politics and government

Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

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Gruppenbild, portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain photograph of portrait print, engraving, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

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Portret van Adriaen Pauw - Public domain portrait engraving

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Pauw, Adriaen - Public domain portrait engraving

Radierer: Tanjé, Pieter Zeichner: Schouman, Aert Verleger: Tirion, Isaac Datierung: 1721 / 1761

Pauw, Adriaen - Public domain portrait engraving

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Pauw, Adriaen - Public domain portrait engraving

Verleger: Waesberge, Abraham van Maler: Borch, Gerard ter (der Jüngere) Stecher: Holsteijn, Pieter (1614) Verlagsort: Amsterdam

De vier Amsterdamse burgemeesters wachtend op het bericht van de aanko...

De vier Amsterdamse burgemeesters wachtend op het bericht van de aankomst van de stoet met Maria de Médicis, 1638. Gezeten rond een tafel zijn: Antonius Oetgens van Waveren, Albert Coenraads Burgh, Pieter Hasse... More

Het licht is op de kandelaar gestelt

Anti-roomse spotprent met een groep van reformatoren gezeten om een tafel waarop een brandende kaars staat. De kandelaar staat op een boek aangeduid als de Evangelie. De duivel, de paus, een kardinaal en een mo... More

Portrait of Johan de Reus, Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Du...

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Het beëdigen van de Vrede van Munster, 1648

Het beëdigen van de Vrede van Munster op 15 mei 1648, in de grote zaal of Friedenssaal van het stadhuis te Munster. De afgevaardigden staan rond een tafel en leggen met opgestoken hand de eed af. Met onderschri... More

Portrait of Johan de Vries, Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the D...

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Portrait of Gerard van Bergen, Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of th...

Portret van Gerard van Bergen (gest. 1663), gekozen in 1653. Buste in ovaal naar rechts. Onderdeel van een reeks portretten van de bewindhebbers van de Rotterdamse Kamer van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie... More

McGovern/Shriver, '72 - Public domain portrait print

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

1651 / vermutlich 1700 Public domain scan - bust portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - bust portrait sculpture, free to use, no copyright restr... More

Governor Rockefeller: do you believe this war is legal? ... rally, fro...

Public domain photograph of Vietnam War, the 1960s, 1970s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Public domain portrait engraving

1651 / vermutlich 1700 Public domain scan - bust portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - bust portrait sculpture, free to use, no copyright restr... More

A faut esperer q'eu se jeu la finira bentot

Print shows the nobility and the clergy, representing the estates general, riding on the back of a man representing the working class, or third estate; the man is bent under their weight and supports himself by... More

Lift ev'ry voice : join the NAACP

Public domain scan of American poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Adriaen Paets, Director of the Rotterdam Chamber of the Du...

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Roomse feestmaal, 1705 - Engraving, Public domain image

Roomse feestmaal, 1705. Interieur waarin katholieken zich overgeven aan gulzigheid en wellust. Feestmaal waarbij monniken, een priester, een kluizenaar en andere katholieke geestelijken zich te goed doen aan ov... More

De brandklok geluid door de actionisten, 1720

Pamflet van een dubbelgevouwen blad bedrukt op alle vier bladzijden met tekst over de windhandel van 1720. Op de voorzijde een voorstelling van het luiden door roomse geestelijken en militairen van een grote kl... More

Cor meum diligit Princeps Jfrael : qui propriâ voluntate obtuliftis vo...

5 Mars 1717, Assemblée tenue en Sorbonne. (Artificial title), Epoque Louis XV, 2 Septembre 1715-1720. (Serie's title) Oeuvre fixée sur un montage.

Synode gehouden in de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam, 1730

Synode van de kerken van Noord-Holland, gehouden in het koor van de Nieuwe Kerk te Amsterdam in 1730. Op de achtergrond het praalgraf van Michiel de Ruyter. Onder de voorstelling de titel en legenda A-M en 1-7 ... More

The burning of the Crisis, British Cartoon Print

People burning a broadside entitled the Crisis. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection ( Library of Congress).

Beëdiging van de Vrede van Munster, 1648

Het beëdigen van de Vrede van Munster op 15 mei 1648, in de grote zaal of Friedenssaal van het stadhuis te Munster. De afgevaardigden staan rond een tafel en leggen met opgestoken hand de eed af.

Openbare voorlezing van psalmen in de vergaderzaal van de Gemachtigden...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Pauw, Adriaen - Public domain portrait engraving

Stecher: Houbraken, Jacobus Datierung: 1713 / 1780 Public domain scan of Dutch 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Irish Ambassadors Extraordinary, A Gallante Show. Georgian era 17...

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Pal sangué Mr. l'Prieur v'la l'coup

Print with two scenes, one labeled "Le jeu de hazard" shows a meeting between the clergy, nobility, and the working class; the other labeled "Le goute patriotique" shows members of the three estates dining toge... More

La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle quil la faudr...

Print shows four bare-bottomed men, the ministers of finances, sitting around a table restoring their good health on the produce of other nations; as they consume the "Eau de la Plata" and "Eau du Sénégal," the... More

Villagers clearing out rubbish!!! / engrav'd by Hixon., British Cartoo...

Print shows three villagers transporting a parson, a doctor, and a lawyer to another parish to cries of "Huzza" from other villagers. "Folios of caricatures lent out for the evening." Forms part of: British Ca... More

Army and Corps area Commanders meet with Woodring and Chief of Staff. ...

A group of men sitting around a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committee of the House of Commons

Thomas Cook (British, 1744?–1818) Public domain scan of British 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no ... More

Sir James Thornhill - House of Commons - Sir Robert Walpole's Administ...

Anthony Fogg (British, active 1792–1806) Public domain photograph of an official meeting, group of people, managers, directors, discussion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Politiek quadrille, 1806, Charles Williams

Twee tafels met aan elke tafel vier kaartspelers die het kaartspel quadrille spelen. Links Frederik Willem III, koning van Pruisen, tsaar Alexander I, Engelse koning George III en de Spaanse koning Karel IV. R... More

Public house politicians, Thomas Rowlandson

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Brita... More

Jacob Ernst Marcus - Mannen in een koffiehuis met een biljart

Verschillende converserende, rokende en lezende mannen met hoeden in een koffiehuis waarin een biljarttafel.

Irish march of intellect; or, the happy result of emancipation / A Sha...

Print shows a bare-foot Irish man and his son in the chamber of an English lord. Hoping to get his son placed as an apprentice, he introduces him to the English lord who is sitting in a chair, wearing wig and robe.

The political drama. No. 61. Old grill among the paddies, British Cart...

Print shows William Cobbett riding on a large gridiron borne by a ragged troop of caricatured Irishmen in a procession following a man carrying a flag pole topped with a death's head labeled "Tom Pain" and flyi... More

portrait from "France pittoresque, ou description ... des département...

This image has been taken from scan 000212 from volume 01 of "France pittoresque, ou description ... des départements et colonies de la France, etc. [With plates.]". The title and subject terms of this image h... More

[Political cartoon showing Van Buren racing on a hog; below is Democra...

Photoprint of engraving. Appears to be a detail of broadside sheet reproduced in LC-USZ61-1654. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Pol... More

Caricature, La part du lion, public domain cartoon image

Lion's share Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1830s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henricus Wilhelmus Couwenberg - De Staalmeesters

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Artilleryist group - Mathew Brady seated on left

Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More

The Democratic funeral of 1848 - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Foreseeing political death for the Democrats in the election, the artist imagines a funeral of the party's standard-bearers with a procession of the faithful. Democratic senators (left to right) Sam Houston of ... More

Josiah Johnson Hawes - [Boston Doctors], 19th century

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Divanul Ad-hoc al Moldovei

Lista membrilor Divanului Ad-hoc al Moldovei. Public domain photograph of the board of directors, managers, group of men, portrait, office, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in a New Hampshire court.--General Pierce examining a witness. S...

Two humorous incidents supposedly from the life of Franklin Pierce. On the left, a repartee wherein Pierce, the distinguished trial lawyer, is embarrassed by an ignorant witness. Armed with pages of notes, Pie... More

Loco Foco hunters treeing a candidate

A satire on the Democrats' or "Loco Focos'" 1852 pursuit of Franklin Pierce for the presidential nomination. At the foot of the White Mountains in the "Dismal Swamp," an immense, swampy region of North Carolina... More

County Election, England - Public domain image related to music prform...

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

Schilderij De geschiedenis van de verloren zoon door Frans Francken II

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Vrede van Parijs - Engraving, Public domain image

Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, de Franse minister van buitenlandse zaken, staat in het midden aan een tafel, omringd door elf diplomaten.

Portrait photo of Buchanan, Pres. & cabinet, 1857

Photograph shows President Buchanan standing, surrounded by his Cabinet including Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior; Lewis Cass, Secretary of State; Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury; Jeremiah Blac... More

Lincoln quick step - Public domain portrait photograph

Campaign sheet music for the Lincoln candidacy. The cover illustration features an oval bust portrait of Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln, surrounded by vignettes and motifs recalling his early backwoods car... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 4. Addenda, 1774-1948: Abraham Lincoln ...

[Portrait of ten men including Anderson D. Johnston (seated second fro...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Zealand House of Representatives, 1860

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De centrala och fabrikens chefer.Bilden ingår i två stora fotoalbum ef...

De centrala och fabrikens chefer.Bilden ingår i två stora fotoalbum efter direktör Karl Wilhelm Hagelin som arbetade länge vid Nobels oljeanläggningar i Baku.

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. 1858-1864: S...

Trade regulations

Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession"

A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a ... More

President Lincoln and His Cabinet, with Lt. General Scott, in the Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Heads of the democracy - Drawing. Public domain image.

Purchase; Old Print Shop; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:492). Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1985:492.

The true issue or "thats whats the matter"

A political cartoon issued shortly after the Democratic Party's nomination of George Brinton McClellan as their Presidential nominee in the election of 1864. The cartoon depicts McClellan as the peace candidate... More

Joseph E. Baker - How free ballot is protected!

The artist charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and extremism in their efforts to defeat Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan. Oblique reference is also made to Lincoln's supposed a... More

Just so! - Public domain portrait print

Some clipped from newspapers. Principal subject matter: The election campaign of 1864.

Scales, Honorable Alfred Moore, Rep of N.C. Presidential elector on De...

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Abraham Lincoln mourning badge, with photo taken Feb. 9 1864]

Political campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing right (Anthony Berger photo Feb. 9, 1864). Brass mat with oval window and photo attached to a blue velve... More

Blood will tell! - U.S. Presidential Elections

Election of 1868. Republicans U. S. Grant & Schuyler Colfax defeated Democrat Horatio Seymour. The popular vote was very close, but Grant won a heavy majority in the Electoral College. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Seymour and Blair - Public domain portrait print

Photograph of drawing shows Horotio Seymour and Francis Preston Blair, 1868 Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates, half-length portrait, Seymour facing front, Blair facing left.

Swearing in of U.S. Deputy Marshals and Supervisors of Registry and El...

Crowd of men in courtroom. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 31, 1870 Nov. 19, p. 145.

SSU:s valbyrå.17 september 1955.

SSU:s valbyrå.17 september 1955. Public domain photograph, 1900s Sweden, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

First hospital corps, Quincy Massachusetts

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yves et Barret - Actualités // Trouver 41 milliards ! [...] Cham

Elections (Serie's title) Verso non visible Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

M.Clemenceau, Président du Conseil Municipal, annonçant à Victor Hugo ...

Le Journal illustré, dimanche 30 janvier 1876. (Artificial title) Feuillé de périodique sur un montage fixé au passepartout du côté gauche. Lettre - Signé dans l'image en bas à gauche : "V.STABLO"; et en bas à ... More

Brewers of New York - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

J6060 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Tuchfarber.

Actualités n°241bis : Ce que certains journaux appeleraient une électi...

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

Voorlopig Bewind van België in 1830

Groepsportret van de leden van het Voorlopig Bewind van België in 1830. Illustratie in het tijdschrift 'L'Illustration Nationale', editie van augustus 1880 ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig jubileum van de B... More

Republican National convention at Chicago, June 2, 1880 Independent Am...

Photograph shows the President, delegates, reporters, prominent men on the platform, and the visitors' gallery watching as Gen. Garfield delivers a speech to hundreds of attendees at the National Republican con... More

[Five Gentlemen Conversing around Table]

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Interiør, stue. Gruppe menn, kvinner og barn samlet rundt et bord drik...

Glass plate collection by amateur photographer Kristoffer Horne, First Master, Moelv, Ringsaker. Designs from Oslo, Ringsaker, Nord Gudbrandsdalen, Søndre Gudbrandsdalen and European trips. Landscape, industry,... More

Review of the troops by Columbia, George Washington, and Chester A. Ar...

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

U.S. National Museum Decorated for Garfield Inaugural Ball

Description: The United States National Museum (USNM) Building is decorated for the March 4, 1881, inaugural ball of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, the first public use of the museum building. A broad... More

Presidential inauguration, 1881 H.A. Thomas, Lith. 118 Fourth Av. N.Y

Print shows cameo portraits of the U.S. presidents from George Washington to James A. Garfield; includes a black memorial border and additional text. Printed at top of print: "The President is Dead." "But the ... More

Jean Charles Pellerin - Elections législatives de 1881/ Ce qu'à fait l...

Août 1880 à 1884 (Serie's title) Estampe collée sur un montage. Tampon - Au recto : "Legs Quentin Bauchart 1911".

Caricature, The innocents / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Print shows a group of African American men, one, standing at center, is wearing a hat labeled "Judge Whitewashed", and the others are wearing hats labeled "Whitewasher No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6,... More

Engelska bolagets kontraktörer och entreprenörerA.S. Prinn, J.J. Jarvi...

Engelska bolagets kontraktörer och entreprenörerA.S. Prinn, J.J. Jarvis, H.M. Millet, J.J. Wilkinsson

Caricature, The rivals in Ohio / Gillam., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows Allen G. Thurman on one side of a man labeled "Liquor Interest" and John Sherman on the other side; Thurman represents "The Ohio Democracy is the liquor dealers old friend!!", while Sherman e... More

Stalwart stupidity / F. Graetz., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Puck, holding his lithographic pen, and the Independent Party figure, holding an axe labeled "November Election", standing inside a cabin next to the head of Roscoe Conkling that has been cut... More

Grover Cleveland, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Grover Cleveland, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Stop thief!" / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration, reminiscent of Thomas Nast's cartoon of the same title published in Harper's Weekly, October 7, 1871, hence "That trick is very stale", shows a group of monopolists and Blaine supporters scatterin... More

Puck magazine cover - "Love's labor's lost" / Gillam.

Illustration shows heavily tattooed James G. Blaine sitting on a stool while Whitelaw Reid, using a brush labeled "Tribune Excuses" and a "Explanation Pumice Stone", and William W. Phelps, using "Vindication Sa... More

White House employees, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Three men and a woman in office. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LC-J698-8671.

Caricature, A preliminary set-to / Gillam., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine badly bruised after boxing a round against the "Ohio Secretary of State" who is slumped against the ropes; William W. Phelps and Whitelaw Reid attempt to revive Blaine with a ... More

Helping the rascals in - a burglarious scheme that may be suddenly spo...

Illustration shows James G. Blaine wearing a top hat with three plumes, a sack labeled "For the Plunder" hanging from his neck, and a paper tied at his waist that states "20 Years on the Make", attempting to br... More

Theodore Roosevelt - Bottom's dream, Political Cartoon

Illustration shows Puck's stereotypical Irishman labeled "Democracy" in the role of "Bottom" from Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", with Puck holding the head of an ass above him. He is holding a paper t... More

Delilah Randall betrays the democratic Samson / Gillam.

Illustration shows Samuel J. "Delilah" Randall sitting in a chair labeled "Protection", holding scissors labeled "41 Democrats" in one hand and hair labeled "Tariff Reform Bill" in the other, his feet are resti... More