Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
A view of houses in the city of Albany
Public domain image of a historic building, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
[Hunter shooting at birds in flight with lines indicating how the calc...
Frontispiece and title page in: The method of fluxions and infinite series / Isaac Newton. London : Printed by H. Woodfall, and sold by J. Nourse, 1736. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno... More
The death of Warren / M inv. ; Norman sc.
Print shows Joseph Warren on bended knee, right hand over chest, left hand on rifle for support, after being mortally wounded during the battle of Bunker Hill, three soldiers stand nearby. Illus. in: The battl... More
View of the British fortress at Stoney-Point, stormed and carried by a...
Print shows the British fort at Stony Point with American forces positioned for the assault. Includes legend. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, .... Boston : 1780, verso of title page. Published in: Th... More
Francis Eugene, Prince of Savoy, &c. / M.V. der Gucht, fecit.
Illustration showing half-length portrait of the prince in armor, facing left. Frontispiece in: The Lives of the two illustrious generals, John, Duke of Marlborough, and Francis Eugene, Prince of Savoy ... Lond... More
[Illustrations of experiments proving air is a compressed substance an...
Frontispiece and title page in: Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / Joseph Priestley. 3 vols. London : J. Johnson, 1774-1777. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Wash... More
[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title pag...
Illus. in: A new digester or engine for softning bones, .... / by Denis Papin M.D. London : Printed by J. M. for H. Bonwicke, 1681. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology .... More
Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co. Frankl...
Print shows front and side views and a cut-away view of a steam engine. Printed at top right corner: Pl. 1. Illus. from: The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant : designed for practical wor... More
Pulpit Rocks, Warrior Ridge, Huntingdon Co. / Lehman ; printed in colo...
Print shows rock formations and cliffs at the Pulpit Rocks on Warrior Ridge in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Illus. from: The geology of Pennsylvania; a government survey by Henry Darwin Rogers, State geolo... More
Prince Napoleon and his wife the Princess Clotilde / on steel by John ...
Print shows Prince Napoléon-Joseph-Charles-Paul Bonaparte, half-length portrait, facing front, standing behind Princess Clotilde, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, with right hand to her chin... More
For we have here the very setting of her life ...
(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece for: Harper's magazine.
William Makepeace Thackeray, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing sligh...
V19504 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in pencil "T. Johnson" on lower right. Copyright 1890 by Dodd Mead & Co.
Frances E.W. Harper, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing f...
Illus. in: Poems / Frances E.W. Harper. Philadelphia : George S. Ferguson Co., 1898, frontispiece.
[Reproduction of frontispiece in Catalogue Plantarum by Thomas Fairchi...
Photograph of a frontispiece with two men and one woman in a formal garden with a border of fruits and flowers. On slide: Red seal sticker. Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Title and date inf... More
Benjamin & John Reynolds House, 88 Benefit Street, Providence, Provide...
Significance: This is a characteristic frame house of the late eighteenth century. Survey number: HABS RI-149 Building/structure dates: 1783- 1794 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 S... More
Lieut. L.M. Pike / Edwin sc. - Public domain portrait engraving
Print shows Zebulon M. Pike, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform. Photograph of an engraving, ca. 1810, after an 1808 painting by Charles W. Peale in Independence Hall, Philadel... More
City Hall, Exchange Place, Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This large masonry building, built in the heart of Providence in an academic, Renaissance Revival style, has housed the Providence City government since its dedication in 1878. Unprocessed Field ... More
Zachariah Carpenter House, 20 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: Built about the end of the eighteenth century, this house is somewhat smaller than its neighbors from the same period being four bays wide rather than five, but it preserves many characteristic de... More
The American dream. Book illustration from Library of Congress
(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: The American Dream.
Architectural Iron Works--D.D. Badger & others, proprietors / lith. of...
Cut-away view of the Architectural Iron Works building illustrating manufacture of cast iron architectural elements. Illus. in: Illustrations of iron architecture, made by the Architectural Iron Works of the ci... More
[Child fleeing in woods]
Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0119). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: Lost village / Alberta Bancroft. New York : George H. Doran,... More
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
George Washington commander in chief of ye armies of ye United States ...
Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform; in oval with olive branch on the right, a rattlesnake and liberty cap at top, and flags and cannon bar... More
View of the seat of his excellency John Hancock Esqr., Boston / Hill, ...
Print shows view from street, across expanse of lawn, of the Hancock house. Engraved for Massachusetts Magazine July 1789. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational en... More
[Two women standing on platform next to shield marked "America," "Euro...
Frontispiece in: Massachusetts magazine (1789-1796), v. 2.
[Sickbed with pox victim and text with decorated initials]
Frontispiece and text in: Een excellent tracktaet leerende hoemen alle ghebreken der pocken sal moghen ghensen / Paracelsus. Thantwerpen : Thantwerpen : Gheprint by J. Poelants, 1553. Published in: The traditio... More
View of Christ's Church, Cambridge, Massachusettsachusetts Hill
Print shows exterior view of Christ's Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Illus. from: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and ... More
Friends' meeting house at Airton lith'y. of A. Kollner Philadelphia ; ...
Print shows the Friends' meeting house at Airton, North Yorkshire, England. Illus. from: The life and correspondence of William and Alice Ellis, of Airton / by James Backhouse. 2nd ed., rev. and corr. Philadel... More
A. Springer / Au. Krüger., Head and Shoulders Portrait
Anton Springer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Model office-seeker--"I am a lawyer, a theologian and a politician!"...
Cartoon showing Charles J. Guiteau holding pistol and paper reading, "an office or your life!" Frontispiece illus. in: Puck, 1881 July 13, v. 9, p. 317.
Cyrus Ellis House, 31 John Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century building, Victorian architecture style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with a watermill, water, decayed building, 18th, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
A north view of the Castle William in the harbour of Boston
Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. V, 1789 (May), frontispiece. Engraving attr... More
[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation]...
Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys... More
Zachariah Carpenter House, 20 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: Built about the end of the eighteenth century, this house is somewhat smaller than its neighbors from the same period being four bays wide rather than five, but it preserves many characteristic de... More
Sabine gazed at it for a few moments--
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John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinita...
Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. LeBlanc, no. 17. Nagler, no. 17. Béraldi, no. 14. Published in: La vedute di Roma / Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1748(?), v. 2, frontispiece.
Frontispiece [Fox, Burke, and North, head-and-shoulders portrait, faci...
Illus. in: The beauties of Fox, North, and Burke, selected from their speeches, from the passing of the Quebec act, in the year 1774, down to the present time ... / Charles James Fox. London : Printed for J. S... More
Majr. Genl. Greene / Trenchard sculp.
Print shows General Nathanael Greene, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in oval above various items symbolizing his military career. Engrav'd for the Columbian Magazine. Illus. in: The Columbi... More
[Frontispiece and title page from "Anarchism and other essays" with bu...
Illus. in: Anarchism and other essays / Emma Goldman, with biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel. New York : Mother Earth publishing association, 1910, frontispiece and title page. Paul Avrich Collection (Librar... More
Cyrus Ellis House, 31 John Street, Providence, Providence County, RI
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
[Frontispiece and title page from "An affecting narrative of the capti...
Illus. in: An affecting narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Mrs. Mary Smith. Providence, (R.I.) : printed by L. Scott, [1815], frontispiece and title page. Published in: American women : a Library of C... More
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
Come, Miss Lavinia -- come into the library
(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: "The Fortunes of Oliver Horn" by F. Hopkinson Smith, Scribner's magazine, 30: (Nov. 1901).
Francis Frith - Mount Horeb, Sinai Frith
Rocky landscape with men and camels and Mount Sinai in the background. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing Wadi Sh... More
Peace crowned by victory / J. Norman sc.
Allegorical print shows a winged female figure carrying a plam and placing a crown on the head of a woman seated with a bowl of fruit and flowers in a sylvan setting. Illus. in: The Boston magazine. Boston, Ma... More
We walked out to the woods - Drawing. Public domain image.
(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: "Captain Macklin" by Richard Harding Davis, Scribner's magazine, 31 (April 1902).
He made a great big, sprawling leap up the rocky wall -- and fell dow...
(DLC/PP-1936:0107). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: Old Crow and His Friends / Katharine B. Judson. Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1918.
Francis Frith - Mount Horeb, Sinai Frith
Rocky landscape with men and camels and Mount Sinai in the background. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing Wadi Sh... More
When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil -- Heber
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A frontispiece for a journal - Public domain dedication image
Print shows a beggar maid (Fanny Kemble, who married Pierce in 1834 and retired from the stage) holding play-bill, "beggar's petition," and a sheet of paper that states "Pity kind Yankees, friends to Humanity, ... More
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Bacon's ship embarking on a voyage, flanked by mythical pillars of He...
Frontispiece in: Instauratio magna / Francis Bacon. Londini : Apud J. Billium, 1620. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, opp. p. 1.
Folger Library copy work. Frontispiece of a Shakespeare play
Titles devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to the 19... More
["The conjurer's magazine" title page and frontispiece with illustrat...
Houdini believed "The conjuror's magazine" to be the first English-language work published in the serial literature of magic. Within its volumes appeared articles concerning alchemy, astrology, legerdemain and... More
[Two female figures celebrating the birth of America among the family ...
Print shows two female figures radiating light are standing next to a globe set on a pedestal, one holds a staff topped with a liberty cap. At their feet is a book open to "The Rights of Man" as well as keys, s... More
Brick Schoolhouse, 24 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Significance: Built in 1768, this was the first brick school house in Providence. Survey number: HABS RI-191 Building/structure dates: 1768 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Numb... More
John Carter House, 21 Meeting Street, Providence, Providence County, R...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
A certain cabinet junto / P. Revere, sc., British Cartoon Print
Print shows King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states "for the... More
Samuel Prout - Antwerp Saml. Prout ; William Floyd
Print shows a street scene with pedestrians and a view of the tower of the cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium. Published title: Cathedral tower, Antwerp. Stamped on verso: L.C. Division of Prints. Stamped on verso:... More
Zachariah Carpenter House, 20 Arnold Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: Built about the end of the eighteenth century, this house is somewhat smaller than its neighbors from the same period being four bays wide rather than five, but it preserves many characteristic de... More
View of the seat of the hon. Moses Gill Esqr. at Princeton, in the Cou...
Print shows view of home and property of Moses Gill, with men gathering hay in the foreground. Illus. from: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass.... More
The Phillips and Woodford Wells - Tarr farm
Oil wells north of Oil City, Pennsylvania. "From a photograph by Mather, of Titusville, in Dec. 1861." Illus. in: The early and later history of petroleum, ... in western Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : Jas. B. Ro... More
[Title page of Two summers in the ice-wilds of eastern Karakoram; and ...
Illus. in: Two summers in the ice-wilds of eastern Karakoram. The exploration of nineteen hundred square miles of mountain and glacier by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman with three maps and on... More
[Title page and frontispiece to "Natural magick ... wherein are set fo...
Illus. in: Natural magick, / by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane: in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences. London : Printed for T. Young and S. Speed, 16... More
[Alchemist and assistant in laboratory, with surrounding border of bir...
Chapter frontispiece in: Theatrum chemicum britannicum / Elias Ashmole. London : Printed by F. Grismund for N. Brooke, 1652. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library... More
A view of the sea & beach, from Mr. James Newbolds plantation, near In...
Print shows building on the waterfront of the Indian River Bay in Delaware. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 Ju... More
[Frontispiece and title page from "The Lady's magazine, and repository...
Illus. in: The Lady's magazine, and repository of entertaining knowledge. Philadelphia : Printed for the proprietors by W. Gibbons, v. 1, (1792 Dec.), frontispiece and title page. Published in: American women :... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...
Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More
Frontispiece - Washington. Firm as the surge repelling rock
Print shows a large rock labeled "Washington" with trees growing on top, standing firm while battered by huge storm tossed waves; may be intended to represent former President George Washington metaphorically a... More
A view of Fort McHenry, and the entrance of the harbour of Baltimore d...
Print shows a pastoral scene at the entrance to the harbor at Baltimore with Fort McHenry on the left and some people enjoying the scenery on the right. Printed below title: Engraved for the Analetic Magazine.... More
Folger Library copy work. Frontispiece of a Shakespeare play
William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description