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Congressional staff delegates enjoy a real Army lunch

Congressional staff delegates enjoy a real Army lunch out on the range July 19, during a three-day tour of Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash. The 24 delegates visited JBLM in order to better advise Congress member... More

A Congress of Animals - Public domain animals drawing

Public domain image, 16th-17th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jeffers...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Mural depicting baseball by Frederic C. Martin. Library of Congress T...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Manuscript Book mural in Evolution of the Book series, John W. Alexan...

Photo of one part of a six-part mural on the history of the book; after conservation of the mural. Depicts a monk illustrating a manuscript, with two monks in background. Mural marked at bottom left: Copyright ... More

[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...

According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More

[North Reading Room, east wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustr...

Photograph shows left half of the mural on the east wall. According to the inscription the figures are (left to right): "The Merchant, with his Flemish beaver hat and forked beard; the Friar; the Monk; the Fran... More

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

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[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of C...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modifie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

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[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

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Albrecht Durer - The Congress of Princes at Vienna

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) Public domain scan German Renaissance print, art, 15th-16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Congress of Princes at Vienna, from the Triumphal Arch of Emperor ...

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg) Public domain photograph of 16th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustra...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+columns. View of mural between...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Design for an Opera Set, a Congress of Cupids

Carlo Zucchi the Younger (Italian, Venice 1728–1796 Russia (?)) Public domain photograph of 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Congress of Animals - Public domain animals drawing

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Unknown to Congress, no date, Memo on Peace

Memo on Peace Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Congress, no date, Summary of Expenses

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

Congress, , Draft Bill Regarding the Awarding of Prizes

Draft Bill Regarding the Awarding of Prizes

Library of Congress. "Lyric Poetry", by H.O. Walker

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

[Great Hall. Bust of George Washington. Library of Congress Thomas Jef...

Exhibit caption: "The bronze bust of George Washington is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)." (Source: MyLOC.gov Great Hall exhibit, 2008) Forms part of the Library of Con... More

Continental Congress Association and Peyton Randolph, et al, October 2...

Committee Chamber, December 6, 1774. [Resolves in regard to the 10th a...

Imprint 2. 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 143, Folder 39.

To the respectable public. We conceive the sense of our fellow citizen...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; July 20, 1774. 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 106, Folder 21.

United States Congress, 1774-82, List of Dated Topics: "Resolution of ...

List of Dated Topics: "Resolution of Order," Maryland Affairs; Post Office, Admiralty, etc.

Continental Congress. Proceedings of the Grand American Continental Co...

Printed in three columns.; Not in Evans.; On verso: Gift of Matt. B. Jones, Boston. Received May 15, 1934.; On verso: Ac. 4840. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsim... More

In Provincial congress, Cambridge, December 6, 1774. Resolved, that th...

Positive Photostat. 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 37, Folder 43a.

To the publick. New-York, October 5, 1774. By Mr. Rivere, who left Bos...

Evans 13674.; On verso: S; Oct 5, 1774; 00198.36C. 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; Portfoli... More

In Provincial congress, Cambridge, October 26, 1774. Whereas in conseq...

Positive Photostat. 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 37, Folder 40.

The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American ...

Positive Photostat.; Photographic reproduction.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full te... More

The following are the names of the persons proposed to be elected as a...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Nov 17, 1774. 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 107, Folder 10.

A letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec. Extract from th...

Title page, no illustration. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Canada Hist.; US Hist.; Congress, US; Shelf.

New York, April 28, 1775. To the public. At a meeting of a great numbe...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans.; On verso: S. 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 108, Folder 11.

In the Committee of Safety for the Colony of New-York, during the rece...

Evans 14315; Imprint 3.; On verso, Copy 1: S; July 13, 1775. 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 ... More

In the House of representatives, November 2, 1775. Whereas by two reso...

Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 504. 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 Collectio... More

In Provincial congress, Concord, April 12, 1775. Whereas the preservat...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copie... More

In Congress, July 4, 1776 : a declaration by the representatives of th...

This, the second printed edition of the Declaration of Independence, appeared in the July 6, 1776 issue of the Pennsylvania evening post. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Watertown, November 18, 1775. You have hereunder, copies of two resolv...

In Provincial congress, Watertown, June 17th, 1775. Whereas the hostil...

Photographic copy. 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 38, Folder 1... More

Whereas we the subscribers have broke the association of the late Cont...

Imprint 2. 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 108, Folder 28.

The congress / P.E.D. inv. & delin. ; R. Aitkin sculp.

Print shows title page illustration of a female figure, representing America, sitting amidst implements of war. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania magazine: or, American monthly museum. Philadelphia : Printed and sol... More

In Provincial congress, Watertown, May 5, 1775. Whereas the term for w...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copie... More

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 8, 1775. Whereas it is necessa...

Whereas a report has been industriously propagated in this City, that ...

Evans 14333.; On verso: C; Aug 4, 1775. 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 108, Folder 31a.

Watertown, July 8th, 1775 Gentlemen. In obedience to the order of Cong...

Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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 Collectio... More

In Provincial congress, Watertown, June 17th, 1775. Whereas some of th...

To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants, of the City and County o...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S. 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 107, Folder 19.

In Provincial congress, Watertown, April 23, 1775. Resolved that the s...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Evans 14228. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 du... More

"Instructions for the inlisting of men" ...In Provincial Congress at N...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4412A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Broadsides; NY History; US Hist.; Rare Bk. Div.; Shelf.

In Congress, Friday, June 9, 1775. Resolved that no obedience being du...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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... More

In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 27th, 1775. Resolved that ther...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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... More

In Provincial congress Watertown, June 15, 1775. Whereas some of the i...

Photographic copy.; Not in Evans. 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; Portfol... More

In Provincial congress, Watertown, June 30, 1775. Resolved that all of...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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... More

New-York, Committee- Chamber, 5th June, 1775. Resolved, that Mr. Isaac...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; June 5, 1775. 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 108, Folder 26.

In Congress, May 17, 1775. Resolved that all exportations to Quebec, N...

Photographic copy.; Not in Ford or Evans.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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 Prin... More

In Provincial congress, Watertown, May 5, 1775. Whereas the term for w...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copie... More

The congress or the necessary politicians, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two men sitting in a privy, one uses pieces of the "Resolution[s] of the [C]ongress" to clean himself, while the other intently reads "P[amphlet En]titled Taxation [No] Tir[anny]", suggesting that w... More

Committee chamber, New-York, November 3, 1775. Whereas the Provincial ...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S. 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 108, Folder 39.

In Provincial congress. New York, June 7, 1775. Resolved, that whensoe...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; June 7, 1775. 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 108, Folder 27.

In Provincial congress, New-York, June 2, 1775. Friends and countrymen...

Imprint 3.; On verso: S; June 2, 1775. 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 108, Folder 23.

Committee chamber, New-York. The Provincial Congress of the Colony of ...

2101 E 21 29 May 46; Rec.6-21-46 $25.00.; On verso: 2101E21 29 My 46. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera C... More

To the respectable inhabitants of the City and County of New-York. Fri...

Evans 14320.; Imprint 3.; On verso: S; Mch 29, 1775. 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; Portfo... More

Committee-Chamber, New-York, April 26, 1775 [Presents forty-three name...

Imprint 3.; On verso, Copy 1 and Copy 2: S; Apr 26, 1775. 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 Eph... More

The Provincial Congress at their meeting having unanimously chosen the...

Evans 14416.; On verso: Apr 22, 1775. 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 108, Folder 4a.

In Provincial congress, Concord, April 15, 1775 … Resolved that it be ...

Imprint 3.; Thanksgiving proclamation. 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 38, Folder 7.

In Congress, at Watertown, April 30, 1775. Gentlemen, The barbarous mu...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 ... More

In Provincial congress, Watertown, June 29, 1775. Resolved that thirte...

In Provincial Congress. New-York, August 29th 1775. Whereas the Comman...

In Provincial congress, Watertown, June 30, 1775. To the several town ...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: 452. 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... More

In Provincial congress. New Hampshire, August 25th 1775. Whereas it is...

Imperfect. part wanting.; Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. 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; Portfoli... More

In Congress, November 23, 1776. Resolved that a committee of five to b...

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In the House of representatives, June 26, 1776. Whereas repeated appli...

Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. 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 Collectio... More

Continental Congress, July 1776, Suggestions on Tenure of Delegates

Suggestions on Tenure of Delegates Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Continental Congress, August 27, 1776, Draft of Resolution to Recruit ...

Draft of Resolution to Recruit British Officers and Soldiers into Continental Army

Virginia Delegates in Continental Congress to Virginia Convention, Apr...

Appointment of Surgeons; Canadian Campaign; Notation on Coin Production

In Congress, November 23, 1776. Resolved that a committee of five to b...

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United States Lottery. No. [blank] class the first : This ticket entil...

Imprint supplied by Evans; date is Nov. 18, 1776. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 6, p. 1126. Evans 15194 Journals of the Continental Congress, 132 LC copy is no. 5m974 and signed: Da. Jackson. Pri... More

The following are recommended as proper persons to represent the City ...

Imprint. 2.; To the inhabitants of the City and County of New York.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Apr 13, 1776. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page imag... More

In the House of Representatives. January 17, 1776. Resolved, that the ...

Stamped on verso: 504. 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 39, Fold... More

In Provincial Congress, New-York, March 4th, 1776. Sir. This accompani...

Imprint 3.; On verso, Copy 1: S; Mar 4, 1776. 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 Collec... More

In Congress, July 4, 1776 : a declaration by the representatives of th...

Declaration by the representatives of the United States of America Courtesy of Boston Public Library

In Congress, January 30, 1776. Resolved, that it be recommended to the...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: 504. 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 Eph... More

Continental Congress, August 27, 1776, Draft of Resolution to Recruit ...

Draft of Resolution to Recruit British Officers and Soldiers into Continental Army; Incomplete

Committee-chamber, New-York, April 9, 1776. Whereas the late Provincia...

One sixth of a dollar according to a resolution of Congress passed at ...

Illus. in: Rare Book Division - Colonial Currency Collection. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4412. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The following are recommended as proper persons to represent the City ...

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In Congress, July 4, 1776 : a declaration by the representatives of th...

Public domain scan of manuscript related to Massachusetts, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

In the House of representatives. February 10 1776. Whereas the votes a...

Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 504. 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 Collectio... More

In convention of the representatives of the state of New York. To [bla...

Imprint 2.; Not in Evans. 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 109, Folder 20.

Edmund Pendleton to Virginia Delegates in the Continental Congress, Ju...

Private Addenda to Letter of Same Date; Pennsylvania-Virginia Boundary Dispute; Indian Lands

In Provincial Congress, New-York, May 31, 1776. Whereas the present go...

Evans 14934.; 3035 Cl.; 5 Jy 44.; Rec. 9-2-44.; On verso: Evans 14934; 3035CI 5 Jy 44. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. P... More

Wednesday - Philadelphia, in Congress, July 19, 1776. Resolved...

Committee-Chamber. New York, April 13, 1776 The following persons of t...

Imprint 3.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Apr 13, 1776. 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;... More

George Washington to Nicholas Cooke, 3 April 1776

A letter from George Washington to Nicholas Cooke, Governor of Rhode Island telling him the courier carries letter to Congress: "the post which conveys this to you Carrys letters of importance to Congress, I th... More

New York, April 16, 1776. The Mechanics in union and their associates,...

Imprint 2.; Political campaign.; On verso: S; Apr 16, 1776. 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;... More

In the sixteenth year of the reign of George the third, King, &c. 1776...

Positive Photostat.; This item is a Photostat of Portfolio 39, Folder 24aa.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full tex... More

In Congress, July 4, 1776 : a declaration by the representatives of th...

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