first industrial revolution

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

Cotton machinery - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows large cotton machine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

[John Heathcoat, inventor of the knitting machine]

Japanese print showing Heathcoat displaying the first successful result from his knitting machine to his wife. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 163; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 42; typescript cap... More

[Sewing machine] - Architectural drawing, public domain image

LOT subject: Dressmaking. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by H. Ballou Carter.

New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the industry of all nati...

Copyright by Theodore Sedgwick. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of all nations, by her most...

Print shows an interior view of the Crystal Palace during the Great Industrial Exhibition, with Queen Victoria and the royal family at center, the Archbishop to the left, and many spectators gathered in the win... More

Boston firemen. Cleaning the machine, Plate No. 1

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and PAGA catalog cards. Entered 1851 by John Prince. J.H. Bufford, lith. MF-3A. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford. PAGA card tracings: Fire engin... More

"Epurator" machine for cleaning cotton

Photograph shows cotton being cleaned through machinery; cotton in case on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852,... More

Opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of all nations, by her most...

Print shows an interior view of the Crystal Palace during the Great Industrial Exhibition, with Queen Victoria and the royal family at center, the Archbishop to the left, and many spectators gathered in the win... More

Interior of Starr Arms Factory, no. 844 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows machinery inside a gun factory. Card number: "No. 844." Gottheim collection code: GCW 61. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of C... More

Polygraph. Hawkins's machine for writing, drawing &c. / J. Pass sc.

Print shows a duplicating device, or polygraph, for simultaneously producing two copies of a handwritten document. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nash, J. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y.

[Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine]

Japanese print shows an angry Arkwright sending his wife to her parents because she deliberately broke his spinning wheel. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 42; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 164. Ea... More

The tree of liberty. The free population of the United States enjoyin...

A somewhat puzzling commentary on two issues: slavery and economic protectionism. The date of the print is uncertain, but it may have appeared as part of the reaction against the Walker Tariff of 1846. A Northe... More

[Design drawing for a man-powered flying machine designed by Sir Georg...

Illus. from: "Memoire sur la vol artificiel," by George Cayley, in Société aérostatique et météorologique de France, bull. no. 4, 1853, pl. 1. Title devised by library staff. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1... More

Dr. Wieland's celebrated sugar worm lozenges / A. Kollner's Lithy. Phi...

Patent medicine label illustrated with people working in factory(?) and family in living room. Copyright by C.F. Wieland. No. 264.

Boston firemen. Cleaning the machine, Plate No. 1

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and PAGA catalog cards. Entered 1851 by John Prince. J.H. Bufford, lith. MF-3A. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford. PAGA card tracings: Fire engin... More

[Interior view of the Crystal Palace during the Great Industrial Exhib...

Inscribed in ink on lower right margin : "420063". Transfer; Smithsonian Institution; (DLC/PP-1942:063) Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School

London; 2 scenes of interior of trade school for juvenile delinquents. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1853 Dec. 17, p. 520. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638. This record contains unverified, old data ... More

Interior view of the New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.

[Occupational portrait of an unidentified man, full-length, facing fro...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: birds and grapevine. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.6). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Block making machine that produced wooden blocks for block and tackle...

Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The tradition of tech... More

Nasmyth's patent steam hammer, copied by permission of the inventor fr...

Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The tradition of tech... More

[Unidentified man] / A. E. Alden's new style carte de visite, by machi...

Photograph shows older man in suit. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton Gins...the machine invented by Eli Whitney, for ginning cotton,...

Illus. in: American Farmer ..., v. 4. Baltimore, 1823, p. 380. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434 F. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm machinery...; Cotton ... More

Ascent of [H] Bell's aerial machine, from Vauxhall Gardens

Woodcut from Ill. London News, July 27, 1850. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Shears for machine shop - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. Capitol? (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Side view of a shirtless man pushing a metal bar which appears to be ...

The industry of all nations - Public domain graphic arts, Library of C...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Jocelyn.

Machinery Hall: grand United States centennial exhibition 1876, Fairmo...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4177

New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the industry of all nati...

Copyright by Theodore Sedgwick. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Patent bolt and nut screwing machine

On verso: Printed description of the machine; J.E. Evans 4(?) written in pencil. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection.

[Calculating machine designed by Pascal] / Louvet sculpt. Rue Galande ...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, engraving, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the industry of all nati...

Copyright by Theodore Sedgwick. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior view of the New York Crystal Palace for the exhibition of the...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

[Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine]

Photographer unidentified. Published under the title: "Seamstress." Case: variant of Rinhart 124. The daguerreotype is housed in an unmatched case provided by the vendor. Purchase; 1991; (DLC/PP-1991:219). For... More

[Occupational portrait of an unidentified man, full-length, facing fro...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: birds and grapevine. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.6). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Portland star match factory, Portland, Me. / JC [monogram] ; George H....

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Portland Star Match Factory in Portland, Maine, with a Boston & Maine Railroad passenger train passing on the lower right foreground, men unloading timber from railroad cars... More

[Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine]

Japanese print shows an angry Arkwright sending his wife to her parents because she deliberately broke his spinning wheel. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 42; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 164. Ea... More

Der Wagenbauer. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows two men working in a shop making a carriage. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

Interior of Starr Arms Factory, no. 844 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows machinery inside a gun factory. Card number: "No. 844." Gottheim collection code: GCW 61. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of C... More

Bolt vice for machine shop - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Patent bolt and nut screwing machine

On verso: Printed description of the machine; J.E. Evans 4(?) written in pencil. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection.