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Mitate rajōmon, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man departing, holding a closed umbrella over his right shoulder, looking back at a young woman standing on a veranda, leaning against a post. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

Kujibiki, Isoda Koryūsai - Public domain drawing

Print shows five courtesans attending to two men to determine who will serve each client; screen painting in the background shows a heron flying above waves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by ... More

Danjo no manzai, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man playing a drum and a woman holding a fan, dancing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Fo... More

Suitors to the pig faced lady Every man to his taste G. Cruik., fet, B...

Print shows a rich woman with a pig's face being courted for her money by unsuitable men including tradesmen and a stereotypical Jewish man. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Most images available o... More

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

[Two women riding in a rickshaw]

Photograph shows two women with a large parasol riding in a rickshaw pulled by a man with a second man walking nearby, possibly to relieve the first man. Exterior view of building with tiled roof in the backgro... More

[Interior view of room where men and women are playing the board game ...

No. 656. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 19] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may... More

Puck's labor-saving suggestion for Cupid's summer work / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a vignette cartoon with Puck, at top center, manipulating an electric bow-shooting device, which sends arrows toward couples in the surrounding vignettes, where they are sitting beneath trees on the... More

Social hypocrisies, and the painful scenes they save us from / F. Oppe...

Print shows a vignette cartoon showing men and women in various social situations where politeness overrides one's actual emotional response, maintaining decorum and preventing a social disaster. Illus. from P... More

Puck magazine cover - The ancient game / Ehrhart 1911.

Illustration shows a young woman holding a golf club, leaning against a young man who is carrying a golf bag with clubs, he is holding her hand. Illus. in: Puck, v. 69, no. 1783 (1911 May 3), cover. Copyright ... More

Obeying instructions / C.M. Crombie ; painted for PUCK by Charles M. C...

Illustration shows a young man at the wheel of a sled racing down a steep mountainside in winter; sitting behind him are another young man and a young woman who are holding each other in an embrace. Caption: M... More

Chaĭ-khanė. Samarkand - Public domain portrait photograph

Group of men having tea outdoors. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lunch at chuck wagon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

H65325 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Lambert. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Studies in expression. While an old gentleman listens to some of his ...

(DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 42:250-251 (Sept. 10, 1903). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Minazuki, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man sitting on a bench at a teahouse overlooking the Sumida River, the waitress standing before him holding a fan and teapot, is looking over her left shoulder. Title and other descriptive informa... More

[Seven men around table, eating and drinking, with one of them playing...

Public domain image of 18th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A sociable smoke - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two well dressed men smoking cigars, sitting at a table, watching a small dog sitting up, puffing on a cigar. The man on the right holds a whip and may be an animal trainer; he gestures toward the d... More

[African American men, women and children outside of church]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 274. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Edward Penfield - [Christmas at Cafe Spaander]

Three men sitting at a cafe table watching sailboats on nearby river. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Chri... More

Conserving her natural resources / Gordon Grant '10.

Illustration shows a young man and a young woman ice skating, the man tries to kiss or embrace her, but she deftly uses her muff to block his advance. Caption: Vigorous opposition to grasping monopoly. Illus. ... More

Caricature, A modern tantalus / W.E. Hill., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows a man and a woman (girlfriend or wife) at a musical revue, the man is staring at a chorus girl who is temptingly standing in front of him; the man's wife or girlfriend is looking at him with ... More

This is the man who tells his wife that "woman's place is in the home"...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat and a red dress sitting at a table in a nightclub with a man who is holding her hand across the table.

Built for speed; 1912 model / W.E. Hill 1912.

Illustration shows a beautiful young woman, fashionably dressed with large hat, standing before a group of wealthy men, looking back over her right shoulder; includes an escutcheon showing an automobile, lobste... More

Caricature, After the hug / W.E. Hill '12., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat standing next to a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat. Caption: He You smashed two cigars in my inside pocket just then! / She That's nothing! You bent a whole pa... More

Memorial day / Ehrhart., Confederate States of America.

Illustration shows two older men, a former Confederate soldier and a former Union soldier, walking arm in arm to purchase tickets for a double-header baseball game; a young boy in the foreground tips his hat, a... More

A live wire / Modest Stein ; painted by Modest Stein.

Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman talking on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1953 (1914 August 8), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck... More

The path of least resistance / Power O'Malley ; painted by Power O'Mal...

Illustration shows young couples embracing or dancing, and walking among a grove of trees at night. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1957 (1914 September 5), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck Publishing Corporation.

[Two men, seated, three-quarter length, laughing; one of them holding ...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 4900. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Musicians accompany two men eating, attended by three servants]

Drawing shows two older gentlemen seated at the head of a table being served by three young servants while three musicians accompany the feast in a well-furnished home with a western clock on a shelf at right a... More

Chaĭ-khanė. Samarkand - Public domain portrait photograph

Group of men having tea outdoors. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by ...

Group of men on flatboat in river, playing musical instruments, relaxing, and dancing. "From the original painting, distributed by the American Art Union in 1847; published exclusively for the members of that y... More

[Rivals contending for a beauty] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two men arguing with each other over which one has the right to claim the affections of the woman seated behind them. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Lib... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie yukimi shuen no zu

Print shows a view through multiple rooms of small gatherings, men playing board game, women playing with pets, drinking tea, and outside in the snow, rolling large snowballs. Title and other descriptive inform... More

Minazuki, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows four men taking a break from washing the shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Yoshiwara niwaka : Blo... More

Gogatsu no bu. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows three men wrestling at a brothel. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Yoshiwara niwaka : Blossoms of the yo... More

Tabako o suu shinji no futari, Hokkei Totoya

Print shows two men smoking at a shrine; one man has dismounted a horse, and the other man is sitting on a chair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists ... More

Ōdenmachō gofukudana, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows several men with decorations and banners on long poles marching past a clothing shop. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From... More

[A woman riding in a palanquin]

Photograph shows a woman riding in an open palaquin or litter; also shows a porter with shoulder pole carrying small bundles. Inscribed in pencil on mount: Kango bearers. No. 2001. Illus. in: Views & costumes ... More

[Two men with long robes dancing]

Japanese text appears on left side outside the image box. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. 1878. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: D... More

A Down-town lunch-room in New York / drawn by T. de Thulstrup.

Interior of busy lunchroom. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Snake charmers, India] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows three men, one man squatting before a cobra in a pot, holding the snake with his right hand and making a fist with his left in front of the snake's head, the second man is standing with a large snak... More

The modern St. Anthony - and his terrible struggle to resist the tempt...

Print shows a well-dressed man sitting in a chair, overwhelmed by opportunities to attend a "Last Bachelor 'Blow Out'", to go "See the Bogus Ballet" with its dancing girls, to go "to the Club and Join in a Quie... More

A bunch of spring sprouts / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with, at center, a young woman asking Cupid about his flower garden where all the blossoms has male and female faces, includes verse; also, six vignettes showing scenes fro... More

Goldfishing / Hy Mayer ; painted by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a well dressed man with a crown on his head, sitting on the edge of a fishbowl dangling a crown from a fishing pole among three beautiful young woman as goldfish. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no.... More

Lady fingers / B.W. ; by B. Wennerberg whose work in America appears e...

Illustration shows a tall beautiful woman with red hair and wearing a long green dress and a headband with a feather, holding up her hands where perched on her fingers are several diminutive male figures who ar... More

[African American men in the lobby of the "Chicago colored Y.M.C.A."]

Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of an official meeting, group of people, managers, directors, discussion, free to use, no copyright restrictions ... More

Life in the woods - Engraving, Public domain image

Print showing men camping in the wilderness. A1363 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by John Walsh & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern D... More

The age of iron: Man as he expects to be

Print shows a husband sitting by a child in a cradle, sewing, as a male servant does laundry. A well-dressed woman prepares to get into a carriage driven by another woman. Entered according to Act of Congress... More

Hibachi o kakomu gonin no otoko, Shunsh Katsukawa

Print shows five men relaxing around a hibachi; a shamisen rests on a platform in a room to the rear, and a standing screen with various symbols is in the foreground. Title and other descriptive information com... More

Premiere séance de l'institut National ; le 15 Germinal, An 4eme de la...

Print shows a large group of men seated in two u-shaped rows along the sides and back of a large hall with a barrel ceiling and with statuary in alcoves set off by columns, a crowded third row of standing-room-... More

Kago travelling chair - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman with parasol in a sedan chair on a street in front of the Hafuya Hotel. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a stone lantern with mountain in the background in the upper... More

Turkish residents of Nazareth playing checkers and smoking narghiles

H36038 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from recto of item. The gameboard seen here appears to be one for backgammon. Copyright by The American Stereographic Co. No. 80.

Out in Salt Lake City / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows two Mormon elders discussing another Mormon who has been found guilty of bigamy. Caption: Elder Heaperholmes He has been tried by the church and found guilty of bigamy. / Elder Holikuss Gu... More

On Deep Red Creek - sitting around dead coyote #1

Group of hunters seated in circle around dead coyotes. H65328 U.S. Copyright Office.

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, seated on rocking chair, f...

H84019 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-95376.

Miss Sarah Anderson, a Washington suffragist who advocates equal smoki...

Photograph shows Sarah Anderson sitting in a rocking chair, lighting a cigarette. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

The bridge crush / Gordon Grant '10.

Illustration shows an attractive woman playing billards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Caption: Expert advice on how to handle it. Illus. in: Puck, v. 67, ... More

Studies in expression. While an old gentleman listens to some of his ...

(DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 42:250-251 (Sept. 10, 1903). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

A Frenchman in America. Recollections of men and things.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Francois Seraphin Delpech - Les fumeurs L. Boilly ; G? lith. de Delpec...

Print shows two men, possibly porters, exchanging a light from one another's pipes; one man is seated on rocks or bundles and the other is seated on the frame for carrying bundles on his back. Forms part of: P... More

Yushima shōkintei, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo through opening in rear. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Chair and cago - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman in a sedan chair and a woman in a palanquin (or kago) on a street in front of a building. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict birds in the upper right and a seated woma... More

Harper's August / Edward Penfield., Harpers magazine posters

Man with umbrella and copy of Harper's Monthly, standing in a plaza, facing left. Promotional goal: U.S. D42. 1893.

The queen of hearts / painted by Walter Dean Godlbeck.

Illustration shows a playing card for the Queen of Hearts with the face of a woman, possibly Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who is holding in her hands a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no. 1934... More

"Safety first" / Rolf Armstrong 1914 ; painted by Rolf Armstrong.

Illustration shows a steely-faced young man driving an automobile and a beautiful young woman sitting next to him and looking up at him. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1974 (1915 January 2), cover. Copyright 1915... More

Bock beer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows "Bock" goats upending Chinese men, to the amusement of several men sitting at tables drinking beer. 8533 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright and lith., 1879, by A.J. Maerz, Brooklyn, E.D. N.Y.

Barbecue after the rabbit hunt - Secretary Loeb at the Burgess Brother...

Men outdoors, standing around a table drinking beer and eating barbecue. H62600 U.S. Copyright Office.

The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by ...

Lunch at chuck wagon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

H65325 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Lambert. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Frenchman in America. Recollections of men and things.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Uzuki - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man serenading, holding a flute in one hand, standing outside a window through which two women are visible.

Sanbashi no danjo, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows two women standing at the end of a dock next to a young man sitting in a boat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: ver... More

Hojo Katei - Tori awase - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a large section of text and two men holding roosters and a woman feeding a rooster. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Form... More

Nidanme, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the young samurai Rikiya placing a gift in front of Konami with her mother standing behind her and Honzo observing from behind a screen, from act 2 of the chushingura. Title and other descriptive in... More

[Two men playing a game or gambling, possibly involving dice of some s...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

[Men and women sitting around a table in a tearoom, eating and drinkin...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 265. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Japanese man, full-length, standing, facing left, wearing minister's ...

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

The phœnix-like "summer girl" / Ehrhart.

Print shows a female figure with wings rising from the flames of summer romances that are burning out as the season comes to an end; she leaves behind many broken-hearted men on the beach at a summer resort. C... More

The snowbound elopement / Stuart Travis '05.

Illustration shows a young couple and their driver standing in the snow outside the door to a building where a "stag" party is in progress; they are being invited in by two men at the door. Illus. in: Puck, v.... More

On Deep Red Creek - sitting around dead coyote #2

Group of hunters seated in circle around dead coyotes. H65328 U.S. Copyright Office.

Dai shichi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print, possibly from act seven of the Chūshingura, shows a dinner party with several geishas and four men sitting around a table, one man telling an amusing tale and one woman, standing, uses chopsticks to meas... More

Kyō, Okumura Masanobu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and a woman playing a game, possibly go, on a kimono with a ruled pattern. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the ... More

[Two men carrying banners and two boys, one blowing into a shell, the ...

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Shōno, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows three travelers sitting in a room at a rest stop, eating and drinking. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: ... More

Taking a smile - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Photograph of a staged scene showing men drinking. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 38. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photog... More

Miesta obshchestvennykh sborishch. Chainaia (samovarchigi)

Photograph shows men sitting outdoors at a teahouse. A samaovar is on the left side of the photo. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 87. "Chainaia" t... More

Kakitsubata o matsu wakashū - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a full-length portrait of a man holding an iris. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Vertical Oban Nishikie Vertical D... More

The education of Mr. Pipp. XXXIV, on the occasion of Mr. Pipp's birthd...

Drawing shows a matronly woman dancing with an elderly man, Mr. Pipp, at his birthday ball; other young men and women stand in the background, clapping.

[Two African American men in horse-drawn carriage and two standing alo...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 233. Photograph damaged. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs f... More

Caricature, His object / Gallaway., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows two men talking in the yard of a rural home; there are chickens in the yard, scratching the soil and pulling up the plants. Caption: Citimann I see you raise your own vegetables. / Suburban... More

On the road to Carlsbad / Hy Mayer ; by Hy Mayer.

Illustration shows a formally dressed diminutive man standing on a dining table set for a banquet with dishes of fish, lobster, turkey, oysters, other foods, and bottles of alcohol blocking his path; three attr... More

Band-wagon biography / McCutcheon., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows a four panel cartoon depicting four stages in a man's life, first as a child he laughs at the idea "that women had a right to vote", later as a college student he "denounced Susan B. Anthony"... More

Horsman's celebrated lawn tennis / Charles Hart lith., N.Y.

Print shows adults playing a mixed-doubles set of lawn tennis with a large house in the background. N2590 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1882 by E.I. Horsman, N.Y.

Yokohama kyūjitsu Furansujin uma yūkō, Sadahide Utagawa

Japanese print (possibly a polyptych print) shows two French men horseback riding along shoreline in Yokohama, Japan; French ship in the background. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Hor... More

The whole nation enjoys Jos Schlitz Brewing Cos' Milwaukee lager beer

Print shows a broadside advertisement of a young woman serving beer to two well-dressed men seated at a table in a garden-like setting with a picture of the U.S. Capitol in the background. They raise their glas... More

Miss Mary Taylor & Mr. F.S. Chanfrau - in the new piece called "A glan...

Print shows Miss Taylor and Mr. Chanfrau sitting at a table; they both gesture toward the right. 32 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: Lize. Waiter let me have a cup of coffee and nine doughnuts. / Mose. Holla th... More

Risshun, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man sitting on a veranda, turned to look at a woman standing in a doorway. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

[Two men struggling next to a stone lantern, upsetting a teapot]

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川春扇) - Kuruwa no hana shin modorikago

Print shows two men standing next to a flower cart. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Yoshiwara niwaka : Blossoms of ... More

Yobayashi no sannin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three men, one playing a bamboo flute, one beating on a pot, and one carrying a paper lantern, with two boys, one carrying a paper lantern.

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