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Gilbert Stuart - George Washington, head-and-shoulders, facing left

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Yours very sincerely Lewis P. Clover

Print shows Lewis P. Clover, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.

Elbridge Gerry / engraved by J.B. Longacre.

Elbridge Gerry, half-length portrait, seated, facing left. From a drawing by Vanderlyn.

Henry Blackwell, head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, facing front

Photographer unidentified. Case: scroll and medallion motif. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; Manuscript... More

[William Pinkney Rodgers, half-length portrait, seated, holding white ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40 [asterisk]. Label on back of case: William Pinkney Rodgers, 1821-1893. Gift; Mrs. Alexander Macomb; 1976; (DLC/PP-1976:307). Forms part of: Rodgers Family Papers, 1740-19... More

[Former President Martin Van Buren, half-length portrait, facing right...

LC-BH824-5239. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified man, about 45 years of age, half-length portrait, facing...

Scratched on back of plate: 8. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Henry L. Abbot, half-length portrait, facing left]

Case: variant of Rinhart 131. Label in case: Henry L. Abbot at Boston Pub. Latin Sch. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Henry L. Abbot family papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:044). Fo... More

Sœur de la bonne femme de Normandie d'apres le desein de son fils Pier...

Print shows Print shows an elderly woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, holding a tulip in her right hand at her left shoulder, wearing a bonnet and scarf. Caption continues: Dédié àe Mons... More

[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left]

In plain leather case. Label adhered to case: "31." Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collect... More

[Felipe N. Chacón, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper left. On verso: Montes de Oca y Comapañia, 1? calle de Plateras N. 6, Mexico.

Edmondi Halleii, Tabulae Astronomical, 1749

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Half length portrait, facing left. Repro. of engraving by Vertue, after pa... More

[Benjamin Perley Poore, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly r...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 124. Accompanying note: Ben Perley Poore. Purchase; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:089). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[John McAllister, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front ...

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

[African American man, possibly named "Small", full length studio port...

Inscribed in ink and pencil on verso: Small. On verso: No. 13185. Purchase; Marian Carson; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

[Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, half-length portrait, facing front] / ...

From volume: Gallerie ausgezeichneter Naturforscher. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eli S. Shorter, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General George H. Thomas, U.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass...

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

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

The Library's print is a copy of an ambrotype by T. Painter Pearson, Macomb, Illinois. This print is reversed from the ambrotype. Ostendorf, no. 8 (variant) Meserve, no. 11 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: ... More

[Johnson portrait of Lincoln based on Hesler photograph.]

Based on Meserve no. 26. A photograph by Alexander Hesler made in Springfield on June 3, 1860. Mr. Truman Bartlett stated that this portrait after Mr. Hesler's death in 1865 were bought by Mr. George B. Ayres, ... More

[Mabel Hubbard, half-length portrait of a girl, facing front, seated]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Accompanying note: Mabel G. Hubbard. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:199). Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of Photogra... More

[Portrait of Pvt. Walter Miles Parker, 1st Florida Cavalry, C.S.A.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified Union officer, half-length portrait, seated, facing left...

On verso: Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland, 23 Cedar Street, (opposite the Commercial Hotel), Nashville, Tenn. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Gear... More

[Sartain portrait of Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington Irving, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, 3/4, facing left. Photo by M.B. Brady. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Abner Doubleday, 1819-1893. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

3/4 lgth., standing, facing left; in uniform and holding hat. Photoprint copyrighted by Mathew B. Brady. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

[Seth Williams, 1822-1866, bust portrait, facing right; in uniform. Un...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: Boatner.

General George A. Custer, U.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass...

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

Why not love thee darling? / N.E. Lith. Steam Ptg. Co., Boston.

Music cover, illustrated with head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman.

[Lotta Crabtree, full-length portrait, facing right, smoking cigar]

Photo copyrighted by J. Gurney & Son. Public domain photograph - female portrait, the 1900s, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The great November contest. Patriotism: versus Bummerism

The strongly racist character of the Democratic presidential campaign of 1868 is displayed full-blown in this elaborate attack on Reconstruction and Republican support of Negro rights. Horses with the heads of ... More

[Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, with ot...

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

[Full-length portrait of a woman wearing a large ruffled bonnet, sitti...

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

[Walt Whitman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing hat]

Known as "the Quaker photo." Saunders, no. 35 Forms part of: Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.

Paul Heyse - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows German poet Paul Heyer, half-length portrait, facing left. No. 1334. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[General Cowan, Assistant Secretary, Interior Department, head-and-sho...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, head-and-shoulders portrait, fa...

Inscribed on verso: To my friend, M.P. Curran, with the truest regard of John Boyle O'Reilly, 28th March 1871. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Young African American woman, full-length portrait, standing]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Full-length portrait of African American man, standing]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louise Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, wearin...

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best know... More

Photographic portrait of Anna Spafford, [Chicago, llinois]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Roses, M. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by L... More

Unidentified group. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at http://hdl... More

Unidentified woman. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Christian artisan of Belka; (2): wife of an artisan of Belka; and (3) Muslim peasant woman of the environs of Belka. French caption from book: Syrie: Figure 1: Artisan Chrétien de Belka; Figure 2: Femme d... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Shepherd from the environs of Diarbèkir (Diyarbakır); (2): Kurde of Djizrè (Cizre); and (3): Kurd from the environs of Mardin.

[Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, right hand ...

Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress). Saunders, no. 45 Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

His grace Joseph Sadoc Alemany, CSD - Arch Bishop of San Francisco / H...

Print showing Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding book and glasses in hands. K11000 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone in lower right: H. Steinegger. Copyri... More

[Horatio Alger, bust portrait, facing slightly right]

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

[Grover Cleveland, bust portrait, seated, facing right]

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

[Alexander Johnston Cassatt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing sligh...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing f...

Blind stamp on mount: Shepherd, 27 E. 7th St., St. Paul, Minn. Photograph possibly by Harry Shepherd. Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress).

[Tennessee Claflin, Lady Cook, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing rig...

Written on verso: Lady Cook (Tennie Claflin). Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Frances Wright / J. Gorbitz ; J.C. Buttre.

Frances Wright, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with left elbow resting on table. Illus. from: History of woman suffrage / Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York : Fowler & Wells, 1881-1922, v. 1, frontispiece.

[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facin...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Alexander Graham Bell photographs. Photograph of 1882 painting by Lobrichon, Paris.

Ivan the Terrible, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Ivan IV, Czar of Russia, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Photocopy of wood engraving in Harper's Monthly, 1883, v. 67, p. 99.

[Gaston Tissandier, French balloonist, full-length portrait standing i...

"Alt. 2000 m., au dessus de la fort de Cricy, a Monsieur Gaston Tissandier [...] du votre ascension du 26 juin 1886, Maurice [...]" inscribed upper left corner of image. Tissandier collection.

The standard harness of America

22340 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-... More

Walter Perry Johnson, 1887-1946

Full lgth., standing, facing left; in baseball uniform and throwing ball. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption car... More

[Fred Dunlap, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Connie Mack, Washington Statesmen, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

David Wilmot (after a lithograph by M.H. Traubel)

David Wilmot, half-length portrait, facing left, in oval. After lithograph by Traubel published 1887 in Century Magazine, 11:542.

[Abraham Lincoln], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Fabric tag showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing right, within a wreath, beneath two hands glasped in a handshake, flanked by British and American flags; includes "No. 3474" and "Yds. 5... More

"American beauties" - Print, Library of Congress collection

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. Category designation on... More

Evans, Mrs. George (Mary Handy) grand niece of Mathew Brady. May 2, 19...

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

Mahomet El Bashse. (Egyptian camel driver) / Franklin Co., Eng., Chi.

Mahomet El Bashse, half-length portrait, facing left, in traditional Egyptian costume. Copyright by Place & Coover. Illus. in: Oriental portrait types of the midway plaisance. St. Louis, Mo. : published by N.D.... More

[Emma Eames, full-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left]

72700 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.J. Falk, N.Y. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Robert Fitzsimmons, 1862-1917, full length, fists raised, facing righ...

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

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, facing left] / Ste...

29877-aa U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Steckel. No. 12.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, rear view, right a...

29889-aa U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Steckel. No. 24.

Eugen Sandow, 1867-1925 - Public domain portrait print

3/4 lgth., standing, facing left; wearing leopard skin, with hands behind back and looking upward. Photoprint copyrighted by B.J. Falk. No. 43. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption ca... More

Portrait photograph of an unidentified

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Victoria, Queen of Gt. Britain and Ireland, 1819-1901

Full lgth., standing, facing left; and family. Copyrighted by Boussod Valadon & Co. Painting by John Philip. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Family groups; A/P/P I... More

[Annie Besant, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right]

21427C U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Hollinger & Rocky, New York. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wendell Phillips portrait with quote, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

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

[George Reeder, relative of the Wright Brothers, called Uncle George, ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 158. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

Chief Hollow Horn Bear--Sioux - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Chief Hollow Horn Bear, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing breastplate. 67040 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F.A. Rinehart, Omaha, Nebraska. No. 115?.

Nasuteas [Kichai woman] Wichita / Adolf F. Muhr.

Photograph shows Nasuteas, a Kichai Indian woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.

[Group portrait of students and teachers at the American University, B...

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

Geronimo - (Guiyatle) - Apache, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Geronimo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. 59172 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F. A. Rinehart, Omaha. No. 882.

Shout At--Sioux - Public domain portrait print

Shout At, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing breastplate and war bonnet. 57895 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F.A. Rinehart. No. 1546.

[Little Eagle, Indian, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing r...

74227 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 246. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eagle Shirt, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right]

74256 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 371. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 58. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[Ta Wits Nan - Ute, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, wearin...

64929 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 153. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait group of African American Bricklayers union, Jacksonville, F...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. #101. Caption card tracings: Occupations; African American... More

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress [Nursing student wearing...

Untitled photo in album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 220. Title and photographer attribution based on research by D. Willis in Small nation of people... More

Cleo De Merode, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Trinidad -- sorting cocoa beans plantation

Marion Davies, George Grantham Bain Collection

Coney Isl: making "Staff" decorations

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

Mussolini, George Grantham Bain Collection

Anti tax poster put up by Chamber president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18...

A woman standing in front of a billboard advertising less taxes more taxes. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruth Taylor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Ship "Cleveland" pulling into harbor

McCormack, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Irish American tenor singer John McCormack (1884-1945) with daughter Gwen. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Lib... More

Lady Diane Manners - Public domain portrait print

A black and white photo of a woman wearing a shawl. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description