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Himegimi no gaishutsu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows two women and two children walking with a female attendant holding a large parasol; one of the children is carrying a doll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored ... More

Kaya no uchisoto, Kiyomasu Torii - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man, woman, and a child resting outside mosquito netting. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa).... More

Chatsumi, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women with short benches and small baskets, and a young boy; one of the women is picking tea leaves, the other has finished her task and is departing with the young boy. Title and other descript... More

Onoe matsusuke no odamakihime to ōtani hiroji no okabe no ro

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hosoban Benizuri-e. Forms part of: R. Leicester Harmsworth collection. Forms part of: Japanese... More

Engawa no mushikiki, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman sitting on a veranda listening to a cricket in a cage. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishik... More

Ueno no banshō, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman with two young sons standing on a veranda or balcony of a temple. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series:... More

Mitate rajōmon, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man departing, holding a closed umbrella over his right shoulder, looking back at a young woman standing on a veranda, leaning against a post. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

Kujibiki, Isoda Koryūsai - Public domain drawing

Print shows five courtesans attending to two men to determine who will serve each client; screen painting in the background shows a heron flying above waves. Title and other descriptive information compiled by ... More

Shigemasa Kitao - Yayoi asukayama hanami

Print shows three women and a man having a small tea party beneath blossoming cherry trees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the s... More

Yukata no tachi bijin, Shunsh Katsukawa

Print shows a young woman standing, holding a fan, wearing a loose-fitting gown. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: wide Hashira-... More

Danjo no manzai, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man playing a drum and a woman holding a fan, dancing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Fo... More

Ōkanaya uchi suminoto, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Suminoto of the Okana-ya, a courtesan, full-length, seated, facing left, with two apprentices combing her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

Chidori no tamagawa, Shunman Kubo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women(?) watching plovers dive over the Tama River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Mu tamagawa : S... More

[Child birth]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Two images of childbirth: plate 23 (left) shows child in womb with umbilical cord and plate 24 (right) shows forceps being used to deliver child. Illus. in: An abridgement of the practice of midwifery : and a s... More

Nakasu no geisha, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain drawing

Print shows a woman holding a fan, standing next to a young woman kneeling at a railing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashi... More

America! With peace and freedom blest

Allegorical figure of America as a young woman surrounded by shield with eagle, globe, and books as Apollo with a lyre points to the Temple of Fame.

[Four women composing poetry, possibly as a competition, next to a scr...

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Genji : The tale of Genji. Format: probably the left panel of a vertical Oban Nishiki... More

Kikuzuki, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman forming rice cake balls(?) and a male servant carrying a vase of flowers. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: ... More

Kira Yoshinaka - Shodan, print by Utamaro Kitagawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows actors in the roles of Moronō (Kira Yoshinaka) propositioning Lady Kaoyo, Enya's wife, and Wakasanosuke (a noble offended by Moronō's behavior). Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

[Woman, with chickens and ducks in baskets, facing another woman at wa...

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Teisai Hokuba (蹄斎北馬) - Haru no noasobi

Print shows two women standing, one offering a pipe to a person squatting near a pillar. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Kokon... More

Ōkarakuri, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman working a peepshow box for two children. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fūryū kodakara awase : A... More

Ryakuga ōji ebiya no zu, Tsukimaro Kitagawa

Print shows women exiting sedan chairs and entering a restaurant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: right panel of a vertical Ob... More

Wakamatsuya uchi midorigi, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Aiban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川春扇) - Futamigaura

Print shows a woman in a sedan chair with porters and a male traveler stopping to admire the twin rock formations, also known as the Meoto-iwa or Wedded rocks, at Futamigaura in the Ise Province. Title and othe... More

Iwai Hanshirō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print showing the actor Iwai Hanshirō, full-length, sitting on the floor, playing the role of a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.... More

Gotenyama no hanami, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a woman helping another woman get out of a sedan chair, and another woman standing behind the chair, with cherry blossoms above and sailboats in the background. Title and other descriptive informati... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Odori [enbu?] no zu

Print shows a design on a fan with several figures, male(?) and female, dancing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Uchiwae Nishi... More

Woman archer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a well-dressed woman about to shoot an arrow, possibly at a tournament, with male and female archers observing, also shows a bell-shaped tent in the background. (DLC/PP-2001:029). Forms part of: Ma... More

Katsukawa Shunsen (勝川春扇) - Chūshun

Print shows a woman walking and holding the hand of a young boy who is carrying a small doll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: ... More

Hinamatsuri no sirozake, Shunman Kubo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women preparing bottles of rice wine for the festival of dolls. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Nishikie S... More

Suitors to the pig faced lady Every man to his taste G. Cruik., fet, B...

Print shows a rich woman with a pig's face being courted for her money by unsuitable men including tradesmen and a stereotypical Jewish man. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Most images available o... More

Kaidan o noboru yūjo, Eizan Kikukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Kawa de no sentaku - Public domain drawing

Print shows four women at river's edge washing clothes; one woman has pulled out a piece of cloth which a crab has caught hold of, attracting the attention of a young child who dashes toward the water. Title an... More

Hagoita to takarabune - Public domain drawing

Print shows two boys towing a wagon carrying a model ship filled with toys and/or treasures past a woman standing nearby. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Nihonzutsumi no rakugan tamaya uchi Tamagushi

Print shows Tamagushi, a courtesan, full-length portrait, with several hairpins, seated, reading a scroll; picture hanging on the wall above her shows geese descending on the Nihon embankment. Title and other d... More

Oiran, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows an oiran, a high-class courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: S... More

Kayoikomachi no mitate - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Komachi, full-length, standing, facing right, with another woman standing behind her carrying a long box or portfolio. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Dubois & Stodart Hoogland sc - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a young woman sitting at and playing a "Dubois & Stodart" upright piano. Possibly an advertisement showing a type of piano manufactured by Dubois & Stodart. Signed on plate at bottom center. Forms ... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Nakamura shikan no kitsune kuzunoha

Print shows actor Nakamura Shikan, full-length portrait, standing, in the role of the fox Kitsune Kuzunoha in human form. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Das allegrösste Bilder ABC. R bei Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin

Print shows the letter "R" formed by a man holding a bundle of rushes which he is using to beat another man kneeling before him, with examples "Reifspringen" showing young women jumping rope; "Ritter" showing a... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 13 / Clay fecit 1829.

Print shows an African American couple walking on the street; the woman asks the man whether he likes the waltz. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1973:253). Caption: "How you like de waltz, Mr. Lorenzo?" "'Pon de honour of... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 11 C

Print shows an African American woman, wearing a very large hat, in a shop trying to purchase a pair of stockings. Plate XI. Caption: "Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man?" "Oui Madame! her... More

Fujo yamato sugata, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print showing a woman standing, holding a fan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of... More

Musume Dōjōji - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Public domain photo of Japanese woodblock print, Ukiyo-e, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ōgiya uchi hanaōgi, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Hanao of Ōgi-ya, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with attendant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: on... More

[A woman, possibly a courtesan, seated, facing right, with her head tu...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

Fujisawa zu, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman standing on a cloud, watching pilgrims near a bridge and a torii at the 7th station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print s... More

Neko o idaku musume - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a young woman holding a cat against her shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie diptych. ... More

Satsuki, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman holding up a child's coat. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Gosseku : The five festivals. Format: ... More

Shiro, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Ukiyo goshiki awase : Set of five colors of the floating world. Format: vertical Ob... More

[Full-length portrait of a woman, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 46, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscr... More

Shōjiki o mamoru mono wa tenjin kore o sutezu

Japanese print shows a woman seated at a table offering a morsel of food to a young woman; both wear western style clothing. Signature: unidentified. Designed and revised by Toshichika: seals are different. An... More

Charles Willson Peale - [Silhouette of woman facing left, no. 5]

Bust silhouette portrait shows an unidentified woman facing left with a bun in her hair, and strand of hair over her forehead. Blind stamp below image: Peales Museum. (DLC/PP-44431).

Takema no uguisu, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two young women on a country path gathering plants and listening to a warbler in bamboo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. F... More

Sugimotoya no kakae oume - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows a woman seated on the floor holding a puppet portraying a woman, possibly the shopkeeper Oume of Sugimoto-ya. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Gaikokujin kodomo chōai no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows a foreign woman holding a child while another child sits on the floor playing a pipe. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Monkey 10. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 105;... More

The Great exhibition of 1860. - Public domain broadside, Library of Co...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified woman] / Bell & Brother, photographers, 480 Pennsylvania...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

[Unidentified woman, possibly named Lea, in white cap] / From Garrett'...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Turkey. Young woman. Dame Virique / Dumas.

Turkish woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, next to waterpipe. No. 276. No. 606.

[Mary Bannister, wife of Private George H. Bannister of Company H, 13t...

Photo shows identified woman. Case: Berg, no. 3-19. Found in case with tintype of George Bannister, processed as AMB/TIN no. 2351. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Fa... More

Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi: Oranda fujin

Japanese print showing two standing women in Western dress. Signature: Kuniaki ga. Seal date: Cock 5. From series entitled: Bankoku jinbutsu no uchi (People of various nations). Annotations, stamps, etc. on ve... More

Camp of 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Washington, D.C.

Woman with sleeves rolled up holding basket, posed in front of tent with a soldier (possibly her husband) and three children, other soldiers in the background. Civil War Photographs collection. Published in: Am... More

[Studio portraits of a Japanese laborer, a doctor, an elderly woman ca...

Captions on front of item: "A Japanese coolie" (upper left); "The Japanese doctor in indoor costume" (upper right); "Old countrywoman with vegetables" (lower left); and "A Yokohama Belle" (lower right). Captio... More

[Allegorical image of two(?) women] / C.H. Schmolze.

Reproduction of drawing for book of poetry. Illus. in: Schmolze, Karl Heinrich / An artist's poems, Philadelphia, 1863, pl. 5. Reference copy in LOT 4450-H.

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of M...

Tobacco label showing full-length portrait of a nude woman draped with diaphanous sheet, floating over landscape. Copyright by Suggett & Kimball.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Tadzhichki: Maina-ai

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Tajik woman in traditional clothing. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 18.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Evreiki. Mastura

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 31.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Kirgiz-Kazachki. Tunuk-ai

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Kyrgyz-Kazak woman. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 4.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbechki. Izet ai

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Uzbek woman. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 12.

Making caps / Th. Nast. wood engraving, Library of Congress

Woman sewing soldiers' caps. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 489 (1866 May 12), p. 293.

Skating beauty. Mazurka by R. Frank Cardella. Song and chorus by Han...

Music cover showing young woman ice skating. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport / photo by Manchester Bros., Pr...

Full-length portrait of Ida Lewis standing on rocky shore of Newport, Rhode Island; female lighthouse keeper who has saved many lives with her small rowboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, July 31, 1869, p. 481 (t... More

Sappho - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0188). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smok...

LOT subdivision subject: Smoking (men, women, children in the act of) - Children, Women.

Young African American woman, standing with one arm resting on a table

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sra. de Sancha - Public domain portrait photograph

Woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, upper right. On verso: Andres Martinez y C[Supers... More

[Unidentified woman] / Photographs of Art, Ernsberger & Ray, 83 Genese...

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Muslim woman of Sivas; (2): Armenian woman of Sivas; and (3): Kurdish woman of the environs of Sivas. French caption from book: Sivas: Figure 1: Musulmane de Sivas; Figure 2: Arménienne de Sivas; and Figu... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Christian resident of Beyrouth (Beirut) in summer clothing; (2): married Muslim woman of Beyrouth (Beirut); and (3): married Christian woman of Beyrouth (Beirut) in winter clothing. French caption from bo... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1),(2), and (3): Jewish man and women of Brousse (Bursa). French caption from book: Hodavindiguar: Figures 1, 2 et 3: Juif and Juive de Brousse. Caption also in Ottoman Turkish. Part III, plate III. Illus. in... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Bachi Bozouk (mercenary soldier) of Angora (Ankara); (2): Muslim peasant from the area of Angora (Ankara); and (3): Muslim peasant woman from the area of Angora (Ankara). French caption from book: Angora:... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): A'alim (member of the Ulama) of Hudeı̈da; (2): bourgeois of Hudeı̈da; and (3): married Muslim woman of Sanaa (Ṣanʻāʾ).

Woman's crusade against intemperance / drawn by C.S. Reinhart.

Women in barroom protesting the sale of alcoholic beverages. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874 March 14, p. 236.

Prang's American Chromos - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Harring, W., artist. Prang (L.) & Co., copyright c... More

[Two women riding in a rickshaw]

Photograph shows two women with a large parasol riding in a rickshaw pulled by a man with a second man walking nearby, possibly to relieve the first man. Exterior view of building with tiled roof in the backgro... More

[Interior view of room where men and women are playing the board game ...

No. 656. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 19] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may... More

Boschee's German syrup and Green's August flowers

10212 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Boschee, advertiser. ... More

[Young girl gazing at older woman in passing carriage]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Story of a New York House" by H.C. Bunner, Scribner's magazine, 1:40 (Jan. 1887).

Portrait photo of Miss Bernhardt, the Ocean Express

Miss Bernhardt, full-length portrait, seated, facing slighlty right, with person in deep sea diving gear standing alongside. 4238L U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4.

[Father Time bowing to hatted woman]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ole Mammy in Beauty Land - Public domain portrait engraving

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0119). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Dottie and Lottie. It was like this Nelly : Mazie and me and Dot all t...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie : in the street car." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The old woman and the physician

Purchase; (DLC/PP-1982:125.21). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Aesop's Fables, p. 101.

Making tortillas - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Turkish woman, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding pa...

No. 610. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of [African American woman, seated]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dottie and Lottie. I've lost my job, Dottie, it was like this : I was ...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Auguri e felicitazioni, Tissandier Collection, France

A humorous print from an Italian illustrated periodical shows frogs dressed in street clothes climbing out of a packing crate carrying New Year's greetings on strips of paper, while a well-dressed woman watche... More

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