Illustration: "Un quartier embrouillé" by Albert Robida (1848-1926), from Le vingtième siècle, Paris: a Librarie Illustrée, 1883. *90W-205, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Cropped and edited version: Photographic image of John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. Carte-de-visite published by E. Anthony from a photographic negative in Mathew Brady’s National Portrait G More
Photographic image of John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. Carte-de-visite published by E. Anthony from a photographic negative in Mathew Brady’s National Portrait Gallery. MS Am 1084 (59), Mil More
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1788) from Les Oeuvres de J.-J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève, Paris: 1793-1798. Engraved by J.P. Langlois. Typ 715.93.753, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Julia Bennett Barrow (b. 1824) with her son Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anna Bishop (1814-1884) Public domain photograph of 19th-century paining, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Daguerreotype of Irving Selden Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Photograph of giantess Anna Haining Bates (née Swan).
Daguerreotype portrait of actor Edwin "Ned" Adams (1833-1877). TC-1, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University
Illustration ("the fruit bearers") by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) from Savoye, a London-based magazine edited by Arthur Symonds. 1896. HEW 11.10.11, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Illustration ("The Ascension of St. Rose of Lima") by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) from Savoye, a London-based magazine edited by Arthur Symonds. 1896. HEW 11.10.11, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Drawing for a performance at the Cambridge Theatre of Varieties of a play called Nearly 7, 1884, by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). TypDr 805.B197.84n Sz2, Houghton Library, Harvard University More information
Drawing for a performance at the Cambridge Theatre of Varieties of a play called Nearly 7, 1889, by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). TypDr 805.B197.89i Sz 2, Houghton Library, Harvard University
An autograph letter of Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I, to her brother, King Edward VI of England, 21 April [1552]. Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Typ 686.
Pratt, Anna (Alcott), 1831-1893.[Diary]1860-1861. 1v. in 1 folder; a list of her wedding presents. Alcott family additional papers, 1707-1904: Guide. (MS Am 1130.14-1130.16)
Illustration for "Sing a song of sixpence" from The April Baby’s Book of Tunes, 1900, by Elizabeth von Arnim, with art by Kate Greenaway. Typ 970.00.7590, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Photograph print: Vivien and Merlin. From Illustrations to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and other poems, London: Henry S. King, 1875. By Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). TypPh 805.75.2592, Houghton Librar More
Illustration for The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896, page 483. Pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper. Typ 805K.96. More
Caricature of Clémence Royer from Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui, Volume 44 , no 170 (1881). She is reading a copy of her new book, Le bien et la loi morale.
Illustration from De humani corporis fabrica, Basileae: 1543, by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). Typ 565.43.868, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Frontispiece from De humani corporis fabrica, Basileae: 1543, by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). Typ 565.43.868, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of American theologian Henry James, Sr (1811-1882). Dated "1855?" by source. bMS Am 1092.9 (4597.2), Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1841 bMS Am 2066.8.1, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Frontispiece from The man in the moone, or A discourse of a voyage thither by Domingo Gonsales the speedy messenger, 1638, by Francis Godwin (1562-1633). STC 11943.5, Houghton Library, Harvard University
العربية: خريطة تعود لِسنة 1732م، من كتاب جهان نامه (صورة العالم) الموضوع بإستانبول عاصمة الدولة العُثمانيَّة، بِيد كاتب چلبي (1609-1657). الخريطة بِالتُركيَّة العُثمانيَّة، وقد طبعها إبراهيم مُتفرِّقة. المخطوط More
Bookplate for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Windsor Castle, found in her copy of Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846) by John Edward Gray. Typ 805L.46 (A), Houghton Library, More
Illustration from Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant, Paris: 1714, by Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671-1737). Colors digitally restored. HEW 13.9.8, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Amy Lowell : portrait photograph, undated. Note photographer's stamp at bottom of image - "J Notman ---------- Boston"
Engraving, Autobiographical collections of Amos Bronson Alcott. Vol. V. 1840-1844. Concord. England. Concord. Harvard. 328f. [Special contents: ephemera of J. P. Greaves and Charles Lane
Chameleon illustration (1563) Public domain scan of 16th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Collotype photograph of the Chestnut Hill station, designed by H. H. Richardson. MS Typ 1070, Box 10, folder 134, Houghton Library, Harvard University
A daguerreotype of a young Susan Dickinson, with frame (sister-in-law of Emily Dickinson). bMS Am 1118.99b (29.4), Dickinson Family Photographs, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Emily Elizabeth, Austin, and Lavoinia Dickinson by Otis Allen Bullard, oil on canvas, ca. 1840, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Does not refer to the Revelations, but an event in the life of the saint. The Roman emperor Domitian sitting on his throne on the left. According to legend, John was sentenced to be boiled in a cauldron of oil More
Illustration from Apocalipsis cu[m] figuris, Nuremburg: 1498, by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Typ Inc 2121A, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Collotype photograph of the Eliot station, designed by H. H. Richardson. MS Typ 1070, Box 10, folder 134, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Bookplate, from Houghton Library of Elisha Cooke, Sr.
Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chesterfield. Coloured engraving. Shrewsbury Museums Service (SHYMS: FA/1995/008) image sy1386. From the original painting [Dr. Johnson in Lord Chesterfield's anteroom] [gr More
Signature of Francesco Tortoli (1790 – 1824) on a contract for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Tortoli was the chief scenographer of the theatre. MS Thr 415 (249), Houghton Library, Harvard University
Frederick William Holls, from a photograph of the American delegation to the First International Peace Conference at the Hague, 1899. MS Am 1308 (363), William Frederick Holls Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard More
Daguerreotype of American physician and author Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), ca. 1840-1860. *93M-57 (pf), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Daguerreotype of poet and abolitionist Maria White (1821-1853), wife of James Russell Lowell, photographed in Philadelphia in 1845. bMS Am 1054-1054.5, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of Waldo Emerson (d. January 1842), son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, October 1841. http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/deepLink?_collection=via&recordId=olvwork98766 MS Am 1280.235 (706.17)], Hough More
Daguerreotype of American activist Dorothea Dix (1802-1887). Dated by source as between 1840 and 1860. bMS Am 1838 (994.2), Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of American activist Dorthea Dix (1802-1887). Source gives date as 1840-1860. bMS Am 1838 (994.4), Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of American activist Dorothea Dix (1802-1887). Date given by source as 1848-1849. bMS Am 1838 (994.7), Houghton Library, Harvard University
Daguerreotype of American physician and author Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), attributed to Southworth and Hawes, ca. 1850. bMS Am 2066.8.2, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Illustration by George Cruikshank from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 1846, by "Boz" (Charles Dickens). MS Thr 847, Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Advertisement: "John Harris’s booth, Bartholemew-fair … is to be seen, The court of King Henry the Second; and the death of fair Rosamond …" [ca. 1700], with additional notes in pencil. TS 555.1, Houghton Libr More
Pen and ink water color drawing from Pantomime as it was is and will be by Alfred Crowquill, aka Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) and his brother Charles Robert Forrester (1803-1850). Undated. MS Thr 26, Har More
Title page from Pantomime as it was is and will be by Alfred Crowquill, aka Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) and his brother Charles Robert Forrester (1803-1850). Undated. MS Thr 26, Harvard Theatre Collecti More
1854 portrait of Henry James Sr. & Henry James Jr. Reproduced in Melissa Banta, A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2000). Original: bMS Am 1092.9 (4597. More
Portrait of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, by John Simon, after Louis Laguerre, mezzotint, early 18th century
A fragmentary copy of the first edition of The Day of Doom, held at Houghton Library, Harvard University
Illustration from La theorique des cieulx et sept planetes, avec leurs mouvements, orbes & disposition, 1558, by Oronce Fine (1494-1555). *FC5.F494.528tb, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Opening page from La theorique des cieulx et sept planetes, avec leurs mouvements, orbes & disposition, 1558, by Oronce Fine (1494-1555). *FC5.F494.528tb, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Title page from La theorique des cieulx et sept planetes, avec leurs mouvements, orbes & disposition, 1558, by Oronce Fine (1494-1555). *FC5.F494.528tb, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Photograph of Tennessee Williams inscribed "Tom at 5 1/2 living in Clarksdale"
Barnum and Bailey. Official programme on tour in Great Britain, 1899.
Royal warrant for the arrest of Lady Arabella Stuart and William Seymour, Duke of Somerset, issued by James I.
Actor Ira Aldridge in the role of Othello
Page 89 illustration from The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting: wherein is handled and set out the vertues, nature, and properties of fifteene sundry chaces, together with the order and manner how to hunt and k More
Dienet dem Herrn, copyist's manuscript of full score for chorus (SATB), horns, violins, viola, and continuo. Page 1 (of 12). Complete manuscript available at source.
Page from Dictionary of the Sioux Language, unidentified publisher in Fort Laramie, Dakota, 1866. Interior page gives alternate title Lacotah. By Joseph Keyes Hyer (d. 1882) and William Sylvanus Starring (d. 1 More
Title page: The witch of Edmonton: a known true story / composed into a tragi-comedy by divers well-esteemed poets, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, John Ford, &c. Main author: Thomas Dekker (approximately 1572- More
Illustration labeled "Hare & Many Friends" by Samuel Howitt (1765?-1822), from A New Work of Animals, Principally Designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus, 1811. 15459.615.33*, Houghton Library, Ha More
Two-page spread from Recreations for ingenious head-pieces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in (subtitle continues: of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance: with thei More
Family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), including son Ernest Longfellow and brother in law Thomas Gold Appleton, posing for a photographer in Venice, 1869. Cropped version. 2001 M-8, Gulotta Collecti More
Family of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), including son Ernest Longfellow and brother in law Thomas Gold Appleton, posing for a photographer in Venice, 1869. 2001 M-8, Gulotta Collection of Henry Wadsw More
Photograph of Alice Gibbens (1849-1922), wife of William James, undated but likely taken near the time of her marriage in 1878. 2002M-44 (67), Houghton Library, Harvard University Houghton Library P More
Photograph Henry James III and William James Jr., children of William James and Alice Gibbens. Circa 1881. 2002M-44 (51), Houghton Library, Harvard University Houghton Library Parent institution Har More
Cropped version. Photograph of William James (1842-1910) sitting in a chair, dated 1880. 2002M-44 (56), Houghton Library, Harvard University Houghton Library Parent institution Harvard Library Loc More
Portrait of Henry Thrale by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Mary Hyde Eccles. *2003JM-3, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Broadside: The Emancipation Proclamation, printed in Philadelphia by L. Franklin Smith, 1865. Image features the full text of the proclamation as well as scenes of enslaved people, as well as small portraits o More
Cover: London: A pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré. Published in London: Grant & co., 1872. Book is fully digitized at: 41-3205, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Three=quarter portrait painting of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), facing front, slightly to right, with right arm at side and left arm bend and leaning on a high desk. By American artist More
Three-quarter portrait painting of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), facing front, slightly to right, with right arm at side and left arm bend and leaning on a high desk. By American artist More
Illustration: Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba. Published in Berlin by Storch & Kramer, 1859. 43-1484, Houghton Library, Harvard University