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[ Vuillaume violin : strung scroll and pegbox, front right]

472_7337_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DCM 0386: Johann Georg Otto Flute in C

The present steel spring appears to be a replacement and the foot joint bottom ferrule also appears to be a replacement. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained, ivory cap and ferrules, brass key.;... More

[Various surgical instruments and apparatuses] / Jones sculp.

Plate CCCCXCI. Public domain scan of 18th-century scientific book, illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blackton family

Photograph shows film director J. Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), his wife, actress and film director Paula Hilburn who is seated at a piano; and their two children, Violet Virginia Blackton (1910-1965) and Charle... More

A melody

Woman playing piano. H101695 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Musical instruments piano; Shelf.

[Old man with violin, no. 1]

Public domain photograph of violinist, musician, violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DCM 1026: Moritz-Max Mönnig Flute in C

DCM ledger, Valderpoort letter to DCM, 23 July 1930: "...the only Schwedler-Reform Flute entirely made of metal. This flute was made for Mr. Schwedler by Mönnig in Leipzig as a mark of gratitude. However as Mr.... More

[Fats Waller, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing f...

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White House gold piano replaced with new instrument. Washington, D.C.,...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bedros Haroutunian holding saz, facing front, portrait, photograph

Photograph caption: "Saz, a 3-stringed plucked instrument, very old in Armenia. Owned by Mr. Bedros Haroutunian . . . (No player located)." Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Bedros Haroutunia... More

Violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1699, "Castelbarco"

Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portuguese hymn -- Shirland, a favorite hymn -- Bright cherished star

Winner's American instructor for the German accordion

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)

DCM 1429: Barlassina & Billoro Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Nickel silver.; 68 cm. Key Holes System: 15 keys, simple system (9 keys plus key plates for the 6 principal rank toneholes). Mark Maximum: BARLASSINA / & / BILLORO / MILANO ... More

Brown Bros, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the Six Brown Brothers, a vaudeville saxophone band. One member of the band is in blackface. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, noted country day school for ...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1690, "Tuscan-Medici"

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DCM 1488: Anonymous Flute in ?

Instrument type: Flute in ? Medium: Grenadilla, ivory upper head joint section. Nickel silver keys, ferrules, and end caps.; 70.6 cm. Key Holes System: 11 keys, modern style key cups, post and rod. Mark Maximu... More

[Dodge City Cow-Boy Band with their instruments] / Studio Genelli, Hul...

26895 U.S. Copyright Office.

DCM 0997: Augustin Grenser I; Jeremias Schlegel Flute in C

"Germany" stamped in English on the upper joint further confuses the identity. Possibly it pertains to the 1890 tariff mentioned in DCM 996, although that customs law does not apply to antiques. Instrument type... More

Chip 'o the old block R.L. Scott's funniest play on earth.

Z62734 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: You've sent for me and I have came. Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 149. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Libra... More

Cadman & Tsianina, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985), a singer and performer of Creek and Cherokee ancestry in studio with accompanist Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946). (Source: Flickr Commons projec... More

[Happy Walker's Madrillion Society Orchestra, Washington, D.C.]

Eleven musicians posed with their musical instruments. National Photo Company Collection.

White House (gold piano)

Title from negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch three.

Elements of musical notation

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)

Winner's model violin method

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)

DCM 0735: Anonymous Gawaq (Transverse Whistle Flute)

DCM ledger: "Biskra, Algeria." Instrument type: Gawaq (Transverse Whistle Flute) Medium: Bamboo.; 29.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/5 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: C. Van Raalte Collection, Brownsea Cas... More

DCM 1046: William Hollings Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, nickel silver keys, ferrules, metal-lined head.; 64.7 cm. (as is) Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, with pewter plugs over round metal plates for C#, C. Pin in blo... More

DCM 1293: H. Faveryear Flute in C

Instrument may have had several corps de rechange. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Figured boxwood, ivory cork-setting mechanism and ferrules, silver keys, brass-lined head.; 67.3 cm. Key Holes System: 6 k... More

Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks everything new.

37101 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Our policy - originality. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3701. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

MAWHIMEY, M., MISS

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harris & Ewing, Inc. Portrait series. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information abou... More

[Small child playing violin]

Photo by Fitz W. Guerin. #10. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music Violin; Children.

A Landsturm Duet

Photograph shows men playing stringed instruments by the railroad tracks during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Fletcher - Copp piano system

Photograph shows children playing on keyboards using the Fletcher Music Method developed by Evelyn Fletcher Kopp (1872-1945). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

[Man and woman at piano]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Stan Kenton and Buddy Childers, Richmond, Va., 1947 or 19...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical...

after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally publish... More

Staccato tonguing as applied to valve instruments

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)

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1712

Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Progressive and melodious studies, book 1

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)

Vocal exercises, 40

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)

[ Vuillaume violin : strung scroll and pegbox, back right]

472_7348_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DCM 0488: Theodore Berteling Piccolo in D-flat

Instrument type: Piccolo in D-flat Medium: Grenadilla, silver ferrules, metal-lined head.; 29.3 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, closed G#, D-natural trill. DCM ledger: "Keys have been altered. Keys of uniq... More

DCM 0266: Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, brass keys, black horn ferrules.; 60.15 cm. Key Holes System: 4 keys, round flat flaps, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (? illegible) / (crown) Mark Additional: Mark on... More

[Oscar Girard, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, ...

7506 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint by(?) F.D. Foss, Chicago.

McIntyre & Heath's Comedians the epitome of vaudeville.

Brown Bros, George Grantham Bain Collection

R. Epstein, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows pianist Richard Epstein (1869-1919) at the piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain C... More

Olive Thomas, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American silent film actress and model Olive Thomas (1894-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George ... More

English guitars, side view, photograph

Photograph caption: The guitar on the left is 70 years old, belongs to Alice Lemos Avila, and came from Faial Island in the Azores. The one on the right was made in the U.S. and belongs to Clifford Franco. Form... More

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Public domain photograph of music festival, band, orchestra, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winner's American instructor for the German accordion

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)

DCM 1634: Moritz-Max Mönnig Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Grenadilla, nickel silver keys, tenons, and lined sockets (with inner tube).; 67.5 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm system, with Schleiff key, and patent B-flat/C trill key. Mark... More

DCM 1219: Hermann Wrede Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained brown, ivory cap and ferrules, silver keys.; 60.2 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: (unicorn head) / H · WREDE / 15 / ST... More

The German Band

5 piece band playing on street, with 3 children in front of them and 3 adults behind them watching. Q10692 U.S. Copyright Office. Repro. of painting by J.G. Brown. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827

Full lgth., seated, facing right; leaning on piano with eyes closed. Engraving? after painting by Lemud. Copyrighted by Boussod-Valadon & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card... More

Besanjoni

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Percy Grainger

Photograph shows Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961), an Australian-born composer and pianist. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Larrimore seated at piano

Photograph probably shows actress Francine Larrimore (1898-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

Rock-a-bye, baby

Orchestra, with violin solo Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dog at piano]

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Banjo, front view, mechanical drawing

Drawing caption: American 5 string banjo. Drawing No. 14. Original in Music Library, University of California, Berkeley. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting the WPA California Folk Music Proje... More

Wife of a homesteader with her WPA (Work Projects Administration) musi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Charlie Ventura and Lilyann Carol, National studio, New Y...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Fred Guy, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946]

[ Vuillaume violin : full strung instrument, front left]

Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Viola by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1690, "Tuscan-Medici"

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[A Grand piano, cupids on cover]

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris, ca. 1871

Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La frayeur de Gonnesse [i.e. Gonesse], contre-danse franc̜oise / mis a...

Contra-dance instruction manual with dance notation, a description of the dance figures, and music for bass and violin. Title page includes a picture of a man running or dancing near a flying balloon. Possibly ... More

[ Vuillaume violin : strung instrument, left f-hole]

472_7441_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[ Vuillaume violin : full strung instrument, front]

472_7389_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plantation banjo player, American vaudeville and popular entertainment...

F9878 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1875 by Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Mme. Wilhelmine (Norman-Neruda), Lady [Charles] Halle, 1834-

3/4 lgth., standing, facing right; holding violin. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1895 May 11, vol. 106, p. 579. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

Helen Keller, 1880-1968

3/4 lgth., standing; facing right; at piano, which man is playing.

Maria Gay & Zenatello

Photograph shows Catalan opera singer Maria Gay (1879-1943) at the piano and Italian tenor Giovanni Zenatello. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Alma Gluck & E. Zimbalist

Photograph shows violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (1889 or 1890-1985) and his wife opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1938), next to a piano.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Hickman, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Art Hickman's Orchestra, likely during their 1919-20 New York tour. Band members pictured include: Steve Douglas, violin, Walt Roesner, trumpet, Fred Kaufmann, trombone, Clyde Doerr, alto and b... More

Grace M. Stevenson

Piano keyboard. Piano with hands playing II

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tin pan alley - a revue of popular music...

Poster shows a photomontage of a piano. Signed in pencil. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. K751. 198- Gift; 1987.

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1710

Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Repertorio di solfeggi

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)

La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille (The Artistic Struggle / Quadrille)

printed by Guillet, Paris, lithographer (artist notes) French (artist nationality) genre painter, illustrator and etcher (artist role) Recto: l. l. (signed) J Worms ; u. c.: La Lutte Artistique / Quadrille; l. ... More

[Portrait of Ray Nance, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946]

Violin by Giuseppe Guaneri, Cremona, ca. 1730, "Goldberg-Baron Vitta"

Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Violin, Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1716

Public domain photograph of violin, string musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[ Vuillaume violin : full strung instrument, front right]

472_7359_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vuillaume violin : strung instrument, right f-hole

472_7443_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[ Vuillaume violin : strung scroll and pegbox, rear left]

472_7342_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George E. Blake no. 13, So. 5th St. Phila. Piano-forte maker. &c W. Wo...

Print shows a woman playing an upright piano or piano-forte manufactured by "G.E. Blake". Printed at bottom left: Pianos to Hire. Printed at bottom right: Music Bound. (DLC/PP-2001:-068) Forms part of: Marian ... More

Youths progressive recorder Historic map, Library of Congress

Copyright design drawing shows the Youths progressive recorder, a mechanical handwriting copying machine. Stamped: Copyright library. Inscribed upper right: This map is a design and the title of the writing to ... More

Mischa Elman, playing violin

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[Bearded man playing violin and girl turning pages of music]

Photoprint by Fitz W. Guerin. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; Music Violin.

Teresa Carreno, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Venezuelan pianist and composer María Teresa Carreño García de Sena (1853-1917). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

Grace M. Stevenson

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Woman playing piano with CBS microphone

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch eight.