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Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal B...

Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More

Major André, von drey Americanern angehalten zu Tarrytown am 23ten Sep...

Print shows Major John André being taken into custody by three men, John Paulding, Isaac Van Wart, and David Williams, near Tarrytown, New York, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolu... More

Dubois & Stodart Hoogland sc - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a young woman sitting at and playing a "Dubois & Stodart" upright piano. Possibly an advertisement showing a type of piano manufactured by Dubois & Stodart. Signed on plate at bottom center. Forms ... 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

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

[Croton Aqueduct, (Westchester Co., New York). Elevation, section, an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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 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

[Walter Restored Jones, half-length portrait, nearly in profile to lef...

Founder of Atlantic Mutual Marine Insurance Co., of New York City. Alternative identifications: Walter Reston Jones, d. 1855; Walter Jones of Washington; Walter James. Scratched on back of plate: 31; [illegible... More

Artilleryist group - Mathew Brady seated on left

Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More

1846 July 30, to New York from Raritan River

Drawing shows three boats and a floating lighthouse in a detailed view of the upper bay of the New York harbor from New Jersey. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2000; (DLC/PP-2000:086). Inscribed on item: New ... More

Title page - Drawing. Public domain image.

Illus. in: The Federalist vol. 1 (N.Y. John Tiebout, 1799). See: LCQJ, Spring 1980. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Map of Columbia County, New York : from actual surveys /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 487 Includes ancillary maps of Chatham and Hudson, notes, statistical table, and illustration. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

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

Judge Amosa Parker of N.Y., Glass negative photograph, American Civil ...

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

Judge Emmet of N.Y. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War peri...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Copy neg. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; ... More

Honorable Chas. B. Hoard of N.Y - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More

Judge Amosa Parker of N.Y. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil W...

Reverend McMahon. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Brady N.Y. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More

Honorable Gulian Crommelin Verplanck of N.Y.

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

Jefferson County, New York : from actual surveys /

General-content county map showing towns (townships), rural buildings, and householders' names. Watertown city inset shows wards, buildings, larger real-property tracts (not residential lots), and some landowne... More

Honorable Preston King of N.Y., Glass negative photograph, American Ci...

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

Honorable Fernando Wood of N.Y and Mayor of N.Y.

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

Map of Chenango County, New York : from actual surveys /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 482 Includes statistics and illustrations. Bainbridge -- Coventry -- Greene -- Guilford -- Plan of New Berlin -- Plan of Norwich -- Oxford --... More

Honorable Preston King of N.Y. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civ...

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

Incident in Cherry Valley - fate of Jane Wells / from the original pic...

Jane Wells is pleading for her life, and a man attempts to protect her from an Indian who is about to kill her. House behind them is being burned by Loyalists and Indians led by Major Walter Butler and Mohawk C... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window "The Magnificat" with symbols...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Design drawing for stained glass window "The Carpenter of Nazareth" s...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lying in State at the City Hall, New York [Funeral of Pres. James Monr...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 July 17), p. 457. Ref. copy in PRES FILE - Monroe, James Graves. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr. (3); Cemeteries;... More

[Judson W. Sherman, Representative from New York, Thirty-fifth Congres...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 74. Each item includes subject's origi... More

[Israel T. Hatch, Representative from New York, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

Professor [Thaddeus S.C.] Lowe's mammoth balloon, CITY OF NEW YORK, as...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1859 Nov. 19). Another copy may be in the Landauer Collection, container 33 (A size). Reference copy may be in LOT 4700. This record contains unverified, old da... More

Honorable John Fox of N.Y. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Honorable Edwin Denison Morgan of N.Y.

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

Honorable William Randall Roberts of N.Y.

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

Post Office. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

On mount: American Scenery. New York City. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Van Valkenburgh, Honorable Robert Bruce of New York

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

Honorable Porter Sheldon of N.Y. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Bv't Brig. General Henry E. Tremain, Major in 73rd N.Y. Infantry.

Head and shoulders portrait, facing left, in uniform. No. 5306. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Harrison Grey Fiske, full-length portrait of six month old baby boy, ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: [cross bird cross]. Case: central ribbon with bands. Accompanying note: Harrison Gray Fiske at 6 months. Illegible name on cushion in the case: ... Artist, New York City. Wa... More

U.S. steam boat "Kanawha" - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Shearman & Hart. Copyright deposit, Southern District of N.Y.

Central Park, the lake - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows people riding in carriages, on horseback, and strolling along paths at the lake in New York's Central Park. Copyright number possibly 21942. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale... More

John P. Gaynor, architect...New York..

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Geraty.

Co. G, 93rd N.Y. Infantry, Bealton [i.e., Bealeton], Virginia

No. 459. Brady-Handy Studio. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Militia New York 1863; Civil War, 1861-1865; Vi... More

[J. C. Buttre portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Based on a Brady photograph...

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adj. D.L. Chase i.e. Case, 78th & 102nd NY Infantry

Photograph shows Adjutant Daniel L. Case of 78th New York Infantry Regiment and 102nd New York Infantry Regiment (Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center) Title from unverified information on negative s... More

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of M...

Tobacco label showing full-length portrait of a nude woman draped with diaphanous sheet, floating over landscape. Copyright by Suggett & Kimball.

Ely, Smith Jr. of NY (Mayor of N.Y.C.)

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Starin, Honorable John H. of N.Y. - Public domain portrait print

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

MacDougall, Honorable Clinton Dugald, Rep of N.Y. Capt in 75th N.Y. Vo...

Two men in suits are posing for a picture. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dwight, Honorable Jeremiah Wilbur of NY

A black and white photo of two men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beebe, Honorable Rep. G.M. of N.Y - Public domain portrait print

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: GM Beebe, 29111, Ex MC N.Y., 806 [crossed out]; penciled on emulsion: 1134 [crossed out]. Credit line: Br... More

Bird's eye view of New York and environs.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 594.6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1

End of the poor Funeral from a tenement house in Baxter Street, Five P...

Group of people gathered outside tenement house watch men carry out a coffin; in the street, two boys drag a dog by one leg. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 20 (1865 July 1), p. 225.

Cox, Honorable Rep. Samuel S. of N.Y

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: SS Cox, 29053 [crossed out], 1124, 1172 [crossed out]; penciled on tape: 1841. Credit line: Brady-Handy p... More

His Holiness Pope Pius IX - Public domain portrait engraving

259 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: Aug. 1, 1866 No. 259." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robertson, Wm. C.

Broadway Railroad - the grand elevation of the overground railroad / d...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1866 March 3, pp. 376-377.

The meeting of the waters and vale of Avoca

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1867." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rau, J.

Elevator erected by the Ogdenburgh & Lake Champlain Rail Road Company ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford.

Central Park views. The waterfall after oil painting by H.A. Ferguson,...

5981 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Title, publication statement, and copyright statement appear on "Prang's American Chromos" label mounted on verso. From the se... More

The squatters of New York--Scene near Central Park / sketched by ... E...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13 (1869 June 26), p. 412.

Trotting stallion Tom Moore driven by Danl. Mace: sired by Hambletonia...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6708

Swearing in of U.S. Deputy Marshals and Supervisors of Registry and El...

Crowd of men in courtroom. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 31, 1870 Nov. 19, p. 145.

Parlor, Music room, Library G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y

Stereograph showing the interior of three rooms in succession through open doors. Blind stamped: G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Winter scene in Philadelphia - A drawing of a building with a horse dr...

Print shows a street scene in winter in front of the "Russian Heater Works" at the intersection of "Filbert" and "Twelfth" streets in Philadelphia; includes many pedestrians on the street, the "Twelfth Street P... More

[Interior of Sagamore Hill with chairs before a fireplace]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Deutscher Orden der Harngari...

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1870." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robertson, Wm. C.

[Unidentified woman] / Photographs of Art, Ernsberger & Ray, 83 Genese...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Henry Ward Beecher / from a photograph by Rockwood & Co. of New York.

Print shows Henry Ward Beecher, head-and-shoulders portrait, right porfile. B202 U.S. Copyright Office. Label on back from "The Advance Company" gives title and additional text. Copyright number inscribed in p... More

New York City - improved project of a covered atmospheric elevated rai...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 March 18, p. 1.

Stereotype show bill plate - Walt Whitman - 1872. Whitman's

Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Revising Himself : Walt Whitman" at the Library of Congress, 2005. Exhibited: "Poet of the Body : New York's Walt Whitman" at The G... More

Emigrants leaving Queenstown for New York / M.F.

Emigrants on dock. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 26, pp. 796-797.

[Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, N. Y.]

Stereograph showing interior view of grand parlor or salon with large chandelier and many chairs for guests. On mount: George W. Conkey, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the... More

Crusader - Engraving, Public domain image, engraving, Library of Congr...

Tobacco label showing well-dressed woman. LOT subdivision subject: Fashions. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Color lithograph by Hatch Co., N.Y. Copyright by C. A. Jackson, Co., Petersburg, Va.

["The day we celebrate" 1876] / painted by F.A. Chapman ; engraved by ...

Print shows a large gathering of people picnicking, playing games, and enjoying the Independence Day celebration outdoors among large trees and open lawn, with a distant view of a railroad train passing and of ... More

Main building, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Philadel...

Illus. in: Album of the International exhibition at Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the United States of America. New York : J. Bien, 1875, plate 8. Copyright by Schwarzmann and Pohl.

Judges Hall, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Philadelph...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New York City - The Vanderbilt will contest ...

Print shows Dr. Jared Linsly testifying at a hearing on Cornelius Vanderbilt's mental and physical conditional.

New York City - Our Indian allies - Sioux warriors making purchases on...

Native Americans examining goods inside a shop on Broadway, New York City. Title transcribed from item. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 45, no. 1151 (1877 October 20), p. 105 (top).

Brewers of New York - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

J6060 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tuchfarber.

Poster - The human canon ball - Public domain lithograph

K9060 U.S. Copyright Office 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)

F.C. Bangs as "Daniel Druce" - Public domain print

K11706 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Village blacksmith. Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster ... More

Little music in New York, A - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Gendarme, France, 1853 Cigarette Card

Print shows a French gendarme in 1853, wearing uniform and holding rifle, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes. At head of title: Illust'd Swe... More

Sapper, France, 1853 Cigarette Card

Print shows a French soldier from a corp of engineers in 1853, wearing uniform, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes. At head of title: Illust... More

New York City--the Chanucka celebration by the Young Men's Hebrew Asso...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 3, p. 316.

The city of Buffalo, N.Y. 1880.

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Presidential inauguration, 1881 H.A. Thomas, Lith. 118 Fourth Av. N.Y

Print shows cameo portraits of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to James A. Garfield; includes a black memorial border and additional text. Printed at top of print: "The President is Dead." "But the ... More

Blundering again! / Gillam., Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon

Print shows a group of Democrats on a log raft that is breaking up within sight of land, with two logs labeled "New Jersey [and] New York" coming loose and drifting away; there is a small sail labeled "Democra[... More

Buy Hart's 35 Squeezers, New York Consolidated Card Co.

Humorous illustration. LOT subject: Cards. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Hepenheimer & Maurer. Caption card tracings: Advertisements; Card playing.

Panoramic map of Skaneateles, N.Y.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 635 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2

Theodore Roosevelt - Bottom's dream, Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Puck's stereotypical Irishman labeled "Democracy" in the role of "Bottom" from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", with Puck holding the head of an ass above him. He is holding a paper t... More

The late William H. Vanderbilt / T.A. Butler sc. ; photographed by Bog...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 29, no. 1513 (1885 December 19), p. 845.

Panoramic map of Richfield Springs, N.Y.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 624 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100

"Speak out" N.Y. Herald - Public domain dedication image

President-elect Grover Cleveland holds a telephone receiver to his ear. Behind him on the wall is a portrait of President Chester A. Arthur captioned, "Pres. of U.S. till March 4, 1885." No copyright informati... More

Springfield, Vt. - Print, Library of Congress collection

R11431 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist and P&AGA catalog cards. Associated name on shelflist card: Beck & Pauli. On P&AGA card: Beck & Pauli Litho Milwaukee. Pub.,... More