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Margery genuine says, Conan Doyle; he scorns Houdini : article from th...

This article from the Boston Herald prints a lengthy statement written to the Herald by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, vigorously defending the medium known as "Margery" against accusations of... 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

American and Commercial Advertiser, [newspaper]. April 15th, 1865.

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The Patapsco and other poems.

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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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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment ho...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Included in the case are a lock of hair tied with a pink ribbon, a published obituary, and a published poem "My Brother's Grave" by Dan Ashby. Handwritten on poem: "Father"... More

[Collection of 11 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

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[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with sword floating above marchin...

Addressed to Miss Mary J. Chambers, Toledo, Tama County, Iowa; illegible postmark. Handwritten poem on verso: In years agone, when quiet reigned, throughout this happy land. Before rebellion had attained, so g... More

Douglass Frederick correspondence 1893, Apr.

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Come to the forest--Duet, poetry written by T.W. Tucker, Esq. Music co...

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Boston Daily Journal, [newspaper]. May 31, 1865.

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[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

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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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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[Success a comedy in three acts

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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

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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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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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[Civil War envelope with poem "I love but thee" in ornamental border]

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[Adm. George Dewey, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in unifo...

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[Collection of 17 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

Page Order: Pieces 13 and 15 are Leaflets.; On verso of Pieces 4 and 6: Gift, Publishers, June 19, 1929. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... More

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

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

Douglass, Frederick (Autograph Book)

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... 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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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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The Western review and miscellaneous magazine : a monthly publication,...

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

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

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

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Unknown, no date, Hope Told a Flattering Tale (song verse)

Yatsushi kokei sanshō, Shunman Kubo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a priest addressing a nobleman and a lady in waiting on a roadway, next to a tree, with the sun setting in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored E... More

Alice Barber Stephens - [Man and woman weeping]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0012). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

[Lyric poetry]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Reproduction of Mural by Henry Oliver Walker in the Library of Congress showing woman playing lyre and nude women. 19693(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Item in PR6 CN 7E