1850

[View of 13th century church and 16th century town square and town ha...

No. F.M.S. 4713. Blind stamp in lower corner: A. Giraudon, éditeur, 15 Rue Bonaparte, Paris. Blind stamp monogram "AG" in lower center of photograph.

[William Wierman Wright, head-shoulders portrait facing right]

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jose Maria Lacunza, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, lower left. On verso: E.A. Martinez y C[superscript a]., Escalerillas, No. 14, Mexico.

Map of the Rabun Gap Rail Road route showing its connection with other...

Outline map of the southern United States showing the railroad network. The Rabun Gap system is shown in red. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. LC Railroad maps, 542 Description derived from published bibliography. Availa... More

Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I. : shewing the streets as at present ...

Shows wards (numbered), building coverage, and lot lines. Hand colored to emphasize ward boundaries. Originally printed on 2 sheets (western/eastern). LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, shellacked, brittle, dar... More

Chart of the coast of Brazil from Maranham to the River Plate.

"The spots coloured red on the chart indicate the places where slavers land their cargoes and also where they are fitted out for slave trading." "Ordered by the House of Commons, to be printed, 22 July 1850." R... More

U.S. mail steam ship Baltic: Collins line. builders, hull by Brown & B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pacific Ocean. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows the Atrato and San Juan rivers proposed interoceanic canal route. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink on tracing linen. Anonymous manuscript map oriented with north to the left. Panama: An Exhibition in... More

Johannisberger vineyard - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 28, bottom left.

Abdel Kader / Inst. Bibl. excudit., engraving, Library of Congress

ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn, Amir of Mascara, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Meyer's Conv. Lex. No. 20.

[Mariano Escobedo, full-length portrait, facing left]

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orla...

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Have ye beheld the young god of the seas" / Ward ; Sartain.

Print shows a young boy with wings borne across the sea by three female figures. The title is a line from John Keats' poem "Hyperion". (DLC/PP-1998:151.32) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Lib... More

Life in the gold mines, California ; / Lithographed from a photograph ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows operations at a mining camp. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 132. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.19

Tojin ja-odori no zu - Public domain dedication image

Japanese print shows eight men holding up a dragon with sticks for the dragon dance. Nagasaki print. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 159; 47623a. Earlier control number: 236.3-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Cra... More

[Exterior view of masonry church with axial tower entrance and spire]

Perspective drawing showing exterior of church. Exhibit loan 4105-L. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1996:111.UNID.3

Philadelphia, July 15th, 1850. Sir: The undersigned, a committee appoi...

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

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

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

Francis Frith - [Pylon, Temple of Isis, Philae]

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 26, lower left. Frith no. 1840.

Ils montaient, ils montaient toujours, Political Cartoon

French political cartoon shows a greedy Louis Napoleon trying to climb higher by hanging onto the ropes of a balloon, topped with a crown. The basket breaks free spilling bags of money, and a woman and a child ... More

The nightingale or lines by Dr. S. Bronson, of N. Y. to Md'lle Lind, o...

On verso: 231. Depositied in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. N.Y., Dec. 16. 1850. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. P... More

[Mariano Riva Palacio, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 23, lower right.

Headquarters Army of shirtwearers. Important information having been r...

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 200, Folder 11. Copy scanned: 2

[? Pietrasanta, holding top hat, full-length portrait, standing, facin...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 17, lower right.

Col. Fremont's nondescript from California. This animal captured by Co...

Fremont, Col. 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 122, Folder 38.

Dancing girl - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Bas-relief sculpture. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 19, left side.

[General Tomas O'Horan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 25, lower left. On recto: Aubert y C[Superscript ia]. On verso: Aubert y C[Superscript ia] 2.̂ C. San Fr... More

U.S. mail steam ship, Atlantic: Collins line. builders, hull by Willia...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6832

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: back only, Rinhart 219. Accompanying note in case: From Wm. Shew's Miniature Case Manufactory, corner of Court and Howard Streets, Boston. Gift; Charles W.... More

To the citizens of Washington. Fellow Citizens:- I am informed that at...

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 200, Folder 8b.

Athens. Cityscape photograph - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Panoramic view of Athens, Greece, showing Temple of Theseus (Hepaisteion), Mount Lycabettus, and the Acropolis. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 2.

[Print speciman of stock certificate for Loudon Park Cemetery Company ...

Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 3]

[Pedro Escudero Y Echanove, three-quarter length portrait, standing, f...

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Henry C. Baker of Winchester, Virginia. The friends of the unfurtunate...

Baker, Henry E. 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 200, Folder 3.

Woodrow Wilson's mother - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Woodrow Wilson's mother holding a cased photograph. Original photograph probably taken in the late 1840s or early 1850s. Print is one of two on a sheet.

[Carlos Peza, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

On verso: Carlos Pera, Ministro de Hacienda Epoca de Miramon. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 15, lower right. On recto below mount: Car... More

A fair will be held in connection with the anti-slavery meetings of th...

Anti-slavery. 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 137, Folder 4b.

Portrait photo of L'Aiglón - Public domain portrait

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris, Déposé. Aiglon, or eaglet was a nick... More

Equarian condition powders - the most extraordinary medicine in the wo...

LOT subdivision subject: Cows/Horses. Title and other information transcribed from item. Copyright by W.H. Wyatt. No caption card available.

The Old 76 still - Engraving, Public domain image

LOT subject: Liquor traffic. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Lithograph by Strobridge & Co. No date on caption card. Date based on span dates for other prints by same lithography co.

[Temple of Gurneh, Thebes] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 25, lower right. Probably photographed by Francis Frith.

Map of Crawford County, Ohio / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 612 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes views of public, residential, and commercial properties, distance table, statistical table, insets... More

The Constitution, the gem of the ocean

LOT subdivision subject: U.S. Navy. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by George Stimpson. Lithograph by Tappan & Bardford's Lith.

Map of Liberia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Annotated in col. inks to emphasize Junk River, Cestos River, Sestor's Town and River, and River San Pedro. Gift; 1968; American Colonization Society; Availa... More

Map of the central portion of the United States showing the lines of t...

Strip map of the United States between 36 degrees and 47 degrees north latitude. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, place names, and some trails in the western half of the map. Indicates the ... More

Map of Newport County, Rhode Island /

Relief shown by hachures. Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 827 Includes ancillary maps of Newport and Block Island, and illustrations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A map of a part of the southern & western states showing the contempla...

The map covers an area from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi delta, and from Columbus, Ohio, to Little Rock, Ark. It shows Ft. Massac and "Capitol City" in southern Illinois and northern Kentucky as sites selec... More

Map of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Rail Road with its connection...

Map of northeastern and north-central United States showing drainage, county boundaries, larger cities, and the completed and proposed railroad network. Scale ca. 1:1,500,000. LC Railroad maps, 405 Description ... More

Judicial districts and salaries of the judges. Statement showing the c...

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 6.

[General Tomas Mejía, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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

The true friends of our Union as a nation. The origin of James Roberts...

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 200, Folder 5a.

Unidentified Man - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Accession Number: 1974:0193:0847..Maker: Southworth & Hawes..Title: Unidentified Man..Date: ca. 1850..Medium: daguerreotype with applied color..Dimensions: sixth plate; 8.2 x 6.9 cm...George Eastman House Colle... More

Areopagus. Mars Hill. Temple of Theseus / D. Constantin.

View toward Temple of Theseus (Hephaisteion) from the Areopagus (Mars Hill). In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p.11.

Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix--Wingless Victory / D. Constantin...

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 12.

Capt. Partridge would inform the public that the fall term of the abov...

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 177, Folder 32.

[General Toboado half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

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

[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York]

Perspective drawing showing interior of church. Public domain photograph of church architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Just in time - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

Oregon City. Historic map, Library of Congress

LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.) 718 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Whitemarsh Hall, Phila., Pa. - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

Interior showing staircase and statue of woman and cupid. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

[William Y. McAllister with wife, full-length, seated in decorative ch...

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

Map of Liberia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Copy one annotated with place names in pencil. Gift; 1968; American Colonization Society; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... More

[Martin del Castillo y Cos, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper right. On verso: Aubert y Cia, 2? C. San Francisco, Mexico.

[Full-length portrait of a man holding top hat and cane, standing besi...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower right.

[Guillermo Prieto, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, lower left. On recto: Guillermo Prieto.

Houses of Parliament / Pearson sc. during American Civil War

Print shows Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, on the banks of the Thames River. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album c... More

[Juan Bautista Ceballos (Cevallos), half-length portrait, facing front...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, upper right. On recto above item: Ex-President Gral. Ceballos.

[Blank check of the Manhattan company, New York. 185-?].

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

Ascent of [H] Bell's aerial machine, from Vauxhall Gardens

Woodcut from Ill. London News, July 27, 1850. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Amelia polka - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

Sr. Del Villar - Public domain portrait photograph

Del Villar, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title taken from above item in notebook. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, lower right.

Charles Town, showing rear of courthouse, Charles Town, West Virginia.

Shows rear of courthouse where John Brown was tried. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burial ground "Agia Triada". Tomb of Dexileus, B.C. 393

Monuments at Hagia Trias; on left, monument to Dexileus. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 18, left side.

Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies / Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.

Advertising card for Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies, showing seven little girls with jars of preserves and jelly on shelves.

Odeum of Herodes Atticus - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 9. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with ... More

George Peabody / phot. by Brady ; engd. by J.C. Buttre.

Half-length portrait of the philanthropist, facing right.

Bankoku sankai tsuran bunzu - Public domain old map

Japanese print shows a map of the world with sailing ships on the seas and American and Russian soldiers. Typewritten annotation on back mount: A table of mileage from Nagasaki to various parts of the world an... More

Pennsylvania's great highway and its tributary lines.

Map of the northeastern United States showing drainage, some relief by hachures, cities and towns, the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and connecting lines. Scale ca. 1:1,575,000. LC Railroad maps, 77 Description de... More

Map of the Portland and Ogdensburg Rail Road line, and connections.

Map of parts of New England and New York showing the railroad network and the progress of track construction along the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad line. A reference table in the upper left of the map provi... More

The nearest way in summer time - Engraving, Public domain image

Print after 1854 painting by Thomas Creswick shows a horse-drawn cart carrying logs and fording a creek. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

Charles F. Anderson, Monday, September 30, 1850 (Extract of Appropria...

Portrait of Two Young Girls - Public domain portrait

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1850.Print Date: ca. 1850.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns .... More

[William Y. McAllister, half-length, seated]

Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)

The landing of the Pilgrim fathers on the coast of America. A. D. 1620...

Copy 2 is a negative Photostat. 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... More

The departure - Drawing. Public domain image.

Large group of people on ship. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Scene Between Decks". Book illustration from Library of Congress

Men, women, and children standing and seated, crowded below deck on ship. Negative includes fragments of text above the image. Illus. in: Supplement Illustrated London News, 1850 July 6, no. 135. This record co... More

[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Portrait of a Man - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1850.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

Ambrotype house of James & Co., No. 4. Summer Street, .... Boston. Whe...

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

Portrait photo of [Bust of William Robertson Grant]

Written on back: Plaster bust, Dr. W. R. Grant. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Li... More

The Pnyx. Museon Hill - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 10.

Refugees overtaken, engraving, Library of Congress

Evangelic measures. Book illustration from Library of Congress

No accession number; "1628F" and "Apr. 47" on verso. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Puck, June.

[Church and its details. Design for front and side of church. Elevatio...

Illus. in: The Builder's Guide, plate LIX.

[Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale, 1788-1879, oval, half-length portrait]

Painted by W.H. Chambers and engraved expressly for Godeys Lady's book by W.G. Armstrong. Printer - H. Quig. Date based on publication date range for Godey's Lady's Book and date cited by Library Company of Phi... More

[John Griffin Carlisle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

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

[Palace in India] - Architectural drawing, public domain image

Public domain image of a historic building, 15th-16th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Jose Maria Lacunza, full length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, lower right. On verso: E.A. Martinez y C[superscript a]., Escalerillas, No. 14.

Map of the Town of Attleborough, Bristol County, Massachusetts /

Shows buildings and householders' names. Also covers present Town of North Attleborough. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ima... More