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L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

Attualità politiche Grossi - Print, Library of Congress collection

Italian political cartoon shows two scenes, at top is an Englishman carrying a large, heavy sack labeled "Pound Sterling" on his back and leaning on a cane for support, there is a booklet in his coat pocket lab... More

The legacy of the 19th to the 20th century

Various historic events and discoveries carried over to the 20th century.

Puck magazine cover - Look who's here! / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows Father Time as he is ushering out an old man labeled "1911"; he is surprised when he looks over his shoulder at the arrival of "1912" and sees is a female putti wearing a hat and furs, and ho... More

[Father Time waving farewell to cowed woman]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The red letter days by the late Miss L.B. Humphrey

Print shows Father Time labeled "The Old Year" with a group of children representing "New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Washington's Birthday, Easter Day, Fools' Day, May Day, Decoration Day, Arbor Day, Bunker H... More

L'espoir de la France / N. Trevisiani del. ; Verité sulpsit [sic].

Allegorical print showing Father Time parting the stormy skies of recent days to reveal Louis XVI eagerly accepting the truth offered by Justice and the arrival of Jacques Necker, recalled on 16 July 1789, as F... More

The old year's legacy to the new

(DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 18:396-397 (Dec. 31, 1891).

Laurent Guyot - La verite triomphante, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows, on the upper right, Jacques Necker wearing a toga and standing on clouds above a wall or sarcophagus, holding aloft with his left hand a bust portrait of Louis XVI, and holding at his right shoulde... More

Life's ups-and-downs -- Puck's improvement on Cole's "Voyage of Life" ...

Illustration shows two men on bicycles, one just starting out on life's journey, being towed by Father Time, the second one is nearing the end of life's journey and about to get caught by a scythe and thrown fr... More

May the new year do better / J.S. Pughe. Joseph Pulitzer

Print shows Father Time labeled "1898" carrying a sack labeled "Nuisances" filled with diminutive figures labeled "Spain, R.H. Davis, Crank, Quay, Esterhazy, Paty de Clam, Mercier, Yellow Journal, Prize Fighter... More

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... More

[Father Time with cloud and letter O]

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life magazine.

Puck magazine cover - Happy new year! / Albert Levering.

Illustration shows a large group of revelers tooting horns to celebrate the new year and the arrival of a young boy labeled "1909", as Father Time labeled "1908" departs taking Thomas C. Platt with him. Illus.... More

The legacy of the 19th to the 20th century

Various historic events and discoveries carried over to the 20th century.

[Father Time bowing to hatted woman]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The old and the new / BBaker. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows the new year, "1911", arriving by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled "1910".

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Father Time crossing arms and looking angrily at woman clasping umbre...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Timely illustrations for 1884 - Victorian era public domain image

Print shows a vignette cartoon where the vignettes display many aspects of time, such as "All time, Behind time, Hard time, High time, Lost time, Long time, Times up, Correct time, Take time, On time, Mean time... More

The old and the new year / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Father Time presenting the new year labeled "1886" to Puck standing in the foreground, holding his lithographic pencil; behind him are scenes of events from 1885, such as President Cleveland'... More

Attualità politiche Grossi - Print, Library of Congress collection

Is that the best he can wish us?

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, Dec. 31, 1917.

[Father Time painting Spring] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life magazine.

[Father Time painting Spring] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life magazine.

Some popular conceptions that the wheeling mania will change / F. Oppe...

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting changes to folklore, fairy tales, courtship, and punishment, as though penance in Hell was not bad enough, that will result from the cycling craze, such as witches ridin... More

[Father Time receiving balls from 1923 and 1924 cherubs around the wor...

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece in: Life, 83:1 (Feb. 28, 1924).

[Father Time reading book and Santa Claus]

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life magazine.

Happy new year! - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Father Time ringing bells proclaiming "The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number", while a crowd in the street celebrates the New Year by using noisemakers, horns, drums, and cymbols to sound... More

[Father Time raising hands while woman grips hat]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The old year's legacy to the new

(DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 18:396-397 (Dec. 31, 1891).

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