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Lyric poetry; Adonis, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, ...

Reproduction of a mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building showing Adonis lying on rock after being killed by wild boar.

Lyric poetry; The boy of Winander / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting a boy, the subject of a Wordsworth poem. Copyright 1897 by H.O. Walker. Copley print copyright 1899 by Curtis & Cameron.

From the ranks / Ehrhart. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows American soldiers sitting around a campfire listening as one tells a story through verse of getting kissed by his girlfriend just before boarding the train. Includes a poem by Edwin L. Sabin. Illus... More

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

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting the angel Uriel, seated on rock. Copley print copyright 1899 by Curits & Cameron.

Sir Walter Scott - Public domain portrait painting

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Sir A. Conan Doyle - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Memorial Bridge statuary grouping. Statuary grouping representing Ambi...

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Poetry, Detroit Public Library - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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

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Steuben Glass, business. Poetry in crystal I

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Coal river. Glenna Bailey and John Russell. Southern West Virginia.

Event: Music at Dave and Glenna Bailey's House. Public domain photograph - family portrait, 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

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

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

[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Lyric Poetry (Lyrica) in...

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

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

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

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

The boy's King Arthur; being Sir Thomas Malory's history of King Arthu...

Also available in digital form.

La sfera. nautical chart - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congre...

In verse. Sometimes incorrectly ascribed to Gregorio's nephew, Leonardo Dati, according to Goff, citing GW. No signatures. LC copy has marginal color wash pen-and-ink illustrations, including astronomical, mete... More

The Patapsco and other poems.

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

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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The politics and poetry of New England / A. Gardner photographer, Wash...

Photograph shows Senator Charles Sumner, facing right, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, facing front, seated at a table. Inscribed in felt-tipped marker at bottom center: Charles Sumner + Henry W. Longfellow. I... More

Poem. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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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

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

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

Portrait of Joseph Auslander, undated

Joseph Auslander, Consultant in Poetry (1939-1944). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poetry of motion - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

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 great invocation - A close up of a piece of paper with a poem on i...

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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

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,...

Library of Congress. "Lyric Poetry", by H.O. Walker

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Kengyū shokujo, Shun Ei Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman, Orihime, the weaver princess, standing next to a loom and a man, Kengyuu, the cow-herder, standing next to an ox, both on clouds separated by a gap, with the top of a building visible throu... More

The bard's legacy. Andrews', Printer, 38 Chatham St., N.Y., Dealer in ...

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[Civil War envelope showing soldier with woman in stars and stripes dr...

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O'er graves of the loved ones Poetry and music by John P. Ordway, M.D....

Print showing title page illustration with a woman, man, and children decorating a tombstone with flowers. Inscription: Oliver Ditson & Co. Proprietors, 16 July 1867, vol. 42 p. 747.

Children's literature - present. This is "Billy the Biter; or, The Boy...

Caricature showing boy slaughtering Indians. Wood engraving by F. Opper. Illus. in: Puck, 1881 Sept. 14, p. 21. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - INDIANS CARTOONS 1891. This record contains unverified, old data fro... More

Lyric poetry; The boy of Winander

Reproduction of mural in Library of Congress, Jefferson Building showing boy seated on cliff, the subject of a Wordsworth poem. Copyright by Curtis and Cameron. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 292.

Lyric poetry, Comus / H.O. Walker, artist.

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting a scene from the poem. The masque of Comus, by Milton.

Alice Barber Stephens - [Two men approaching women at a tea table]

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 - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about... More

The Sunday-school picnic / O'Neill Latham..

Illustration shows a Sunday school picnic with adults and children resting and playing, and eating in a rural setting. Includes a poem by Joe Lincoln. Illus. in: Puck, v. 47, no. 1221 (1900 August 1), centerfo... More

[Girls among flowers] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Illustration for: "Fairy Snow" by Nell K. McElhone, St. Nicholas, 38:988 (Sept. 1911).

Elizabeth Kalb, National Dept.--Nat'l Literature Dep't.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Elizabeth Green Kalb, facing forward, in embroidered v-neck. Elizabeth Green Kalb of Houston, Texas, was a graduate of Rice Institut... More

Palestine Broadcasting Service and P.I.O. [i.e., Public Information Of...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930

Half lgth., seated, facing right. Photo by Bain News Service. LC-B2-5073-12 and LC-BT-5692-13 (Deteriorated). Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection ... More

[Langston Hughes, half-length portrait, facing left]

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. In the lobby of the Swedish Institute of Art, ...

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Two men standing next to each other in front of a window. Office of Wa...

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La Segunda independencia

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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. Mural depicting Tragedy in the Literatur...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Main Reading Room. View of statue of Poetry by J.Q.A. Ward on the col...

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[Second Floor, East Corridor. Mural depicting Love Poetry (Erotica) in...

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

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...

Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More

Memorabilia - 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

Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

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Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

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The sot-weed factor: or, A voyage to Maryland. A satyr. In which is de...

Introduction signed: Brantz Mayer, Baltimore, October 20, 1865. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

[Tevieh the dairyman drama in 5 scenes

Leaflet literature. Princeton, Mass. Word office. [n. d.].

38 nos.; Title. 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 80, Folder 1.

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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We are coming Father Abra'am, six hundred thousand more composed and a...

From a poem first published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham by James Sloan Gibbons (Robert Morris). Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed t... More

Poem. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Three women at edge of forest. Copyright by H.N. Stone. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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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The poets and poetry of Cecil County, Maryland.

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

Orlando fvrioso : in English heroical verse, / by Iohn Haringto[n].Imp...

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Henjō - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows the poet Henjō with two other women reading poetry.

Charlotte Brontë - Public domain portrait Cartes de visite

Reproduction of a painting by George Richards, 1850. Stamped on verso: Sewell Collection. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Tanzaku o motsu yūjo - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a courtesan seated with her back against a writing desk, holding a slip of paper (tanzaku) with a poem written on it. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... More

Dorfgeschichten. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows scenes from village tales.

Genji monogatari 54 Andō Hiroshige

Japanese print showing scene from Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji with elaborately dressed woman and man separated by a screen. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Hiroshige I was alive in 1852. It is less likely that t... More

The martyr of liberty: in memory of President Lincoln poetry and music...

[Persian and Turkish calligraphy kept in the Treasury of the Imperial ...

Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Persian poetical text. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 34. No. 729. In album: Topkapı Sarayı, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. ... More

Nude study for figure of Poetry

Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figure of Poetry for the painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid covers the drawing.

Painting "Literature" in north atrium ceiling of Federal Complex, Erie...

Artist: Henry (Heinz) Meixner, ca. 1899. Oil, 7' high. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cred... More

Dr. A. Conan Doyle in his tent at Bloemfontein, South Africa

Stereograph of celebrated writer, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, working at a desk in a tent at Langman Hospital, South Africa, where he served as a medic for serveral months during the Boer War, 1900. D14517 U.S. Cop... More

Lady Conan Doyle, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Backs plan for Federal Department of Art, Science, and Literature. Was...

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You, in her thoughts - Public domain portrait print

Poster showing a contemplative young woman, a family group, and a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox extolling male virginity before marriage to prevent health problems related to sexually transmitted diseases. This p... More

The writing on the screen - Public domain dedication image

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

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