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[4 illus. of Indians: warrior in armor; woman grinding maize; woman we...

Illus. in: Samuel Champlain, Voyages et Descouvertes..., 1619, fol. 87 verso. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Misc.... More

[Benjamin Johnson, English actor, head-and-shoulders portrait facing s...

Signed and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[America, 1772 - title page ornamentation showing Native wearing skirt...

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ornament for title page of The Columbian Magazine for the year 1789]

Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for James Trenchard, 1789 (March), title page. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 176... More

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

Print of ornament on the title page of the Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine shows a female figure representing America sitting amid abundance while enjoying the prosperity of peace. Illus. in: The unive... More

Wakamatsuya uchi midorigi, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Aiban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Paper hanging 43 - Public domain dedication image

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Forty Three. Ground imitating a drapery, shaded and lighted by stripes and ornaments in sections of a circle, printed in grey and wh... More

Kaidan o noboru yūjo, Eizan Kikukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Paper hanging 68]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design accompanied by printed label describing the pattern: "Number Sixty Eight. Design of double columns, ornamented with grapes and vine leaves. Another part ornamented with losanges, placed horizon... More

Nihonzutsumi no rakugan tamaya uchi Tamagushi

Print shows Tamagushi, a courtesan, full-length portrait, with several hairpins, seated, reading a scroll; picture hanging on the wall above her shows geese descending on the Nihon embankment. Title and other d... More

Oiran, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows an oiran, a high-class courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: S... More

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Hanao of Ōgi-ya, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with attendant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: on... More

[A woman, possibly a courtesan, seated, facing right, with her head tu...

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

Crimson fronted Purple Finch / Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R....

Print shows bird on flowering pea vine surrounded by border of vines, birds, a woman, and a bird's nest. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

K. William Ye Conqueror del. et sculp. G. Vertue

William I or 'William the Conqueror', King of England, bust portrait, facing front, holding sword, with ornaments and vignette of Brittania in supplication below. Signed on plate. Illus. from: History of Englan... More

P.S. Duval's lithograhpic & color printing estab! Artizans Building Ra...

Print shows a design for an advertisement for P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed as an illuminated manuscript leaf with large ornamental initial letter "D" showing a... More

[Panel and medallion details from bronze doors for the east portico of...

Photograph of bronze doors detail showing panel, depicting ovation for George Washington at Trenton, New Jersey, and allegorical medallion of peace and agriculture, from bottom of left valve. In album: Benjamin... More

[Panel and medallion details from bronze doors for the east portico of...

Photograph of bronze doors detail showing panel, depicting the battle of Yorktown and gallantry of Alexander Hamilton, and allegorical medallion of war, depicting Hessian soldier and New Jersey farmer, from bot... More

Sugimotoya no kakae oume - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a woman seated on the floor holding a puppet portraying a woman, possibly the shopkeeper Oume of Sugimoto-ya. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Catedral de Burgos. Puerta alta de la Coroneria

Door to the cathedral, showing portal with elaborate carvings and statues. In album: Spain, p.3. No. 88. Tear on photograph.

Catedral de Toledo. Puerta del Berruguete. Paso del claustro à la cate...

Door, designed by Berruguete, in passageway between cloisters and cathedral. In album: Spain, p. 13. No. 573.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 32.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kassima [sic] ibni Abassa...

Antiquities of Samarkand. Creator: Bogaevskīĭ, N. V., photographer The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a... More

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 38.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 60.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 55.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vnutrennii dvor (zap. stor...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 92.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medresse [sic] Ulug Bek. Glavnyi fasad (vost...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 109.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medresse [sic] Ulug Bek. Glavnyi fasad (vost...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 109.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vnutrennii dvor (vos: stor...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 96.

Samarkandskie [sic] drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar vnutrenyii [sic] dvor....

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 93.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Mavzolei Emira Timura Kuragana (Guremir [sic...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 119.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vnutrennii dvor (vos: stor...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 96.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medresse [sic] Tillia-Kari. Glavnyi fasad. (...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 101.

No. 41 fountain, bronzed, 10 feet 4 inches high

Photograph showing ornamental ironwork fountain with putti and cranes on the pedestal. F1781 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Illustrated catalogue, ornamental iron fountains / J.W. Fiske, manufacturer of orn... More

Shinto funeral ornaments - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Warriors with spears in ornamented war canoe

Canoe appears to be Solomon Islands type. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Elihu Vedder - [Corrupt legislation]

Design drawing for lunette mural in the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building main reading room shows corrupt legislation symbolized by a scantily clothed woman holding half of a scale onto which a weal... More

Grand staircase, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S.A

84265 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by 1899 by J. F. Jarvis. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York; London; Toronto-Canada; Ottawa-Kansas. No. 1.

Grand staircase from vestibule Congressional Library, Washington, D.C

V prokhodi︠e︡ mertvykh. Samarkand

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vid s Tilli︠a︡-Kari na Samarkand

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Obshchīĭ vid m. Shakh-Zinde sli︠e︡va ot vkhod...

In album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 44. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Proku... More

Shakh-Zinde. Kupola. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public dom...

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

Bibi-Khanym. Detalʹ si︠e︡vero-vostochnoĭ storony. Samarkand

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ėti︠u︡d v m. Shakh-Zinde. Samarkand

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

Detalʹ naruzhnoĭ sti︠e︡ny s li︠e︡voĭ storony u vykhoda iz prokhoda mer...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Murals and ornamental frieze on ceiling of foyer in the New Theater, ...

J136200 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Maria Gay, full-length portrait, standing, facing left; as Aida in co...

Copyright by A. Dupont. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nikolʹskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ v Makarʹevskom monastyri︠e︡

Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

g. Vladimīr. Dmitrīevskīĭ sobor s vostoka

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Uspenskii ̆soborʹ s♭ vostochnoi ̆storony. [Vladimir]

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Dahchihtok--Nunivak

Dahchihtok, Eskimo woman, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing nose ornament and labrets. J299921 U.S. Copyright Office. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: T... More

Joyce Estate, Greenhouse, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 miles ...

Significance: ... the Greenhouse was built in the early 1920s to provide ornamental shrubs and flowers for landscaping the grounds. David Gage Joyce's probate file, compiled in 1938, itemizes a "greenhouse" as... More

Jeremiah Sullivan Building, 1331 Thirty-fifth Street Northwest, Washin...

Significance: This is a highly ornamented, late nineteenth century, multipurpose, commercial structure. Its unusual facade has remained unaltered since its construction. Survey number: HABS DC-202 Building... More

Joyce Estate, Metal Garage, Chippewa National Forest Road 2144, 3 mile...

Significance: ... the Metal Garage was constructed at the south end of Trout Lake "in the early 1930s," and was subsequently moved to its present location at the north end of the Caretaker's Compound. Its relo... More

33 Hayne Street (Commercial Building), Charleston, Charleston County, ...

Significance: A mid-19th century (built c. 1850) cast-iron commercial building with interesting architectural features and ornamental details. Survey number: HABS SC-308 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Ini... More

Hiss Tower, 5400-5420 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Cou...

Significance: This building represents a classic Moderne type of the 1920s and 1930s. A central tower is presented as an attenuated vertical block where the scale is deceptively presented so that one is not aw... More

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. Young w...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Decorated gravemarker on All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Note t...

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

Splane, Washington, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

St. James' Hotel, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1840. Now Market warehouse. Three story brick masonry. Two story porch. Ornamental iron work. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11833-24. Cr... More

White migrant woman finishing an ornament made of horns. They depend u...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch, Building...

See HABS No. IN-306 for overview documentation. Additional individual building documentation in HABS No. IN-306-A through HABS No. IN-306-AR. STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Building No. 24 was... More

Migrant worker who makes ornaments from horns. He is filing down a woo...

Frederick G. Necker, business at 3410 Broadway, New York City. Church ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Merritt Parkway, Morehouse Highway Bridge, Spanning Merritt Parkway, F...

Significance: The bridges of the Merritt Parkway were predominately inspired by the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles of the 1930s. Experimental forming techniques were employed to create the orname... More

Church of the Epiphany (1684-93), east facade, with decorative ceramic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kalinin house (early 20th century), facade decoration, Belozersk, Russ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior, Church of the Transfig...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tokareva house, built around 1900, detail of main facade, Perm', Russi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Log house, Nikitin Street #15 (at corner of Belinskii Street), (early ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Second Floor, Northwest Pavilion. View of frieze showing carved lion'...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Lobby to Main Reading Room. Government mural by Elihu Vedder. Library...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. View of ceiling, displaying sculpture, painting and alumi...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Main Reading Room. Detail of voluted keystone and sculpted dome friez...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. Detail of ceiling and cove showing Moses and Herodotus pl...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[House Members Room. Light of Poetry (red) panel in the Spectrum of Li...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Librarian's Room. Detail of stucco reliefs around dome. Library of Co...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Librarian's Room. Detail of stucco reliefs around dome. Library of Co...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

OAS Building, 17th St. and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

Completed in 1910 and considered the architectural wonder of its time. The building was designed and constructed to serve as the headquarters of what today is the world's oldest regional organization, the Organ... More

Auditorium detail [Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas]

Title devised by Library staff based on similarity to other images of the Jefferson Theatre. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congre... More

Animals at Shelburne Farms, a nonprofit education center and working f...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The property is nationally significant as a well-preserved example of a Gilded Age "ornamental farm", developed in the late 19th centu... More

Phelps House, 329 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, San Francisco Coun...

Significance: Represents an exotic intrusion into the simple early traditions of the city and is often referred to as the oldest frame house in San Francisco. Its Louisiana oriented ( and it came from the area ... More

Civil War envelope folded from wallpaper to William H. Branch

Addressed to Wm. H. Branch Esqr., Tallahassee, Florida; postmarked Warrenton, N.C.; bears 10 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Patricia A. Kaufman, Lincoln, Delaware, June 2018... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Obrazt︠s︡y mozaichnykh sti︠e︡n v Shakh-Zinde....

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 75.... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Detalʹ naruzhnoĭ sti︠e︡ny s li︠e︡voĭ storony ...

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Kupol mecheti Gur-Ėmir s vostochnoĭ storony. ...

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sartskīĭ dom. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda, ...

Three men posed on porch. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian ... More

Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial, Chapel, Rue du General Per...

Significance: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery & Memorial is one of eight overseas World War I cemeteries redesigned and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), a federal agency created ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, 50...

See also HABS WI-303 (A-E) and HABS WI-360 (A-U) for additional documentation. Significance: The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was established in 1865 as the first federal-level institut... More

Walter Luther Dodge House, 950 North Kings Road, West Hollywood Distri...

Significance: The Dodge House is an unusually well-preserved example of the architecture of Irving Gill; it is a culmination of his genius, a rare example of the early manifestations of the International Style,... More

The Scotch series, together with a showing of initials, ornaments and ...

Also available in digital form.

Walter Luther Dodge House, 950 North Kings Road, West Hollywood Distri...

A jolly jingle book,

Ornamental borders and illustrated lining-papers. Also available in digital form.

Missæ octo vocvm, cvm dvplici basso ad organum accomodato

For cantus primi chori, altus primi chori, tenor primi chori, bassvs primi chori, cantus secunda, altus secunda, tenor secunda, basses secunda, and organ. Title from cantvs primi chori. Title within ornamental ... More

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