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Shigemasa Kitao - Yayoi asukayama hanami

Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party beneath blossoming cherry trees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the s... More

[Italian composer in England], Thomas Rowlandson

Drawing showing a caricature of a man playing piano and singing loudly as a bird, possibly a parrot, sings on a windowsill. Title from acquisition records; also referred to as "Italian composer in London" in ac... More

Saga gorō mitsutoki, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

Print shows Mitsutoki wearing protective padded armor from which several arrows are protruding, prostrating himself onboard a Taira ship. He is reporting to "Tomomori", "Emperor Antoku", and others during the ... More

Art gallery, international exhibition, 1876

F2675 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bien, Julius.

Mixed at the finish Thos. Worth

Print shows a collision between two horse-drawn carriages while attempting to enter the same space in a garage; the horses rear and the passengers of the carriages are sent flying. L2735 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Pittsburgh Base Ball Club Cigarette Card

Photograph showing twenty-four uncut cigarette cards depicting baseball players, (Sam Barkley, Art Whitney, Abner Dalrymple, Pop Smith, Alex McKinnon, and Jocko Fields) from the Pittsburgh Alleghenys posing in ... More

[A class visiting the Art Gallery]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "Central High School."

Nocturne in Bruges. Dry plate negative. Museum object.

Photograph of a painting signed "Le Sidaner, Bruges, 18 [...]" at Hackley Art Gallery. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 752. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Sculpture court, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.

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Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, Wis

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "415" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013178. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Adriaen Hanneman - Woman, three-quarter-length portrait

Title devised by cataloger; Caption on negative: Portrait of a lady. Photograph of a painting at Hackley Art Gallery. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 763. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

A full brass band composed of women, heading one of the posts from the...

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Company B, Confederate Veterans, Nashville, Tennessee Giers, Nashville...

Photomontage shows portraits of identified Confederate veterans taken by Giers Art Gallery. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: The Veteran's Attic, Kingston, ... More

Modern European gallery, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [Broo...

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[Corcoran Gallery of Art, east gallery, Washington, D.C.]

Gallery of ceramics and architecture, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and S...

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Main stairway, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Albright Art Gallery, gelatin silver print

J164462 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Irvin Markel; August 7, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44639. Copyright claimant's address: Buffalo, N.Y.

Petrograd. A parade on the Nevsky. The Hermitage Art Gallery. Corner o...

Photograph of the Nevsky Prospect shows parade of soldiers on horseback. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box ... More

Come on in, I have something nice for you

Barnes is an inflated figure seated in "Root Camp," holding a "Renomination for Governor" document behind his back, while motioning to a small Whitman who wears a "Hughes for President" badge and holds rocks, t... More

"Hi, you sure are the noblest mayor of them all"

Benjamin Cunningham bows at the feet of Rochester, New York Mayor Edgerton, who sits on a trunk labeled "Damaged Goods," holding a document marked "Corporation Counsel Appointment." Cunningham reaches for the ... More

In her path / C. D. Gibson. - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows female symbol of Democracy kicking the head of a German soldier labeled "Autocracy" off a cliff as an angelic symbol of peace approaches. Title from Life magazine. Illus. in: Life, 1917 November 8... More

National Gallery of Art. Exhibit room in National Gallery VII

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National Gallery of Art. Roof of National Gallery of Art for Internati...

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National Gallery of Art. Rotunda of National Gallery from east side

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National Gallery of Art. Exhibit room in National Gallery I

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National Gallery of Art. Fountain in rotunda of National Gallery from ...

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National Gallery of Art. Fountain in rotunda of National Gallery from ...

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WPA paintings by Yvonne Twining, Waldo Kaufer, Albert Gold, [and] Fran...

Poster announcing exhibition of paintings at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Date stamped on verso: Dec 16 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Exhibition [of] watercolors

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of watercolors at the Bessemer Gallery, Bessemer Building, 6th & Duquesne Way, Pittsburgh, Pa., showing stylized eagle and palette. Work Projects Administration Poster ... More

Federal art in New England

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of WPA art at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass., showing map of New England. Date stamped on verso: Jul 1 1939. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

WPA exhibition water colors [and] prints, Federal Art Gallery / / HG [...

Poster announcing WPA exhibition of watercolors and prints at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., showing brush, roller and paper or printing plates. Date stamped on verso: May 5 1938. Work P... More

The Joslyn mansion, Omaha, Nebraska. Joslyn, who made his fortune on a...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

University of N.C. Library, Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina

Alternate title: Playmakers' Theater. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1850. Chapel of the Cross, Persons Art Gallery, Campus building. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-6... More

General exhibition - Public domain scan of drawing

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass., showing bust portrait and perspective drawing. Date stamped on verso: Jun 12 1939. Work Projects Administr... More

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Entrance to Kress collection...

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Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Left sculp...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Patio, gen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of women sitting next to each other. Office of War Informatio...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Colonel McBride in office

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Servicemen's lounge

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. East garden court II

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Cafeteria I

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Aerial view looking north, with the National Gallery of Art in the for...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Stylized American flag bleeding in response to the September 11th ter...

Forms part of: Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Exhibited: Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress, 2002.

Mural in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The district, whic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: Lunt. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Con... More

Small businesses in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, Texas. The dis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Keep these off the U.S.A. - Buy more Liberty Bonds / John Norton.

Poster shows bloodstained boots with the German imperial eagle insignia. Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": John Norton's Liberty Bond Poster. While Liberty Bond posters often stressed such positive ... More

'I can't believe my eyes' - Drawing. Public domain image.

Cartoon shows Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Joseph Stalin, resting on a cloud labeled "Communist Paradise," looking down in dismay at Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev leading a funeral procession bearing a c... More

Chief Justice John Marshall, half-length portrait

Title devised by cataloger; Caption on negative: Chief-Justice John Marshall. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Correspond... More

Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More

Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More

[Oh, don't hurt me! cried Tom. I only want to look at you; you are so...

Caption from Drawn to Purpose exhibit: Through the Eyes of a Child. Jessie Willcox Smith employed her keen ability to imagine and evoke the angst and innocent wonder of a child in this breathtaking underwater s... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Yamato hasedera

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Hasedera temple in the Yamato Province. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Shokoku ... More

[Full-length portrait of a woman identified as Emma Cochran?] / from B...

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He felt the net very heavy - Public domain book illustration

Title on verso continues: ... and lifted it out quickly, with Tom all entangled in the meshes. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Water ... More

[Unidentified woman, possibly a nurse, during Civil War] / Townsend & ...

From Cannon's Gallery of Art. No. 3802. 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... More

South gallery, Toledo Museum of Art

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Tizian (Titian) - Francesco Marcolini - M. Pietro Aretino

Print showing the poet Pietro Aretino, full-length portrait from behind, sitting next to tree trunk on the seashore, looking at vision of an angel in the clouds. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate ... More

Index of American Design / RW., Native Americans

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of art work from the "Index of American Design," at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., showing a weather vane in the shape of a Native American. ... More

Can you drive a car?--Will you drive one in France?--Immediate service...

Poster showing Liberty fending off Death as she protects a wounded soldier. American Field Service, 40 State Street, Boston, Mass. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. Exhibited: "The Gibson... More

Abraham Pike House, 230 East Fulton Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, Ke...

Significance: Abraham W. Pike was a prosperous businessman and active public servant in the town of Grand Rapids. This is a good example of ante-bellum Greek Revival style. / Greek Revival. Wood frame; brick ... More

Abraham Pike House, 230 East Fulton Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, Ke...

Significance: Abraham W. Pike was a prosperous businessman and active public servant in the town of Grand Rapids. This is a good example of ante-bellum Greek Revival style. / Greek Revival. Wood frame; brick ... More

H. P. Dyer House, 16055 Sanborn Road, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Significance: Designed as a sophisticated forest residence in 1915, this sandstone and squared redwood timber structure has a veranda with outside fireplace, and a rectangular corner pavilion. The rigidly geom... More

Giovanni Francesco Penni - Martha and Mary Magdalene before Christ / M...

Print shows Martha presenting her sister Mary Magdalene to Jesus, who reaches his arm out to greet them. Several others are seated on the steps around Jesus. Title provided by researcher 10/2017. Alternate tit... More

Glen Echo Park, Arcade, 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Montgomer...

Significance: Built during the last, major construction campaign in the amusement park at Glen Echo, the Arcade was modeled after the adjoining Administration Building designed by Philadelphia architect Edward ... More

Familiar ghosts! Sketch 1. Ghost of a village lawyer!!

A lawyer, appearing as a full-length, profile figure of a well-dressed man with a large head, wearing a three-cornered hat, speaks to a peasant wearing a smock and clutching a pitchfork. Inscribed above the law... More

The Leaders favorite chewing A&E manufactured by Allen & Ellis / Chica...

Print shows an interior view of "The Leader Tobacco Works" at "37 River Street, Chicago" with young women and men sorting, selecting, drying, and preparing tobacco products. B7708 U.S. Copyright Office. Upper ... More

[Life was made for love and cheer]

Illustration depicts Green, her colleagues and housemates Jessie Willcox Smith and Violet Oakley, and other friends enjoying one another's company amid the blossoms on the grounds of the Red Rose Inn, one of th... More

He looked up at the broad yellow moon and thought that she looked at h...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916. E... More

He looked up at the broad yellow moon and thought that she looked at h...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916. E... More

[Full-length portrait of an African-American man, possibly a Buffalo s...

Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV51 ;Buffalo soldiers. "Pictures copied and enlarged to any size" printed on back of the mount. "8095" printed on back o... More

South Street Seaport Museum, 213-215 Water Street, New York, New York ...

Significance: This Italianate cast iron and stone warehouse for tins and metals was designed by the renowned New York City architect Stephen D. Hatch in 1868 for A. A. Thompson & Co. The South Street Seaport Mu... More

J. Paul Getty Museum, Ranch House, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu...

Significance: The Getty property, including the Ranch House, was originally part of an early nineteenth century Spanish land grant. In the 1920s, Claude I. Parker, a Los Angeles attorney, purchased a portion o... More

J. Paul Getty Museum, Ranch House, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu...

Significance: The Getty property, including the Ranch House, was originally part of an early nineteenth century Spanish land grant. In the 1920s, Claude I. Parker, a Los Angeles attorney, purchased a portion o... More

J. Paul Getty Museum, Ranch House, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu...

Significance: The Getty property, including the Ranch House, was originally part of an early nineteenth century Spanish land grant. In the 1920s, Claude I. Parker, a Los Angeles attorney, purchased a portion o... More

J. Paul Getty Museum, Ranch House, 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu...

Significance: The Getty property, including the Ranch House, was originally part of an early nineteenth century Spanish land grant. In the 1920s, Claude I. Parker, a Los Angeles attorney, purchased a portion o... More

Henry Art Gallery, Fifteenth Avenue Northeast at Northeast Campus Park...

Significance: The Horace C. Henry Art Gallery was the first public art museum in the state of Washington. Funds for the building construction and its initial collection were donated to the University of Washin... More

Vista del Arroyo Hotel, Bungalow A, 125 South Grand Avenue, Pasadena, ...

Significance: The Vista del Arroyo bungalows are significant as an integral part of the hotel complex, of which the main building is the centerpiece. Historically, the hotel-bungalow idea, originated in Pasade... More

Des Moines Art Center, Greenwood Park, Des Moines, Polk County, IA

Significance: The earlier portion of the building is a major work of Eliel Saarinen near the end of his career. The construction of this building provided the City of Des Moines with an excellent art gallery. ... More

Walsh-Mclean House, 2020 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, D...

Significance: Originally a private residence, this detached structure with Louis XVI details is most conspicuous for its art-nouveau undulating walls and roof; its galleried and sky-lit, three story, "steamship... More

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...

Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...

Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More

Capt. R. Headen / Ball & Thomas, Photographic Art Gallery, 120 W. 4th ...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Capt. Robert Headen, Company E, 12th U.S. Colored Infantry. Title from ink inscription on front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52; Capt. Robert Hea... More

Corcoran Art Gallery, Northeast corner of Seventeenth Street & Pennsyl...

Significance: The Corcoran Art Gallery was erected in 1859-61 by William Wilson Corcoran, Washington banker and philanthropist as a gallery for his private collection; the building was designed by James Renwick... More

Corcoran Art Gallery, Northeast corner of Seventeenth Street & Pennsyl...

Significance: The Corcoran Art Gallery was erected in 1859-61 by William Wilson Corcoran, Washington banker and philanthropist as a gallery for his private collection; the building was designed by James Renwick... More

Ouka no nibijin - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows two women standing beneath a blossoming cherry tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hashirae Nishikie. Forms pa... More

Higurashi no sato jiin no rinsen Andō Hiroshige

Print shows sightseers walking among the blossoming trees in the temple gardens at Nippori. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the s... More

[Unidentified man in overcoat with hat and gloves] / Seely's Art Galle...

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

Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Philadelph...

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 9. Copyright by Schwarzmann & Pohl, architects.

The fire at the Union League Club house last Sunday morning The new Al...

First print shows scenes at the clubhouse after a fire including: the staircase, where the fire started, the art gallery, covered art and furniture, workers shoveling debris, and a copy of Jaspar Cropsey's pain... More

[The Glypothek (Art Gallery), Munich, Bavaria, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1287". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

Narcoti-cure Cures the tobacco habit in from 4 to 10 days ; Price $5.0...

Art nouveau poster advertisement for the Narcoti Chemical Co., Springfield, Mass., announcing cure for the tobacco habit, showing a demon or devil-like tobacco plant being skewered by a knight on horseback. "Bo... More

Corner of sculpture hall, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Poster calendar 1897 / Edward Penfield.

Poster shows an artist painting as a cat, sitting on the table, watches. Calendar "Published by R.H. Russell & Son, New York" Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1897. Exhibited in: Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, National Gal... More

Portrait of a Lady - Public domain portrait engraving

Photograph of a painting by a member of the Clouet School at Hackley Art Gallery. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M745. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Landscape. Dry plate negative. Museum object.

Photograph of a painting by Alexander H. Wyant in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Listed in Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029887. Gift; State Historical Society ... More

Walter Elmer Schofield - Morning after snow

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting signed "Schofield, '03" at Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029934. Gift; State Historical Societ... More

Albright Art Gallery, Delaware Park, Buffalo, N.Y.

Modern American gallery, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [Broo...

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