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[Hotei, the god of good fortune, one of the seven lucky gods, facing f...

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

[A woman seated, facing front, reading a scroll spread out in front of...

Andrew Jackson. From the original painting in the possession of Col. C...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap. (DLC/PP-1998:151) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

[Unidentified man wearing spectacles, half-length portrait, seated, fa...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Henry Blackwell, head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, facing front

Photographer unidentified. Case: scroll and medallion motif. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; Manuscript... More

[Unidentified man and woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:575). Forms part of: Harvey Washington Wiley Papers, ca. 1854-1944 (Library of Congress). Forms part o... More

[Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seate...

Photographer unidentified. In passe partout mat. Gift; Charles W. Millard; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:096). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Miguel Cervantes, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 12 upper right. On verso: Montes de Oca y Cia, Fotografos, 1[superscript a] Calle de Plateros No. 6, México.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with handlebar mustache, facing ...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower left. On recto: Cruces y Campa 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, No. 4, México.

[Felipe N. Chacón, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper left. On verso: Montes de Oca y Comapañia, 1? calle de Plateras N. 6, Mexico.

Anne of Cleves, 4th Queen of Henry VIIIth / engraved by J.C. Buttre.

Half-length portrait, facing front. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Juan Baptiste Jecker, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

On mount recto: Cruces y Campa - México - 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, no. 4. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 6, lower right. Writt... More

[General Zires, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, lower left.

[General José Nicolás de la Portilla, full-length portrait, seated, fa...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, lower right. Above item on recto: Gral. Portilla. On recto: Cruces y Campa, Mexico. On verso: Fotogr... More

[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front ...

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

Dr. Marlow, 28th Regiment - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Dr. Marlow, full-length portrait, facing front, seated, holding sword. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

[African American man, possibly named "Small", full length studio port...

Inscribed in ink and pencil on verso: Small. On verso: No. 13185. Purchase; Marian Carson; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

[Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, half-length portrait, facing front] / ...

From volume: Gallerie ausgezeichneter Naturforscher. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

The Library's print is a copy of an ambrotype by T. Painter Pearson, Macomb, Illinois. This print is reversed from the ambrotype. Ostendorf, no. 8 (variant) Meserve, no. 11 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: ... More

[Mabel Hubbard, half-length portrait of a girl, facing front, seated]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photogra... More

Empress Eugénie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front

Stamped on mount: Photographiée d'apres nature a Fontainebleau par Thiébault ; (on verso) 31 Boulevart Bonne Nouvelle, 31, Paris. In album: Browning Collection of Portraits, etc., p. 43 (top right). Color laser... More

C.B. White, Bv't. Brig. General, American Civil War Photograph, Glass ...

C.B. White, half-length portrait, facing front. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 3227.

Colville Indian woman and child, Native American woman portrait

Photograph shows a Colville woman, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding infant in a cradleboard. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861, leaf 53]. Unpro... More

[General Gustav Heinrichs, Union officer, half-length portrait, facing...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of a woman, seated, facing front Stacy, 691 B'way

Photographer attribution based on studio address. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress) Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:007)

[Sgt. Hermann Reintanz, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Photograph shows Hermann Reintanz, who enlisted in Company A, 9th Ohio infantry on May 27, 1861 and was killed in action at Hartsville, Tenn., on Dec. 7, 1862. Title based on identification provided by Joseph R... More

[Jacob Labinsky (Lawinsky, Levinsky), Union private in the 32nd Indian...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 53. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[Unidentified Union officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 69. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[2nd Lieutenant Valentine Koehler, Union officer in the 32nd Indiana R...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Captain Louis Kimmel, Union officer, head-and-shoulders portrait, fa...

In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 71. Color laser copy reference surrogate, showing front and back of photo, filed with finding aids for LOT 8751 in P&P Reading Room.

[Capt. R. Pegram, Virginia Battery, C.S.A., head-and-shoulders portrai...

Ordway Collection. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Downing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Three-quarter length portrait of American Revolutionary War veteran, seated, facing front. Illus. in: The last men of the revolution / E.B. Hillard. Hartford : N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864, opp. p. 7.

Joseph Howard, Jun., the forger, engraving, Library of Congress

Joseph Howard, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Payne, alias Wood, alias Hall. Arrested as an associate of Booth in th...

Photograph shows Lewis Payne standing before a tent, full-length portrait, facing front. Additional text on card: Entered according to Act of Congress, by Alex. Gardner, in the year 1865, in the Clerk's Office... More

Vinnie Ream at work upon her Lincoln bust which rests upon the stand s...

Vinnie Ream, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, next to bust of Lincoln. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States /... More

Portrait photo of Mallinger, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows Mathilda Mallinger, Austrian opera singer, in costume, three-quarter length portrait, facing front. No. 1106. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

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

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing hat]

Known as "the Quaker photo." Saunders, no. 35 Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.

Princeton Baseball Team 1873 Howell 867 Broadway

Photo shows the baseball team for the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), full-length group portrait, taken outdoors, showing four players seated on a bench with five players standing behind the... More

[Samurai warrior, half-length studio portrait, facing front, wearing a...

No. 654. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 2] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may ... More

Thomas Edison, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with phonog...

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

General Nathan G. Evans, C.S.A, American Civil War Photograph, Glass N...

Photograph shows Confederate General Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (1824-1868), half-length portrait, facing front. Title from information on negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: "8/90", "6/91", "copy neg." Cred... More

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing f...

Blind stamp on mount: Shepherd, 27 E. 7th St., St. Paul, Minn. Photograph possibly by Harry Shepherd. Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress).

Frances Wright / J. Gorbitz ; J.C. Buttre.

Frances Wright, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with left elbow resting on table. Illus. from: History of woman suffrage / Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York : Fowler & Wells, 1881-1922, v. 1, frontispiece.

A Nimrod (Mr. W.S. Robinson) in the woods of Maine

W.S. Robinson, full-length portrait, facing front, holding gun. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ka-a-te-nay or "Gait-en-eh". 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Full lgth., seated, facing front; holding gun on lap. Head Chief, Warm Spring Apaches. Hand-colored photopritn copyrighted by A.F. Randall. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card t... More

"Chah" the beaver - Public domain monumental decor print

Chah, Warm Springs Apache leader, full-length portrait, seated, facing front. No. 6.

Portrait photo of Standing Holy (Sitting Bull's daughter)

Standing Holy, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. On mount: D.F. Barry, Bismarck. Copyright by D.F. Barry.

Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-3 [plum] / Bufford.

Print shows an old man with the body of a plum, wearing a hat, check-pattern pants, and holding a walking stick, standing, facing front, with plum trees growing in the background. S24949 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Bufford's fruit cards, no. 779-1 [pear] / Bufford.

Print shows a pear with the arms, legs, and head of a woman, facing front, holding a parasol, with trees in the background. S24947 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: How do I a'pear? Copyright 1887. J.H. Bufford'... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Full lgth., standing, facing front. Public domain photograph -female portrait, the 1900s, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Damme Turque á Damas / Dumas Ph.

Turkish woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in Damascus. Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A.J. Holmes, Iowa - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Iowa congressman Adoniram Judson Holmes (1842- 1902), half-length portrait, seated, facing front. Title from unverified information on negative. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, ... More

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Full lgth., seated in cluttered room, facing front. Feinberg/Whitman Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Acc. File; BI; Shelf.

Elizabeth Cameron, three quarter length portrait

Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ejnar Ditlevsen, Danish zoologist, half-length portrait, facing front...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward Bellamy, 1850-1898, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders, facing front. Photoprint copyrighted by A.J. Philpott. No. 2. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

[Urban H. Broughton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / Maya...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portraits for a collection about judges and commissioners who served at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. John Boyd Thacher collection abo... More

[Professor Heinrich Ernst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] ...

Written on verso: Prof. Heinrich Ernst, Germany. H Judge. Reference copy in BIOG FILE. In 1894, John Boyd Thacher requested portraits for a collection about judges and commissioners who served at the 1893 Worl... More

[Thomas Hovenden, artist, seated, holding a photograph(?), facing fron...

H42552 U.S. Copyright Office. On verso: Painter, Cincinnati, "Breaking Home Ties." Identical photograph available in P&P Biog. File. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston i... More

[John Russell Young, half-length portrait, facing front; Librarian of ...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Photo by Dinwiddie Studio. Catalog no. 85. (Original loaned by G.E. Young)

Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 - Public domain portrait photograph

3/4 lgth., seated by window, facing front. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nasuteas [Kichai woman] Wichita / Adolf F. Muhr.

Photograph shows Nasuteas, a Kichai Indian woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.

Joe Gans, of Baltimore, the clever young colored lightweight who chall...

Joe Gans, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, with fists raised. 49376 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Richard K. Fox, 1898. Supplement to Police Gazette, vol. LXXIII, no. 1098, Saturday 3d, 1898.... More

Honorable Jerry Simpson, member of Congress from Kansas

Jerry Simpson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. 14609 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman.

Native Americans - Her Know - Public domain scan of print

Her Know, Indian girl, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. 60106 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 220. Photo by Heyn.

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 44. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

Edward S. Curtis - Nez Percé man

Full-length portrait of a Nez Percé man, facing front. 71461 U.S. Copyright Office. LC no. 20. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Roger Williams University--Nashville, Tenn.--Normal class

Group portrait of African American students, facing front. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 101. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

Max Weyl / Emily Mew., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of artist Max Weyl, facing front. Signed on mount. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Colle... More

[Big Man, half-length portrait, facing front holding decorated shield]

No. 1779. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mother and child posed by G. O'Malley .... at Oceanside, Long Island ...

Gertrude Kasebier's daughter, Gertrude Kasebier O'Malley, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding her infant son Charles O'Malley. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of... More

Henri Salvet, George Grantham Bain Collection

Aviator; full length, standing in front of airplane, (5 - facing front). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Websters; Amer... More

[Washakie, Chief of Shoshones, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fro...

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

[Mrs. Crabbe, half-length portrait, standing, facing front]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 5684. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Theodore Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Fifth Ave., NY. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[George Westinghouse, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

Dr. Morgan Frederick Mount / EW.

Photograph is head-and-shoulders portrait of Morgan F. Mount, facing front.

Portrait of an unidentified woman, facing front, wearing dark clothing...

Gift; of William Watts Lee and Family; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:052.447). Forms part of the Francis Watts Lee collection (Library of Congress). Accession box no. Container 6 (A size)

[Sammy Lone Bear, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Sammy Lone Bear, half-length portrait, facing front, turned slightly right, wearing breastplate. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gi... More

[Sgt. John Denny, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

Detail of Medal of Honor men, Lot 11931, plate 69. (LC-USZ62-91683). Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Surrogate available as microfilm in P&P Reading Room.

Theodore Roosevelt when he succeeded McKinley.

Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, facing front, seated in chair outdoors. Pach Bros., N. Y. Date stamped on verso: Dec. 26, 1946. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: ... More

[Ethel Barrymore, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

H39069 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Burr McIntosh. No. 3. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Leonard Wood, military governor of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

Gen. Leonard Wood, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing front.

[Christie MacDonald, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing artif...

H16113 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Burr McIntosh Studio.

Blanche Walsh, 1873-1915 - Public domain portrait print

Full length, seated, wearing elaborate costume and headdress, facing front. H22933 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources ch... More

[A.N. Kuropatkin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in oval]

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

J.B. Black, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head and shoulders, facing front; with his eyes closed, being held by his hair. Forger, "Bogus check man." Photoprint by the Cincinnati Police Dept. No. 7317. Title and other information transcribed from captio... More

A typical Hoonah squaw, Alaska / LaRoche photo, Seattle, Wash.

Tlingit woman, three-quarter length portrait, seated in boat, holding paddle, facing front. H36503 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1532. Title transcribed from item.

Myron T. Herrick, Republican candidate for governor / William E. Marsh...

Print showing Myron T. Herrick, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.

[General Adna R. Chaffee, three-quarter length portrait, wearing unifo...

H37398 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.M. Clinedinst, Wash., D.C. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictio... More

George Shiras, 1932-1924

Half lgth., facing front. Photoprint copyrighted by C.A. Jarrett, Pittsburgh, Pa. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

[Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - [Nayenezgani--Navaho]

Indian, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing dark leather mask, fur ruff, cloth girdle, silver concho belt and necklaces. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1074-04. Published in: The Nort... More

A son of the desert - Public domain portrait print

Navajo man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wrapped in a blanket that covers his mouth.

[Mrs. G.D. Morgan, half-length portrait, facing front, in kimono]

H44426 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - [Haschezhini--Navaho]

Photo shows a Native American man, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing dark leather mask, fur ruff, nude torso painted with black and white splotches. Title from published source. Curtis no. X1076-04. F... More