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Niwa Tokei - Tsuru kame to takarabune

Niwa Tokei - Tsuru kame to takarabune

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: full Obosho Nishikie Surimono, folded. Surimono for the celebration of cutting the long slee... More

[Rum Cay, Bermuda] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

[Rum Cay, Bermuda] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Kame, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain  drawing

Kame, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows two turtles. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Nishikie. Part of a Harimaze-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and dr... More

Rum Cay, Bermuda, autochrome color photo

Rum Cay, Bermuda, autochrome color photo

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fukurokuju, Shibata Zeshin - Public domain  drawing

Fukurokuju, Shibata Zeshin - Public domain drawing

Print shows Fukurokuju, one of the seven lucky gods, with a turtle. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: full color woodblock print... More

Fukagawa mannenbashi, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Fukagawa mannenbashi, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a turtle suspended from a beam on the Mannen Bridge with view of boats on a river and Mount Fuji in the distance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print ... More

The hares and the tortoise (from Aesop, altered to suit) / J.S. Pughe.

The hares and the tortoise (from Aesop, altered to suit) / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows a race for the Republican presidential nomination between the tortoise labeled "Morton" and the hare(s) labeled "McKinley, Reed, [and] Harrison". Includes a revised version of the fable by Aesop. I... More

Urashima - Drawing. Public domain image. - Ukiyo e print

Urashima - Drawing. Public domain image. - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Urashima Tarō, a fisherman, sitting on the back of a turtle headed for an undersea palace after rescuing the turtle from a group of children.

Illustrated catalogue of iron & zinc vases manufactured by J.W. Fiske

Illustrated catalogue of iron & zinc vases manufactured by J.W. Fiske

Photograph showing cover of trade catalog supplement with a planter in the shape of a tortoise. F1780 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Illustrated catalogue of iron and zinc vases manufactured by J.W. Fiske. ... More

The turtle F. Ziegfeld Jr's production.

The turtle F. Ziegfeld Jr's production.

48685 U.S. Copyright Office At head of title: Manhattan Theatre, 33rd St. and Broadway. Brady & Ziegfeld, managers. Caption: I'm not so slow. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N... More

Shipping green turtle to New York, Key West, Fla. U.S.A.

Shipping green turtle to New York, Key West, Fla. U.S.A.

Stereograph showing two men pulling up a large turtle from cargo hold; several turtles laying shell side down on dock being loaded into horse drawn cart. Copyright, 1898, by B.L. Singley. No. 9142.

[Pelican eating baby turtles] - Drawing. Public domain image.

[Pelican eating baby turtles] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1938:0056, DLC/PP-1938:0066, DLC/PP-1938:0071, or DLC/PP-1938:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Native men posed with mounds of food, including six giant turtles

Native men posed with mounds of food, including six giant turtles

Appears to be Fijian; food includes kavas and yams. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).