1850

Photomontage of Women's Faces - Early photography, Public domain image

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1850.Process: albumen print.Credit Line: Gift of Eugene & Dorothy Prakapas .Accession ... More

Regular line of clipper ships for San Francisco. Elegant California Cl...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 122, Folder 44.

[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

Unidentified Woman - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Accession Number: 1974:0193:0034..Maker: Southworth & Hawes..Title: Unidentified Woman..Date: ca. 1850..Medium: daguerreotype..Dimensions: whole plate; 21.7 x 16.5 cm...George Eastman House Collection.1974:0193... More

Rathhaus. Frankfort - Public domain albumen print photograph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 29, lower left.

[Model of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne...

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Espérons que ce ballon d'essai ne deviendra pas un ballon captif / A. ...

Cartoon shows a hot air balloon labeled "Suffrage Universel" with wings floating above the Pyrenees and headed toward a sign labeled "Espagne". Illus. from: Actualités, no. 248. Tissandier collection.

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

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.

Piraeus. Harbor of Athens - Public domain albumen print photograph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 17, left side.

Portrait photo of Harrold - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows a young man in frock coat, holding a hat in his left hand, and his right hand resting on a book, full-length portrait, facing front.

[Lexington market, Baltimore, Maryland]

Photograph shows people near tables where fruit and flowers are being sold at the Lexington market in Baltimore, Maryland. On caption card: Photo. by Albertype Co.

[Napoleon III, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, lower right. On verso: 10 Boulevart Poissonnière, 10, Dusacq & C[superscript ie], Editeurs, Paris.

[Fountain surrounded by benches in the Alameda Central park, Mexico Ci...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 42, lower left. On verso: Photographie de la Porte 51 Denis, Pestel, Boult Bonne-Nouvelle, No. 3, Paris.... More

Stage wall. Theatre of Dionysus (Bacchus)

Bas-relief sculpture from the stage wall; crouching figure of Silenus in center. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 8.

Pictura vel delineatio hominum nuper ex Anglia AD vectorum una cum cor...

Drawing is a modern copy of the frontispiece to Frobisher's Historia Navigationis, an account of his travels to the Davis Straits area of Greenland the 1570s, showing an Inuit hunting birds from a kayak while a... More

[Zina Hitchcock Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandfa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Refreshments by the way - Public domain book illustration

Title on verso. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Persia and Cabool / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown in hachures. In upper right corner: National atlas, 25. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

British Empire throughout the world exhibited in one view.

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

Halevy, portrait - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Fromenthal Halévy, French composer, three-quarter length portrait, facing right. No. 1336. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Landscape with 17th century soldiers(?) on horseback and on foot] / C...

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

Castle of Rheinstein - Public domain albumen print photograph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 28, upper right.

Theatre Bacchus. Dyonysus - Public domain albumen print photograph

View of Theater of Dionysus showing stage and seating. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p.18, right side.

[Miguel López, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 18, upper left. On recto mount: Cnel Miguel López; The Traitor.

Altar of Bacchus - Public domain albumen print photograph

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Greek sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Planisphaerium coeleste. - Public domain vintage map

Stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 76A. Includes 6 diagrams. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[General Santiago Vidaurri, half-length portrait, standing, facing fro...

On recto above item: Gral Santiago Vidaurri. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, lower right.

[General Félix Charles Douay, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, upper left. Above recto of item: Gral. Douai.

[Baron Alexander von Humboldt, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 27, upper right. On recto: Cruces y Campa 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, No. 4, México.

Lives of the presidents of the United States. By Robert W. Lincoln

Print shows trimmed frontispiece to one of the G.H. Salisbury edition's of Lives of the presidents of the United States ... / By Robert W. Lincoln with portrait of George Washington in front of soldiers. In al... More

Cologne. Bridge of boats - Public domain albumen print photograph

Bridge made from boats over Rhine River; cathedral in background. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 28, bottom left.

Abraham Lincoln / lith. & published by Edw. Mendel.

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pyramide de Chêops, le Sphynx et le Temple de Chafra, Gyzèh / P. Sebah...

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 23. Printed on photograph: No. 47.

Parthenon from w. - Public domain albumen print photograph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 14. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with... More

The great conflagration in Philadelphia on Tuesday July 9th 1850

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Leefe, G.E.

La fille du regiment - Public domain print

Portrait of Jenny Lind, in full costume, on stage. No. 22[9]. On lower right: Lith of Sarony New York. Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by William Hall & Son, in the Clerk's O... More

Appian Way / Jno. G. Chapman, fect. Roma.

Print shows a stone house and ruins along the Appian Way. Signed in pencil. Title in Beall: Via Appia. Date based on period when Chapman lived in Italy. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog o... More

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2076

My childhood's happy days are past

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

The son of A[...] 18 yrs -- A[...] 50 years

Print shows a father at age 50 and a son at age 18, half-length portraits. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Georgia waltz. Charles Grobe - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Prendi per mei sei libero, loved one I bid the pause, scena and aria f...

Jenny Lind From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright D... More

Impromptu capricieux - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[Children of Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs, in donkey cart with dog, probabl...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46c. Case: variant of Rinhart 131. Illegible inscription scratched on back of plate. Accompanying note in case: The children of Lt. M.C. Meigs, Eng. Corp U.S.A. take... More

Symphonie No. 1 in B dur, op. 38

Copyists ms., in ink, with additions and corrections in Schumann's hand. Copyist indentified as Carl Brückner of Leipzig. "Revidirt zum druck v. 26 April 1852" in Schumann's hand at end (p. 209). Note inside f... More

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left, seated in chair]

Case: mixed flowers surrounded by scrolls. Hallmark: partially cut off. Appears to be Rinhart 29. Barboza number: 6019.046. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype colle... More

[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni torai su]

Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel; map of the coast of Soshu in left panel; various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels. Diptych matted in 2 sections: 2a (rig... More

[Kita-Amerika gasshukoku: Peruri to yu mono Soshu Uraga ni torai su]

Japanese diptych print shows Perry's steamship in bottom right panel; map of the coast of Soshu in left panel; various Japanese coats of arms in upper half of both panels. Diptych matted in 2 sections: 2a (rig... More

Turner leben in Cincinnati / gez. und lith. von F. Bertsch, c.o. Turne...

Composite of 74 men identified in caption at bottom with cityscape of Cincinnati in the background.

[View from the 2nd story of the residence of Mrs. Comre. John Rodgers,...

Reference copy in LOT 4386-34. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clara Barton Papers: Family Papers: Barton, David and Julia Porter (br...

Clara Barton is best known for founding and leading the American National Red Cross, a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing emergency assistance, disaster relief, and education in the United States.... More

[Yokohama hatoba], depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows three-masted ship in Yokohama harbor with Mount Fuji in the background. Single panel of a triptych. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 184; 47623a; LC2585. Earlier control number... More

Music fills my soul with sadness

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice "Pett" Barbour]

No case, only velvet pad remains. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Lucian Barbour Papers); 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:087). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)... More

I would not die in winter - Public domain American sheet music

reply to "I would not die in spring time" From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form... More

Solitude, or, I am all alone - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Redowa waltz. Charles Grobe - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

North Star Ledger Book, 1850-1853

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

North Star Ledger Book, 1850-1853

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Republican Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1810-1811; Congressman, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 1823-1825; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-1829; Whig Senator, 1831-1842, 1849-1852; Democratic Republican candidate for ... More

Jeanette and Jeannot, or, The conscript's departure

Dance Susanna quadrilles, no. 1 - Public domain musical sheets

Springfield, 1850 / drawn on stone by D.W. Moody ; printed by Sarony &...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[View of Lowell, Massachusetts], Landscape view print

Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

[Group portrait of Freemasons of Anglo-Saxon Lodge, seated and standin...

Label stating "Anglo-Saxon Lodge" is damaged. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group portrait of Freemasons of Anglo-Saxon Lodge, seated and standin...

Label stating "Anglo-Saxon Lodge" is damaged.

[Man standing on a platform manipulating a set of paddle-like wings fo...

Tissandier collection.

View of Washington - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Print showing bird's-eye view of the U.S. Capitol building with the Smithsonian and the Washington Monument in the distance.

Black Hawk: Union course, L.I. Tuesday September 25th 1849 / lith & pu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0622.

[Thomas Corwin, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the left, stan...

Whig Congressman from Ohio, 1831-1840; Governor of Ohio, 1840-1842; Senator, 1845-1850; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1850-1853; Republican Congressman, 1858-1861. Scratched on face of plate: 100; Corwin Thos... More

Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American deser...

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York et Brooklyn--Vue prise au dessus de la batterie / dessiné par...

Bird's-eye view of New York and Brooklyn from the Battery. Title also in Spanish.

The wonders of a toy shop. - Rare book, public domain, Library of Cong...

Cover title. Leaves printed on one side only; printed pages face each other. First and last leaves mounted on the inside of the paper cover. Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of cover. Also available in digit... More

The Marietta waltz - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

[View of a city on a river] - Engraving, Public domain image

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

Der gestiefelte Kater / Schwind, 1850.

Illustration shows scenes from the fairy tale. Illus. in: [Münchener Bilderbogen Book 2]. München : K. Braun & F. Schneider, [between 1849 and 1850], no. 48.

Bahia Honda Bridge spanning one of the Florida Keys -- near Key West, ...

On recto above item: Gral. ... Velez. On verso: P. (?) Velez. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 15, lower left.

Martin Luther's house - Public domain albumen print photograph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 28, upper right.

Ferdinand Philippe, Duc d' Orleans / E. Girardet del. ; Delannoy sc.

Ferdinand Philippe in uniform, on horse. After a painting by Lansac.

Interview of General Lafayette with his wife & daughters in the prison...

Public domain image - related to Czech and Czechoslovak history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strasbourg home bas rhin building. A river running through a small tow...

Architecture stock photograph: A house on a river bank in germany / A river running through a small town next to a tall building.

The Pnyx and Bema. Monument of Philopappus, A.D. 110

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 10. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with... More

Gunpowder for sale here / Oliver J. Stuart, N.Y.

Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices [at] 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." sh... More

[Benito Juárez, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, upper left.

[William Y. McAllister, full-length, seated in chair with arm resting ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney - Public domain portrait engraving

Roger B. Taney, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jenny Lind - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nagel & Weingartner.

[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]

From Brady daguerreotype. LC-BH821-6628. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seat...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8775. Hallmark: [double paschal lamb] 40. Case: variant of Rinhart 53. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1960. Forms part of: Robert Wickliffe Woolley Papers, 1842-1958 (... More

[Unidentified man, about 55 years of age, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Alternative identification: H. Wheeler. Scratched on back of plate: H. Wheeler. Taken by Brady, January, 1850. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Lib... More

[Ruins of the Ramesseum] - Public domain albumen print photograph

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Un vieux port de la Normandie (Marée basse) / Lalanne.

Beraldi, 114 No. LCF 325. Public domain photograph - historical image of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map of Essex County, New Jersey : with the names of property holders &...

Relief shown in hachures. Inset of Newark, N.J. with index. LC Land ownership maps, 446 LC Ward maps, 165 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 3 views.

[General Ramón Mendez, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Jesús Terán full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

On mount: Teran, M[Superscript tro] de Justicia. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 24, upper right.

[Half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front]

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

Lithographic establishment of Edward Weber & Co. Maps, title pages, pl...

Print shows advertisement for lithographer with ornamental border and scene from Hamlet.

Sectional map of the state of Iowa, compiled from the United States su...

Detailed township and county map showing drainage, cities and towns, roads, and railroads. Scale 1:570,240. LC also has 1854 edition. LC Railroad maps, 216 Description derived from published bibliography. Avail... More

A group of small wooden buildings sitting on top of a lush green hills...

A group of people standing around a small town / A view of a village with a lot of wooden houses public domain stock photo.

Declaration of Independence - in Congress July 4th 1776 / engraved by ...

Print shows the text with signatures of the Declaration of Independence within a wreath at the top of which are portraits in medallions of the first twelve presidents, from George Washington through Zachary Tay... More