Shigemasa Kitao - Yayoi asukayama hanami
Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party beneath blossoming cherry trees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the s... More
Yukata no tachi bijin, Shunsh Katsukawa
Print shows a young woman standing, holding a fan, wearing a loose-fitting gown. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: wide Hashira-... More
Chidori no tamagawa, Shunman Kubo - Ukiyo e print
Print shows three women(?) watching plovers dive over the Tama River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Mu tamagawa : S... More
Shodai arashi ryūzō (no yakko ukiyo matabei to) sandaime ōtani hiroji...
Print shows actors Arashi Ryuzo I and Otani Hiroji III. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. Adachi modern ... More
Fugu no bijin to kurage no tomo, Shigenobu Yanagawa
Print shows a courtesan followed by a suitor offering her a gift. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Shikishi Nishikie Surimono... More
Azuma no mori no yau Andō Hiroshige
Print shows two travelers on a roadway in the rain at night. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: horizontal Oban Nishikie. Moder... More
[Mrs. John Tyler, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
Photo of portrait. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
General Washington painted by Gabriel Stuart, 1797 ; engraved by James...
Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, facing slightly left, standing in front of a chair, with right arm extended toward a table on the left, and holding a sword in left hand. After a portrait pa... More
Kakegawa, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing
Print shows elderly people walking across the bridge at the Kakegawa station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From... More
Hiratsuka, Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji
Print shows porters ladened with bundles walking past a small shrine near the Hiratsuka station on the Tōkaidō Road with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More
Utagawa Hiroshige - Tsuchiyama, Ando Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Print shows travelers crossing a bridge spanning a raging river, during a rain storm near the Tsuchiyama station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Ed... More
Utagawa Hiroshige - Yokkaichi, Ando Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a man running along an earthen wharf, chasing his hat which the wind has blown off; another person stands on a wooden portion of the pier, and there is a small fishing village on the left. Title and... More
Goyu, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing
Print shows travelers walking down street between many stores, shops, and inns at the Goyu station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More
Okazaki, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing
Print shows porters and retainers carrying bundles and a sedan chair across the bridge at the Okazaki station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More
The pipe dance and the tomahawk dance / F. Barinsou ; painted at the t...
Native men performing the pipe dance and the tomahawk dance. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis. Philade... More
Azuma no mori no yau Andō Hiroshige
Print shows travelers on roadway near the entrance to the Azuma Shrine during a rainstorm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the se... More
Haneda no rakugan, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a narrow strip of land leading to a larger piece of land with a torii and buildings, ships in the large expanse of water around the peninsula, and geese descending toward land. Title and other descr... More
Section of revolving catoptric light; plan of revolving catoptric ligh...
Illus. in: Plates Accompanying Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Improvements in the Lighthouse System and Collateral Aids to Navigation, detail of plate 16, (lower left). On lower right: Lith. by... More
Takema no uguisu, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan
Print shows two young women on a country path gathering plants and listening to a warbler in bamboo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. F... More
[Alterations to the U.S. Capitol including extensions and new dome, Wa...
Public domain image of architecture, drawing building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Colum...
In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 134. Notation: R. McClelland, Secretary; Franklin Pierce. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.
George Washington Campbell, secretary of the treasury, 1814
Photograph of painting shows George Washington Campbell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
[Portrait of Maj. John Roberts, C.S.A.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Portrait of two Federal soldiers. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of tintype in collection of John Rawls, Vienna, Va. American Memory edition timeline. No. 1061 Credit ... More
[Ulysses S. Grant, in uniform, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fro...
Photograph of etching was possibly a carte de visite before being trimmed to oval shape. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
David Octavius Hill - Portrait photograph of Mr. and Mrs. James Stuart...
Title devised. Lantern slide reproduction by Arnold Genthe of a calotype by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and photogr... More
A look into the future Coming events cast their shadows before.
Halftone photomechanical reproduction of a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and two African men beside a dead rhinoceros.
[General James Longstreet, C.S.A., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing...
Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Tsitadel' Pishpeka
Photograph shows drawing of the citadel at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 20.
Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows]
After a photograph by Major Calhoun and Dr. Bell. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 July 27, p. 468.
No. 7, Table Rock, Niagara - Victorian era public domain image
Print shows a landscape view of the waterfalls at Niagara from Table Rock with sightseers standing on the rock overlooking the falls. From a series formerly known as "The Ruggles Gems". Label on verso with tit... More
Seymour and Blair - Public domain portrait print
Photograph of drawing shows Horotio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, 1868 Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates, half-length portrait, Seymour facing front, Blair facing left.
[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]
E(?)4714 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edgar Parker.
Harper's Ferry by moonlight / G. Perkins ; R. Hinshelwood.
Steel engraving by R. Hinshelwood after painting by Granville Perkins. Copyright by D. Appleton & Co. Illus. in: Picturesque America / William Cullen Bryant. N.Y. :[c1872-], v. 1.
Light house at South-West-Pass, Louisiana
Above print: U.S. Light-house establishment, 1874. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1874, plate opposite p. 61.
[Bearded man, seated] - Daguerreotype, Public domain
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[Boy, seated] - Daguerreotype, Public domain
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A New England kitchen. A hundred years ago / H. W. P.
Image shows women, children and a man working at various activities in a colonial-era kitchen. Copyright by H. W. Pierce.
Dr. Benj. P. Brodie - Public domain portrait photograph
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[Ground floor plan, imperial high school, Erzurum]
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. In album: Imperial schools, architectural plans and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collect... More
[The plan of the basement of the Mekteb-i Sultani]
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. School is now called Galatasaray Lisesi. In album: Mekteb-i Sultani, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, buildi... More
[The basement plan of the Imperial Military Middle School in Kocamusta...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. In album: The Imperial Military Academy and other military schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II ... More
[Ground floor plan, imperial military middle school Şam-i Şerif Rüşdiy...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. In album: Imperial schools, architectural plans and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collecti... More
[Ground, first and second floor plans, imperial military middle school...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. In album: Imperial schools, architectural plans and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collecti... More
[Ground and first floor plans, imperial high school, Baghdad]
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountains, highland lands...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain landscape, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
William Phips, governor of Massachusetts, 1692 to 1694
William Phips, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Copyright by J.R. Osgood & Co.
[Pierre Jean de Béranger, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] /...
Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a fish hawk in flight. 9804S U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Ph... More
Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a man lifting a log. 9423 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Phila... More
[Tōtōmi sanchū], depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print
Print shows two men cutting lumber, a woman carrying an infant on her back is talking to a man sharpening a saw, with view of Mount Fuji in the distance.
Old State House, Boston - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Hereford Cathedral, England] - Victorian era public domain image
Public domain photograph of cathedral, church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Sōshū nakahara], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print
Print shows porters carrying bundles from a boat or warehouse (with thatched roof) at the end of a wharf, with distant view of Mount Fuji. Title from online source, other descriptive information compiled by Nic... More
U.S.S. Prairie. United States warship photograph collection
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The plans of the Imperial Military High School, Kuleli]
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Now known as Kuleli Askeri Lisesi. No. 26. In album: Military schools, students, and records, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part o... More
Annexation demonstration in San Domingo City--the Seybo regiment in th...
Crowd of soldiers inside fort, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1871. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor.
[Westminster Abbey, England] - Victorian era public domain image
Public domain photograph of vintage postcard, London, England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...
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[Enoshima in Sagami Province] - Public domain scan of drawing
Print shows travelers crossing a narrow strip of land to reach Enoshima, a small island in Sagami Bay, with view of buildings along the shoreline and of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title from online source, oth... More
Nevada Fall. Public domain reproduction.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Lichfield Cathedral, England] - Victorian era public domain image
Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century, vintage travel, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scarlet tanager on a cherry tree branch H.W. Herrick
Print shows a Scarlet tanager preched on a branch of a cherry tree. X53290 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed on stone on lower right. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Copyright stamp with dat... More
Pilgrim - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A. Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored peop...
Photograph of a painting. R.D. Bayley, Battle Creek, Mich. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Reproduction of page from notebook of Leonardo da Vinci showing the o...
Illus. in: Il codice atlantico di Leonardo da Vinici nella Biblioteca ambrosiana di Milano. Milano : U. Hoepli, 1894-1904. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leon... More
Admiral Porter's fleet at the mouth of the Yazoo
Print shows the Union vessels under the command of Admiral David D. Porter at the mouth of the Yazoo River, Mississippi, December 1862. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War / Alfred H. Guerns... More
Cow trunk fish, orange sea raven, common trunk fish (front view)
Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boots & shoes, Stuarts Limited, Leicester, Eng.
Title from jacket. "Made especially for the National Cash Register Company" on jacket. "43" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043113. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Moschke Ltd., Pietersburg - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[Andrew Kan & Co., china store, Portland, Ore.]
Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Felken Cycle Co., Denver, Colo.]
Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
C. Lindenberg Hollieferont, fish store, Berlin, Germany
Title from jacket. "Made especially for the National Cash Register Company" on jacket. "5" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043075. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
San Luis Rey Mission, No. 2, Oceanside by Louis K. Harlow
Print shows a view of an arcade enclosing a courtyard at the San Luis Rey de Francia Mission in Oceanside, California. AA66750 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 518. Label on verso with title and publication statemen... More
[Feeding pigeons, Piazza San Marco, Venice]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
C. Petznick Game, Berlin, Germany
Title from jacket. "Made especially for the National Cash Register Company" on jacket. "24" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043094. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Mission Dolores, San Francisco by Louis K. Harlow
Print shows a street-level view of the "Mission Dolores" with basilica in San Francisco, California. AA66753 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 521. Label on verso with title and publication statements. Printed on lab... More
A Workman in the cemetery Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana
"X 94" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021569. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[S.C. Cocke drugs, Fort Wayne, Ind.]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Charles Scribner's Sons, Paul Jones], engraving, Library of Congress
Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Heap of bones in the cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana]
Public domain photograph of Cuba, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alez Kunz, Berne, Switzerland - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Title from jacket. "Made especially for the National Cash Register Company" on jacket. "8" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043078. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[Heap of bones in the cemetery, Necropolis Cristobal Colon, Havana]
Public domain photograph of Cuba, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Disciples of Sappho - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sappho performing outdoors, before an audience. 70898B2 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting. On verso: T.R. Spence.
Painting that possibly belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Portion of an illustrated Japanese or Chinese manuscript or scroll tha...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese scroll painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More
Screen painting that belonged to Arnold Genthe
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Portrait drawing of Arnold Genthe by Robert Leonard
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Florence military prison series--"Washing up" / J.E. Taylor.
Prisoners of war being washed in large tubs. 13490 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 56. Photographic reproduction of watercolor by James E. Taylor, 1897.
[Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, half-length portrait, facing ...
21346 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Little, Brown & Co. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The hill at Guantanamo after the battle of Cuzco, June 14, 1898
Public domain photograph of Cuba, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Oregon, Capt. Clark and officers and crew of after 13 inch turr...
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Insurgents' camp at Guantanamo after capture, June 14, 1898
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Wreck of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, top of forward turret, 1898
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021542. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.