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Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank.

L'Union, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the balloon "L'Union" flying with four men on board. Tissandier collection.

Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat and kitten drinking milk from a saucer]

Printed with number in upper right corner: 3. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.

Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing] / Brodtman...

Stamped at bottom center: im Museum zu Basel. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paul of Franconi's circus, front side

Print shows "Paul of Franconi's circus" standing on one leg on the bare back of a horse, facing right, bent at the waist with right leg extended to the rear, right hand raised upward, and left hand holding ridi... More

Gilbert Stuart - John Adams, second president of the United States

Title from another impression. From another impression "From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston." Publication information from the American Antiquarian Society. Inscribed in... More

Underground Railroad March, dedicated to the North Star

Music cover showing 3 women and a man in the foreground and a railroad train in background. LOT subdivision subject: Transportation. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Lithograph by Knoe... More

.00001 the value of a unit with four cyphers going before it

A satire on dissension and political intrigue within Andrew Jackson's administration, surrounding the Spring 1831 resignations of several members of his Cabinet. In the center Jackson sits in a collapsing chair... More

[Optical illusion disc with man jumping rope and a man sticking out hi...

The disc is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a man with black-face jumping rope in a circle at the center of the disc and of a man sticking out his tongue in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Pub... More

[Optical illusion disc with two men throwing and catching cakes and st...

The disc is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a man tossing cakes and stars in a circle at the center of the disc to a man seated on a box with a crown on it in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. P... More

A very bad man - Drawing. Public domain image.

The first of two prints formerly thought to be anti-Jackson satires, but actually dealing with the sensational trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery in May 1833 for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. (Se... More

Andrew resolute Uncle Sam's faithful teamster, taking the produce of t...

The artist supports Andrew Jackson's decision to withdraw federal funds from the Bank of the United States and distribute them among various state banks. Henry Clay and Bank president Nicholas Biddle's efforts... More

Enterrement d'une femme Nègre ; Convoi funèbre d'un fils de roi Nègre ...

Illustrations showing men and women carrying palanquin with the body of a black woman inside church for burial and the funeral procession for the son of a black king. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique... More

[George Washington] - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform, holding sword at side in right hand, with left arm raised in parting gesture, aide with horse on th... More

Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos - A cartoon of a group of men with skis

An imaginative portrayal (with overt propaganda value) of an event in the Texas war of independence --the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to Amer... More

James K. Polk. Governor of the state of Tennessee / from life & on sto...

Print shows James K. Polk, half-length portrait, facing left; includes facsimile signature.

Bildersrenen mit versen - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows sixteen scenes, with german captions, of children in various activities. No. 2293. Inscribed in pencil on lower right: "Children". Inscribed in pencil on verso lower right: "0196K25 15 Aug 50." For... More

Frescoe at Pompeii showing a parrot pulling a chariot driven by a cric...

Lenghi no. 5178-7. Stamped on verso: Geo. L. Bradley collection. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress). Forms part of: George Lothrop Bradley collection (Library of Congress).

Louis Haghe - Site of Cana at Galilee April 21st 1839

Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 4. Surroga... More

City of Tibarias (i.e., Tiberias) on the Sea of Galilee April 22nd 183...

View looking towards Hermon. Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, ... More

Golden gate of the temple shewing part of the ancient walls / David Ro...

The Stone of Unction Holy Sepulchre March 30th 1839 / David Roberts.

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Descent upon the Valley of Jordan

Christian union / T. Sinclair's lith., Phil.

Print shows nine men of different Christian denominations gathered around bible; lion and lamb in foreground, Native American man and African American man in background.

David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Dancing girls at Cairo / David Roberts, ...

Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 3, p. 37.

Louis Haghe - The nilometer, Island of Rhoda / David Roberts, R.A.

Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 3, p. 29.

Pyramids of Geezeh / David Roberts, R.A.

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Monterey, as seen from a house-top in the main plaza, to the west. Oct...

Prints show a cityscape view from a rooftop, looking west, of the main plaza of Monterrey, Mexico, with soldiers and artillery stationed around the plaza, and with mountains in the background. Printed on lower... More

Asleep - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0313.

The assassination of the Sage of Ashland

The artist conveys some of the profound disappointment and anger among Henry Clay's many supporters at the nomination of Zachary Taylor at the June 1848 Whig convention in Philadelphia. The convention's act was... More

Smoking him out - Political cartoon, public domain image

A humorous commentary on Barnburner Democrat Martin Van Buren's opposition to regular Democratic party nominee Lewis Cass. Van Buren and his son John were active in the Free Soil effort to prevent the extensio... More

The hurly-burly pot - Public domain book illustration, Library of Cong...

The artist attacks abolitionist, Free Soil, and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union. He singles out for indictment radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Pennsylvania Free Soil ad... More

Slavery as it exists in America. Slavery as it exists in England

A challenge to the Northern abolitionist view of the institution of slavery, favorably contrasting the living conditions of American slaves (above) with the lot of the industrial poor in England (below). The fi... More

The great explosion in New-York, February 4th, 1850

Print shows firemen putting out a fire in the aftermath of an explosion in a building on Hague Street, New York City, and, with the help of other citizens, searching the ruins for victims. Includes a printed ac... More

Lady Moscow - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: S.B. Jones (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3648

[Certificate of membership for the Washington National Monument Societ...

Certificate to raise funds to erect the Washington Monument shows two designs for the monument and two vignettes.

The apotheosis - Drawing. Public domain image.

The print is a fragment of a larger lithograph entitled "Invasion of Cuba," composed of two panels, applauding American "filibustering" expeditions to liberate Cuba from Spain. (See also "The Great Naval Blocka... More

Scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin. First meeting of Uncle Tom and Eva T.W....

Print shows Uncle Tom sitting on a box, talking with Eva who is sitting on a large bale of cotton, on a dock with the smokestack of a steamboat in the background. Printed at top: Scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin No. 2.

The fish question settled - Public domain portrait drawing

A facetious, and somewhat racist, look at public opinion surrounding the controversy over American fishing rights in British-controlled waters off North America. (See also "John Bull's Fish Monopoly," no. 1852-... More

Position of the Democratic Party in 1852. "Freemen of America, how lon...

A crudely drawn satire bitterly attacking Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Pierce and appealing to the "Freemen of America." The print, possibly executed by a free black, criticizes the Democrats' pla... More

Harmony in the wigwam! Democracy of the right brand-y

A comic scene ridiculing the Tammany Democrats of New York City. Tammany headquarters, known as the "Wigwam," here erupts in a drunken fracas over the Democratic platform for the presidential race of 1852. The ... More

New York pilot's monument: in Greenwood Cemetery, L.I.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4836

Kilkenny Castle: Ireland - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3594

"Buck" taking the "pot" - Drawing. Public domain image.

A pro-Buchanan satire, critical of the divisive or sectionalist appeal of the other two presidential contenders in the 1856 race. "Buck" or Buchanan (left) has evidently won a card game over Fremont (fallen at ... More

The "mustang" team - A cartoon of a horse pulling a cart with people o...

The abolitionist Republican presidential ticket and its supporters in the press are the targets of the cartoon. Candidate Fremont, wearing an emigrant's smock and carrying a cross (an allusion to his rumored Ca... More

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler

The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr... More

The morning prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4567

Kalamazoo Polka Brilliante - Engraving, Public domain image

Oval view of Michigan Asylum for the Insane. LOT subdivision subject: Midwest. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by F.F. Oakley's. Music Cover Coll. Caption card tra... More

Summer shades - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6344

Navire aérien, le poisson volant, inventé et exécuté par M. Camille Ve...

Broadside announcing the exhibit at the Palais de l'industrie, séances expérimentales in Paris of a fish-shaped, steam-powered airship designed by Camille Vert. Features design drawing of the airship, equipped ... More

Democratic ticket. Our principals the constitution. For President John...

On verso: 23 Election ticket 1860 104719 '07. 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; Portfoli... More

Union volunteer refreshment saloon and hospital J. Queen del. & lith

Print shows a blank receipt for donations to the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and Hospital in Philadelphia; decorated border shows soldiers marching past saloon and hospital and amputee in hospital bed wi... More

The celebrated trotting Stallions "Young Woful" and "Abdallah Chief": ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1032.

"The Grecian Bend, She Stoops to Conquer"

Music sheet. LOT subdivision subject: Fashion. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published and copyrighted by Compton & Doran; lithograph by Studley & Co., Lith.

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

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

"The champion rider of the world" - Charles W. Fish

No. 865. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moss roses and buds - Public domain portrait engraving

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4587

Paris. Notre Dame Charles Rivière del. et lith

Print shows a street level view of Notre Dame, Paris, France, with pedestrians on the street in the foreground. Stamped on verso: LC Division of Prints. Inscribed in ink on verso: 45186. Inscribed in pencil on... More

Christmas morning after daylight

Print shows two young girls playing with their Christmas toys in their bedroom. B8352 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on another impression. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Office of ... More

Christ stilling the tempest - Engraving, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain reproduction of religious Christian art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

My favorite pony - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4666

Dogs not admitted - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bache, Otto, artist. Pr... More

Road to ruin - Print, Library of Congress collection

D1005 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-... More

David and Goliath, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

The battle for the presidency between Greeley and incumbent Ulysses S. Grant is portrayed here in biblical terms. In a mountainous desert landscape Greeley, as David armed with a slingshot loaded with quill and... More

Little fruit bearer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3918

King William III at the battle of the Boyne

Print showing William III on horseback leading troops into battle. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Occident: (formerly "Wonder,") brown gelding, by pacing stallion St. C...

Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4912

Union Pacific Ry., Dale Creek viaduct Photo-lith. by Chas. Shober & Co...

Engineering drawing shows trestles and bracings of Dale Creek, Wyoming, railroad bridge as elevation, plan, and cross section, and details. In album: Album of designs of bridges, roofs, turntables, iron trestl... More

Highland Spring, ale & porter brewery

8942 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Moses receiveing the law - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congr...

Print shows Moses kneeling and reaching upwards to accept the tablets inscribed with theTen Commandments from the hands of God. Angels can be seen in the heaven.

Rice's Extravaganza Combination, American vaudeville and popular enter...

I7292 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Miss Lizzie Webster. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1878 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Signed: Thomas. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... More

Effie Johns, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The Old Dominion Colored Vocalists with the Gotthold Octoroon Combinat...

K15307 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The "New home" in the far west / W.U. Morgan & Co. Lith, Cleveland, O.

Trade card, advertising New Home Sewing Machine Co., showing family outside of house.

No. 60, Bock large head - Drawing. Public domain image.

1264 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 20... More

Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 / A. Robida.

Print shows a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the Opera. Many types of aircraft are depicted including buses and limousenes, police patrol the skies, and women are seen driving their ow... More

Bock beer poster no 8 - Public domain portrait engraving

1474 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Aérostat électrique a hélice conduit dans les airs / par M.M. Albert e...

Design drawings show several views of an electric powered airship designed by Albert and Gaston Tissandier, which made an ascension October 8, 1883 from Auteil, France. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82... More

Biddeford vs. Portland Granite St. grounds, Saturday, May 30th Printed...

Advertising poster for amateur baseball game shows batter and catcher at home plate. Printing set by the Biddeford (Maine) Journal Press. Purchase; John Carbonell; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:135).

Bock Beer, the head of a goat inside an oval, with a stein of beer sit...

2897 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Harness racing scene - Print, Library of Congress collection

10126 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2... More

Broadhead Worsted Mills / J. Ottmann, Lith., Puck Building, N.Y.

Stock poster for woolens or tailors, showing a woman in riding clothes placing a letter in the hollow of a tree; a sign nailed to the tree is blank for later printing, and in the distance is the Broadhead Worst... More

Jules Cheret - Bonnard-Bidault, affichage et distribution d'imprimés /...

Poster showing a woman with wings and a trumpet, and a banner bearing the name of the printers Bonnard-Bidault. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1987:092). No. 408.

It's superiority is recognized throughout the world, Pratt's food, for...

Family cares - Print, Library of Congress collection

5495 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Julia Arthur, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress) Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pain's great war spectacle, Mexican War, Siege of Vera Cruz

At head of title: Long Island Railroad. Manhattan Beach. Caption: Gilmore's Band. Music Amphitheatre. Created by "Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., New York; copyright, 1890, H.J. Pain." Forms part of: Theatrical ... More

One of the finest. Chewing and smoking tobacco. D. Buchner & Co., New ...

Poster for D. Buchner & Co. tobacco products, showing a fireman shaking hands with a policeman, and premium cards depicting showgirls in costumes suggesting various sports and recreations. Caption: All cards pa... More

Little barefoot - Print, Library of Congress collection

17209 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-... More

All nations use Singer sewing machines / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bu...

Advertisement for Singer sewing machines, showing many small scenes (perhaps also trade cards) of people in national costume using treadle machines. X41326 U.S. Copyright Office. Card no. 2. Captions: Italy; Sp... More

The birth of Jesus (Luke II:10.12)

Print shows Mary and Joseph with the infant Jesus and three shepherds who have brought a lamb offering, and with two cows in the background. X53291 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1 in a series of the life of Jesus... More

Hell -- up to date - Public domain book illustration

Poster shows the devil holding a small nude man in a frying pan; man wiping sweat from face. Art Young, artist. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1... More

Balboa claiming dominion over the South Seas on behalf of the King of ...

Print shows Balboa standing in the Pacific Ocean holding a sword and the banner of Spain. Copyright 1893 by Gebbie & Co. Illus. in: The American continent and its inhabitants before its discovery by Columbus ... More

Chrysanthemums - Print, Library of Congress collection

25386 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-... More

Fall & winter fashions, 1896, 1897

43558 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-... More

Charles Hopper in Chimmie Fadden by the author of the book, Edward W. ...

Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat]

B235020 U.S. Copyright Office Caption written in pencil on poster: Due admiration. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Morrison's production of the new romantic melo-drama, The privateer by...

C246548 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: They say it's worth a million. Created and "copyright 1897 by The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Management of Edw. J. Abra[ha]m. No. 5394. Forms part of: Theatrical poster ... More

[Modelès de Madame Carlier] / Carlier.

Fashion plate showing three bust portraits of Jane Harding, Baronne de Carlsberg and Suzanne, actresses at the Gymnase theater, Paris, wearing hats designed in the Paris establishment of Madame Carlier. Illus. ... More

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