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Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport i...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Compan...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

A black and white photo of men working on old cars. Dodge Brothers Mot...

A black and white photo of an office. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

A black and white drawing of a floor plan. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co...

An old black and white photo of a roller coaster. Dodge Brothers Motor...

[Christ praying on the Mount of Olives] / M.S.

Martin Schongauer, also known as Martin Schön or Hübsch Martin by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important printmaker north of the Alps before Albrecht Dürer, a younge... More

Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mission San Juan Capistrano was a Spanish mission in Southern California, located in present-day San Juan Capistrano. It was founded on All Saints Day Nov... More

Christ's miracles on the Sea of Galilee

Jesus and 12 Apostles on sailing ship at sea. Woodcut by Michael Wolgemut. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444 B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ.... More

[Mobile tank-like fortress in the shape of a dragon]

Print shows a dragon-shaped, mobile fortress equipped cannons and capable of carrying troops, with a ladder device mounted on the front used for scaling walls or as a bridge during siege warfare.

[Rosarium Beatae Mariae Virginis. [from old catalog]]Rosarium Beate Ma...

Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Earth-centered universe, with orbits of moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, J...

Illus. and text in: De caelo / Aristoteles. Venice : B. Locatellus for O. Scotus, 1495. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 255.

[The Virgin with child holding a book] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Meder, 212. Bartsch, 102. Bradley Collection.

St. Christopher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

St. Christopher walking through water with cherub on shoulder. Public domain scan of 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portraict de l'amas des os humains, mis en comparaison de l'anatomie d...

Human skeleton with bones lettered for comparison with a bird skeleton. Illus. in: L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux / Pierre Belon. Paris: G. Cauellat, 1555, p. 40. Published in: The tradition of science / L... More

Theodor de Bry - [The dances at their great feasts]

Native men and women dancing around a circle defined by posts with carved faces, three Native women stand together in the center of circle. Illus. in: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ri... More

Christopher Columbus. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry. Proof impression of the plate printed on page 3 of Theodor de Bry, ed., Americae pars quinta (German edition: Americae das funffte Buch), Frankfurt, 1595. (Copies in Rosenwal... More

Insula Puna. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Spanish battling natives on island and on "Tierra de Peru." Illus. in: Hulsius [Collection of Voyages] Frankfurt, 1599-1649, pt. 6, opp. p. 27. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Capti... More

Enthusiasm display'd: or, the Moor Fields congregation, British Cartoo...

The print shows evangelical Methodist minister George Whitefield preaching at Moorsfield, London.. He is supported by two females, one holding a mask and labeled "Hypocrisy", the other a Janus-faced "Deceit". O... More

Sculptura in æs / Ioan Stradanus invent. ; Phls Galle excud.

Print shows an interior view of a workshop with several men and boys engaged in the various activities involved in the etching, engraving, and printing of illustrations. Caption continues: Sculptor noua arte, ... More

Harris's list; or, Cupid's London directory / R. Newton del. ; etch'd ...

Print shows a man with a copy of "Harris's list" open to the page for "Miss Love" standing in front of Miss Love's establishment; there is a young woman standing at the door, one leaning out a first floor windo... More

A Company Making Music - Public domain portrait engraving

Dutch (artist nationality) draughtsman, engraver, print publisher and painter (artist role) Recto: bottom center: (within image) Crispin de Pass inuent . excudit . ; bottom: (beneath image, in Latin) Concentu v... More

Man shooting rifle resting on support

Illus. in: Maniement d'armes, d'arqvebuses, mousqvetz, et piqves. En conformite de l'ordre de monseigneur le prince Maurice, prince d'Orange ... / Jacob de Gheyn. Amsterdam : Imprimé chez R. de Baudous, on les... More

[Musical scales or range of sound ascribed by Kepler to Saturn, Jupite...

Illus. and text in: Harmonices mundi / Johann Kepler. Lincii Austriae : J. Plancus, 1619, p. 207. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 35.

[Four Native American Indians of New France (Canada): two men at top i...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, leaf 23 recto.

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Head of the Virgin, Guido Reni

Print shows Virgin Mary. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, p. 28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, , no. 8... More

Church of Elijah the Prophet (1647-50), interior, west gallery, with c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Sugar manufacture in the Antilles Islands]

Illus. in: Rochfort, Histoire Moral ... (Lyon, 1667), illus. oppos. p. 115. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - INDUSTRY SUGAR MISC. 1667. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ca... More

[ Vuillaume violin : strung scroll and pegbox, front right]

472_7337_RT8 (source note) Public domain photograph of violin, string instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Elder samurai observing a young warrior with bow and arrows]

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Squash vine with blossom, squash, and rainbow, with publisher seal in...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Dai nijūichi zu, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman using a long (opium?) pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the seri... More

The flying ship. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photographic reproduction of a 18th century etching showing an airship designed by Brazilian Jesuit Bartolomeu de Gusmão. Ship has a bird's head and feathers, a boat-like body in which a man stands looking thro... More

Veduta dell' arco di Costantino, e dell' anfiteatro Flavio detto il co...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of ruins with the Arch of Constantine in the foreground and the Flavian Amphitheater or Colosseum in the background, with numbered key. Some of the men appear to be examining the r... More

DCM 0861: Anonymous, Central American Indian Whistle (Duct Flute)

DCM ledger: "Aztec Indian, Nahua." Instrument type: Whistle (Duct Flute) Medium: Terracotta.; 5.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Parts (head and one limb) missing. Provenance... More

[Various surgical instruments and apparatuses] / Jones sculp.

Plate CCCCXCI. Public domain scan of 18th-century scientific book, illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin - William Thornton afte...

Print shows William Thornton, bust portrait, left profile, in oval. (DLC/PP-1998:151) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

DCM 0386: Johann Georg Otto Flute in C

The present steel spring appears to be a replacement and the foot joint bottom ferrule also appears to be a replacement. Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained, ivory cap and ferrules, brass key.;... More

General view of Covent Garden looking north, circa 1720, from an engra...

Illus. in: The Architectural review, v. 16, no. 245, April, 1917. London : [s.n.], 1917, plate 1.

[Page of illustrated alphabet from New England Primer, 1721: letters A...

Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Alphabets; Primers; Shelf.

[Slave factories, or compounds, maintained by traders from four Europe...

Illus. in: A New and general collection of voyages / Thomas Astley. London, 1746, vol. 3, p. 64.

[Caricature of a dancer] - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Vue de la prise des forts et ville de Havane par les Anglois en 1762

Print shows a perspective rendering of the bombardment of Havana by British ships and the landing of English troops where the fortress wall has been breeched to capture the city. Caption continues: Vista presp... More

Yuki, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a courtesan, walking in the snow with two young female attendants carrying a parasol, and a male servant carrying a large parasol; the man appears to be barefoot, the women are wearing geta. Title a... More

To face azimuth - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows an "assay oven", "athanor", and "azimuth compass", with "attraction" diagrams. Printed at head of title: Engraved for the New Royal & Universal Dictionary of Arts & Sciences. Printed at top right: ... More

Characteristick[sic] Chicasan head, engraving, Library of Congress

Chickasaw Indian bust. Illus. in: Bernard Romans' A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida... (1775), opposite page 59. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4391 H. This record contains unverified, old data from c... More

Rocher volcanique de Saint-Michel au Puy en Velay / Veyrene, del. ; C....

Volcanic hill with church of Saint-Michel in Velay, France. Illus. in: Recherches sur les volcans eteints du Vivarais et du Velay / Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond. Grenoble : J. Cuchet, 1778, pl. 15. Published... More

Pontoon carriage. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the plan and pontoon of a pontoon carriage, with a view of the axel. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, PL XXVI. P... More

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More

Globe aërostatique. Dédié à Monsieur Charles. Cette machine est repres...

Jacques Alexandre César Charles departs Nesle, France after the landing of the first hydrogen balloon flight from Paris on December 1, 1783. Marie-Nöel Robert (on the ground at left), who accompanied Charles o... More

Sujet inconnu Gravé sur une Cornaline.

Print shows a woman and man engaged in sexual intercourse. Illus. in: Hancarville, Pierre d'. Monumens de la vie privée des douze Césars ..., 1785, pl. XII.

Journée memorable du 6 Octobre 1789

Print shows members of the Gardes du Corps who had been disarmed, joined by the National Guard, and the market-women of Paris who had marched on Versailles in the preceding days, now making the return trip to P... More

The London docks - Public domain portrait engraving

Barrel-covered dock area with masts in background. Public domain photograph - engraving of a sailing ship, sea battle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trinity church - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Society of Iconophiles.

Ring again the liberty bell in 1900, 1800 Jefferson, W.J. Bryan, 1900

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Knisely, A. W., copyrig... More

[To Margaret ]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Card is a intricately designed lace paper valentine made to resemble a garden, fountain, trees, peacock, a mandolin player, and a young damsel with her attendant standing in a doorway in the background; inside ... More

Gilbert Stuart - George Washington, head-and-shoulders, facing left

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

Elisabeta prima - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tocque, L.

McIlvoy Building, West Main Street, Danville, Boyle County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-40 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Holloway's pills and ointment - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Schlegel. Not to be confused with Schlegel's "Health for the soldier! Holloway's pills and ointment." Card in old... More

[Le premier parachute de Jacques Garnerin, essayé par lui-même au parc...

Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of deployed parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la sép... More

Toyohiro Utagawa: Yoshiwara - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows travelers on the Tōkaidō Road with view of snow-covered Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From... More

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Huet.

[Pictorial chart of Mount Sinai]

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

Monkey with two cats - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

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

The People's Business College, Reading Pa

Graduation certification. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: People's Business College.

Plan de projet pour l'etablissement de la ville du Port Napoléon dans ...

Cadastral map. Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 394 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed. Vault

Boney at Bayonne blowing a Spanish bubble, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Napoleon convincing the Spanish royalty, who are enclosed in a bubble, of his friendship as he fires a cannonball at Madrid. Information from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Soc... More

A view of Colonel Johnson's engagement with savages (commanded by Tecu...

Public domain photograph related to Native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle of the Thames - A map of a small town in the middle of the day

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

Dance of the Indians of the Mission of St. Joseph in New California / ...

Six Native Americans with elaborate body markings and hairstyles, dancing. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aricula sic, apple blossom, great daffodil Thackara sc

Print shows a bouquet of spring blossoms and flowers tied with a ribbon; shown are a Primula auricula cultivar, a sprig of apple blossoms, and daffodils. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Popular graphic art pr... More

Andrew Jackson / drawn from life and engraved by J.B. Longacre.

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sellers & Pennock 231 High Street Philadelphia

Print shows an advertisement for Sellers & Pennock showing several men operating a firehose water-pumping machine. Caption continues: Patent rivet hose, fire bucket and hydraulion manufacturers. Another impres... More

Richard Henry Lee / engr. by P. Maverick & J.B. Longacre, from a drawi...

Gift; Florence P. Spofford; (DLC/PP-1933:003) Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

Steam engine - Mr. Watt's double steam engine from his specification o...

Print shows gears and pump mechanism for a steam engine. Illus. in: A system of mechanical philosophy. Edinburgh : J. Murray, 1822. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology .... More

The president & directors of the bank of the commonwealth of Kentucky ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with shield and American flag and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of postal stamp, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Leo Major and Leo Minor - Public domain book illustration

Astronomical chart showing two lions forming the constellation. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 20.

Gloria Frederici, Andromeda, and Triangula / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing Andromeda in chains, two triangles, and a scepter with eagle's head and palm frond forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 5.

Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Vulpecula and Anser / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing a swan, a lyre, a lizard, and a fox killing a goose forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 14.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson, to Mr. Weightman, late Mayor of Washingt...

An allegory of printing and liberty, illustrating a broadside of a June 24, 1826, letter from Thomas Jefferson on American democracy. The female figure of Liberty displays to the Four Continents the art of prin... More

Columbia Jay - Public domain portrait engraving

Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: The birds of America / John James Audubon. 4 vol. London, 1827-1838, (Elephant Folio), Vol. I, Pl. 96. This record contains unverified,... More

Luther auf der Wartburg nach dem original Wachsabguss in der Marienbib...

Print shows Martin Luther seated at a table in his room at the Wartburg castle, possibly translating the New Testament from the original Greek into German. [Plate] No. IX. Forms part of: Popular graphic art pr... More

Shichifukujin, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the seven lucky gods in Japanese mythology. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie pillar print. F... More

[A tree trunk with branch and leaves in the foreground, with view of M...

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

[Large pink blossom on a stem with three additional buds]

Yours very sincerely Lewis P. Clover

Print shows Lewis P. Clover, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.

Old Mother Hubbard [nursery rhyme]

Print shows Old Mother Hubbard and her dog in a series of vignettes corresponding to the text of the nursery rhyme.

Soloque. Emperor of Hayti, creating a grand duke

Published & for sale by J.L. Magee, no. 34 Mott St, NY. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

[The laughing demon]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Ukiyo-e print illustration showing a face comprised of two demons: a hannya, a woman who changes into a demon because of jealousy, and a yamauba, a demon who eats infants brought to the mountains. Illus. in: Hy... More

[Alcohol, Death, and the Devil] / George Cruikshank.

Drawing shows a macabre Medusa with a skeletal head, dressed in a tunic, holding aloft a goblet of wine and exhorting a crowd of people. Behind her stands a devil who joins in the exhortation. Cruikshank was... More

Flower arrangement with red rose or peony, a white blossom with red an...

Paper has watermark on upper left side showing the letter "J". (DLC/PP-1998:151.38) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Libr... More

Blue jay; (#62) - Public domain zoological illustration

Illus. in: John J. Audubon, Birds of America. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Birds; Publ. Ind.

Prairie wolves on stone A. Newsam ; from Childs & Inman's Press

Print shows a group of prairie wolves, in a natural landscape near a garden or squash plant growing in the wild. Printed on upper right corner: PL. 7. Illus. from: The cabinet of natural history and American r... More

Title page, with no illus., in Nat Turner, The confessions, Richmond, ...

Illus. in: The confessions of Nat Turner... Richmond : Thomas R. Gray, 1832, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist 1831 (Sothampt... More