First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...
Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam. Public domain scan of World War One propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Plansch med uniform för Livregementets dragonkår för åren 1687-1796. P...
Adolf Ulric Schützercrantz worked during his life in a number of different areas. Among other things, as a military, museum director, cartoonist, lithographer and painter. Schützercrantz became a cadet at Karlb... More
Plansch med uniform för dragoner, underofficer och officer vid Västgöt...
Plansch med uniform för dragoner, underofficer och officer vid Västgöta linjedragonregemente 1794, ritad av Einar von Strokirch.
![Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat sleeping with three kittens resting]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTAvZG9tZXN0aWMtY2F0LXNsZWVwaW5nLXdpdGgtdGhyZWUta2l0dGVucy1yZXN0aW5nLTQ5ZGExNy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/34/webp "Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat sleeping with three kittens resting]")
Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat sleeping with three kittens resting]
Stamped at bottom center: im Museum zu Basel. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
From the tomb of the kings at Thebes, discovered by G. Belzoni.
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
![Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvZG9tZXN0aWMtY2F0LXdpdGgtdGhyZWUta2l0dGVucy1wbGF5aW5nLTQ1NTk5OC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing]")
Gottfried Mind - [Domestic cat with three kittens, playing]
Printed with number in upper right corner: 9. Paper watermarked at bottom center: in Basel. Inscribed in pencil on verso: 1227 U 5 D 57.
![Ruins of Ombos [Kom Ombo]. - Drawing. Public domain image.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE4MjAvMTIvMzEvcnVpbnMtb2Ytb21ib3Mta29tLW9tYm8tMzcwZTk2LTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "Ruins of Ombos [Kom Ombo]. - Drawing. Public domain image.")
Ruins of Ombos [Kom Ombo]. - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Macbeth Consulting the Witches - Eugene Delacroix
Public domain scan of an art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Humboldt, Wilhelm Freiherr von - Public domain portrait engraving
Zeichner: Krüger, Franz (1797) Lithograph: Oldermann, Friedrich Verlag: L. Sachse&Co.<Berlin> Verlagsort: Berlin
Silhouette of Edward Worth of Saco, Maine
Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait painting, background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![La patrie est en danger / F. d'Orléans, j[ui]n 1830.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTgvbGEtcGF0cmllLWVzdC1lbi1kYW5nZXItZi1kb3JsZWFucy1qdWluLTE4MzAtZmY1Njg3LTEwMjQuanBn/40/26/webp "La patrie est en danger / F. d'Orléans, j[ui]n 1830.")
La patrie est en danger / F. d'Orléans, j[ui]n 1830.
French political cartoon uses a scene from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to compare the situation surrounding the 1830 July Revolution in France to the time when l'Assemblée (the French revolutionary gove... More
Caricature, Amour A Toi, public domain cartoon image
Young woman 3/4 to right without a hat, naked arms; looking a medallion in her hand, going down the steps into a garden. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Le Courrier de Paris. - The Paris Courier
Two young ladies together on a terrace garden. The one at left, facing forward, reads a letter at which the other glances while holding an umbrella above their heads. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Francesco Arban, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Francesco Arban in a circle of clouds. Tissandier collection.
Lola Montes - Countess of Landsfeld
Portrait, three-quarters length, in her youth. LOT subdivision subject: Portraits - Women [K - Unidentified]. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by Sarony & Major, 11... More
Achille Deveria - Le Roman du Jour. (IFF 250)
The Fashionable novel. (Inscribed title) Lithographie non montée sur une feuille cartonnée. Lettre - Au recto, en bas, de gauche à droite, imprimée : "A Devéria" ; "Lith. de Bichebois ainé, r. de la Bibliothèqu... More
Misanthropie, si je m'empoisonnais?
The misanthropist, if I should poison myself? Courtesy of Boston Public Library
H(C)annibalism or an Irish Stew
John Doyle (Irish, Dublin 1797–1868 London)
La mère Bridon va-t-en enfer.. - Drawing. Public domain image.
La mère Bridon va-t-en enfer, et moi, l'abbé Boullard m'absolutionne, un beau corbillard, des vierges en blanc, je va-z-au ciel avec mon pauvre minet Courtesy of Boston Public Library
La crise actuelle se complique..
La crise actuelle se complique! l’horizon d’abonnemens se couvre de brouillards! l’édifice politique du Constitutionnel craque de toutes parts! Vive le roâ quand mème!! Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Mystery of Babylon. Book illustration from Library of Congress
An anti-religious satire attacking most of the major denominations of the nineteenth century, including Catholics, Episcopalians, Calvinists, Universalists, Methodists, Baptists, and Quakers. The artist parodi... More
![Fanny Elssler. [Lithograph by] F. Elias [after] H. Grevedon.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn6/L3Bob3RvLzE4MzYvMTIvMzEvZmFubnktZWxzc2xlci1saXRob2dyYXBoLWJ5LWYtZWxpYXMtYWZ0ZXItaC1ncmV2ZWRvbi05ZWExMzktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/59/webp "Fanny Elssler. [Lithograph by] F. Elias [after] H. Grevedon.")
Fanny Elssler. [Lithograph by] F. Elias [after] H. Grevedon.
Public domain image - 18th-19th-century female portrait, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain portrait drawing
Another mock shinplaster (see also nos. 1837-9 and -10 above). Again the artist attributes the shortage of hard money to the successive monetary programs of presidents Jackson and Van Buren, particularly to the... More
New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost
Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More
The crow quadrilles. Piano forte by John H. Hewitt / N. Currier's lith...
Music cover with eight vignettes of caricatures of blacks. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1436.
Plate 42: Robert Macaire's boarding school, from 'Caricaturana,' publi...
Public domain reproduction of Honore Daumier artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Honoré Daumier - French artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who lived in the 19th century.... More
Plate 9: Robert Macaire, barrister, from 'Caricaturana,' published in ...
Public domain reproduction of Honore Daumier artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Honoré Daumier - French artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who lived in the 19th century.... More
La fourmi - Drawing. Public domain image.
The ant Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Corinthian column and capital From the monument of Lysicrates : Fig. 1...
Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Der Gärber. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows men working in a shop tanning leather. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.
Papier. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows three men making paper; one standing at a vat with a screen, one working a press, and in the background, the third appears to be sizing the hand-made paper in a small vat before drying. In album: O... More
N'y a pas gras! - Public domain portrait drawing
In a street, at the corner of a wall, a thief searches the vest pockets of a young gentleman, who frightened, drops his cane. In the background left, seen from the back, the accomplice of the thief stands guard... More
Marion's brigade crossing the Pedee River, S.C.. 1778. On their way to...
Image shows Francis Marion "the Swamp Fox" and his band of men in boats preparing to cross the Pee Dee River.
Der Schumacher. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows two men working in a shoe shop. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.
Louis Haghe - Sebasté, ancient Samaria, April 17th, 1839 / David Rober...
Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 1, pts. 5-6, p. 14. Tooley, no. 43
The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States
After John James Audubon (American (born Haiti), Les Cayes (Saint-Domingue) 1785–1851 New York)
Une réception - Drawing. Public domain image.
A reception Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tourists near vantage point, Landscape view print
Print shows several European(?) tourists, including children, at a scenic overlook offering views of the distant landscape; at center is a wooden structure that may provide accommodations or simply protection f... More
On to the charge! Inscribed to the memory of Major Ringgold . . .
An illustrated sheet music cover for a song memorializing one of the first heroes of the Mexican War, Maj. Samuel Ringgold. Zachary Taylor's innovative gunnery commander was fatally wounded in May 1846 during t... More
Land Marks, Liverpool Bay - Public domain portrait drawing
Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Thèbes, Karnac. 1. Bas-relief de la paroi B du petit édifice de Tahrak...
Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. Roby's Brazilian hair curling liquid / Wagner & McGuigan lith., Ch...
Advertising or window display card showing a woman looking into a mirror, admiring the curls in her hair. Includes text advertising a Brazilian hair curling liquid.
Thèbes, Karnac. Bas-reliefs sculptés sur des pierres employées dans le...
Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Monuments égyptiens. Stèles du régne d'Aménemhé III et de son successe...
Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.
Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03
Medalla milagrosa médaille miraculeuse, engraving, Library of Congress
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4459
Landschap met landweg en vaart, bruggen en een landhuis
Public domain photograph, 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lente, een landschap met een kasteel
Public domain scan of 17th-18th century Dutch landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Francois Seraphin Delpech - Gay-Lussac / lith. Delpech., Head and Shou...
Head-and-shoulders portrait of French scientist and balloonist Gay-Lussac who tested several hypotheses on the earth's atmosphere. Tissandier collection.
The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House
The artist parodies recent outbreaks of violence in Congress, and offers a pointed comparison between the elevated rhetorical sparring in the Senate and a more physical brand of combat in the House of Represent... More
Domitor / H. Franco̧is. - Engraving, Public domain image
Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes in open position exte... More
The little flower girl - Engraving, Public domain image
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3910
Sonora from the north / G. H. Goddard, del. Lith. Britton & Rey, San F...
Pictorial lettersheet shows business district, houses, barns, and church in California Gold Rush town. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 257. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.02
The morning after the election--November 1856
The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & ... More
Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...
A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More
X-X Brand--Petersburg, Va. / C.A. Butler del.
Tobacco label, illustrated with cannon with banner, cannonballs, and bag labeled "Capt. Bragg, a little more grape" on fort in foreground; tents in background. Copyright by DuBois Vandervoort. No. 89.
Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, 21st & Hamilton St...
Print shows an advertisement for the Kimball & Gorton Philadelphia R.R. Car Manufactory, with side views of a railroad passenger car and a city street-railroad passenger car that is passing P.S. Duval's lithogr... More
Passant la revue des fumeurs d'opium
Review of the opium smokers Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1850s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
All hail good templars - Engraving, Public domain image
LOT subdivision subject: Fraternal Organizations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Balmer & Weber. Lithograph by Jno McKiltrick, No. 36 N. Main St., St. Louis, Mo.
Valentine, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card
Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott
A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More
Poster - Rodeo parade - Public domain lithograph
Poster showing a parade. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bininger's Old Kentucky Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co., N.Y. sole propri...
Whiskey advertising label showing woman carrying bundle of grain. Copyright by Rufus Watles & L.C. Sanger.
Valentine, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card
Public domain scan - 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A. Lincoln, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Walter L. Main 3 ring trained wild animal shows
Poster showing woman with six tigers. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Winslow Homer - Skating in Central Park, New York
Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Livery card - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a blank "Livery Card" showing horses, male and female horseback and sidesaddle riders and types of horsedrawn carriages. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Inscribed in ink at t... More
Little Minnie - Print, Library of Congress collection
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3976
Photo of Landscape – Fruit and Flowers - Public domain dedication
Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.
John Clem, a drummer boy of 12 years of age who shot a Rebel colonel u...
Print shows John Clem, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing a Union jacket and cap and holding a rifle with fixed bayonet, standing on a battlefield with wounded soldiers in the background and one office... More
The siege of Vicksburg - Major General U.S. Grant, commanding / JG ; s...
Print shows soldiers in the foreground hiding behind trees and bushes during a bombardment of the encampment and earthworks of the Union army outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, with Confederate forts and earthwork... More
Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The letter for home / H.
Print shows a nurse writing a letter for a wounded Army of the Potomac soldier in a hospital bed. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:089.03).
Amazon - Drawing. Public domain image.
Amazon fighting wild beast on horseback. LOT subdivision subject: Amazons. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.
Voyage a la lune - Drawing. Public domain image.
French cartoon shows a man riding on a bicycle-like flying machine while looking through a telescope attached to the front. Two balloons, "Veloc[ipedes]" and "Domanie," are attached at front and rear as are pro... More
Greeting Card, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card
Public domain reproduction of artwork in Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Taking comfort - Print, Library of Congress collection
Artist: Frances F. Palmer. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6424
Peerless - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows an advertisement possibly for William S. Kimball & Co. "Peerless" Tobacco Works, showing a large tobacco leaf. Stamped on lower right: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. Includes pr... More
Salon des Cent ; Salon de la plume
Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Tribune: Sunday Fiction - Public domain lithograph
George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paul Hadol - La bourgeoise. - Public domain dedication image
Les femmes de France pendant la guerre et les deux sièges de Paris. (Group title), Journaux et caricatures avant la guerre de 1870. (Serie's title) Lithographie située à la page n°73 du livre.
Poster - Gentlemens' Delight - Public domain lithograph
Tobacco label showing beatiful, raven haired maiden with a broken pearl necklace, from which she is collecting the pearls into a sea shell. LOT subdivision subject: Women (sentimentalized portraits) - Genre sce... More
Valentine - Mechanical, pull tab bouquet
Public domain photograph of stamp object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Valentine - Mechanical kaleidoscope, cherubs, Metropolitan Museum of A...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Characters, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Plate 3 for a Toy Theater
Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description
Valentine - Mechanical organ grinder, anonymous British 19th century
Public domain scan of 19th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Three little white kitties - fishing
Print shows only two white kittens looking over the rim of a fishbowl containing two fish; one kitten has a paw in the water. B8446 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement on item.... More
The life of a sportsman: going out
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3794
Poster - Les fètards poster - Public domain lithograph
lithographie Public domain reproduction of print in Lyon municipal library, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Look at mama - Public domain portrait engraving
Public domain scan of portrait print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gray wolf - Canis lupus - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congr...
Print shows a right side view of a "Gray wolf", full-length, standing, with head turned slightly right; also shows a skull. E10756 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or co... More
Kate Greenaway - Valentine - Public domain dedication image
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Kate Greenaway - Valentine, Anonymous, Victorian Greeting Card
Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Negro double song & dance - Public domain lithograph
F9879 U.S. Copyright Office Created by the Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
Valentine - Mechanical - elaborate nosegay, fan souvenir, anonymous B...
Public domain photograph of stamp object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Valentine - Mechanical - Cupid and Target, anonymous British 19th cent...
Public domain reproduction of artwork in Metropolitan Museum of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Vermouth blanc poster - Public domain lithograph
lithographie Public domain scan of printed performance advertisement, dance, musical, opera, operetta, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Salon des Cent poster - Public domain lithograph
lithographie Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cycles Omega, Art Nouveau Poster
lithographie Public domain photograph of art nouveau artwork, France, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Little Red-Riding-Hood - Drawing. Public domain image.
Trade card, advertising Dr. Jaynes' expectorant, Dr. Jayne's liniment, and Dr. Jayne's sanative pills, showing Little Red Riding Hood standing at door of house. DCRM(G) example 1G - GMD