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[One of four bookplate designs for English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks]

[One of four bookplate designs for English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Ba...

Drawing shows books on shelves, with Mrs. Bank's book "The Manchester Man" opened on a table in the foreground. This design resembles most closely the engraved plate. Isabella Varley Banks (1821-1897) also know... More

English Commission Building / Inger., engraving, Library of Congress

English Commission Building / Inger., engraving, Library of Congress

8495G2 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in souvenir album: Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. Philadelphia : Thos. Hunter, 1876.

[One of four bookplate designs for English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks]

[One of four bookplate designs for English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Ba...

Drawing shows books on shelves and a woman seated before Mrs. Bank's book "The Manchester Man". Isabella Varley Banks (1821-1897) also known as Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks or Isabella Varley was a 19th century write... More

Deer, running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Deer, running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twelve consecutive images of a deer running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing var... More

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of four consecutive images of a man riding a horse named Mahomet, running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive posit... More

Horses. Hauling. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Hauling. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twelve consecutive images of a man driving a horse "Clyde" who is pulling. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assume... More

Horses. Pacing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Pacing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twenty consecutive images of a man driving a sulkey pulled by "'Nimrod," a horse. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions... More

Deer, trotting 1/2 stride - Public domain book illustration

Deer, trotting 1/2 stride - Public domain book illustration

Photograph shows six consecutive images of a deer trotting. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing vario... More

Horses. Walking. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Walking. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows six consecutive images of a man driving a sulkey pulled by "Abe Edington", a horse. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positio... More

Athletes. Flip flap. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Athletes. Flip flap. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows nine consecutive images of a man doing a "flip flap" or a back hand spring. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assum... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a nude girl crawling. 9511J U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge, Phi... More

Animal locomotion. Plate 365 - Early photography, Public domain image

Animal locomotion. Plate 365 - Early photography, Public domain image

Man doing forward gymnastic flip; 24 frames of front and side views. Photo by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Acrobats...; Animal Locomoti... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty-four consecutive images of man distance jumping. 9203 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York... More

Animal Locomotion: [24 frames of hand drawing chalk circle, plate 532]

Animal Locomotion: [24 frames of hand drawing chalk circle, plate 532]

Motion picture sequenced photographic plate by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pictures; Rear views.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty consecutive images of a man riding a horse. 9668S U.S. Copyright Office. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York, 1887, pl. 628.

Animal locomotion - Early photography, Public domain image

Animal locomotion - Early photography, Public domain image

Twenty-four frames of chickens scared by a torpedo. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty-four consecutive images of a cat running. 9760S U.S. Copyright Office. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York, 1887, pl. 720. Exhibited: American Tr... More

London, English bar and bar maids

London, English bar and bar maids

Stereo by William H. Rau. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Taverns; Gt. B. Eng. London Misc.; Shelf.

Humanity the latest English success : by Sutton Vane, author of The cotton king.

Humanity the latest English success : by Sutton Vane, author of The co...

Caption: Keziah "What art thou doing, friend Grattan? Jerry, "Oh, it's a way I've got." Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti. - N.Y." No. NY. 6222. Forms part of: Theatrical poster coll... More

Alice Barber Stephens - [Three women and a baby]

Alice Barber Stephens - [Three women and a baby]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0012). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

Northern views. English Mission girls' school

Northern views. English Mission girls' school

Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

English Polo Team, Capt. Bellville, Cuspigny, Buckmaster, Capt. Miller
Pouring a basin of water over head

Pouring a basin of water over head

Illus. in: Animals in motion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions / by Eadweard Muybridge. London : Chapman & Hall, Ld., 1907, pl. 409. Published in: The tradition ... More

Interurban Woman Suffrage Council. Meeting notice Anne Cobden Sanderson speaking on Movement of English Suffragettes, Brooklyn, NY
The girl and boys are spinners, sweepers etc., in the Valley Queen Mill, River Point, R.I. Very little English spoken.  Location: River Point, Rhode Island.

The girl and boys are spinners, sweepers etc., in the Valley Queen Mil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

English Army inspectors watching test of plane, Ithaca

English Army inspectors watching test of plane, Ithaca

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illiterate boy who understands no English. Stanley Cherpial, 13 Gardner Rd. Works in Room #7.  Location: Chicopee, Massachusetts.

Illiterate boy who understands no English. Stanley Cherpial, 13 Gardne...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, December 11th, 1917. Borton Pasha reading the proclamation in English

Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, December 11th, 1917. Borto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

JONES, JOHN PAUL. ENGLISH COPY OF AN AMSTERDAM PICTURE
Folger Library copy work. Title page of 1565 edition of English translation of Ovid II

Folger Library copy work. Title page of 1565 edition of English transl...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Sultan goes to prayer. Crowds and flags for his reception The harbour of Malta bristles with guns and English forts and everywhere the Union Jack flies in the breeze.

The Sultan goes to prayer. Crowds and flags for his reception The harb...

Photographs show crowds and flags during the Selamlik (the Caliph's procession to the mosque for prayer), Istanbul, Turkey and the harbor of Malta. On page: no. 1502 (top image) and no. 1503 (bottom image). In... More

John English House, 236 Ocean Avenue, Island Heights, Ocean County, NJ

John English House, 236 Ocean Avenue, Island Heights, Ocean County, NJ

Survey number: HABS NJ-1146 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

English hospital in Nazareth. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.

English hospital in Nazareth. American colony in Jerusalem public doma...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

He wins third place. Leland J. Williams, in his somber moments a teacher of English at Washington-Lee high school, Clarendon, Virginia, won third prize at the Bal Bohem in the costume of a New Zealand Devil Dancer. 2/4/35

He wins third place. Leland J. Williams, in his somber moments a teach...

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to England from the United States under lend-lease are unpacked at an English ordnance depot

Lend-Lease to Britain. American-made 38-caliber revolvers shipped to E...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lend-Lease to Britain. English workmen handle a case of motor equipment arriving from the United States under lend-lease, at an unpacking bay of an ordnance depot in England

Lend-Lease to Britain. English workmen handle a case of motor equipmen...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steuben Glass, business at 718 5th Ave., New York City. Antique English and Irish glass I

Steuben Glass, business at 718 5th Ave., New York City. Antique Englis...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Father bringing his son to school. Children of all nations come here and learn English rapidly]

[New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children ...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steuben Glass, business at 718 5th Ave., New York City. Antique English and Irish glass IV

Steuben Glass, business at 718 5th Ave., New York City. Antique Englis...

Public domain photograph of the 1940s-1950s New York City interiors, commerce, advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children administered by a Viennese. Refugee children, after learning English at Children's Colony, attend public school

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children a...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. Most of the teaching is in Spanish, the language spoken in the children's homes, and as a result they rarely speak English fluently

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Span...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Miss Norma Kale, Woodrow Wilson High School English instructor, correcting papers at her home in the evening

Washington, D.C. Miss Norma Kale, Woodrow Wilson High School English i...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians given free of charge at the Hudson Park Library on Seventh Avenue near Bleeker Street

New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians give...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Spanish-American community, which has eight grades and two teachers. Most of the teaching is in Spanish, the language spoken in the children's homes, and as a result they rarely speak English fluently

Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. One-room school in an isolated mountainous Span...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, studying his English lesson while waiting to fly at the Stevens Airport

Frederick, Maryland. Walter Spangenberg, a student at Woodrow Wilson H...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Burning of the Ocean Monarch of Boston: In the English Channel, August 24th, 1848

Burning of the Ocean Monarch of Boston: In the English Channel, August...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0830.

Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu

Furansu Igirisu sanpei daichōsen no zu

Japanese triptych print shows French and English troops engaged in military training maneuvers on a training ground in Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi fude (with pawlonia seal). Seal date: Hare... More

Map of the Turco-Persian frontier : made by Russian and English officers in the years from 1849 to 1855 on the scale of 1:73,050 and reduced to the scale of 1:253,440 or 4 English miles to 1 inch /
The Horse in motion. "Sallie Gardner," owned by Leland Stanford; running at a 1:40 gait over the Palo Alto track, 19th June 1878 / Muybridge.

The Horse in motion. "Sallie Gardner," owned by Leland Stanford; runni...

Photograph with twelve frames showing motion of a race horse. 2437K2 (copy 2) U.S. Copyright Office. Description of each frame on verso. "Morse's Gallery, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco." "Automatic Electro... More

Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Interior view. English Armstrong gun

Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Interior view. English Armstrong gun

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art / Robert Anning Brown, delt.

City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art / Robert Anni...

Advertising poster for a classes showing a woman laying a crown of leaves on the head of another woman.

City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art / Robert Anning Brown, delt.

City of Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Art / Robert Anni...

Advertising poster for a classes showing a woman laying a crown of leaves on the head of another woman.

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

50655 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Lord Woodstock and his "Lady Loves." Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & N.Y." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8625. Forms part of: Theatrical p... More

The Indians delivering up the English captives to Colonel Bouquet near his camp at the forks of Muskingum in North America in Novr. 1764 / B. West invt. ; Canot sculp.

The Indians delivering up the English captives to Colonel Bouquet near...

Print shows Natives returning captive British children to Colonel Henry Bouquet Printed on plate at top right: p. 28. Printed on plate at bottom left: 204. Illus. from: An historical account of the expedition ... More

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield, Bergen County, NJ

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-459 Survey number: HABS NJ-552 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield, Bergen County, NJ

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-459 Survey number: HABS NJ-552 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Lower Bridge at English Center, Spanning Little Pine Creek at State Route 4001, English Center, Lycoming County, PA

Lower Bridge at English Center, Spanning Little Pine Creek at State Ro...

Significance: It is the only remaining bridge of two completed in 1891 to provide access to this once-important regional logging and tanning center. One of few surviving short-span roadway suspension bridges in... More

Lower Bridge at English Center, Spanning Little Pine Creek at State Route 4001, English Center, Lycoming County, PA

Lower Bridge at English Center, Spanning Little Pine Creek at State Ro...

Significance: It is the only remaining bridge of two completed in 1891 to provide access to this once-important regional logging and tanning center. One of few surviving short-span roadway suspension bridges in... More

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (England) from Putney to Mortlake 4 miles 2 furlongs August 27th 1869 : Between the picked crews of the Harvard (American) and Oxford (English) universities.

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (Engl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2843

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns.  A Middle English version of the Gospel of Nicodemus.  An anonymous Middle English exposition on the Apostles' Creed.

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

English Village, Loves Lane & Arthur's Round Table Circle, Wynnewood, Montgomery County, PA

English Village, Loves Lane & Arthur's Round Table Circle, Wynnewood, ...

Significance: The English Village is an example of a planned early 20th century middle class development which achieves its character through its replication of English country architectural and landscape desig... More

Gokakoku no uchi - Igirisujin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Gokakoku no uchi - Igirisujin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows an English naval officer on horseback. Signature: Yoshitora. Seal date: Cock 3. From series entitled: Gokakoku no uchi (People of the five nations). Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of p... More

[Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel [i.e., Grinell?] St., New Bedford. Appeared about eight or nine: could not speak English except to tell us that he was a sweeper in the spinning room (two other boys confirmed this); watched him go in at noon and come out at 6 P.M. on Aug. 21, 1911. At the houses his mother gave his name as Jose Mello, ten years old. There was no certificate for this boy at the superintendent's office. Birth records ambiguous.] Witness R. K. Conant.  Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts.

[Joe Mello, 62 Grinnel [i.e., Grinell?] St., New Bedford. Appeared abo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Alban, 1st English martyr with text "I worship the only true and living God" for St. Stephen's Church in Richmond, Virginia]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Alban, 1st English m...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster - Rose Hill English Folly Co. - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Rose Hill English Folly Co. - Public domain lithograph

Caption: Hot time in the old town tonight. Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2763. Rice & Barton, proprietors & managers. Upper right corner missing. Forms part of: Theatrical p... More

Return of the greatest of all magicians, the Houdinis, Harry, Bessie original introducers of metamorphosis, greatest and finest trunk mystery the world has ever seen, challenge hand-cuff act, open to the world ....

Return of the greatest of all magicians, the Houdinis, Harry, Bessie o...

At head of title: Smith's Opera House, week commencing, Monday, March 21. Created by "Seymour & Muir Printing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich." Mrs. W.B. Smith, proprietress ; Major LeVoy, amusement director. Transferr... More

Adrienne Pagnette, an adolescent French illiterate, speaks almost no English. Is probably 14 or 15. Doffs on top floor spinning room in Glenallen Mill. Her brother Francis has a regular job doffing. Said he is 15 but Mr. Hine doubted it. Her sister Anna said she was 12 years old and helped older sister in Glenallen Mill. Been at it all summer. She stands next to Adrienne in Photo 2396, and in 2396A (taller girl). Photo 2396 shows the entire family of 17 members, 8 or 10 of them in the mill. Almost every one of them illiterate. Stooping, reaching and pushing heavy boxes is bad for young girls adolescent.  Location: Winchendon, Massachusetts.

Adrienne Pagnette, an adolescent French illiterate, speaks almost no E...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

Stereograph showing a Confederate soldier in the battery with an English Armstrong gun. Three men stand behind him.

Yokohama ijin shōka shuen no zu, Sadahide Utagawa

Yokohama ijin shōka shuen no zu, Sadahide Utagawa

Japanese print shows an English merchant seated at a table and being waited on by a Chinese man and a Thai cook during a banquet at a mercantile house in Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engrav... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qvi peragrato primvm vniverso terrarvm orbe, postea cum ... Iohanne Havckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit ... Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralegh ... nec non ... capitanei Lavrentii Keyms. Qvibvs ... describitvr ... regnum Gviana ... Primo Anglicana lingva sparsim consignata: iam verò in vnum corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa, auctore Gotardo Artvs.

Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Fran...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 5. Latin. Francoforti] 1595. 1st ed., 1st issue, copy 3. Plates have special t.p.: Tabulae & imagines ad septimam et octavam Americae partem ... The history of Drake's firs... More

Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qvi peragrato primvm vniverso terrarvm orbe, postea cum ... Iohanne Havckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit ... Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralegh ... nec non ... capitanei Lavrentii Keyms. Qvibvs ... describitvr ... regnum Gviana ... Primo Anglicana lingva sparsim consignata: iam verò in vnum corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa, auctore Gotardo Artvs.

Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Fran...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 5. Latin. Francoforti] 1595. 1st ed., 1st issue, copy 3. Plates have special t.p.: Tabulae & imagines ad septimam et octavam Americae partem ... The history of Drake's firs... More

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman.

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues whic...

LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting. Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44. LAC ecr 2019-02... More

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman.

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues whic...

LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting. Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44. LAC ecr 2019-02... More

The historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, late queen of England. Contayning all the important and remarkeable passages of state both at home and abroad, during her long and prosperous raigne. Composed by way of annals. Neuer heretofore so faithfully and fully published in English.

The historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, ...

Translation of Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. Translator's pref. signed: R.N. [i.e. Robert Norton] Six unnumbered pages between p. 104 and 105 (4th group) STC 4500. Kraus, H.P. Si... More

Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... Herrn Francisci Draken ... in die West Indien vnd Americam gethan, neben noch etlichen Figuren ... so beydes in das siebende vnd achte Theil Americae gehören. Item, die Reyse der holländischen Armada in die Insel Gross Canarien , welche ... 1599 ... von Holland ... ausgefahren ...

Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... Herrn Fra...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 8. German] Franckfurt, 1599. Copy 1. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 194. The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by... More

Experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, cooks, etc.

Experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, cooks...

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The emigrants, &c., or, The history of an expatriated family : being a delineation of English manners, drawn from real characters, volume 2, letters XXV-XLIX

The emigrants, &c., or, The history of an expatriated family : being a...

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A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Representing their rightful claim as confirm'd by charters, and the formal surrender of their Indian friends; likewise the encroachments of the French, with the several forts they have unjustly erected therein.

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Designed to be colored. Not colored. "Sold by Wm. Herbert on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street." LC Maps of North America, 175... More

Gallant behavior of an English sailor in offering a sword to an unarmed Spaniard to defend himself, at the taking of Fort Omoa, in the Bay of Honduras, October 20th 1779 / Metz delin. ; Record sculp.

Gallant behavior of an English sailor in offering a sword to an unarme...

Engraved for Raymond's history of England. Illus. in: A new, universal and impartial history of England ... to the spring of the year 1784 ... / by George Frederick Raymond, Esq.... London : Printed for J. Coo... More

Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin in Mr. Lunardi's balloon, from St. George's Fields, June 29th, 1785 ... / L. Shelly, del. ; LeGrand, sculp.

Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended wit...

Half-length portrait of the first English woman to ride in a balloon.

A new general map of the East Indies : exhibiting in the Peninsula on this side of the Ganges, or Hindoostan, the several partitions of the Mogul's Empire ; and the dominions of the English East India Company in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, Orixa, as well as upon the coasts of Malabar and Coromandel ; with the French and Dutch possessions according to the peace of 1783 : and in the peninsula beyond the Ganges, the kingdoms of Assam, Cashar, Aua, Aracan, Mien, Pegu, Siam, Lao and Cambodia, &c. /

A new general map of the East Indies : exhibiting in the Peninsula on ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Hindu, India, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[English and French methods] - Public domain dedication image

[English and French methods] - Public domain dedication image

In album: "Principles of Perspective". Album not signed; attribution based on inscription inside cover "Indentified as belonging to Charles Bulfinch, & in his handwriting. Ellen L. Bulfinch, Nov. 13, 1894." Fro... More

The desert - Public domain dedication image

The desert - Public domain dedication image

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[Optical illusion disc with birds, butterflies, and a man jumping]

[Optical illusion disc with birds, butterflies, and a man jumping]

The disc is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a man jumping from a pole in a circle at the center of the disc and of a birds and butterflies in flight in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Publishe... More

Henry Hudson descending the Hudson River

Henry Hudson descending the Hudson River

Illustration shows Henry Hudson and his companions trading with Indians on the shore; in background, Hudson's ship and a canoe. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 10 (1856 April 12), p. 233. Reference copy avai... More

English, Honorable James Edward of Connecticut

English, Honorable James Edward of Connecticut

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Antigua. Plaza / illustrated by Muybridge. - stereocsopic card

Antigua. Plaza / illustrated by Muybridge. - stereocsopic card

Bird's-eye view of plaza in Antigua, Guatemala. No. 1953. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bookplate of English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks]

[Bookplate of English author, Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks]

Print shows books on shelves, with Mrs. Bank's book "The Manchester Man" opened on a table in the foreground. Artist's initials, lower right undecipherd. Pencil inscription on back of plate: "Recd. Oct. 16, [19... More

Horses. Backing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Backing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows eight consecutive images of a man riding a horse which is backing. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by ani... More

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows eighteen consecutive images of a man riding a horse named "Clyde". Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by ani... More

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