dwellings

Theodor de Bry - [The town of Pomeiock] / T.B.

Fortified Native village the manner of construction of the buildings and the enclosing stockade. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... ... More

[Indian seated in hut]

Illus. in: America. Edited by Theodor de Bry. Franckfort am Mayn : Gedruckt bey J. Wechel, in Verlegung d. Bry, 1590, plate 21.

[A fortified village]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A Native village with the chief's house in the center, surrounded by huts of other principal men, and fortified by a circular arrangement of tall palings that spiral to a narrow opening at the entrance. Illus. ... More

[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Ori...

Illus. in: Reys-Boeck van het rijcke, Brasilien (Dordrecht?,1624). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Maps; South America; Snakes; Braz... More

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

Title devised by Library staff. Chinese script and two chops in upper left corner.

A plan of Patomack River, from the mouth of Sherrendo, down to Chapawa...

Present sheet covers from Little Falls to south. Northern sheet missing. Pen-and-ink on tracing paper. Soiled, brittle, creased, missing small sections, rubber-stamped, and mounted on cloth backing. Accompanied... More

[Two thatched cottages on the edge of a river]

Marsh Collection. LeBlanc, no. 106.

Summer and winter habitations in Kamtschatka / Webber del. ; J. Goldar...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

The Tschuktschi, and their habitations / Webber, J. del. ; W. & J.(?) ...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

A View of the habitations in Nootka Sound / Webber del. ; Birrell sc.

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island.

The Inside of a Hippah, in New Zeeland [i.e. New Zealand] / Webber, de...

Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.

View of a pass over the South Mountains from York Town to Carlisle / B...

Title from item. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 May, opp. p. 236. Fielding, 1570 Published in: The American Re... More

A view on the Schuylkill, with a SW prospect of Bush-Hill, one of the ...

Print shows dwellings along the banks of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.

A view of houses in the city of Albany

A view of the seat of the Hon. Selah Strong, Esqr., St. George's Manor...

Print shows view of manor house in Sussex County, Long Island, New York. Title from item. Illus. in: New York Magazine, 1792 (October). Reference copy in LOT 4385-EO.

Green Hill, the seat of Samuel Meredith Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. H...

Print shows view of the home of Samuel Meredith. Massa. Mag. Illus. in: The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment. Boston : Isaih Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 179... More

Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by...

Shows proposed streets, block numbers, and proposed government buildings; also shows proposed "University" area (which does not appear on the original 1792 edition). Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by so... More

[Coastal view with village and pine trees along the waterfront]

Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Residence of the Washington family / Hays, sc.

Home of George Washington.

Shin ōyama ukikei

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: vertical Koban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Toyohiro Utagawa: Inakaya no ume

Print shows bird's-eye view of large plum tree in courtyard of a country dwelling; several people standing outside the courtyard are looking at the tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nich... More

[View of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, with a large home and...

Title devised by Library staff. Preliminary sketch on verso. Includes puncture holes around the edges where paper was fastened to a board. Watermark with a large fleur de lis with W. Philadelphia Print Shop Inv... More

A view of the residence of the late Richard Jordan taken from Newtown ...

Print shows a man, possibly Quaker preacher Richard Jordan, walking along a cart path with fenced areas to the right and left and his house in the background with outbuildings on both sides; a large cow or ox i... More

Lagrange (eastn. view), Landscape view print

Print shows an eastern view of Lagrange, the home of Marquis de Lafayette. Title taken from another impression. Proof before letters.

Rokudanme, Sadahide Utagawa

Print shows a person in a sedan chair leaving a residential compound and being stopped by a samurai warrior. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 20... More

The hermitage drawn by T. Birch, from a description funished by a frie...

Print shows a distant view of the Hermitage, with trees on the left and horses in a fenced pasture in the foreground. Title from item. Trimmed to within plate mark.

Kameido umeyashiki

Print shows a family within the bamboo walls of a riverside villa. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Oban Nishikie.... More

Siberia, Landscape view print

Print shows a distant view from an elevated vantage point of a town in Siberia with a large church or monastery in the background. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil at bottom center: "Siberia." Stamped in lo... More

Hebi taiji no fuji

Print shows a thatched-roof dwelling next to a large tree with mountains in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the... More

S.E. view of the mansion of George Washington. Mount Vernon lith. of P...

Print shows an exterior view of the house at Mount Vernon, facing the Potomac River, with people on the lawn and ships on the river. Title from item. Gift; Louis M. Rabinowitz; Jan. 5, 1948.

[Summary plate showing 25 country cottages and dwellings designed by J...

Title from publication. Illus. in: Recueil de cottages et maisons de campagne / Joseph Ramée. Purchase; Stanford University; 2005; (DLC/PP-2005:096).

Native village

View of village showing traditional dwellings. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Collection (Library of Congress).

President Robert's house, Monrovia / Wagner & McGuigan's Lith. Phil.

President Joseph J. Roberts' house, Monrovia, Liberia.

[Cabin in landscape]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The old soldier & his family painted by Bellangé ; eng'd. by Wm. McClu...

Print shows a young male traveling merchant or peddler selling figurines door-to-door throughout the countryside, he carries them on a board resting on his head; he is standing before an old soldier and his fam... More

[Southwest view of Sanderson's Franklin House, Chestnut Street, Philad...

Title devised by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 628. (DLC/PP-1993:212.34). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "American Treasures" at the Librar... More

Cases de naturels dessiné par L. Le Breton, lithe. par De Laplante ; l...

Print shows typical dwellings at a native village with a man working on an outrigger canoe in the foreground. Title from online source. Illus. from: Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astr... More

Fountain green on stone by J. Queen ; lith. of Wagner & McGuigan, 116,...

Print shows the Mifflin family estate "Fountain Green" on a hill overlooking the Schuykill River in Philadelphia's Fairmont Park, Pennsylvania, with a coach on the roadway in the lower left foreground, also sho... More

Nassau

Drawing shows a portion of the front and right side of a large house with many windows, shutters, dormers, and chimneys, and several trees behind a picket fence, with hitching posts along the roadway, and a hor... More

The manor house Kentmere, Westmoreland. Seat of the Gilpin Family, A.D...

Print shows an exterior view of the Gilpin family manor house at Kentmere, Westmoreland, England. Title from item. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) For... More

Daniel Carroll of Duddington's family on porch of house, F and 2nd Str...

Photograph shows members of the family of Daniel Carroll (1764-1849) with African American man, seated and standing on the porch of Duddington house, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Caption from another copy of ... More

Lighthouse with outbuildings

Drawing shows a lighthouse towering above two buildings, possibly dwellings. Title devised by Library staff. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part o... More

[Cottage-villa in the rural Gothic style, residence of William J. Rotc...

Illus. in: The architecture of country houses / A.J. Downing. New York : Appleton, 1850, p. 297.

[Cottage-villa in the rural Gothic style, residence of William J. Rotc...

Illus. in: The architecture of country houses / A.J. Downing. New York : Appleton, 1850, p. 296.

Oakland Hall near Norristown(?)

Drawing shows a large building on a hill, with a large lawn in front descending into the foreground, overlooking a smaller home or gatehouse on the lower right, next to the roadway; also shows a covered wagon o... More

This drawing is by Major John Andre of the British Army, when a prison...

Print shows at top a dwelling in a country setting, possibly a farmhouse, with gate and fence in the foreground; includes text which tells about Major André, the origin of the drawing, and the context in which ... More

Paris. Palais des Thermes / E. Baldus.

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 26. No. 51.

Buckingham Hall. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Book title page and frontispiece showing large plantation house. Illus. in: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the planter's home, or a fair view of both sides of the slavery question, by Robe... More

The presidents of the United States

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. Ensign, Bridgman & Fann... More

Oakland Hall near Norristown(?)

Drawing shows a large building on a hill, with a portico, columns, and a large square cupola, and a large lawn in front descending into the foreground; overlooks a smaller home or gatehouse on the lower right, ... More

Perspective view / L.N. Rosenthals Chromo Lith. Phila.

Print shows a perspective view of an Italianate style building on a street corner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; designed by architect Samuel Sloan, it may have been the residence of Joseph Harrison, Jr. at 221... More

The Palace of Massasoit

Indian standing in front of hut. From: Harper's monthly, 1857, p. 27.

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Construction equipment and workers at the Treasury Building construction site; in background are residential dwellings. Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 16. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

Old Boston - Beacon Hill from Derne St.

Print shows a view of the Beacon Hill eagle monument in Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Charles Bulfinch, at the top of Beacon Hill, with William Thurston's house on the left, at the time (ca. 1811) when Bea... More

A View of the house of the late Hon'ble Jonathan Corwin (Judge of the ...

Place of trial for persons charged with witchcraft, Salem, Mass., 1692.

Oakland Hall, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Title from item. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Robert Hunter ranch six miles northwest of Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Camp of R.I. Regiment

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed upper left: head quarters. Inscribed lower left: deep piazzas all round two upper stories. Formerly Waud no. C-161. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1088) Forms p... More

Valencia. Tros Alt

View up a street in the old section of Valencia.

Dairy Cottage, Prospect Park. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscop...

On mount: American Views. Brooklyn, N.Y. No. 49. Title from item.

J.R. Young residence, tenant house, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereos...

Title devised by Library staff. Stamped on verso: Garrett Edwards, Authorized Neverslip Horseshoes, Westchester, Pa. Handwritten note on verso: "Residence J.R. Young, Delaware Co., Pa., Tenant House". Forms par... More

[Soldiers preparing for battle]

May be the battle of Charles City Road. Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-46. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.811) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rhode Island camp ground

Title inscribed upper left. Formerly Waud no. C-161. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1088) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Man, woman, and children outside earth and wood structure]

Title devised by library staff.

Beyond Elija

Log House in a landscape. Title inscribed. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.668) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Valencia. Iglesia de Sta. Catalina

Bell tower of the Church of St. Catalina; in foreground apartment buildings. In album: Spain, p. 56. No. 897.

The Fulton House, lower hall

No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Building facade probably a city residence]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-70. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.835) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Mrs. Pereival's

Title from item.

Residence of Bettie Golsbury, Waterville Oneida Co., N.Y. photographed...

Title from item.

White House, Potomac, Washington, D.C.

Cottage in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Title transcribed from handwritten text on verso. On verso: Butler, Bonsall & Co., Army Photographers, General Rousseau's Division. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John... More

Residence of R. Young, Delaware County, Pa., front view

Title from item.

[Structure made of timbers, earth, rope, and vegetation, two people an...

Title devised by library staff. No. 19.

View of Charleston Harbor and its Defences

Landscape with harbor and wetlands; Charleston on horizon upper left and ironclads and ships in harbor upper right. Damaged dwelling right margin. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image to indicacte... More

Fernando Woods house. B1 [...]

Faint sketch of house. Title inscribed under image. Fernando Wood was a mayor of New York. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.88) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Aletsch Glacier. Bel Alp

View of glacier with log and stone building, lower right. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 35, lower left.

Benjamin West's residence, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card...

Handwritten note on verso: "The house in which Benjamin West lived taken, presented by Mr. Joseph [Bondale], August 1860. Swarthmore, Pa. [Delaware Co.]". Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Marian... More

Mrs. Lewis' summer residence near Media, Penna

Title from item. Stamped on verso: Garrett Edwards, Authorized Neverslip Horseshoes, Westchester, Pa. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

[Farmhouses by a pond]

[Sharpshooter covering artillery men]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-34. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.799) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Verona. House of Juliet

In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 121, back. No. 236.

Pickets [sic] train captured here [and] Warren with Crawfords div

Sketches of cabins. Title from inscriptions below images. Formerly Waud no. B-85. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.849) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Cedar Level U.S.M.R.R., Nr Petersburg

Title inscribed lower right. Formerly Waud no. C-22. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.949) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Cottage in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Tobacco house

Residence of Chas. Green, Esq

No. 40. Title from item.

[Bird's-eye view of the residential compound of a nobleman in Beijing;...

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 151. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Colonel Bully

This appears to be a front view of the house depicted in DRWG/US - Waud, no. 1064 (A size) Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-138. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1065) Forms part of: Mo... More

[Log cabin beside tree and rail fence]

Formerly Waud no. B-149 Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP1919:R1.2.0913). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[D.R. Miller house, with family on porch, Hagerstown Pike, Antietam, M...

Civil War Photograph Collection.

Near Charleston, S.C., 1861

Yard at rear of large house, with monument, and trees. Appears to be rear view of house depicted in DRWG/US - Waud, no. 1065 (A size). Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left margin within image: Thick Hone... More

Mt. Vernon, 1861

Title inscribed below image and lower left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.122) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Mt Vernon, 1861. Mr Hubbard

Title inscribed lower right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1097) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Lacey House, Falmouth, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positi...

Photograph showing soldiers in front of the Lacy House near Fredericksburg, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866],... More

Lacy House, Fredericksburg

Title inscribed lower right. Formerly Waud no. C-163. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1090) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Horse on the road to Falmouth

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-87. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1014) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Interior of a shepherd's hut Iceland

Drawing shows a cut-away view of an Icelandic shepherd's stone and sod dwelling. Women and children are gathered in a raised bed covered with animal skins. Men and another child are gathered around a table. A m... More

The old Harrison mansion--Harrison's landing James River

Group of soldiers relaxing around a house with signal towers mounted over chimneys. Title inscribed below image. Possibly by William Waud. Inscribed below title: The birth place of Wm. Henry Harrison now used a... More

On 7th St. Washington, Blenkers headquarters

Title inscribed lower right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.353) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.