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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pogostʺ = Cimetière du village / / D'après na...

Photomechanical print shows snow-covered rural church and graveyard. Notation on recto: Mowcou, le 19/1 Janvier 07. V. Hassek. Address and postmarks on verso. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the R... More

City Hall - Washington / lith. by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore.

Print shows an exterior view of City Hall, Washington, D.C. Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The "Budd" of the driving park - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0804.

Thirty dollars. This bill entitles the bearer t[o] receive thirty Span...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The state-house in Philadelphia 1776 / engraved by J. Serz.

Print showing exterior view of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as it looked in 1776. D11237 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1873 by John Serz, in the Of... More

Rocky Flats Plant, Offices, Print Shop & Photography Lab, Northwest qu...

Significance: This building is a primary contributor of the Rocky Flats Plant historic district, and is associated with the U.S. strategy of nuclear military deterrence during the Cold War, a strategy considere... More

Trotting cracks at home, a model stable / sketched by Thomas Worth ; l...

Race horses in stable. Picture shows boy grooming horse, another boy carrying reins to man, and man cleaning bits. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983.

The John Robinson Largest, Most Complete Menagerie on Earth

Circus poster showing interior view of various animals in cages. Copyright deposit.

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / artist, James S. Reid...

View of exterior of the institution surrounded by images of the dormitories, the chapel, the director's room and other interiors, and a head-and-shoulders portrait of Joshua Foster. 8492L : U.S. Copyright Offic... More

Make policy, not coffee

Public domain photograph of beverage advertisement, food, drinks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The fight at Lexington, April 19, 1775, from a print of the time

Print shows Minute Men being fired upon by British troops in Lexington, Massachusetts. Exhibited: "Revere's Ride and Longfellow's Legend" at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, 2004-2005.

Fox hunting, plate 1--. The meet at Cover / drawn by Henry Alken ; eng...

Group of men on horseback, with dogs, assembled for fox hunt. K13805 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Frost & Reed, Ltd., Bristol, England.

Adam naming the creatures/Adam Llamo los Animales

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0045.

Lewis Cass, Democratic candidate for president

Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic candidates Lewis Cass and William O. Butler produced for the 1848 presidential election. The banner is designed in a horizontal format, similar to Currier's "Zachary... More

Kameido umeyashiki zenzu - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a bird's-eye view of a walkway through plum trees on an estate open to the public, with many sightseers entering at the gate and walking through the orchard.

Poster - Sells Brothers' Enormous Shows - Public domain lithograph

Circus poster showing the inside of a circus tent with various circus acts. Picture caption: Magnificent Three Ring Circus. Exchange; Hastings.

The beauties of billiards: "a carom on the dark red"

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0504.

Destruction of the rebel monster "Merrimac" off Craney Island May 11th...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1707

The battle of Ridgeway, C.W. June 2nd 1866 / lith. & printed by Chas. ...

Print shows Fenian Brotherhood (Irish American) troops under the command of Colonel John O'Neill charging the retreating Queen's Own Rifles of Canada commanded by Colonel A. Booker at Ridgeway, Ontario, during ... More

Emprunt 4% 1918 . . . l'Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

The Gallic cock in the foreground. Behind the cock is a statue of a mounted soldier [knight, Joan d'Arc]. In the background are the flags of the allies and a sunburst with the words 'Pro Patria.' Translation of... More

Emprunt 4% 1918 . . . l'Emprunt de la Défense Nationale

[The 20th anniversary dinner invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Houdini...

Dinner invitation and menu with image of ship on the cover. On June 18, 1914, Harry and Beatrice Houdini sailed from Europe to New York aboard the S.S. Imperator of the Hamburg-America Line. On the 21st Houdin... More

Caricature, A receipt for courtship, public domain cartoon image

Print shows a young man handing a young woman a note. Text of poem is caricature of romantic courtship.

Trenton Falls, New York - Engraving, Public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Yashima dannoura kassen, Utagawa Yoshitora - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Yoshitsune and a small group of Minamato troops in a surprise assault on the Taira forces at Yashima, causing them to retreat to their naval forces waiting offshore. Title and other descriptive info... More

[La Mairie, Loches] - A drawing of a building with a clock tower

Kennedy, 382 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. mark: H.G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a ... More

Central Park-the Bridge - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1043

The High Rollers Extravaganza Co.

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Boston - Beacon Hill, with Mr. Thurston's house - from Bowdoin Str...

Print shows a view of William Thurston's house near the top of Beacon Hill, in Boston, Massachusetts, from Bowdoin Street, at the time (ca. 1811) when Beacon Hill was being reduced in size, with a view of the B... More

Secret service by William Gillette. during American Civil War

Caption: It looks like a plot on our telegraph lines! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." No. 7446. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

View of the ground and buildings, International Exhibition, 1876, Fair...

Bird's-eye view of buildings and grounds of the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa. G4596 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Lineaweaver & Wallace, 1876. Library has two impressions. Second impressi... More

Death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15th 1865 / E.B. & E.C. Kellogg ; F.P....

Print shows Abraham Lincoln on his deathbed surrounded by large group of men, each identified on the print. No. 259. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, 2005-2006.

Vauxhall. Mr. Green, Wednesday, July 31st / G. Webb, sc., 3 Snow Hill.

Poster shows balloonist Charles Green on horseback suspended from an ascending balloon to advertise balloon ascensions in Vauxhall Gardens, London.

Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville

Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2819. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Alice - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a young woman, full-length portrait, facing right, seated with her back to a pianoforte, with a framed print showing a military scene hanging on the wall in the background. Entered according to act... More

The seeds of victory insure the fruits of peace / Maginel Wright Enrig...

Poster showing a boy with a hoe leading a parade of vegetables, with American flags.

The drunk / Geo Bellows. - A drawing of a man and a woman dancing

Illustration shows a woman struggling with her drunken husband with the aid of her daughter; in the background two small children cower against a bed; there are broken dishes and an overturned chair on the floo... More

Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadru...

Chinese admiring Frenchman and pig in the Garden of Plants, Peking. Signed with initials on stone. Delteil, 2597 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... More

[In the omnibus, 1891]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two young women riding on a tramway, one is holding an infant; passing a bridge visible in the background.

Wanted a substitute. American Civil War 1861-1865.

An illustrated sheet music cover, which protests the inequities of the draft or proscription system enacted under the Enrollment Act of 1863. The act allowed drafted men to purchase an exemption or to furnish a... More

Altona's Opfertag, 18. Januar 1916

Poster showing a German soldier; in background, a woman surrounded by her children. Text reminds Altoners to contribute to war aid on Altona's Offering Day. From: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizisti... More

The yacht squadron at Newport - Public domain image of a steam boat

Print showing yachts, a steamboat, and several rowboats in a harbor at Newport. 7037 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives, in the Office of the Librari... More

United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...

A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More

The Destroying angel! / Designed by P.K. Post, Jr. ; engr. by Chas. In...

Avenging angel over composite of scenes depicting the joys and sorrows of human life. Copyright by Post & Ross.

The Old Original North Carolinans Ex-slave Troupe

G1911 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith., Cleveland, O." Signed: W. Una, lith. & del. Small portrait of Miss Lizzie Smiley, heroine of Grand Gulf surender. Forms part of: Minstrel poster ... More

Congressional scales. A true balance, Political Cartoon

A satire on President Zachary Taylor's attempts to balance Southern and Northern interests on the question of slavery in 1850. Taylor stands atop a pair of scales, with a weight in each hand; the weight on the ... More

Broadway Theatre Opera Co. presenting the DeKoven & Smith's greatest s...

Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The A.S. Seer Print, 242-244 W. 41st St., N.Y." Management, Andrew A. McCormick. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Signorita Galetti and her troupe of the world's greatest performing mo...

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

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels all white performers.

Includes four vignettes. Caption: Geo. W. Lewis, originator of new ideas in the terpsichorean art and "melo-phrase" dancing. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y.... More

The Parting--Buy us too - Drawing. Public domain image.

Card showing Afro-American slave being separated from wife and child. No. 4, no. 60. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.

Death of Major Ringgold, of the Flying Artillery, at the Battle of Pal...

Print shows Major Samuel Ringgold falling off his horse, which has fallen to the ground, both having suffered wounds; two officers have come to Ringgold's aid. Also shows an artillery battery in the background,... More

Henry Clay / painted by J.W. Dodge, 1843 ; engd. on steel by H.S. Sadd...

Print showing Henry Clay, full-length portrait, sitting under tree, facing front, with dog at his feet. Includes facsimile signature and a remarque with view of Ashland, home of Henry Clay.

Old Fort Rosalie Gift Shop, 500 South Canal Street, Natchez, Adams Cou...

Significance: Although not initially envisioned as a restaurant, the plan for the building was always tied to the tourist trade. It served as the gift shop and visitors' entrance for Jefferson Davis Dickson's 1... More

The returned fugitive / The Hatch Lith. Co. 32 & 34 Vesey St., N.Y.

Print shows a young girl leaning on an open birdcage from which a bird has escaped, and looking at the fugitive bird perched on a nearby branch or vine. (inscribed in pencil at bottom).

We stand for the gold standard, ...

Campaign poster for William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, with head-and-shoulders portraits of each, on United States flags. No. 105.

Will F. Phillips' complicated farcical extravaganza, A bell boy

"Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Cab! Sir? Created and "copyright 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cincinnati, O." No. 3740. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Grand banner of the radical democracy, for 1864

Print shows a campaign banner for presidential nominee John C. Fremont and his running mate John Cochrane. Fremont and Cochrane were the candidates of a faction of radical Democrats consisting mostly of Germans... More

Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other members of th...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Includes photographs of American Colony leader Anna Spafford, her hus... More

Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other members of th...

Isaac Cruikshank - Royal recreation, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows Catherine II seated on a throne receiving the decapitated heads of the people of Poland from the military officer in charge of the Russian forces during the defeat of Poles in 1794; other men brin... More

Let's give him enough and on time / Norman Rockwell.

American soldier firing heavy machine gun. Promotional goal: U.S. B36.J7. 1942. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-0-468088.

The little recruit - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3998

Gift for the grangers / J. Hale Powers & Co. Fraternity & Fine Art Pub...

Promotional print for Grange members showing scenes of farming and farm life. Library has two impressions. Copy 1 "I pay for all" printed in blue. Copy 2 "I pay for all" printed in white. Published in: Eyes of... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Fujibitai hana no gyōretsu

Print shows a procession of several women, some carrying a palanquin, with Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-0... More

The burning glass - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0822

A.D. 1915 - with Puck's apologies to the "coming woman" / F. Opper.

Print shows a shabbily dressed woman addressing a man who is wearing an apron, holding an infant, and standing at the front door of his home; in the background, a dog with it's tail between it's legs, enters a ... More

The new Tribune Building, Printing House Square, Nassau, Chatham, Spru...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels oldest, biggest, best.

Caption: A tribe of genuine mamelukes during the f te at Mecca. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Courier Company, Lith. Dpt., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2984. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Quail shooting - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5413

New York Spring horse show, Durland's Academy ... New York, April 29, ...

Woman in uniform carrying stretcher. Promotional goal: U.S.K3. 1918. Public domain photograph - car advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The white slave by Bartley Campbell.

Captions: Rags are royal raiment, when worn for virtue's sake! That lady is a genuine white woman! Created and "copyright 1911 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 13739. Forms part of... More

John W. Isham's Oriental America 40 minutes of grand opera.

Created and "copyright 1896 The Strobridge Lith-Co, Cincinnati & New York." Isham & Graff, sole proprietors. No. 7118. P&P has: copy 1 and copy 2 with pieces missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection... More

The Battle of the Kings: 2:111/4-2:103/4

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Imre Kiralfy's gorgeous production of Venice, the bride of the sea at ...

"Copyrighted by Imre Kiralfy, 1891." Caption: The marriage of the Adriatic. Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York; (printed in America)." No. U.N=Y. 4220. Portrait of I. Kiralfy in upper l... More

Miss Cavell fusillée par les Allemands à Bruxelles le 12 octobre 1915

Print shows an angel kneeling beside picture of Edith Louisa Cavell, an English nurse, who was executed by the Germans in WWI for protecting and hiding Allied soldiers in a Brussels' hospital. Translation of t... More

The Presidents of the United States

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5302

Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels fun's famous fellows.

G xxc 16351 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1907 by The Courier Co. of Buffalo." Featuring: Al. G. Field, Billy Clark, Harry Van Fossen, Doc Quigley. No. 5441. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collec... More

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

[Baum, Sacramento Team, baseball card portrait]

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

[Sagamigawa] / Hiroshige ga., Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows a view of Mount Fuji from the Sagami River, Province of Shoshu, with two men poling rafts and herons flying and diving. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

Baltischer Lloyd - dampfschifssabrt nach Stettin via Havre & Copenhage...

Broadside announcing departure of Baltischer LLoyd's iron steamship "Ernst Moritz Arndt" under the command of Captain F. Dreyer, which will sail on Saturday, 29 March 1873 at 2 P.M., from Pier 13 North River. ... More

View on the Potomac--Near Harper's Ferry / F.F. Palmer del. ; Currier ...

Two men on horseback with Potomac River and hills in the background. No. 5366. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6966.

American fruit piece - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0174

Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah, or Black Hawk, a Saukie brave / A.H. ; draw...

Print shows Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, with blanket draped over left shoulder, with many earrings and wearing a portrait medallion around his neck. Signed on... More

Y.W.C.A. In service for the girls of the world / McMein.

Head-and-shoulders of young woman in front of Y.W.C.A. insignia. Copyright by Y.W.C.A. Promotional goal: U.S. F34. 1919.

Chas. H. Waldron's Trocadero Burlesquers leaders of them all.

Washington / painted by Cogniet, 1836 ; engraved by Laugier, 1839.

George Washington, full-length portrait, standing on bunker, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform, aide with horse in near background, view of port in distance.

Washington / painted by Cogniet, 1836 ; engraved by Laugier, 1839.

George Washington, full-length portrait, standing on bunker, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform, aide with horse in near background, view of port in distance.

Kiralfy Bros' Sieba and the 7 ravens

"Copyrighted by Imre & Bolossy Kiralfy, 1884." Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Litho. Print., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Jūshi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan (Genji Monogatari)

Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, courtesans or geshia and members of the nobility, in a building. Title and oth... More

The cotton king by Sutton Vane.

Z51581 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." Management, Wm. A. Brady. No. 6151. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The rats leaving a falling house

A simpler and less animated composition on the same general idea as Edward W. Clay's ".00001" (no. 1831-1). Again Jackson is seated in a collapsing chair, with the "Altar of Reform" toppling next to him, and ra... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River...

Significance: The first all-metal bridge on the Fink plan, its detailing influenced the development of pin-connection in American bridges. Longest iron bridge in the United States in 1852. Survey number: HAER... More

Free speech, free soil, free men. This is to certify that [blank] is a...

A membership certificate for the Wide-Awake Club, a Republican marching club formed in February or March 1860 and active throughout the North during the election campaign. The club was dedicated to the preserva... More

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee (formerly of Primrose & West).

Caption: Tom Lewis, the great comedian. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Similar smaller version of poster: POS - MIN - .W48, no. 45a (D size). Forms part of: Mi... More

Southerner rights segars. Expressly manufactured for Georgia & Alabama...

A considerably idealized view of slave life in the American South, appearing on a printed label for cigars "expressly manufactured for Georgia and Alabama." The New York firm Salomon Brothers may have sought to... More

National Democratic banner of victory, 1868

Print shows a campaign banner for Democratic presidential candidate Horatio Seymour and running mate Francis Preston Blair, Jr., of Missouri. Above the curiously overlapping portraits of the candidates is a glo... More

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