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Alice Barber Stephens - [Man and woman on sofa]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

Sir A. Conan Doyle and family - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

Sir A. Conan Doyle and children

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[Couple embracing] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0097). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Golden Legend" by Henry W. Longfellow, Ladies Home Journal, 21:3 (Oct. 1904).

Childhood's end? Growing up in the 70's

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[South Corridor, Great Hall. Adonis mural of the Lyric Poetry series b...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Exterior view, entrance porch. Granite sculpture with female figure r...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Sculptures "Industry," "Science," "Agriculture" and "Literature" at th...

Artist: John Massey Rhind. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

Jesus before Pilate, a monograph of the crucifixion, including the rep...

First published, 1880, under title: Gesta Pilati. The "Acts of Pilate" (p. [37]-134) are also known as the "Gospel of Nicodemus". The "Report of Pilate" (p. [150]-174) is identical with the spurious text first ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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Haha to ko - Public domain drawing

A woman, holding an infant, and a young boy, both seated. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Alternate title from exhibit caption for ite... More

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Camilla, or, Twenty-four hours on the Potomac.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Dubuque Daily Times, [newspaper]. April 16th, 1865.

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Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Poetry; 18...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

Poem - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Document (poems)

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[See, Jack, he said, his manner wild and delirious]

(DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Nightmare Room" by A. Conan Doyle, Hearst's international, 42:9 (Aug. 1922).

Gastronomie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Frontispiece engraving signed: Bovinet sculp. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC Copy 1 from the library of G.V. Yudin. Has Yudin's blind stamp on page 13 and LC accession no... More

[Fiddlehead fern]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Ukiyo-e print illustration for haiku shows with fiddlehead ferns sprouting from the ground. Page in: Zoku Koya bunko. Kōto [Edo] : Maekawa Rokuzaemon ... [and 5 others] ; Bishū [Nagoya] : Fūgetsu Magosuke, [179... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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[Success a comedy in three acts

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Momiji mi sanpukutsui - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Oban Benizuri-e. Three Hosoban images on a single sheet. Forms part of: Japanese pr... More

Jakuren Hōshi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two figures, possibly the two lovers from the poem "Loving two people equally" based on the legend of Unai Otome; one lying on the floor reading (poetry?) is wearing a kimono with oragami cranes dep... More

Katsukawa Shunchō - Hagi - Public domain drawing

Print shows three women in garden setting. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Shūkuawase shiki no hana : Flowers of th... More

Hikitejaya mae no yuki usagi - Public domain drawing

Print shows a person walking to the left, mostly hidden by a snow-covered umbrella, a woman walking to the right, holding a tray with a snow sculpture of a bunny on it, and a woman sitting on a bench at a tea s... More

Sir Walter Scott and his literary friends at Abbotsford / painted by T...

Scott, Mackenzie, Wilson, Crabbe, Lockhart, Wordsworth, Jeffrey, Ferguson, Moore, Allen, Campbell, Wilkie, and Constable seated at table. Engraved for the Eclectic magazine.

The illustrated book of Christian ballads

Print shows what appears to be a book cover for a possible second edition of the 1844 edition of "The Illustrated Book of Christian Ballads and Poems" edited by Rev. Rufus W. Griswold, published by Lindsay & Bl... More

[Alexandre Dumas' monument, Paris, France] view, photochrome print pos...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1153". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Portrait of Sir Walter Scott] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13163". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

Lyric poetry south corridor / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting six women in classical garb or nude, one with lyre, and a child. Copyright by H.O. Walker in 1896. Copley print copyright 1897 by Curtis & Cameron.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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Sir A. Conan Doyle and family - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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So many truths spoken by the Master Poet come to us exhaling the odour...

(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Great Possessions / David Grayson (Ray Stannard Baker). New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917, p. 192.

Appointed tub thumper for Uncle Sam. Washington, D.C., Sept. 6. Ben M....

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Myrdal, Swedish lecturer, president of th...

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Press Release No. 468, "Robert Frost, Noted American Poet, to Give Rea...

[Portrait of Hurd Hatfield, as Lord Byron in Camino Real]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV KK 21. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Thaw - A drawing of a man's face with flowers

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John Russell, of Montcoal, reading a poem entitled "Keeper of the Fore...

Event: Musical Tribute and Testimonial to John Flynn and the mixed mesophytic forest.

Sculpture "The Decisions" and untitled poetry by Rita Dove, at the Rob...

Artist: Larry Kirkland, 1999; Gilded aluminum and dichoric glass measuring 45 feet x 30 feet x 10 inches. Poetry, 1999: etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Photographed as part of a... More

[South Corridor, Great Hall. Lyric Poetry mural by Henry O. Walker. Li...

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[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Thalia (Com...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

An introduction to the English classics,

Also available in digital form.

Old Abe the battle eagle song & chorus poetry by L. J. Bates, Esq.; mu...

Plate/Publisher number: 225.5

Haha to ko - Public domain portrait drawing

A woman, holding an infant, and a young boy, both seated. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Alternate title from exhibit caption for ite... More

The Patapsco and other poems.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Live but one moment: ballad poetry & music by J.W. Turner.

Plate/Publisher number: 5062 Additional copy (scsm0182) with variant imprint.

"Till at last he put down a right bower, which the same Nye had dealt ...

Photograph depicts a line from the poem Plain Language from Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte, 1870, showing Truthful James, Bill Nye, and Ah Sin sitting on boxes and barrels, cheating in a game of Euchre. B... More

The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stan...

A satire touching on some of the major issues in Connecticut politics on the eve of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The two rival factions shown are the "Federals," who represented the trading inter... More

Portrait of Allen Tate, undated

Allen Tate, Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified woman sitting with her arm resting on a table]

Photograph case has a newspaper clipping of the poem Love Ne'er Dies by S.W. Pearce attached to interior. Case: Leather geometric scroll. Additional information in collections file. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010... More

Saroni's musical times, a weekly journal devoted to literature, music,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 21.

Gastronomie - Public domain book scan / engraving

Frontispiece engraving signed: Bovinet sculp. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC Copy 1 from the library of G.V. Yudin. Has Yudin's blind stamp on page 13 and LC accession no... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Healthful sports for young ladies : illustrated by eleven elegant engr...

Translation of: Jeux des jeunes demoiselles. Engravings signed: Pubd. by R. Ackermann 101 Strand, 1822. Date of printing based on dated engravings and inscription on Osborne Collection copy: 1822. Osborne Coll.... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Black Identity Project, 1968-1970,...

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The passing review, or, [Hell e vating the stage, in 2 acts]

Le malitie delle donne., Florence, Italy, 15th century

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Toyonobu Ishikawa - Fūryū yastushi hagoromo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman (possibly the Tennin, an aerial spirit or celestial dancer) standing on a man in order to remove her feather-mantle (hagoromo or heavenly kimono) which is hanging on the branches of a tree; ... More

William Blake - Photograph of a page from William Blake's Milton, unda...

Transcribed from item: "Los and Enitharmon Regard With Horror the Flaming Orc. Blake's Milton. 1804." Item is from the Rosenwald Collection.

The boys of Killkenny. Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St., N.Y., Dealer ...

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[Civil War envelope showing sailor climbing up flagpole to American fl...

Addressed to Miss Adelia Fries, Philadelphia, No. 931 No[r]th Tenth Street; postmarked [Alex]andria, Va.; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation at bottom of envelope: Wm. Birney, Maj., 4 [?] Regt., N.J. Vols. Lines fro... More

[Civil War envelope showing a soldier waving goodbye to people on a po...

Verses from song A Soldier's Tear by Thomas Haynes Bayly: Upon the hill he turned, to take a last fond look; At the valley, and the village church, and the cottage by the brook. Beside that cottage porch, a gi... More

Sugawara no Michizane, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Sugawara Michizane, full-length, standing next to a tree beneath a full moon, writing poetry. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-... More

Alice Barber Stephens - [Man seated in chair, another person in bed]

Drawing shows a man with worried expression on his face, seated in chair, keeping vigil over another man lying in bed. Illustration for: "Middlemarch" by George Eliot, 1899. Inscribed in blue pencil on verso: ... More

Lyric poetry by H.O. Walker, Library of Congress

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[Sir Walter Scott, head-and-shoulders portrait]

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Olde Christmas / paintings by Raymond Ewer, verse by Breton Braley.

Illustration shows two winter scenes with verse by Breton Braley printed between them; on the left is "The Christmas Coach" showing a stagecoach with passengers riding on top, with a cresent moon and winter spi... More

Resettlement literature

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Photograph of Robert Penn Warren, undated

Robert Penn Warren, Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

A pile of newspapers sitting on top of a bed. Office of War Informatio...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

James Joyce; great authors from the Time Reading Program

Possible photographer: Berenice Abbott. James Joyce a portrait of the artist as a young man. Date of publication supplied by Library staff. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) P... More

Now - A black and white photo of a woman on the beach

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Icon Dean Bone, of Dry Creek, public domain photograph

Event: Music at Dave and Glenna Bailey's House. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Flynn putting headphones on John Russell

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Untitled poetry at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacramento, C...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Poet: Rita Dove, 1999; etched marble, 12 pieces, each measuring 3 x 2 feet in diameter. Title information, date, and subject note p... More

[North Reading Room, west wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustr...

Photograph shows right half of the mural. According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "... the clerk of Oxenford, reading his beloved classics; the manciple; the sailor; the... More

[Main Reading Room. Semi-circular stained glass window in alcove by H....

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[South Corridor, Great Hall. Uriel mural of the Lyric Poetry series by...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, April / Kronheim & Co....

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, April 1876, with illustration of battlefield casualties at Lexington; 1875 poem by John G. Whittier, Lexington, 1775, on verso. Picture ca... More

A child asked--where did I come from? ...

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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