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Draft of the lands disputed by Philipse Patent against Beekmans & Rambaults.

Scale 1:31,680; 40 chains to an in. Title from verso. Alternate title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: [Map of Fishkill and vicinity] Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. R More

Chinese Rank patent, scroll painting, Qing Dynasty

Qing dynasty (1644–1911) Public domain photograph of Chinese silk textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese Rank patent, scroll painting, Qing Dynasty

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By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of punishing state criminals, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Britannia drawn and quartered at a crossroad by ropes attached to three horses, one labeled "Tyranny" racing down the road "to America", another labeled "Venality" racing down the road "to Spain", a More

Judge Thumb, or - patent sticks for family correction: warranted lawful!, British Cartoon Print

Judge Buller walking in foreground, carrying bundles of rods; in the background, a man with a rod raised over his head is about to strike a woman who is running away from him. Forms part of : British Cartoon Pr More

The political rat catcher or Jack Renegado's new patent trap's / Annibl Scratch, de., British Cartoon Print

"The rat-catchers sits in the doorway of a bare, ramshackle room, on the floor of which are large steel traps and rats, some already caught..." (Source: Stephens) [Collings?] This record contains unverified dat More

Map of the patent of Oriskany. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:32,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Cadastral map. Shows land allotments, with subdivisions, adjacent to the Mohawk River from Oriskany to Rom More

Cooke's Patent Drill Machine

Machine for sowing seeds. Illus. in: Columbian Magazine, 1789 June, opp. p. 353. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; Rare Bk. Div.; Farm machinery; Shelf.

Articles of agreement for conducting the business respecting the land, called the Gore, granted by patent, to Jeremiah Halsey and Andrew Ward, Esquire. [Hartford, 1795].

Not in Evans.; Imprint 2.; Gore grant. 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 4, Folder 4.

Spafford's patent, for improved wheel-carriages. This certificate, No. is evidence of the sale of a single right to use the improvement secured by my patent ... Albany Mo. 18.

Dated in mss. 2 Mo. 18 1815 and signed by Horatis Gates Spafford, patentee. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephem More

Stephen Burrowes, March 2, 1801, Printed Saddle Patent

Printed Saddle Patent Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Miscellany -- Mr. Bramah's patent lock ; Mr. Rowntree's patent lock / [...] del. ; Lowry scul.

Print shows views of lock, key, and locking mechanism for two types of locks. Illus. in: The cyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. 1st American ed. Philadelphia : S. F. Bradfo More

Tameing [i.e. taming] a shrew. Or Petruchio's patent family bedstead, gags & thumscrews / Williams fecit.

Cartoon showing woman restrained in a bed fashioned like a pillory. Her husband sits up in bed beside her, holding a whip and gag.

Patent puffs to raise the wind or Dandy steam packets on contrary Jacks! Dedicated to the Society of Arts!, British Cartoon Print

Print shows three men attempting to power their bicycles by means of flatulence. Library of Congress copy is hand-colored. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Publisher's name misspelled on item. Corr More

Patent Hay and Grain Rake - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

Patented by Pennock & Pierce, of Chester Co., Pa. Illus. in: American Farmer ..., v. 4. Baltimore, 1822, p. 112. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434 F. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. More

Cotton Gins...the machine invented by Eli Whitney, for ginning cotton, politely sent to us from the U.S. Patent Office

Illus. in: American Farmer ..., v. 4. Baltimore, 1823, p. 380. Reference copy may be in LOT 4434 F. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm machinery...; Cotton More

[Broadside]: Patent sponge boots, for horses feet. ... James Boyd, 24 Merchants' Row, Boston, June 1, 1825

Reference copy may be in LOT 4397A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI BUSINESS; RBD; Mass. Boston Misc.; Broadsides 1825; Horses; Ad. Boots...; Shelf.

Jehial Bryan's patent Daily account of time for thirty years. Utica. Northway & Porter printers. [c. 1829].

On verso: Jehial Bryan's Patent Daily Account of time, Filed Aug 19, 1829. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephem More

Dr. Chauncey's patent air tight cooking stoves

LOT subject: Stoves. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. No date recorded on card or item. Date based on date range of other product labels.

To the citizens of Washington. A fellew who signs his name William Elliot; he is a clerk in the Patent Office, a foreigner and opposed to this government, has so far degraded himself, that I am compelled to apply to him the epithets that justly

Elliot, William.; On verso: 14 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 194, Folder 33.

Political Quixotism shewing the consequences of sleeping in patent magic spectacles The diplomatic Hercules, attacking the poitical hydra / / from a very big picter in the Jinerals Bed-Room, draw'd off from Nater by Zek Downing, Historical Painter to Uncle Jack & Jineral Jackson.

Print shows President Jackson, sword in hand, during a nightmare, fighting a hydra with many fierce heads labeled "U.S. Bank", "Deposits", "Bribery", "Pensions", "[...] of the People", and "Corruption of the [. More

Old Nick's new patent plan to make Nova Scotia Tories, Federals coodies, Hartford conventioners, Nullifiers, National Republican bankites & c

An attack on Nicholas Biddle and the New York newspaper editors friendly to the United States Bank. The print was evidently prompted by Biddle's 1834 attempt to create a financial crisis through an artificial t More

Capt. J. D. Woodside's patent pump or ship for measuring correctly the depth of water in the hold of a vessel ... Washington, D. C. August 9th, 1834.

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 195, Folder 11.

Baltimore Patent Flour Cloth to Andrew Jackson, April 26, 1838

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Espy's patent conical ventilator. [Description of] James P. Espy. Washington 1842.

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 197, Folder 17.

Patent drawing - for Jonathan Russell's Artificial Leg Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - Drawing for a Life - Preserving Coffin Public domain image

This is the printed patent drawing for a life - preserving coffin invented by Christian H. Eisenbrandt. Patent Case Files

Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop

A cryptic satire possibly dealing with some facet of the 1844 presidential campaign. The print features two unsuccessful aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination: Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Joh More

The following is a copy of a beautifully written document upon parchment, deposited August 19th, 1845, my Wm. Cleary, Esq., in the National Gallery, over the U. S. Patent Office, and rendered peculiarly valuable by its being the original record

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 197, Folder 48.

Patent Office - Public domain palace architecture drawing

With horse-drawn carriage in front. Repro. of drawing (Robert Mills, Archt.). Illus. in: Force, William Q. Picture of Washington & Its Vicinity for 1845. Washington : W.Q. Force, 1845, opp. p. 45. Reference cop More

Patent drawing - Drawing of a Surveyor's Compass Public domain image

This patent was designed by Samuel Kern. Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of a technical diagram, architecture, plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patent balancing by an amateur - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

New York "Tribune" editor Horace Greeley is ridiculed for vacillating between support of candidates Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor in the presidential election of 1848. Greeley balances precariously on a t More

Grand patent India-rubber air line railway to California: competition defied

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2748

Zenas C. Robbins to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, April 13, 1849 (Patent)

[Original museum display card for Lincoln's method of lifting vessels over shoals patent].

The model of the Lincoln boat which was filed with Lincoln's application was available to the public in 1849. The Patent Office produced display cards for their models. From time to time the cards wore out and More

U. S. Patent office. November 12, 1849. Sir: A copy of the accompanying circular has been addressed to each of the governors of the states and territories of the Union, and I respectfully solicit your co-operation in furthering the objects sough

Page Order: Leaflet 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 199, Folder 25a.

U. S. Patent office. November 8, 1849. Sir: Endeavoring to trace up the history of American inventions as a duty appertaining to his Bureau and supposing that interesting facts may lie hidden in the archives of the various states ... I respectfu

Page Order: Leaflet 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 199, Folder 25.

Patent drawing - Abraham Lincoln's for Improved Manner of Buoying Vessels Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings

Domestic roving and spinning machine. This very important and useful invention for roving and spinning cotton and wool, has been secured to the subscribers by letters patent ... [n. d.]

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 27, Folder 33.

Notice to builders, architects, masons, &c. Welch's patent anhydrous cement ... New York Oliver & Brothers, Steam Printers, 82 Beekman-Street, [n. d.].

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 24.

Emilius N. Scherr's patent harp guitar

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Hickok's patent cider mill wood engraving, Library of Congress

Advertisement by W.O. Hickok addressed to farmers; text is in English and German.

Ho, for Cuba, [Cut of ship] Liberty for all. Grand meeting Huzzah for Lopes. The citizens of Washington and vicinity, are respectfully invited to attend a mass meeting, to be held in front of the Patent office, on Monday evening, Sep. 1, 1851. T

Manuscript notes of the meeting at the bottom of the page. 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; P More

7 ton hydraulic lifting jack, U.S. Capitol Ex. and Washington Aqueduct, Dudgeon's patent

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol More

Fisk's patent air-tight metallic burial cases are for sale by M. W. White, undertaken, ... [Washington, March 1853].

Picryl description: Public domain photo of patent - related publication, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Harris' patent portable circular saw machine. Patented October 11th, 1853 ... State or County rights, or single machines for sale by Thomas Palmer. No. 83 Dock Street, Philadelphia.

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 156, Folder 34.

To the public. The undersigned, inventor of the marble slab coffins, having taken the initiatory steps to secure his rights by letters patent of the United States is now prepared to dispose of rights either by license to build or for territory.

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 201, Folder 7.

Nasmyth's patent steam hammer, copied by permission of the inventor from the machine in the great exhibition

Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The tradition of tech More

Jenkins & Knight's patent spoke machine. Awarded the gold medal, at the late fair of the Maryland Institute, in the City of Baltimore ... Kingston, N. Y., November 8, 1854.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 121, Folder 21. Copy scanned: 1

Avery's patent for locking stones in the foundations of lighthouses ... More information may be obtained by letter addressed to John P. Avery, Norwich, Conn. [1854].

Lighthouses. 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 8, Folder 34.

Patent drawing - Drawing of Design for Spoons Public domain image

Design Patent Drawings. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ball's patent indestructible water and gas pipe, made of wrought iron, lined with & laid in hydraulic cement, manufactured by the "Water & gas pipe co.," at Jersey City, N. J ... The company are prepared to take and execute contracts to construc

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 202, Folder 10.

Shingle machine! Skinner's patent shingle machine is now on exhibition at the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institute fair. The machine, well managed, will rive and shave 20,000 shingles in ten hours ... Purdy & Skinner. Washington, Feb. 23d. 1855. H.

Shingle machine. 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 202, Folder 3.

[Man Holding Patent Office Book]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

W. F. Shaw's patent gas cooking & ironing apparatus. Gas smoothing-iron and miniature gas furnace. W. F. Shaw's patent ... 174 Washington Street Boston. [1858].

Gas smoothing -iron. 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 63, Folder 9.

Adams' patent bean and seed separator

LOT subject: Agriculture Machinery. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Print is one page of pamphlet also advertising "Adams' Patent Coal Sifter" (LC-USZ62-23764). Another copy More

Adams' Patent Coal Sifter - Drawing. Public domain image.

Advertisement, 1859. LOT subject: Household appliances. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Print is one page of pamphlet also advertising "Adams' Patent Bean and Seed Separator" More

[Patent medicine labels for Perry Davis & Son, showing view of Providence, R.I., and four patent medicine bottles] / Kilburn & Mallory sc., Boston.

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Old Patent Office - model room (1861-65)

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Sleeping-bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington / Sketched by our special artist.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 June 1, p. 347. Public domain photograph of cabinet furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caleb B. Smith to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, April 06, 1861 (Patent Office appointment)

Circular. Great improvement in marking linen. Indelible pencil with or without cloth holder! Clark's patent, 1859; Improved 1861 ... Boston. B. L. Mitchell, Printer, 24 Congress Street [1861].

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 68, Folder 27.

Sleeping bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Office, Washington

Wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, 1861. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: DC, Washington Buildings, Government; Civil War Troops RI; CW Barracks; Shelf.

The original rubber store, under Goodyear's patent. Established in 1839 ... C. Hayes, 26 School St., Boston [1861].

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 68, Folder 25.

Ball in Honour of President Lincoln in the Great Hall of the Patent Office at Washington

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, April 8, 1865, p. 321. Reference copy in Presidential File: Lincoln, Abraham... Inauguration. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent More

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with Gardner patent canteen and haversack]

Photograph shows soldier in dilapidated condition. Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie, La., 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist More

Patent, Ben - State: [Blank] - Year: [Blank]

Papers Relating to Citizens

Patent drawing - Elisha Otis's Elevator Public domain image

Elisha Otis's elevator was the first with a safety catch to guard against the breaking of the cable. The Otis Company would become the premier manufacturer of electric elevators. Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - Drawing of an Improvement in School Globes Public domain image

This patent was designed by John R. Agnew. Utility Patent Drawings

[Adv. for Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial (patent medicine) in small type; large type reads "Great Excitement in South Carolina! Beauregard himself might as well be a Prisoner!"; no illus]

Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Civil War Home front; Patent medicines; Broadsides 1863; RBD; Cartoons, US; Advertising; Shelf.

The gardener's patent locomotive seat ... E. Whittlesey. Patentee and manufacturer ... Philadelphia Quinn, Pr. 3d & Market St. [1863?].

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 158, Folder 22.

Patent drawing - Drawing of an Improvement in School Globes Public domain image

This patent was designed by John R. Agnew. Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - Drawing of Improved Hand Grenade Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of a patent diagram drawings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patent sofa-back folding seat school desk. This desk was patented by R. Cruikshank of Pottstown. Pa. May 24th, 1864 ... [Pottstown, Pa. 1864].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 158, Folder 28b. Copy scanned: 1

Design Patent for Simon Crow's Pure White Wheat Whiskey Label

This colorful design patent was used to distinguish barrels of Simon Crow's whiskey from its competitors. Design Patent Drawings.

Patent drawing - Drawing of Improvement in Magic Lanterns Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of a patent diagram drawings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Panorama of Wash., 1865 [Patent Office]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photo of a 3d object, Europe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photo of a 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Public domain photo of a 3d object, Europe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photo of a golden object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Patent drawing - Drawing of Time Registering Barometer and Thermometer Public domain image

This patent was designed by Garret V. Mooney. Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - for John Deere's Improvement in Plows Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - for Pierre Lallement's Improvement in Velocipedes Public domain image

Utility Patent Drawings

Patent drawing - Drawing of Marine Compasses Public domain image

This patent was designed by Samuel Custer. Utility Patent Drawings Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - P More

Perspective view on exact scale of proposed patent elevated railway, when erected in front of A. T. Stewart's brock on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade Streets, New York.

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MacNiven & Cameron's patent steel pens. They come as a boon and a blessing to men, the pickwick, the owl, and the waverley pen

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brett.