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Miniature, leaf (4) recto - showing God, angels and graveyard above co...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4443-H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Death; Incunabula; RBD; Shelf.

[Bien Avisé, Mal Avisé (Morality play) [from old catalog]]Bien Aduise ...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, medieval or early renaissance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 17...

Design drawing shows two men in basket steering balloon by manipulation of a sail. A ladder connects the balloon to a parachute-style apparatus intended for safe descent where a third man handles the connection... More

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (... More

Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...

Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More

Vue générale de Paris, Landscape view print

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Aubrun et Jacottet.

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More

The Nativity, a metal cut from Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, a Book of...

Illus. in: Book of Hours by Philippe Pigouchet. See LC Christmas card #13R71. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Paris. Panthéon / E. Baldus. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 29. 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 o... More

Paris. Panorama des Tuileries et du Louvre Charles Rivière del. et lit...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of Paris, France, with the Tuileries Palace, the Louvre, the Seine River, Notre Dame, and other buildings, with gardens in the foreground, and pedestrians throughout. Printed on l... More

Paris Commune: Deputes de Paris

Deputies of Paris Photo by E. Appert, Paris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Le ballon captif de la cour des Tuileries, construit par M. Giffard, i...

Broadside announcing one of Henri Giffard's balloon ascensions in 1878 and 1879 from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris. Includes picture of the captive balloon floating over the courtyard. Tissandier collection.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de la cour des Tuileries / Yves & Barret,...

Broadside announcing the ascension of Henri Giffard's giant captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris, probably during the Paris Exposition of 1878. Includes picture of the giant balloon statio... More

[M. Eiffel, our artist's latest tour de force, June 29, 1889] / Linley...

Caricature of Gustav Eiffel in the form of the Eiffel Tower, which he built for the Exposition universelle in Paris in 1889. A balloon is in the background. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82). Illus. fo... More

[Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Arc de Triomp...

Tissandier Collection. Public domain photograph of French city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sculpture exhibited in Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of Pavilion of Cochinchine showing products on display, Pari...

Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eiffel Tower and Fountain Coutan with Trocadéro Palace in background,...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sculpture of woman with rifle holding wounded soldier, Palace of Fin...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Railroad train at the Paris Exposition, 1889]

Albert Tissandier Collection. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pavilion of Venezuela, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[People on "a street in Cairo" in front of Moroccan café, Paris Exposi...

Photograph attributed to Lévy Phot. in: Rapport général / Albert Picard. Originals in PR12, LOT 6634.

Entrance to exhibit in the Palace of Diverse Industries, Paris Exposit...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The cathedral, near the east railway station, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1156". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[The Louvre, a gallery in the Louvre, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1129". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Don Quichotte, bouffonnerie équestre: Nouveau cirque, 251 rue St. Hono...

Circus poster for an equestrian performance showing Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

Trocadero entrance to the exposition, colonial section in foreground, ...

Bird's-eye view of exposition grounds, with Eiffel Tower in mid-ground, 1900, Paris, France. D14050 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11725. Copyright by B.L. Singley. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 190... More

[France - Paris - L'Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile; variety of horse-draw...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Georgia Negro] Illiteracy. - Exposition Universelle International...

Graph shows percentage of illiterate African Americans from 1860 to 1900. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris ... More

[France - Paris - Looking down Rue Royale]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Typical Parisian conrner with kiosk (Paris)

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

Mme. J.J. Jusserand - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Elise Richards Jusserand, born in Paris, France to American parents, who became the wife of Jean Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States during World War I. (Source: Flickr Comm... More

[Women's fashions: Paris fashion, May 1911: polka-dot sleeves and hem]

Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI Works... More

Pres't. Poincare & King of Spain, May 1913

Photo shows Raymond Poincare, President of France and King Alfonso of Spain at a meeting in Paris. (Source: New York Times and Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Hospital of Baroness D'Ephresee, Paris

Photograph shows the hospital probably of Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild in Paris during world War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

The delivery of letters from home is a great event. Giving out mail to...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name from caption card or negative sleeve for LC-A6199-3738. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. ... More

Genuine jazz for the yankee wounded In the courtyard of a Paris hospit...

Photograph shows African American musicians in the 369th Infantry Regiment band led by James Reese Europe. "No. 800-S8." In album: Pershing, John J., collector. Views and activities of military import, 1902-21... More

CHATEAU DE GRAND VAL. Sucy-en-Brie. Country home for refugee children ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Children's Work. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 19... More

At the Gare de Lyons, Paris. This little refugee stands manfully on th...

Watching the luggage Gare de Lyon. Refugee from vicinity of Meaux. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group ti... More

Sample of American Red Cross kitchen wagon on exhibition at the Grand ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Ryan, 5-18. Group title: Portable Equipment. Gift; American National Red Cross 19... More

Surgical dressings, 118 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris. American Red Cro...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Group title: Surgical dressings. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

Paris. A French Mutile before being fitted with a mask made by Mrs. An...

Caption from negative sleeve: Mutiles, Ladd. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Colin [Joseph A. Collin] On caption ... More

An Ambulance rebuilt to accommodate officers on leave in Paris. Photo ...

Caption from negative or negative sleeve: Transportation. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: [George E.] Marshall. G... More

Nadia Boulanger and her class, Paris, 1923

from left to right: Eyvind Hesselberg; unidentified; Robert Delaney; unidentified; Nadia Boulanger; Aaron Copland; Mario Braggiotti; Melville Smith; unidentified; Armand Marquint. [note for editor: Copland/Perl... More

Champ de Mars and the Eiffel Tower from the Trocadero Palace, Paris, F...

Copyright by the Keystone View Co., No. 3190; no copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: France Paris Eiffel Tower; France Paris [1931]; Photog. In... More

Inflation. "The Street of Speculators" during the "Mississippi Bubble"...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Mississippi, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Azimuthal equidistant projection centered on Paris, 48⁰52ʹN., 2⁰20ʹE. ...

Public domain document scan of map of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada, with a focus on Las Vegas Strip casi...

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

Plaza Theater, Paris, Texas. Photogrpah by John Margolies

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada, with a focus on Las Vegas Strip casi...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in 2001. Title, date, subject note, an... More

Victory Day celebration, July 14, 1919, Arch of Triumph, Paris

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18775. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Helena und Paris. Libretto. German. Published in Berlin.

die Musik ist vom Herrn Kapellmestier Winter. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Libretto by Förg, after Calzabigi -- New Grove. Performers' names not given.

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, June 9, 1895

Available text: Transcription Public domain photograph of correspondence, letter, manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Anatole of Paris - Public domain music sheet scan

A collection of lyric sheets. (General) This piece was used in the film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (General) Multiple copies are found at the end of the folder. (General)

[Portrait of Bricktop (Ada Smith du Conge), Paris]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXVII F 29. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebriti... More

Les Ballets Russes a Paris, Mai 1917 [Souvenir Program]

Contains list of season's repertory; drawings by Léon Bakst and Pablo Picasso; costume designs for Parade; Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur; and Contes Russes; program information for numerous ballets; and photograph... More

Le tricolore, Tissandier Collection, France

Print shows the French "Le Tricolore" balloon in the colors of the French flag with three passengers, possibly Jules Duruof, his wife, and another man, standing in the basket during an ascension in Paris, June ... More

Anglo & London Paris National Bank, One Sansome Street, San Francisco,...

Significance: One of a group of historically and architecturally important bank buildings in downtown San Francisco. Within this group, it is particularly notable for is monumental size, prominent location, and... More

Seconde suite destampes, pour servir a` lhistoire des modes, et du c...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 18th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old Country Jail, Village Green, Paris, Oxford County, ME

Suggested address, Village Green, is not verifiable in documentation. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-30 Survey number: HABS ME-37 Building/structure dates: 1822- 1828 Initial... More

Atelier de Mr. Lachambre fabricant de ballons de baudruche, aerostats,...

Drawing shows the interior of Henri Lachambre's balloon manufacturing facility, with balloon bags and maquettes of various sizes. Four women at the right sew balloon fabric. Tissandier collection.

[The Pantheon and the rue Soufflot, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1160". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Arènes du sport aéronautique sous la direction de Eugène Godard ainé i...

Lithograph mounted on letterpress poster. Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at Londo...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available als... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Print shows a man playing a bagpipe, behind him lies a lion on a chain which is draped over his right arm, his left foot rests on a gameboard, at the far end of which is a peg with string attached, the string r... More

Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet...

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries after the storming the Bastille, when late in the afternoon, Governor De Launay, of the Bastille, is arrested and taken away, on the lower left, at the beginning of the Revo... More

Mr. Denon unrolling a mummy - Public domain drawing

Print shows Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon unwrapping a mummy on a table with several guests observing and a woman seated on the left sketching the scene, in a parlor presumably at Mr. Denon's residence. Two men ... More

Tivoli. Le dimanche 22 aout, 1824, grand fete extraordinaire a l'occas...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Jean Margat, August 22, 1824, Tivoli, Paris, at a festival on the occasion of St. Louis Day. Text indicates Margat will stand on an oblong platform below a ... More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin ...

Paris - Le Luxembourg / A. Giroudon.

Photograph shows the people walking through Luxembourg Garden with the Palace of Luxembourg in the background. No. 1057. X.Phot. Blind stamped on photograph: A. Giroudon, Rue des Beaux Arts, Paris

Paris Exposition, view from ground level of the Eiffel tower with Pari...

Photo shows a view looking through the base of the Eiffel Tower toward the Central Dome of the Palais des industries at the Exposition universelle de 1889, in Paris, with pedestrians walking in the foreground.

[Sculpture exhibited in Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Egyptian house in the History of Habitation exhibit, Paris Exposition...

Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward altar piece from the Church ...

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

[Fountain Coutan looking toward the Palace of Liberal Arts, Paris Expo...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Press Pavilion, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Stairway with statue of woman holding light fixture (lampadaire) in t...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fountain Coutan, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Actor from Theatre Annamite, full-length portrait, in costume, Paris ...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three actors from Theatre Annamite, full-length portrait, in costumes...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View toward Pavilion of Algeria, showing passenger train and station ...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pavilion of Algeria, showing people looking into building, Paris Expo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an ancient city, historic place, stone buildings architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Notre Dame, and St. Michael bridge, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1161". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Paris and the Commune - An old poster advertising a carnival in the ci...

W27594 U.S. Copyright Office "Invented & introduced by Pain of London." At head of title: Manhattan Beach. Caption: Gilmore's Band. Created by "Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical pos... More

New York - Paris race drivers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

U.S. sailors in Paris - Public domain portrait photograph

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prince Charles Louis de Bourbon & Mr. Tourrand in front of the steam o...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf. Buses France.

New York - Paris race: Roberts in Thomas car

Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

New York - Paris race: Drivers of German car, New York

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

New York - Paris race: Dedion car at Utica, New York State

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

Alfred Stieglitz - A snapshot: Paris (1911)

Print shows street scene with woman walking in foreground and man carrying ladder. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 41, January 1913, plate I. Copyright by Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photog... More

When their mothers work in the factories, the French school children h...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Children's Work. Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. Date based on date range for negative series. Gift; American National Red Cross ... More

Paris Fashion - 1914 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Belgian Reservists leaving Gare de l'Est [i.e., Gare du Nord]

Photograph shows Belgian men in front of the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Gare du Nord Canteen - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. On card: Plate to Secretary General. Print in album. On card: See: Metropolitan Canteens. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red ... More

French canteen worker talking with a family of refugees who have just ...

Family of refugees from vicinity of Meaux at Gare de Lyon Canteen. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine, Townsend... More

Ward in Bellevue, a beautiful house on the outskirts of Paris, once be...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Comm. to France. Group title: U.S. in France, Hospitals. On caption card: 393... More

Convalescent patients enjoying a game of cards with gramaphone accompa...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Hospitals, France. On caption card: 2378. Date b... More

She was Paris--Paris personified--Paris unclothed and in her right min...

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Last Million" by Major Ian Hay Beith, Metropolitan magazine, 50:25 (June 1919).

Paris. One of the streets at the American Red Cross Canteen #13, at Ch...

Caption from negative sleeve: Champ de Mars. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card; part of title based on information in related, adjacent negatives. Photographer name or source of original from ca... More

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