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[With pony and cart] - Public domain dedication image

[With pony and cart] - Public domain dedication image

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Rhyme of the Two Little Browns" by Mary Elizabeth Stone, St. Nicholas, 2... More

Music's charms. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Music's charms. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Woman playing piano and man listening. Photo by Leo D. Weil. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Music Piano; Sentimental; Aged; Birthdays.

If flowers have a language as hath often times been said, I wonder if the buttercups would cry aloud for bread

If flowers have a language as hath often times been said, I wonder if ...

(DLC/PP-1934:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as comic in: Harper's round table, 17:812 (June 16, 1896).

[N.Y. (City) Harbor: SS ST. LOUIS - full, broadside view]

[N.Y. (City) Harbor: SS ST. LOUIS - full, broadside view]

Photo copyrighted by A. Loeffler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY NYC Statues; New York NYC Waterfront; Ships; Shelf.

[A prophet was among them] - Public domain dedication image

[A prophet was among them] - Public domain dedication image

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0040). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Kentuckians" by John Fox, Jr., Harper's magazine, 95:242 (July 1897).

[The editorial page and the news columns]

[The editorial page and the news columns]

In what appears to be an apotheosis scene, a figure of a man (presumably an editor) adorned with large wings stands on top of a mound of money (signified by a large dollar sign). Behind him a blazing sun with ... More

Bright! she remarked--bright as a new dollar

Bright! she remarked--bright as a new dollar

(DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Bishop's Memory" by Marguerite Merington, Harper's magazine, 96:897 (May 1898).

The constitutional amendment!. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The constitutional amendment!. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also... More

Defeat of the British army [...] Défaite de l'armée Anglaise [...] / / dessiné par Hthe. Laclotte ; gravé par P.L. Debucourt.

Defeat of the British army [...] Défaite de l'armée Anglaise [...] / /...

Print shows a scene during the battle of New Orleans between the British under General Edward Pakenham and the Americans under Major General Andrew Jackson, with Mississippi River in the foreground. "Drawn on t... More

Jose Juaquin Carlos Mont[es?]fare

Jose Juaquin Carlos Mont[es?]fare

Silhouette bust portrait of a man, facing right. Blind stamp on white sheet: Peale. 1972; (DLC/PP-1972:268).

Negro dance / R. Bridgens del et lith. ; Day & Haghe lithrs. to the King.

Negro dance / R. Bridgens del et lith. ; Day & Haghe lithrs. to the Ki...

Print shows African Trinidadians playing music and dancing. Date based on years that Day & Haghe served as Lithographers to the King. Earlier version published in: Bridgens, Richard. West India scenery with il... More

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770 / Bute and Wilkes invent. ; Veridicus & Junius fect., British Cartoon Print

Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the ye...

Print shows a variety of scenes relating to the politics and government of England and how their actions at home and abroad may result in the loss of the American colonies; scene numbered 24 depicts Boston, Mas... More

Missions of San Buenaventura & San Isidro, New Mexico Highway 14, Mountainair vicinity, Mountainair, Torrance County, NM

Missions of San Buenaventura & San Isidro, New Mexico Highway 14, Moun...

Significance: During the early period of Spanish colonization in New Mexico, Franciscan missionaries undertook the conversion of the Salinas Pueblos. Four of the missions established at that time are now inclu... More

Grounds at Andersonville, Georgia, where are buried fourteen thousand Union soldiers, who died in Andersonville Prison / sketched by I.C. Schotel.

Grounds at Andersonville, Georgia, where are buried fourteen thousand ...

Includes Clara Barton raising the national flag, August 17, 1865, in far background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Oct., p. 633. Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005.

Knox entering camp with artillery / van Ingen ; White del.

Knox entering camp with artillery / van Ingen ; White del.

Henry Knox on horseback with soldiers transporting a disassembled canon on a sled through the snow, winter 1775-76, following his famous capture of artillery at Fort Ticonderoga.

[John Y. Mason, half-length portrait, nearly facing front]

[John Y. Mason, half-length portrait, nearly facing front]

Democratic Congressman from Virginia, 1831-1837; Secretary of the Navy, 1844-1845, 1846-1849; U.S. Attorney General, 1845-1846; U.S. Minister to France, 1854-1859. Identification from picture in The Green Bag, ... More

[William Bingham House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elevation]

[William Bingham House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elevation]

Elevation rendering, features Gibbs surround, Venetian and fanlight windows, decorative panels, and tentative sketches of circular motifs. In: The Bulfinch sketchbook. Drawing has not been definitively attribu... More

Sandwich-Carrots! - dainty Sandwich-Carrots / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect., British Cartoon Print

Sandwich-Carrots! - dainty Sandwich-Carrots / Js. Gy. ad vivam fect., ...

A buxom girl pushing a wheelbarrow of carrots along Bond Street, looking over her shoulder at an older man, possibly the son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who is tugging at her apron. In the background... More

Das alte Rom mit dem Triumphzuge Kaiser Constantin's im Jahre 312 n. Chr. / / Rundgemälde von den k. Professoren J. Bühlmann und Alexander Wagner in München.

Das alte Rom mit dem Triumphzuge Kaiser Constantin's im Jahre 312 n. C...

Photographs of the painted panorama designed by J. Bühlmann and executed in collaboration with A. Wagner. "New York: Franz Hanfstaengl Fine Art Publishing House ; London W.: J. Gerson." Photographs are mounted ... More

Kriss Kringle's Christmas Tree - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

Kriss Kringle's Christmas Tree - Public domain book illustration, Libr...

Title page illus. with scene of Santa Claus putting gifts on tree on table by fireplace; cat sleeps on chair. Illus. in: Kriss Kringle's Christmas Tree (E. Ferrett & Co., Philadelphia, 1845), title page. This r... More

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain  drawing

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain drawing

Signed lower right: W.W. Title inscribed below image. On verso study for DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no 14 (A size) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

Capture of Fort Harrison on the Chaffins Farm line of Works

Capture of Fort Harrison on the Chaffins Farm line of Works

Measured grid drawn in pencil over image to aid engravers. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed lower left: Troops in column of Division; The Brushwood nearly breast-high. Inscribed lower right: Troops formed ... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Furnace & heating - House of Representatives plan, elevation, detail]

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Furnace & heating - House of ...

Inscriptions on recto: "Wm. Lenthall Clerk of the Wks." "Details of the Hall of Representatives. Manner of constructing the flues for heating the Hall of representatives." "BHenry Latrobe furv. of pblc Bldg... More

[Indian council]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Indian council]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Theodor de Bry - [Adam and Eve in America]

Theodor de Bry - [Adam and Eve in America]

Allegorical print showing Adam standing, looking up, as Eve reaches for apple from the tree of knowledge. Serpent with head and upper body of a woman, entwined around the tree. Illus. in: A briefe and true rep... More

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Framing & ceiling plan - Hall of Representatives]

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Framing & ceiling plan - Hall...

Inscriptions on recto: "[...] Plan of the Framing of the Roof of the Hall of Rep. Washn." "Cieling [sic] of the Hall of Representatives, Capitol Washington BHLatrobe, Furv. PB." "Novr. 28th United States Was... More

Pleasontons Cavalry deployed as skirmishers

Pleasontons Cavalry deployed as skirmishers

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.392) Published in: Harpers' Weekly, 26 November 1862, p. 742. Reference print available in Ray, Plate 36 (p. 1... More

Thomas Jefferson--Third president of the United States / lithographed and published by H. Robinson, N.Y. & Washington, D.C.

Thomas Jefferson--Third president of the United States / lithographed ...

Thomas Jefferson, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right. Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

Evolution. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Evolution. Book illustration from Library of Congress

(DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1889, p. 425.

[Woman bending over cradle] - Public domain book illustration

[Woman bending over cradle] - Public domain book illustration

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0202). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street, Philadelphiadelphia

The House, intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth S...

Hand-colored engraving by Wm. Birch & Son. Illus. in: The City of Philadelphia...as It Appeared in the Year 1800..., 1800. Plate 13. Ref. copies may be in LOT 4384 D and K. This record contains unverified, old ... More

M'Donough's victy. on Lake Champlain / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

M'Donough's victy. on Lake Champlain / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows an American warship between two British ships during the battle on Lake Champlain (Battle of Plattsburgh). Smoke from the battle is visible in the background. Legend on image: American guns 86, Ame... More

[John A. Dix, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civilian dress, with long hair]

[John A. Dix, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, in civ...

Democratic Senator from New York, 1845-1849; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1861; Governor of New York, 1873-1875. Scratched on back of plate: 102; John A. Dix. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:4... More

[Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right]

[Sam Houston, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the right...

President of Texas, 1836-1838, 1841-1844; Democratic Senator from Texas, 1846-1859. Cut down to an irregular shape, edges trimmed. Scratched on back of plate: 340. Reverse image of DAG no. 233. Facing the light... More

The Lessing J. Rosenwald collection : a catalog of the gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943 to 1975.
Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock River

Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock River

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.151) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Hearst. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Hearst. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

James Monroe, L.L.D., President of the United States / painted by C.B. King ; engraved by Goodman & Piggot.

James Monroe, L.L.D., President of the United States / painted by C.B....

James Monroe, seated, at White House; view of Capitol in background. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Monroe, James, 1758-1831 Prints Three-quarters and full.

[Song of Ecuador (in the hammock), Peru]

[Song of Ecuador (in the hammock), Peru]

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

John Harris House, 4000 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

John Harris House, 4000 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, Jackson County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-11 Survey number: HABS MO-31-16 Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction

[Bank building ("2nd Bank of the United States"), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Partial cover sheet]

[Bank building ("2nd Bank of the United States"), Philadelphia, Pennsy...

Inscriptions on recto: "DESI[ ] FOR. A. BANK. OF. THE [...] AT PHILAD[...]" "By B. Henry B. Latrobe, late[...]" "1818" "Sculpsit [].[]." "1." Mounted on paper. Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms pa... More

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

City Market House, South Sixty & A Streets, Richmond, Wayne County, IN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS IN-24-14 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Le ballon de Lyon, nommé le de Flesselles de 120 pieds de haut sur 102 diametre, d'après les dimensions données par Mr. Montgolfier et élevé des Brotteaux jusquʹaprès de 1400 Toises, le 19 janvier 1784 ...

Le ballon de Lyon, nommé le de Flesselles de 120 pieds de haut sur 102...

Print shows the balloon, "Le Flesselles" ascending over Lyon, France, on January 19, 1784, carrying seven passengers including Joseph Montgolfier and Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC ... More

The leader of the herd - Public domain scenic drawing

The leader of the herd - Public domain scenic drawing

Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.301) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Night signalling. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Night signalling. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title inscribed on verso. "Signal Corps VIII 3" inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 12, 1864, p. 732. Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings File Q. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 191... More

[Military academy. Cellar floor plan]

[Military academy. Cellar floor plan]

Inscriptions on recto: "Cellar Story of a Military School" "Kitchen." "No 1" "BHenry Latrobe Archt Jany 26 1800." Mounted on paper. Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latr... More

[Chinese primary school classroom with teacher, smoking a long pipe, and students; includes Chinese language characters]

[Chinese primary school classroom with teacher, smoking a long pipe, a...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 316. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Steam Mill nr. the battlefield. used as a medical depot

Steam Mill nr. the battlefield. used as a medical depot

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 23, 1863, p. 333 Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.487) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions / J[ames] Akin, fect.

The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic pu...

James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scraw... More

Perry's victory on Lake Erie, Sept. 10th 1813 / drawn by J.J. Barralet ; engraved by B. Tanner.

Perry's victory on Lake Erie, Sept. 10th 1813 / drawn by J.J. Barralet...

Print showing numerous American and British battleships in close quarters on Lake Erie engaged in battle, September 10th 1813. 698 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed in pencil below title: With a key. Inscribed ... More

["Lightnin'" Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with his group in the woodyard at Darrington State Farm, Texas]

["Lightnin'" Washington, an African American prisoner, singing with hi...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Typed on back: "1. Lightning and his group singing in the woodyard, Darrington State Farm, April, 1934. See A-8, 182 H." Handwr... More

Sketch of officer of infantry. The colonel

Sketch of officer of infantry. The colonel

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.91) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Developpement de la montre à Roue de rencontre / PP. Choffard fecit.

Developpement de la montre à Roue de rencontre / PP. Choffard fecit.

Composite of ten figures of clock mechanisms, pl. 7. Engraving after a drawing by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. On verso of 1917 color woodblock print by Max Ernst, Battle of the fish.

The sloth / O. Herford. - Public domain book illustration

The sloth / O. Herford. - Public domain book illustration

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A child's primer of natural history / Oliver Herford. New York : Charles Scr... More

Ignavia / J B [J. Boyne]., British Cartoon Print

Ignavia / J B [J. Boyne]., British Cartoon Print

"North seated in a chair asleep, facing the spectator, head resting on his right shoulder..." (Source: George) Plate 2. This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Sati... More

Queen Victoria. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Queen Victoria. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Rebel fort & line of works near Burgess Mills evacuated by the rebels this morning

Rebel fort & line of works near Burgess Mills evacuated by the rebels ...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed on verso under title: The 6th Corps flanked them out./ AR.W./ 2n Apr. 65,/ On my way to Petersburgh.[sic]. Inscribed on recto, indicating key Spots: Woods. Pines. Oaks. Pines... More

Adam und Eva, im Paradies - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

Adam und Eva, im Paradies - Public domain book illustration, Library o...

Broadside with text, illustrated by image of Adam and Eve with the snake in the apple tree. Exhibit loan 4105-L.

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847

Storming of Chapultepec in Mexico, Sept. 13th, 1847

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

War! Or no war - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

War! Or no war - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

Another cartoon relating to the dispute between the United States and Great Britain over the northern boundary of American territory in Oregon. Opinion was sharply divided between support for a compromise claim... More

[Houdini makes spirit hands] - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

[Houdini makes spirit hands] - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

In this sequence of photographs Houdini demonstrated how spirit hands that appeared at seances were made by less ethereal beings. In "A magician among the spirits" Houdini described the mediumistic fraud known ... More

It nearly blinded him - Public domain dedication image

It nearly blinded him - Public domain dedication image

(DLC/PP-1933:0175). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "How Fritz became a Wizard" by John Kendrick Bangs, Harper's young people, 15:821 (Oct. 2, 1894).

The Devil's Den Gettysburg - Public domain  drawing

The Devil's Den Gettysburg - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on verso: C[entury] W[eekly] No. 20, pg 323. The struggle for Devil's Den, Gettysburg. Inscribed lower right: Vincents brigade driven in. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-19... More

Fredericksburg, night of the 11th

Fredericksburg, night of the 11th

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1863, p. 4. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.406) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawin... More

Andrew Jackson "The Union must and shall be preserved" / / painted by J.R. Lambdin ; engraved by J. Sartain.

Andrew Jackson "The Union must and shall be preserved" / / painted by ...

Full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with left hand on book on table.

Breaking up the Camps, of the Army of the Potomac

Breaking up the Camps, of the Army of the Potomac

Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed on verso: Incidences of the war. IV II. Two ink sketches of heads, and various pencil sketches of figures and head on verso. Fomerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the... More

Descente de la machine aerostatique des Srs. Charles et Robert

Descente de la machine aerostatique des Srs. Charles et Robert

Print shows Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert stepping out of their hydrogen balloon on a plain near Nesle, France after the first manned balloon flight in December of 1783. Printed text below image: Extrai... More

[Armory ("U.S. Arsenal"), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arsenal officers quarters -- ground plan]

[Armory ("U.S. Arsenal"), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arsenal officers q...

Inscriptions on recto: "Ground plan of the quarters of the Officers of the Arsenal proposed to be built at the N.E. angle." "Bedchamber" "Mefs room" "Storeroom Larder" "Hall leading to the quarters of t... More

Algonquin. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Algonquin. Book illustration from Library of Congress

View across a river (Potomac?); steamer at dock in foreground. Title inscribed upper right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.453) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms par... More

[August Belmont, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to right, with side whiskers]

[August Belmont, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to right,...

Financier; U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. Scratched on back of plate: 22; 26. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by... More

Study of drummer boys on the march

Study of drummer boys on the march

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.96) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Begged me "to soften asperities"

Begged me "to soften asperities"

Title on verso. Drawing probably traced from recto to verso. Drawing signed on recto. Either recto or verso published in "The Vaudeville Theatre" by Edwin Milton Loyle, Scribner's magazine, 26:486 (Oct. 1899). ... More

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore County, MD

Hayfields Farm Buildings, Worthington Valley, Cockeysville, Baltimore ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-17 Survey number: HABS MD-15

The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.

The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.39) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Pontalba Buildings, 1850 House, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Pontalba Buildings, 1850 House, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Orleans P...

1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N364 Survey number: HABS LA-1259-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000934

Pontalba Buildings, 1850 House, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Pontalba Buildings, 1850 House, Jackson Square, New Orleans, Orleans P...

1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N364 Survey number: HABS LA-1259-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000934

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano / Piranesi fecit.

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano / Piranesi feci...

Print shows a view of the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Exhibited: "From La Serenissima to the Eternal City : The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome" at The Mitchell Gallery, St. Joh... More

De Aquatilibus. Book illustration from Library of Congress

De Aquatilibus. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Monster whale sinking ship, men stripping blubber from whale, and sailers on back of whale they mistook for an island. Illus. in: Historiae animalium / Konrad Gesner. Tiguri : Apud C. Froschoverum, 1551-1558, p... More

Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861

Thanksgiving in camp sketched Thursday 28th 1861

Frederic Ray tentatively identifies this as the camp of General Louis Blenker. Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.327) Reference print availa... More

[Illustrated title page]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Illustrated title page]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Plautius, Nova Typis Transacta Navigatio, 1492, t.p. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Garden with people and apparatus for distilling a plant's medicinal essences]

[Garden with people and apparatus for distilling a plant's medicinal e...

Frontispiece in: Kleines Distillierbuch / Hieronymous Brunschig. Strassburg : J. Gruniger, 1500. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 179.

Aboro, che sempre stilla acqua per le foglie, nell'isola del Ferro

Aboro, che sempre stilla acqua per le foglie, nell'isola del Ferro

Tree growing in circular-walled well. Illus. in: Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, p. 179 (Venetia, 1572). Reference copy may be in SSF - ABORICULTURE. This record contains unverified, old data fro... More

Triplicus visus, directi, reflexi & refracti, de quo optica disputat, argumenta

Triplicus visus, directi, reflexi & refracti, de quo optica disputat, ...

Illustration showing aspects of optics: Battle scene with Archimedes' mirrors using sun to defend city of Syracuse against sailing ships, a rainbow, elephants crossing long bridge drawn in perspective, nude man... More

Navigational charts & designs: The demonstration of the wyndes

Navigational charts & designs: The demonstration of the wyndes

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 56. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

Navigational charts & designs: The table of the true place of the sune

Navigational charts & designs: The table of the true place of the sune

Illus. in: Martin Cortés, Arte de Navigation, London, 1589, fol. 24. Reference copy may be in SSF - Navigation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Moon; Sun; Ast... More

Mandioka root [being] prepared by Indian women to produced a liquid brew. This makes the tribesmen drunk

Mandioka root [being] prepared by Indian women to produced a liquid br...

Indian men drinking and dancing. Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, Frankfurt, 1593, pl. 75. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Johannes Lerii's account of the description of the method the Indians use for "barbecuing" human flesh

Johannes Lerii's account of the description of the method the Indians ...

Indians barbecuing and eating parts of human bodies. Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 155. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... More

[Title p. illus. with Spanish missionary in Philippines standing holding open book and branch]

[Title p. illus. with Spanish missionary in Philippines standing holdi...

Illus. in: Doctrina Christiana, en lengua espanola ytagala, Manila, 1593, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 7012. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Spani... More

[Manfred seated and pointing to two knelling men with falcons]

[Manfred seated and pointing to two knelling men with falcons]

Illus. in: De arte venandi cum avibus / Friedrich II, Emperor of Germany. Augustae Vindelicorum, Apud I. Praetorium, 1596. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library o... More

[Ore testing and ovens in assay laboratory with surrounding text]

[Ore testing and ovens in assay laboratory with surrounding text]

Illus. and text in: Beschreibung aller furnemisten mineralischen Ertz unnd Bergkwercks Arten / Lazarus Ercker. Franckfurt am Mayn : J. Feyerabendt, 1598. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Brun... More

[Dutch ships anchored in harbor of Helena Island in Arctic during Willem Barents' voyage of exploration in 159-]

[Dutch ships anchored in harbor of Helena Island in Arctic during Will...

Engraving by Raygnald Elftrake. Illus. in: Linschoten, 1598, p. 172-73. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Neth. Hist. 159-; Arctic Expl.; Geogr.; Publ. Ind.

Composite figures in cubist and surrealistic style composed of materials such as chain links, tubes, sieves and tennis racquets

Composite figures in cubist and surrealistic style composed of materia...

50 plates (t.p., frontis., Medici coat of arms to whom the work is dedicated, and 47 etchings). Illus. in: only known complete copy of Bizzarie di varie figure of Giovanni Battista Braccelli, publ. in Livorno, ... More

[Three ships sailing with birds or flying fish in the background]

[Three ships sailing with birds or flying fish in the background]

Illus. opposite p. 10. Illus. in: Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrandsz. Ovrnael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe vande Oost-Indische reyse..., Hoorn : Ghedruckt by I. Willemsz, 1646. "no. 3" upper right corner. This r... More

[Water-powered saw mill] - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

[Water-powered saw mill] - Public domain book illustration, Library of...

Illus. in: Edward Williams. Virginia: more especially the south part thereof, richly and truly valued ... (London, 1650). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Saw mills.

[Title page of a scriptural geology, The annals of the world, with border vignettes of Biblical kings Solomon and Nebuchadnezzar, temples before and after destruction, Cyrus, Vespasian, Adam and Eve, and the last supper] / R. Gaywood, fecit ; F. Barlowe, inv.

[Title page of a scriptural geology, The annals of the world, with bor...

Title page in: The annals of the world / James Ussher. London : Printed by E. Tyler for J. Crook and G. Bedell, 1658. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Con... More

[West Indies: manufacture of manioc or cassava]

[West Indies: manufacture of manioc or cassava]

Illus. in: Du Tertre, Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les François, Paris, 1667-1671, between pp. 420-421. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - INDUSTRY SUGAR MISC. 1667. This record contains unverif... More

Der kayserlichen residenz - stadt Wien / von Leonhard Loschge, buchhændlern in Nürnberg.

Der kayserlichen residenz - stadt Wien / von Leonhard Loschge, buchhæn...

Print shows the battle of Vienna, September 12, 1683, with numerous engagements among various forces in the near and middle distance, and Vienna in the background separated from the fighting by "the Vienna Rive... More

[Movement of human appendages and pulley systems compared using principles of mechanics and statics]

[Movement of human appendages and pulley systems compared using princi...

Illus. in: De motu animalium / Giovanni Alfonso Borelli. 2 vols. Romae : Ex Typographis A. Bernabo, 1680-1681. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, ... More

[Title page of John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (London, 1690)]

[Title page of John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (London, 1690)]

Ref. copy may be in Biog. File. Illus. in: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (London, 1690). This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: RBD; ... More

Title page Late Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions...-Written by Cotton Mather, London, 1691

Title page Late Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Poss...

Probably copied from volume with call number BF1575 .M3 1691 midi (Rare Book & Special Collections Division). Reference copy may be available in LOT 4443H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... More

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