reading

[Medieval book collector sitting at desk, reading]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Das Narrenschiff. Basel : Johann Bergmann, de Olpe, 11 Feb. (Fastnacht) 1494. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard... more

[Reading a love letter]

Print shows a young woman reading a love letter. Title devised by Library staff. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Haha to ko

Print shows a mother and her son with an open book; the boy is resting on top of the book, preventing his mother from reading it. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... more

Jakuren Hōshi

Print shows two figures, possibly the two lovers from the poem "Loving two people equally" based on the legend of Unai Otome; one lying on the floor reading (poetry?) is wearing a kimono with oragami cranes dep... more

Hon yomu musume tachi

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Chuban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kannazuki

Print shows a man sitting on a veranda, reading, an incense urn next to him, and a woman standing at a door looking over his shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored E... more

Le petit déjeuner

Print shows a young woman sitting at a table, reading a letter(?), and having tea or coffee. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil on lower right corner: Le petit dejéuner. Forms part of: Popular graphic art pri... more

Girl reading a letter dessiné par J.B. Huet peintre du Roi par son trè...

Print shows a young girl, half-length portrait, in right profile, reading a letter; in a framed medallion with leafy boughs at top. Title devised by Library staff. Printed at bottom: Dédié a Me. Huet. Printed o... more

Kobikichō arayashiki koiseya ochie

Print shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman reading a book. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. A... more

Fumiyomu onna

Print shows a half-length portrait of a woman reading a letter. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fujo ninsō juppon : T... more

Yogoto ni au koi

Print shows head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing right, reading from a scroll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... more

Shinozuka uraemon no (miyako za) kōjō zu

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938. Forms p... more

[Eight men around table, drinking and smoking; one is reading]

Illus. in: The Merry Fellow's Companion, 1797, frontis. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Eating & Drinking; Shelf.

Matsubaya uchi yoyotose yoyoginu

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Hanafuji eijo

Print shows Hanafuji Eijo, facing left, sitting, reading. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Saishikizuri Kyoka Ehon. Part of a... more

Tales of wonder! / Js. Gillray, inv. & ft.

Print shows three women sitting at a round table listening intently to a fourth who reads from The Monk by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. (Source: George) Title from item. Catalo... more

Ishiyakushi

Print shows an elderly traveler or monk reading banners hanging above a watering trough; his hat is on the ground behind him. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... more

Shichidanme

Print shows Yuranosuke reading a long letter without noticing that Okaru, Kampei's lover, seated on a railing above, and Kudayū, one of Moronō's retainers, hiding under the veranda, surreptitiously read the let... more

Kyōka hachi taika sono ni

Print shows four men (poets) sitting around a table with an open book. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: color printed Kyōka b... more

Nihonzutsumi no rakugan tamaya uchi Tamagushi

Print shows Tamagushi, a courtesan, full-length portrait, with several hairpins, seated, reading a scroll; picture hanging on the wall above her shows geese descending on the Nihon embankment. Title and other d... more

Geb[h]ō no atamazori

Print shows a woman reading, sitting in a chair at a cabinet containing tea service utensils, on the wall behind her is a print showing two of the seven lucky gods, Daikokuten shaving Fukurokuju's head.

Kyōka hachi taika

Print shows four men (poets) looking at a scroll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: color printed Kyōka book. Part (frontispie... more

Das allegrösste Bilder ABC. B bei Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin

Print shows the letter "B" formed by a monk and another man, with examples "Böttcher" showing coopers making barrels; "Bettler" showing an old man with a crutch, begging on the street; "Bärenführer" showing a m... more

[A woman seated, facing front, reading a scroll spread out in front of...

Title devised by Library staff. Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date... more

Yushima shōkintei

Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo through opening in rear. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... more

Als nun Eulenspiegel mit dem Rector und etlichen Magistris kam, legte ...

Illustration for a story showing Eulenspiegel wearing the hat of a jester, standing in a stable with members of the clergy watching a donkey turning pages in a book that had been placed in its feeding trough, g... more

[Two women standing over seated reading woman]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Ein Neues Trauer-lied ...

In German, a poem, entitled "A New lament," which tells the tale of Susanna Cox (1785?-1809), who was executed for the murder of her illegitimate child.

Magdalen contemplating

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Rahl, C. Correggio. Nor... more

Fumi yomu musume

Print shows a young woman, full-length, standing, facing left, reading a letter. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban... more

Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Title from item. Baird, California ... more

Map of Berks County, Pennsylvania : from surveys /

General-content county map also showing rural buildings and householders' names; the borough insets also show real property (lot lines, some with numbers) and landowners' names. Relief shown by hachures. Hand c... more

Befiehl dem Herrn deine Wege u. hoffe auf ihn er wirds wohl machen gez...

Print shows an interior scene with a woman, holding an infant, seated next to a man who is reading from a bible; a young child leans through the frame to offer a spoonful of food to a bird perched on a branch, ... more

Town meeting. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the town o...

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 63, Folder 4.

[Reading by lamplight]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table. Exhibit caption (2014): With deft handling of line and light, painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler created this s... more

[Reading by lamplight]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table.

[The slipper]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading in bed with single slipper on the floor. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchin... more

[Three children]

Illus. in album: Autograph etchings by American artists, copyright by John W. Ehninger, opposite poem entitled "Childhood."

Dog law. An act concerning dogs. Approved April 6th, 1859 ... The cons...

Dog law. 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 64, Folder 15.

[Figure wrapped in blanket sitting on a barrel and reading]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-161. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.925) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Sheriff's sales of real estate ... Seized and taken into execution and...

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 157, Folder 9.

Group on the porch

Stereograph showing groups of men sitting on the porch reading newspapers. Series: American Scenery. Saratoga. No. 527. Title from item. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Sheriff's sale of real estate ... Seized and taken into execution, and...

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 157, Folder 6.

Dog license [Blank form] 186-.

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 73, Folder 30.

[Officer reading a letter]

Full length portrait of a cavalry officer. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.607) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Map of Berks County, Pennsylvania : from actual surveys /

Christmas stories

Photograph of a staged scene showing a family reading at Christmas. Title from item. Card number: "No. 403." Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 17. Forms part of the Larry G... more

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. To either of the constabl...

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 67, Folder 33.

The Book-worm painted by C. Spitzweg ; lith. by Thielley

Print shows a man in a library reading a book atop a library-ladder, with books in hand, between his legs, and under his arm. No. 45474. Title from item. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. S... more

Sergeant Frederick Woehler, Company A, 32nd Regiment Indiana Volunteer...

Drawing shows a full-length portrait of Sergeant Frederick Woehler seated, reading with a dog on his lap. Title devised by Library staff. On sheet: Col. Sergt. [...] Woehler, 32nd Regt. Ind. Vols. Co. A. killed... more

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex. ss. To either of the Constab...

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 72, Folder 52.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 69, Folder 24. Copy scanned: 1

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 69, Folder 32. Copy scanned: 2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

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 69, Folder 16.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

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 69, Folder 27.

Exempts! Dr. Cutter, of Woburn, will be at Lyceum Hall, Reading, on Tu...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. To either of the constabl...

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 70, Folder 5.

[Black man reading newspaper by candlelight]

Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1985:0490). Forms part of: Cabinet of Am... more

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex. ss. To either of the constab...

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 70, Folder 8.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. To either of the constabl...

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 70, Folder 17.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex ss. To either of the Constabl...

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 70, Folder 10.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

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 71, Folder 12.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 2.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 5.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the Constab...

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Chtenie piatiknizhiia

Photograph shows a Jewish man, wearing a prayer shawl, reading the Hebrew bible. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 77.

Notice. For the information of those who paid money for recruiting pur...

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 71, Folder 35.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Vyslushivanie urokov

Photograph shows a Jewish man handing books to young boys. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

Notice to tax payers ... Reading, May 1, 1865.

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 71, Folder 31.

Notice. The subscriber have been informed that certain persons who fre...

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 71, Folder 33.

Gratitude! The citizens of Reading are hereby invited to meet in Lyceu...

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 71, Folder 43.

Soldiers' monument. The returned soldiers are invited to meet at the a...

Title. 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 71, Folder 48.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 32.

President A. Lincoln reading the Bible to his son / retouched and phot...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln, seated, facing right, reading to his son Tad, standing to the President's left, facing front.

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Chtenie Korana (Khotli [sic] Kuran)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 27.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 51.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Pervye uroki

Photograph shows a Jewish (?) man with a young boy who is reading a book. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Chtenie psalmov

Photograph shows two Jewish men, wearing a prayer shawls, reading the Hebrew bible(?). Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 77.

By-law. The following by-law adopted by the inhabitants of the town of...

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 71, Folder 39.

Town meeting. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the Town o...

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 72, Folder 1.

A letter from home - on the Allenkaket River, Alaska

Man sitting outside tent(?) reading letter, shotgun across his lap, and a dog sitting at his feet. 64381 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11543. Copyright by B.L. Singley.

Town meeting. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the Town o...

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 72, Folder 22.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 72, Folder 24.

For sale. The premises formerly owned and occupied by Mr. Seth Sweetse...

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 72, Folder 27.

[Woman looking at book as another woman points to something in the boo...

Title devised by Library staff.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 72, Folder 26.

The Lincoln family

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3816

Charles Dickens as he appears when reading / sketched by C.A. Barry.

Charles Dickens, full-length portrait, facing front, standing at lectern. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 11, no. 571 (1867 December 7), p. 777.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. "At the Superior Court, ...

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 72, Folder 38.

Town meeting. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the Town o...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 72, Folder 41. Copy scanned: 1

Town meeting. Middlesex. ss. To either of the Constables of the Town o...

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 72, Folder 35.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 73, Folder 6.

The Fairy Story imp. New Eng. Lith. Co. Boston

Print shows two girls, possibly sisters, reading a fairy tale together. Title from item. Copyrighted 1869 by Chas. A. Barry. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869 by Chas. A. Barry, in the Cler... more

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex. ss. To either of the Constab...

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 73, Folder 4.

Views in vicinity of Reading. Reading Road around Flying Hill James Cr...

No. 81. Title from item. Photographer's label pasted on verso. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Collector's office of Reading. To 187- Your tax for the year 187 amoun...

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 41.

Young America in the nursery

Three girls reading, writing, etc., at table, with boy lying under the table, stereograph viewer on table, and baby lying on floor. 2531 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by M.M. Griswold. Griswold's Compositions.

[Judge or minister holding a book]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).