shooting

[The widows approach the chief]

Native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races.

Pompe funebre de Mirabeau, le 4 Avril 1791 Prieur inv. & del. ; Bertha...

Print shows the interior of the church of Saint-Eustache in Paris, France, during the funeral of the comte de Mirabeau, with members of the Garde nationale shooting rifles in salute, and in the background, cler... More

Fatinitza, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

K8211 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

An effective charge - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a family falling out of a wagon along with a basket of eggs and a crate of chickens; the horse was frightened by a man shooting a rifle at the "Rifle Yard" and has run off, hitting a rock, causing e... More

Battalion firing, kneeling, M[ichigan] M[ilitary] A[cademy], Orchard L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

What our forefathers did to "special privilege" / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows a British soldier trying to dodge bullets during the American Revolutionary War. Illus. in: Puck, v. 71, no. 1844 (1912 July 3), cover. Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

L'opinion / lith Van Geleyn. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of C...

Humorous print shows a theatrical performer on an outdoor stage shooting at a balloon, labeled "L'opinion," as a man leaps from the basket and a woman clings to a rope below the basket. Band members and another... More

Volley firing, U.S. Naval Academy

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Target practice - Public domain dedication image

"At the imperial Schutzenfest, Fritz Pickleheim led all the rest ..." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life m... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Shooting meteor - Public domain American piano sheet music

Taking physick, or, The news of shooting the King of Sweden, British C...

British caricature showing the King and Queen sitting in latrine, above which is part of the royal arms, the lion looking down and excreting. They look in horror at Pitt, who tells them of the shooting of Gusta... More

Panorama of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a man, the celebrated juggler, standing on a stage greeting the audience, sitting at his sides are two hurdy-gurdy players, one on a box labeled "Money Box" and the other on a box labeled "Quack Med... More

[The infantry students of the 2nd Company at the Imperial Military Aca...

A formation with columns of soldiers in lines, during firing drill. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 15. In album: Imperial military and medical schools, with student and teacher po... More

Poster - Hoyt's A black sheep - Public domain lithograph

41292 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell Morgan Print." Caption: The editor busy all day: 10 a.m., 10:02 a.m., 10 p.m. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." Direction, Fred E. Wright... More

[Eleven women police receiving marksmanship training]

Photoprint by National Photo Co.

Georgetown Preparatory School. Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory School...

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

First military execution in Washington; hanging of a private for shoot...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Snow on the ground. Regiment on the left without overcoats and carrying their knapsacks-. Inscribed left margin: Prime. Published in: Harper's Weekly, Jan. 25... More

Nemours gun club - Miss M.V. Lannan - trap-shooting, Apr. 6, 1914

Photograph shows a woman, "Miss M.V. Lannan", full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, posed in studio with shotgun for trapshooting. Inscribed in photo at top: Nemours Gun Club - Miss M.V. Lannan... More

Exemplum balistæ quadrirotis. Book illustration from Library of Congre...

Print shows two soldiers with a horse-drawn ballista. The device, mounted on a wagon, is manipulated like a crossbow, shooting large arrows at enemy fortifications. The horses are well covered with armor. Illu... More

[Killing alligators]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Natives attack and kill alligators by ramming a pole down it's throat, turning it over, beating it with clubs, and shooting it with arrows. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gall... More

Making a tenderfoot dance.. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

[The amateur circus at Nutley] - Public domain document scan of drawin...

A gentleman wearing a hat and spectacles stands before a hoop held by two clowns. The scene depicted in the center of the hoop is of Annie Oakley, standing on horseback, giving a demonstration of her shooting ... More

Frederic Remington - The last stand

George Custer, kneeling on left, and soldiers shooting at indians; soldier in center is carrying a wounded soldier. Copyright by W.D. Hanney(?). Reproduction of painting by Frederic Remington.

"Just to shoot wild Indians". Public domain reproduction.

Proof of lantern slide that illustrates lyrics to the song Yonkle, the Cow-Boy Jew by Will J. Harris (composer lyricist) and Harry I. Robinson (composer) shows Yonkle Finkelstein wearing a cowboy hat and aiming... More

Puck magazine cover - The first fourth / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows citizens celebrating the fourth of July by shooting rifles and setting off firecrackers, a man yelling the newspaper headline, and standing at center is an elderly woman wearing a banner that... More

The woman behind the gun / Gordon Ross.

Illustration shows a woman, possibly Coco Chanel, wearing a large hat with feathers, shooting at large white birds with a rifle; two dogs labeled "French Milliner" place the dead birds on a pile at her feet.

Fred Clark - Public domain weapon photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Phillip Sousa - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a rifle. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgetown Preparatory School. Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory School...

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

He fired into the darkness ... - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Unspeakable Gentleman" by J.P. Marquand, Ladies home journal, 39:23 (April 1922).

House-breaking, before sun-set, British Cartoon Print

British caricature showing man with musket "constitution" shooting bullets "resolve" from Treasury at man "truth" with hatchet and staff "loyality", man with axe "presumptive rights", man with crowbar "begum so... More

Blowing up the new opposition / Argus Invt., British Cartoon Print

Group of men, possibly the Foxite faction of Parliament, shooting guns and arrows at another group of men, the "new opposition," whose guns are misfiring. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection ( Li... More

"The hanging of Mitchell and Ketchum by the Olive gang"

summary: Note: Butcher staged this photograph to illustrate the hanging of Mitchell and Ketchum by I.P. "Print" Olive in 1878 for use in his PIONEER HISTORY OF CUSTER COUNTY original size: 6x8

Ed Hellyer, Alexandria, Pennsylvania - Public domain portrait photogra...

A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene on the Susquehannah [sic.] See the Foresters a poem

Print shows Alexander Wilson and two companions walking along a trail in a heavily wooded area near the Susquehanna River where they encounter a large rattlesnake blocking their way, one man raises a rifle to s... More

Spare cartridges - Public domain drawing

A soldier taking cartridge pouch from dead soldier; others shooting in background. (Probably drawn after war-time pencil sketch, for postwar illustrated publication.) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.6... More

Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot

2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly, 1866 May 26, p. 321. Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Gillette's Held by the enemy

51588 U.S. Copyright Office Created by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Lower right corner missing. N.Y. no. 8212. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

One result of abolishing the canteen / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows an intoxicated African American soldier shooting handguns in a street in front of "The Red Eye Hotel" where another soldier is being thrown out into the street. Caption: Respectfully submitt... More

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying a...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...

Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More

Hobson's choice -- you can go, or stay / J.A. Wales.

Cartoon showing man, wearing hat "Oregon," standing on cliff and shooting at Chinese; some Chinese lie dead on cliff and others are jumping off cliff into ocean. On ground lies torn "Treaty with China."

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry ...

48058 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyright 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 3351. Under the management of the author, Sidney R. Ellis. Forms part of: Theatrical p... More

"Aim higher!" / K. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows Uncle Sam standing next to a cannon labeled "Dept. of Justice" that is shooting at a floating target labeled, from the outer rim to bull's-eye, "Scapegoats and Dummies, Appraisers, Inspectors... More

The lower Jordan from the heights of Moab

Veiled person standing on bare cliff; below man standing in boat shooting rifle, while companion sits holding umbrella. J155740 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-26975.

Single men. Hundreds of thousands of married men have left their homes...

Poster showing two small scenes, of a woman and children at a meal at home, above, and of men shooting rifles, below.

Bart Lewis - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More

[Soldiers shooting from behind rock at Round Top]

Title devised and identified from inscription lower right of image. Incomplete sketch of fort and railroad tracks on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-72. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.999) Forms part of: ... More

St. James's volunteers firing at a target at Kilburn Wells, British Ca...

Print shows British soldiers shooting at a target with Napoleon's picture on it; he wears an oversized hat and carries a large sword. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

U.S.S. Maine, marine skirmish drill

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The mote in our neighbor's eye / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows at center, Uncle Sam as a policeman attempting to stop a bullfight, calling it a "brutal and degrading sport"; vignettes surrounding the main image show a "Six Day Bicycle Race" with exhausted rider... More

A sure shot. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows woman firing a small calibre lever-action rifle. Copyright 1900 by Geo. Phelps, New Haven.

Georgetown Preparatory School. Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory School...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The shooting of our presidents words and music by Seth A. Cook, compos...

Nemours gun club - Miss M.V. Lannan - trap-shooting, Apr. 6, 1914

Photograph shows a woman, "Miss M.V. Lannan", full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, posed in studio with shotgun for trapshooting. Inscribed in photo at top: Nemours Gun Club - Miss M.V. Lannan... More

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama.

C262915 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Death of Duranti. Created and "copyright 1897, The H.C. Miner Litho. Co., N.Y." Direction, Mr. Robt. Fulgora. No. 5502. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Librar... More

[Illustration of activities of Lapps and Finns: reindeer pair drawing ...

Woodcuts from Historia Delle Genti, by Olaus Magnus, the 1565 ed. of Historia de Gentibus Septrionalibus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Captio... More

[Apparatus for shooting large arrows], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Poliorceticōn, sive De machinis, tormentis, telis, libri qvinqve ... Antverpiæ : Ex officina Plantiniana, apud I. Moretum, 1599. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western tech... More

De Soto's party descending the Mississippi after his death / J.W. Orr,...

Indians in canoes shooting arrows at Spaniards. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, 1858, p. 499. Refe... More

[Full-length rear view of a man posed as if shooting a rifle]

Visit of the Ku-Klux / drawn by Frank Bellew.

African American woman cooking, man seated alongside, and three children, with man from Ku Klux Klan aiming rifle in doorway.

The upshot of the late elections --

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1980:080.1). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Skirmish drill, U.S. Naval Academy

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The sharp crack of the two revolvers rang out as one sound]

Title from Harper's. (DLC/PP-1932:0040). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Whirlwind Wooing" by Cyrus Townsend Brady, Harper's magazine, 103:89 (June 1901).

Something the enemy never did - Public domain dedication image

Photographic reproduction of editorial cartoon shows Vice Admiral William Sowden Sims attacking the World War I record of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division. Forms part of... More

First military execution in Washington; hanging of a private for shoot...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Snow on the ground. Regiment on the left without overcoats and carrying their knapsacks-. Inscribed left margin: Prime. Published in: Harper's Weekly, Jan. 25... More

Edward Penfield, Algerian cavalry

Two Algerian soldiers, one laying in grass, both with rifles. Their horses stand near the soldiers. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as cover ... More

[Title page from the Art of shooting in great ordnaunce... written by ...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Volley firing, U.S. Naval Academy

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "No. 7" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021376. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. Maine, marine skirmish drill, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by De...

Attribution based on negative D4-20553. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020565. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

Nebraska Farmers - Cowboy Dancing Lesson

summary: With this staged photograph S. D. Butcher attempted to illustrate the life of "Dick Milton," Butchers nom du guerre for Nebraska outlaw Doc Middleton. This photograph is paired with RG2608-2156e. In ... More

[Man in top hat entering room to stop shooting man]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0030). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece for: File No. 113 / Emile Gaboriau, New York : Charles Scribner's... More

J[oh]n Phillip Sousa - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a rifle. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fred Clark - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: Fred C. Clark [i.e. Clarke], former leader of the Pittsburgh "Pirates" but now of Winfield Kansas who has been a promient figure in the American Trap-shooting ... More

R.D. Morgan, Wash., D.C. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ed Hellyer, Alexandria, Pa - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Caption from caption list: Ed Hellyer Jr. champion of Pennsylvania, photographed today at the tournament o... More

[Soldiers shooting from behind rock at Round Top]

Title devised and identified from inscription lower right of image. Incomplete sketch of fort and railroad tracks on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-72. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.999) Forms part of: ... More

[Cannons shooting fire tubes to frighten charging cavalry troops who a...

Illus. in: De la pirotechnia. [Veneto] : 1540. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 37.

[Hunter shooting at birds in flight with lines indicating how the calc...

Frontispiece and title page in: The method of fluxions and infinite series / Isaac Newton. London : Printed by H. Woodfall, and sold by J. Nourse, 1736. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno... More

[Two men in the woods aiming rifles during hunt]

Inscribed in ink at lower right: Engraved by J.P. No. 7.3.

Red bird shooting - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed lower right: Naked boy in the reeds picks up bird. Formerly Waud no. C-99. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1026) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A sumptuous revival of Bret Harte's beautiful story, M'liss

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Annie Oakley / motion picture - movie film screenshot

Annie Oakley, the "Little Sure Shot" of the "Wild West," in an exhibition of rifle shooting. Copyright: no reg. Performer: Annie Oakley. Camera, William Heise. Duration: 0:21 at 30 fps. Summary from sources in ... More

E.L. Bartlett - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: E.L. Bartlett, champion of Maryland, photographed today... More

Georgetown Preparatory School. Rifles at Georgetown Preparatory School...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hobson's choice -- you can go, or stay / J.A. Wales.

Cartoon showing man, wearing hat "Oregon," standing on cliff and shooting at Chinese; some Chinese lie dead on cliff and others are jumping off cliff into ocean. On ground lies torn "Treaty with China."

Shooting meteor - Public domain American sheet music, 1877

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Edward Penfield, Algerian cavalry

Two Algerian soldiers, one laying in grass, both with rifles. Their horses stand near the soldiers. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as cover ... More

Captain Clark and his men shooting bears

Illus. in: A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps of discovery : under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States [...] during the years 1804, 1805 and 1806 [...] by P... More

[Man shooting from horseback] - Public domain book illustration

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

Will's rifle went off, but without effect

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Rendezvous at East Gorge" by E. Vinton Blake, St. Nicholas, 19:683 (July 1892).

Skirmish target practice, [United States Military Academy], West Point...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

E.L. Bartlett - Public domain portrait photograph

A man with a cane and a hat is standing in the grass. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description