vintage fashion

Andrew Jackson, president of the United States / painted by W.J. Hubar...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap.

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...

Copyright Alex. Washn. Lodge #22, A.F.& A.M., Alexandria, Va.

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

Harry Montague's Comedy Company. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger...

Nami ni goshoguruma moyō no tachi bijin

Print shows a courtesan, facing left, wearing a waterwheel and waves pattern kimono.

[Hanging poems on a cherry tree]

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, hanging poems in a blossoming cherry tree.

The manual exercise, & c. (continued from p. 35)

12 sequences illustrating the loading and rammimg of a musket charge: sequence 13 to 18. Illus. in: London Magazine, 1746, v. 15. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Yatsushi kikujidō

Print shows a woman picking chrysanthemums along the banks of a stream. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa).... more

A Scotch reel

"Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see No. 5370, & c. ..." (Source: George) No. 5. This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Po... more

General Burgoyne / Pollard sc.

General John Burgoyne, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in medallion. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present war in America; containing an acc... more

The coffee-house patriots, or news, from St. Eustatia / H. Bunbury Esq...

Print shows interior view of a coffeehouse, presumably in London, where several man of commerce appear disgruntled at the news of the successful campaign to capture Saint Eustatius, a port used by British merch... more

John Marshall

Full-length silhouette portrait shows John Marshall, legislator and jurist, facing right.

Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.

Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... more

The rival queens or a political heat for Rege & Grege

An encounter between two stout ladies, Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Schwellenberg, each with a second: the Prince of Wales, his hands on his lady's waist, and Pitt holding out a lemon to the furious German woman, ... more

L'enjambee imperiale

Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... more

[Family group - Smith, his wife and six children pointing at examples ...

(DLC/PP-1995:140.27) Philadelphia Print Shop inventory no. 27. Title from Philadelphia Print Shop inventory. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

John Adams, second president of the United States

Title from another impression. From another impression "From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston." Publication information from the American Antiquarian Society. Inscribed in... more

Tōsei fū

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding a teapot. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: E... more

Kiseru o motsu onna

Print shows a woman holding a pipe (kiseru).

The guitar / D.G. Johnson, sc.

Print shows a woman playing guitar as a man flirts with her. Title from item. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 2. Library of... more

Catharine M. Sedgwick / eng. by A.B. Durand ; painted by Chas. Ingham.

Catharine M. Sedgwick, half-length portrait, standing, facing left.

Young American on the Alps painted by G.P.A. Healy ; eng. by G.H. Cush...

Print shows a young man wearing a long outer garment for hiking in the mountains, carrying a long staff, and on his back a small pack; mountains identified as the Alps are in the background. Title from item. Pr... more

Preciosa D. Huntington ; J. Cheney

Print shows a beautiful young woman, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair at a window, holding an open book on her lap as she looks out the window at the landscape. Title from item. (DLC/PP-1998:15... more

[Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Family scene, group portrait with adults, child, and a dog, in a parlo...

Title devised by Library staff. (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Mr. Clay taking a new view of the Texas question

Illustration shows Henry Clay, dressed in doublet and breast plate with a brace of pistols at his waist, holding a carving knife and fork, at an open door in which a tiny "Mexican" cowers on a shelf. Below the ... more

[Sherard Osborn, lieut., Royal Navy, three-quarter length wood-engrave...

Photo shows a wood engraving of Serard Osborn. Although Osborn had no connection to the Northwest Boundary Survey, he did serve on Belcher's expedition to search for the Franklin Arctic expedition, 1852-1854, o... more

[Mary Wollstonecraft, half-length portrait, facing left]

Title devised by Library staff. Photograph of a stipple engraving by James Heath, ca. 1797, after a painting by John Opie. Stamped on verso: Sewall Coll. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Cheyenne Indian Chief

Wells Andrews Hutchins

Madame La Grange

Miss Chesney

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... more

Slave of Richard Townsend / W.H. Ingram's Photograph and Ferrotype Gal...

Photo shows an elderly African American man, three-quarter length portrait, wearing coat and top hat, seated, facing front, with right hand resting on the handle of a bow saw that he holds between his legs. Tit... more

Gen. Tom Thumb, Miss Lavinia Warren, The Giant

Tom Thumb and Wife

Miss Chesney

Mrs. Geo. H. Gilbert

Mlle. Boisso

[African American man, possibly named "Small", full length studio port...

Title devised by Library staff. Inscribed in ink and pencil on verso: Small. On verso: No. 13185. Purchase; Marian Carson; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Miss A.J. Evans

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... more

Mlle. Ronconi

Gen. and Mrs. J. B. Ricketts

Mme. Clara M. Brinkerhoff

Miss Bateman

Madame Spranza

Bear chase in Norway

Humorous drawing shows a bear chasing a sportsman who fires his rifle into the air as the bear chews the tails of his coat. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed ab... more

Little bountiful

Artist: F.N. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3852

The morning prayer

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4567

[Nine silhouettes of children]

Title devised by Library staff. In album: Characters, p. 18.

Charles R. Woods

Richardson I.

Pauline Markham Actress, "Ixion" original British Blonde

No. 118. Title from item.

Sawyer. Renshaw

Portrait of a soldier & gentlemen.

Surgeon C.W. Wheelwright

Mrs. U.S. Grant with daughter and son

Adolph E. Borie

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Secty[?] Borie; Borie. Sect'y of Navy under Grant. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Librar... more

Gen. Robert E. Lee

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 565. Horan item no. 302; item no. 216. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, ... more

Mrs. S.A. Allen's world's hair dressing or zylobalsamum

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony, Major & Knapp.

Gen. G.B. McClellan and wife

Gen. C.C. Dodge

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... more

Lt. Col. B.H. Hill, 5th U.S. Artillery

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... more

[Andrew Johnson, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with ta...

Brady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress). LC-BH834-40 (cracked). No print in P&P.

J.C. Davis

Adm. Wm B. Shubrick, U.S.N.

Col. Wm. A. Barstow, 3rd Wisc. Cav. U.S.A.

Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. "Ready! All ready your hon...

Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry speaking to gunners aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie.

[Abraham Lincoln, candidate for U.S. president, half-length portrait, ...

Photo shows presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, two days after he won his party's nomination. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 42.) The Library's print is a copy of an ambrotype. As a result,... more

Journalist and abolitionist Horace Greeley wearing hat

Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, Iowa, January 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collect... more

Col. John B. Wyman, 13th Ill. Inf., U.S.A

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.cwp Forms par... more

Brig. Gen. G.M. Love

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.cwp Forms par... more

John H. Morgan & wife, C.S. A.

Brig. Gen. Jacob Sharp, Col. 156th N.Y. Inf

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... more

Mary E. Walker

Photograph showing Civil War surgeon Mary E. Walker in a full-length studio portrait, facing left, hand resting on a book.

[Group of Bedouin women huddled together, two standing, others seated]...

Title devised by library staff. On verso: Asia. Natives. Palestine. Hourani? Bedouins.

Sec. of War Simon Cameron

Laird's bloom of youth, for perserving the complexion & skin or liquid...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Laird, James, copyright... more

[Stephen A. Douglas, full-length portrait, facing front]

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

R.S. Ewell, C.S.A

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is avai... more

Mrs. Ridgley Brown

Photograph shows Mrs. Ridgley (or Ridgely?) Brown, possibly the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Ridgely Brown of Co. K, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Co. A, 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, holding 11-star Confe... more

[Seated black man wearing four button sack, laborer, ring]

[Half-length portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat and h...

Title devised by Library staff. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.116) Title devised by Library staff. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV85; Civilians II. General information about t... more

[Micah Jenkins, 1835-1864, half length, seated, facing slightly right,...

No. 4825. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

[Major John C. Pelham of Alburtis Light Artillery and 1st Co. Stuart H...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Title devised by Library staff. Handwritten name on recto bottom. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http:... more

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next...

Title devised by Library staff. Case: Rinhart, no. 93. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Ca... more

Dream of Santa Claus

Photograph shows Santa Claus with a basket of presents on his back watching two children sleeping. Title from item. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 49. Forms part of the ... more

Ruins of bridge, across Potomac River at Shepherdstown

Photograph shows a man in the foreground overlooking the ruins of the bridge at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. No. 5077. Title from item. Mounted with five other photographs. Photograph is half of a stereograph ... more

The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly wo...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862 July 12, p. 448. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in cartoons 1862; CW, 1861-1865 C... more

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Va., 1861 i.e.1862

No. B785. Title from item. Date based on 22nd NY history. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

John Adams : from a painting by Chappel in the possession of the publi...

Hole-in-the-Day (Younger). Chippewa, Indian delegate

General U. S. Grant, City Point, Va., August, 1864

No. B48. Title from item. Alternate title from Grant and Lee, the Virginia Campaign by William Frassanito. Incorrect information on negative sleeve: U.S. Grant at City Point. See also: LC-B8175-2, orig. glass n... more

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president

Photograph showing portrait of Lincoln. Title from item.

Mellin's food, "our baby"

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bien (Julius) & Co., co... more

Wilson, Hon. James Falconer of Iowa, Delegate to Democratic Nat. Conve...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: 126;; scratched into emulsion: 4930, Hon. J.F. Wilson, 35 [crossed out], 499 [crossed out], 126 [crossed out], ... more

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

Religioznye obriady i obychai Tadzhikov. Sekta "Dzhakhrie"

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 65. Title from item.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Araby. Mulla-Abubekr

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 28. Title from item.

Poe, Gen., O.M. U.S.A.

[Gustavus Vasa Fox, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right...

Title devised by Library staff. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July.