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[Mural, Lyric Poetry (detail), by Henry O. Walker, in the South Corrid...

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

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Many districts in the 946 square miles of Sanilac County, Mich. have n...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Lake Division. Classification: Child Welfare. Gift; American National Red Cross 1... More

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

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Steuben Glass, business. Poetry in crystal II

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Coal river. Donna Wills, of Rock Creek. Southern West Virginia.

Event: A visit with Donna Wills. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Poetic verse carved into the wall of the detention barracks at Angel I...

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Piesni. Russian Masonic Songs, 1905.

"Sbornik masonskikh pi︠e︡sen." Cf. I︠U︡ Bitovt. Ri︠e︡dkīi︠a︡ knigi, 1905, no. 2660. Purchase from Gennadiĭ Vasilʹevich Yudin, 1906. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More

Does anybody want a comedian a monologue. Part 3

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

Poems (various authors) - Public domain document scan

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

Boston Herald article, January 26, 1925 Margery genuine says Conan Doy...

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The funeral procession of the celebrated Mr. Jonathan Wild Thief-Taker...

A poem, "The Complaint of Jonathan Wild," surrounded by images of a funeral/procession, rows of people hanging from gallows, and other scenes. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congres... More

View of transparency in front of headquarters of supervisory committee...

Second leaf contains the history of emancipation in Maryland and extracts from speeches and poems on liberty.

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 poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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[Success a comedy in three acts

Ōeyama monogatari, Shigemasa Kitao - Ukiyo e print

Print shows at the top, two warriors setting out in pursuit of a young woman whom they catch up to at the bottom of the print. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print... More

Yanagi ni shirasagi, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a white heron standing beneath a willow tree on the edge of a pond. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kogata Nishiki... More

Moronobu utsushi torioi zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows two female street musicians wearing kimonos, geta, and large hats, and playing shamisens. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

Lord Byron - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Eliphalet Brown, Jr. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4093

[Group of Union soldiers with Abraham Lincoln holding U.S. flag in for...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 Oct. 1, pp. 632-633. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

In Memoriam! Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States; Assassin...

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The nation mourns. - Public domain portrait print

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Matsuo Bashō, Taiso Yoshitoshi - Public domain image related to music ...

Print shows the poet Matsuo Bashō as an old man, a traveler, stopping to talk with two men having tea by the roadside. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Lyric poetry; Endymion / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting Endymion asleep on a mountain. Copley print copyright 1899 by Curtis & Cameron.

Sir A. Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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Lady Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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What Burns said [in] 1782 holds good in 1915. Take his tip / printed b...

Poster showing a cameo portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns, with a verse of his poetry quoted below. Caption: O! why the deuce should I repine / And be an ill foreboder? / I'm twenty three, and five feet nin... More

Literature on display in Chicago, Illinois, office of the Pittsburgh C...

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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

[Second Floor, East Corridor. View of printer's mark of G. di Legnano ...

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

[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Comedy in the Literature...

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

[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Tradition in the Literat...

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

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

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

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Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain"...

Reproduction number: A83 (color slide of letter); A84 (color slide of poem reprint); LC-MSS-77909-1 (B&W negative of poem reprint) Inspired by the death of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Walt Whitman (1... More

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June ...

Reproduction number: A57 (color slide; first and second drafts); A58 (color slide; final draft) Langston Hughes (1902-1967), known for his lyric poetry, often wrote insightful commentaries about African-America... More

The mountaineers, by Willis Boyd Allen

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Poems, undated - Public domain document scan

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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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[Collection of 23 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

Page Order: Pieces 5, 9, 13 and 23 are Leaflets; Piece 10 is a Reverse Center Span. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Print... More

[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

Our martyr president poetry by W. Dexter Smith, Jr.; music by Oscar Li...

Plate/Publisher number: 598

A.D. 1862; or, How they act in Baltimore,

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

[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).

Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick

Title page illustration shows a young woman wearing a long dress and cloak walking outdoors and reading a book, presumably poetry. (DLC/PP-1935:0076). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick

Title page illustration shows a young woman wearing a long dress and cloak walking outdoors and reading a book, presumably poetry. (DLC/PP-1935:0076). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

[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

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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[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...

According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More

Yanagi no kezuribana, Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the text of two poems. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kokonotsugiri-ban Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanes... More

Dryburgh Abbey. Tomb of Sir Walter Scott

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The New Year's address of the Newsmen of the New York Herald.

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1890. [A poem of 3 verses] [n. p. 1890].

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 239, Folder 1a.

I've supplied him with literature

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Way of an Election" by Octave Thanet, Scribner's magazine, 22:296 (Sept. 1897).

Lyric poetry; Adonis / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting the dead body of Adonis lying naked on a rock in the forest. Painting copyright 1899 by H.O. Walker, artist. Copley print copyright 1899 by... More

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

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Prof. Walter Dill Scott - Public domain portrait photograph

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[Pastoral poetry, dramatic poetry, epic poetry]

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Dr. Conan Doyle - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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[Pastoral poetry, dramatic poetry, epic poetry]

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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

[Poetry mural, Detroit Public Library, showing writers]

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Abbotsford, the Residence of Sir Walter Scott, Scotland: Exterior

J13854 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Interiors; Libraries; Gt. Britain Scotland Melrose A... More

Testifies before House Patents Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Bu...

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the lecture by Mrs. Myrdal at the Swedish I...

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Letter from Archibald MacLeish to T. S. Eliot, October 7, 1944

Archibald MacLeish expresses disappointment that T.S. Eliot has declined his invitation to take the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Unemployment/ monologue

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[Exterior view. Detail of sculpted Literature spandrels by Bela L. Pra...

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

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

[Northwest Corridor, First Floor. Mural depicting the muse Erato (Love...

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,

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Poems, undated - Public domain document scan

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[Tevieh the dairyman drama in 5 scenes

London Town. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

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

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Poetry and prose. Scene at Monument Point, north end of Salt Lake

No. 353. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Utah. Scenes near the Great Salt Lake.

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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