1850

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

[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.

[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.

[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

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.

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.

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

Piraeus. Harbor of Athens - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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

Cologne. Bridge of boats - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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

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.

[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.

Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit

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

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.

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.

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

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

Jeanette and Jeannot, or, The conscript's departure

[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.

[Benjamin Perley Poore, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly r...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 124. Accompanying note: Ben Perley Poore. Purchase; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:089). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Felipe N. Chacón, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper left. On verso: Montes de Oca y Comapañia, 1? calle de Plateras N. 6, Mexico.

Map of Middlesex County, New Jersey /

Relief shown by hachures. Insets : Plan of New Brunswick ; City of Perth Amboy. Includes names of property owners. LC Land ownership maps, 456 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Emigrant party on the road to California

Wagon train of women, men, and children, moving through the mountains. Illus. in: California: its past history; its present position; its future prospects. London : The proprietors, 1850, frontispiece. Publishe... More

To the people, who wish to do right! There are thousands of persons in...

Slavery. 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 22, Folder 23.

Map of the township of West Hempfield, Lancaster County Penn'a : from ...

General-content township wall map showing rural buildings and householders' names; the Columbia borough inset shows building coverage and occupants' names. Hand colored to emphasize township and borough boundar... More

[George Lippard, head and shoulders portrait, facing left]

In plain leather case. Label adhered to case: "31." Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collect... More

[Miners panning for gold ; entering a mine shaft ; miners with equipme...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of mining life; attached blank leaf.

Columns of Olympieum. Museon Hill / Bonfils.

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 17, right side. Printed on photograph: 312 Bonfils.

[Ruins at Ephesus] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Ruins of East Gymnasium, Ephesus. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 21, bottom right.

A cure for deceit. [185-]. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congr...

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 156, Folder 42.

Christophe Colomb parmi les Indiens / lith. de Turgis.

Christopher Columbus among Indians. Title also in Spanish. Public domain scan of Amerian 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

My pet bird - Print, Library of Congress collection

Young girl feeding grapes to bird perched on her shoulder. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphia, from Girard College-1850 / J. W. Hill & Smith, del. ; l...

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850 by Francis Smith in the clerks office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflis... More

Black Hawk and Jenny Lind--Union course, L.I. Nov. 17th 1847 / lith & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0623.

Young artist's coloring guide, no. 12.

Cover title. Sets of facing plates, one colored, the other uncolored, pictorially representing words beginning with the letters R-Z.

Vampire polka - 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

Jacques Cartier, his first interview with the Indians at Hochelaga now...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Athens. Cityscape photograph - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Panoramic view of Athens, Greece, showing Temple of Theseus (Hepaisteion), Mount Lycabettus, and the Acropolis. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 2.

Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I. : shewing the streets as at present ...

Shows wards (numbered), building coverage, and lot lines. Hand colored to emphasize ward boundaries. Originally printed on 2 sheets (western/eastern). LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, shellacked, brittle, dar... More

U.S. mail steam ship Baltic: Collins line. builders, hull by Brown & B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hickok's patent cider mill wood engraving, Library of Congress

Advertisement by W.O. Hickok addressed to farmers; text is in English and German.

Portrait einer Cholera-Präservative-Frau, von M.G. Saphir / Nürnberg b...

Portrait of a "cholera-preservative woman". Text below describes the clothing and devices she and her dog use to ward off the disease.

Swedish barcarolle = Friska vindar spanna seglen

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

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

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.

San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt.

Print showing view from hilltop of San Francisco, California, looking toward the bay.

A bad egg for a southern stomach.

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

[Certificate of membership for the Washington National Monument Societ...

Certificate to raise funds to erect the Washington Monument shows two designs for the monument and two vignettes.

Columns of Olympieum. Cityscape photograph

View of Columns of Olympieum (Temple of Olympian Zeus) with Acropolis in background.

[David Emanuel Twiggs, half-length portrait, facing right]

Print shows General Twiggs, who became a general in the late 1840s during the Mexican-American War, commanded the Department of Texas for the U.S. Army, and accepted a commission in the Confederate Army in 1861... More

Daniel Carroll of Duddington's family on porch of house, F and 2nd Str...

Photograph shows members of the family of Daniel Carroll (1764-1849) with African American man, seated and standing on the porch of Duddington house, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Caption from another copy of ... More

Slavery as it exists in America. Slavery as it exists in England

A challenge to the Northern abolitionist view of the institution of slavery, favorably contrasting the living conditions of American slaves (above) with the lot of the industrial poor in England (below). The fi... More

Lady Moscow - Print, Library of Congress collection

Artist: S.B. Jones (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3648

The hurly-burly pot - Public domain book illustration, Library of Cong...

The artist attacks abolitionist, Free Soil, and other sectionalist interests of 1850 as dangers to the Union. He singles out for indictment radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Pennsylvania Free Soil ad... More

Portrait of a Family of Five - Public domain portrait

Artist: William S. Porter.Artist Bio: American, 1822 - 1889.Creation Date: 1850.Print Date: ca. 1850.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

Echo Lake: White Mountains - Engraving, Public domain image

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1803 Exchange; F.A. Conningham; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:025).

The sacred heart of Jesus - Public domain portrait engraving

Jesus Christ, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding image of his heart.

The dark sett quadrilles - 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

Ah! may the red rose live alway

Lily of the valley - 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

La Sylphide, valse - Public domain American sheet music

La polka, Linda - Public domain American music sheet

A defence for fugitive slaves,

Text of acts of 1793 and 1850 (4 p.) precedes t.-p. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

View of Washington - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Date and photographer information from: Picturing Frederick Douglass / John Stauffer. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015, p. 185.

[Unidentified boy seated in chair with child standing to left, three-q...

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

[Fanny Longfellow, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Ignacio Zaragoza, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 22, upper left.

Copy of curious love letter from a gentleman to a lady. [185-?].

Title. 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 156, Folder 40.

Unidentified Woman - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Accession Number: 1974:0193:0672..Maker: Southworth & Hawes..Title: Unidentified Woman..Date: ca. 1850..Medium: daguerreotype with applied color..Dimensions: sixth plate; 8.3 x 7.0 cm...George Eastman House Col... More

Chūgoku nenga - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a warrior or supernatural being riding on a tiger. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Forms part of: Japanese prints and draw... More

The Presidents of the United States: Washington 1789 to Fillmore 1850

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5315

Eternal source of every joy from Stabat Mater

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

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

Jacques Cartier, his first interview with the Indians at Hochelaga now...

Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, war, 17th, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Man lecturing native people under a tree]

Drawing shows a man wearing a hat and jacket standing under a large tree while indigenous people sit in a circle around him as well as other men dressed in uniform. The inclusion of palm trees indicates that th... More

James Marshall, discoverer of gold, at Sutter's Mill

Photomechanical reproduction of the 1850(?) daguerreotype by R. H. Vance shows James Marshall standing in front of Sutter's sawmill, Coloma, California, where he discovered gold.

Tomb - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sculpture of two women. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 20, right side.

Athens. Cityscape photograph - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Panoramic view of Athens, Greece. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 2.

Portrait of a young woman - Public domain portrait

Artist: Davis & Company.Artist Bio: American photography studio, active mid 19th century.Creation Date: 1850.Print Date: ca. 1850.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

Infantry at mess / lith. & pub. by Geo. E. Leefe.

Young child feeding grapes to baby sitting in chair while dog watches. No. 67.

Kiss me quick! - Print, Library of Congress collection

Man embracing woman from behind, as she holds fan up to her face. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3614

[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

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

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

U.S.M. Steamship Atlantic, James West, Commander

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott, Wm., & Co. Copyright deposit, southern district of N.Y. Apr. 12, 1850

Der nördliche gestirnte Himmel / - Public domain old map

San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt.

Print showing view from hilltop of San Francisco, California, looking toward the bay.

[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

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

[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.

[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

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.