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[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, in brocaded dress, walking to the Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple) during the King's birthday celebration, Gangtok, Sikkim]

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikk...

Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-69. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Col... More

A black and white photo of a city street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a city street. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Com...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a group of people on a roof. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a group of people on a roof. Dodge Brothers...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of an empty parking lot. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of an empty parking lot. Dodge Brothers Motor ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A drawing of a floor plan of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A drawing of a floor plan of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a large building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a large building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train station. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a machine in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a boat being built. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a boat being built. Dodge Brothers Motor Ca...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge B...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a building under construction. Dodge Brothe...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a man in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Ca...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train car. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compa...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a train engine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

An old photo of a man working on a machine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

An old photo of a man working on a machine. Dodge Brothers Motor Car C...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A black and white photo of a tunnel in a building. Dodge Brothers Moto...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers M...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

[Manuscript Book mural in Evolution of the Book series, John W. Alexander. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Manuscript Book mural in Evolution of the Book series, John W. Alexan...

Photo of one part of a six-part mural on the history of the book; after conservation of the mural. Depicts a monk illustrating a manuscript, with two monks in background. Mural marked at bottom left: Copyright ... More

Thipian with its oasis-like gardens, Mt. Sinai

Thipian with its oasis-like gardens, Mt. Sinai

Photograph shows armed men looking out over valley and mountains. J177968 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken from the summit of Gebel Tahuna (Hererat El Kebir or the mountain of the mill), where the palm g... More

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique / Js. Gillray--invt--& fect., British Cartoon Print

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique / Js. Gillray--in...

An elderly Sir William Hamilton inspecting his antiquities, all of which refer to his wife, Lady Emma Hamilton and her lover, Lord Horatio Nelson. In the background hang four pictures on the wall: "Cleopatra", ... More

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript chart of the Mediterranean and Black seas on vellum].

[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript ch...

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic... More

Daniel Hopfer - [Christ on the cross] / DH.

Daniel Hopfer - [Christ on the cross] / DH.

Original etching: 2nd state. Public domain photograph of 15th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of unidentified woman, Wilmoth Houdini, Duke of Iron (Cecil Anderson), Lord Invader, Macbeth, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca. July, 1947]

[Portrait of unidentified woman, Wilmoth Houdini, Duke of Iron (Cecil ...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in the 2014 [Bear Family] publication Calypso Craze, 1956-1957 and Beyond (EAN: 53971021694... More

[Blacksmith shoeing a horse while a man with large sword slays a snake in the background]

[Blacksmith shoeing a horse while a man with large sword slays a snake...

Illus. in: Ruralia commoda. [Augsburg] : Johann Schüssler, ca. 16 Feb. (XIIII Kal. Mart.) 1471. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D... More

Nativity with male saint and St. Elizabeth

Nativity with male saint and St. Elizabeth

Title from jacket. Photograph of Italian painting signed "And. Sarto fab. ... MDXVII." "Printed in Italy" on label. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 28114. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bird's eye view of Azusa, Los Angeles Co. Cal.,  1887 /

Bird's eye view of Azusa, Los Angeles Co. Cal., 1887 /

"Rare early view of the newly laid out town of Azusa. In 1887, Jonathan Slauson and a group of local developers laid out the town of Azusa. This plan was likely published by Slauson"--From the 16th-19th centuri... More

Sinai. Wady Feiran, el Mahrad, Peran

Sinai. Wady Feiran, el Mahrad, Peran

Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking west ... More

In the Sinai, 16th century. Eric Matson public domain photograph collection.

In the Sinai, 16th century. Eric Matson public domain photograph colle...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vicinity of Di... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady Er-Raha

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady E...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking northwards and showing a w... More

Rossīi︠a︡--XVIĭ i XVIIĭ vi︠e︡k : sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ karta dli︠a︡ klassnago upotreblenīi︠a︡, prisposoblennai︠a︡ k uchebniku russkoĭ istorīi dli︠a︡ sredneĭ shkoly prof. S.Ḟ. Platonova /

Rossīi︠a︡--XVIĭ i XVIIĭ vi︠e︡k : sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ karta dli︠a︡ klassnago ...

Wall map of history of territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (European portion) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Baltic States, Poland-Lithuania, and Moldavia. Title f... More

To Sinai by car. Car rushing a sand dune near Bir Hassana

To Sinai by car. Car rushing a sand dune near Bir Hassana

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the vicinity of Bir El Hassana. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Paleolithi... More

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88 Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Michel-Ange / Michel-Ange pinxt. ; J.L. Potrelle delt. et sculpt.

Michel-Ange / Michel-Ange pinxt. ; J.L. Potrelle delt. et sculpt.

Michelangelo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background. After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... More

Le Flûteur (The Flutist) - Public domain  engraving

Le Flûteur (The Flutist) - Public domain engraving

after a painting once attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painter and engraver, 1573-1610 (artist notes) French (artist nationality) engraver (artist role) Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-... More

Christ curing the lepers / Ain mantoua, 1608.

Christ curing the lepers / Ain mantoua, 1608.

Print shows Jesus, with his disciples, raising his arm to ten lepers who kneel before him. Monogram of Andreani. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... More

St. John, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

St. John, Parmigianino. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian.

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attributed to Antonio da ... More

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated on block. Bartsch, 56. LC purchase, 1158.

Mr. Titian Peale and Miss Mary Peale

Mr. Titian Peale and Miss Mary Peale

Photograph shows Titian Peale, Miss Mary Peale, and another woman (seated on the left) sitting at a table set for tea, with a large silver tea service on the fore-edge of the table; they are in a room with two ... More

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

[The Virgin holding the child seated on a cloud]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with initials on plate. Bartsch, 2. LeBlanc, 2. Nagler I: 280. Coll. mark of Bradley Collection on verso. Bradley Collection.

[Title page of Dipnosophistarum, siue Coenae sapientum libri XV]

[Title page of Dipnosophistarum, siue Coenae sapientum libri XV]

Print shows title page with illustration of Jesus and a woman at a well. Illus. in: Dipnosophistarum, siue Coenae sapientum libri XV / Natale de Comitibus ueneto nunc primum è Graeca in Latinam linguam uertent... More

Typvs orbis terrarvm, Abraham Ortelius

Typvs orbis terrarvm, Abraham Ortelius

Oval map within illustrated border, showing clouds. Appears in Latin edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum. Includes illustrations. Latin text on verso. In lower left: cum privilegio. Has a crack and re... More

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

[Wendelinus Dietterlin ...], 16th century, engraving, Library of Congr...

Title from shelflist card. Numerous pencil notes on verso. Ex. coll.: Enzenbert (Lugt, 845).

Agostino Carracci - Dog A. Caraza

Agostino Carracci - Dog A. Caraza

Trimmed to image. B259. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The entombment / Raff. da Reggio invent. Andrea Andreano Mant. intagliator.

The entombment / Raff. da Reggio invent. Andrea Andreano Mant. intagli...

Print shows Jesus Christ being supported by Joseph of Arimethia as Mary Magdalene gives comfort to the grieving Virgin Mary. After Raffaellino da Reggio. Dedication: All Mm. et Cccmo. Sigr. Don Giovane Medici 1... More

[A standard bearer holding the banner of his regiment] / H. Goltzius fc.

[A standard bearer holding the banner of his regiment] / H. Goltzius f...

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 125. Hubbard Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Codex Quetzalecatzin Historic map, Library of Congress

The Codex Quetzalecatzin Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon" family from 1480-1593. Map covers southern Puebla from the church of Todos Santos, Ecatepec (now suburb to the north east of modern-da... More

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 5]

[Triumph(us) Caesaris (The triumph of Julius Caesar), plate 5]

Plate 5 from series showing people in triumphal procession of Julius Caesar. After the painting by Andrea Mantegna. Bartsch, v. XII, p. 101.11. Gift; Ian Woodner; (DLC/PP-1984:513).

Le cric de la France - A drawing of a woman holding a shield and shield

Le cric de la France - A drawing of a woman holding a shield and shiel...

Allegorical print shows a female figure representing France wearing a helmet, breastplate, and shield emblazoned with fleur-de-lis, and holding a spear which rests on a liberty cap on the ground; she is turning... More

Stephanus Franciscus Geoffroy Parisinus, natus anno. 1672 N. de Largilliere pinxit ; gravé par L. Surugue 1737

Stephanus Franciscus Geoffroy Parisinus, natus anno. 1672 N. de Largil...

Print shows Etienne François Geoffroy, half-length portrait, body turned to the left, face front, in a window, holding a copy of his "Materia Medico" upright with left hand. Caption continues: Facult. Medic. P... More

The convention makers, British Cartoon Print

The convention makers, British Cartoon Print

"The interior of a room; a picture called A Convention, depicting the Convention between England and Spain on the Falkland Islands, is falling from a broken cornice inscribed National Honour, onto four prostrat... More

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

The village barber / H. J., British Cartoon Print

"A barber is dressing the hair of a woman seated in profile to the right ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Depa... More

Decret de l'assemblee national qui supprime les ordres religieux et religieuses

Decret de l'assemblee national qui supprime les ordres religieux et re...

Print shows monks and nuns enjoying their new found liberty, some are loading possessions onto horses and wagons, some embrace, one couple kisses while another rides off together on horseback. Caption continue... More

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae, et Peruviae.

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

The Female frizzler, British Cartoon Print

British cartoon showing woman, seated on huge hairdo of another woman, as she works on the hairdo. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress

[Roger bacon conducting an experiment], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Symbola avreæ mensæ dvodecim nationvm. Francofvrti : typis A. Hummij, impensis Lucæ Iennis, 1617. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. ... More

Ryōgokubashi no sekisho, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Ryōgokubashi no sekisho, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women on the Ryōgoku Bridge at sunset. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fūryū edo hakkei : Modern vers... More

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

Print shows a man, possibly Armand-Gaston Camus, wearing a garment fashioned entirely from "assignats" (French paper money before the livre), several men (identified by number in the caption) are standing aroun... More

Daikon - Public domain scan / drawing - Ukiyo e print

Daikon - Public domain scan / drawing - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Attributed to: Yamada Dōan. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Veduta del tempio de Bacco

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Veduta del tempio de Bacco

Print shows an exterior view of the Temple of Bacchus in Rome, Italy. Exhibited: "From La Serenissima to the Eternal City : The Grand Tour in 18th Century Venice and Rome" at The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's C... More

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lowe... More

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smith 1606 [?] William Hole.

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smi...

1606 map of Virginia as described by John Smith showing the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, other geographic features, and a vignette of the Native leader, Powhatan, in council. Illus. in: The generall historie ... More

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 deg. & 1/2 neer Florida to 41 deg. bounds of New England /

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 d...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of ... More

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year 1670 /

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

P. Joannes Ogilbeus / C.S. d. ; M.K. f.

P. Joannes Ogilbeus / C.S. d. ; M.K. f.

Illustration showing John Ogilvie hanging from the gallows while the executioner cuts open his abdomen with a large knife. Illus. in: Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, [...] / Math... More

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hubbard Collection. No. 2829-1. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados 1695 by Samuel Copen / I. Kip fecit London.

A prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados 1695 by Samuel Copen / I. Kip fe...

Waterfront view of Bridgetown, Barbados. Transfer; Map Division.

Peintures antiques découvertes à Herculanum conservées dans le Musaeum de Portici, no. 62 (Antique paintings discovered at Herculaneum conserved in the Museum of Portici, no. 62)

Peintures antiques découvertes à Herculanum conservées dans le Musaeum...

after a drawing by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819; from a book compiled by Richard, or Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non, draughtsman, etcher, and ... More

DCM 0114: Anonymous Kaval (End-blown Flute)

DCM 0114: Anonymous Kaval (End-blown Flute)

Instrument type: Kaval (End-blown Flute) Medium: Unidentified wood, possibly mahogany, bone ferrules. Bird's eye décor and some turned lines are black-filled; others are filled with brown paint or ink.; 84 cm.... More

DCM 1517: Rudall & Rose Flute in C

DCM 1517: Rudall & Rose Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Rosewood(?), silver cap, keys, and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 66.4 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, with pewter plugs over square plates for C#, C. Pin in block. M... More

DCM 1250: Anonymous Flute in C(?)

DCM 1250: Anonymous Flute in C(?)

DCM ledger: "Replica of Transverse Flute, from measurements of the figure in Praetorius Syntagma II, plate IX, g." This instrument is rather crudely made and its dimensions may be suspect. Instrument type: Flut... More

DCM 1580: Anonymous Dvojnice (Double Vertical Whistle Flute)

DCM 1580: Anonymous Dvojnice (Double Vertical Whistle Flute)

Instrument type: Dvojnice (Double Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood.; 34.2 cm. Key Holes System: Right pipe: 0/4 holes; left pipe: 0/3 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Spofford Whiting, New York, 5... More

[Trompe-l'oeil of French revolutionary assignats with a portrait of a beggar laid on top]

[Trompe-l'oeil of French revolutionary assignats with a portrait of a ...

Print shows a trompe-l'oeil presentation of many French revolutionary assignats in various demoninations, issued between 1789 and 1795, with a full-length portrait of an old man, possibly a beggar, facing left,... More

The humours of Belvoir Castle, or the morning after / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Cruikshank., British Cartoon Print

The humours of Belvoir Castle, or the morning after / Woodward del. ; ...

Print shows a number of encounters, in two panels, between men and women either off to bed or awakened to the horrors of the night before: the first, an old man on the arm of an old woman, says, "Och! Long life... More

DCM 1341: Chabrier Peloubet Flute in C

DCM 1341: Chabrier Peloubet Flute in C

Mark on foot; C. PELOUBET / NEW-YORK / FACTORY AT / BLOOMFIELD Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism and ferrules, silver keys. Metal-lined head joint.; 60.1 cm. Key Ho... More

[The plundering of the King's cellar, Paris, 10th August, 1793 (i.e., 1792)] / J. Zoffany Esqr. pinx. ; R. Earlom sculpt.

[The plundering of the King's cellar, Paris, 10th August, 1793 (i.e., ...

Engraving after contemporary history genre painting depicting events in Paris, France, on August 10th 1792 [date as given in title is incorrect], in particular, the aftermath of the storming of the Tuileries Pa... More

DCM 0506: Buffet-Crampon Flute in C

DCM 0506: Buffet-Crampon Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained and enamelled dark, brass keys and ferrules.; 59.65 cm. Key Holes System: Boehm 1832 system, conical, foot to D. Dorus G#. Mark Maximum: (lyre) / BUFFET / C... More

Photo of DCM 0660: Piering Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Photo of DCM 0660: Piering Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ebony(?), ivory head joint cap (including cork-setting mechanism) and ferrules, silver keys.; 61.9 cm., 62.7 cm., 63.4 cm. Key Holes System: 2 keys, square flat flaps (D#, G... More

DCM 0886: Anonymous, North American Indian (Jicarilla Apache) Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute)

DCM 0886: Anonymous, North American Indian (Jicarilla Apache) Courting...

DCM ledger: "Jicarilla Apache, near Santa Fe." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Wood, lightly stained red. Wood flue cover, lead flue plate. Leather thongs.; 41.6 cm. Key Holes ... More

Photo of DCM 0370c: Anonymous Panpipes - Public domain dedication

Photo of DCM 0370c: Anonymous Panpipes - Public domain dedication

See DCM 366, Notes. See DCM 370a. Instrument type: Panpipes Medium: Bamboo.; 2.5 cm. x 24.5 cm. x 36.5 cm. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Front of brace and one pipe cracked. Provenance: G. Meriggioli, Mila... More

DCM 1536: Firth Hall & Pond Flute in C

DCM 1536: Firth Hall & Pond Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Wood, stained dark brown, silver keys, ivory ferrules.; 62.7 cm. (as is) Key Holes System: 4 keys, saltspoon, pin in block. Mark Maximum: 4088(?) / FIRTH HALL & POND / N-YOR... More

DCM 0030: Firth Hall & Pond Piccolo in E-flat (F)

DCM 0030: Firth Hall & Pond Piccolo in E-flat (F)

Instrument type: Piccolo in E-flat (F) Medium: Boxwood, brass key, bone(?) cap and ferrules.; 28.15 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, round flat flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: FIRTH HALL & POND / FRANKLIN SQE / ... More

DCM 1346: Abelardo Albisi Half Flute in C

DCM 1346: Abelardo Albisi Half Flute in C

DCM ledger: "Half-Flute.... Prof. Albisi wrote music especially for this flute, to be played with left hand only.... On under side of flute at mid-length is a socket for a handle, for right hand, for holding fl... More

DCM 0771: Theobald Boehm Flute in C

DCM 0771: Theobald Boehm Flute in C

Both sockets have a decorative wide sheet metal ferrule, plus a secondary beaded ferrule which is applied with a threaded screw adjustment (tightening) mechansim to compensate for wood shrinkage. Instrument typ... More

DCM 0847: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute)

DCM 0847: Anonymous, North American Indian (Winnebago) Courting Flute ...

DCM ledger: "American Indian, Winnebago." Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistle Flute) Medium: Tube, including integral mouthpiece, of unidentified wood. Lead bands, carved walnut flue cover, lead f... More

This ticket will admit one person into the [...] on the day of Mr. Lunardi's ascension, price three shillings

This ticket will admit one person into the [...] on the day of Mr. Lun...

Admission ticket to one of Vincent Lunardi early balloon ascensions, probably from London, England. Includes a picture of a balloon. Tissandier collection.

Photo of DCM 0567: Manzane Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Photo of DCM 0567: Manzane Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Manzane may be counterfeit for Monzani. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Ivory, silver keys, ferrules.; 65.8 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon, pewter plugs over square plates for C#, C. Upper C and l... More

DCM 0755: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pawnee) Vertical Whistle Flute

DCM 0755: Anonymous, North American Indian (Pawnee) Vertical Whistle F...

DCM ledger: "Pawnee." Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Unidentified bone (DCM ledger: "Turkey or eagle"), with loop of skin with brown fur attached, likely meant to be a neck strap.; 19.4 cm. Ke... More

Assis, au près du toy ... à ton Art divin! / A. Watteau pinxit. ; Tardieu sculp. ; a Paris avec privillege du roy.

Assis, au près du toy ... à ton Art divin! / A. Watteau pinxit. ; Tard...

Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Tardieu in a park, one painting a picture of a statue of nude woman, the other playing a stringed instrument; and poem to Watteau below image.

DCM 1526: Anonymous, Chinese Di (Transverse Flute)

DCM 1526: Anonymous, Chinese Di (Transverse Flute)

Instrument type: Di (Transverse Flute) Medium: Bamboo, decorated in 24 places with string winding and black lacquer. Bone ferrules, and blue tassel.; 64.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus membrane hole, 2 ... More

DCM 0600: Gerock & Wolf Flute in C

DCM 0600: Gerock & Wolf Flute in C

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap, cork-setting mechanism and ferrules, silver keys, metal-lined head.; 66.5 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, foot to C. Saltspoon, except low C#, C, which hav... More

Matron of Honor, Dena Williams, and other wedding guests eating wedding cake.  The top tier of the cake is being removed so that the bride and groom can save it to celebrate their first anniversary.

Matron of Honor, Dena Williams, and other wedding guests eating weddin...

Event: Crystal Pettry and Bruce Ramsey's Wedding. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photo of DCM 1187: Goulding Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Photo of DCM 1187: Goulding Flute in C - Public domain dedication

See DCM 822 regarding tuning rings. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, ivory cap and ferrules, silver keys, pewter plugs, metal-lined head.; 64.7 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, pewter plugs, metal-lin... More

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Scale ca. 1:41,500. Relief shown by hachures. Appears in William Faden's Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution. 1845. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1564 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Scale 1:720; 60 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-17... More

Photo of DCM 1103: Card Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Photo of DCM 1103: Card Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, appearing somewhat like maple, silver keys and ferrules, metal-lined head.; 67.6 cm. Key Holes System: 8 keys, saltspoon. Pewter plugs for low C#, C, modern post an... More

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