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Tah-Chee, a Cherokee chief / A. Newsam.

Print shows Tah-Chee, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing plumed hat. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern Dist... More

Two men and two women posing in formal attire J. G. Stacy, Rahway, N.J

"A No 11" in pencil, on back. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress) Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008: 007)

Chinese woman and boy - Public domain portrait photograph

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Jackson and date based on negative D4-9045. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09051. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate ...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by Dr. Daniel G. Prior, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, Ohio State University. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Con... More

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview focuses on Bill Kerwin's experiences as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bill Kerwin's home, Waunakee, Wisconsin, July 8, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest :... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Michael Fulton interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana...

Mike Fulton, born in 1957, entered the circus industry at a young age and discussed how that came about. After high school graduation, the family moved to Hugo, Oklahoma. He held various jobs within the circus ... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

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.

"Little," the instigator of Indian Revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890

Photo shows Little, Oglala band leader, three-quarter length studio portrait, seated, wearing a turkey feather headdress and holding various weapons. Copyright deposit. Forms part of: John C. H. Grabill Collec... More

Dobbins' medicated toilet soap / LW ; J. Haehnlen, Philadelphia.

Poster showing four well dressed women in a parlor, one of them is holding open a box of "Dobbins' Medicated Toilet Soap." Two of the women are wearing coats and gloves as though they just arrived, the fourth w... More

[Female acrobats on trapezes at circus]

11126W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich. No. 63.

Naniwa no bessō akebono no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print (Ukiyo-e), free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Red Cloud and American Horse." The two most noted chiefs now living

Two Oglala chiefs, American Horse (wearing western clothing and gun-in-holster) and Red Cloud (wearing headdress), full-length portrait, facing front, shaking hands in front of tipi--probably on or near Pine Ri... More

[Isfandiyar, Khan of the Russian protectorate of Khorezm(Khiva), full-...

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

Yatsushi kuramayama, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a god or warrior appearing on a cloud before several women gathered in a wooded grove on Mount Kurama with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

The Brazilian in The Very merry mariner

"Copyright March 1880 by J.E. Jackson, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Gokakoku jinbutsu - dontaku no zu - Ukiyo e print

Japanese triptych print shows the interior of a foreign settlement house with several women and men enjoying a tea party, and a view of ships in the harbor in the background, Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Yoshit... More

The mikado - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caption: Yum Yum. Created by "The Jno. B. Jeffery Print.-Eng. Co., Chicago." Pieces missing from center. Poster advertising operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library o... More

[Jemez Pueblo Indians in a ceremonial dance, New Mexico] / Simeon Schw...

Copyright by Simeon Schwemberger. No. 8. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Young woman in Middle Eastern costume and jeweled headband, seated on...

Blind stamp: lower left. On verso of mount: "n" pencil upper right. Image content features: MODEL Nancy Lovis (Kraft); COSTUME Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/N. African, jewelry; PEOPLE young women. Title and ot... More

The male carriage, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon print showing an elaborately dressed woman with a key around her neck, possibly a transvestite. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

Sandaime sawamura sojūrō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

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

Tōkyō meishō no zu - Asakusa dera, denshinkyoku

Japanese print shows exterior view in the Asakusa section of Tokyo showing the telegraph bureau and the Sensōji Temple with a pagoda in the background; a man, two women, and rickshaws in the foreground. Signat... More

Sweetest story ever told - Public domain drawing

Illustration shows a young woman standing and playing the violin. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 45:8 (August 13, 1910... More

Too chary of their complexions to brave the sun

(DLC/PP-1934.0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Goldfish," Saturday evening post, 186:19 (Jan. 10, 1914). Exhibited: American beauties: drawings fro... More

[Three mannequins of women in elaborate dress, on wooden stands]

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Three mannequins of women in elaborate dress, on wooden stands]

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The various shapes of the human form that we provide for

Print shows nineteen different male body shapes illustrating the range of clothing the advertiser, Hammerslough, Saks & Co., can accommodate. Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., copyright claimant.

Se-loc-ta, a Creek chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's l...

Se-loc-ta, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Plate from: The Indian Tribes of North America / by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838.

[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

Iwai Shijaku no Miyahime - Public domain scan of print

Print shows onnagata actor Iwai Shijaku, full-length portrait, in the role of Miyahime, standing next to a stream in a hilly landscape with two rabbits in the background.

[Woman in a kimono standing looking at a sculpted bust] / EW.

Signed with photographer's monogram. Prior to 1901 photographer known as Eva Lawrence Watson. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston i... More

Edward S. Curtis - Nayenezgani - Public domain portrait

Nayenezgani, a Navajo deity, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing body paints and other adornments. LC no. 77. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

M.B. Brady and Frank Leslie's artists taking photographs and sketches ...

Gift; Belle Willard Roosevelt and Elizabeth Willard Herbert; 1954 Oct. 29.

"Little," instigator of Indian revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890

Little, Oglala band leader, three-quarter length studio portrait, seated, facing front, wearing turkey feather headdress, pants and shirt, holding rifle across lap. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from ite... More

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows two women, one kneeling and writing on a scroll, the other standing nearby watching her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.... More

Edward Penfield - [Man swinging golf club]

Title devised by cataloger. Inscribed in blue pencil below image: Put in grain on blue part of cap - Pay no attention to other blue parts also put grain on shoes, and roof on house. E.P. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). For... More

Blessed art thou among women

Print shows woman standing in doorway with her arm around the shoulders of a girl, probably her daughter. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 1, January 1903, plate III.

[Modern illustrated sheets with pictorial envelope]

Each illustration, including front of envelope, is signed with Japanese characters and chops. Japanese text appears in the left and right margins of the eight printed sheets. Gift; Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1935.... More

Hanaarashi, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain scenic drawing

Print shows on the left, two women consoling a third woman, in the center, one woman lifting another woman so she can attach a slip of paper to tree branch, and on the right, a woman standing on a bucket and ho... More

Week-ends can be fully enjoyed in our new models : beautiful weaves --...

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

The mikado. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Caption: Pooh-Bah. Created by "The Jno. B. Jeffery Print.-Eng. Co., Chicago." Poster advertising operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress) Exhibit loan 4085-L.

Fashion - Skinner's satin. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows woman wearing a gown posed against a wall on which shadows of venetian blinds are projected. Accompanying text includes commentary from photographer and photographer's biographical informatio... More

Arrow washed handkerchiefs, clean and soft in sanitary packages

Poster shows man holding a hat, coat, and handkerchief. Poster is an advertisement for Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc., Makers, Troy, N.Y. Number on item: 652.

Geronimo and Apaches at the St. Louis Fair

Geronimo and seven other Apache men, women and a boy posed in front of tents at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis. Exhibited: "Only skin deep" at the International Center for Photography, N.Y., 2003-2005.

"Little," the instigator of Indian Revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890

Little, Oglala band leader, full-length studio portrait, seated, facing left, wearing horn headdress and holding rifle. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

How d'y do?. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph for book illustration shows two women, in mid-19th century period costumes, standing in a doorway greeting each other.

Interior Alaska costume - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Goldes shaman priest in his regalia

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1897, p. 807. Similar to lantern slide W7-1144. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part ... More

The cove and harbour, County Cork Ireland / drawn by J. Brenann 223 E....

Print shows a view of the harbor at County Cork, Ireland, from a street above, with many well-dressed pedestrians, several buildings, among them "O'Sullivan's Dining, Saloon", "Emigration Office, Cunard Line", ... More

Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Amerika - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows two American men. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Seal date: Cock 2. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga (People from foreign lands). Library has 2 versions with different colors;... More

Sekiguchi yatarō yoshioka kanefusa miyamoto musashi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie triptych. Attributed to: Enryosai Shigemitsu. Triptych matted in 3 sect... More

Portrait photo of Di︠e︡vushka s zemli︠a︡nikoĭ. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠...

A black and white photo of a woman with an umbrella. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shin yoshiwara ōgiya zashiki no zu, Eizan Kikukawa

Print shows a gathering of men and women socializing and playing musical instruments in the courtyard of a yoshiwara, with the activities illuminated in the many rooms of the two-story building. Title and other... More

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: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Butterick (E.) & Co.... More

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Migi - Public domain 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

[Man with a sword walking toward the left]

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

Haha to ko, print by Sukenobu Nishikawa

Print shows a mother and her son with an open book; the boy is resting on top of the book, preventing his mother from reading it. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... More

[Soga Goro making puns] - Public domain drawing

Print shows one of the Soga brothers, Goro (Tokimune), dressed as a warrior surrounded by text containing puns. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[The black knight], Okumura Masanobu - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, possibly an actor or a samurai, with sword, holding an umbrella, wearing a black kimono and geta. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kiyomitsu Torii - Ichimura kamezo no kyo no jirō

Print shows the actor Ichimura Kamezo performing a fan dance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part o... More

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

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

Nidaime ichikawa monnosuke - Public domain portrait print

Print shows the actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II, full-length portrait, facing left, standing on snow-covered veranda.

Minazuki, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man sitting on a bench at a teahouse overlooking the Sumida River, the waitress standing before him holding a fan and teapot, is looking over her left shoulder. Title and other descriptive informa... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie shin-yoshiwara sōjimai no zu

Print shows many women gathering together, some still entertaining men, in a large open hall in the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Komusō, Isoda Koryūsai - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman standing beneath a wisteria tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae Nishikie. Forms part of: Japane... More

Rakugan Matsubaya Somenosuke, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Somenosuke, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with two attendants/trainees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Ichimuraza no mae no iroko - Public domain drawing

Print shows two young men dreaming about acting at the theater. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms p... More

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

Ryūka no odoriiko, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a full-length portrait of a woman holding a parasol, standing beneath a willow tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. For... More

Edomachi nichōme tsutaya uchi hitomachi[?] - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows the courtesan Hitomachi with another woman and two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the ser... More

Shiokumi, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women carrying buckets of salt suspended from shoulder poles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Fūzok... 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

Street walkers / RST ; etch'd by B. Smith., British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a well dressed man wearing large hat, possibly George Hanger, walking at the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly, there he meets the gaze of a fashionably dressed young woman, a prostitute(?), al... More

Koto to shō, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain 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

Chōkōsai Eisho - Okamotoya uchi shinateru - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the courtesan Shinateru with two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Wakana no hat... 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

Parisian ladies in their winter dress for 1800, British Cartoon Print

"A group of women standing close together display their persons, which are decorated rather than veiled by transparent figured draperies; one is in back view..." (Source: George) Catalogue of Political and Per... More

Saru no ikigimo - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman with two children standing on the seashore watching a monkey riding on a turtle (or jellyfish).

[Portrait of a woman] - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows a woman, princess or empress, full-length portrait, facing front. Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese pri... More

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

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

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

Leeds - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a man, possibly the Earl of Leeds, standing in the street, holding an umbrella, with a man wearing a cape walking in front of a classical style building in the background. Also shows a secondary ima... 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

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