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[Hon. Andrew Johnson, half-length portrait, facing left]

Brady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress). Print reversed from original(?) LC-BH82-4437.

The morning after the election--November 1856

The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & ... More

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More

The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott

A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More

The good samaritan / Gillam.

Illustration shows Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland as pilgrims on a journey through rugged Middle Eastern landscape; leading the way is Hayes, holding a paper that states "Patronage... More

Opening of Florida Keys Railway - J.R. Parott, H. M. Flagler

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[Three Treasury Department employees, Mr. Graham, John Brown, and anot...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

German Baghdad Railway, 190_. The boundary between the French and Germ...

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Another cause for thanksgiving / Keppler.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam holding a rifle labeled "Prosperity" in his right hand and a hammer in his left hand; he has just nailed a fox pelt labeled "Bryanism" to the wall of a log cabin. Illus. in: Puck, ... More

Aleppo (Haleb) and environs. Moselmieh, bee-hive village on Baghdad Ra...

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps, faci...

Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, George Washington. Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-159

Senate Agriculture Committee, Jos. I. Lane; Arthur Capper; Thomas Gore...

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Second International Labor Conference

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Bribe takers both / Keppler.

Illustration shows, on the left, a man labeled "Tariff Coddled Manufacturer" voting with one hand and receiving a bribe in the form of "High-Protection Schedule" from a large hand labeled "Rep. Congress" extend... More

Artist's dinner

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Benj. Strong Jr, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Benjamin Strong Jr., who was elected governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank on October 5, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service o... More

[Group includes Josephus Daniels at head of table; and Franklin D. Roo...

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Five knitting machines were installed at N.Y. University. These machin...

Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: International Film Service. Group Title: Workrooms, New York. Data: International Film ... More

Harding at Nat. Open Champ

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. General information about the National Photo Company collection is avai... More

[Children, Easter Egg Hunt at White House, Washington, D.C.]

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[Warren Harding and group at Cocolobo Cay Club, Adams Key, Florida]

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Group: includes John W. Weeks and President Harding. White House, Wash...

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch seven.

Peanut growers group, 4/13/22

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Members of the national W.C.T.U. committee which founded the Grace Dod...

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Coolidge & Clark

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Wilbur with Radio group, 5/24/29

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Congress attests election result. At a joint session of the House and ...

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Indian Delegation invites Coolidge to Northwest Indian Congress, [10/2...

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[Calvin Coolidge signing the income tax bill, also known as the Mellon...

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Protests textile rebels. The Emergency Committee of the United Textile...

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Wyoming Senator. Washington, D.C., July 30. Democratic Senator H.H. Sc...

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Mississippi Senator. Washington, D.C., Aug 5. A new informal picture o...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Aid to refugees planned at White House. Washington, D.C., April 13. Ex...

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UMW head addresses Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers Convention. Washingt...

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C.I.O. Head attempts to settle automobile union fight. Washington, D.C...

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Searchlight on Palestine : fair-play or terrorist methods? : some pers...

Cover title.

Left to right: Clayton Grandy, Cleveland; Cong. Martin L. Sweeney, Ohi...

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Colle... More

Senate Judiciary Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 16. The Senate Judi...

Before Naval Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Flatly denyi...

Date (year) based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch six.

Washington, D.C., March 27. California's Senator Sheridan Downey, elec...

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Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to consider nomination of Felix Frankfur...

Election for sheriff and councilman. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, Cal...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Members of the Loomis Fruit Association at their fortieth annual meeti...

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Rep. Hamilton Fish on neutrality. Washington, D.C., Oct. 30. After the...

Title and date from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection for related adjacent negative LC-H22-D-7680. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing... More

President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines

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French journalists visit General George C. Marshall at his office in t...

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[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

The scene is not Wall Street but Brooklyn Stockholders and brokers wat...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Children's author Ted Geisel, (Dr. Seuss), three-quarter length portr...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Seated left to right: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, Rep. William Fitts...

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Vote Socialist Workers Linda Jenness for President, Andrew Pulley for ...

Elect Mario Cuomo Mayor, City of N.Y

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

[President-elect Jimmy Carter with Rosalynn and Amy Carter on Inaugura...

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United States electoral college, votes by state /

Includes insets of Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Community workshop

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2a-3a, setting up for the post-fieldwork South Slav community worksho... More

Visibility studies and some applications in the field of camouflage

Title on half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee. "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Col... More

Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836

A figurative portrayal -- clearly sympathetic to the Whig party -- of the 1836 presidential election contest as a horse race between four candidates. The four are identified in the legend as (left to right): "O... More

Adams and liberty

"Adams and liberty" is written to the tune of the Anacreontic song, and this is believed to be the first American book publication of the music of that song. Published in "The American musical miscellany," page... More

Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis. or - The vessel of the Constitut...

Pitt steering small boat, The Constitution, which also carries Britannia, towards a castle with a flag inscribed "Haven of Public Happiness". They are pursued by Sheridan, Fox, and Priestley, who are sharks, do... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

[Abraham Lincoln, Congressman-elect from Illinois. Three-quarter lengt...

This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken at age 37 when he was a frontier lawyer in Springfield and Congressman-elect from Illinois. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 4) Attributed to... More

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President Roosevelt, Tennis Cabinet

Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt at a farewell event on the White House lawn for his "Tennis Cabinet;" bronze statue of crouching cougar by Alexander P. Proctor, presented to Roosevelt by the gro... More

[Inside view of the dining hall which has been recently built at the I...

Bread and bowls at place settings on long tables inside an ornate dining hall. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 14. In album: The Imperial Military Academy and o... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad,...

Significance: Kennecott's significance lies in its quality, as well as quantity, of high grade ore. The mine also illustrates the history of world and U.S. copper between 1907 and 1938. The rise and decline o... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad,...

The late auction at St. Eustatia - by R-- & V--

Print shows the interior of an auction house where Admiral Rodney and General John Vaughan are disposing property seized from citizens on the island of Saint Eustatius which the British captured from the Dutch.

The Tories and the Whigs pulling for a crown, British Cartoon Print

Print shows George, Prince of Wales, seated on a throne in the background waiting the results of a tug-of-war over the crown (and regency for the Prince) between the Tories represented by Edward Thurlow and Wil... More

Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman

A satire on the presidential contest of 1836, using the metaphor of a billiards game between Whig candidate William Henry Harrison (left) and Democrat Martin Van Buren. The artist is clearly on the side of Harr... More

Animal magnetism

A swipe at President Van Buren's independent treasury system and his continuation of the monetary policies of predecessor Andrew Jackson. The artist, clearly in sympathy with the Whigs, links corruption in the ... More

Ultimatum on the Oregon question

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... More

Eclipse & no eclipse or two views of one object

Two scenes showing the differing perceptions of Franklin Pierce's stand on the issue of slavery, as viewed by the North and South. The cartoon is divided vertically by "Mason & Dixon's Line." An arrow identifie... More

The election

Two cartoons showing politicians trying to buy votes. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, 1857 Nov. 7, p. 713.

Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. ... More

The national dime-museum - will be run during the presidential campaig...

Illustration shows a gallery of presidential candidates, clockwise, from bottom left: John Kelly as a card-playing pig, Chester A. Arthur as "The Snake Charmer" charming a snake labeled "Stalwart Vote" with a h... More

[Thomas A. Edison, W.K.L. Dickson, and others at the "perfected" wax-r...

Portrait shows Edison seated in center. with Fred Ott at left and Col. George Gouraud at right. Standing (left to right) are W.K.L. Dickson, Charles Batchelor, A. Theodore Wangemann, John Ott, and Charles Brown... More

"Busted!" / J.S. Pughe. Joseph Pulitzer

Print shows William Jennings Bryan carrying a "Cross of Gold", a "Crown of Thorns", and a carpetbag labeled "W.J.B. Speeches" as he walks along railroad tracks headed in the opposite direction of Washington, D.... More

[Surveyor with theodolite(?) in the mountains of Alaska, 1899] / Curti...

61328 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X408.

E.T. Seton, Baden-Powell, and D.C. Beard

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Labor Department and CIO at President's coal dispute conference. Washi...

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Diaz and Cabinet

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Diaz and Cabinet, George Grantham Bain Collection

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

The last supper - Print, Library of Congress collection

4826 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Putting the screws on him / Keppler.

Illustration shows George B. Cortelyou turning a vice to squeeze money for Theodore Roosevelt's campaign from a bloated man labeled "The Trusts". Illus. in: Puck, v. 56, no. 1444 (1904 November 2), cover. Copy... More

"Take your choice, gentlemen" / Keppler.

Illustration shows Puck standing on a ballot box between President Theodore Roosevelt, who has one foot on the "Constitution", is waving a sword labeled "Militarism" in a threatening manner above his head, and ... More

Mr. Sisyphus Cortelyou rolling it up / Keppler.

Illustration shows George Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, as Sisyphus rolling a large boulder labeled "Majority for Roosevelt" up a steep hill. Illus. in: Puck, v. 56, no. 1437 (1904 ... More

CLEVELAND, GROVER. CABINET

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James S. Sherman, Republican Nominee for President, 1908

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Prints, George, copyrig... More

The rake's progress / Keppler.

Illustration shows a group of men identified as "Land Grafter, Politician, Special Privilege, Timber Grafter, Mineral Grafter, Public Utilities, Corporation Lawyer, [and] Tariff Grafter" sitting around a table ... More

[Warren Harding, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, gesturi...

Original glass negative may be available: LC-F8-8563 Public domain photograph related to President Warren G. Harding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

J.E. Bruce, Ban Johnson, A. Herrmann, T.J. Lynch, J.E. Meydler at tabl...

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[Excess Profits Advisory Board, 1st row, L to R: Hon. C. Hull, Daniel ...

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[TITANIC disaster. Senate Investigating Committee questioning individu...

J. Bruce Ismay being questioned. J169615 [?] U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: N.Y.C. HO... More

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. CHAIRMEN OF FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICTS. FRONT R...

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[Booker T. Washington seated with group of men outside the office of D...

Forms part of: Booker T. Washington papers (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description