salted paper prints

Karnak (Thèbes) - grande porte du nord vue du point X / Félix Teynard.

View of the great northern gate as seen from "point X" (see map, pl. 42 bis).

Karnak (Thèbes) - enceinte du palais vue du point H / FT [monogram] Fé...

View of the main temple wall from the southwest, at "point H" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard.... More

Major Burton, 5th Dragoon Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photogra...

Adolphus Burton, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, seated on a horse. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase... More

Captain Halford, three quarter length portrait

Captain Halford, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chambers (First Ind. Presbyterian) Church, N.E. cor. Sansom St. 1855

Photo shows a street view at an oblique angle of the Greek revival style Chambers Presbyterian Church with street railroad or trolley tracks on the street in the foreground. Inscribed in ink at top right: 28. ... More

[George H. Pendleton, Representative from Ohio, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 193. Each item includes subject's orig... More

[David L. Yulee, Senator from Florida, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-len...

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

[J. Morrison Harris, Representative from Maryland, Thirty-fifth Congre...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John B. Haskin, Representative from New York, Thirty-fifth Congress, ...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 53. Each item includes subject's origi... More

[Thomas J. Barr, Representative from New York, Thirty-fifth Congress, ...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 48. Each item includes subject's origi... More

[John W. Stevenson, Representative from Kentucky, Thirty-fifth Congres...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 226. Each item includes subject's orig... More

Residence of John McAllister ... Penn Square - Philadelphia. Build A.D...

Photo shows John McAllister, Jr., full-length, standing on the steps at the front entrance to his townhome; there are trees and a cast iron fence in the foreground with a gate on which are the letters "Penn Squ... More

[Detail of "Progress of Civilization," east pediment of the Senate win...

Photograph of maquette showing an Indian grave. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 117. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Columbia, Tenn. and vicinity / - Public domain old map

Sun print. Twenty-three sites are listed in the legend and keyed by letter to the map. Rivers are colored blue, and railroads are red. Description derived from published bibliography. Civil War salted paper map... More

Portion of a map being compiled in the Engr. Bureau, July 1864 : [east...

Relief shown by shading and hachures. Main entry from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S34 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In manuscript... More

Map of a portion of eastern Virginia, from a map in progress /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Sun print on paper composed of a number of sheets pasted together, sectioned in two, and mounted on cloth. Penciled 3/8-inch grid and ink annotations. At... More

Petersburg / Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows fortifications and names of some residents. Official [signed] N. Michler, Major [of Engrs.]. Civil War salted paper maps. LC copy annotated in pen-and-ink, watercolor, crayon and pencil to show picket lin... More

[Sketch of the environs of Shelbyville, Wartrace & Normandy, Tennessee

Scale ca. 1:150,000. Hand-colored photocopy showing roads, railroads, houses and names of residents, towns, rivers, and mills. Descriptions of six "Crossings (i.e., fords) of Duck River" appear below the map ... More

[Map of a portion of eastern Virginia].

Shows parts of eastern Virginia from Rappannock to Goochland, including names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Civil War salted paper maps. Sun print with pen-and-ink, crayon, and pencil annotations... More

[Map of a portion of eastern Virginia].

Shows parts of eastern Virginia from Rappannock to Goochland, including names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Civil War salted paper maps. Sun print with pen-and-ink, crayon, and pencil annotations... More

Maréchal Pélissier, G.C.B. - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Marshal Pélissier, full-length portrait, seated on chair, facing front, holding hat and swagger stick. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contem... More

[Second experiment with board trusses, after it had been broken down w...

No. 29 (handwritten) and 2530 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Scrap heap at Alexandria, composed of remains of cars and engines dest...

Portrait photo of Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Burghersh, C.B.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Burghersh, full-length portrait, wearing uniform and holding sword, seated on rock, facing slightly right.

[Third series of experiments with board trusses-shows the west end of ...

No. 39 (handwritten) and 2540 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

View of the lines of Balaclava from Guard's Hill; Canrobert's Hill in ...

Men, buildings, and tents on hillside above valley; below in the distance are more tents and hills. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Research C... More

Antifriction press - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows antifriction press on display. Salted paper photoprint by Claude-Marie Ferrier or Hugh Owen. Illus. in: Reports by the Juries, London, Spicer Brothers, 1852, v. 2 frontis.

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) - premier pylône - vue prise de la plate-forme d...

View of the pylons from the roof of the eastern colonnade on the island of Philae, as seen from "point P" (see map, pl. 85 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étud... More

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) - colonnade occidentale - ruines vues du point M...

View of the western colonnade on the island of Philae, as seen from "point M" (see map, pl. 85 bis). Blind stamp on mount: F Teynard. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l... More

Séboûah - temple - colosse et sphinx de la partie gauche de l'avenue /...

General view of colossus and sphinx on the left side of the avenue approaching the temple at Es-Sebua, Egypt.

[Capitol exterior, north wing]. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 25. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Omar Pacha & Colonel Simmons, Queen's Commisioner at the head quarters...

Colonel Simmons standing and Omar Pacha seated on a horse in front of building with tiled roof. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton series. Photo marked for cro... More

[John Coffee Hays, 3/4-length portrait, seated in chair and facing lef...

Attribution to Mathew Brady based on a similar portrait at Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. Image formerly misidentified as being Cyrus W. Field. Transfer; LC MSS Peter Force Collection (DLC/PP-45474).

Genl. P.O. Building. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph showing construction of the east face and north faces of the General Post Office building in Washington, D.C.

East front looking north. Progressive views of dome iv

Photograph showing east front of the Capitol with peristyle in progress. Men, including Montgomery C. Meigs, stand in driveway.

[William A. Howard, Representative from Michigan, Thirty-fifth Congres...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 278. Each item includes subject's orig... More

West front of Capitol, vii, peristyle complete

Photograph showing the Capitol dome under construction, with canal in foreground. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 39. Notations: Public gardens or Mall; C&O Canal; Goose Creek once is Tiber n... More

Frederick County, Maryland / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Signed in ink: Copy no. 7, J.N. Macomb, Lt. Col. A.D.C. Based on Isaac Bond's map of Frederick County, Maryland, published in 1858, this map indicates towns and villages, rivers and ca... More

[Grave of Corporal James Bryant of Co. E, 1st New York Light Artillery...

Photograph shows reproduction of drawing, probably by Larkin Goldsmith Mead, of a grave and a tree engraved "Corp. Jas. Bryant, Co. E 1st N.Y.A. died June 3rd 62." Drawing probably made by Larkin Goldsmith Mead... More

[Map of northern Virginia and part of Maryland].

Relief shown by shading. Shows area south of Frederick, Maryland to Colchester, Virginia and west of Baltimore, Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including fortifications at Munson Hill. Note on verso o... More

Williamsburg to White House / - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications, towns, roads, houses, names of residents, vegetation, and drainage. Principle rivers are hand colored in blue. "Photographic reduction by L.E. Walker, Treasury De... More

Topographical sketch of the country adjacent to the turnpike between N...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows parts of Williamson, Marshal, Rutherford, and Bedford counties, Tennessee. Indicates roads, towns, distances, rivers, houses and names of residents. Sun print. Civil War salted p... More

Loudon and Hampshire Railroad, near junction with Alexandria and Washi...

No. 33 (handwritten) and 2534 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Captain Ponsonby, Captain Pearson & Captain Markham, on the staff of S...

Captain Ponsonby, full-length, facing left, standing; Captain Pearson, full-length, facing forward, leaning in doorway; and Captain Markham, full-length, facing right, sitting in chair; all are in front of a bu... More

Track near the Potomac River, in Alexandria. Lumber; part of construct...

No. 9 (handwritten) and 2510 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Library... More

[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: two men boring hol...

No. 60 (handwritten) and 2561 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Yard at Alexandria, construction corps finishing portable bridge truss...

Building military railroad truss bridge across Bull Run, April, 1863

No. 46 (handwritten) and 2547 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Landing place, railway stores, Balaklava, looking up the harbour - Rog...

Men seated by railroad bed under construction next to Balaklava harbor. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs and his lett... More

View of the lines of Balaclava from Guard's Hill; Canrobert's Hill in ...

Men, buildings, and tents on hillside above valley; below in the distance are more tents and hills. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Roger Fenton Inventory, Harry Ransom Humanities Research C... More

Lieutenant General Sir William J. Codrington K.C.B. - Roger Fenton's C...

Lieutenant General William J. Codrington, standing behind horse, facing right. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

Cossack Bay, Balaklava - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

A building next to which is a pile of baskets and a holding pen with horses at the landing place on the cattle pier with several ships at dock in Balaklava harbor, also view of bell tents at water's edge and th... More

[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: two piles of rails...

No. 52 (handwritten) and 2553 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Charlotte Cushman, three-quarter length studio portrait, facing right,...

Inscribed in pencil on mount: Portrait of Charlotte Cushman. Image is a copy of a daguerreotype held by the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. (Source: researcher M. Higgins, 201... More

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) - édficie de l'est - vue générale prise du point...

General view from the banks of the Nile of the kiosk of the Emperor Trajan (Pharaoh's bed) on the island of Philae, as seen from "point C" (see map, pl. 85 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments ... More

Officers on the look-out at Cathcart's Hill - Roger Fenton's Crimean W...

Military officers, some with telescopes, looking towards Sevastopolʹ from Cathcart's Hill. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Frances M. Fent... More

Major General Estcourt, three quarter length portrait

Major General James B. Estcourt, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, arm resting on a wall.

Colonel Airey & Major Hallewell - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photograp...

Two officers, one standing by horse, the other reclining on ground, with two attendants nearby. Title transcribed from verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograp... More

[George W. Jones, Senator from Iowa, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-lengt...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 290. Each item includes subject's orig... More

[Dept. of Interior, part of south face on F St. north, east facade and...

Photo shows a U.S. government building at 7th and F streets, NW, in Washington, DC, while it was occupied by the Department of the Interior. Later known as the Patent Office Building. In album: Benjamin Brown F... More

[Erastus Corning, Representative from New York, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

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

[Timothy Davis, Representative from Iowa, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 292. Each item includes subject's orig... More

T.U. Walter, Archt. - Public domain print

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 8. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Dept. of Interior, south face and portico, Doric

Photo shows a U.S. government building at 7th and F streets, NW, in Washington, DC, while it was occupied by the Department of the Interior. Later known as the Patent Office Building. In album: Benjamin Brown F... More

[William Barksdale, Representative from Mississippi, Thirty-fifth Cong...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 181. Each item includes subject's orig... More

Topographical sketch of the environs of Nashville, Tennessee /

Shows railroads, turnpikes, and common roads merging on Nashville from the south. Villiages, churches, and the names of some residents are depicted along these routes. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 433.4 Descrip... More

Sparta and its vicinity / - Public domain vintage map

Scale [1:71,000] (not "one inch to the mile"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 440.5 Relief shown by hachures. Includes indexed inset "Plan of the town of Sparta", 9 x 9 cm. Another copy is in the John M. Schofiel... More

[Map of Catoosa County and parts of Whitfield, Murray, and Walker coun...

Relief shown by hachures. Contemporary Civil War photocopy, apparently made during the Chattagnooga campaign, showing roads, distances from selected places, railraods, drainage, types of vegetation, and the nam... More

Map of a portion of eastern Virginia, from a map in progress /

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Sun print with annotations. Mounted on cloth in 48 sections. At head of title: Chief Engineer's Office, D.N.V. Maj. Genl. J.F. Gilmer Chief Eng'r. "Sanxa... More

[Map of parts of Hanover, Goochland, Fluvanna, Albemarle, Louisa, Spot...

Relief shown by hachures. Sheets are numbered "Plate B, no. 2," "Plate C, no.1," "Range C, no.2," and "Range C, no. 3." Sheet "Range C, no. 3" is dated in the bottom margin "Mar. 31st 1864." Map shows cities an... More

Andersonville Prison, Georgia. South-east view, taken from the stockad...

Photograph shows prisoners using latrines in the foreground, a group involved in a court martial or trial of a prisoner on the left, a structure with four poles and a blanket roof used as a barber shop in the m... More

Lieutenant General Sir George Brown G.C.B. & officers of his staff Maj...

General Brown seated, and officers of the Light Division, most standing, wearing uniforms and hats. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: ... More

Turning over the bottom of an ark (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 8 (handwritten) and 2509 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Library... More

Experimental bridges (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing a man standing next to the bridge truss. No. 26 (handwritten) and 2527 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and e... More

Experimental suspension trusses of boards. The board suspension bridge...

No. 16 (handwritten) and 2517 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Part of Cobb County, Georgia / - Public domain old map

Shows location of the headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland. Relief shown by hachures. Differs from other 1864 ed. in omission of additional roads and names of residents. "Official issue. H.C. Wharto... More

[Camps on plateau before Sebastopol] - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Phot...

View of British camp with Turkish camp in the distance. Alternate title from: George Eastman House Roger Fenton Series. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

[View from the top of a car on the extreme end of the Burnside wharf l...

No. 23 (handwritten) and 2524 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Experimental suspension trusses of boards (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing two men standing on suspension trusses of boards. No. 14 (handwritten) and 2515 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virgi... More