Philadelphia Committee Room - National Parks Gallery
This room served the Pennsylvania Assembly as a place for various committees to meet to iron out differences over colonial policy and legislation. Located on the second floor of the State House, the room was al... More
A map of the improved part of the Province of Pennsilvania in America ...
Shows rural landholders' names, lot lines, and proprietary manors. Map content (as of 1687) does not differ from earlier eds. Title from upper border. Statement of dedication at upper left:To the worthey Willia... More
Pennsylvania, ss. I Prothonotary of the Supream Court of the Province ...
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Settee, 18th century, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Bush-Hill, the seat of William Hamilton Esqr. near Philadelphia / J. H...
Illus. in: New York Magazine, 1793 (February). Reference copy in LOT 4384-O.
Nightstand, North and Central America
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summer in the 18th Century Garden
The 18th Century Garden recreates many features that characterized Philadelphia gardens in the 1700's.
Side Chair, 18th century, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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High Chest of Drawers, unknown artist. American decorative arts.
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Labour in vain: or an attempt to wash the Black-Moor white. Humbly ins...
Imprint 1.; Verse. 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 142, Folder 8.
William Hollingshead - Ladle. American decorative arts.
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Easy Chair, 18th century - Public domain dedication photo
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Tall Case Clock. American decorative arts.
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Room from the Powel House, Philadelphia
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A chart of Delaware Bay and River : containing a full and exact descri...
Scale ca. 1:275,000. Oriented with north to the right. Depths shown by soundings. Shows ship channels. Includes list of subscribers and "Tide table." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More
United States Lottery. No. [blank] class the first : This ticket entil...
Imprint supplied by Evans; date is Nov. 18, 1776. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 6, p. 1126. Evans 15194 Journals of the Continental Congress, 132 LC copy is no. 5m974 and signed: Da. Jackson. Pri... More
A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia
We Are One: William Faden, geographer to King George III, published this map of Philadelphia in March 1777. This map, or one of the earlier versions created by Nicholas Scull and George Heap, may have helped Br... More
A map of that part of Pensylvania now the principle [sic] seat of war ...
Scale 1:63,360; an in. to a mile. Relief shown pictorially. "Between the two lines that cross Philadelphia was the first plan of that city." LC copy has annotation "17" in upper right corner. Includes notes on ... More
The evacuation day. New York Nov. 25 1783 / designed & painted by Vern...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Vernon Fletcher.
Title page, with no illus., of Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effe...
Illus. in: Benjamin Rush, An enquiry into the effects of spiritous liquors, Philadelphia, T. Bradford, 1790, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... More
James Peale - Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst, miniature painting
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Philadelphia and environs - Print, Library of Congress collection
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Serz, J.
Ladle, North and Central America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Water Street, unknown house, 1800, lived i...
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map from "The Traveller's Directory; or, a pocket companion ... from P...
This image has been taken from scan 000098 from "The Traveller's Directory; or, a pocket companion ... from Philadelphia to New-York and from Philadelphia to Washington. ... Second edition". The title and subje... More
Capture of the Tripoli by the Enterprise
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Philadelphia in 1753, fore edge painting
Information from accompanying cards: The second volume displays a view of Philadelphia in 1753. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6401 Germantown Avenue, exterior detail, g...
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Exhibition of Indian Tribal Ceremonies at the Olympic Theater, Philade...
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Thomas Sully - Dr. Joseph Klapp
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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. Trimmed to wit... More
Point Breeze, the Estate of Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte at Bordentown, N...
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Waste Bowl, 18th century, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Chair, 19th century, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Impediments of speech. Mr. & Mrs. Chapman's institution for the cure o...
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 152, Folder 36.
Man with a Pen - Public domain portrait drawing
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Humming birds / from life & on stone by M.E.D. Brown ; his lith. No. 5...
Print shows two hummingbirds on a flower. Printed at bottom center: Pl. 10 Vo. 2. (DLC/PP-2001:068) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
Serving Spoon. American decorative arts.
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Sheet of Fabric Labels with Sixteen Views of Buildings in Boston, New ...
Public domain image of a historic building, 16th, 17th, 18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Philadelphia, fore edge painting
Information from accompanying cards: With a fine watercolor painting of American interest on the fore-edge of each volume, as follows: A view of Philadelphia showing the Delaware with boats in the foreground an... More
Ch. D. Meigs, M.D. Prof. Med & Diseases of women & children in the Jef...
Charles Delucena Meigs, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Saucer, North and Central America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Design for advertisement, Charles Oakford & Sons, furrier and hatter, ...
Drawing shows a street view of the façade of a storefront with entrances, windows with merchandise displays, awning over an entrance, and lightly sketched pedestrians; across top are samples of lettering and de... More
House N.W. corner of Chestnut and Strawberry Alley
Case: Burns's Monument. Label attached to case: By W.Y. McAllister about 1845. Label attached to case: N.W. Chestnut & Strawberry. Title etched on plate. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:126). For... More
Dr. J.N. Keeler's infant cordial and carminative / Lith. of Thomas Sin...
Patent medicine label showing woman giving patent medicine to baby. No. 364.
[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....
Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
Photograph album. John F. DuComb, No. 27 S. 6th Street, Philadelphia
Print shows a design for a photograph album and a window card advertisement for photographer John F. DuComb, No. 27 S. 6th Street, Philadelphia. Includes print-registration marks on all sides of each print. St... More
Slate roof house - Victorian era public domain image
Photograph shows a building, possibly a clothing store, with a slate roof, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with scaffolding in front of the building. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collectio... More
Eighth Steet below Chestnut, west side
Photograph shows stores and shops on the west side of 8th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
Old London coffee house, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photograph shows a building at the intersection of Market and Front streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; signage indicates that the former "Old London coffee house" now serves as a "wholesale & retail tobacco... More
[John Cadwalader, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] /...
Stamped on verso: F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More
Odd Fellows' Broadway Hall. Broad & Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphi...
Print shows a street-level view of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows building on the right, with carriages and horseback riders on the street, also shows pedestrians, a water fountain in the center of the st... More
Chief interpreter Moryamo Yenoski and Tako Juro interpreter / dag. by ...
Print shows two Japanese men, Moryamo Yenoski and Tako Juro, full-length portrait, standing facing front, as interpreters for members of the Perry expedition in Japan. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition o... More
View from the Schuylkill River looking up toward a mansion, possibly L...
Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (L... More
Seventh general Singer Festival in Philad. Pennsylvania 13 to the 16 o...
Print shows as the central image a procession with soldiers, a marching band, and members of various organizations, proceeding through a "triumphal arch", capped with the American and German flags, to Lemon Hil... More
West Philadelphiadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & sarina works Js. ...
Print shows a street view of the factory buildings of the West Philadelphia Manufacturing Co., with street and railroad in the foreground. Caption continues: Refined pearl starch & corn farina. Chestnut & Brid... More
[Sartain portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln]
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Marseilles hymn. A. W. Auner, Song Publisher, N. W. Cor. 8th and Marke...
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Walnut St. prison Phil. S.E. corner of 6th St
Drawing shows a street-level, perspective view of the Walnut Street Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drawing is mounted on paper which is mounted on a large sheet of cream paper watermarked on the left side... More
Map of Arkansas - Public domain vintage map
United States
Baseball players - Jack Clements
Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Baseball players - Dan Casey - Early photography, Public domain image
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In defence of the Union and the Constitution C. Schussele delt. ; on s...
Print shows a female figure of Peace holding an American flag over a woman and two children, with a Union soldier holding a rifle in the foreground. Caption continues: This Certifies. Publication date based on... More
The great sanitary fair, Philadelphia, 1864 - dining saloon
Photograph shows an interior view of a large banquet hall with African American men standing and sitting at the tables, during the Sanitary Commission(?) Fair of 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gift; Commi... More
The Large Dining Room. Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, June, 1864.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hardy, M.P. of Philadelphia. Glass Plate Negative, American Civil War ...
Photo shows Moses Purnell Handy. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
United States Mint, Philadelphia., J. Paul Getty Museum
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, interior detail, stairway, unknown house
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Hamilton House, 1772, "The Woodlan...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 520 Chestnut Street, Supreme Court room, I...
An old photo of a large room with columns. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The original Dr. Davis' Pawtucket candies, also Vienna candies and Phi...
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Rustic arbor - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress
Print shows a view of a rustic arbor, with a man standing near a fountain in the foreground, from a souvenir booklet of views of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, part 1st, 1870.
[Wissahickon Hall, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[General View of Old Park, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
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[Old University, Philadelphia, Pa.], J. Paul Getty Museum
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[Round House, adjoining Falls, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A geometrical elevation of the East Front of the permanent and tempora...
D11266 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Samuel Sloan. Photograph of drawing(?).
Oriental Room, East, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.
Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Masonic temple, Grand Lodge room, west [Philadelphia]
Stereograph showing interior view. F. Gutekunst, Photog'r, No. 712 Arch Street. From James Cremer's Stereoscopic Emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).
[Pennsylvania Railroad advertising material: "Depot at Harrisburg, one...
View down track toward tunnel under street. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Laying the corner stone of the Public Building, Philadelphia., Pennsyl...
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Philadelphia, Reading & New England no. 08 [4-4-0] locomotive
Baldwin no. 13859--Built 1893.11--Note: CNE 8, 202, 230 Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
International Exhibition, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania: Centennial Chim...
Man seated at chimes. Stereo copyrighted by the Centennial Photographic Co. No. 2168. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Chimes; Brazil Misc. 1876; Exhibitions 1... More
[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: "Mach. Hall, Krupp Exhibit ...
Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War Navy, US Vessels; BI Business; Exhibitions 1876; Interiors; Shelf. Krupp... More
Shoe & leather building, international exhibition, Fairmont Park, Phil...
Print showing exterior view of the "Shoe & Leather Building" at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 848 U.S. Copyright Office. Wm. B. Bary, Engineer. Entered according to Act of Congress i... More
[Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. 1876]: The Minute Man of 1776 [S...
Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Sculpture; Shelf.
St. Michael's German Lutheran Church from "The Historic Mansions and B...
This image has been taken from scan 000141 from "The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia, with some notice of their owners and occupants. [Illustrated.]". The title and subject terms of this image h... More
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Sterescope Card, Boston Public Lib...
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Professor Theodor Kjerulf, norsk geolog som var gift med Agnes Anker, ...
Professor Theodor Kjerulf, norsk geolog som var gift med Agnes Anker, søster av Betsy Anker Gude.
American triumph. A. Marschall & Co. American extra dry champagne / Na...
Advertisement for champagne showing a radiant Columbia drinking American champagne, as a scowling older woman, carrying champagne labeled Rheims, leaves for a French ship in the harbor.
Sally in Our Alley, from Illustration for "Sally in Our Alley" by H. C...
Edwin Austin Abbey (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1852–1911 London) Public domain scan of 19th century British drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain s... More
McLear & Kendall carriage manufacturers, 216, 218 and 220 North Broad ...
General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. McLear & Kendall Carriage Manufacturers, advertise... More
[George Wood, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Henry Larkin, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Harry Stovey, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Tom Gunning, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Ed Seward, Philadelphia Athletics, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[John Jay, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right; left h...
Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Joseph Pennell - Azay le Rideau
Joseph Pennell (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1857–1926 New York) Public domain scan of 19th century American drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description