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La marchande de café - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

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

Parish House Presbyterian Manse, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Caroli...

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-80. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Shade of Washington. Mount Vernon, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robinson, C.N.

[Portrait of fireman from the Perseverance Hose Company]

Photograph shows a three-quarter length portrait of a man wearing fireman's uniform with right hand on a speaker trumpet. Inscribed in pencil on mount: fireman from the Perseverance Hose Company. (DLC/PP-1999:... More

A bitter "Draught." - Public domain scan / print

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

"Mac" the giant killer. - Public domain portrait print

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

Cotton machinery - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows large cotton machine on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2, frontis.

Agriclutural implements - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows pieces of farm equipment: plows. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2 frontis.

Captain Hume on the staff of Sir John Campbell & his brother

Captain Hume and his brother, full-length portrait, posed with a horse by some small wooden buildings. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War ph... More

Maréchal Pélissier, G.C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

General Aimable-Jean-Jacques Pélissier, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with horizontal line across the bottom. "No. 222" printed belo... More

Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Pélissier, Lord...

Allied leaders and their aides-de-camp standing on steps. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his letters from the C... More

Sebastopol from the front of Cathcart's Hill - Roger Fenton's Crimean ...

Distant view of Sevastopolʹ from Cathcart's Hill; on plain are five men and a conical tent. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

The cemetery, Redoubt des Anglais & Inkerman in the distance - Roger F...

The cemetery on Cathcart's Hill, with Inkerman in the distance on the right. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University o... More

Captain Chawner, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph - Roger Fenton's ...

Captain Chawner, full-length portrait, seated on horse, facing left. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Looking towards St. George's Monastery, tents of the 4th Division in t...

Military encampment on the plateau of Sevastopolʹ. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Cri... More

Convent and quays on the Vilaine, Rennes, (p. 268.)

Published with: Jephson, J. M. Narrative of a walking tour in Brittany by John Mounteney Jephson, F.S.A. ; accompanied by notes of a photographic expedition by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S., no. 78.

[Henry L. Dawes, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Congr...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 32. Each item includes subject's origi... More

[Charles J. Gilman, Representative from Maine, Thirty-fifth Congress, ...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 5. Each item includes subject's origin... More

[John B. Clark, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 267. Each item includes subject's orig... More

[Eli Thayer, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

[Graham N. Fitch, Senator from Indiana, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-le...

[William D. Bishop, Representative from Connecticut, Thirty-fifth Cong...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 42. Each item includes subject's origi... More

Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Colum...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 134. Notation: R. McClelland, Secretary; Franklin Pierce. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

[John V. Wright, Representative from Tennessee, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

Suspension Bridge, St. John, N. B., Canada

On mount: Climo's stereographs of New Brunswick. On verso: Harvard College Library from the estate of Georgina Lowell, May 6, 1924.

Art Building - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope ca...

No . Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brunnen. The Mythen - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Village of Brunnen; in background, the Mythen. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 39, upper right.

Africa. Tunis. Street scene - North Africa and Middle East

On mount verso: 3555. Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tomb of Washington at Mt' Vernon Virginia

No. 86. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Post Office. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

On mount: American Scenery. New York City. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

[Portrait of ten men including Anderson D. Johnston (seated second fro...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arch of the Giants' Stairway - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

No. 522. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Pereival's - Victorian era public domain image

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

Milan. Arch of the Simplon. Commenced by Napoleon I. 1807

In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 111, back. No. 216.

Trieste. Palace of Maximilian, Miramar. Architecture of 1860s Europe

In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 125, back. No. 244.

Bv't. Maj. General I.H. Duval. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. No. 8237. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Great exhibition of 1860. - Public domain broadside, Library of Co...

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

[Burial of Union soldier at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia]

Attribution of G.H. Houghton as photographer from "A very fine appearance" : the Vermont Civil War photographs of George Houghton / Donald H. Wickman. Barre : Vermont Historical Society, c2010, page 33. Title d... More

[Officers relaxing outside a tent] during American Civil War

No. 303. Title devised by library staff. 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 of egg whites and... More

[General James Longstreet, C.S.A., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. gunboat Commodore Barney - A large boat floating on top of a lake

No. B115. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 of egg whites a... More

Colonel Paine's barracks, brigade hospital, Dr. [Sim's?] headquarters,...

Photograph shows a commercial street in Cairo, Illinois with Union military barracks in the distance. Title from inscriptions on mount reading top left to right. "No. 4" upper left corner. Photograph possibly t... More

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

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

Pivot guns crew, U.S. Steamer Pocahontas

Photograph shows sailors posed on the ship near the pivot gun. Title inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.269).

[Worker repairing telegraph line?] (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 61 & 62 (handwritten) and 2562 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (L... More

[Railroad construction workers] (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 63 (handwritten) and 2563 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Commissary Depot at Cedar Level, Virginia August, 1864

No. 182. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

The Capitol of the United States of America: taken from Adams & Co's O...

27524(?) U.S. Copyright Office. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which in... More

The Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond Virginia

Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia. No. 862. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative available: LC-B815-862

Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865 / Cosmos Pictures Co.

41670570 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.A. Hopkins. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melochnaia torgovlia. Prodazha tabaku i krasil'nykh materialov

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 39.

Central Pacific Railroad, Bloomer Cut, near Auburn, Placer County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1100. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route.... More

Mausolée à El-Kefr - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Slabs of rock in front of mausoleum at al-Kafr, Syria. No. 1345.

View of the S.W. Pass Lighthouse in April 1867

Stereograph shows the first lighthouse built at Southwest Pass Entrance, Louisiana; also shows keeper's house and boardwalk path. No. 98.

Calaveras big trees. House over the stump of the original big tree, di...

Photograph shows a round structure (left) and a ladder leaning against a giant tree stump (right). No. 880.

South Battery Street, A - Victorian era public domain image

Street view of mansions in residential neighborhood of Charleston, South Carolina. The Southern Series, Charleston, South Carolina, no. 27.

Parlor, Music room, Library G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y

Stereograph showing the interior of three rooms in succession through open doors. Blind stamped: G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Artôt, Head and Shoulders Portrait Cartes de visite

Photograph shows Desirée Artôt, Belgian mezzo-soprano, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. No. 1110. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Vue générale de l'Aquéduc de Valens / G. Berggren.

Wall, roofs of buildings, and minarets; in background the Aqueduct of Valens, Istanbul. No. 149.

Deutscher Orden der Harngari...

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1870." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robertson, Wm. C.

Judge Jeremiah Black, Glass negative portrait, 1870s

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Judge Black, 10 [crossed out]; penciled on emulsion: 3912. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection... More

Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - Sherman House

People and carriage in foreground. Chicago, Illinois. Stereo by Lovejoy & Foster, Chicago. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Hotels Ill.; Ill. Chicago Hotels; P... More

Hawk's Nest, West Virginia., looking down New River from R.R., Pres - ...

In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virginia, to Huntington, West Virginia: p. 115a, no. 220. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1979; (DLC/PP-19... More

What shall I write to Grandpa - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

Small girl seated with writing materials. Stereo copyrighted by Weller. No. 371. From the series: Stereoscopic Treasures. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]

E(?)4714 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edgar Parker.

Paret, Bishop. 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 probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More

Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. Looking east toward the plains

No. 137. Part of series: Colorado Views. 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 of egg whites an... More

Another button off - L.M. Melander & Bro., Chicago

Stereograph shows a woman seated on man's lap and sewing button on his shirt. Stereo copyrighted by L.M. Melander & Bro. No. 53. Caption card tracings: Courtship...; Humor; Shelf.

[Exhibit displays at Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia.: American gl...

Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

2 musk oxen of the Arctic Regions, which were mounted by a taxidermist...

Stereo copyrighted by the Centennial Photographic Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals Musk Oxen; Taxidermy; Exhibitions 1876; Shelf.

[Incense pot and burner] - Public domain drawing

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Dec. '78. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and dra... More

Signs - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows two signs with Japanese text hanging from rods. Unsigned, but probably by Kano, 1878. From "Trade & commerce; coins, etc." series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray colle... More

[Exterior view of a window in the Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque) in Bursa]

Photograph probably by Abdullah Frères. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 30. In album: Ulu Cami (Great Mosque) and Yeşil Cami (Green Mosque), Bursa, Ottoman Empi... More

[David A. Day, missionary in Liberia, bust portrait, facing right]

On mount: W.L. Cover, 754 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three-quarter length portrait of woman, seated in chair, facing left]

Inscribed on verso: Helene Machtet - wife of the novelist Gregori Machtet in exile with him. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Witches cauldron and Devil's pupit, California, 19th century sterescop...

Calif. Sonoma. Views of Geyser Springs. Stereo by Andrew Price. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; Geysers; Calif. Sonoma; Springs; Hotels; Tourists.

Portrait photo of Elizebeth [i.e., Elizabeth] Gould

Photograph shows Elizabeth Gould, member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. In album: Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other members o... More

[Turkish woman, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding pa...

No. 610. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Musk cattle killed on Mt. Cartmel, Aug. 1881

Photograph showing dead musk oxen during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 128.

Photographic view of the wreck of the bridge and train of cars crossin...

Photograph shows a railroad car trapped within a partially collapsed bridge in the water. O. Carter, photographer.

Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929 - Public domain portrait print

Full lgth., seated on step, facing left. Photoprint copyrighted by Napoleon Sarony. No. 54. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Actresses; Ph. Ind.; Shelf.

Lake Alexandra, south side, June, 1882 / G.W. Rice, photo.

Photograph shows snow-covered lake surrounded by rock formations, during polar expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. No. 56.

James Gillespie Blaine, 1830-1893 - stereocsopic card

Bust portrait framed in floral wreath. Stereo copyrighted by Weller. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

Tomb of General Grant, Riverside Park, [N.Y.C.]

Casket in front of tomb (no. 37). Photoprint copyrighted by Carvalho. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: N.Y.C. Riverside Park; Death; Pres.

Florida-- New Years Day in the sunny south / George Barker, photograph...

Stereograph showing African American men and children outside a building. One appears to be dancing; another man plays a violin. 15442 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1886 by Geo. Barker.

Dr. Diamond Dick's orchestra 1886

Seven men of Dr. George B. McClellan's orchestra, in uniforms, posed with musical instruments. J22368 U.S. Copyright Office.

Florida - Camp near Sunday Bluff - Ocklawaha River

2 men - an African American and a White man outside of cabin on which is nailed a fur; tropical vegetation; boat in river. 15465Rp2s U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by George Barker. This record conta... More

Pontoon C. Bayliss photo, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Photograph shows men with steam engine or boiler and pontoon to be used in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 6. Album d... More

[Alexander Graham Bell swimming, his head above water, with cigar in h...

Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).

Supreme Court of the United States

Chief Justice Waite. Photoprint copyrighted by C.M. Bell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Grover Cleveland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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

Female lobbyists at Washington, D.C. - a scene in the Marble Room of t...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 63 (1888 Feb. 4), p. 409.

[Pavilion of Ecuador,right, and Pavilion of Chile in background, Pari...

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

Looking seaward / Myra A. Wiggins, 1889.

Photograph shows a man standing on a rock outcropping on beach while looking toward a body of water. Signed on mount. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Be... More

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

An old photo of a man climbing up a ladder, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.... More

Green houses, White House, Washington, D.C.

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Place Tourny and fountain, Bordeaux, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6944". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[The Font, Boddelwyddan Church, Rhyl, Wales]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "11287". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

Bamberg. Dom & Alte Hofhaltung view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Germany. Bavaria. Bamberg. Cathedral." Print no. "1778. P.Z." Purchase; Detroit Publishing Comp... More

[From the gardens, Broadstairs, England] view, photochrome print postc...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10261". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

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