Diplomacy. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Created by "A.S. Seer's Eng-Print, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Love's regret - Public domain American sheet music, 1885
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)
[Three Finger Brown, Chicago Cubs, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Sherry Magee, Philadelphia Phillies, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The iron-clad New Ironsides in fighting trim
Photograph shows a reproduction of a book illustration of the ironclad in battle.
Hearst. Book illustration from Library of Congress
No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
William Blake - The book of Ahania.
L.C. copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting; hand-colored frontispiece from another copy accompanies book. Printed in dark brown on 6 leaves, from engr. plates. Illustrated t.p. and tailpiece hand-colored. The on... More
Take that, he feebly said, and swear that it shall be delivered
Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Gibson's Brigade charging Hurlbut's troops in the "hornets' nest" / Og...
Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Alice Barber Stephens - [Mausoleum, Charlottenburg]. Book illustration...
Title from mat. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0012). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
[Ladies in the country] - Public domain book illustration
Two facing pages from Japanese book show four richly dressed women walking in a garden. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06 and Richard Lan... More
[Geisha stepping into a boat] - Public domain dedication image
Ukiyo-e print illustration shows geisha being helped into a boat by a boatman. Pages in: Kakuchū en[pu]. [Japan : s.n., not before 1806]. Date from The floating world of Ukiyo-e ..., p. 108. Published in: The ... More
Wool-gathering. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's second reader. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1888, p. 133.
He looked up at the broad yellow moon and thought that she looked at h...
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916. E... More
He looked up at the broad yellow moon and thought that she looked at h...
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as frontispiece in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916. E... More
Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book" /
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Sixteen reproductions 43 x 33 cm. mounted on board with hinged mat, covered with guard sheet with letterpress. Many captions include quotation... More
Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...
One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More
Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...
One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More
Hubert François Gravelot - Drawings for the illustrations of Boccaccio...
One hundred and fifteen mounted pencil, and pen-and-ink sketches, and some completed drawings in ink and bistre (10 of which are repeated). Not the full series for the 1757 edition of Decamerone, which comprise... More
William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
Public domain photograph of Chinese art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
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William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
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Heinrich Ibsen. Book illustration from Library of Congress
No publication information. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
[Draftsman drawing a lute] / AD [monogram], 1525.
Print shows two men in a room using a perspective apparatus to draw a lute accurately. Woodcut illus. and surrounding text in: Underweysung der Messung / Albrecht Durer. [Nuremberg], 1525. Title from Bartsch. I... More
Hoyt's A black sheep - A poster advertising a black sheep show
Z51585 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Sheriff, you let my trunk alone! Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, New-York." Hoyt & McKee, proprietors. No. 6161. Forms part of: Theatrical p... More
British Blonde Burlesque Troupe
A579 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Parisian sauce. Copyrighted by Sheridan Corbyn, 1870. Created by "Ledger Steam Job Print, Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philad'a." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More
Three cancelled plates from "America, a prophecy." Three unique plates...
Manuscript t.p. Printed in blue, brown, or green on 6 leaves, from engraved plates containing both text and illustrations. Includes plates 1-2, 9-10, and 2 copies of plate 13 of America, a prophecy. Keynes, G.L... More
A view of Bethlem, the great Moravian settlement in the province of Pe...
Print shows view of community of Bethlehem, a cluster of large and small buildings in a bucolic setting. Another impression in: Scenographia Americana. London : J. Bowles, 1768. Printed for John Bowles at No. ... More
[Man reading letter to old lady and man across a table]
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
What do I want, John Henry? / Alex. Gardner, photographer.
White soldier sitting facing young black servant, who is holding bottle and cake(?), with two other soldiers sitting and one standing in front of two tents. One of the soldiers is Brevet Major J.R. Coxe, who w... More
Brookfield Zoo - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress
Poster showing a black leopard. Designed by Carken. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Promotional goal: U.S. K5. 1936. Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: W... More
The slave driver. Book illustration from Library of Congress
(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. 463.
[Mount Vernon estate, Virginia]
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Don't kill our wild life - Art Deco public domain image
Poster showing two deer crossing road in front of approaching car. Date stamped on verso: Jul 18 1940. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Poster design attributed to John Wagner. Work Projects A... More
No, she cannot be dirty - Public domain book illustration
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, p. 36. Exhibit l... More
Quaker guns, Centreville, Virginia / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; po...
Earthworks with large logs to simulate guns in what may have been a deserted Confederate fortification. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & ... More
Alice Barber Stephens - [Group of children in my garden at Rose Valley...
Title and date from mat. Not published. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
A view in Hudson's River of the entrance of what is called Topan Sea V...
Print shows view of the Hudson River at a point where it broadens to form a lake called Tappan Sea in New York.
Louis Haghe - El Deir Petra March 8 1839 / David Roberts.
Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 3, pts. 14-15, p. 2. Surro... More
Commo. Perry meeting the imperial Commissioners at Yokuhama / from nat...
Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan... in... 1852, 1853, and 1854, under...M.C. Perry / Matthew C. Perry; Francis L. Hawks, comp. Washington : Nicholson P... More
[Wash drawings for illustrations of Mary Wollstonecrafts Original sto...
Mary Wollstonecraft's Original stories from real life. London, 1791, contain 6 of the illus.; the other four were not used. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1818 Keynes, G.L. Bibliography o... More
Manuscript, Science fiction story notes
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Reaching out for the river - drill grounds of the defenders of Cairo, ...
Panoramic view of the parade grounds at Camp Defiance, Cairo, Illinois shows troops from several Illinois volunteer units engaged in drill practice; in the background is the Mississippi River. Copyright by Rev... More
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...
Phillips, 11040 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6413 Includes indexes, brief histories of Wood and Pleasants County, and brief biographies of early Wood and Pleasants County residents. Available also thro... More
Historical hand-atlas, illustrated, containing large scale copper plat...
Phillips, 11040 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 6413 Includes indexes, brief histories of Wood and Pleasants County, and brief biographies of early Wood and Pleasants County residents. Available also thro... More
Atlas of Bartholomew Co., Indiana : to which are added various general...
LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4500 Includes indexes, brief history of Bartholomew County, and brief biographies and portraits of early Bartholomew County residents. Available also through the Library of... More
Atlas of Bartholomew Co., Indiana : to which are added various general...
LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4500 Includes indexes, brief history of Bartholomew County, and brief biographies and portraits of early Bartholomew County residents. Available also through the Library of... More
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century
Block book. Printed in brown ink on one side of leaves only. Includes illus. of the life of St. John. BM 15th cent., I, p. 3 (IB.41) Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch, IV, p. 160-216 (4th ed., 1st state) Rosenwald 23 A... More
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis., 15th century
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The county of Bay, Michigan : maps, history, illustrations and statist...
LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4962 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes, brief history of Bay County, and brief biographies and portraits of early ... More
The county of Bay, Michigan : maps, history, illustrations and statist...
LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4962 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes, brief history of Bay County, and brief biographies and portraits of early ... More
The wonderful wizard of Oz - Public domain book scan / engraving
First edition, second state. Cf. Schiller. Illustrated title-page in color, illustrated end-papers. "The engravings were made by the Illinois Engraving Company, the paper was supplied by the Dwight Brothers Pa... More
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
Picryl description: Public domain American Civil War historical book scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Printed matter, including books with i...
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American dancing master, and ball-room prompter containing about five ...
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American dancing master, and ball-room prompter containing about five ...
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[Four illustrations of 15th c. daily live from the text of Boethius, D...
Illus. in: Boethius, De consolatione philosphiae. Dutch and Latin. Ghent, Arend de Kaysere, 3 May 1485. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORK... More
The next candidate for statehood / O'Neill.
Illustration shows Columbia handing a dress labeled "Statehood" to a young woman labeled "New Mexico." Illus. in: Puck, v. 50, no. 1294 (1901 December 18), cover. Copyright 1901 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
[Portable siege ladder]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare. Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re... More
Typus arithmeticae. Book illustration from Library of Congress
The form of arithmetic, possibly muse of arithmetic, shown as woman standing between Boethius writing Arabic numerals and Pythagorus doing reckoning with counters. Illus. in: Margarita philosophica / Gregor Rei... More
De Terre motu. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Buildings moving and spire toppling in an earthquake. Illus. and text in: Margarita philosophica noua / Gregor Reisch. [Ex Argentoraco veteri, J. Gruningerus, 1515]. Published in: The tradition of science / Leo... More
[Two illustrations showing a unicorn and several apes]
Illus. in: Hudson, Hortus sanitatis, London, 1521. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Animals Apes; Unicorn. Sources checked and other information on... More
[Mathematician Girolamo Cardano, half-length portrait in oval, facing ...
Illus. and text in: De subtilitate libri XXI / Girolamo Cardano. Basileae : Per L. Lucium, 1554. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 236.
Hernando de Alarcon ... / B. Bazquez lo grabó ; J. Lopez Enguidanos lo...
Half-length portrait, standing, facing right. Illus. in: Retratos de los españoles ilustres con un epitome de sus vidas. Madrid : Imprenta real, 1791. Ref. copy in BIOG FILE - Alarcon, Hernando de.
[Title page for The complete gentleman, by Henry Peacham, with elabora...
Illus. in: The complete gentleman / Henry Peacham. London : Francis Constable, 1622, title page. Reference copy in LOT 7007.
[Hero's miraculous altar]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Illustration shows the details of a steam-driven mechanical apparatus for opening doors. Illus. in: Gli artificiosi e cvriosi moti spiritali di Herone / Giambattista Aleotti. Bologna : C. Zenero, 1647. Publish... More
[Page of text with illustration of a "thermoscope" or thermometer with...
Illus. in: Sphlaera mvndi, .... Mvtinæ : Ex typographia Andreæ, & Hieronymi Cassiani, 1653. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. ... More
A Garden bean in one lobe of wch. the seminal root is layed bare, the ...
Cross-section of a bean based on microscope examination. Illus. in: The anatomy of plants / Nehemiah Grew. [London] : Printed by W. Rawlins, for the author, 1682, plate 79. Published in: The tradition of scienc... More
[Murder of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, Ghent, 1554] / I....
Illustration showing the execution of van der Leyen and Ghyselins by burning at the stake; van der Leyen, showing signs of life, is stabbed with a long fork; implements of torture lie on the ground; spectators ... More
[Frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco, the Long Warrior, or King of t...
Frontispiece and title page in: Travels through North & South Carolina / William Bartram. Philadelphia : James & Johnson, 1791. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Libr... More
Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt.
Book illustration shows five early balloon ascensions in France: two Montgolfier balloons (Fauxbourg St. Antoine and St. Germain); a 1784 balloon of Jean-Pierre Blanchard; and a Charles and Robert balloon being... More
Elevation of a truck-carriage [and] plan of a truck carriage
Print shows two views of a "Truck carriage." Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, PL XXIV. Published in: The American Revolution... More
[Alchemical scene showing two putti holding philosopher's stone contai...
Illus. in: Mutus liber / Altus. 1702, pl. 11. Public domain photograph of 17th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New river water. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Man carrying 2 buckets of water on yoke. Engraving by Mauron. Illus. in: Marcellus Laroon's The Cryes of the city of London drawne after the life, London, 1711, plate 61. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr). This reco... More
Lycopersicon, apples of love - Public domain botanical illustration
Tomato in bud, full fruit, and section. Illus. in: The compleat herbal / Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. 2 vols. London : Printed for R. Bonwicke, 1719-30. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno... More
Le transport du grand soleil - Public domain dedication image
Native porters transporting the tribal leader whom they worshipped as the sun. Illus. in: Histoire de la Louisiane, contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays; sa description géographique; un voyage dans les terr... More
An Inland view in Atooi / Webber del.
Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition. Public domain reproduction of illuminated book or manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Afiatooka, or Morai in Tongataboo [i.e. Tongatabu] / Webber del. ; Coo...
Illus. from: Cook's voyage, octavo edition.
[Harmony weeps for the present situation of American affairs] / J.C. i...
Print shows Harmony leaning against an urn weeping in a pastoral setting. Illus. in: A sermon on the present situation of American affairs / William Smith. London : Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775, title page. ... More
Der Americanische Gener: Arnold
Benedict Arnold, half-length portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform; in oval frame. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Korn. Nürnberg : G. N. Raspe, 1776-84, p.... More
Charles Henri Comte Destaing, né le 24 Novembre 1729
Charles Henri comte d'Estaing, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing uniform, facing slightly right; in framed medallion. Illus. in: Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le comte d'Es... More
Commodore Hopkins / R. Pollard sc., engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows Esek Hopkins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America; ... More
1. Americanischer scharffschütz oder Jäger (rifleman) 2. regulaire inf...
Print shows German versions of an American rifleman and a soldier with the Pennsylvania infantry, full-length, standing, facing each other, wearing military uniform, holding rifles. Illus. in: Allgemeines hist... More
1. General Washington's reitende leibgarde 2. die independent company,...
Print shows German versions of a member of the Commander-in-Chief's Guard and a company soldier under Washington's command, full-length, standing, facing each other, wearing military uniform.
George the III / Reynolds del. ; Angus sculp.
Print shows King George III, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing ermine robe and powdered wig, left hand resting on shelf with orb, crown, and scepter. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France... More
Caligula au milieu de deux jeunes gens, pendant que ses amis sont a ta...
Print shows men and women engaged in sexual intercourse. Illus. in: Hancarville, Pierre d'. Monumens de la vie privée des douze Césars ..., 1785, pl. XII.
Auguste et Livie Camee d'Apollonius de Sicyone.
Print shows a woman and man engaged in sexual intercourse. Illus. in: Hancarville, Pierre d'. Monumens de la vie privée des douze Césars ..., 1785, pl. III.
S.E. Prospect, from an eminence near the common, Boston / del. & engra...
Illustration showing man standing in foreground looking toward Boston Harbor and Charlestown, Mass. Illus. in: Massachusetts magazine, Nov. 1790, no. 1391.
The rake's progress at university. No. 2. Ah me! That thou the freshma...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 546.
The rake's progress at the university. No. 5. Convened for wearing gai...
Illus. in: The works of James Gillray, from the original plates ... London : Printed for H.G. Bohn ..., 1851, v. 1, plate 549.
[Plan and elevations of a church. Side elevation, plan of cupola, "siz...
Illus. in: The American Builder's Companion, plate B following p. 100.
Scorpio / Sidy. Hall, sculpt. - Public domain book illustration
Astronomical chart showing a scorpion forming the constellation. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 23. Exhibited: World Treasures of the Library of Congress.