posters

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

Harry Montague's Comedy Company. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world. Title from item.

Electors, do you want to "wait and see" any more of this?

Black and red ink on white lithograph depicting Redmond as a cat ("Irish American Party"), toying with Asquith as the mouse of "Government", produced by the Unionist Party, December 1910...Artist: Unknown.Print... more

Britons! Your country needs you / Printed by Saunders & Cullingham, 2 ...

Poster showing map of British Isles behind text. Poster no. 23. Wt. 8936. 50M. 1632/12/14. Title from item.

Zeichnet 7. Kriegsanleihe / Alfred Offner.

Poster shows soldiers and their weapons behind a barricade of Austrian coins. Text: Subscribe to the 7th War Loan, Vienna Commercial Bank. Title from item.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam.

Suffrage Posters from Schlesinger Library

The cat and mouse act passed by the Liberal government... buy and read The Suffragette..Date: 1913..Catalog Record: bit.ly/1uxQRNE ( http://bit.ly/1uxQRNE ) ..Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian ( http://ask... more

Kellar

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Kellar

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

The phases of the moon, the winds, the elements and the seasons

Arctic Tern

Dr. Kurt H. Debus, Kennedy Space Center's First Director: A doctor of ...

Dr. Kurt H. Debus, Kennedy Space Center's First Director: A doctor of philosophy in engineering from Darmstadt University, Debus was selected by Dr. Wernher von Braun to direct the Experimental Missile Firing B... more

Frank Miller presents the world's greatest dancing horses

Poster showing dancing horses. Title from item.

Estudos luso-brasileiros em iconografia musical

This is the most significant publication on musical iconography in Brazil since Mercedes Reis Pequeno's 1974 Tres séculos de iconografia da música no Brasil, which is the focus of the introductory essay by Be... more

Laird's bloom of youth, for perserving the complexion & skin or liquid...

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. Laird, James, copyright... more

Launch Complex 39 Construction: Launch Complex 39 LC-39 was originall...

Launch Complex 39 Construction: Launch Complex 39 LC-39 was originally designed and built to launch American astronauts toward the moon. The complex stretches inland from the Atlantic Ocean across four miles ... more

Harper's: August

Edward Penfield (American, Brooklyn, New York 1866–1925 Beacon, New York)

Affiche ‘Procedé Nouveau’

Affiche ‘Procedé Nouveau’ met een voorbeeld van een fotolithografie, voorstellende een kop van een tijger. Affiche zit op passepartout, daarop zijn aan weerszijden van het affiche 12 medaillonfoto’s en 10 carte... more

Tribune: Sunday Fiction

George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida)

Rest on the roadside after Niles

Print shows a young girl, full-length portrait, holding a basket, sitting against a post on a country roadside. Title from item. Signed on stone on lower right: G.E. Niles 1862[?]. From the series: Prang's Amer... more

Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea.

Caption continues: May 1st and every day (weather permitting) from 1 till 7, with the immense and new steam captive balloon, constructed on the same system as that which acted with such success at the Universal... more

Philadelphia Sunday Press: November 15

George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida)

Tribune: Sunday

George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida)

The good shepherds

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. Chamberlin, B.B., copyr... more

Arrah-Na-Pogue, or The Wicklow wedding

At head of title: "The Ashtons. Purdy's Opera House, Bath, N.Y., Friday eve. April 23d. Miss Dorrit Ashton! The greatest actress of her age in the world ... " On corner of woodcut image: "Adrian-Probasco, Phila... more

Man with a monocle and top hat, holding a cane looking at a blank post...

Soyez reconnaissant pour vos maitres

[Aerial balloon performance with tents and audience below]

Bella C. Landauer collection. Appears to be one sheet from a larger poster. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1.

Jean Colle

Boy looking at broadsides on a building holding a basket.

Four graces

A972 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted 1870 by Ferd. Mayer & Sons Mammoth Lith. Print, New York. Created by "Ferd. Mayer & Sons' Mammoth Lith. Print, 96 & 98 Fulton St., New York." Pieces missing from poster. S... more

Schmidlapp's live oak distillery, fine copper distilled bourbon whisky

9106 U.S. Copyright Office. 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, 2005-2... more

Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit...

Transportation. 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 134, Folder 13.

Smith & Nicodemus, Baltimore, MD

c2310 U.S. Copyright Office. 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-... more

Hand & glove a new & powerful domestic drama of original incidents : w...

Created by "A. Hoen & Co. Steam Print., Balto." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Negro double song & dance

F9879 U.S. Copyright Office Created by the Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Lager-beer-brewery, H. & J. Pfaff, Boston

Poster for H. & J. Pfaff Brewing Co. Ornately carved picture frame with red banners above and below opening encloses Pfaff Brewery, showing several buildings, horse-drawn wagons, and smoke stack. White banner b... more

Plantation banjo player

F9878 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1875 by Courier Co. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Highland Spring Brewery ale & porter. Rueter & Alley, Boston

Poster for Highland Spring Brewery showing girl at foot of curved stairway leading from covered porch with terracotta tiled roof offers glass of beer to man playing lute, lower right. Curved bridge supported on... more

G. F. Burkhardt's bock beer

Poster for Burkhardt Brewing Co. showing group of drunken men surround a beer keg with G. F. Burkhardt inscribed on it. A goat, the symbol for bock beer, stands on hind legs on the keg and butts a drinking man ... more

Burton Brewery, Brewery Corner Parker & Heath St., Boston, Mass.

Poster for Burton Brewery showing red brick building with smokestack and brewery name on front. Horse-drawn wagons filled with kegs, houses and trees, left and right center. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Rose Eytinge

Pfaff's bock

Poster for H. & J. Pfaff Brewing Co. showing group of men surround a beer keg, out of which a goat, the symbol for bock, is charging. Several hold glasses and are trying to catch the spurting beer in them. Cour... more

Reclamebiljet: Irène Henry à l'Horloge

Ontwerp voor een affiche voor Brandsma's Thee

Letter from John Peirce to Alexander Graham Bell, July 7, 1877

Coal fields and coal mines

The Boss lager

Advertising poster for Jacob Wirth Restaurant shows Jacob Wirth on top of large bottle of his own lager, with keg on left shoulder, holding seidel of beer in right hand. Bottle is strapped to back of rearing go... more

The sower

Adah Richmond's Operetta Bouffe Troupe

Champagne and oysters

I2384 U.S. Copyright Office " 1 3s. 6d." Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted Feb. 1878 by H.A. Thomas, 865 Broadway, N.Y." Poster with same image but in lighter tones: POS - TH... more

Rice's Extravaganza Combination

I7292 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Miss Lizzie Webster. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1878 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Signed: Thomas. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... more

The little duke

I7453 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Pumpkins among the corn

Babes in the wood

Colville Folly Company. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted Feb. 1878 by H.A. Thomas, 865 Broadw., N.Y." Signed: Kendrick. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... more

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1889, Expo...

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1889, Exposition universelle de 1889. Vy från Eiffeltornet. Bilaga i tidningen Le Monde illustré.

Plansch med motiv från Världsutställningen 1889, Exposition universell...

Plansch med motiv från Världsutställningen 1889, Exposition universelle de 1889. Eiffeltornet.

Les cloches de Corneville

Diplomacy

I7291 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted 1878, H.A. Thomas." Signed: Kendrick. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Birch, Wambold & Backus, San Francisco Minstrels from their Opera Hous...

I5195 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted by H.A. Thomas." Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y." San Francisco Minstrels consist of Billy Birch, Dave Wambold, and Charles Backus. Forms part o... more

Champagne and oysters

I2384 U.S. Copyright Office " 1 3s. 6d." Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted Feb. 1878 by H.A. Thomas, 865 Broadway, N.Y." Poster with same image but in darker tones: POS - TH ... more

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1878, Expo...

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1878, Exposition universelle de 1878. Vy över Trocadero, Paris. Bilaga till The Illustrated London News 28 spetember 1878.

Fondslijst van J. Hetzel & Cie te Parijs

Affiche met kinderen gekleed als volwassenen met onder meer een schilder, een boekhandelaar en een jongen op een ladder die een affiche aanplakt. Vanachter een opengeslagen boek komt een Pierrot tevoorschijn me... more

The Victoria Loftus British Blondes

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1878, Expo...

Plansch med motiv av etsning av vy över Världsutställningen 1878, Exposition universelle de 1878. Vy över huvudbyggnaden. Bilaga i tidningen The Illustrated London News 20 juli 1878.

The Old Dominion Colored Vocalists with the Gotthold Octoroon Combinat...

K15307 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Saville English Opera Company

K14810(?) U.S. Copyright Office B&w version of poster: POS - TH OPT - .S67, no. 1 (C size). Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas." Poster advertising operettas... more

The galley slave Bartley Campbell's picturesqe [sic] drama.

Effie Johns

Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Thro' the dark

K3007 U.S. Copyright Office "After a sketch by Ch. Kendrick." Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... more

Alice Oates

K11701 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: Renault. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Miss Rose Goodall

Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Beula Merton, solo cornetist

K12046 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Minstrel first part

K9059 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)

Rice's Evangeline extravaganza company

K10147 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Miss Jane Coombs

Burlesque

K15688 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y. 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Arnold Brothers' Great Novelty Troupe original big 12.

K10914 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Amos, William, Frank. Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poste... more

Rice's Surprise Party

K13136 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Enchantment

Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Right lower corner missing. Signed: R. Muller after sketches by Vic. Arnold. Forms part of: Theatrical poster colle... more

The banker's daughter

K14811 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Act III. The quarrel at the embassy - an insult resented. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Signed: Kendrick. F... more

H.M.S. Pinafore

Caption: The Captain and sweet little Buttercup. Buttercut: "How sweetly he carols forth his melody to the unconscious moon." Created by "A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y." Poster advertising operetta by Gilbert & Sulli... more

The human canon ball

K9060 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Ella Zuila, the Australian funambuliste

K11710 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Streets of New York thrilling fire scene.

F.C. Bangs as "Daniel Druce"

K11706 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Village blacksmith. Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster ... more

Our Indian policy - one at a time - next!

Caricature showing Indians "West Point killers" shooting at U.S. Army soldier standing on rock "slaughter pen trap". Other soldiers are stationed at posts from 5 to 80 miles.

The little duke

K11820 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Jennie Yeamans as "Mitt"

Kate Thayer Grand Concert Company

Includes portraits of Mrs. Helen Norman, Signor Tagliapietra, Teresa Carreno, M. Arbuckle, Kate Thayer, and Chas. E. Pratt. K11702 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 War... more

A little "high strung" Thos. Worth

Print shows a raging horse that has broken free from the post to which it was tied and is terrorizing everyone in the immediate vicinity; a sign on a shed states: "For Sale. A nice gentle family horse." At leas... more

Rice's Surprise Party in the great musical extravaganza, "Horrors"

K8497 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Padgett & Bassett's Bric-a-brac

K14806 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

The chimes of Normandy

K11707 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: Renault. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Juvenile Pinafore

Poster advertising H.M. Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan as performed by children. K12760 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y. 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. S... more

H.J. Sargents Comedy Company (organization no. 4) in Dion Boucicault's...

K14626 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Saville English Opera Company

K14810(?) U.S. Copyright Office Color version of poster: POS - TH OPT - .S67, no. 1a (C size). Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas." Poster advertising operet... more

Clinton Hall's Strategists

K14805 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Araminta, Nelly, Jack, Mrs. Howard, Mr. Mildman, Pepper, Bijah, Mr. Rutledge, O'Flam. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y." From sketches by Sol Smith. ... more

Robson & Crane in Shakespeare's "Comedy of errors"

K12486 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

H.M.S. Pinafore Rice's extravaganza combination.

K1665 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1879 by H.A. Thomas." Poster advertising operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... more