avenue

An avenue lined with statues in a pine forest, jets of water issuing f...

Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)

A Shaded Avenue

A Woman Seated at a Bench on the Avenue du Bois

Berthe Morisot (French, Bourges 1841–1895 Paris)

[Manuscript map of Seventeenth Street N.W. between E Street and Pennsy...

Partial cadastral map showing lot lines, lot and block numbers, and dimensions. Title devised by cataloger. At top in ink: Presidents Square. Pen-and-ink with additions in lead pencil. Watermark: U S [word uncl... more

Architectural drawing for a frame ("looking glass frame for President'...

Working drawing showing looking glass frame and mantel in Blue Room as elevation; rendering. UNIT title devised. Client's name from The Architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1994. Inscriptions on re... more

Washington, looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the new Terrace of the...

Title from item. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 672. (DLC/PP-1996:032.17). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "American Treasures" at the Library of Congress, ... more

At Duane's book-store, Pennsylvania Avenue. For sale a collection of b...

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 191, Folder 9.

Hat manufactory. William H. Hamer, respectfully informs his friends an...

Title.; Imprint 2. 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 190, Folder 20.

[Cadastral survey map of Squares A and B adjacent to Pennsylvania Aven...

Covers blocks bounded by 6th St., Pennsylvania Av., 3rd St., and the former Missouri Av. N.W. Black ink, brown ink, and lead pencil. Torn, fold-lined, and mounted on cloth backing. Includes notes and computatio... more

House for William C. Rhinelander, No. 1 Fifth Avenue, New York (front ...

Senate chamber of the United States. Engraved & published by J. V. N. ...

Dr. T. G. Clinton respectfully issues this notice of his desire to pra...

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 197, Folder 30.

Footrace, Pennsylvania Avenue. Stakes $25,000

The race for a $25,000 prize (the president's salary) is a metaphor for the 1844 campaign. The favored contender here is Henry Clay. The other runners are James K. Polk and John Tyler, while commentaries are of... more

Entrance to the Gothic Avenue

Illus. in: Rambles in Mammoth Cave during the year 1844, Louisville, Ky., 1845. Reference copy may be in LOT 4388E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. D... more

Mayoralty. Clear the track for John C. Harkness, the mechanic's workin...

Harkness, John C. 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 198, Folder 5.

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

Inscriptions on recto: Third story ; John Haviland Archt Philadelphia 1847 ; Gentlemen's stair ; Ladies stair. Building originally Fountain Inn, then Irving Hotel (1848), then The Kirkwood House (1854). Demolis... more

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

Inscriptions on recto: Principal floor ; John Haviland Architect Philadelphia. 1847 ; Saloon ; Balconey ; Ladies dressing room ; Gent's dressing room ; Ladies stair-case ; Gentlemen's stair-case ; Piazza ; Ladi... more

Eingang in die Dorotheenau. Avenue de la valée: Dorothéenau

Eingang in den Haidbacher Graben nächst Schottwien. Avenue dans la fos...

Vue du Palais Impèrial de Versailles du côté de l'avenue de Paris

Vue de l'Entrée principale du Palais Impèrial de Compiegne prise de l'...

Séboûah - temple - colosse et sphinx de la partie gauche de l'avenue /...

General view of colossus and sphinx on the left side of the avenue approaching the temple at Es-Sebua, Egypt.

Karnak (Thèbes) - avenue de sphinx - vue générale prise du point G / F...

Ruins along the avenue of Sphinxes as seen from "point G" showing palms and temple ruins in the distance (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude... more

Every body and his big grandmother are going to buy their valentines a...

Valentine. 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 200, Folder 19.

Séboûah, Temple, Colosse et Sphinx de la Partie Gauche de l'Avenue

These two desert friends engaged in an ancient conversation were discoverd by Teynard on a sand-swept avenue leading to one of two New Kingdom (1400-1200 B.C.) temples at the site of Es-Sebua, in Nubia. Félix T... more

Stationery, music, pianos, fancy goods, &c. ... John F. Ellis. Pa. Ave...

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 201, Folder 22.

Karnak (Thèbes), Avenue de Sphinx - Vue Générale Prise du Point G

Félix Teynard (French, 1817–1892)

Plat & dimensions of circle on Pennsylvania Avenue at intersection of ...

"18th Nov'r 1854." Includes survey notes. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

Plat of triangular reservation on Pennsylvania Avenue between 20th & 2...

Covers triangular park bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue and I and 21 st streets N.W. "18th November 1854." Includes "Recapitulation" table. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of ... more

Root's daguerreotype talbotype, stereoscopic & crayon portrait & minia...

Daguerreotype. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 4 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 202, Folder 6. C... more

Avenue of Sp[hynxes]

Title from item. No. 1885. On verso: (Karnak) Thebes. Avenue of Sphinxs.

Anti-slavery fair! The Abington anti-slavery fair will commence on Mon...

Anti-slavery fair. 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 62, Folder 35.

Jefferson Market, Sixth Avenue, New York City / Tarbell, S. ; A. Hill.

Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 13, no. 16 (1857 Oct. 17), p. 248. Title from item.

Avenue de l'Impératrice (actuelle avenue Foch), vue prise de la Porte ...

Avenue de l'Impératrice (actuelle avenue Foch), vue prise de la Porte Dauphine, bois de Boulogne, 16ème arrondissement, Paris. Au bout de l'avenue, l'arc de Triomphe et la barrière de l'Etoile. De chaque côté d... more

The undersigned ... will open a school for young ladies, at Nos. 159 a...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 203, Folder 22.

The Third Avenue Railroad Depot

Ladies' drawing-room in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, [New York City]

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1859 Oct. 1), p. 633. Reference copy may be in SSF - Hotels, Taverns, Etc. U.S./N.Y. N.Y.C. 1859. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... more

[Court of French and Italian Sculpture; Avenue in Front of Fine Arts C...

New York City and environs, from the spire of Dr. Spring's new brick c...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, 1859 April 23, pp. 264-265.

Kemikum, senare kallad Philologicum, i Carolinaparken, stadsdelen Kåbo...

Kemikum, senare kallad Philologicum, i Carolinaparken, stadsdelen Kåbo, Uppsala 1860-tal

[Unidentified man] / Cartes de visite by Slagle, 288 Penna. Avenue, co...

Title devised by Library staff.

[View looking east down Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., from U.S. Capitol w...

[Four unidentified men in front of painted backdrop] / Hollyland's [si...

Title devised by Library staff.

Stereobild av skogsallé.

Stereobild av skogsallé.

Grand torch-light parade of the New York firemen in honor of the Princ...

Illustration showing firemen marching with torches and lights by hotel balcony where Prince of Wales watches with his retinue. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 4, no. 199 (1860 Oct. 20), p. 660.

En allé vid Ankarsrums bruk.

En allé vid Ankarsrums bruk.

Terrible loss of life! Burning of a tenement-house in Forty-fifth Stre...

Title from item. Title continues: Two women and eight children burned to death. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 227 (1860 Apr. 7), p. 299.

Stereobild, vy över Pennsylvania avenue med U.S. Capitol i bakgrunden.

Stereobild, vy över Pennsylvania avenue med U.S. Capitol i bakgrunden.

[Soldier named Ewing in kepi displaying a wound to his arm] / Henry Ul...

Title devised by Library staff.

[Unidentified woman, possibly a nurse, during the Civil War] / G. F. C...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform] / Bell & Brother, photographer...

Title devised by Library staff.

Botaniska trädgården och Linneanum, Uppsala 1860-tal

Botaniska trädgården och Linneanum, Uppsala 1860-tal

Stereobild av man under gång av lampor.

Stereobild av man under gång av lampor.

Stereobild av 5 th avenue och 38 th street.

Stereobild av 5 th avenue och 38 th street.

Stereobild, vy över Femte Avenyn i New York.

Stereobild, vy över Femte Avenyn i New York.

Stereobild med motiv från gatan Avenue de l'Impératrice, Paris.

Stereobild med motiv från gatan Avenue de l'Impératrice, Paris.

Botaniska trädgården och Linneanum, Uppsala 1860-tal

Botaniska trädgården och Linneanum, Uppsala 1860-tal

[Unidentified soldier in uniform] / Bell & Brother, photographers, 480...

Title devised by Library staff.

Kemikum, senare kallad Philologicum, i Carolinaparken, stadsdelen Kåbo...

Kemikum, senare kallad Philologicum, i Carolinaparken, stadsdelen Kåbo, Uppsala 1860-tal

Stereobild över gata, allé med fontän, Lyon.

Stereobild över gata, allé med fontän, Lyon.

[Map of part of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Washington Canal in the vi...

Covers area bounded by Washington Canal, 6th, D, and 12th streets N.W. Shows block numbers and dimensions. Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink, lead pencil, and blue wash. Missing section at upper right cor... more

[Unidentified soldier in uniform] / R. W. Addis, photographer, 308 Pen...

Title devised by Library staff.

Old State Department Building, corner 15 Street and Pennsylvania Avenu...

Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Ox team with cannon, 15th & Penn. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a team of oxen hauling a 15 inch Rodman at the intersection of 15th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. No. 1486. Title from item.

The officers of the C.S. Army & Navy / photographed and published by C...

Photomontage shows portraits of 49 Confederate Army and Navy officers.

Festival of the Seventh Avenue Sunday School, Wednesday evening, May 2...

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 124, Folder 8.

[Soldier identified as Osborne in Union uniform] / Whitehurst Gallery,...

Title devised by Library staff.

Scene, Fifth Avenue

Cartoon shows a well-dressed man telling a woman "Ah! Dearest Addie! I've succeeded. I've got a substitute!" The woman, holding him at arms length, replies "Have you? What a curious coincidence! And I have foun... more

Scene, Fifth Avenue

Cartoon shows a well-dressed man telling a woman "Ah! Dearest Addie! I've succeeded. I've got a substitute!" The woman, holding him at arms length, replies "Have you? What a curious coincidence! And I have foun... more

[Soldier identified as Harman in uniform] / R. W. Addis, photographer,...

Title devised by Library staff.

The defenders of our Union 109 Commanders of the Union Army / / Photog...

Photomontage shows portraits of 109 Union Army and Navy officers. Title from item. Officers' names listed on mount: Lincoln, Abraham, Prest. of the U.S.; Scott, Winfield; Staunton, Edwin M., Sec. of War; Anders... more

Maryland Avenue Depot, Washington, D.C., June, 1863

Photograph shows three men standing on the platform of the Maryland Avenue railroad station while two men stand in the street. The Capitol buildings under construction are in the distance. No. 222. Title from item.

Rivers & Derious' combination circus! and Bedouin Arab troupe for a sh...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 6 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 204, Folder 51b. Copy scanned: 2

[Sergeant Alfred A. Stratton of Co. G, 147th New York Infantry Regimen...

Carte de visite is housed in thermoplastic frame. Title devised by Library staff. Identification of soldier from Photography and the Civil War / Jeff L. Rosenheim. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013, p... more

Bridge at the 7th Avenue Entrance, from the series, Views in Central P...

Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts)

Washington, District of Columbia. Group on steps of Quartermaster Gene...

Robert Wood's ornamental iron works, Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia / Hinc...

Print shows an advertisement for Robert Wood's Ornamental Iron Works on "Ridge Avenue below Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia" showing cast iron statues and fountains, the "Clay Monument, at Pottsville, Pa.", ... more

Washington, District of Columbia. Brig. Gen. Charles Thomas, Assistant...

D. H. Bates / Photographed by Philp & Solomons' Metropolitan Gallery, ...

Photograph shows portrait of David Homer Bates, an original operator of the United States Military Telegraph Corps. Title from item. Found with ambrotype of the original four operators of the United States Mili... more

[Grand Army Review, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington]

[Grand Army Review, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington]

Headquarters of Maj. Genl. Augur, Including Offices of Provost Marshal...

Post and Reservation Maps

Scene at the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the Capitol grounds at Wa...

Illustration showing a crowd of people crossing the street between a railroad locomotive and a street railroad, with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Title from item. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 4... more

Karnak. Avenue des Béliers / Bonfils.

Propylon (triumphal arch) and pylon in the Valley of the Rams, part of the Temple of Ramses IV in Thebes.

The U.S. Arsenal, at Washington, D.C. / photographed and published by ...

Title from item.

Caire - Avenue de Koubr-el-Aâma / Bonfils.

Unpaved road, tree lined on both sides, canal to the left. Title from item. No. 1168.

Ascension captive. 42, avenue de Suffren tous les jours de 1 à 5 h. Ex...

Broadside announcing a captive balloon ascension during the Paris Exposition of 1867. Includes pictures of the balloon being inflated ("Le Gonflement") and spectators watching the captive balloon ascend in the ... more

The Hebrew Temple Emanu-el, corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Third Str...

[Unidentified sailor in Union engineer lieutenant's uniform] / Henry U...

Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Dedication of the Hebrew temple Emanuel, corner of Fifth Avenue and Fo...

Interior of synagogue. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 3 Oct. 1868, p. 41. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Synagogues.

Booth's new theatre, Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13, no. 628 (1869 Jan. 9), p. 29. Print after a photograph by Rockwood. Title from item.

Positive sale of the mansion with ample grounds attached, and eighty-f...

Poster containing cadastral map. Includes text. Torn, ink-smeared, and mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

[Unidentified woman] / Rice ; M. P. Rice, A. I. Rice, photographers, 1...

Title devised by Library staff. No. 3415. Wearing the same jewelry, bow, and hair ornament as woman in photograph processed as LOT 6286, no. 46.

New York City - Medical College for Women, East Twelfth Street and Sec...

Print shows female medical students attending an anatomy lecture. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 30 (1870 April 16), p. 72. Title from item.

[Unidentified woman] / Rice ; M.P. Rice, A.I. Rice, photographers, 121...

Title devised by Library staff. No. 3422. Wearing the same jewelry, bow, and hair ornament as woman in photograph processed as LOT 6286, no. 47.

Plan of building lots on Columbus Avenue, and various streets and squa...

New York City - Medical College for Women, East Twelfth Street and Sec...

Class. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1870), p. 72. Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: NY NYC ; Shelf.

Speeding on the avenue

Title from item. Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by Currier & Ives in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the South... more

New York City - The Orange Riot of July 12th - view on Eighth Avenue l...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 July 29, pp. 328-329.