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[Man holding sword and head of decapitated, dismembered body in backgr...

Illus. in: Salomen, Areum Velvis...1599 p. 40 of part II. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Death; Executions; Incemabula.

Vue générale de Paris, Landscape view print

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

Mayflower approaching land - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Johnson.

Vue du pont de Pierre, prise du cremlin

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Engelmann.

Dr. Benjamin Rush - Public domain portrait engraving

American Universal Magazine. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Richard Wagner - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Herkomer.

Mr. Jefferson Mr. Blissett. Philadelphia, Pa

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Leslie.

Mirror Lake - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Foerster & Co.

Le Roi de Rome - Fresco, public domain photogrpaph

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Payrau, J.

Advertisement - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tyler, A.L.

Th Jefferson - Public domain portrait painting

Full-length silhouette portrait shows president Thomas Jefferson facing right. Purchase; 1915; (DLC/PP-1915:44874). Exhibited: "Creating the United States," the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011-2012.

Show card - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hamilton. PAGA(2) 83-32. Reference (pos) copyflow print in Lot 4450G. Check 500 fields.

View of the city of Panama - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rudge, B.

Edwin Forrest, the celebrated trotter

122 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford, John Henry.

Siberian village, Landscape view print

Print shows a view of a town or village in Siberia surrounded by a wooden wall, with a buddhist temple in the background. Stamped in lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:... More

View of the merchants exchange. Boston, Massachusetts.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Thayer, B.W., & Co. Copyright deposit, District Court of Mass.: 1842

Design for advertisement, Charles Oakford & Sons, furrier and hatter, ...

Drawing shows a street view of the façade of a storefront with entrances, windows with merchandise displays, awning over an entrance, and lightly sketched pedestrians; across top are samples of lettering and de... More

The hunchback story-teller of Damascus. Reciting in a Coffee-house a t...

H11871 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Humphreys & Sartain.

[Chinese junk tied to Yang-tze River bank]

J228257 or 228258 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 17th, 18th, 19th-century Japanese woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Empire city line. Pacific iron steam ship Sarah Sands, 1500 tons Captn...

442 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott & Company

Photograph album. John F. DuComb, No. 27 S. 6th Street, Philadelphia

Print shows a design for a photograph album and a window card advertisement for photographer John F. DuComb, No. 27 S. 6th Street, Philadelphia. Includes print-registration marks on all sides of each print. St... More

[Show card] - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Maas.

Eighth Steet below Chestnut, west side

Photograph shows stores and shops on the west side of 8th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Camelia - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lassalle.

[Full-length portrait of a man holding top hat and cane, standing besi...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower right.

The Middle Dutch Church - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Wallace, W.H.

The right medicine - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Chromo Publishing Company.

[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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

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.

Seventeen figures of insects and parts of their bodies

Lithograph by Ackerman, New York City, in book by Howard Stansbury. Illus. in: An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Plate IX. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. ... More

[Capitol exterior, west front from terrace]

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 53. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Old London coffee house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Photograph shows a building at the intersection of Market and Front streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; signage indicates that the former "Old London coffee house" now serves as a "wholesale & retail tobacco... More

West Philadelphiadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & sarina works Js. ...

Print shows a street view of the factory buildings of the West Philadelphia Manufacturing Co., with street and railroad in the foreground. Caption continues: Refined pearl starch & corn farina. Chestnut & Brid... More

[Sartain portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln]

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

Portrait of Lt. Colonel James T. Weaver, 60th North Carolina Regiment,...

Lt. Col. Weaver was killed at Murfreesboro, Dec. 7, 1864. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of ambrotype. Credit: Mrs. Verne Rhoades, As... More

[Portrait of Asian man, half-length, with arms folded, facing front]

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 75. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Robert H. Kelly, Union soldier, full-length portrait, standing, facin...

Printed on mount: Photographed by Purviance, cor. Fifth and Wood Sts., Pittsburgh. Handwritten on verso: Bugler Kelly - Knap's Pa Batty. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period /... More

Abraham Lincoln. The martyr President, Assassinated April 14, 1865, [C...

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

[Construction of Capitol dome]. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 49. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Street in Algeria - An old photo of a man sitting in a room

People paused in passageway with steps; birdcages on side of building, Algeria.

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Colonel Horatio Gates Sickel o...

Addressed to Mr. William H. Heft, Richlandtown P.O., Bucks County, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked at Washington, D.C., December 1862. The 32nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment was the 3rd of the Pennsylvani... More

[Lieutenant William Sharpe Barnes, F Company, 4th North Carolina Infan...

Photograph shows identified soldier, William Sharpe Barnes, who enlisted in 1861 as a corporal. Case: Berg, no. 2-86. Inscription on handwritten note: "William Sharpe Barnes, 19 yrs. old ... father of R. I. Ba... More

Presidents of the United States, [Bouclet & Feusier portraits of the P...

Portrays 16 Presidents. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Port Royal, S.C. [i.e. Virginia] - A black and white photo of a river ...

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.270) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Composite of scenes of] Our cotton campaign in South Carolina - gathe...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1862 Feb. 15, pp. 200-201. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397K. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Plantation... More

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instrume...

Photograph by Kimball, N.Y.C. Copyright by George H. Hanks. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two pages of text from Jane Andrews' "Seven little sisters"]

Illus. in: Jane Andrews, Seven little sisters (Boston : Ticknor and Fields,1864) p. 12 & 13. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The nation mourns his loss. He still lives in the hearts of the people...

Paper badge with a portrait of Lincoln within a black oval border.

[Donation certificate for the National Lincoln Monument Association].

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

Charles Dickens - par Gill - Drawing. Public domain image.

Caricature showing British author Charles Dickens, holding books he worte, as he steps from England to France. Relief metal cut with pochoir by Andre Gill. Cover illus. for: L'Eclipse, no. 21, June 14. Paris, 1... More

Descente du ballon le Neptune dans les falaises du Cap Gris-Nez Voyage...

Drawing shows Jules Duruof, Gaston Tissandier, and another man in the balloon "Neptune" making a difficult landing on the cliffs off Cape Gris-Nez, France. In the foreground, two shepherdesses and their flock o... More

[First page of first issue of The Revolution, "the organ of the Nation...

Illus. in: The Revolution, 1868 Jan. 8. Reference copy may be in LOT 4404. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Newspapers...; BI; Woman Rights of...; Political pa... More

S. Alphonsus cartouche Maria de Liguori

22266 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Duval (P.S.) & Son.

The History of Little Red Riding-Hood

Page 2 shows Little Red Riding-Hood and her mother; p. 3 shows Little Red Riding-Hood and Gaffer Wolf. Illus. in: The History of Little Red Riding-Hood, 1868, p. 2-3. Reference copy may be in LOT 4442. This rec... More

Ashibune ni tori - Public domain drawing

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

[Plum branches with blossoms] - Public domain scenic drawing

Unsigned, but probably by Japanese artist Megata Morikaga. From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Edwin Booth as Iago in Othello, "let us be conjunct"]

Photo copyrighted by J. Gurney. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Benedick and Beatrice in "Much ado abo...

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

[Heinrich Schliemann, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

Thy will be done, portrait print

A5189 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford, John Henry.

[5 people seated among large rocks]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Family groups.

William Kulp antiquary of Philadelphia. E.L.H. ; by E.L. Henry

Drawing shows William Kulp, antiquarian, full-length portrait, seated, facing left, by his friend Edward L. Henry, shortly before Kulp died from tuberculosis. Signed in pencil on sheet with initials on lower l... More

The Masonic Grand Lodge of Arizona meeting in the cave in the mine of ...

69856C U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5. Copyright by A. Miller, Globe, Ariz.

Idols of our home. Prattling primrose

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Prang, L. & Co.

Archconfraternity of the Holy Family - Act of Consecration - O, Jesus,...

D14747 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Armstrong, (Charles) & Co.

Prang's floral mottoes, no. 20. Be pure in heart after Mrs. O.E. Whitn...

Print shows a floral arrangement of white roses and other flowers as a backdrop for the phrase "Be Pure in Heart." E2769 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at bottom center: L. Prang & Co. Boston. Publication date... More

Prang's floral mottoes, no. 18?. Walk in love

Print shows a floral arrangement of autumn leaves as a backdrop for the phrase "Walk in Love." E2767 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at bottom center: L. Prang & Co. Boston. Publication date based on copyright ... More

Anchor and flowers, no. 1 after Mrs. O.E. Whitney

Print shows an anchor, leaning to the left, with a flower arrangement comprised of roses, pansies, ferns, and other foliage, entwined with banner that states "Faith Hope Charity." E4847 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

No. 1, Nazareth, Landscape view print

Print shows a view of the city of Nazareth, Israel. F9462 U.S. Copyright Office. From series: Four Scenes in Palestine. Label on verso with title and publication statements. Publication date based on copyright... More

Out door relief - Print, Library of Congress collection

12698 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gilman.

Imported messenger - Print, Library of Congress collection

G1276 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Wallace, John H.

Pope Leo XIII - Print, Library of Congress collection

248792 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Continental Publishing Co.

The child's first prayer - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Cong...

J353 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Armstrong & Co.

In quiet prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a half-length portrait of a young woman in prayer in an outdoor setting. L1036 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, ... More

Group on a cotton plantation - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). "7445" on negative. "Dahomey" on sacks, possibly in Dahomey, probably in Mississippi. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8145. Gift; State H... More

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Print shows a late Victorian die-cut trade/greeting card showing a gilded painter's palette with paints on the left and the head of a kitten on the right, facing front, above the Christmas and New Year greeting... More

Pray without ceasing - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a display of various flowers, such as roses, lilies, and fuchsia, with motto "Pray without ceasing" in an oval medallion on the right. 15210L U.S. Copyright Office. Stamped on lower right corner is... More

G. Cuvier / E.Hader, pixnit ; photo. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, Berl...

Photograph of painting shows Baron Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Printed on verso: George Baron von Cuvier; stamped: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Re... More

[Mary and Jesse, children of Jesse James; full, seated]

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scarlet and green parrot and wild roses

Print shows a scarlet, green, and purple parrot perched on a blossoming wild rose branch, with a butterfly flying above. N20927 U.S. Copyright Office. Label on verso with title, publication, and copyright stat... More

Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929 - Public domain portrait print

Full lgth., standing, facing left; leaning against pillar, in toga. Photoprint copyrighted by Napoleon Sarony. No. 8. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Actresses; Ph... More

Edwin Thorne - Print, Library of Congress collection

20695 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Armstrong & Co.

Baum's ever ready castorine - Public domain banknote scan

Product label for wagon or carriage axle oil. 3807 U.S. Copyright Office. U.S. Patent Office, Registered Labels and Prints, 1883-1884, v. 5. c

An appalling attempt to muzzle the watch-dog of science / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows Herbert Spencer as a statue of a large dog at the entrance to a public building emitting rays of light labeled "Science"; many diminutive men, wearing oversized top hats, scamper about with l... More

New York - method of working the car-cable of the East River Bridge

3 illustrations: 1. The starter (man at switch); 2. Engine room; 3. Car grip (street car). Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1883 Aug. 25), p. 5. Ref. copy may be in Geog. File (Gr) - NEW YORK N... More

The olympus of corruption - "Apollo strikes the lyre and charms the go...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine as Apollo playing a lyre labeled "N.Y. Tribune" fashioned from the body of Whitelaw Reid, before a gathering of the gods on Olympus; among those present are Cyrus Field as Mer... More

The transfusion of blood - may the operation prove a success! / J. Kep...

Illustration shows Puck standing next to the symbolic figure labeled "Independent" who is undergoing a blood transfusion with an old man labeled "Democracy" sitting in a chair; among the men depicted observing ... More

Sleepy Hollow - Print, Library of Congress collection

M13665 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Krebs Litho. Co.

Puck magazine cover - Spoiling their calculations / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows James G. Blaine and Chester A. Arthur sitting at a table on which are papers that state "The Republican State Convention at Utica, N.Y., April 23 1884" and "The Delegates At Large of New York... More

Souvenir of St. Valentine's Day

Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing a pink dress with large hat with flowers on top, and carrying a basket of flowers, in floral arch, with morning glory vines in the foregroun... More

An Easter offering - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a chick hatching from an egg with flowers and another egg nearby. P18162 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed on lower left corner: No. 1128. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyrigh... More

Easter offering - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a birdnest with four eggs on the ground, among grasses, clover, with blossoms, and other flowers. P18164 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed on lower right: No. 1129. Publication date based on copyright... More

[Emma Baldwin(?), daughter of Captain Theodore Baldwin, full-length po...

Forms part of: Mearns Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Too far gone, John!--That balloon will never rise again / Zimmerman.

Illustration shows Joseph B. Foraker holding a hot air balloon fashioned from shirts stitched together and labeled "Bloody Shirt" with the initials "J.G.B." for James G. Blaine. John Sherman leans over a small ... More

History repeats itself / J. Keppler., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Julius Caesar or a Roman centurion, in the background, tumbling off a pillar of stones labeled "Rome, Etruria, Britain, Asia, [and] Africa", and in the middle distance, on a bit of land label... More

The "Little Napoleon of Wall Street" in exile / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Ferdinand Ward as Napoleon I sitting on a pile of stones labeled "Ludlow St. St. Helena" in the middle of a river with the New York City skyline behind him; some of the signs on buildings st... More

Puck's palete / J. Keppler. - Public domain drawing

Illustration shows an artist's palette, with brushes and portfolio, and drawings depicting an artist(?) among several women wearing a variety of hats, also caricatures including one of big business as a pig wea... More

Cadbury's almanack for 2,000 years - a literary & useful curiosity

Print shows a young boy dressed as a chef carrying a tray on which are a steaming ewer and cup of "cocoa essence"; also shows various graphics around the central motif and states that it is "Registered". This i... More

Caricature, A petty annoyance / Zimmerman., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows President Cleveland walking down a path toward a building flying a banner labeled "Non-Partisan Government"; a diminutive Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President, is tugging on Cleveland's coatta... More

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