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Gotenyama no hanami hidari - Public domain 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

Himegimi no gozabune, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows a princess and two servants on a boat, one holding a parasol and one holding a small box. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Karasaki no yau, Eizan Kikukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman standing on a cloud, holding an umbrella and a paper lantern, as it rains on a village in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More

Segawa Rokō no Matsukaze - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows Segawa Roko, an actor, as Matsukaze, one of two sisters, with a shoulder pole carrying salt water from the sea.

A Curiosity in Ireland / C.W., British Cartoon Print

Cartoon showing a woman sitting on settee by fireplace. She wears a small hat trimmed with a feather, a short braided hussar jacket, a limp skirt draping her knees, with a long boa and large muff of white fur. ... More

Dandies dressing / I. R. Cruikshank fect., British Cartoon Print

Six men dressing in grotesque attire. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)

Iwai hanshirō, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshirō portraying a woman dressed as a wandering monk. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical O... More

Nakamura shikan no sadaka (to) nakamura matsue no hinadori

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie, Osaka-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ofusa tokubei, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a full-length portrait of a Ofusa, a young woman about to depart on a suicide journey in order to spend eternity with her lover Tokubei. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunk... More

Fumi o motsu onna - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Yamauba, Hokkei Totoya - Public domain 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

[Woman, possibly a courtesan, sitting next to a flowerpot, facing left...

Attributed to a group of drawings 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 part of: Japanese... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Seki, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows travelers outside a men's clothing shop selling hats and short kimonos, also standing at the entrance to a gated area, some shops closed with painted designs on fabric at the Seki station on the Tōk... More

Hara, Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Print shows two travelers and a porter next to a rice paddy with two herons and a view of Mount Fuji at the Hara station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spon... More

Kiichi hōgen no musume minatsuru hime

Print shows Princess Minatsuru, full-length, standing, facing right, holding a scroll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertica... More

Teishinkō, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman carrying a child on her back; a portrait and a partially unrolled scroll, and a tablet with a poem on it are in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunke... 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

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

Sagami Enoshima iriguchi, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women passing through the gateway to a shrine on the bank of a river with distant view of Mount Fuji. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More

Bedouin / J.P. Sebah. - Public domain portrait print

Studio portrait of Bedouin man, full-length, standing, facing front, holding prayer beads. No. 296.

Types Algériens. Jeune fille marchande de pain / ND Ph.

Young woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with platter-shaped bread carrier on her head, Algeria.

Types Algériens. Fileuse de laine / ND.

Woman, full-length portrait, seated on ground, facing right, spinning wool, Algeria. No. T. 249.

Cairo. Native girl - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 167A. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of... More

Portrait photo of Types Algériens. Mozabite / ND.

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

Ichikawa kuzō sawamura tanosuke nakamura shikan

Print shows three actors, one in the role of a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie tr... More

Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: Amerikajin

Japanese print showing standing woman and man, who is smoking a cigarette. Signature: Kuniaki ga. Seal date: Cock 5. From series entitled: Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi (People of various nations). Annotations, stam... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese families, a bridesmaid and a teahouse]

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

[Japanese curio shop, a street cart and portraits of a Japanese family...

Captions on front of item: "Interior of Japanese curio shop" (upper left); "Street cart" (upper right)"; "A Japanese Daimio's family group in state dress" (lower left); and "Japanese high officers" (lower righ... More

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Evreiki. Laula

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 30.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Iagnaubtsy zhiteli verkhov'ia r...

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 19.

Portrait photo of Muzhskaia odezhda Sredneaziiattsev. Shtany (izar)

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 69.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbechki. Makhtab ai

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Uzbek woman.

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.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Iagnaubtsy zhiteli verkhov'ia r...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a man from the village of Murgutumein. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 19.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Avgantsy. Aiaz-khan

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 27.

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.

[Full-length portrait of a man, standing, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Rosa Mendez - Public domain portrait print

Rosa Mendez, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, lower left. On verso: Andres Martinez y C[S... More

Louis the interpreter & matador de los Apaches Pasquial, Pimo [i.e., P...

Three-quarter length portraits. Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 123 (bottom) and 126 (top).

[Two women, full-length portrait, standing, turned slightly toward eac...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 29, lower right. On recto: Andres Martinez y c[Superscript a] Fotografos, Mexico, C. de las Escalerillas... More

[Chinese men playing "Chai Moi" (finger game), street vendors with ca...

Captions on front of item: "Chinese game of Chai Moi" (upper left); "Street vendors" (upper right); "Street vendors" (lower left); and "Groups of figures" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Chinese game... More

[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).

Long dresses in the ball-room - A black and white drawing of a crowd o...

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.

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1) Bulgarian woman of Ahi Tchèlèbi; (2) Greek woman of Hasskeuı̈ (Khaskovo); and (3) peasant woman of Baı̈djas. Ahi Tchèlèbi and Khaskovo are outside of Plodiv, Bulgaria. French caption: Andrinople: Figure 1:... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1) Middle class Albanian of Yanı̈a (Yanya); (2) poor Albanian of Yanı̈a (Yanya); and (3) peasant from the environs of Yanı̈a (Yanya). French caption: Yania: Figure 1: Arnaout de Yanı̈a (Classe moyenne); Figur... 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

Canada as "Mother Mandelbaum" / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam dressed as a policeman standing on the U.S. side of a "'Fence' for American Defaulters" and staring at Fredericka Mandelbaum who is standing on the Canadian side, dressed as a Nativ... More

J. R. Richardson, West Union, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Please note the items which the children are holding. Also note the materials used on and near the doorway and windows. original size: 6x8

Bufford's vegetable cards, no. 790-3 [wheat] / Bufford.

Print shows a young woman holding a sickle over her head, wearing a skirt made of leaves and the heads of wheat plants, facing slightly right, with wheat growing in the background. S24954 U.S. Copyright Office.... More

[Seven men in Cossak costume, posing as if at a feast, Georgia (Republ...

James Guthrie Harbord Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alexandrie. Ejiptiéne / Dumas Ph.

Egyptian woman, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing a veil. No. 2088. No. 586. On verso: Africa. Natives. Egypt, Alexandria.

Damas. Derviche á la mosque / Dumas Ph.

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

Mattie Lucas, near Merna, Custer County, Nebraska.

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

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

[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.

Portugal (Vianna) / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.

Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing two people from Portugal with Singer sewing machine. Copyright by Singer Manufacturing Co.

A man of Fiji, head and shoulders profile

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

Joseph G. Pangborn in kimono. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

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

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

Young America to the rescue / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows young women and men dancing at a summer resort. Caption: Hops as they now are at our fashionable summer resorts. Illus. from Puck, v. 42, no. 1067, (1897 August 18), centerfold. Copyright 1897 by K... More

Edward Penfield - Harper's April '98, Harpers magazine posters

Man in foreground playing golf. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1898. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

[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

[School children conducting simple experiments, Washington, D.C.]

No. 350. In album: "Public Schools - 7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[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

A Klickitat brave / Gifford, The Dalles, Oregon.

Indian, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing native dress. 40968 U.S. Copyright Office. WSUNA

[School children learning a dance in a school yard, Washington, D.C.]

No. 344. In album: "Public Schools - 7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[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

[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).

[Sun Flower, Native American man, half-length , facing left]

No. 326. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

[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).

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.

[Woman descending the stairs with her white dog] / M. Prall.

Title devised by staff. FBJ label no. 76. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Published... More

[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

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

Calls in Cranford. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph for book illustration shows a woman dressed in mid-19th century period costume descending stone stairs. Published title. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in ... More

[Young woman wearing high collared blouse and mutton-sleeved jacket, f...

Title devised by staff. Blind stamp on item. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948.

Portrait photo of [Cetan Waste, Wipetila and Pte]

Indian-family: man holding pipe, woman and child in native dress.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of a young boy with a large plaid bow at ...

Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

Reflections - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Woman in undergarments sits in dressing room, two mirrors reveal different profiles of her. 1091 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. Copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. 2692.

[Cornelia Montgomery, 3/4 face, holding flowers, square-necked gown, a...

Cornelia Montgomery, half-length portrait, facing front. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter... More

California fashions of furs for 1868 and 1869 / A. Nahl ; Nahl Bro's o...

Print shows two advertisements for California fur fashions by Adolph Müller of San Francisco; on the left are two women and a young girl wearing furs outside Adolph Müller's store at 113 Montgomery St. San Fran... More

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).

Goldi shaman priest and assistant - photo by William Henry Jackson

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1897, p. 809. Similar to lantern slide W7-1149. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part ... More

Hakone shuku, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman crawling from beneath mosquito netting near a postal box at the Hakone Station on the Tōkaidō Road, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compile... More

Tōto ryōgokubashi kawabiraki han'ei zu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows boats crowding the river in Edo during fireworks display for the opening of the river celebration. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in ... More

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbechki. Khimet-ai

Photograph shows a Uzbek woman seated, full-length, facing right. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia︢: ..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 19.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbechki. Khimet-ai

Photograph shows a Uzbek woman seated, full-length, facing right. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' étnograficheskaia︢: ..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 19.

Tsubone iwafuji chūrō onoe meshitukai hatsu, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Triptych matted in 3 sections: left (424a), center (424b), right (424c). Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Oban Nishi... More

Inauguration ball at Washington, March 4, 1861 - superb costumes of di...

Mrs. Colonel Yates, Miss Rose Cowan, Mrs. E.G. Squier, Mrs. Alexander, of Washington, Mrs. Drake Mills, and Mrs. Rice of Boston, at Lincoln's inaugural ball. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 186... More

Amerika nigiwai no zu - Public domain dedication image

Japanese triptych print showing supposed view of an American town square, with people walking around, although the source for the architecture was an illustration of the Fredericksburg Castle near Copenhagen th... More

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

Rant-Che-Wai-Me. Female Flying Pigeon / Lehman & Duval lith.

Print shows Rant-Che-Wai-Me, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding feather fan. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of... More

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