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The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the man...

The village of the Pequot Indians which was attacked and destroyed by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason in 1637. Illus. in: Nevves from America / John Underhill. London : Printed by J.D. for Peter Cole, [...]... More

[Men operating water pumps during building fire]

Illus. in: Theatrum machinarvm novvm, exhibeus aqvarias, alatas, ivmentarias, manuarias .... Coloniæ Agrippinæ : sumptibus P. Principis, 1662. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western t... More

Benjamin Franklin / J. Pelicier sculp. 1782.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing fur collar, in oval draped with foliage on pedestal with books, map, eagles, storm clouds and lightning, and with "VIR" ... More

In the House or representatives, November 1, 1776. Ordered, that the f...

Copy 2 formerly numbered as 39, Folder 20a.; Copy 1 is a Photostat, copy 2 is an original. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 39, Folder 20a. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in... More

January 7, 1778. When the chimneys of the barracks of the different re...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 15831 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 145, Folder 12.

Copy of a letter from the Rev. Mr. Jacob Duche to General Washington O...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 15292, attributes it to Philadelphia. The copy in MHS. came to it from Mrs. Samuel S. Shaw, who took it from the papers of Samuel Phillip Savage, of the Mass. Board of war. As the que... More

Direct tax ... [Signed] Americanus [1809].

Imprint 1.; Americanus. 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 91, Folder 12.

Return of the troop of cavalry, commanded by [blank] in the [blank] b...

Formerly numbered as Portfolio 183, Folder 34f, copy 2. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 183, Folder 34f. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page imag... More

[The Spiritual Songster: containing a variety of camp-meeting and othe...

Title page from 1st ed. Reference copy may be in LOT 4617. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Shelf.

Haverhill, September 1, 1826. To Mr. Your county, school and town taxe...

Filled in in with the amounts for Benjamin Webster. 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; Portfoli... More

The warrior sage. Air --- Of a' the airts. Philadelphia, March 30, 183...

"A national song, by J. Graham, being a small tribute of respect to our Country's Benefactor, Col. Richard M. Johnson, for more than twenty-five year's faithful service in the cabinet and the field." In English... More

Reward of merit. Presented to by instructor. [New York? 183-].

Engraved blank form.; On verso: Co. 1837. 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 118, Folder 44.

Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Ro...

Mandan Indians using two dogs to drag a toboggan on the frozen Missouri River. Illus. in: Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Coblenz : J. Hoelscher, 183... More

Democratic Inauguration Ball. [Mrs. Anna Maria Wilson] The Pleasure of...

Gift Mrs. Thos. H. Adams June 14, 1961.; On verso: Gift Mrs. Thos. H. Adams June 14, 1961. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGM... More

The mermaid. H. De Marsan, Publisher, 60 Chatham Street, N. Y

In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The great Know Nothing song, "I don't know." By Francis F. Eastlack. A...

In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The greatest necessity of the age! Gayetty's medicated paper for the w...

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 134, Folder 6.

Columbia and independence, a new patriotic song. Dedicated to every fr...

In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George the IIId, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland / Pollard s...

Print shows King George III, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, wearing armor and a laurel wreath; in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the pr... More

The bloomer costume. As sung by Lewis Knight, at the Dramatic associat...

Verse. 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 200, Folder 22.

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler.

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

The grand aquaria! is now open for public exhibition! at the Aquarial ...

On verso: 1859. 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 83, Folder 4.

[Print of Lincoln's cabinet based on Carpenter painting.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jim Crow. Sold wholesale and retail by L. Deming, at the sign of the B...

In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Circular letter No. 4. Montgomery, May 20, 1861.

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 1, Folder 14.

Freemen! avoid conscription! The undersigned desires to raise a compan...

C. S. A. 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 175, Folder 21.

.Union Republican ticket. Ward 8. 1864 [Boston, 1864].

On verso, Copy 1: MC# 09-82-038.143, 10.98.1009.1.71.19a/1, 8 Nov. 1864.; On verso, Copy 2: MC# 09-82-038.143, 10.98.1009.1.71.19a/2, 1864. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: ... More

Now or never is the time to avoid the draft! Come one! Come all! To th...

Civil war posters. 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 125, Folder 17.

How shall soldiers vote? ... Published by the New York State Central C...

Title.; On verso: 669. 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 125, Folder 24a.

[Brady Photograph of Lincoln.], Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.

Meserve 74. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A. Kidder copy of the Emancipation proclamation. Copy 3.]

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

Extra. Surrender of Lee and 30,000 men. Peace in 6 days. [Philadelphia...

First announcement of Lee's surrender.; Surrender of Lee. 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; Po... More

Acceptance. As a holder, or as a representative of a holder of bonds i...

Gift Mrs. Pauline Wilcox Burke 6-14-46.; Rec. 8-16-46.; On verso : Gift Pauline Wilesx Burke June 14. 1946 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... More

Notice to voters. Register! Register! All persons entitled to the righ...

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 75, Folder 29.

Copy of preamble and protest ... Brooklyn Auxiliary, New York State as...

Anti-suffragists. 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 130, Folder 13a.

Emancipation proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, freeing the sl...

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

Women at Work for the Right to Vote: Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howa...

Clipping illustration of woman on horseback marching toward a "Franchise" sunrise with photomechanical prints of Carrie Chapman Catt and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw

This is to certify that Stockton White Kones, of Phila. Pa. is a membe...

Name of Mr. Jones filled in with ink. 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 239, Folder 24.

Eversharp razor. - Alfred Whital Stern collection of Lincolniana

About 1902 I was being regularly (shaved) by an old Englishman named Brown?? About 70 years old who had the shop in the old Astor House. He had a white handled razor which always seemed to work smooth on my fac... More

Portrait photo of Auguste Rodin - Rodin--Le penseur

Print shows Auguste Rodin, facing in silhouette with his sculpture "The Thinker" at right. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 11, July 1905, plate I.

Edward S. Curtis - Oglala war party. Book illustration from Library of...

Several Oglala men, many wearing war bonnets, on horseback riding down hill. H104386 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2575-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Th... More

Photograph of William T. Stead, signed

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

Suffragists New Record. Half million demonstrate for woman suffrage in...

Dr. Emil Reich describes the record-breaking Hyde Park suffrage demonstration: seven processions converging from different points in the city; Christabel Pankhurst and other women commanding twenty speaker plat... More

Woman Suffrage Gathering at Newport Marble House

Suffragists attend lecture on grounds of Marble House, Newport home of Mrs. Alva Belmont.

Woman Suffrage Parade - Miller Nawsa suffrage scrapbooks 1897-1911

Suffrage parade postcard to be returned to organizers indicating name of marcher, occupation, and address.

Creation (1931) - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from Kislak Collection guide. Watercolor painted by Diego Rivera in San Francisco, Calif. during the summer of 1931, originally commissioned to illustrate a never-published English translation of the Popo... More

[Harry Houdini, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in chain...

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spectacular escape acts and death-de... More

[Harry Houdini, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in chain...

Harry Houdini, Handcuff King. Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. He was one of the most famous and successful magicians of his time, known for his spect... More

[Harry Houdini with his wife Beatrice and mother Cecilia Steiner Weiss...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. ... More

Kalender Maister Johannes Künigsperger, Augsburg, Bavaria

Printing, including the diagrams of eclipses, in black and red. Leaves [27-28] (designated as 27-30 by BM 15th cent.), containing diagrams of instruments, are each made up of 2 leaves pasted together. Rosenwald... More

The whetstone of witte : whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmetike, c...

Author's name appears in dedication('Epistle dedicatorie") as "Robert Recorde". Manuscript notes. "These bookes are to bee solde, at the Weste doore of Poules, by Ihon Kyngstone." Imprint from colophon. Signatu... More

White slavery in the United States

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Forward or backward? - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.

Also available in digital form.

A visit from St. Nicholas - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congr...

In verse. Known by the title: The night before Christmas. Copyright 1864. A strip of paper folded accordion fashion, to form 12 leaves, the first leaf fastened into a printed paper wrapper. Advertisement for P... More

Speeches at the Constitutional Convention

Smalls was an African American delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention of 1895. He argued against proposed restrictions on the franchise and against discriminatory provisions on miscegenation a... More

Conqvista de las islas Malvcas

First ed. Cf. H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 205, no. 33. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 33 Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 16089 Sabin, 1946 Also available in digital form on the L... More

Mutus liber, L'Alchimie - Public domain portrait engraving

In Latin Attributed to a possibly fictitious Jacob Saulat or Sulat (of which Altus is an anagram) and also to a doctor Tolié . Cf. E. Canseliet L'Alchimie et son Livre muet {1967} The plates , re-engraved afte... More

Illustrated alphabet, Confederate States of America.

Illustrations are drawn from agricultural or rural life. Lithographed in blue and orange. Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, 4058 Form AACR2: vj36 2003-12-17

Collection of sixteen pieces: menus, tickets, programs, etc

16 pieces.; Gift Roswell Hawley.; April 25, 1956.; Page Order: Pieces 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 are Leaflet; Piece 5 is a Multipage. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page... More

Freedom, a journal of constructive anarchism

Unknown Serial.

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Butterfly's ball, and the grasshopper's feast

Cover title. "Embellished with eight colored engravings." The Ill. are hand-colored. In verse. In illustrated green printed wrapper. Baltimore directories show William Raine printing in Baltimore in the early ... More

Marmaduke Multiply - Drawing. Public domain image.

In verse. Blakeman & Mason were at the above address in 1862. Americanized edition of a work originally published in England in 3 parts, in 1816 and 1817. The rhyme "4 times 11 are 44, I bought this book at F... More

The tale of Benjamin Bunny - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Recat. to AACR2: vj15 04-10-00; formerly classified: PZ10.3.P47 Tabb

Barnum's American Museum illustrated

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Cover title. Copy 2 formerly shelved in Reserve Storage.

A book for the "impending crisis"! Appeal to the common sense and patr...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The Butterfly's ball, and the grasshopper's feast

Piratas de la America : y luz à la defensa de las costas de Indias Occ...

In three parts. Title in red and black; on verso of t.-p., the arms of Pardiñas Villar de Francos; engr. vignette (p. 20). "Descripción de las islas del mar Athlantico y de America. Por el capitan D. Miguel d... More

Little Red Riding Hood - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress...

In verse. 11 full-page illustrations including in pagination. Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 133 With: Bayley, F.W.N. Jack the giant killer. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. LC copy ... More

The cats' party - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Cover title. Copyright 1869. Leaves printed on one side only, printed pages face each other. First and last leaves pasted to paper wrapper. In illustrated paper wrapper with publisher's advertisement on p. [4]... More

The Children's object book - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

"Designed in England and printed by G. Loewensohn at Fürth, Bavaria"--Front pastedown. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A child's garden of verses - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Prideaux, W.F. Stevenson, p. 39 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

Each letter of the alphabet begins the name of an African-American servant on a fictional plantation in a rhyme that imitates southern black dialect. Each rhyme faces a full-page color illustration of the char... More

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Politician's manual. The Constitution of the United States of America,...

Also available in digital form.

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Drawing. Public domain image.

Endpapers illustrated in colors. "Copyright 1908"--T.p. verso. LC copy imperfect: endpapers damaged in rebinding, paste-downs removed. LC copy is a copyright deposit. Two copies received Aug 17, 1908. Copyrig... More

La vie saint Anthoine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Abridgment of the life by St. Athanasius. Woodcut of St. Antonius on t.p. (repeated on verso). Goff A-888 GW 2207 Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 388

Collection of sixteen pieces: menus, tickets, programs, etc

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

Forty-second annual report of the Association for the Benefit of Color...

The regulations, rules, and officers of the Association, plus a treasurer's report, children's letters, etc. "Asylum, 143d Street, Tenth Avenue." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web si... More

Marmaduke Multiply - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

The twelve magic changelings - Rare book, public domain, Library of Co...

"Cut-outs for children of Mary and her little lamb, Humpty Dumpty and the egg, Tom the piper's son and his pig, The town mouse and the country mouse, Silverhair and the little wee bear, Robinson Crusoe and his ... More

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Andreae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome

Signatures; A-M¹, 2 leaves unsigned. Illus. by J. S. van Calcar. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 906 LAC brd 2018-11-14 update (1 card) LAC kcc 2018-11-15 review

The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

Our old nursery rhymes - Public domain music sheet scan

An illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes with accompanying music. For voice and piano; interlinear words. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

ABC in Dixie : a plantation alphabet

Alfred Crowquill - Beauty and the beast

In verse. With: Bayley, F.W.N. Jack the giant killer. New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845. LC copy has hand-colored illustrations.

The tale of Johnny Town-mouse - Rare book, public domain, Library of C...

Das nüv Schiff von Narragonia ..

Unauthorized reprint containing a number of additions not by Brant. Cf. Goedecke's Grundriss, 2nd ed., I, p. 385. Rosenwald 172 Goff B-1084 GW 5050 (variations) IGI 2042 Schramm, XX, p. 4 and illus. Bound with ... More

Ruines du Mexique et types mexicains

Title from album cover. Album of 52 photographs: 42 of Mexican ruins (Charnay), and 10 "Tipos Mexicanos" by Julio Michaud. Charnay images have handwritten captions in French; Michaud images have printed capti... More

The modern athlete, - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sc...

Picryl description: Public domain rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A new hieroglyphical Bible for the amusement & instruction of children...

"Recommended by the Rev. Rowland Hill, M.A. From an English edition." Woodcut illustrations by Alexander Anderson. Cf. Haviland. Shaw & Shoemaker 30872 Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 513.3 Haviland, V. ... More

Apuleius Herbarium, 15th century

Rosenwald 237 Goff H-58 Hain 1322 Copinger 532 (variant) BM 15th cent., IV, p. 131 (IA.19267) (variation) GW 2300 LC copy: woodcuts hand-colored. Provenance: F.W.T. Hunger, Amsterdam (bookplate).

A Christmas carol - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress scan

Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress. Cover illustrated in gilt; illustrated end-papers. Illustration dated 1911. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC co... More