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Shodana to fuzukue to ume - Public domain architectural drawing

Shodana to fuzukue to ume - Public domain architectural drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Nishikie Surimono. Print has been trimmed and inscribed in ink with the title of a book for ... More

Youths progressive recorder Historic map, Library of Congress

Youths progressive recorder Historic map, Library of Congress

Copyright design drawing shows the Youths progressive recorder, a mechanical handwriting copying machine. Stamped: Copyright library. Inscribed upper right: This map is a design and the title of the writing to ... More

Writing brushes - Public domain  drawing

Writing brushes - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows several types of broad and fine writing brushes. Japanese text, possibly identifying the types of brushes, appears on the right, outside the image box. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the ... More

Polygraph. Hawkins's machine for writing, drawing &c. / J. Pass sc.

Polygraph. Hawkins's machine for writing, drawing &c. / J. Pass sc.

Print shows a duplicating device, or polygraph, for simultaneously producing two copies of a handwritten document. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Thaddeus Davids and Cos. writing inks / lith. of Snyder, Black & Sturn 92 William St. New York.

Thaddeus Davids and Cos. writing inks / lith. of Snyder, Black & Sturn...

Print shows a large fountain labeled "Not for a day but for all time" spewing a variety of colored inks; with examples of ink products in an ornamented border, also shows a factory on a river and a large buildi... More

Matsubaya uchi Yachiyo, Eizan Kikukawa - Ukiyo e print

Matsubaya uchi Yachiyo, Eizan Kikukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Yachiyo, a courtesan, full-length portrait, walking beneath blossoms with an attendant; she has several hairpins and her kimono has a design on the back showing writing equipment. Title and other de... More

[David Graham Phillips, full-length portrait, standing at writing table, facing slightly right]

[David Graham Phillips, full-length portrait, standing at writing tabl...

Forms part of: Papers of Charles Edward Russell. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1976:118

[Karmapa Lama's successor studying penmanship, Sikkim]

[Karmapa Lama's successor studying penmanship, Sikkim]

"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 Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

Ink, ink stone and water pot - Public domain  drawing

Ink, ink stone and water pot - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a tray for mixing ink and water, bar of ink, and a small water pot. Japanese text appears on the left, outside the image box. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Education" series. Gift; ... More

Jefferson - Print, Library of Congress collection

Jefferson - Print, Library of Congress collection

53825 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. Knapp Co. Lith., copy... More

Putnam a pattern for pen wiper Kellogg & Bulkeley Hartford, Conn

Putnam a pattern for pen wiper Kellogg & Bulkeley Hartford, Conn

Print shows either Rufus Putnam or Israel Putnam, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, as a pattern to be cut-out and pasted or sewn together to form a "pen wiper". G1416 U.S. Copyright Office. Captio... More