Travel

Flight into Egypt AD monogram

Print shows Mary and infant Jesus on a donkey being led through a forest by Joseph. Title devised by Library staff. Trimmed to image. Print no. 201 from Marsh Collection.

La herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit tou...

The Natives of Florida worship the column erected by the commander on ...

Chief Athore with René Laudonnière, commander of the second French expedition to Florida, standing by column erected by Jean Ribaut during first expedition, showing Natives worshiping the column and many offeri... more

Vera totius expeditionis nauticæ : descriptio D. Franc. Draci ... /

[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.

[Bacon's ship embarking on a voyage, flanked by mythical pillars of He...

Frontispiece in: Instauratio magna / Francis Bacon. Londini : Apud J. Billium, 1620. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, opp. p. 1.

[Saint Brendan, 484-577, figurative map of St. Brendan's legendary voy...

Repr. of engraving. Illus. in: Plautius, Caspar. Nova Typis ...1621, p. 13. Reference copy may be in LOT 4409A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Legends; Brend... more

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes scenes of apostles at bottom of sheet. Attributed to Richard Blome. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also throu... more

Thomas Jefferson, 1779, Permit for Torriano to Travel While on Parole

Permit for Torriano to Travel While on Parole

Thomas Jefferson to Julius Ludwig August Pelnitz, July 1779, Draft of ...

Draft of Pass Allowing Travel with Friedrich Adolph, Baron von Riedesel

Smith, August 2, 1790, Travel Expenses

Travel Expenses

Fuyu no yanebune

Print shows three women on a houseboat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: probably one of a vertical Aiban Nishikie triptypch.... more

Mutamagawa senmen harimaze

Print shows several fans with landscape scenes, a man traveling on horseback, and two women doing laundry or ironing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speciali... more

Mitsuke

Print shows a man poling a boat filled with passengers on the Tenryu River at the Mitsuke station on the Tōkaidō Road, with Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nich... more

A few small temples still retain their lines of classic beauty. With t...

Photographs show ruins of the Acropolis and Frank Carpenter with the Prime Minister of Greece, Colonel Stylianos Gonatas, Athens, Greece. Title from item. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. Written ... more

Thomas Jefferson, March 13, 1808, Rembrandt Peale Character Reference ...

Rembrandt Peale Character Reference for Foreign Travel

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

Pawnee Council / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sculpt.

Illustration shows Major Stephen H. Long and members of his expedition meeting with a Pawnee council.

Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sc...

Illustration shows members of Major Stephen H. Long's expedition marching across the plains toward the Rocky Mountains. Buffalo can be seen in the distance. Title from item. Illus. in: Account of an expedition ... more

Kadoide yoshi

Print shows a woman walking past a pine tree at the beginning of a journey. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Hanazon... more

U.S. Reports: Tarver v. Tarver and Others, 34 U.S. (9 Pet.) 174 (1835)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 34; Peters Volume 9; January Term, 1835; Benjamin J. Tarver, Appellant v. Samuel B. Tarver, Charlotte Tarver and Patience Gibson

The way they travel in the West

Man in a small boat being pulled by two sea urchins. Illus. in: The Crockett Almanac, 1840, last page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392-5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption c... more

Emiline [travel attire]

Print shows a full-length portrait of a young woman wearing a bonnet and dress for travel. 70 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by J. Baillie, in th... more

Emiline [wedding gown]

Print shows a full-length portrait of a young woman a wedding gown.

Die Lemminge auf Reisen X.A. G.F. E.E. sc

Illustration for a book of fables shows a group of lemmings on a journey towing a nutshell boat behind them. Title from item. Signed on block on lower right. Inscribed in red ink on verso: 44751. Inscribed in p... more

Friedr. Hecker's Abschied in Strasburg auf seiner Reise nach Amerika

Print shows Hecker (center figure) bidding farewell to a group of townspeople. Title from item. Four line quote in German below image begins: Selzt EureHoffnung nicht auf mich allein, einen sterblichen Mann... ... more

U.S. Reports: Strader et al. v. Graham, 51 U.S. (10 How.) 82 (1851)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 51; Howard Volume 10; December Term, 1850; Jacob Strader, James Gorman, and John Armstrong, Plaintiffs in error, v. Christopher Graham

U.S. Reports: United States v. Guillem, 52 U.S. (11 How.) 47 (1851)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 52; Howard Volume 11; December Term, 1850; United States, Appellants, v. Baptiste Guillem, Claimant of One Box of Specie, The

Egyptian man sitting on a rug and smoking a hookah

Title devised by Library staff. In: Nile diary, 1852-1853. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of C... more

The American expedition, under Commodore Perry, landing in Japan, July...

Print shows Commodore Matthew Perry and his crews being received by the Japanese as they land in Japan. Title from item. Caption by Bayard Taylor: "The officers comprising the Commodore's escort formed a double... more

Dancing dervish R.M.H

Drawing shows an Egyptian man practicing Sufi whirling meditation. Title from item. In: Nile journal, biography VI. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010... more

The Passport Bureau

Drawing shows a passport official examining a traveler's documentation, perhaps Taylor himself. The scene probably takes place in Norway. Bayard Taylor traveled through Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857, ... more

Prince of Wales at Portland Maine

Photograph shows spectators at the harbor, watching the Prince of Wales' ship, the Hero, on its departure from Portland, Maine, October 20, 1860. Title from back of card. "Charlie" written on back of card. Gott... more

Grand ball given by the citizens of New York to the Prince of Wales, a...

Illustration showing an elaborate ball at the Academy of Music in New York. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 4, no. 199 (1860 Oct. 20), pp. 664-5.

Grand torch-light parade of the New York firemen in honor of the Princ...

Illustration showing firemen marching with torches and lights by hotel balcony where Prince of Wales watches with his retinue. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 4, no. 199 (1860 Oct. 20), p. 660.

Reception of the Prince of Wales

Military reception at the Battery, New York, New York. Copyright by M.B. Brady. No. 2.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the tomb of Washington, Octo...

The Prince of Wales and other men gathered outside Washington's tomb, Mount Vernon, Virginia. Illus. from: Harper's Weekly, 1860.

Prince of Wales and suite

Photograph shows the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and his entourage at photographer Mathew Brady's New Photographic Studio, Broadway and 10th Street, New York City. Copyright by M.B. Brady. Brady Ste... more

Instantaneous view of the Prince of Wales' ship Hero firing a salute, ...

Title devised by Library staff. Gottheim collection code: GNY 10A. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress) Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (... more

Welcome to the Prince of Wales

Masthead and illustration showing crowd of people gathered on balcony in Boston to greet the Prince of Wales. Illustration in oval on upper left labeled "Washington--Out rolled" showing woman hitting a strike ... more

His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, with Mayor Howard of Portland...

Stereograph shows the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) with Mayor Joseph Howard of Portland, Maine in a carriage in the street as a crowd watches, on October 20, 1860 in Portland, Maine. Title from item. "Fro... more

... Pleasure seekers' and tourists routes for summer travel ... New Yo...

Transportation.; Handwritten on verso: July 22, 1860. 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; Portfo... more

William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln, [May 1861] (Travel plans)

Norman B. Judd to [John G. Nicolay], 1861-65 (Travel plans)

John G. Nicolay to Edward Bates, Monday, January 28, 1861 (Lincoln's ...

Our whole country; or, The past and present of the United States, hist...

Also available in digital form from the Library of Congress Web site.

Issuing passes at St. Louis

Travel passes being issued to citizens by Federal government agents. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War, 1862 March, p. 292. Copyright by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden.

William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, October 04, 1862 (Sew...

Francis Frith in Turkish summer costume

Photograph shows self-portrait of Francis Frith mounted on illustrated title page of his book of photographs of the Middle East. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine / by F. Fr... more

[The Secretary of State and the Diplomatic Corps at Trenton Falls, New...

Title devised by Library staff. Pictured in the photo are: 1. Count Piper, Swedish Minister; 2. M. Bertinatti, Italian Minister; 3. M. Molena, Nicaraguan Minister; 4. M. Schleiden, Hanseatic Minister; 5. M. Mer... more

Capture of Savannah--Gen. Geary issuing passes to citizens

General Geary issuing travel passes. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1865 Jan. 21, p. 276.

Officers of the Prince of Wales' ship Hero

Title from back of card. Card number: "No. 84". Gottheim collection code: GNY 13. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress) Purchase; Larry Go... more

Mr. Charles Dickens and his former American acquaintances - "not at ho...

Two panel illustration showing a distraught Charles Dickens standing with another man behind the door to his hotel room, on the other side of which is a group of people portraying characters from Dickens' novel... more

San Domingo Pen pictures and leaves of travel, romance and history, fr...

Title page only. 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 159, Folder 42a.

[Dominican Republic, 1871]: Method of equestrian travel on cattle and ...

Men riding burro and ox; women washing clothes in stream. Photo reproduction of watercolor. Watercolor by James E. Taylor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Was... more

U.S. Reports: Ripley v. Insurance Company, 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 336 (187...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 83; Wallace Volume 16; December Term, 1872; Ripley v. Insurance Company

Sunday afternoon on the West Point Road / Eglau.

Print shows travelers resting on a dirt road through a mountainous region with a distant view of a river or lake. D1757 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1... more

Scene of the story of Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk's Cave. Side view look...

Photograph shows two men outside cave that Alexander Selkirk used as shelter while stranded on Isla Más a Tierra, Juan Fernández Islands. 10239E U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and party, with first tiger killed by H.R.H...

Photograph showing the Prince of Wales, holding rifle, posing with members of his party and a dead tiger, during his tour of India, 1875-76. Title from item. In album: India. No. 50.

H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and elephant, Terai

Photograph showing the Prince of Wales posing with elephant bearing a howdah, Terai, India, 1875 or 1876. Title from item. In album: India. No. 91.

Across the continent. The Frank Leslie excursion to the Pacific--incid...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1877 Nov. 3, p. 137 (bottom).

U.S. Reports: Davie v. Briggs, 97 U.S. 628 (1878)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 97; October Term, 1878; Davie v. Briggs

Traveling on horseback

Drawing shows a man sitting on a horse. Title from item. Includes Japanese text on the right, outside the image box. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Oct. 1878. From "Travel and tra... more

Grant's world tour China. Hong Kong. "The grove." May 16, 1879

Photograph shows tree-lined path. Title from item. No. 44.

"The Little Ida" En route for Kansas - fleeing from the Yellow Fever D...

Top illustration shows small, two-mast sailboat in a turbulent sea. Bottom illustration shows African American "Exodusters" travelling to Kansas on foot and in a mule-drawn cart with cow attached by rope during... more

Grant's world tour China. Hong Kong. Path in the public gardens. May 1...

Title from item. No. 47.

Grant's world tour China. Hong Kong. Fountain, gardens, and welcome ar...

Photograph shows pool, fountain, and welcome arch in garden. Title from item. No. 73.

The journeys, and deeds of Jesus, and scriptoral index on a new map of...

Aufnahmen im Gebirgslande nördlich und westlich von Peking /

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Zeitschr. d. Ges. f. Erdk. Bd. XVI." "Taf. VII." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Hard road to travel, from Cape Murshison looking toward Cape Lieber / ...

Photograph shows snow-covered arctic vista, during polar expedition to Lady Franklin Bay. Title from item. No. 20.

The emigrants Die auswanderer / / The Major & Knapp Engraving Co. 56 &...

Print shows a procession of emigrants with a young boy carrying an umbrella and a bag over his shoulder at the lead, walking next to a large dog; a young woman follows carrying a basket with a lamb against her ... more

The Grand Teton

Title from item. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches ... more

Gen. Stager at trout pond

Photograph shows General Anson Stager fishing. On the rock where he is standing are fish and a fishing net. Title from item. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 188... more

Presidential escort crossing Gros Ventre River

Title from item. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches ... more

Presidential party crossing Lewis Fork, Snake River

Title from item. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches ... more

Presidential party, Upper Geyser Basin

Photograph is group portrait of members of Chester A. Arthur's expedition to Yellowstone National Park. Left to right: John Schuyler Crosby, Lt. Col. Michael V. Sheridan. Lt. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Anson Stag... more

[Archaeological artifacts and man standing near urns]

Photographs show displays of Aztec sculplture, probably at the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City, and a man, probably William Henry Jackson, standing near urns probably at the National Museum of Mexico. Ti... more

Soldiers and families in camp in Central Arizona

Mearns Collection. No. 336.

U.S. Reports: Drexel v. Berney, 122 U.S. 241 (1887)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 122; October Term, 1886; Drexel v. Berney

Major C.B. McLellan's camp on Clear Creek, Arizona; en route to Fort T...

Signed by Edgar A. Mearns. Mearns Collection. No. 211.

Ageria - Ryland - Morse

Photograph shows Edwin K. Morse, Samuel V. Ryland, and others aboard boat, probably to view the first span of the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. Title from item. In album: E.K. Mor... more

Visit of Lord Brassey, Dangar Island C. Bayliss photo, Sydney

Photograph shows group of men on dock with steamboat at the end, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia. Title from item. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 4. Album documents the role ... more

The nineteenth century booming under its very nose

(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. 119.

[Woman and four children waving good-bye to a man in a car]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

C & B Line--Cleveland, Buffalo and Toledo / R.B. Lawrence.

Back cover of travel pamphlet for Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co., showing steamship on water. In collection: Illustrated time tables and travel pamphlets.

[Going to market (Mexico)] / Moran.

People going to market with donkeys and sheep. 23261V U.S. Copyright Office.

U.S. Reports: Lau Ow Bew, Petitioner, 141 U.S. 583 (1891)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 141; October Term, 1891; Lau Ow Bew, Petitioner

U.S. Reports: Earnshaw v. United States, 146 U.S. 60 (1892)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 146; October Term, 1892; Earnshaw v. United States

Passengers were swarming out and bothering the conductor and engineer ...

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Semaphore" by Herbert D. Ward, Scribner's magazine, 14:769 (Dec. 1893).

Family traveling, Tiberias

Man on burro and woman and two children in boxes on back of horse, near Sea of Galillee, Palestine. Copyright by Robert E.M. Bain.

Cause and effect / Ehrhart.

Print shows a well-dressed, imperious woman seated in a chair, with her feet on a cushion, holding a scepter and a paper that states "Fashion's Decrees for Summer Resorts", after listing the rules, it ends with... more

The fortune teller, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

How tourists travel in the Nile

Two men on camels and two Egyptians in front of the Sphinx, with pyramids in background, Giza, Egypt. Same photograph appears as a stereograph published by Underwood & Underwood, copyrighted 1896. Gift; Underwo... more

[Retinue attending Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, when he visited P...

Photograph shows Li Hung Chang and another man riding in a horse-drawn carriage with crowds on both sides of the street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Title devised by Library staff. No. 549. Forms part of: Mar... more

Travellers on the River Jordan, Palestine

5(?)8213 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Title on recto of item.

The grocery store, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Young girl walking down the street, looking into the camera, Chinatown...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Struggling with an Italian porter

Camp Lake Bennett

Composite photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons and another woman inserted into a scene of a campsite with photographer and author Veazie Wilson and a companion at Lake Bennett, British Columbia. Although L... more

Summit of Chilkoot Pass

Photograph shows the actress Esther Lyons inserted into a picture of Chilkoot Pass. Although Lyons wrote a series of articles about the expedition she claimed to have taken, and lectured about it for the rest o... more