illustration

Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woodcuts used to illus. Fables from incunabula...1966: Aesop surround...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illustration of ancient fable of men worshipping an ass bearing a rel...

Illus. in: De La Fontaine, Fables Choisies, Tome III, Paris, 1765, pl. opp. p. 29. Reference copy may be in LOT 4707A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illustration showing man standing next to oxen hitched to cart loaded...

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

[Bank note illustration showing colonists praying for deliverance from...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Technical illustration shows four stages of André Garnerin's parachut...

"Pl. I" from unidentified publication. Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President Lincoln's funeral. [Harper's Weekly illustration.]

From Harper's Weekly, May 13, 1865, p. 296-297. Photographed by Brady.

Poster - The human canon ball - Public domain lithograph

K9060 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Illustration of the dangers of alcoholic beverages]: The sins of the ...

Caught! / Th. Nast.. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Girl in bed with arms around the neck of Santa Claus, who is holding a toy.

Vanity Fair - Public domain image related to music prformance, print

Ralph Meriman, artist. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. D42. 189-

Children of Czar of Russia - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Reproduction of illustration: The Terrace, Brockenhurst]

Photograph of an illustration of a watercolor by George Samuel Elgood, 1897. On slide (handwritten): "E" in a gold-edged seal sticker. Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Title, date, and subjec... More

[Reproduction of illustration: "Shrine at Kyomidzu"]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain image of London buildings, city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain image of a vintage historic city view, cityscape, plan, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of a theater

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

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain image of a historic vintage city view, cityscape, plan, 17th-18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of old buildings near Temple Ga...

Public domain image of a historic building, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Billboard illustration showing a woman eating an Oh Henry candy bar]

J262460 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by George H. Williamson, Chicago, Illinois. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Advertising Billboards; Industry Candy.

Bill Graham presents in San Francisco Otis Rush & his Chicago Blues Ba...

Print shows psychedelic design with woman's facial profile and hair. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stop torture in Chile - American Art Poster

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. H13. 1975

A Christmas party for Santa Claus,

Also available in digital form.

Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

Who's afraid comedy sketch - Public domain theatrical script

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a script, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1332 V St., Washington, D.C., makes a ...

Poster shows a rear view of a woman holding a camera and tripod while facing a pond with the sun rising or setting. Poster is an advertisement for Johnston's business as a photographer and author. Published in... More

From block book to Leonard Baskin; 500 years of book illustration. Wil...

List of books in exhibition held May 1-31, 1966.; Page Order: Uncut Sexto/ Tri-fold. List scanned in numerical order, with illustrations interspersed as they arose. Page Order: Tri-fold Available also through t... More

Practical illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law / E.C. del.

A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William ... More

The land of the bluebird / / Bertha Lum.

Print shows two bluebirds flying down from tree with fairy children behind branches.

[Illustration of activities of Lapps and Finns: men spearing, and smok...

Woodcuts from Historia Delle Genti, by Olaus Magnus, the 1565 ed. of Historia de Gentibus Septrionalibus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

[Page of text with illustration of a "thermoscope" or thermometer with...

Illus. in: Sphlaera mvndi, .... Mvtinæ : Ex typographia Andreæ, & Hieronymi Cassiani, 1653. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. ... More

British Empire throughout the world exhibited in one view.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Illustration of the dangers of alcoholic beverages]: A happy home in ...

Tinted lithograph copyrighted by M. Marques. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Psychiatric hospitals U.S. 1884; Criminals and crime 1884; Credit 1884; Temperanc... More

A colorful illustration on a building in the Stockyards District of Fo...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The neighborhood celebrates a former livestock market that operated under various owners from 1866. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opene... More

Edward Penfield - Harper's for May, Harpers magazine posters

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1894

Puck magazine cover - Puck Christmas 1896 / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Santa Claus holding a tankard and sitting on a large chair with Puck, holding the "Christmas Number", sitting next to him; their feet rest on a sack of toys. Illus. from Puck, v. 40, no. 1031, (189... More

[Book illustration showing painting on tomb wall, Egypt]

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

[Cats decorating Christmas tree]

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London Bridge I

Public domain image of a historic vintage city view, cityscape, plan, 17th-18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain image of a vintage historic city view, cityscape, plan, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Votes for women : international suffragists' song

E386641 U.S. Copyright Office 19160615 For voice and piano. Color illustration of 3 suffragists, 2 playing trumpets, 1 holding a flag emblazoned with the word Liberty. Staff notation.

[Copyright registration application from claimant L. Frank Baum for Th...

Holograph letter, signed by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) dated July 28, 1900 to the Librarian of Congress requesting Copyright registration for two titles: The wonderful wizard of Oz (claiming rights for Baum as a... More

Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1332 V St., Washington, D.C., makes a ...

"This is my first circular put out about 1896/7. Brought me many friends & customers, FBJ" verso. No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Tom Kobayashi (titlepage illustration), Manzanar Relocation Center, Ca...

Tom Kobayashi, half-length portrait, seated in north field, facing the mountains. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-18 Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Caption on negative sleeve incl... More

Illustration, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music, 1...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Jewish Quarter, Boston - A black and white drawing of a street sce...

Street scene in Boston showing peddlars, women carrying baskets, and men walking on the sidewalks and in street, shops with wares hanging outside. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustra... More

The great fire at Philadelphia: Front page, illustration only

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 April 26, p. 305.

Excelsior, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

P2170 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1883, by Imre & Bolossy Kiralfy." Caption: The past The present. Created by "Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

International baking powder. Manufactured by Queen City Chemical Co., ...

Advertisement for International brand baking powder, showing a cat awakened by bread rising. Q16583 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: Tom's nap interrupted by International baking powder.

"A fairy moon and a lonely shore"

Print shows a man with a shoulder pole walking along a moonlite shore. Stamp on verso: Matsumoto print, no. 39. The Matsumoto Do, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

To Date's new story: The female rebellion

Artist: Barnes. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895 Gift; J.H. Corning Estate.

Jules Cheret - Quinquina Dubonnet apéritif dans tous les cafés / J. Ch...

Poster showing a woman enjoying an aperitif, with a white cat at her side. No. 11158-6-95.

Unveiling monument to Peter the Great, St. Petersburg

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

[Cover of The Masses magazine with illustration of a farmer] / Drawn f...

Public domain scan of a magazine cover, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, li...

Poster for Federal Art Project sponsored art classes at the Harlem Community Center, 290 Lenox Ave, New York City. Date stamped on verso: Feb 9 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

New York, New York. Miss Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission...

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

American progress - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows an allegorical female figure of America leading pioneers westward, as they travel on foot, in a stagecoach, conestoga wagon, and by railroads, where they encounter Native Americans and herds of biso... More

The OP spectacles / Cruikshank del., British Cartoon Print

Satire showing head of Clifford with two circles representing huge spectacles, "Old house old prices & no private boxes" and "Old house old prices & no pigeon holes," over his eyes. Each circle contains a symme... More

[Title page of Pliny's Natural history, with decorative border of dolp...

Title page in: Historia naturalis / C. Plinus Secundus. Venice : J. de Spira, 1519. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 53.

[Illustration of activities of Lapps and Finns: reindeer pair drawing ...

Woodcuts from Historia Delle Genti, by Olaus Magnus, the 1565 ed. of Historia de Gentibus Septrionalibus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

[Book illustration showing hunting scene] / Bb. del.

Cap. III. Lib. II. 193.

[Illustration of activities of Lapps and Finns: Man & horse on snowsho...

Woodcuts from Historia Delle Genti, by Olaus Magnus, the 1565 ed. of Historia de Gentibus Septrionalibus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

Winter scene with horse team hauling logs on a sledge past a windmill,...

Print shows a Victorian trade card from a series of winter scenes with space for text advertising a particular product or service. For an example of how these cards were used for advertising, see: LOT 14100, no... More

The tournament of today - a set-to between labor and monopoly / F. Gra...

Print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled "Monopoly" over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled "Arrogance", and carrying a shield labeled "Corruption of ... More

The Chap-book Will H. Bradley - Art nouveau public domain poster

No. 5: The pipes. Head and bare shoulders of young woman holding musical pipes in shrubbery. Color poster by Will H. Bradley, 1868-1962. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1895. This record contains unverified, old da... More

McIntyre and Heath's Comedians the epitome of vaudeville.

Consists of text with art nouveau leaf design border. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Illustration to popular song, "Hello Central, give me Heaven"]

Shows child in living room about to use telephone. Lantern slide proof copyrighted by J.D. Cress. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Grim reaper against red sunset]

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpiece in: "For the Blood is the Life" by F. Marion Crawford, Collier's weekly (Dec. 16, 1905), p. 20.

Votes for women - Drawing. Public domain image.

Postcard showing girl holding up finger to boy and poem: For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say. No. 6342.

Miscellaneous houses. Illustration and floor plans of a Cape Cod-style...

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

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain scan of 16th-17th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Reproduction of a book illustration showing the Shalimar Bagh (garden...

Illustration shows a Persianate water garden. The slide is a photo of a book illustration. An original photographic print of this scene, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1864, is in the British Library in the Strachey... More

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of a house among trees

Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Folger Library copy work. Illustration from a play

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1920s-vintage advertising flier for the Bassett's Ice Cream stand in t...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Pennsylvania postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

From block book to Leonard Baskin; 500 years of book illustration. Wil...

List of books in exhibition held May 1-31, 1966.; Page Order: Uncut Sexto/ Tri-fold. List scanned in numerical order, with illustrations interspersed as they arose. Page Order: Tri-fold Available also through t... More

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

Harry Montague's Comedy Company. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth cov...

Illus. in: Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / Maria Graham. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and J. Murray, 1824, p. 133. Possib... More

[Title page of Sebastian Brant's "Ship of Fools" with woodcut illustra...

Illus. in: Der Stotten Schip, 1548. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Publ. INd.; Ships 1548.

[Illustration demonstrating that the efficiency of a power cycle depen...

Illus. in: Reflections on the motive power of heat and on machines fitted to develop that power. New York : J. Wiley & sons, 1890. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ..... More

To Date. A new un serio, a good un comic

Everett E. Lowry, artist. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. D42. 1895

To Date, latter November, "The female rebellion." Concluded in this nu...

Date of publication supplied by Library staff. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895 Gift; J.H. Corning Estate.

"Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16, 1773

G6078 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction based on engraving by D. Berger, 1784, after D. Chodowiecki. No. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

On duty, George Kleine presents the uproarious melodramatic farce by A...

Motion picture poster for "Officer 666" shows a caricature of a policeman with arms raised as if directing traffic. "From the play by arrangement with Messrs. Geo. M. Cohan and Sam Harris."

[Reproduction of illustration: "Baberton, Midlothian," Scotland, showi...

Photograph of illustration of a watercolor by Mary G. W. Wilson, published in the book by Sir Herbert Maxwell, Scottish Gardens: Being a Representative Selection of Different Types, Old and New (London and New ... More

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of London showing buildings alo...

Public domain image of a historic vintage city view, cityscape, plan, 17th-18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of characters from a play

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

Folger Library copy work. Illustration of Somerset House

Public domain scan of 17th-18th century print, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Athens, Greece, 400 B.C. Copy of a book illustration of Athens I

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustration on Lohengrin - Public domain American sheet music, 1874

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Tom Kobayashi (titlepage illustration), Manzanar Relocation Center, Ca...

Tom Kobayashi, half-length portrait, seated in north field, facing the mountains. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-18 Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Caption on negative sleeve incl... More

Illustration, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music, 1...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world.

[Domestic cat with two kittens inspecting something on the ground, a s...

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

[Allegorical illustration of man, woman, angels, devils] / K.H. Schmol...

Reproduction of drawing used in book of poetry. Illus. in: Schmolze, Karl Heinrich / An artist's poems, Philadelphia, 1864, pl. 3. Reference copy in LOT 4450-H.

Moss Agate. - Public domain engraving

Tobacco label showing moose surrounded by oak leaves and laurel wreath borders. LOT subdivision subject: Animals. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Line engraving by Harris. Caption car... More

The Quartier Latin. A magazine devoted to the arts / Louis Rhead.

Poster with art nouveau aspects showing a seated woman holding a palette and paint brushes. Promotional goal: Fr .D41 189-. Publication Artistique de La Plume.

Puck magazine cover - Puck Christmas 1901

Illustration shows Santa Claus with a pack full of toys and two children and an infant; they have chosen books "The works of Tolstoi", "Montaigne's Essays", and "Microscopic Analysis, vol. IV" rather than toys ... More