings: Circus; Posters; Clowns.

[Clowns with Mules] - Public domain engraving

Color woodcut. Printers: Warren, Johnson & Co. Designers, Engravers and Printers. Caption card tracings: Circus; Posters; Clowns.

The life of a fireman: the ruins--"take up"--"man your rope."

Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3788 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictoria... More

Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing ...

A chart exhibiting two farms, contrasting slavery with freedom in connection with a family record. "Designed for the colored people of America by W. H. Cowell, Martin, Tennessee." Copyright no. 9131L.

Winter scene in Philadelphia - Public domain graphic arts, Library of ...

Print shows a street scene in winter in front of the "Russian Heater Works" at the intersection of "Filbert" and "Twelfth" streets in Philadelphia; includes many pedestrians on the street, the "Twelfth Street P... More

[W. Hogan, Vernon Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Jordan & Herzog at first, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Hart, Milwaukee Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Hart, Milwaukee Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway, greatest race course in the world

Poster shows dramatic race scene with automobiles on race track and spectators leaning over railing of grandstands, also shows international flags strung across the track. Management: C.G. Fisher, A.C. Newby,... More

Indianapolis Motor Speedway, greatest race course in the world

[Cap Anson, Chicago White Stockings, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Power of music] / chromo. of Duval & Hunter, Philadelphia ; Jas. F. Q...

Print shows an African American man playing fiddle and family dancing. It resembles, but is an Americanized variation of, Auguste Dircks (1806-1881) "Dancing to the fiddle" now in the Josef Mensing Gallery, Ham... More

[Ed Andrews, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined. Phenomenal acts o...

Circus poster showing a juggler, and contortionists performing various acts including backward dives from an extension ladder. 18611 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 99.S No. 67. Copyright by Strobridge Litho. Co., C... More

[Buck Ewing, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

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

The mammoth trees (Sequoia gigantea), California (Calaveras County) / ...

Print shows several giant sequoias, each identified by name, circumference, and height, with a small building in the middle ground and tourists walking among the trees.

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth The Great Coney Island Wate...

Poster shows people in costumes, including clowns, performing at the beach.

[Doolan, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. "Doolin"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Watch meeting - Print, Library of Congress collection

Snowy night scene with church. 13280(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J. Latham & Co.

[Addie Joss, Cleveland Naps, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

"President"--"Rutherford B. Hayes", Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows President Rutherford B. Hayes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Copyrighted by G. F. Gilman 1877.

Assault on Fort Sanders - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...

Union troops led by Gen. Burnside fighting Confederates led by Gen. Longstreet, Nov. 29, 1863.

The great Bartholdi statue, liberty enlightening the world: the gift o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a Statue of Liberty, New York harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The great East River suspension bridge: connecting the cities of New Y...

7336 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2818

[Ed Konetchy, St. Louis Cardinals, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Fred Clarke, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Columbus taking possession of the new country

Christopher Columbus kneeling, holding flag and sword with two other men holding flags. There are other men on land and in boats behind Columbus and three ships in background. On the island named San Salvador b... More

[Full sheet base ball poster no. 281]

Print showing a batter standing at home plate with catcher and umpire awaiting the pitch; view is from the pitcher's mound, with grandstand visible in the background. A24190 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted ... More

Ten minutes for refreshments - Public domain graphic arts, Library of ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Great American Tea Co.

A good race, well won. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The last meeting between General Lee and Jackson] / J.G. Fay, 1877.

Print shows General Robert E. Lee, with troops, on the right and General Stonewall Jackson, with troops, on the left, both on horseback, meeting for the last time prior to Jackson's untimely death. K8697 U.S. C... More

[The last meeting between General Lee and Jackson] / J.G. Fay, 1877.

[Howie Camnitz, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

School begins / Dalrymple., Alaska, Political Cartoon

Print shows Uncle Sam as a teacher, standing behind a desk in front of his new students who are labeled "Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, [and] Philippines"; they do not look happy to be there. At the rear of the clas... More

[Dode Paskert, Cincinnati Reds, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Fred Merkle, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Jack Farrell, Washington Statesmen, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Ringling Bros, world's greatest shows Raschetta brothers, marvelous so...

Circus poster showing the Raschetta Brothers and acrobats blindfolded somersaulting backwards off barrels. No. 2920. Copyright by Courier Company. Caption: Sensational, hazardous somersaulting exploits & indesc... More

"Volunteer" - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7004

Tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant, Riverside Drive, New York City / Gra...

Print shows pedestrians, carriages, bicyclists, and horseback riders on promenade around the Grant National Memorial on Riverside Drive, New York City, N.Y. Copyrighted, 1897, by Charles Austin Bates, New York.

Deacon Jones' one hoss shay, no. 1

Print showing "Deacon Jones" riding in a chaise drawn by an exhausted horse, in the background, a man driving a horsedrawn sulky is quickly gaining on "Deacon Jones." K15878; L5527; L2527 U.S. Copyright Office.... More

Swallowed! / J.S. Pughe. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as a large snake labeled "Populist Party" entwined around a donkey labeled "Democratic Party" and about to swallow it. Illus. in: Puck, v. 47, no. 1218 (1900 July 11),... More

[Jim Donnelly, Washington Statesmen, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: D. Buchner & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Hal Chase, New York Highlanders, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Eastman Johnson - Whittier's barefooted boy - Print, Library of Congre...

Print shows a full-length portrait of a young, barefoot boy standing on a rock in a stream at the edge of a wooded area with a cabin in the background. 4105 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from publisher's label o... More

The Death of Columbus - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congres...

Christopher Columbus on his death bed, May 20, 1506. No. 40803Y U.S. Copyright Office.

Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidate...

Circus poster showing female figures posed as "An offering to Cupid," "The Sabines," "The Three Graces, lost in the Catacombs," "Youth of Bacchus," and "Rape of Polyxena." Captioned: Faultless female forms posi... More

Battle of Chattanooga / Thulstrup ; Fac-simile print by L. Prang & Co.

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L'Aigle et la Colombe - Drawing. Public domain image.

Card shows boy wearing a crown sitting outside with a girl in a white dress. A balloon flies in the distance. Text below title: Notre aigle donc, lassè des cieux. Descend sur un rocher, près de lui vient se re... More

Flowers - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two bouquets of flowers on a lampshade-shaped die-cut mount, with recurring motif of eagle atop armorial design with cupid at center. 242 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 53. Inscribed in ink on verso: N... More

Scotch terrier and pups after Henrietta Ronner

Print shows a Scotch terrier sitting in a basket that has fallen over, with four pups, one at a green food or water dish, and with a piece of cloth covering straw on the floor. From series: Fac-similes of Wate... More

The rivals / T. Sinclair's lith., Philadelphia.

Two boys skating alongside of girl on sled. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The bright little teacher, after D.R. Knight J. Queen after D.R. Knigh...

Print shows a little girl sitting in a chair, holding a stick in her right hand and an open book on her lap, a small dog is sitting up next to her; the book is open to a picture of a dog and the little girl is ... More

[Man posting an advertisement for "La publicité en France par Emile Me...

Tissandier collection. Public domain photograph of beverage advertisement, food, drinks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Industrial-exposition. Louisville 1872

Print shows a view of the exhibition building with broad boulevards in the foreground with pedestrians, carriages, and a street railroad. C8344 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at center: Presented by the Louisv... More

Mountain Dew fine cut chewing tobacco Manufactured by Allen & Ellis, t...

Tobacco package label showing a goddess draped with diaphanous gown handing a pipe and tobacco leaves to a Native man reclining on the shores of a mountain stream with waterfall.

No. 2, The Hedge sparrows mansion after C. Ryan

Print shows a birdnest on the ground with eggs in it and one egg on the ground nearby. C7815 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right: C. Ryan. From the series: Prang's American Chromos : Gatherin... More

Idols of our home. Dreaming Daisy S. Anderson ; after Mrs. S. Anderson

Print shows a young girl gazing longingly, with a braid of flowers around her hair. D2109 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Printed at bottom: Entered according to a... More

Prang's crosses in mats, no. 14 after Mrs. O.E. Whitney

Print shows a cross as part of a floral arrangement of autumn leaves and ferns. E4846 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright stamp on item. Title and publication statements appear on label ... More

Prang's crosses in mats, no. 12 after Mrs. O.E. Whitney

Print shows a cross as part of a floral arrangement of flowers and foliage above the phrase "Thy will be done." E2763 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Title, public... More

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty, they shall behold the lan...

Print shows a wreath of flowers encompassing a Biblical verse from Isaiah 33:17. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Includes print-registration marks on top and bottom. Forms part of: Popul... More

The blue-bill, or scaup duck Fuligula marila (Linn.) Stephens A. Pope ...

Print shows pair of scaup swimming in open water. 4229 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Upland game birds and water fowl of the United States / by A. Pope, Jr. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Part f... More

Chasseur, Algeria, 1853 Cigarette Card

Print shows a French chasseur stationed in Algeria in 1853, wearing uniform, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes. At head of title: Illust'd ... More

The genuine Murray & Lanman Florida water

Print shows an advertisement for "Murray & Lanman Florida Water" showing a man and a woman standing in a park where the woman gestures toward a water fountain, with tropical plants and trees in the background. ... More

Our Indian policy - a house of cards / J. Keppler.

Print shows Uncle Sam sitting at a table outside an "Indian Store" with Natives and government agents gathered around; he was constructing a house of cards labeled "Indian Policy" until the government agents an... More

Puck magazine cover - Unwelcome passengers / J.A. Wales.

Print shows a coach labeled "Rural Democracy" filled with "Rural Regulars" carrying their farm tools, racing "To the State Convention", driven by Samuel J. Tilden, with John Kelly representing "Tammany Hall" an... More

To my valentine. Love may come and love may go, ... M monogram

Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, wearing a bonnet. On verso is a floral design with blossoms and a poem addressed "to my valentine" attributed to "E.S.F." N20945 ... More

I think of thee dear love of mine the best of all that's not divine

Print shows a flower arrangement with verse. On the verso is a landscape scene showing a wishing-well [?] and the message "Ye Sainte Valentine's Daye." N20977 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption continues: My love ... More

The anti-Chinese wall--The American wall goes up as the Chinese origin...

A cartoon showing laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese. Congressional mortar is used to mount blocks of... More

Between two evils / Gillam [spelled backwards].

Print shows a shabbily dressed man labeled "Intemperate Drunkard" on the left, a well-dressed man labeled "True Temperance" drinking a mug of beer at center, and a man labeled "Intemperate Teetotaler", wearing ... More

Getting hot enough for him / F. Graetz.

Print shows Chester A. Arthur sitting on a chair at a beach on the seashore, he is perspiring heavily and using a fan labeled "Stalwart Method" to cool himself, as the sun, labeled "Disunion-of-the-Republican-P... More

Winsome ways and manners fine stole my heart, dear valentine

Print shows a young girl, bust portrait, facing slightly left, in a frame fashioned out of branches on which birds are perched. On verso is a similar frame entwined with daisies, with message "St. Valentine's D... More

"With thee to support me, I defy the whole world!" / J. Keppler.

Print shows George M. Robeson dressed as a sailor and labeled "Leader of the Republican Party" and Republican Champion", leaning on a large duffle bag labeled "Surplus $150,000,000"; a group of men standing on ... More

The agony of the assessed - between two terrors / F. Graetz.

Print shows "G.W. Curtis" and "Jay Hubbell" as executioners, each wearing a mask and holding large axes labeled "Civil Service Reform Association" (Curtis) and "Republican Congressional Committee" (Hubbell). Cu... More

Puck magazine cover - Self-supporter Sammy / F. Opper.

Print shows two images of Samuel J. Tilden, dressed identically, to the left and right of a barrel full of coins, labeled with monogram "SJT"; papers extending from their pockets state "For President, S.J. Tild... More

The great floods of 1883 - Germany's need and America's aid / J. Keppl...

Illustration shows Columbia sitting on a rock on the coast as men bring packages of supplies labeled "From Ohio, Missouri, From New York, [and] California"; just offshore, men pull on the oars of a rowboat lade... More

The great rival advertising shows to "boom up" stocks / Gillam.

Print shows three "advertising" sideshows, on the left, the "Great Northern Pacific R.R. Show Patronized by the European Aristocracy" with Henry Villard as the barker and Carl Schurz playing a drum; includes po... More

Getting them into line for 1884 / Gillam.

Print shows Benjamin F. Butler as a military officer sitting on a horse, gesturing with his "Programme" to a snickering man labeled "Solid South" to get him to fall into line with Butler's support for his presi... More

Puck magazine cover - A destructive worm / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows a caterpillar labeled "Communism" on a grape leaf showing "$" and labeled "Capital"; also a bunch of grapes, some of which are labeled "Law, Order, Rights, Talent, Worth, Industry, Education,... More

Put 'em on ice! / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Uncle Sam putting politicians, newspaper editors, and others on "Ice" in an icehouse to keep them cool until campaign time for the presidential election. Among those depicted are Ulysses S. G... More

Rotten to the core / J. Keppler.

Print shows Uncle Sam with a toothache labeled "Mormonism!", sitting on a chair in the office of "Washington Dental Association" offering "S.S. Cox's Laughing Gas - Mild & Harmless", as two arms labeled "Senate... More

Bottled politics / J. Keppler. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows two old men, one of whom may be Uncle Sam holding a glass, sitting at a table in a saloon, on which is a large bottle of alcohol labeled "Regulated Ohio Brand", on a shelf behind them are other bott... More

Bird on a stalk, singing FB - Public domain zoological illustration

Print shows a bird perched on a tall stalk, singing, with daisies, clover, and other plants below. O25068 U.S. Copyright Office. Title devised by library staff. Signed on stone with initials "FB." Copyright sta... More

He missed the chair, but he has the floor / Gillam.

Print shows Samuel S. Cox, as a court jester, booted off a podium by a man sitting in the "Speaker's Chair" in a congressional chamber, and about to land on the floor; he is holding a stick with balloons attach... More

The harder he pumps, the dirtier his case gets / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Robert G. Ingersoll, attorney in the Star Route trials, pumping Montfort C. Rerdell, depicted as a pump, for more "Evidence" as Thomas J. Brady and Stephen W. Dorsey stand in the "Prisoners B... More

A played-out tenor - from star to street-singer / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Roscoe Conkling as a street musician singing in the street outside the "Washington Senatorial Opera-House", with him is a small dog labeled "Howard Carroll" who is holding a hat into which Pu... More

Puck magazine cover - Spoiling their slide / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler spreading ashes labeled "Censure, Exposure, Desire for Reform, [and] Criticism" on a slide in the snow labeled "Slide of Public Mismanagement" to the dismay of a group of c... More

The cave of despair / F. Opper.

Print shows Jay Gould as a giant holding a large club labeled "Monopoly", sitting on rocks, gleefully watching a line of downtrodden people entering a cave labeled "Western Union Telegraph Company - All Hope Ab... More

"A sail! A sail!!" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Dem. Party" on the rocky coast of a deserted island, nearby is an empty jug labeled "Bourbonism the Only Subsistence for 16 Years (1860-76)" and a broken cask labeled "For 8 ... More

More than she can carry / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid placing a bundled-up package labeled "Blaine" and "Rotten Record" on top of a large pile in a basket being carried by a woman labeled "Republican Party" who is stooped under the... More

The bogus workingman and his lonsome boom / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler as a laborer standing next to a box of tools labeled "Tools for Exhibition Purposes", telling his valet, labeled "Butler's Valet" to "keep an eye on the valuables", at whos... More

The slave-market of to-day / Gillam.

Illustration shows trade union laborers, some in chains labeled "High Tariff" and "Tariff", and one standing on a block labeled "Trade Unions", being auctioned by a man labeled "Protectionist Statesman" to capi... More

Puck magazine cover - Ireland's evil genius / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows "Britannia" standing on the left, holding "Concessions to Ireland" and "Hibernia" standing on the right in a militant pose; between them is a nasty looking man with two "Dynamite" bombs slung... More

Puck magazine cover - Our merciless millionaire / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Puck hanging onto the coat-tails of William H. Vanderbilt, who is holding a money bag labeled "Donation of $500,000 to Build a New Medical College", as he climbs the steps to a building label... More

Once the senatorial Apollo - now the court-jester / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Roscoe Conkling and a court jester during proceedings in "Surrogate's Court - Hort Will Case"; papers extending from his pocket state "There's Millions in it" and "Fee". Illus. from Puck, v.... More

The monopolists' may-pole / F. Opper.

Illustration shows several wealthy men, "Gould, W.K. Vanderbilt, W.H. Vanderbilt, Sage, Cornell, [and] Cornelius Vanderbilt", some dressed as women, holding ticker tape and dancing around a may pole; Cyrus W. F... More

Peace, but not business / Gillam., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a perplexed Uncle Sam standing in front of a store labeled "Notice - No Reciprocity in Trade Here" that is well-stocked with items available for international trade; a man labeled "Trade" is ... More

President Cleveland and his cabinet / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows President Cleveland sitting at a desk between his cabinet members, from the left, "W.C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, A.H. Garland, Attorney-Gener... More

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