1852

Coil for U.S. General Post Office, top view

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain scan of 19th century architectural drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daniel Webster is dead! Sunday news office 8 A. M. [1852].

Webster, Daniel. 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 61, Folder 11a.

Colton's railroad & township map of the State of Maine, with portions ...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Shows longitude from Washington. Includes population statistics and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Stockton ; June 1st, 1852 / / Lith. & publd. by Britton & Rey, corn. M...

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of gold mining town and waterway. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.W. Corcoran's "Hare-Wood" tract : [part of Washington D.C.] /

Cadastral survey map. Pen-and-ink and yellow tint. Soiled, torn, and mounted on cloth backing. On verso on cloth backing in lead pencil: No. 14/Corcorans Map, "Harewood Tract" R-P-22. Available also through the... More

Elevations of gallery fronts, Senate Chamber

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing crossed c...

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

[Bridge with man sitting on top, two men standing below]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of the arch tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Sheet of sketches for the illustrated 1852 London edition of Uncle To...

Purchase; Warren Ewens; 1993; (DLC-PP/1993:162). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan ... More

[Bridge under construction - Cabin John Bridge]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Design for scaffold around peristyle of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The mayoralty. The charge having been made that J. W. Maury, Esq., has...

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 33b.

Louis Haghe - Vue de la mosquée, prise de Bab-Houmayoun

Print shows exterior view of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, from the imperial gate, includes minarets; with groups of men and women in traditional dress. Title derived from plate list. Il... More

Details of private stairs, north wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of boiler fronts - Public domain drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Louis Kossuth. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arrangement of trellis work for ventilation in Hall of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Adeline Tapley Fuller Stowell, as a girl, three-quarters length portr...

Was part of LOT 7060. Case: Rinhart 86. Accompanying note: Adaline Tapley Fuller, b. 1850, w. of George L. Stowell. Stamped on brass mat: S.H. Whitmore. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1955. Forms part of: Eller... More

Map of the county of New Haven, Connecticut.

LC Land ownership maps, 64 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Register for ventilating flues - Public domain drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Arrangement of closet in room of Secretary of Senate

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Balustrade over columns of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Entablature, balustrade, and ceiling of southern portico of south wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Plan of attic story, revised and approved by the President of the U.S....

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Washington Aqueduct, details of masonry, traverse section

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pic... More

Details of boiler fronts - Public domain architectural drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Coil for House of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Plan and details of attic story

U.S. General Post Office extension? (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of gallery of Senate Chamber

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Stylobate of dome, full size - Public domain architectural plan drawin...

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Plan of attic story, revised and approved by the President of the U.S....

U.S. Capitol (drawing). 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 building until the current building was c... More

Meeting of the mechanics and others of the City of Washington. A meeti...

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 29.

Navigation aérienne, système de M. Henri Giffard

Broadside announcing Henri Giffard's first steam powered airship design in 1852. Includes a technical drawing of his design. Tissandier collection.

Fan-room for Senate Chamber - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Details of peristyle of dome - Public domain drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Map of Chicago & Rock Island, Peoria and Bureau Valley, and Mississipp...

Outline map of the northeastern and north-central United States showing "railroads completed or in progress" and "railroads proposed & authorized unless named as 'projected.'" Scale ca. 1:1,500,000. LC Railroad... More

Map of the Virginia Central Rail Road showing the connection between t...

Map of Virginia and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, county boundaries, place names and "McAdamised" roads. Scale ca. 1:1,250,000. Tables at lower left of map list "Counties bordering on the Central R... More

Map and profile of the Sunbury route Susqua. Rail Road from the termin...

Map of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent states showing the railroad network, cities, towns, railroad stations, canals, and coal fields. Scale ca. 1:950,000. Across bottom of map: "Profile from Harrisburg to E... More

Hillsborough & Cincinnati Rail-road map extending from Hillsborough, H...

Topographic strip map indicating drainage, relief by hachures, roads, houses, property owners names, and county names. This line was chartered in Ohio, March 2, 1846. It was purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio ... More

The slander nailed! The testimony of four ministers of the gospel agai...

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 170, Folder 29.

[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing crossed c...

Case: Berg, no. 1-50. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

Tableau explicatif général. Les effets du vol aérien actif / / lith. S...

Technical illustration shows 21 figures about aeronautics: the mechanics of insect flight (Figs. 1, 3-5), wing design (Figs. 7-9, 13-15), the effects of propellers (Figs. 2 & 6), and a man-powered device design... More

The great industrial exhibition of 1851. Plate 4. The transept

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louis Haghe - L'intérieur de la mosquée, avant sa restauration

Print shows nave of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, facing east, before restoration; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title derived from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, Constanti... More

Iron backs of corner seats of gallery, Senate

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Columbia and her rejected suitor, Political Cartoon

A fond yet sardonic tribute to the aging Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster, whose final bid for the Whig presidential nomination was defeated by Winfield Scott in 1852. The artist is wryly critical of the... More

Mme. Anna Thillon, de l'opeŕa comique

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

Longitudinal section through north wing, engraving, Library of Congres...

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

To the citizens of Washington!!. The undersigned deems it a duty he ow...

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 33.

Genji monogatari 54 Andō Hiroshige

Japanese print showing scene from Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji with elaborately dressed woman and man separated by a screen. Signature: Hiroshige ga. Hiroshige I was alive in 1852. It is less likely that t... More

G. Washington / P.F. Rothermel pinx ; A.H. Ritchie sc.

Print showing George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, right hand on book, left hand holding sword. Includes facsimile signature.

[Unidentified member of the Calwater Grays, a company of the 1st Regim...

Case: back - Rinhart 257. Stamped on brass mat: C. Evans, Philad'a. No electronic surrogate available. Label adhered to case: "59". Label adhered to cover glass: "63". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-... More

Arms of the State of Vermont, drawn for the ceiling of the Hall of Rep...

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Map of the town of Concord, Middlesex County Mass. /

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "White Pond & Walden Pond from surveys by H.D. Thoreau, Civ. Engr." Includes notes, ancillary map of Concord ... More

Spring flower polka / Wagner & McGuigans Lith Stream Press.

Public domain sheet music, notation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map of the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad and connecting lines.

Outline map of part of the north-central United States showing drainage, state boundaries, and important place names. Main lines indicate mileage between stations, chartered in 1848. Scale ca. 1:1,500,000. LC R... More

Terrible rout & total destruction of the Whig Party. In Salt River

The 1852 Democratic victory under the standard of Franklin Pierce is foreseen as a debacle for the Whig party, led by Winfield Scott. Pierce (center) sits on his horse, holding aloft a banner bearing his and ru... More

Louis Haghe - Vue du fond de la galerie, du côté oriental

Print shows interior of gynaeceum of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as recently resto... More

Register for Senate Chamber - Public domain cabinet drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Religious revival meeting at Eastham, Massachusetts., 1852: Landing at...

Small sailboat along side horse-drawn carriage hub-deep in water. Halftone reproductions of wood engravings in unknown book. Illus. in: [Original wood engravings in] Gleason's Pictorial..., (1852) v. 3. Referen... More

December 6th, 1852. Sir: The undersigned, appointed a committee of inv...

On verso: M.C. #09-82-038.383. 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 43.

[Column being raised into position, U.S. Post Office, with building na...

Photograph. Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piping for U.S. Capitol extension, north wing, south side

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

Details of boiler fronts - Public domain document scan of drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Sculpture of sitting man with his hand on globe and sacks of money at...

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of statue, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iron risers for steps of gallery, Senate Chamber, n.w.

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Distribution of premiums at the Academy of the visitation, Georgetown....

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 36.

Crab for drilling holds in plate ring upon the dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Lyceum lecture. The introductory lecture before the West Medford Libra...

Lyceum. 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 61, Folder 1.

Skeleton of new dome on U.S. Capitol

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

Coal barrow, Washington, D.C. - Public domain architectural plan drawi...

U.S. Capitol? (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Major Genl. Winfield Scott - Public domain portrait engraving

After daguerreotypes by Franz Venino. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4251

[St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England, viewed from across the river...

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph - historical image of Venice, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shears for machine shop - Public domain architectural plan drawing

U.S. Capitol? (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Plan and sections connecting corridor, south wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). 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 building until the current building was c... More

Cellar, north wing, junction of air-ducts

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Fan-room for Senate Chamber - Public domain architectural drawing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Arrangement of exhaust pipes, north wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Coil for U.S. General Post Office, side view and front view

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

U.S. Gen'l Post Office, sliding window in Engine Room

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pic... More

Details of dome, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Map of Cazenovia, Madison Co., N.Y. /

Cadastral survey wall map showing buildings, lot lines, and landowners' names. Relief shown by hachures. Originally issued as a wall map; wooden rods removed from top and bottom edges of sheet. Available also t... More

A magnificent offer to a magnificent officer

A cartoon ridiculing Whig nominee Winfield Scott as the pawn of New York antislavery senator William Seward. A member of the "Whig Committee" kneels before Scott and offers him a crown and a bag of money marked... More

[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing monitor-c...

Case: Berg, no. 1-58. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

A bird's eye view of the city of New York View of Galveston, Texas.

Illustration showing a bird's eye view of New York City looking toward Battery Park (?) and a view of Galveston from the bay, boats and ships in foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 2, no. 20 (1852 M... More

Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife on their wedding day, Dec. 30, 1852

Reproduction of daguerreotype. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Louis Haghe - Vue générale de la grande nef, en regardant l'orient

Print shows nave of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, facing east; with groups of men in traditional dress. Title from plate list. Illus. in: Aya Sofia, Constantinople, as recently restored ... More

Unveiling of the statue of George Washington by Thomas Crawford, in Ri...

Source unknown. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dynometer for fan experiments - Public domain drawing

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

The game-cock & the goose - Political cartoon, public domain image

A pro-Whig cartoon showing rival candidates Winfield Scott and Franklin Pierce in a race for the presidency in 1852 before an audience of animated spectators. Scott, in uniform and looking uncharacteristically... More

Vue de l'entrée du côté du nord

Print shows entrance hall of Ayasofya Mosque, formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia; with groups of men in traditional and military dress.

Extension of the U.S. Capitol, north wing

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

Cross braces between pillars in drum of dome

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Men working in deep pit with stone wall]

This record contains unverified data from caption card.

City of Washington. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows wards, built-up areas, and major buildings. Also covers Georgetown. "Entered according to act of Congress ... 1850, by Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Includes note, inde... More

Domitor / H. Franco̧is. - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congre...

Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes open on an axis exten... More

Map of the city of Saint Paul, capital of Minnesota /

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Domitor / H. Franco̧is. - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows Taillepied de La Garenne's proposed system of aerial navigation consisting of a balloon with a double parachute on a single axis capable of transporting six persons; parachutes in open position exte... More

Samuel Hall, Saturday, January 24, 1852 (Recommendation for William B...

Longitudinal section, south wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.