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Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Drawings, sketches, and prints, 1870, ...

Birmingham, Alabama / Beck & Pauli lith., Milwaukee, Wis.

Composite of bird's-eye view of Birmingham, Alabama, fourteen views of industrial buildings, map, and bird's-eye view of Lakeview Park and Highland Avenue. 12822 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Norris, We... More

The father of our country appealed for soldiers as follows [...] Do as...

Poster showing a Revolutionary era broadside soliciting volunteers to "join the troops, now raising under General Washington." The broadside is illustrated with instructional figures demonstrating the handling ... More

In defence of the Union and the Constitution / C[hristian] Schussele, ...

A large certificate for a volunteer serving in the Union army to suppress the rebellion of 1861. In the center stands a woman, probably Columbia, holding two laurel wreaths and the Constitution. She extends her... More

Le Général Washington ne quid detrimenti capiat res publica - gravé d'...

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing outside tent, wearing military uniform, holding the Declaration of Independence and the treaty of alliance with France in front of tent, at his feet... More

The scenery of Ireland: upper Lake Killarney

Public domain photograph of 19th-century landscape print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The romantic drama, At Piney Ridge written by David Higgins.

C242822 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith Co., Cincinnati & New-York." N.Y.-7697. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Down in Dixie written by Scott Marble.

C263235 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Brought to bay : the genial squire has the nippers on both villains, while the merry heroine un-wigs the counterfeit Negro. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge L... More

The Eighth wonder of the world - the Atlantic cable

Allegorical scene showing Neptune with a trident in foreground, and lion representing Great Britain holding one end of the Atlantic cable and eagle representing the United States holding the other end of the ca... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... More

Caius Marius on the ruins of Carthage / J. Vanderlyn pt. ; S.A. Schoff...

Print showing Gaius Marius, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with ruins of Carthage behind him. Caption continues: From Vanderlyns picture. Published ... exclusively for the members of the year 1842... More

The mountain spring: near cozzen's dock, West Point

Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4611

City of New York / sketched and drawn on stone by C. Parsons.

Bird's-eye view of New York City with Battery Park in the foreground and Brooklyn Heights in the lower right corner.

Mac and Zachary Taylor: in the great contest at Hunting Park course Ph...

Artist: Henri Delattre. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4175

View of Georgetown D.C. / lith. and printed in colors by E. Sachse & C...

View of Georgetown, D.C. looking west with the Potomac River on the left.

Fort Vancouver, W.T. / G. Sohon, del. ; Sarony Major & Knapp, Liths.

Print shows fort and activities there from a bird's eye perspective. U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys - 47th & 47th parallels. General report - plate XLIV.

Summer meeting at Long Branch, N.Y. Start.

Print showing a horse race in progress, with the officials kiosk on the left and the grandstand in the background. Possibly Monmouth Park, Long Branch, New Jersey.

Petersburg, Virginia. Telegrapher - 19th century Virginia.

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The bird to bet on - Public domain print

Caricature showing game-cock with head of Gen. W.S. Hancock. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0589. Old Conn. no. 416.

National student antiwar conference called by the Student Mobilization...

Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gokakoku jinbutsu - dontaku no zu - Ukiyo e print

Japanese triptych print shows the interior of a foreign settlement house with several women and men enjoying a tea party, and a view of ships in the harbor in the background, Yokohama, Japan. Signature: Yoshit... More

[Nourse, 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.

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

Caption: Lord Woodstock H.M. 2d Life Guards. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8188. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More

Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law

An impassioned condemnation of the Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in September 1850, which increased federal and free-state responsibility for the recovery of fugitive slaves. The law provided for the ap... More

Humanity the latest English success : by Sutton Vane, author of The co...

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

Asking a hand: "leff me be de possessah ob dat lubly number seben!"

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0312.

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Stream spanned by wood...

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

Our nation's choice--General James Abram Garfield, Republican candidat...

Campaign poster showing head-and-shoulders portraits of James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, with text and patriotic images including an American eagle and men gathered around flag.

Washington. From the original portrait painted by Rembrandt Peale / Dr...

Print shows bust portrait of George Washington. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jefferson Davis, half-length portrait, facing right]

Tinted and hand-colored lithograph by Blelock & Co. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gettysburg battlefield / Jno. B. Bachelder, del. ; Endicott & Co. lith...

Bird's-eye view of Gettysburg battlefield, showing positions of Union & Confederate armies during the battle. 1333C1(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Contains small map of Soldiers National Cemetery showing arrangemen... More

Gettysburg battlefield / Jno. B. Bachelder, del. ; Endicott & Co. lith...

Bird's-eye view of Gettysburg battlefield, showing positions of Union & Confederate armies during the battle. 1333C1(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Contains small map of Soldiers National Cemetery showing arrangemen... More

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; He...

Poster showing a gaunt mother and children, with others, among ruins. United States Food Administration. No. 31.

Our generals / J.H. Bufford's, lith., Boston.

Portraits of fifteen Union generals in eleven frames. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Gillette's Held by the enemy

Caption: Auntie, I'm goin' to marry Mr. Bean! Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & N.Y." N.Y. no. 8210. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Howson and his band - Public domain portrait print

39374 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2713. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The cotton king by Sutton Vane.

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

"A desperate finish" - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of horse race, equestrian sport, jokey, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orizuru o tsukuru shōjo - Public domain drawing

Print shows two young women folding paper to form cranes. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Koban Nishikie. Forms part ... More

The battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia July 1st 1862

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0458

The reconciliation between Britania and her daughter America / Pub. by...

Cartoon shows a Native, representing America, with a flag and liberty cap, rushing to the arms of Britannia, who holds a shield inscribed "George for Ever." A Spaniard and a Frenchman combine efforts to pull Am... More

Fairbank's cherubs--Presented with the compliments of N.K. Fairbank & ...

Print shows two angelic piglets done in the style of two cherubs in Raphael's Sistine Madonna now located in Dresden, Germany. 15175 U.S. Copyright office. Exhibited: "The Sistine Madonna. Raphael's Iconic Pai... More

Camp Volusia or Fort Barnwell on the St. John E.F.

No. 1 in set of 8 "Views of Florida." The State Library and Archives of Florida cites as "Lithographs of events in the Seminole War in Florida in 1835. Issued by T.F. Gray and James of Charleston, S.C., in 1837."

The Military College of Chapultepec, the ancient site of the halls of ...

Military college, on top of a rocky hill, with high stone wall at the base, near Mexico City. Copyright by N. Currier. No. 554. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : G... More

The tree of temperance - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congres...

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 1861 / drawn from nature by Grafton T...

Bird's-eye view of Virginia City from the "Gould & Curry" claim, with 30 individual views of commercial buildings and residences forming the border.

Virginia City, Nevada Territory, 1861 / drawn from nature by Grafton T...

Bird's-eye view of Virginia City from the "Gould & Curry" claim, with 30 individual views of commercial buildings and residences forming the border.

The best in the market / H. Thomas.

Advertisement showing cuts of meat, sheep, cattle, pigs, animal slaughter, and transportation of dead animals by wagon. C2458D2 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone: On stone H. Thomas. Copyright by Kimmel & Voigt.

Ghyakurakan segaki, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a "parody of words (mother breast feeding her child beneath a mosquito net and the words for the demons being cast out during the festival)." Source: Nichibunken. Title and other descriptive informa... More

Kurikaradani ōg[k]assen zu - A picture of a man riding a horse

Print shows the chaos of a surprise night attack by the Minamoto clan against the Taira clan at the Kurikara Pass; using deceit to inflate their numbers and oxen with torches tied to their horns driven into the... More

Charles Brodie Patterson, Leader of new thought movement to speak in G...

Charles Brodie Patterson biographical information and photometrical print; Man on the Corner critical comments continue on p.157

Photograph album owned by the Spafford family

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

Photograph album owned by the Spafford family

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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

Women Seek the Right to Vote: Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller and Hearing ...

Elizabeth Smith Miller, at 85, one of the oldest suffragists spoke at the hearings for equal tax suffrage in third class cities; photomechanical print of Elizabeth S. Miller; Lists suffragists and anti-suffragi... More

The Smyth & Rice Comedians with Walter E. Perkins as A. Keene Shaver i...

39294 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cin'ti & New York." N.Y. no. 8547. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

American railroad scene: lightning express trains leaving the junction

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0199 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ..... More

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

Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in m...

Includes multiple captions describing activities. Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The Russell-Morgan Print, U.S. Printing Co., largest in the world, Cincinnati, U.S.A." No. 3069. Forms part of: Minstrel poster... More

Kish-Ke-Kosh, a Fox brave / A.H.; drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bo...

Print shows Kish-Ke-Kosh, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing buffalo headdress and blanket over left shoulder, holding a staff decorated with feathers and a type of club. Signed on stone at bottom cen... More

Great Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn. - Jany, 2nd 1863: between the Unio...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2796

Base ball / aquarelle print by L. Prang & Co.

Baseball game. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ocean penny postage. By Elihu Burritt. Washington, H. Polkinhorn, prin...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 210, Folder 12.

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...

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

This representation of the U.S. Frigate Constitution, Isaac Hull, Esqr...

Print shows the Constitution, in the background, firing on the wreckage of the HMS Guerriere, the last remaining mast is falling, in the aftermath of the battle between the two ships. Includes additional text a... More

View of San Francisco, Taken from the Western Hill at the foot of Tele...

Bird's-eye view of San Francisco, California, looking southeast across the Bay, with Yerba Buena Island on the far left; also showing camps and travelers in the foreground. Includes key to numbered locations.

The famous double trotting team, Sir Mohawk and Nellie Sontag: full br...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

L'Entré triumphale de troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck Der Einzug der ...

Print shows British troops marching down street in New York City, New York. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un. d... More

John C. Breckinridge: Vice President of the United States

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3518

York town, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground... More

Fate of the rebel flag / painted by William Bauly ; lith. of Sarony, M...

The second of a pair of patriotic prints after paintings by William Bauly, issued by New York art publisher William Schaus in September 1861 (both were deposited for copyright on the sixth of that month). "Fate... More

Production, America's answer! / Jean Carlu.

Promotional goal: U.S. B1.J. 1942. Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The great East River suspension bridge--Connecting the cities of New Y...

View of Brooklyn Bridge with many sailing craft, including a large paddle-wheeled steamer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2809 Publish... More

Republican platform and presidential nominees

Print shows bust portraits of presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison and vice presidential candidate Levi P. Morton; between them are two columns topped with bust portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. G... More

Soga no taimen, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print showing a man sitting on a raised platform, with a warrior sitting on the left and a warrior standing on the right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Lincoln at home, Portrait Print - Public domain engraving

Artist: G. Thomas (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3814

[Rainy night, Charing Cross shops]

Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Chicago platform and candidate, Confederate States of America.

McClellan was branded a hypocrite by many critics who saw his public stance on the war issue as ambiguous and deceptive. Nominated because of his military record, he nevertheless ran on a peace platform, writte... More

Le ballons sortis pendant le Siege de Paris, 1870-1871

Broadside about balloon events during the Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Includes a list of balloons that left Paris, keyed to a map of their descents. Several vignettes show balloons, including "le Richard Wallace... More

Modo di fare il pane - Public domain dedication image

Illustration showing women preparing grain, shaping bread, and cooking in pot under covered shelter. Illus. in: La historia del mondo nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese / Girolamo Benzoni. [Venetia : F. Ramp... More

Bufford's fishing cards, nos. 454

Print shows an uncut sheet of six fishing scenes with titles: "Caught on the Fly" which shows a man caught by the hook of his own line while casting; "Fishing in Earnest" which shows a man helping a fisherman w... More

Tōto meishō kenbutsu ijin - Ryōgokubashi, Sadahide Utagawa

Japanese print shows an American man and woman sightseeing at the Ryōgoku bridge in Edo (Tokyo), Japan. Signature: Gountei Sadahide ga. Engraving attributed to: Yokogawa Hori Iwa. Seal date: Cock 7. May be sec... More

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Two etchings on verso of each plate, numbered II-XL, accompanied by a leaf with descriptive text on the verso. Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kisl... More

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fighting between the cavalry and the war ships--The letter sorrendered...

Japanese cavalry fighting Russian warships. Captioned in English and Japanese. Forms part of: The Illustration of the Siberian War, no. 15.

[Britannia toe] Amer[eye]ca, British Cartoon Print, rebus

Print shows a letter in the form of a rebus portraying Britannia as a mother urging her daughter America to jilt the Frenchman she is planning to marry and stop rebelling. This political satire refers to the Am... More

Ōsumi, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing

Print shows the volcano Sakurajima at Ōsumi on Sakura Island, with sailing ships in the sea around the island. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in ... More

Joseph E. Baker - Heel and toe / J.E. Baker ; Armstrong & Co., Boston.

Elderly woman showing girl how to darn socks. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Prof. A.T. Glasgow, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870...

"Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin. & N.Y." No. 4147. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Paper hanging no. 1. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Wallpaper design composed of arch and trees. Printed label matted with LOT 14050, no. 18-b describes the pattern as "Number One. Ground, tea-leaf. First print, black. Vines covered with leaves of various kinds ... More

Complimentary dinner by Howard engine company No. 3 of San Francisco t...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 5.

Combat at the military station: Of Chateau d' Eau, 24th February 1848 ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1333.

The secession bubble. "It must burst" / J.H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.

A genre scene with a pointed political reference. A black girl, probably the child of slaves, plays with a soap pipe in a garden. Beyond the garden fence, in a landscape with palmettos, a fortress flying a Conf... More