Poster - Irving's Giant Pain Curer - Public domain lithograph
LOT subdivision subject: Mythology. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by Ed Mendel, Chicago. No date given on card. Date based on date range of other patent medicine labels.
The base ball collar - A picture of a baseball game in progress
Men wearing uniforms with collars during baseball game. Label states: Linen imitation ; button hole lined. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869 by Stiefel & Co. in the Clerks Office of the Dis... More
Hold up a minute - Something to show you
Advertising labels for cloth or fabric. Well-dressed man holding bolt of cloth. LOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Caption card tracin... More
Unicorn drops - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[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.
Essence of Old Virginia Wheat Whiskey, A.M. Bininger & Co. / Sarony, M...
Whiskey advertising label showing African Americans in tavern dancing. Copyright by Rufus Watles & L.C. Sanger.
King of Hearts - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Chas. E. Townsend Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Card playing.
Sterling's Ambrosia - An old advertisement for a man and a woman
LOT subdivision subject: Hairdressing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by H. H. Sterling.
Oneita on strike! Don't buy Oneita underwear under the labels of J.C. ...
Public domain photograph of textile design, fabric pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hennessy's cottage furniture warehouse
Advertisement for E. Hennessy, manufacturers & dealers in parlor, cottage & chamber furniture. Illustration with 11 furniture pieces. LOT subject: Furniture. Title and other information transcribed from caption... More
Independents, John J. Levy - Engraving, Public domain image
"America" with Liberty cap and flag. LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by John J. Levy. Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Card playing.
Robertson's Genuine Bourbon Cordial, Harrison Co., Kentucky / R.E. Ste...
Bourbon advertising label. Copyright by R.E. Stevens. Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo
Tobacco label showing bales of tobacco carried by several laborers from tobacco plantation to a sailboat moored below the plantation.
Metallic End Suspenders - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congre...
Advertisement showing girl eloping by hanging from balcony on her father's suspenders.
Capitol white lead - Ground in pure linseed oil by the Nassau White Le...
Advertising label for paint with U.S. Capitol in foreground. LOT subject: Paint. Copyright by C. H. & A. T. Baxter & Co. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. LC-USZCN4-13 4x5 color neg also
Clement's Genuine Osceola Indian Liniment
Indian offering liniment to crippled white. LOT subdivision subject: Indians. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by R. D. Clement. Caption card tracings: Indian tribe... More
John C. Calhoun, fabrica de tabacos ...
Half-length portrait, facing front, on tobacco label. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Arkansas plaids - Public domain lithograph
Advertising label illustration of buffalo (American Bison). Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Double-warp Velocipede Brand - Lithograph, public domain, Library of C...
Advertising label for cloth or fabric. Buffalo chasing couple on bicycle-built-for-two. LOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Caption car... More
Swaim's Panacea, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Nineteenth-century patent medicine label with head-and-shoulders portrait of manufacturer John Swaim.
The Oriental Life Elixir: A Great Egyptian Remedy for All Diseases
LOT subdivision subject: Egypt. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.
Louden & Co.'s Cherokee Liniment
Indian girl offering liniment to wounded white man. LOT subdivision subject: Indians. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Louden & Co. Caption card tracings: Shelf;... More
McFarland, Evans & Co., 105 Market Street
Portrait of George Washington. LOT subject: Textile industry & fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from item. Copyright by J. Lea.
Bininger's Traveler's Guide Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co., New York / l...
Bourbon advertising label showing man, seated with rifle, passing bottle to a standing man. Copyright by Rufus Watles & L.C. Sanger.
Narragansett Park. Manufactured of the finest selection of Vuelta Abaj...
Tobacco label showing entrance to Narragansett Park. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Call and take tea at 229 W. Madison St.
LOT subject: Miscellaneous. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by R. S. Vandenberg.
The base ball collar - A group of men playing a game of golf
Men wearing uniforms with collars during baseball game. Label states: Linen imitation ; button hole lined. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869 by Stiefel & Co. in the Clerks Office of the Dis... More
Star lobster--Portland Packing Co.
Advertising label, showing a lobster and including directions for preparation. Copyright by Wm. Everdell's Sons.
Pure white rock potash / Connell & Co. Lith. 215 Fulton St., N.Y.
Print shows product label for Pure White Rock Potash concentrate for making soap. Caption continues: One package will make nearly a barrel of beautiful white soft soap at a cost of 25 cts ; One package will ma... More
Azor's Turkish Balm for restoring hair
Illustrated with full length portraits of George Washington, Lafayette, two head and shoulders of a woman, two of woman with eagle, etc.
National Guard half pounds. Manufactured by Baker Pleasants & Frayser,...
Tobacco label showing three officers of the New York State Militia wearing shakos. Copyright by G.W. Hillman & Co.
Cherokee Remedy. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Indian offerng herbs to half-naked squaw LOT subdivision subject: Indians. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by W. R. Merwin & Co. Caption card tracings: Indian trib... More
[Pure White Snow Zinc] - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congres...
Advertisement label showing man standing with bundle of wood on back in the snow. Lithograph by Ferd Meyer & Company. Copyrighted by Walter & Fielding. This record contains unverified, old data from caption car... More
Carolina Fertilizer - Engraving, Public domain image
Advertisement showing prehistoric monsters. LOT subject: Fertilizers and manures. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Wm. L. Bradley. Caption card tracings: Adverti... More
The Welden House cigar. Manufactured by Z.P. King, Hartford, Conn.
Tobacco label showing the Weldon House, St. Alban, Vt. Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prairie Fire Brand, Double Warp Alpaca
Advertising label illustration of buffalo (American Bison), lion, bison, alligator, and couple on bicycle fleeing from prairie fire. LOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transc... More
Fresh oysters--Thomas J. Myer & Co., Baltimore / Lith. by A. Hoen & Co...
Advertising label, showing an opened oyster. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Formosa. Chewing tobacco. Spence Brothers and Co., Cincinnati, O. / ...
Tobacco label of Spence Brothers and Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, showing an elephant bearing a visitor to greet an Eastern potentate.
[Patent medicine label for unnamed women's hair tonic which "restores ...
Illustrated with busts of typical women of Holland, America, Persia, and Spain. LOT subdivision subject: Women, Sentimental. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. No date recorded on card o... More
Sybilline leaves by Florence & Fanny, Philadelphiadelphia / T. Sinclai...
Patent medicine label showing a woman in exotic dress waving a wand as a figure emerges from a smoking cauldron.
Rough & ready twist--Greene T. Pace, Danville, Virginia
Tobacco label, illustrated with equestrian portrait of Gen. Zachary Taylor on a Mexican War battlefield. Copyright by P.C. Van Schaick & Co.
St. Crispin's celebrated vegetable paste blacking
Print shows six circular labels, possibly intended for the top of a round container of blacking paste, showing a man shielding his eyes as he reaches for a boot, freshly blacked with "St. Crispin's celebrated v... More
Sherman's worm lozenges. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
LOT subdivision subject: Printing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Patent medicines; Shelf.
X-X Brand--Petersburg, Virginia / C.A. Butler del.
Tobacco label, illustrated with cannon with banner, cannonballs, and bag labeled "Capt. Bragg, a little more grape" on fort in foreground; tents in background. Copyright by DuBois Vandervoort. No. 89.
[B.L. Fahnestock bust, facing right, on advertisement for Fahnestock's...
LOT subdivision subject: Nurses and nursing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright, designed and engraved by Toppan, Carpenter & Co. Caption card tracings: Advertisements, P.F.
Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co., N.Y. sole propri...
Whiskey advertising label showing woman carrying bundle of grain. Copyright by Rufus Watles & L.C. Sanger.
Southern remedies. HAH & Co. [device]. The Hindoo remedy for asiatic c...
Patent medicine label. No. 144.
The Morning Glory of 1869 - base burning coal stove
Printed by Commercial Advertisement Printing House. LOT subject: Stoves. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.
Shoo-fly pralines - Public domain print
Showing caricature of African American and busts of Napoleon III and Eugenie. LOT subject: Confectionery. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.
Invincible - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Tobacco label showing knights in battle with barbarians who are attacking them from all sides. 26794S U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Schumacher & Ettlinger, N.Y. No. 1538.
Star lobster--Portland Packing Co.
Advertising label, showing a lobster and including directions for preparation. Copyright by Wm. Everdell's Sons.
D. Spaulding & Co.'s unrivalled Buckskin glue
LOT subject: Adhesives. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by D. Spaulding & Co. Lithograph by Lang and Lang, Lith. 117 Fulton St., N.Y.
American - Countersunk, Drilled and Burnished Ey'd ... Manufactured by...
Sheet of 78 label wrappers for American brand penpoints (Sharps, Gr'd Downs, and Betw's), each illustration with American eagle. LOT subject: Writing - Materials and instruments. Title and other information tra... More
Bininger's Wine Bitters. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Patent medicine label. LOT subdivision subject: Father Knickerbocker. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by R. Wattles & Jas. W. Freeland of A. M. Bininger & Co. Capti... More
Rivals. Chewing tobacco. Spence Brothers and Co., Cincinnati, O. / Str...
Tobacco label showing an Indian and a white hunter chasing a buffalo on horseback.
[Patent medicine label for unnamed women's hair tonic which "restores ...
Illustrated with busts of typical women of Holland, America, Persia, and Spain. LOT subdivision subject: Women, Sentimental. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. No date recorded on card o... More
Bininger's Pioneer Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co. / lith. of Sarony, Maj...
Bourbon advertising label showing man holding rifle and warming his hands by campfire, with moon in background. Copyright by A.M. Bininger & Co.
The Queen of the trotting turf. Manufactured by Seth Halsey, Lynchburg...
Tobacco label showing jockey on four wheeler pulled by horse, on racetrack.
Union Playing Cards - Drawing. Public domain image.
Patriotic illustration. LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Samuel Hart & Co. Caption card tracings: Civil War Patriotic themes; Advertisements... More
Sterne's Celebrated Congress Bourbon
Primitive agriculture and hunting scene. LOT subject: Whiskey. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by S. Sterne's Son. Caption card tracings: Advertisements Liquor; Liquor.
Isham's celebrated stomach bitters / Lith. Edward Mondel(?), Chicago, ...
Patent medicine label illustrated with man with hammer on flagpole with American flag. Copyright by P. Ray Isham. "Manufactured by P. Ray Isham, Chicago, Ill."
Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the fi...
Tobacco label showing riverboat on the Missouri River. Copyright by M.M. Smith.
Buy Hart's 35 Squeezers, New York Consolidated Card Co.
Humorous illustration. LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Hepenheimer & Maurer. Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Card playing.
Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. b...
Patent medicine label showing full-length portrait of Seneca chief Red Jacket holding a rifle. Copyright by Bennett Pieters & Co.
[B. A. Fahnestock bust, facing left, on advertisement for Fahnestock's...
LOT subdivision subject: Portraits - male. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright, designed and engraved by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edson. Caption card tracings: Advertisements, P.F.
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.
Bininger's "Old Times"family rye, distilled in 1848...designed for fam...
Farm harvesting and factory scenes. LOT subject: Rye. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by R. Wattles & Jas. W. Freeland of the firm of A. M. Bininger and Co. Caption... More
Ashburton Sauce... for... soup, game, meat, poultry, wild fowl, fish, ...
Advertising label for bottle. LOT subdivision subject: Crests/Seals (numismatics)/Signs and symbols. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Osborn & Tone. Caption card ... More
Santa Claus sugar plums--U.S. Confection Co., N.Y.
Confection label, showing Santa Claus on sleigh with reindeer. Public domain photograph - Merry Christmas or Happy New Year, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Old Crow whiskey - Drawing. Public domain image.
Whiskey advertising label showing two women burlesque performers. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Will. B. Dorman's original red cross bitters / New England Lith. Co., ...
Patent medicine label showing crusader in armor. Copyright by Will. B. Dorman.
Head of the family, try Atmore's mince meat and genuine English plum p...
Copyright by Atmore & Son. Public domain photograph of food advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
True Americans / lith. by Louis E. Neuman & Co., N.Y.
Tobacco label showing Indian and white man. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Capitol white lead - Ground in pure linseed oil by the Nassau White Le...
Advertising label for paint with U.S. Capitol in foreground. LOT subject: Paint. Copyright by C. H. & A. T. Baxter & Co. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. LC-USZCN4-13 4x5 color neg also
Swaim's Panacea, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Nineteenth-century patent medicine label with head-and-shoulders portrait of manufacturer John Swaim.
D. Spaulding & Co.'s unrivalled Buckskin glue
LOT subject: Adhesives. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by D. Spaulding & Co. Lithograph by Lang and Lang, Lith. 117 Fulton St., N.Y.
Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. b...
Patent medicine label showing full-length portrait of Seneca chief Red Jacket holding a rifle. Copyright by Bennett Pieters & Co.
Dyer & Company's concentrated yeast
LOT subject: Yeast. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.
The Left Bower smoking tobacco Manufactured by Joseph Scheider, 100 Wa...
Tobacco label showing monk pointing to playing cards with a clay pipe.
Capitol white lead - Ground in pure linseed oil by the Nassau White Le...
Advertising label for paint with U.S. Capitol in foreground. LOT subject: Paint. Copyright by C. H. & A. T. Baxter & Co. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05. LC-USZCN4-13 4x5 color neg also
Pure white rock potash / Connell & Co. Lith. 215 Fulton St., N.Y.
Print shows product label for Pure White Rock Potash concentrate for making soap. Caption continues: One package will make nearly a barrel of beautiful white soft soap at a cost of 25 cts ; One package will ma... More
Rough & ready twist--Greene T. Pace, Danville, Virginia
Tobacco label, illustrated with equestrian portrait of Gen. Zachary Taylor on a Mexican War battlefield. Copyright by P.C. Van Schaick & Co.
Dr. J.N. Keeler's infant cordial and carminative / Lith. of Thomas Sin...
Patent medicine label showing woman giving patent medicine to baby. No. 364.
[Perry Davis, bust, facing right, on advertisement for Perry Davis' ve...
LOT subdivision subject: Portraits - male. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by Wellstood, Hanks, Hay and Whitting. Caption card tracings: Davis, Perry; Patent medicines.
B.L. Fahnestock's vermifuge / designed and engraved by Toppan Carpente...
Patent medicine label illustrated with head-and-shoulders portrait of B.L. Fahnestock and woman giving patent medicine to baby. No. 23(?).
Soldier's true friend, Holloway's ointment & pills / George Schlegel l...
Patent medicine label showing one man treating another man's wound. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anders' Iodine Water - Drawing. Public domain image.
LOT subdivision subject: Angels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.
Talmadge Bro.'s self-raising flour
LOT subject: Flour. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item.
The Lone Star Liniment...has no equal for man or beast
Illustration of trainer rubbing down horse's leg. LOT subdivision subject: Cows/Horses. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Edwards & Bennett(?). Caption card tracin... More
Ballou's tobacco disinclinator, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Label with head-and-shoulders portrait of H.S. Ballou. Copyright by Mrs. H.S. Ballou. No. 286.
Fresh strawberries / William Everdell's Sons, N.Y.
Advertising label, showing strawberries. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Booth Cotton Mills - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Manufacturing label illustrated with rooster. LOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by W. H. Forbes.
"Ye Knight" - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Tobacco label showing a mounted knight in armor; in the background mountains and a castle. Copyright by Parker, Holmes & Co.
Novel device for stopping a runaway horse - Designed by Ed. Reichenbac...
Man seated in carriage rigged with a weight attached to pulleys, which is lifting a horse off of ground. Advertisement label of Reichenbach's Tile Drains. LOT subject: Sewerage. "19625X." Title and other inform... More
Rivals. Chewing tobacco. Spence Brothers and Co., Cincinnati, O. / Str...
Tobacco label showing an Indian and a white hunter chasing a buffalo on horseback.
Star lobster--Portland Packing Co.
Advertising label, showing a lobster and including directions for preparation. Copyright by Wm. Everdell's Sons.
Sybilline leaves by Florence & Fanny, Philadelphiadelphia / T. Sinclai...
Patent medicine label showing a woman in exotic dress waving a wand as a figure emerges from a smoking cauldron.
No. 11 Trade Mark - Engraving, Public domain image
Advertising label illustration of buffalo (American Bison). LOT subject: Textile industry and fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by J. Lea.
Pioneer tobacco. Kentucky. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...
Tobacco label showing man in buckskin, standing on mountain, with two dogs and dead deer. Copyright by Caleb Clark(?).
Imperial Club Mogul, Lawrence & Cohen
Near East motif. LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Card playing.