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Poison Cup - 16th century - Public domain drawing

Anonymous, British, 19th century Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Frederick. Art print related to American Revolution

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Thomas Bewick - Wood engraving - Public domain scan of engraving

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Thomas Bewick - Wood engraving - Public domain scan / engraving

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Massacre of the Whites by the Indians and Blacks in Florida

Massacre of whites by Florida Natives and African Americans. Illus. in: An authentic narrative of the Seminole war; [...]. Providence : Printed for D.F. Blanchard, 1836. Reference copy in LOT 9356. Published in... More

United States almanac, for the year 1841

Print shows the title page for the United States Almanac for the year 1841 showing the deity Mercury/Hermes soaring above the waterfront at Philadelphia with ships and boats on the Delaware River and two men mo... More

[Sherard Osborn, lieut., Royal Navy, three-quarter length wood-engrave...

Photo shows a wood engraving of Serard Osborn. Although Osborn had no connection to the Northwest Boundary Survey, he did serve on Belcher's expedition to search for the Franklin Arctic expedition, 1852-1854, o... More

Scene on the Macedonian after the battle

Print shows a busy scene in the physician's quarters below deck on the HMS Macedonian where wounded sailors are being attended to by medical staff, some are having limbs amputated. Illus. from: Life and death ... More

The election - Drawing. Public domain image.

Two cartoons showing politicians trying to buy votes. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, 1857 Nov. 7, p. 713.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - William Mulready - Dalziel Brothers - Poems b...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Electromagnetism described and illustrated (with horseshoe magnet, ro...

Illus. in: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...for the year 1857. Washington : The Institution, 1858, p. 105. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western... More

Our exposure of the swill milk trade

2 captions: 1. Scene at the Offal Dock, foot of Forty-Fifth Street, East River, N.Y. Dissecting the cow, brought from the 16th St. swill cow stables. The picture of the cow shows the right side in a putrified s... More

One man sows and another reaps - A cartoon of a man running away from ...

Illustration shows a man from the South sowing cotton and Union soldiers harvesting the crop. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 July 6, p. 419.

Grafton, Virginia, now occupied by General McClellan's forces

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 233 (1861 June 15), p. 381 (center).

A Rebel guerrilla raid in a western town / Th. Nast.

Print shows a raid on a western town by a group of Confederate guerrillas who are abusing and executing the citizens, destroying property, and stealing whatever they can carry away. Illus. from: Harper's weekl... More

U.S Mail boat dock, Harrison's Landing, James River, Virginia--Floatin...

After a sketch by J.H. Schell. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Aug. 9, p. 308.

Chinese The Old Chartist - Engraving, Public domain image

After Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, Norwich 1829–1904 London)

Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. ... More

The war in Virginia - the 18th Army Corps storming a fort on the right...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 July 9, p. 244.

Lord Leighton - Dalziel Brothers - Samson and the Lion

Public domain reproduction of a relief art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description St. Mark was a disciple of St. Peter and is believed to have accompanied him on his missionar... More

[Return envelope of the Bureau of the American Freedmen's Aid Union, N...

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Hoboken riding club, riding the "Jeu de Barre," or catch play, at thei...

Print shows three horsemen, in an arena, engaged in a contest where the objective is to capture a ribbon attached to the left shoulder of each rider without losing ones own ribbon. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's il... More

Winslow Homer - "Winter" – A Skating Scene (Harper's Weekly, Vol. XII)

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"Time works wonders." Iago. (Jeff Davis) "For that I do suspect the lu...

Cartoon showing Jefferson Davis looking over his shoulder at Hiram Revels seated in the United States Senate. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 April 9, p. 232.

First reading of the Declaration of Independence in New York / A.R. Wa...

Crowd around George Washington on horseback in foreground. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 July 9, p. 433.

The far west - shooting buffalo on the line of the Kansas-Pacific Rail...

Print shows hunters shooting at a herd of bison from a train and along the tracks. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 32, no. 818 (1871 June 3), p. 193.

An Irish wake from a sketch by M. Woolf

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 17, 1873 March 15, p. 204.

The Bashful model / S.L. Fildes.

A scene in Newgate Prison, London, where a prisoner, being held down by police, is compelled to sit for his photograph, to be placed in the "Rogue's Gallery". Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1873 Nov. 29, pp. 1064-1065.

The Ohio whiskey war - the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of b...

After a sketch by S.B. Morton. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 Feb. 21, p. 392.

The "War of Races"--The conflict in Tennessee - the "Regulators" shoot...

Three African American men on ground after being shot; armed men on horseback in moonlight in background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 39, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 17.

Montana - the Nez Percé War - incidents in the defeat and capture of C...

Chief Joseph handing rifle to General Nelson Miles as a gesture of surrender. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 45, no. 1153 (1877 November 3), p. 141 (bottom).

Christmas card--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missionary Box As...

Thatched roof buildings inside wooden fence in foreground, church, and houses in background, Cavalla, Liberia.

How the street-cleaning authorities in New York guard against summer e...

Irishman(?) cleaning street with broom in slum, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 48, (1879 Aug. 2), p. 372.

Grand ballon captif a vapeur de Mr. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries ...

Admission ticket to the ascent of Henri Giffard's captive balloon from the courtyard of the Tuileries, Paris in 1879. Includes picture of a balloon within a bird's-eye view of Paris. Tissandier collection.

The late Allan Pinkerton, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Allan Pinkerton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 28, 1884 July 12, p. 452.

Ohio - the mining troubles in Hocking Valley - scene in the town of Bu...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1884 Oct. 25, p. 152.

Indian warfare--discovery of the village / [drawn by] R.F. Zogbaum ; J...

Soldier looking at Indian camp with binoculars from hill with Indian scout and another soldier by horses. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1885 Sept. 19, p. 613.

A New cavalry drill in the United States Army / drawn by T. de Thulstr...

Part of the Sixth Cavalry drilling in the region around Fort Bayard, New Mexico firing over their horses, which lie flat on the ground. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1885 April 4, p. 216.

Virginia - tenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor, at Richmon...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1886 Oct. 16, p. 129.

The Homestead riot wood engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, [1892], p. 676.

Battle of Tippecanoe - where Jo Daviess fell / Huyot ; Andriotti(?).

Print shows small group of dragoons under the command of Major Joseph H. Daviess meeting the attack of a band of Natives during the battle of Tippecanoe, Indiana, in 1811.

The "Jerome Napoleon," Prince Napoleon's steam-yacht, now in the harbo...

Illustrations show, at top, a starboard view of the steam yacht "Jerome Napoleon" at anchor in New York Harbor; at bottom left, a woman sits in a chair, her face in her hands, crying as she keeps a death-bed vi... More

Must liberty's light go out? - Public domain portrait engraving

Print show an arm labeled "espionage bill" grabbing the torch from the Statue of Liberty's upraised right hand. The Espionage Act was passed on June 15, 1917. Wood engraving by Winsor McCay. Inscribed in Englis... More

Absalom's Pillar, Valley of Jehoshaphat, the village of Siloam in the ...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Battle of the Waxhaws, May 29th, 1780.

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The Nahr el Aujeh from Kûlat Râs el 'Ain. The river rises out of the ...

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J. Marion Sims. Art print related to American Revolution

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Agostino Musi - Allegory of Death and Fame - 1993.8 - Cleveland Museum...

The opposite of the beautiful temptress, the hag embodied the nature of witchcraft. Old and hideous, the hag was associated with Invidia, the personification of Envy, because of her jealousy of youth and fertil... More

Henry Fletcher - Twelve Months of Flowers- April - 1944.11 - Cleveland...

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Henry Fletcher - Twelve Months of Flowers- May - 1944.12 - Cleveland M...

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Master of the E-Series Tarocchi - Rhetoric (from the Tarocchi, series ...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Master of the E-Series Tarocchi - The Doge (from the Tarocchi, series ...

While differing greatly from traditional Tarocchi or tarot cards, this set earned its misleading name because of a few, unimportant similarities. Never a game, scholars generally agree that this set was an educ... More

Sydenham Edwards - The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed- ...

England was central to botanical concerns in the 18th century. For example, Kew Gardens was founded in 1721 and became a major institution for knowledge about plants from every continent. Interest in gardening ... More

The constitutional amendment!. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also... More

History of Wood Engraving 0078 - Public domain portrait engraving

Scan from book "A History of Wood-Engraving" Public domain photograph of painting, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of th...

Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches) Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 Subjects: Middle ... More

The Senate as a court of impeachment for the trial of Andrew Johnson /...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 April 11, pp. 232-233. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the New Jersey College at Princeton, New Jersey.

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The Globe Theatre, Broadway, opposite Waverly Place, N.Y. Owned by Mr....

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Governor George Clinton. - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain reproduction of art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Nebraska--Crazy Horse and his band of Indians on their way from Camp S...

Native Americans on horseback with travois. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Going to market--a scene near Savannah, Georgia / E.A. Abbey.

Print shows African Americans carrying food to market in baskets on their heads and by ox-drawn cart. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1875 May 29, p. 436. Reference copy in LOT 4422-D.

[Letter from Isaac McCoy to his mother, Nancy McCoy, from Louisville, ...

Handwritten letter from Private Isaac McCoy of Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, on pictorial lettersheet showing the U.S. Capitol building.

The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire"--The slave deck of the bark ...

African men crowded onto a lower deck; African women crowded on an upper deck. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1860 June 2, p. 344. Wood engraving after daguerreotype. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-1.

Murder of Louisiana sacrificed on the altar of radicalism

President Ulysses S. Grant and Congress turned a blind eye to the disputed 1872 election of carpetbagger William P. Kellogg as governor of Louisiana. In this scene Kellogg holds up the heart which he has just ... More

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa Lit. Feyerlein

Portrait print showing Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, right profile. Reference print filed in BIOG FILE - Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535 Published as frontispiece in: Henric... More

[Four Native American Indians of New France (Canada): two men at top i...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, leaf 23 recto.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson, to Mr. Weightman, late Mayor of Washingt...

An allegory of printing and liberty, illustrating a broadside of a June 24, 1826, letter from Thomas Jefferson on American democracy. The female figure of Liberty displays to the Four Continents the art of prin... More

Yours very sincerely Lewis P. Clover

Print shows Lewis P. Clover, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.

Charles Jacque - Picking fruit from tree outside cottage

Public domain reproduction of a relief art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Broadway at 42nd Street, New York

Charles Magnus & Company (New York, NY) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Demons dancing with women and bats flying through the sky

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[Title page of De magnete, with serpent wound about wooden T staff cla...

Title page in: De magnete / William Gilbert. Londini: Excudebat Petrus Short, 1600. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 15.

Expérience du parachûte. Le 1er Brumaire an 6 (22 octobre 1797. v.f.) ...

Print shows André Jacques Garnerin, first man to descend in a parachute, standing in the gondola of his parachute waving a French flag after release from his balloon (shown deflated at left). His balloon had as... More

A rich man giving a beggar money

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913)

The great fire at Philadelphia: Front page, illustration only

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 April 26, p. 305.

Joseph Vernet - Napoléon III (from "L'Illustration")

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Winslow Homer - Santa Claus and His Presents (Harper's Weekly, Vol. II...

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The new American iron steamship "Champion," of the Vanderbilt line

Illustration showing the starboard side of the side-wheel steamship "Champion." Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 3, no. 144 (1859 October 1), p. 625.

Execution of Gordon the slave-trader, New York, February 21, 1862

Illustration shows Nathaniel Gordon being prepared for hanging as a crowd of men looks on. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. VI, no. 271 (1862 March 8), p. 157 (bottom).

The levee at Memphis, Tenn.-Hauling sugar and cotton from their hiding...

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The Good Shepherd (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

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Joseph Before Pharoah (Dalziels' Bible Gallery)

After Sir Edward John Poynter (British (born France), Paris 1836–1919 London)

The Hidden Treasure (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...

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The Lost Sheep (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

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Moses' Hands Held Up (Dalziels' Bible Gallery)

After Frederick Richard Pickersgill (British, London 1820–1900 Yarmouth, Isle of Wight)

On the road to Saratoga Lake, July 4, 1865 ; Saratoga Lake, July 4, 18...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 July 29, p. 469. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Freedmen's village, Hampton, Virginia / photographed by Gar[...]r,...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Sept. 30, p. 613. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of painting, 1... More

Celebration of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia by...

Page includes two illustrations showing African Americans celebrating the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. and portrait of Henry A. Smythe, newly appointed Collector of Customs of New York; also include... More

Wolcott's Natural Beautifier, for the hair and skin use

Advertising label showing well-groomed man, and woman with knee-length hair. LOT subdivision subject: Hairdressing. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Copyright by R. L. Wolcott, N.Y.C.

R. Esterbrook & Cos. Lincoln Pen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paper wrapper for a box of R. Esterbrook's Lincoln Pen showing a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing right, above laurel boughs and American flags. 734 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of C... More

[Letter from Ulysses S. Grant to his father, from Milliken's Bend, Lou...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 614 (1868 Oct. 3), p. 635.

Art-students and copyists in the Louvre gallery, Paris / drawn by Wins...

Painters at work in a long, skylit gallery of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 576 (1868 January 11), p. 25.

It is only a truce to regain power ("playing possum") / Th. Nast.

Horace Greeley with "C.S." (Carl Schurz?) coaxing an Afro-American to shake hands with two men, one wearing hat labeled "Ku Klux Klan" and one wearing hat labeled "Tammany," who are hiding weapons behind their ... More

The American juggernaut Everything noble, patriotic, and progressive i...

Financiers and politicians, on large train, crushing American working men; skeleton hovering above. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's budget of fun, 1873 April, no. 181, pp. 8-9.

Oregon. The Modoc war - Schonchin and his associate "Bucks" killed by ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1873 May 10, p. 133. Title transcribed from original.

A young boy cowering from a demon, illustration from 'El Cuento Niño d...

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Chinese immigrants at the San Francisco custom-house / P. Frenzeny.

Customs officers inspecting belongings of Chinese immigrants as others enter the room from ship; with insert of Chinese on wagon. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1877 Feb. 3, p. 81.