new york public library

Il ballo (social dancing) - Engraving, Public domain image

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Ertinger Franz - Amadis de Grece

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Krishnagita, Pl. 25 - A painting of a group of people in a village

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Pierre Paul Rubens - Heads and necks of two bulls in profile

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Melle Camargo. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mlle. Guimard dans le ballet du Per. navigateur.

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Signora Baccelli in the ballet (call'd) Les amans surpris

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Greek tumbling - Public domain dedication image

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A tournament - A drawing of two men on horses in front of a stage

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From the tombs of the kings at Thebes.

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Arcieren Leibgarde, 1541 (Bodyguard of Archers) (N)

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 17th, 18th, 19th-century European cavalry.

Deckenmalerei aus einem Grabgebäude, genannt el Gubbe bei Kairo

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Théâtre de la Nation. Perrot, rôle d'Alain, dans La filleule des fées:...

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Front cover of binding, illuminated manuscript

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Bishop Crowther. - Public domain portrait print

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Dance of Herodias Daughter - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Young Arab girl returning from the bath

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Sickles & staff Cartes de visite

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Saharet - Aime Dupont photographer

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Martyrs of the Race-Course - Union prisoners' cemetery at Charleston, ...

Lynching of C.J. Miller, at Bardwell, Kentucky, July 7th, 1893

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Sceau de Salomon, Maurice Pillard Verneuil

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Quelques-uns des livres imprimés au Lessouto et imprimerie de Morija.

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Henry George. The Single Tax Scrapbook

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Rainbow Fish - Public domain zoological illustration

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I-Act II-Diamonds - Drawing. Public domain image.

German stowaway - Public domain dedication image

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Canary - Drawing. Public domain image.

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8-Barry O'Neil-Act I - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Monkey - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Act II-Adelaide - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Band-Act II - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Third floor plan, New York Public Library (fig. 149)

Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated. / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iro... More

16-Chrysanthemum (Gold) - Drawing. Public domain image.

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The Web: A Revelation of Patriotism. The Story of the American Protect...

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Grotesque Number-For Male Chorus

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Drummer Boy - Drawing. Public domain image.

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[pencil sketches] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pineapple Pie - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Harper's bazaar, [Cover]

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Churches formed on the plan of a Greek cross, [Plate 85]

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Mus'ab and As'ad talk to Usayd, who has come to them with evil intenti...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Sa'd plans to murder Mus'ab and As'ad.

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

Qaydrûsh, the son of Qaydâfah the queen of Andalûs, is lead before the...

Life of the Prophet Muhammad written at the order of the Mamluk sultan al-Mansûr 'Alâ' al-Dîn 'Alî (d. 778/1376). The work was first illustrated during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Murâd III.

The Entry into Jerusalem - Engraving, Public domain image

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Cypripedium Calceolus, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Narcissus Tazetta, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Leptophis sauritus. - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Book illustration - Interior of gateway at Labna. Book by John Lloyd S...

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Habit of the Duke of Venice. Le Dogede Venise.

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Descent into Limbo - Engraving, Public domain image

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Henry Bryan Hall - Chris Gadsden.

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Unidentified man Cartes de visite

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Béatrix D'Este-Sforza duchesse de Milan 1490. Tableau de Léonardo a la...

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The cactus of Arizona. Sterecope Card. NYPL Collection.

Arizona Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who asse... More

Dante's Inferno Exhibition Co., Props. ; The Rutland (Broadway and 57t...

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[Velvet shoe; shoe with silk embroidery in chain stitch and French kno...

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[Satin Oxford shoe, embroidered in steel beads in a floral pattern; de...

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1858 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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1897 [Women's fashion in nineteenth-century Paris]

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Type d Runabout; Type D Landaulet.

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New Orleans Police Department. Bertha Farnsworth. Alias: Bertha Rawli...

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Type H Touring-car. (before 1920)

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No. 515 Park Avenue. Southeast Corner Sixtieth Street.

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A black and white photo of an ice cream shop, Roadside sandwich shop. ...

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Canadian Mounted Police. Cigarette Card

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Shakespeare reading to Queen Elizabeth. Cigarette Card

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Controleurswoning, Tondano (Menado).

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Yarn-reeling. - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain photo of vintage Japanese colored postcard, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Lebanon Restaurant (Syrian), 88 Washington Street, Manhattan.

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Tabriz. Porte de ville; Restes du palais de Zobeidèh.

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Tabriz. (Un pont.) - A picture of a picture of a city with a bridge

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Salle du palais Kalvèt-Serpouchidèh, à Ispahan.

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Equipment and machinery: water wheels; ancient Roman steelyards; steam...

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The animals sick of the plague.

I reaped it my way, for I cut nothing off but the ears, and carried it...

Title: Lo! here 'twixt heaven and earth I swing... [Apprentices at the...

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William Hogarth - The Bruiser, C.C. Churchill...

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Pyramids and sphinx, Egypt; Drudical stone in Perisa

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Sarah Bernhardt in Lorenzaccio, Theatre de la Renaissance - actors & a...

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Digger Indians, at Ten Mile River. - Mendocino Co.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

A bee farm in California. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Elephant at work on New Estate, Ceylon.

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Kandy, Ceylon. Vintage postcard

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Great cactus, 15 ft. high and its fruit, prickly pear, California, U.S...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Icon Migrants. California., public domain photograph

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

New York City. Post office, Lower East Side.

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Rape of a Woman by a Satyr - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Vis à Vis - Accidents in Quadrille dancing

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Mazurka composée - Public domain portrait engraving

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Muscari racemosum, Pierre Joseph Redoute

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Military uniforms: Austria, Fuhrwesen, Oberlieutenant

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 17th, 18th, 19th-century European cavalry.

The dancing lesson, pt. 3, L'été

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

Patent Automated Tilting Flushing Cistern for Urinals and Hoppers.

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Mark Antony delivering the funeral oration over the dead body of Caesa...

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Athanasius Kircher - Mausolæum Simendÿ prisci regis Ægipti.

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Military Uniforms: Belgium, Cuirassier

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Sunbonnet twins baking. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Hey! up the chimney, lass! Hey after you!

Contes bleus de ma mère-grand.

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