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William R. King - Public domain portrait engraving

William R. King - Public domain portrait engraving

Engraving by W.H. Dougal after daguerreotype by Whitehurst. Illus. in: United States. Congress (33rd, 1st session : 1853-1854). Obituary addresses on the occasion of the death of Hon. William R. King, of Alabam... More

Two newspaper articles announcing Houdini's death on October 31, 1926

Two newspaper articles announcing Houdini's death on October 31, 1926

Houdini died of peritonitis resulting from appendicitis on October 31, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Newspapers throughout the country carried the news of his death in articles whose length attested to the bread... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Draft of Harold Clayton Urey obituary for Icarus

Draft of Harold Clayton Urey obituary for Icarus

Draft of obituary written by Sagan for one of his mentor's Harold Clayton Urey. Sagan discusses Urey's contributions to the field of planetary science and recounts how he met Urey while he was a student at the ... More

Portrait photograph of Pile, R.L, C.M.Bell Studio

Portrait photograph of Pile, R.L, C.M.Bell Studio

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Photo shows Robert L. Pile who was on the National Guard Rifle team that won the P... More

San Francisco Chinese funeral /

San Francisco Chinese funeral /

This film shows most of the ceremonial portion of the funeral procession of Tom Kim Yung (1858-1903), military attache to the Chinese Legation to the United States. The funeral procession took place at 1:00 pm ... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Mrs. Minnie E. Brooke, of Chevy Chase, Md., an experienced suffrage speaker and organizer, who is to have charge of the street meetings for the Woman's Party in Chicago.  Mrs. Brooke plans to hold the street meetings continuously in all parts of the city day and night from now until election day.

Mrs. Minnie E. Brooke, of Chevy Chase, Md., an experienced suffrage sp...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, of Minnie E. Brooke of Chevy Chase, Maryland, wearing a hat, earrings, necklace, and open-collared... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union frock coat and forage cap with bayoneted musket and revolver]

[Unidentified soldier in Union frock coat and forage cap with bayonete...

Case: Berg, no. 3-161. Additional information in collections file. Formerly identified as John Wunderlich of Company C, 183rd Ohio Infantry, based on obituary for Laura A. Wonderlich found with photograph. Rese... More

[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment holding wooden canteen, with lock of hair, obituary, and poem in case]

[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment ho...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Included in the case are a lock of hair tied with a pink ribbon, a published obituary, and a published poem "My Brother's Grave" by Dan Ashby. Handwritten on poem: "Father"... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Obituary notice. Died at Quincy, the 28th October, 1818, Mrs. Abigail Adams, consort of the Hon. John Adams late president of the United States. [n. p. 1818].

Obituary notice. Died at Quincy, the 28th October, 1818, Mrs. Abigail ...

On verso: Transfer. Shaw Papers. Manuscript Div. 8 June 1951. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... More

Charles Norton Hemiup, Geneva lawyer obituary

Charles Norton Hemiup, Geneva lawyer obituary

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

[Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen] - Public domain portrait drawing

[Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen] - Public domain portrait drawing

Memorial bust portrait drawing of Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen, director of the National Library for the Blind in Washington, DC. In 1897 when the Library of Congress set aside a special room for the blind, she to... More

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Now the property of the Arizona Historical Society, the house museum is former home of Eugene Francis "E.F." Sanguinetti, once lauded as "the Merchant Prince of Yuma." His obituary called him "a super merchant ... More

[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment holding wooden canteen, with lock of hair, obituary, and poem in case]

[Private James W. McCulloch of Co. E, 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment ho...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Included in the case are a lock of hair tied with a pink ribbon, a published obituary, and a published poem "My Brother's Grave" by Dan Ashby. Handwritten on poem: "Father"... More

Draft of Harold Clayton Urey obituary for Icarus

Draft of Harold Clayton Urey obituary for Icarus

Draft of obituary written by Sagan for one of his mentor's Harold Clayton Urey. Sagan discusses Urey's contributions to the field of planetary science and recounts how he met Urey while he was a student at the ... More

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Remembered, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Remembered, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Clippings relating to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's death on October 26, 1902, include obituary and notice of Geneva Political Equality Club memorial meeting on day of Stanton's funeral and " In Memoriam"

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

[Captain Alexander Dixon Payne of Co. H, 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, with sword]

[Captain Alexander Dixon Payne of Co. H, 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Berg, no. 3-159. Middle name listed as Charles in American Civil War Research Database; the middle name on his grave in Warrenton Cemetery, Virginia, and in his obitu... More

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Leonard Mackall House, 1686 Thirty-Fourth Street, Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: The Leonard Mackall House derives its primary significance as a prominently sited Second Empire-style house incorporating a smaller characteristic tension in Georgetown houses between the main nor... More

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the sk...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Now the property of the Arizona Historical Society, the house museum is former home of Eugene Francis "E.F." Sanguinetti, once lauded as "the Merchant Prince of Yuma." His obituary called him "a super merchant ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Death and funeral, 1939; Obituary notice, Royal Society, London, England, 1940
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Sled dogs push off in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Sled dogs push off in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski reso...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the sk...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Offprints
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Offprints
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, collected materials
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, collected materials
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper

Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper

A draft of an obituary Carl Sagan wrote for Gerard Kuiper for Icarus, a journal focusing on solar system studies which Carl Sagan was editor. The draft presents an overview of Kuiper's accomplishments and a rev... More

[Obituary of Mrs. Sara Abbott Woods Perry who died Oct. 27, 1897].

[Obituary of Mrs. Sara Abbott Woods Perry who died Oct. 27, 1897].

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 19, Folder 47.

Handlers unhitch sled dogs after a run in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Handlers unhitch sled dogs after a run in the Rocky Mountain backcount...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Now the property of the Arizona Historical Society, the house museum is former home of Eugene Francis "E.F." Sanguinetti, once lauded as "the Merchant Prince of Yuma." His obituary called him "a super merchant ... More

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Now the property of the Arizona Historical Society, the house museum is former home of Eugene Francis "E.F." Sanguinetti, once lauded as "the Merchant Prince of Yuma." His obituary called him "a super merchant ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Death and funeral, 1939; Obituary notice, Royal Society, London, England, 1940
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Truby, Henry M
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Offprints
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Death and funeral, 1939; Obituary notice, Royal Society, London, England, 1940
Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Death and funeral, 1939; Obituary notice, Royal Society, London, England, 1940
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Johney Reb, American Civil War.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Johney Reb, American Civil War.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows unidentified Confederate prisoner of war at Fort Lookout in tattered and torn uniform. Handwritten on verso: "A reble [sic] prisoner getting his likeness taken to send home." Place of producti... More

Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper

Draft of obituary for Gerard Kuiper

A draft of an obituary Carl Sagan wrote for Gerard Kuiper for Icarus, a journal focusing on solar system studies which Carl Sagan was editor. The draft presents an overview of Kuiper's accomplishments and a rev... More

The gospel messenger. vol. IV. No. 32 Auburn [N.Y.] Monday, September 13, 1830.

The gospel messenger. vol. IV. No. 32 Auburn [N.Y.] Monday, September ...

Contains obituary of John Henry Hobart by John C. Rudd. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More

Obituary. Song sheet - Public domain song sheet
In Memoriam; Elizabeth Smith Miller by A. S. B. [Alice Stone Blackwell]

In Memoriam; Elizabeth Smith Miller by A. S. B. [Alice Stone Blackwell...

Elizabeth Smith Miller Obituary, who died May 22, 1911.Describes life with her father Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York, her wearing of the bloomer costume in 1851; writing a cookbook; suffrage activities; ho... More

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Sled dogs get a breather in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the sk...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado

Each sled dog has its own kennel in the Rocky Mountain backcountry nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves... More

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Scene at the Sanguinetti House & Gardens in Yuma, Arizona

Now the property of the Arizona Historical Society, the house museum is former home of Eugene Francis "E.F." Sanguinetti, once lauded as "the Merchant Prince of Yuma." His obituary called him "a super merchant ... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Subject File, 1856-1988; Death and funeral, 1939; Obituary notice, Royal Society, London, England, 1940
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: Literary File, 1841-1919; Prose, 1841-1892; 1890; Dec. 13 , "An Engineer's Obituary," Engineering Record; Printed copy
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Family correspondence
The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an obituary notice of the writer, and two letters from Tallahassee, relating to the treatment of slaves

The narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's letters from Natchez,--an ...

Dresser's narrative gives an account of his trial and whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti-slavery literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. With: American Anti... More

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