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[Two women gathering lotus blossoms], Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print...

Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Katsukawa Shunzan - Ueno no hanami - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, two women, and a young child viewing cherry blossoms at Ueno. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban... More

Ōkawabata yūryō, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women, two standing and one sitting on a bench next to the Sumida(?) River, enjoying the cool evening air. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print s... More

Koto to shō, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows two women playing musical instruments, one playing the koto and the other panpipes. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

Tamaya uchi shizuka - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows Shizuka, a courtesan, bust portrait, holding a book, facing slightly right, with many hairpins. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Gotenyama no hanami hidari - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows three women, one holding a parasol and one speaking to the third woman who is holding out a pair of zori for the woman exiting a sedan chair (see FP 2 - JPD, no. 2289), with cherry blossoms above an... More

Lee Moorhouse - Lucy Coyote - Public domain portrait

Photograph shows Lucy Coyote, an American Indian woman, half-length portrait, facing right. 1810 U.S. Copyright Office. On back: "Photo by Lee Moorhouse." Copyrighted Jan. 19, 1900 by Lee Moorhouse. No. 98. WSUNA

Yamauba, Hokkei Totoya - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows two actors wearing masks as mountain women. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Nō jōgoban : 18 Noh plays. ... More

[Shankland's American fashions, 1849]

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, eight men, a woman, and four children standing outdoors along a dirt roadway, two of the men are dressed for hunting and carry rifles, and at bottom, eight men and ... More

[Man with a sword walking toward the left]

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

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Migi - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a man and a woman, wearing geta, walking beneath an umbrella next to a blossoming tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Fr... More

Slave of Richard Townsend / W.H. Ingram's Photograph and Ferrotype Gal...

Photo shows an elderly African American man, three-quarter length portrait, wearing coat and top hat, seated, facing front, with right hand resting on the handle of a bow saw that he holds between his legs. In... More

Japanese women, Simoda / dag. by E. Brown, Jr. ; T. Sinclair's lith., ...

Print shows two Japanese women, full-length, seated on a bench or raised sleeping area. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan ... in ... 1852, 1853, and 18... More

Ōkawabashi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women walking with view of the Ōkawa Bridge as an insert in upper right corner. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

Portrait photo of Types Algériens. Mozabite / ND.

Mozabite Berber man, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, Algeria. No. 148.

Odezhda Kirgizok Golovnoi ubor "seukara [sic]

Photograph shows a portrait of a Kyrgyz woman, seated. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 2.

Constantinople. Chaldean - Public domain portrait drawing

Man in traditional Turkish costume, posed before a backdrop, holding rifle and smoking a pipe. In album: Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout, Ba'albec, Damascus, p. 13B, pl. 26.

Long dresses in the ball-room - Public domain historical image

Dancers falling after tripping on long dresses; accompanying text criticizes the tyranny of fashion that calls for such expensive and hazardous clothing. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1872 July 27, p. 589.

[Man in medieval livery with slashed sleeves holding mace]

"G.W. Rhead." Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Image blemishes on digital file are not on actual item. (DLC/PP-1934:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

E. Butterick & Co.'s quarterly report of New York fashions, for fall 1...

C10521 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005... More

[Japanese women, half-length studio portrait, facing slightly right]

No. 810. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 3] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may ... More

Quarterly report of metropolitan fashions, autumn 1889

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Butterick Publishing Co... More

Damas. Derviche á la mosque / Dumas Ph.

Three dervishs, two on steps, one playing a flute. No. 6011.

[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.

Ricksha boys, Durban, South Africa - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows four young men sitting at the front of rickshaws, facing front, three are wearing horned headdresses and the fourth is wearing a floral headdress. Title from caption card and item. LOT subdivision s... More

Mattie Lucas, near Merna, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: The young lady for sleeping for long periods original size: 6x8

Elk Tongue and his daughter, A-ke-a (A Nice Walk)

Elk Tongue, wearing war bonnet while crouching with bow and arrow in hands, and his daughter, A-ke-a, standing, both facing front. 32674W U.S. Copyright Office.

Quarterlt report of metropolitan fashions, winter 1892-93

Drapery study for figure of Physics

Study drawing shows dress and drapery for the allegorical figure of "Physics," from the side, for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jeffer... More

Apaches. Chief James A. Garfield. Pouche Te Foya and Sanches

Photograph shows three Apache men including Chief James A. Garfield, Pouche Te Foya and Sanches, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. No. 53413.

Honor to whom honor is due, Jas G. Johnson & Co., importers, jobbers a...

[African American school children and teacher, studying leaves out of ...

No. 351. In album: "7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Group of school children in front of statue of George Washington, Was...

No. 356. In album: "Public Schools - 7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Nez Percé man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing bea...

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Comes Again, half-length portrait, facing left]

No. 274. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two African American women, half-length portrait, facing each other]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 100. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[Parrum - Ute man, half-length portrait, facing front, holding feather...

66435 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph by Rose and Hopkins, Denver, Colorado. No. 167.

[Last Horse, half-length portrait, facing right; wearing body paint an...

No. 410. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Geronimo Apache cheif [sic] and his two nieces, died Feb. 16th [19]09 ...

Geronimo, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, posed, with his two nieces standing at his sides. H74628 U.S. Copyright Office. Hand-colored.

[Whirling Horse, American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Whirling Horse, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing headdress. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicat... More

Christmas number / Frank A. Nankivell '00.

Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman holding onto a Christmas tree as Puck chops it down with an axe.

Lee Moorhouse - [Po-ca-tel-lo, Yakima or Umatilla Indian, from Oregon,...

1811 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint by Lee Moorhouse. WSUNA Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The rise of the kitchen tyrant; - and how she may fall / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows the evolution of the domestic servant from country housewife to an employed domestic through seven scenes beginning with the barefooted housewife receiving "the summons to the land of the fre... More

[Alice Roosevelt Longworth, full-length portrait, wearing hat and fur ...

H15491 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Puck Easter / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a young woman playing a lute as a group of rabbit cavaliers dance around her. Two monks whisper to each other at the entrance to a monastery. Illus. in: Puck, v. 55, no. 1413 (1904 March 30)... More

The girl of the hour / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a fashionably-dressed young woman ice skating on a pond in a park; she is being admired by several men and boys standing on the left, while on the right four women, a golfer, an automobile dr... More

Puck Christmas 1904 / Frank A. Nankivell.

Illustration shows Santa Claus reviewing his list, his bag of gifts next to him, while sitting in an automobile that is being driven by two women standing on the back, dressed like chauffeurs. Illus. in: Puck,... More

First day of school - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows studio portrait of little boy, dressed in sailor suit, holding umbrella over head of little girl dressed in fancy coat and hat. Copyright 1905 by The Photograph Company of America. No. 1224.

Edward S. Curtis - Papago cleaning wheat (Winnowing wheat)

H99622 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2297-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - High Hawk - Public domain portrait

High Hawk, standing, facing left, in ceremonial dress, war bonnet and holding a coup stick. H104309 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2479-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). P... More

Edward S. Curtis - Forked Iron, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Crow man. H113037 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 2709-08.

Edward S. Curtis - [Black Eagle--Assiniboin]

Black Eagle, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing buffalo hide, holding wing of bird. H168510 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2447-08. Published in: The North Ame... More

Hunting Horse and daughters / photo by Dedrick, Taloga, Ok.

Group portrait of Indian family. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Swallow Bird, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, faci...

H113006 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2678-08.

Edward S. Curtis - Holds The Enemy

Holds The Enemy, an Apsaroke man, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing several shell necklaces, a beaded pouch about his waist, and holding a tomahawk. H113036 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no.... More

Good news - Public domain portrait engraving

Eskimo family from Labrador Seattle A.Y.P.E.

Photograph showing two Inuit couples and two children, with backdrop of snow covered log buildings in background. J133777 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: No. 1088. On recto: Seattle A.Y.P.E. 09. Copyright by ... More

Herbert G. Ponting and his camera / H.G.P.

Photograph shows Herbert G. Ponting, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with movie(?) camera on tripod, during the British Antarctic Expedition. J181346 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1913 May 12,... More

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Wishham child

Portrait of a girl, three-quarter length, seated, wearing basket like hat, cotton plaid dress, shell beads decorated with silver dollars. J139772 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3... More

[Cayuse woman, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, braids, s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This is the man who tells his wife that "woman's place is in the home"...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat and a red dress sitting at a table in a nightclub with a man who is holding her hand across the table.

A live wire / Modest Stein ; painted by Modest Stein.

Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman talking on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1953 (1914 August 8), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck... More

[Ernest Thompson Seton, with three Blackfeet Indians, demonstrating ho...

J220947 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Haynes, St. Paul. Public domain photograph of people having fun at picnic in the park, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beersheba and surroundings. (Beer Saba). Beersheba. Sheik Hamd el Sane

Title from Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?] misidentifies sitter as "Hussein Abu Sitte. Paramount sheik of Tarabin tribe." Depicted is Sheik Hamd el Sane. (Source: researcher Dr. S. Abu Sit... More

Evening gown in all its splendor

Woman modeling evening gown by Lucile at the Spring Fashion Show of the National Retail Garment Association held at the Commodore Hotel by Lucile. J246918 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Lucile, from Underw... More

Tolowa dancing head-dress, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Sam Lopez, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing Tolowa costume including a redheaded woodpecker scalp headress and strings of dentalium shell beads, holding a traditional painted bow and an obsidian blade, a si... More

Portrait photo of Jim Whitebird, gelatin silver print

Jim Whitebird, Nez Percé man, half-length portrait, standing, facing front.

White deerskin dance costume--Hupa, portrait of american indian man

Hupa Indian, half-length, standing, facing left, in ceremonial costume. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - A Serrano woman of Tejon

Serrano woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. J270859 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress) Curtis no. 4141. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Cu... More

[Frida Kahlo (Senora Diego Rivera) standing next to an agave plant, du...

Date based on Vogue article publication. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

[Woman, probably a fashion model, lying on ferns on ground]

On negative sleeve: "Bookboard" [i.e. Book board]. Photograph may be available in LOT 12452. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

[Legs and feet of five teenage girls wearing dog collar anklets on the...

World-Telegram staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Gen. S. P. Heintzelman and group, convalescent camp, near Alexandria, ...

No. B1121. Hand written on verso: "National Archives NA-B5293". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Godey's fashions for December 1861 / Capewell & Kimmel, sc.

Fashion plate from Godey's Ladies's Book, showing six women wearing fashionable wedding gowns. Engraved by Capewell & Kimmel.

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Title devised by staff. On verso of mount: Miss Prall. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

[King Kobina of Elmina and members of tribe, Ghana]

Photograph showing portrait of king holding mace and four women with a large group of men in traditional dress. No. 190.

Edward S. Curtis - Head Carry - Public domain portrait print

Half-length portrait of a Native man, wearing headdress, facing front. Curtis no. 73. LC no. 92. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

[Young woman and three men standing in front of check room]

Advertisement for Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothes. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Joseph--Nez Percé

Photograph shows Chief Joseph, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing war bonnet and several necklaces. H08684 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 478. Copyright 1903 by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S... More

[Chinese woman and boy] - Public domain portrait drawing

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

[Elegant woman in silver dress holding a fan] / John Held, Jr.

Illustration of full-length woman shows her in a silver dress facing front and back. She wears a large hat, flowing shawl, and holds a fan. Purchase (Swann Memorial Fund); 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:085). Forms part of... More

Edward Penfield - [Woman and man golfers conversing]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Golf Outlook for 1902" by Walter J. Travis, Collier's weekly, April 26, 1902. p. 10.

Group of Pah-ute Indians, Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a group of Paiute Indians including women and children. Most members of the tribe wear western clothing while some wear traditional garments. No. 2. Originally published: Photographs showin... More

Drapery study for figure of Botany Library of Congress

Study drawing shows the dress and drapery for the allegorical figure of "Botany" for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building.... More

James Moran & Co.'s Romeo, fine cut, chewing tobacco / C. Hamilton & C...

Print is a tobacco package label showing Romeo and Juliet embracing, by an open window, as they are taking leave of each other. 1687E U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by James Moran & Co. Copyright stamp, date... More

[Women kissing], Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows two women, full length, standing with arms around each other, kissing. Printed on verso of cabinet card: Miss Johnston, Sun Building, Washington, D.C. Gift and purchase; Frances Benjamin Johns... More

Latest thing in flasks. Mlle. Rhea, dainty dancer who is now in the ci...

Mlle. Rhea seated with flask in garter on leg. National Photo Company Collection.

[T]ipy Rossīi Types de Russie / / Fototipii︠a︡ Shererʺ, Nabgolt︠s︡ ʺ i...

Print shows Russian peasants in traditional dress; one man holds a button accordion. Addressed to: Novil Donna Elvira Notarbartolo di Villarosa, Via XX Settembre Traversa Trapani, Palazzo Paladino, Palermo (It... More

The noble sons of Ireland - Public domain portrait painting

Print shows men prominent in Irish history, each identified below the print, all standing before the viewer, wearing the particular dress of their times. Includes eight lines of verse. C7169D U.S. Copyright Off... More

[Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Joe Black Fox, half-length portrait, facing front, cigarette in his right hand.

[Hanging poems on a cherry tree]

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, hanging poems in a blossoming cherry tree.

Kiyohiro Torii - [The harmonic couple] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man and a woman sitting on a bench, playing a flute, beneath a blossoming tree. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

L'Amérique, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows a young Native American maiden, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a fur and fabric robe, a feathered headdress, a quiver and bow; the early form of the allegorical figure representi... More

Suehirogari, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two dancers, one holding a fan and the other holding a parasol. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. One page from an illustrat... More

Wakana tsumi - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows two women gathering spring greens. Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ukiyo bijin mitate sankyoku - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a woman playing a small stringed instrument (like a biwa) with a large bow. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: left p... More

[A man, bare-chested, sitting cross-legged with arms raised over his h...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

Tōsei fū, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding a teapot. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: E... More

[Half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 46, lower left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscri... More

[Reading a love letter], Kiyomasu Torii

Print shows a young woman reading a love letter. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

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