Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920
Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920
Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
John T. Bowen - Mar-ko-me-te, a menomene brave
Print shows Mar-Ko-Me-Te, a Menomene Native, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Li... More
![[Woman, with chickens and ducks in baskets, facing another woman at wall of building, two dogs, and man walking with a pig]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTQvd29tYW4td2l0aC1jaGlja2Vucy1hbmQtZHVja3MtaW4tYmFza2V0cy1mYWNpbmctYW5vdGhlci13b21hbi1hdC13YWxsLW9mLWJ1aWxkaW5nLWE4ODU5ZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "[Woman, with chickens and ducks in baskets, facing another woman at wall of building, two dogs, and man walking with a pig]")
[Woman, with chickens and ducks in baskets, facing another woman at wa...
Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Domestic cat standing on a block and a puppy with its front paws on the block]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTkvZG9tZXN0aWMtY2F0LXN0YW5kaW5nLW9uLWEtYmxvY2stYW5kLWEtcHVwcHktd2l0aC1pdHMtZnJvbnQtcGF3cy1vbi10aGUtYmxvY2stZTRlMzZjLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "[Domestic cat standing on a block and a puppy with its front paws on the block]")
[Domestic cat standing on a block and a puppy with its front paws on t...
Printed with number in upper right corner: 7. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.
![[Domestic cat with two kittens, one playing with a ball of string]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDMvZG9tZXN0aWMtY2F0LXdpdGgtdHdvLWtpdHRlbnMtb25lLXBsYXlpbmctd2l0aC1hLWJhbGwtb2Ytc3RyaW5nLTA5OGQ2Mi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Domestic cat with two kittens, one playing with a ball of string]")
[Domestic cat with two kittens, one playing with a ball of string]
Printed with number in upper right corner: 5. Paper watermarked at bottom center: in Basel. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.
Das allegrösste Bilder ABC. R bei Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin
Print shows the letter "R" formed by a man holding a bundle of rushes which he is using to beat another man kneeling before him, with examples "Reifspringen" showing young women jumping rope; "Ritter" showing a... More
The Flower Dance of the Viennoise Children
Nine girls and young women dancing. LOT subdivision subject: Dancing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by Sarony & Major, 117 Fulton St., N.Y. Published by Atwill, ... More
Argali on stone by T. Doughty ; from Childs & Inman's Press
Print shows a Bighorn sheep ram standing in a rocky or mountainous landscape, with an ewe standing in the background. Printed on upper right corner: PL. 17. Illus. from: The cabinet of natural history and Amer... More
The chaplet, a waltz by Flora / Kennedy & Lucas lithography, Philada.
Sheet music cover showing tree with branches containing lines of music, and bees denoting sharps.
Three Polkas - Balloon Polka, Brunette Polka, Adriatic Polka
LOT subdivision subject: Transportation. Title and other information transcribed from item. Composed by A. Wallerstein. Published by Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Sq. Lithograph by Sarony & Major, N.Y. No capti... More
The downfall of Mother Bank - Public domain drawing
A pro-Jackson satire applauding the President's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. The combined opposition to this move from Bank president Nicholas Bid... More
![[Optical illusion disc with somersaults and horseback riding]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvb3B0aWNhbC1pbGx1c2lvbi1kaXNjLXdpdGgtc29tZXJzYXVsdHMtYW5kLWhvcnNlYmFjay1yaWRpbmctZDY3YWQ2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "[Optical illusion disc with somersaults and horseback riding]")
[Optical illusion disc with somersaults and horseback riding]
The disc is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a figure doing somersaults in a circle at the center of the disc and a man horseback riding in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Published in: McLean'... More
Political Quixotism shewing the consequences of sleeping in patent mag...
Print shows President Jackson, sword in hand, during a nightmare, fighting a hydra with many fierce heads labeled "U.S. Bank", "Deposits", "Bribery", "Pensions", "[...] of the People", and "Corruption of the [.... More
![[Optical illusion disc with a face catching a ball and a man with blackface taking a bow]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjkvb3B0aWNhbC1pbGx1c2lvbi1kaXNjLXdpdGgtYS1mYWNlLWNhdGNoaW5nLWEtYmFsbC1hbmQtYS1tYW4td2l0aC1ibGFja2ZhY2UtZTY4NjIyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "[Optical illusion disc with a face catching a ball and a man with blackface taking a bow]")
[Optical illusion disc with a face catching a ball and a man with blac...
The disc is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a face catching a ball in a circle at the center of the disc and a man with blackface taking a bow in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Published in: ... More
Jim Crow GEM monogram, portrait print
Print shows Thomas D. Rice wearing the costume of his character "Jim Crow", full-length portrait, facing left, with right arm raised and a little skip in his dance step. Signed on stone with monogram on lower ... More
Set to between Old Hickory and Bully Nick
Satire on the public conflict between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle over the future of the Bank of the United States, and the former's campaign to destroy it. The print is sympathetic to Jackson, portrayi... More
The pipe dance and the tomahawk dance / F. Barinsou ; painted at the t...
Native men performing the pipe dance and the tomahawk dance. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis. Philade... More
New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holde...
A portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mails found there in July 1835. Mail sacks are handed through a forced window of the ransack... More
Intérieur d'une cabane de Caloches (Ile de Sitkha, Côte N.O. de l'Amér...
Interior view of lodge or cabin with Natives gathered around fire. Illus. in: Voyage autour de monde, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur Nicolas 1er, sur la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, ... More
James Madison, 4th president of the United States
Public domain scan of portrait print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Democratic voter. Book illustration from Library of Congress
The artist satirizes the split in party loyalties between the Locofoco and Tammany factions of New York City Democrats. In particular he belittles the Irish immigrants widely recruited by the party at the time... More
Whig bazaar - Political cartoon, public domain image
Publd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt St. N-York. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1837 by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern Distr... More
Baltimore / Swett ; P. Haas sc., engraving, Library of Congress
Print showing a man leaning on a fence, looking in the direction of Baltimore, Maryland. Entered according to Act of Congress by N. Hickman, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Maryland, in the year 1837.
Loco Foco scramble for collectors licenses
Democratic patronage in New York is parodied in a scene of Loco Foco drivers or carmen rushing for cab licenses distributed by recently appointed collector of the port, Democratic stalwart Jesse Hoyt. Hoyt repl... More
The globe man listening to Webster's speech, on the specie circular
A small, bust-length caricature of Washington "Globe" editor and Van Buren adviser Francis Preston Blair. The print was probably issued in the spring of 1838. In May of that year the Specie Circular, an extreme... More
Me-Na-Wa. A Creek warrior - Public domain portrait engraving
Half length, facing left. Lithograph by McKenney & Hall. Illus. in: History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Philadelphia, 1838. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old d... More
The new code of chivalry or what we would have done. As approved by "...
The second of two satires by Chambers on events surrounding the killing of Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley by Kentucky Representative William J. Graves in a February 24, 1838, duel. (See also "Scene in Washin... More
Funérailles de L'Empereur Napoléon. Passage du cortège dans les champs...
Funeral procession of Napoleon passing on the champs Elisées. Hubbard Collection. Signed on stone. No. 5.
![Francesco Arban di Lione / Stani[...]é Morelli.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvZnJhbmNlc2NvLWFyYmFuLWRpLWxpb25lLXN0YW5pZS1tb3JlbGxpLWY2N2QyYi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/53/webp "Francesco Arban di Lione / Stani[...]é Morelli.")
Francesco Arban di Lione / Stani[...]é Morelli.
Half-length portrait of French ballonist Francesco Arban standing in the basket of a balloon, waving his hat. Tissandier collection.
![[Full-length statue of Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, standing facing front]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDYvZnVsbC1sZW5ndGgtc3RhdHVlLW9mLW1hcmN1cy1hdXJlbGl1cy1lbXBlcm9yLW9mLXJvbWUtc3RhbmRpbmctZmFjaW5nLWZyb250LWI4YTE3NS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "[Full-length statue of Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, standing facing front]")
[Full-length statue of Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, standing faci...
Public domain photo of Italian sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"The bold brigand" from our rocky tow'r on high on stone by A. Newsam ...
Print shows a "brigand" standing on rocks in the mountains, firing his gun, possibly to confuse his pursuers as to his whereabouts by the echo. Caption continues: Sung in the opera fra Dìavolo, with unbounded ... More
Fanny Elssler music sheet cover
Print shows ballerina Fanny Elssler, full length portrait, facing front, as the character Sarah Campbell in the ballet "La Gypsy" where she danced the cracovienne (krakowiak). Inscribed in pencil across top: I... More
Mansion House, Cheapside &c. / T. Shotter Boys, del. et lith.
Illustration showing people walking in London streets, public coach, and buildings seen from corner of Lombard Street. Illus. in: Original views of London as it is / drawn from nature ... and lithographed by Th... More
View from Mount Holyoke - A black and white drawing of a mountain scen...
Illustration showing view from the top of Mount Holyoke toward the valley and Connecticut River below.
Ruins called Om El Hamed near Tyre April 25th 1839 / David Roberts, R....
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. 2, pts. 9-10, p. 11. Surro... More
Tuko-See-Mathla, a Seminole chief / drawn, printed & coloured at the L...
Print shows Tuko-See-Mathla, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding a rifle.
David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Sidon looking towards Lebanon
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. 2, pts. 11-13, p. 2. Surro... More
Christian & Mohamedan chapels on the Summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839
Painting drawn at the summit of Gebel Musa (Biblical Mount Sinai), with mostly imaginative mountain landscape for the distribution and shape of the surrounding summits and showing the church and mosque on the s... More
The convent of St. Catherine Mount Sinai Feb 21st 1839 / David Roberts...
Painting drawn at the central area of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley), looking southeast and showing the orchard and fortress of Saint Catherine Monastery in the valley in the foreground from right to centr... More
Henry Clay Copied from a daguerreotype portrait by Anthony, Edwards & ...
Print showing Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in medallion and wreath. Inscribed in ink: Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York October 12, 1844. ... More
Progress of reform!!! No. 1 - Political cartoon, public domain image
A scene in New York, outside the gates of City Hall Park. Two well-dressed men with top hats overturn the table of two apple-women. One of the men (from all appearances a Loco Foco radical Democrat) shouts at t... More
Sarah Ann - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5787
John Adams, 2nd president of the United States / on stone by A. Newsam...
John Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Louis Haghe - The Great Sphinx, pyramids of Girzeh / David Roberts, R....
Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 1, pt. 17.
The wedding day - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7119
![The brilliant charge of Capt. May--At the Battle of Resaca de la Palma (Palm Ravine) 9th of May 1846 [...]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMDUvdGhlLWJyaWxsaWFudC1jaGFyZ2Utb2YtY2FwdC1tYXktYXQtdGhlLWJhdHRsZS1vZi1yZXNhY2EtZGUtbGEtcGFsbWEtcGFsbS1yYXZpbmUtNjgzNjhhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "The brilliant charge of Capt. May--At the Battle of Resaca de la Palma (Palm Ravine) 9th of May 1846 [...]")
The brilliant charge of Capt. May--At the Battle of Resaca de la Palma...
No. 554. Copyright by N. Currier. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 772.
Section of revolving catoptric light; plan of revolving catoptric ligh...
Illus. in: Plates Accompanying Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Improvements in the Lighthouse System and Collateral Aids to Navigation, detail of plate 16, (lower left). On lower right: Lith. by... More
Francesco Arban di Lione, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Francesco Arban di Lione commemorating his twelfth flight.
Great gateway, leading to the Temple of Karnac--Thebes / David Roberts...
Title page vignette. Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 2, pt. 2.
Three fashionable men Wagner & McGuigan lithrs. 100, Chesnut St. Phila...
Print shows an advertisement for men's clothing showing three fashionably dressed men with top hats and walking sticks, standing on a plaza near the entrance to a building. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Mar... More
Whitlock's collection of Ethiopian melodies. As sung with great applau...
Music cover showing two men on stage, one dancing and one playing banjo.
Major General Zachary Taylor by A. Hoffy, under the immediate superint...
Print shows Zachary Taylor, head-and-shoulders portrait, body turned slightly left with head in left profile, wearing military uniform. Includes additional testimony and signatures of the "undersigned officers"... More
Plantation melodies / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.
Music cover showing two boys seated on bench, with one of them playing a flute, and the other holding book of music.
The Democratic funeral of 1848 - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... More
Grand patent India-rubber air line railway to California: competition ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2748
Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...
Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Baird, Califo... More
I'm Weeping O'er My Roses - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Cong...
Music cover showing woman standing on porch on which flowers are growing up and looking downward. LOT subdivision subject: Sentimental - Women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item... More
Girl praying - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a young girl spying on another young girl who is praying in a grove of trees with a church in the background. Inscribed in lithographic crayon at bottom: M[?] should like to have the [?] by tomorro... More
The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...
Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07
Katy Darling A favorite song / / J. H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.
Print showing title page illustration with man looking sadly at grave of "Katy Darling."
Design and model of the new steamer America, for the western lakes
Print showing port side view of the steamer America. Caption continues: To be built and run between Buffalo and Cleveland. Invented, designed and drawn by Darius Davison, New York. Copyright 1851 by Darius Davison.
Scene in a New Hampshire court.--General Pierce examining a witness. S...
Two humorous incidents supposedly from the life of Franklin Pierce. On the left, a repartee wherein Pierce, the distinguished trial lawyer, is embarrassed by an ignorant witness. Armed with pages of notes, Pie... More
Vue extérieure de la mosquée, prise de la cour du chadirvan
Print shows courtyard and exterior of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, ablution fountain to the right; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, ... More
Loco Foco hunters treeing a candidate
A satire on the Democrats' or "Loco Focos'" 1852 pursuit of Franklin Pierce for the presidential nomination. At the foot of the White Mountains in the "Dismal Swamp," an immense, swampy region of North Carolina... More
The Fourth Baptist Church, N.W. corner of Fifth & Buttonwood Streets, ...
Print shows an exterior view from the street of the Fourth Baptist Church, with pedestrians in the foreground and two pedestrians admiring a fountain on the right. Wainwright, 378 Purchase; Marian Carson; 1997... More
Garrett Davis: by Glencoe, dam by Sir Leslie
Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse, animal husbandry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
New York firemen's monument: Greenwood Cemetery I.L.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4832
![[Philadelphia] - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congress](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTUvMDEvMDEvcGhpbGFkZWxwaGlhLTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "[Philadelphia] - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congress")
[Philadelphia] - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of...
Print shows vignette views of prominent buildings in Philadelphia, such as, the Custom House and the Penitentiary, the Alms House and the U.S. Mint, also the Exchange, the Hospital, Independence Hall, Insane As... More
Russian rifle pit - now part of the British advanced trenches, on the ...
Print shows soldiers filling sand bags and firing over a barrier of sand bags and gabions. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simps... More
A brush on the road: Mile heats, best two in three
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0799.
Graves at the head of the harbour of Balaklava / W. Simpson del. ; C. ...
Print shows a burial party gathered around a grave during funeral at a cemetery at the head of the harbor in Balaklava, during winter, also shows ships in the harbor, and men, on the left, hauling supplies on t... More
Testimonial awarded by the Philadelphia Relief Committee / F. Moras fe...
Print shows the Grim Reaper flying above a port, also two female figures standing on opposite sides of a medallion with scene of a man stopping to help a sick or injured person. Includes quotes from the Bible. ... More
The valley of the shadow of death - caves in the Woronzoff Road behind...
Print shows bird's-eye view of the landscape along the Woronzoff Road with cannon balls lining the roadside, also shows the entrance to a valley and, in the foreground, soldiers carrying a wounded soldier on a ... More
Grey Eddy - 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. 2882
Lord Raglan's head quarters at Khutor-Karagatch / W. Simpson delt. ; C...
Print shows cluster of buildings being used by Lord Raglan as the British headquarters. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson.... More
The ten virgins - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6456
The three white kittens: peace - Public domain dedication image
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Little bountiful - Print, Library of Congress collection
Artist: F.N. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3852
The ladies bouquet - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3643
Hospital and cemetery at Scutari / W. Simpson del. ; J. Needham, lith....
Print shows the cemetery with view of the hospital in the background, Üsküdar (Istanbul), Turkey. Colnaghi's Authentic Series. Plate 33.
The New York beauty - Public domain portrait painting
Public domain image - 18th-19th-century female portrait, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Sunny side: the residence of the late Washington, Irving near Tarrytow...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6356
John Milton - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3533
Queen of hearts - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5423
The celebrated trotting Stallions "Ethan Allen" and "George M. Patchen...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1031.
Poster - Fine flavored new crop teas - Public domain lithograph
General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Chapman, Henry, publisher. Traubel, M.H., copyrigh... More
Jean Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse - Napoléon a Sainte-Hélène Paul Delar...
Print shows Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, full-length portrait, facing front, sitting on rocks on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Signed on stone on lower l... More
Ethan Allen & Mate and Lantern & Mate: crossing the score "a dead heat...
Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1904
Yorktown - Public domain image of steamship
Sidewheeler using steam as auxiliary power, showing men with crates of tobacco marked "P.B." (Paulin Byrd). LOT subdivision subject: Ships (clipper and steam). Title and other information transcribed from capti... More
Lincoln quick step - Public domain portrait photograph
Campaign sheet music for the Lincoln candidacy. The cover illustration features an oval bust portrait of Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln, surrounded by vignettes and motifs recalling his early backwoods car... More
F.J. Pilliners 10 illuminated business cards
Print shows an uncut half-sheet of business card designs, numbered 1-10, featuring depictions of various occupations; among the occupations, inscribed in ink above each card, are "Tailor", "Wine &" [...], "Dagu... More
Emmett Kelly Jr. Circus - Public domain portrait painting
Poster showing portrait of Emmett Kelly. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The flag of Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.
Copyright by S.T. McDougall. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession"
A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a ... More
President Lincoln & cabinet / lith. of J.H. Bufford.
Print shows Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing right, at center, surrounded by bust portraits of members of his cabinet, clockwise from top, "Simon Cameron, Secy. of War", "Salmon P. Chase, Secy. of the Tre... More
Winfield Scott, Lieut. General of U.S. Army designed & drawn on stone ...
Full-length portrait shows Winfield Scott in full uniform, riding a horse and waving his hat. After serving as general in chief of the U.S. Army at the start of the Civil War, Scott ended his long military care... More
The Southern Confederacy a fact!!! Acknowledged by a might prince and ...
A biting vilification of the Confederacy, representing it as a government in league with Satan. From left to right are: "Mr. Mob Law Chief Justice," a well-armed ruffian carrying a pot of tar; Secretary of Stat... More
Major Anderson, U.S.A. commanding Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor / lit...
Print shows Major Robert Anderson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform.
The old general ready for a "movement"
Confident Union propaganda from the summer of 1861, claiming dominance over Confederate troops led by generals P. G. T. Beauregard and Gideon Pillow. Union commander Winfield Scott sits on a mound in the cente... More