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The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles: ...

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

The overturned coach, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th cent... More

The merry accident, or a print in the morning a chair, a chair, for th...

Print shows the well-known courtesan Catherine Maria "Kitty" Fisher sprawled on the ground after falling off her horse; several men quickly gather at the scene of her misfortune as another on horseback leaps a ... More

A political lesson / J. Dixon invenit et fecit., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a rearing black stallion (possibly representing America) which has thrown its rider (possibly representing England). The rider has struck his head on a mile marker "To Boston VI miles" behind which ... More

A political lesson - A black and white drawing of a man on a horse

A rider representing England falls off his horse on the road from Salem to Boston. At this time the port of Boston was closed and Salem was the nearest port open. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The sound of the horn - or the danger of riding an old hunter

Stage struck : Or digging in all the world's a stage

Public domain image, 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor... More

The runaway, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing

Picryl description: Public domain image of horses, horse riding, equestrian sport, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Br... More

Pot fair Cambridge, the college gate, Thomas Rowlandson

"Pot fair Cambridge": pots are laid out on tables for sale. A fat divine stumbles backward as dogs fight in the foreground. A seller at right is alarmed as he threatens to fall onto her table. "The college gate... More

Throwing off- taking a five barred gate flying

The disaster, Thomas Rowlandson

Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...

Print shows several ministers helping themselves to fishes and loaves that have spilled from a fishwife's basket which was upset by a rampaging "American Buffalo"; among those depicted are the Duke of Portland,... More

Monsieur in England, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for hi... More

The spill, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain decorative drawing

Home incidents, accidents, &c. The colored voter ; Pursuit of a breakf...

Illustrations that accompany twelve stories of mishaps and curiosities including an African American Union soldier wrongly denied the right to vote, a Romani woman earning money telling fortunes, an explosion a... More

Grand review of the Windsor camp

Print shows a woman from "the Windsor camp" turned out of a cart as a dog startles the horse, several men on horseback and one leading a horse, among them possibly George III and the Duke of York, race up behin... More

Summer. No. 3. A road accident [...]

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bennett, W.J. Check 050 and 245 field.

Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! / Js. Gillray,inv: & ft., Britis...

A fat lady, sitting with a man and woman at a tea table, reacts in horror as a hot poker from the fire falls on her dress and sets it on fire. The man sits helplessly while the second woman upsets the table in ... More

Advantages of wearing muslin dresses!, James Gillray

After the title, "dedicated to the serious attention of the Fashionable Ladies of Great Britain." An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-h... More

Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell

A violent disturbance in a luxuriously furnished breakfast parlour. The only lady present has risen from her chair to pull a bell-pull. The frantic efforts of five elderly men to stop her have produced a sequen... More

Company shocked at a lady getting up to ring the bell

Clearing a five-bar-gate, James Gillray

A horse shies at a high and solid gate throwing its fat rider, who flies sideways through the air with arms extended. He wears red coat and top-boots. Behind shrubs on the farther side of the gate lies a bull, ... More

Symptons of choaking, Thomas Rowlandson

A corpulent individual has suddenly left the dinner table, under an impulse to choke ; the rest of the company are thrown into such alarm at his critical situation, that the table-cloth, soup-tureens, wine, dec... More

More miseries. Being pinned up to a door, round the neck, by the horns...

More miseries - pinned up to a door by an overworked ox Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More

Scotch cleanliness ni vide cottagers of Glenburnie

Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known fo... More

A Catalanian pic nic society at private rehearsal

Miseries of travelling. Being mounted on a beast who as soon as you ha...

A cart race, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing

Dissapointed epicures, Thomas Rowlandson

Another version of A Mad Dog in a Dining room. In this case the dog has run between the legs of a man bringing in a dish of cutlets, which bestrew the carpet ; his downfall has in turn overset another retainer,... More

A canoe striking on a tree - Public domain book illustration

Illus. in: A journal of the voyages and travels of a corps of discovery : under the command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States [...] during the years 1804, 1805 and 1806 [...] by P... More

Sports of a country fair. Part the second

A nearer view of the same fair : the thick of the crowd ; stick-throwing for snuffboxes, oyster-opening, pocket-picking, and a round-about swing ; one of the boats is giving way, and a fair swinger and her swai... More

Rural sports. Balloon hunting, Thomas Rowlandson

The balloon is drifting before the wind beyond the control of the aeronaut; a fair voyager is making a terrific descent with a parachute in the midst of a flock of birds ; from the top of a tall tower a gentlem... More

A doleful disaster : Or Miss Fubby Fatarmin's wig caught fire

A stout lady is in all the consternation of a blazing head of hair ; the enormous superstructure piled on her head has caught fire at the top from the sconces on the mantel ; her armchair is kicked over, and th... More

Dos à dos - accidents in quadrille dancing.

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dos a dos or rumpti iddito ido natural accidents in practising quadril...

"An imitation of No. 12924, drawn with greater freedom, the two dancers collide more violently, and register surprised indignation. Five figures have been added behind the eight dancers ..." (Source: George) Th... More

Le Moulinet, or practising quadrille dancing at home for fear of accid...

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Verlegenheiten. No. 10, Es ist wahrhaftig nicht gerne geschehen Ce n'e...

Print shows a man on ice skates, who had been pushing a woman in a sled on the ice; the sled has overturned, spilling the woman onto the ice and a pile of snow. The man is apologizing to her. Parallel text in ... More

Verlegenheiten. No. 9, Ach! meine Damen das geht horrl Taites attentio...

Print shows a man ice skating, not paying attention to where he is going while greeting three women standing on the roadside; directly ahead of him, on the ice, is a small pile of snow and a broom, which, very ... More

[The chase.] - Public domain book scan / drawing

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[A discharge of filth] - Public domain drawing

"Road to ruin" at left. Title from handwritten notation on mat. Drawing for etching, plate 3, published in "Scraps" #2, 1830. Purchase; Childs Gallery; (DLC/PP-1984:367). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illu... More

Les quatre éléments. Louis était un enfant léger qui n'apportait aucum...

French comic strip shows a young boy, "Louis," who decides to apply himself at school after unfortunate experiences with the four elements. Louis learns about fire by getting burned while working for a baker; a... More

Des Morgens legten die Schneidergesellen den Laden auf die Pfosten, se...

Illustration for a story showing scaffolding crashing to the ground after a pig has bumped one of the support posts, causing three tailors who had been working on the scaffolding to come crashing to the ground ... More

Male figure laid over a barrel with crowd looking on

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Man fallen or pushed into wheel barrow]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Thomas Carlyle, author] - Public domain print

Japanese print shows Carlyle horrified to see his manuscript burn after his dog upsets a lamp. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 181; 47623a (white label); LC2585; 43. Earlier control number: 236.3-... More

Providence Hospital, under the charge of the Sisters of Charity, is no...

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 210, Folder 15.

Refreshments by the way - Public domain book illustration

Title on verso. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Patent drawing - Aèrostat système Vaussin Chardanne (brevetè). Moyens ...

Patent design drawing for a safe system to regulate the altitude of a balloon while preserving gas and ballast. Includes 9 detail views, cross section, elevation, and identification key. Tissandier collection.

Porcallo in the mire - Public domain book illustration

Vasco Porcallo pinned under horse in mud, as two Indians watch. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, 18... More

De Soto crossing the Sewassee fork / J.W. Orr, N.Y.

De Soto on horse falling from bridge, possibly in South Carolina. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. Philadelphia : J.T. Lloyd, ... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Asakusa oumayagashi - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two workmen, one standing on a scaffold applying plaster to a wall, the other has fallen into the tray of plaster as he attempted to pass some plaster on the end of a long pole to the other workman.... More

The sleighing season--The upset

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shijūhachi shin-yoshiwara emonzaka - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a full moon over the two porters carrying a sedan chair with passenger, the porter in the rear has slipped causing the passenger to tumble out of the chair onto the ground; another man, wearing get... More

Black Valley railroad! Great central, broad gauge, fast route, from Si...

Temperance. 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 70, Folder 29.

Home incidents, accidents & co. [5 illus.] 1. The fatal card [one man ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 24, no. 624 (1867 Sept. 14), p. 413. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392-R. Caption card tracings: ... More

This little boy would persist in handling books above his capacity And...

Two panel cartoon showing Andrew Johnson standing on the top step of a step-ladder and lifting a large, heavy book from a high bookshelf; he falls off the ladder and is crushed by the book, the "Constitution of... More

[Painters and fishermen in outdoor scenes]

Clockwise from left: two men under tree resting with easel in background, fisherman watching fish in air, two people by or in stream, man standing by gear, man fishing, man falling in water, two men resting aga... More

[Father with hammer; mother and daughter on front porch; boy running a...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The wreck of the "Atlantic"--Cast up by the sea

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map from "The Hermon Prize Essays. Essays on the prevention of explosi...

This image has been taken from scan 000076 from "The Hermon Prize Essays. Essays on the prevention of explosions and accidents in Coal Mines ... Essay I. By W. Creswick ... Essay II. By W. Galloway ... Essay II... More

Mr. Cleveland's "wild team" - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

"Dar now I knowed yer was breeding mischief" Thomas Worth

Print shows an African American man falling off a ladder while painting a house when a pig bumps into the ladder he is standing on. L5324 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement an... More

Mixed at the finish Thos. Worth

Print shows a collision between two horse-drawn carriages while attempting to enter the same space in a garage; the horses rear and the passengers of the carriages are sent flying. L2735 U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Sinbad and the Old Man of the Sea

Picryl description: Public domain image of coin, money, numismatic catalog page, free to use, no copyright restrictions

An effective charge - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a family falling out of a wagon along with a basket of eggs and a crate of chickens; the horse was frightened by a man shooting a rifle at the "Rifle Yard" and has run off, hitting a rock, causing e... More

[Men holding sheet; cat with balloon tied to tail; man with sheet fall...

Title devised by cataloger. Sketches for contents page, Rudder Grange / Frank Stockton. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. (DLC/PP-1933:0054). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More

The discomfiture of Abraham - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 6:133 (Sept. 3, 1885).

[Fast flow] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from typed caption on mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Drift from Redwood Camp" by Bret Harte, Scribner's magazine, 2:653 (Dec. 1887).

Poster - Advertisement Poster: Bock - Public domain lithograph

Stock poster for bock beer, showing a waitress with a tray of beermugs exclaiming, as a billy goat, the symbol of bock beer, upsets an African American waiter and his tray of drinks. U2932 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Knight falling off bicycle and letter C]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1936:0089). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Samuel Clemens. New York : Cha... More

Aussi galant que maladroit - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on original folder: Family. P... More

Jas. Heekin & Co. - Victorian era public domain image

: tradecards,3908 ( tradecards,3908 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Baking powder; Animals; Pets; Cats; Accidents;

E. S. Brown, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods

: tradecards,4658 ( tradecards,4658 ) .. Subject (TGM): Clowns; Children & animals; Children misbehaving; Cats; Preserves; Upholstery; Accidents; Dry goods stores;

Ef you's a rat, I'll know you - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Rachel's Lovers" by Thomas Nelson Page, Harper's magazine, 88:159 (Dec. 1893).

Architecture from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with ...

This image has been taken from scan 000370 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

portrait from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with inci...

This image has been taken from scan 000186 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

Portrait from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with inci...

This image has been taken from scan 000414 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

Portrait from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with inci...

This image has been taken from scan 000190 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

Portrait from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with inci...

This image has been taken from scan 000165 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

portrait from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with inci...

This image has been taken from scan 000512 from "The Old Pike. A history of the national road, with incidents, accidents, and anecdotes thereon. Illustrated". The title and subject terms of this image have been... More

Some casual cartoonlets - Public domain dedication image

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Some casual cartoonlets - Public domain dedication image

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Mathews & Bulger in the polite comic play, At gay Coney Island by Levi...

Caption: Excuse us, please! Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti & N.Y." Direction, A.M. Miller, Jr., Fred Peel. No. 7301. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Electric car accident at aqueduct, E. Billerica, Billerica Massachuset...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chas. H. Yale's fantastic spectacle, The evil eye, or The many, merry ...

48059 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., largest in the world, Cincinnati, U.S.A." No. 3350. Under the management of the author, Sidney R. Elli... More

[Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck (named after...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 48. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

[Man walking between child and dog in street]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0119). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "George Ade's Fables The Fable of the marathon in the mud."

The missing vessel - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Air Safety Conference. Washington, D.C. More than 200 representatives ...

A group of men sitting around a table looking at a map. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Old woman and cat looking at broken bowl]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The missing vessel - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of painting signed "F.K.M.R." at Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M464. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Hoyt's A bunch of keys polished up to date.

D14552 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4724. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Air Safety Conference. Washington, D.C. More than 200 representatives ...

A group of men sitting around a table with a map. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

When she got close to de pot de steam hit her in de face

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Hard-headed Woman" by Joel Chandler Harris, Metropolitan magazine, 22:603 (Aug. 1905).

Heavily thrown, Texas - A group of men riding horses in a field

Photograph shows a cowboy on the ground after being thrown from his mount and other cowboys on horseback coming to his aid, on the Turkey Track Ranch in Texas. H108519 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright, 1908, by... More

Threshing machine went through bridge at Miller, Buffalo County, Nebra...

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Threshing machine went through bridge at Miller, Buffalo County, Nebra...

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