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Messieurs Delaunay, Flexelles, Berthier, Foulon, et les deux Gardes du...

Print shows Charon accepting the baker Sr. Remy, mistakenly beheaded, into his boat while rejecting several government officials and guardsmen, all who carry their severed heads atop pikes; on the opposite shor... More

Gedenck-Zeichen abbildend auff was Weise die Stadt Utrecht von den Fra...

Birds-eye view print shows crowds of people, wagons and onlookers walking or riding horses down the street. In the procession are town leaders, merchants, clergy, military personnel and lackeys. In the backgrou... More

John Glyn esqr., member of Parliament for Middlesex, British Cartoon P...

Full-length portrait facing left, standing next to column with Liberty figure. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

The courtiers assembled, on hearing the news of the death of the Rt. H...

Print shows a group of ministers seated around a table commenting on the news of William Beckford's death. Depicted are Jeremiah Dyson, John Montagu Sandwich, William Murray Mansfield, Sir Fletcher Norton, Augu... More

Charles Gravier comte de Vergennes - conseiller d'Etat ordinaire, mini...

Print shows Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at ornately carved desk featuring portrait of Louis XVI. Includes armorial shield below portrait. S... More

The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More

The royal hunt, or a prospect of the year 1782 / South Briton fecit ; ...

Print shows Lord Sandwich playing a fiddle, sitting between two courtesans, to the left, Lord North yawns while sitting on a sack, behind them are Rigby, Amherst, and Germain. To the right of this party is stan... More

The late bombardment of government castle / C. Goodnight sculp.

Print shows members of the new ministry besieging a fortress where members of the old ministry, including George III, have taken refuge; the ministries are bombarding each other.

Shodan. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Shunsh Katsukawa

Print shows a confrontation between a court official and a lesser official with his wife standing nearby, following an offense by the court official; this sets the stage, in later acts, for the lesser official'... More

Mr. De Vergennes, ministre des affaires etrangères sous Louis XVI / Bo...

Print shows Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right; in oval.

The return of poor Sam Stern and his supporter to the T--y, British Ca...

Print shows a man sitting upon and facing the rear of a donkey on which is a blanket with crest and the motto "honi soit que mal y pense" and a key hanging from its neck. The man says, "In April 82 I was all as... More

Constitutional Club, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Print of satire on the Westminster by-election of 1788 shows five men carving a fox on a table as William Pitt carries a coin-filled gravy boat inscribed "Mint sauce, Constitutional restorative" and King George... More

Laurent Guyot - La verite triomphante, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows, on the upper right, Jacques Necker wearing a toga and standing on clouds above a wall or sarcophagus, holding aloft with his left hand a bust portrait of Louis XVI, and holding at his right shoulde... More

The sour prospect before us, or The ins throwing up State --., British...

"Ministers, seven isolated figures, vomit copiously at the prospect of being turned out...." (Source: George) Title continues in panel 2: Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or the outs in office. Panel 2 ... More

La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle quil la faudr...

Print shows four bare-bottomed men, the ministers of finances, sitting around a table restoring their good health on the produce of other nations; as they consume the "Eau de la Plata" and "Eau du Sénégal," the... More

End of the Irish Invasion : - or - the Destruction of the French Armad...

French warships, labeled Le Révolutionaire, L'Egalité and The Revolutionary Jolly Boat, being tossed about during a storm blown up by Pitt, Dundas, Grenville and Windham, whose heads appear from the clouds. Cha... More

Member of the riding house at Paris, delivering an harangue from the s...

Print shows a member of the new French aristocracy wearing a Phrygian or Liberty cap with circular emblem (Liberté - Egalité - Fraternité) riding on the back of a French citizen; he implores, "Messrs. of the me... More

--Affairs. The sweet prospect behind us, or The outs in office, Britis...

Print shows rear views of the Prince of Wales, Maria Fitzherbert, Charles James Fox, Lord North, Edmund Burke, a prospective Lord Chancellor, and Richard B. Sheridan, with buttocks exposed, defecating. On the w... More

A Kick at the Broad Bottoms! i.e. - "Emancipation of All the Talents" ...

King George III, his face hidden by a pillar, grabs the pigtail of Lord Grenville, and holds his scepter as if ready to strike Grenville. Members of the government, including Howick, holding a torn copy of the ... More

[Tōjinbutsu], portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a Chinese official, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing slightly right, holding papers in his right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

Sick of the property tax or ministerial influnza (sic), British Cartoo...

Cartoon shows ministers, among them Vansittart and Castlereagh, vomiting taxes into a large bag labeled "budget." The Prince Regent stands nearby, supported on crutches labeled "more money" and "increase in inc... More

Conspirators; or, delegates in council, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows three government ministers, Viscount Sidmouth, Thomas Reynolds and Viscount Castlereagh, sitting at a table with three agents or spies. On the table rests a large bag from which docketed papers pr... More

La paix sera desormais une verite (comme le charte) / J.J. Grandville ...

Print shows a procession with "Porteurs du dais" (the man on the left looks like Jean-Charles Persil), "Le Président" (Casimer Périer), "Porteurs du dais," "Porte Cierge" (Le Maréchal Soult), "Reliques..." (Cha... More

Te deum à l'autel de la paix (suite) / Lith. de Delaporte.

Print shows a procession with "Aspergeur" (Le maréchal Mouton), "Diacre" (Jean-Francois Jacqueminot), "Un president a cheval sur le reglement" (Louis-Gaspard-Amédée Girod de l'Ain) sitting in a chair being carr... More

Lamartine membre du gouvernement provisoire - ministre des affaires et...

Print shows Alphonse de Lamartine, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing left, with right elbow resting on a table and right hand at his chin. Signed on stone on lower left: M. Alophe. Incl... More

Orenburgskii general gubernator i komanduiushchii voiskami orenbur. ko...

Photograph shows half-length portrait of General Adjutant Count Vasiliĭ Alekseevich Perovskiĭ in uniform with cape, holding sword. Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' istoricheskaia, 1871-1872, part 4, pl. 1.

A.B. Young (of Boston) Supervising Architect, Treasury Department.

Photograph shows portrait of Ammi B. Young. Attributed to Walker based on date, subject matter, and size of print. Purchase; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:057).

Portrait photo of Officers - Oregon Boundary Commission

Photograph shows group portrait of the officers of the Oregon Boundary Commission survey crew: Dr. Hilary Bauerman, geologist, Capt. Robert Wolseley Haig, R.A., Lt. Samuel Anderson, R.E, Capt. Charles John Darr... More

William Seward - Public domain portrait engraving

Photographic reproduction of engraving shows portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln.

[Studio portraits of Japanese women, the wife of an officer, and a hig...

Captions on front of item: "A half face pose showing style of powdering the neck" (upper left); ""As pensive I thought," &c." (upper right); "Wife of native officer" (lower left); and "Japanese high official i... More

[Studio portraits of a Japanese officer (yaconin) and his family; a wi...

Captions on front of item: "Japanese officer (Yaconin), wife and daughter" (upper left); "Japanese widow of the upper class in mourning (shaven head) and her son" (upper right); "Street dancers" (lower left); ... More

[Japanese curio shop, a street cart and portraits of a Japanese family...

Captions on front of item: "Interior of Japanese curio shop" (upper left); "Street cart" (upper right)"; "A Japanese Daimio's family group in state dress" (lower left); and "Japanese high officers" (lower righ... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese woman with tea implements and chest, a ...

Captions on front of item: "Native mode of dressing" (upper left); "Japanese prince and staff" (upper right)"; "A group of Japanese officers in court dress" (lower left); and "Japanese Daimio and wife" (lower ... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese women and men]

Captions on front of item: "Japanese girl in indoor costume" (upper left); "Japanese officer of finance" (upper right)"; "Japanese Lady's maid" (lower left); and "Japanese country girl" (lower right). Captions... More

[Studio portraits of a Japanese "betto" (groom), a high official in co...

Captions on front of item: "A vociferous "betto" or groom" (upper left); "Japanese high official in court attire" (upper right); [no caption] (lower left); and "Japanese pilgrim" (lower right). Captions on bac... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese women and men]

Captions on front of item: "A Japanese girl and attendant with "shibatchi" tinder box" (upper left); "Japanese high officer" (upper right)"; "Fencing girl - another pose" (lower left); and "A group of Japanes... More

Sud kaziia Pis'movoditeli kaziia

Photograph shows a group of judge's clerks, including three women whose faces are covered with burkas. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 66.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Tadzhiki. Ishan khodzha, samark...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Ishan Khoja, kazi of Samarkand. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 15. "Sud'ia" translated from Russia... More

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Tadzhiki. Kary-Osman, Zakiatchi

Photograph shows a portrait of a Tajik tax collector, seated on the floor, with pen and paper. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 15.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbeki. Abdul-Gafar bek byvshii...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Abdul-Gafar bek. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 8.

Kokanskii Khan i ego synov'ia Seid Mukhamed Khudaiar-Khan, kokanskii k...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Muhamed Khudayar Khan. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 11.

Kokanskii Khan i ego synov'ia Maadamin Bek vtoroi syn kokanskago khana

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Maadamin Beg, second son of the Kokand Khan. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 11.

Sud kaziia Iuriskonsul'ty kaziia

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 66.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Uzbeki. Dzhura-bii byvshii shak...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of Dzhura Bii. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 9.

[Gustavus Vasa Fox, Ass't Sec. of Navy, half-length portrait, facing f...

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

Danl Webster, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Daniel Webster, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval, surrounded by patriotic motif including scenes from his life.

Kijin zu, Utagawa Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a court official, full-length, facing slightly left, wearing court dress. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: part o... More

[Three men, possibly court officials, and two girls with a two-wheeled...

Modern reproduction of painting on Japanese handscroll. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Charles Biddle. Vice Pres't of the Supreme Exece. Counl. of Pennsylvan...

Drawing shows Charles Biddle, miniature bust portrait, facing slightly right, in oval medallion. Signed with monogram at bottom center. (DLC/PP-2000:095) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Libra... More

[Portraits of a Chinese man selling vegetables, a woman and child begg...

Captions on front of item: "Crying vegetables" (upper left); "Beggars" (upper right); "Native Macao" (lower left); and "Mandarins" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Crying vegetables" (upper left); [no... More

Portrait photo of Mandarins - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a Chinese mandarin (government official), full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title from front of item. Caption from back of item: Civil officer. foreigners have been in the habit of c... More

[Studio portraits of a Chinese bureaucrat (mandarin), a civil officer,...

Captions on front of item: "Mandarins" (upper left); "Civil officer" (upper right); "Buddhist priest" (lower left); and "Chinese woman." (lower right). Captions on back of item: [no caption] (upper left); "Civ... More

[Samurai or retainer kneeling before government official or daimyo]

Photograph shows a man, full-length, standing, facing right, and a man wearing a sword kneeling before him, facing left, holding another sword as though offering it to the man standing in front of him. Exterior... More

[A man, possibly a government official, holding a fan, seated, facing ...

No. 802. Illegible blind stamp across upper right corner. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 15] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purcha... More

Portrait photo of [Court official wearing a kanmuri]

Photograph shows a half-length studio portrait of a man wearing a kanmuri (or kammuri), a crown-like hat worn by nobles and/or court officials. No. 675. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & And... More

[Collecting cards depicting a story about a Chinese governor of "Bac-N...

Sheet of 11 uncut cards, individually numbered from 1 to 10. Sheet includes duplicate cards for no. 7. French captions on each card. Tissandier collection.

Set a -- to catch a -- / F. Graetz.

Print shows a policeman labeled "Gov. Foster" grabbing the arm of a diminutive man labeled "Hoadly" who is holding a piece of fruit labeled "Dem. Nomination 83" that he has stolen from a street vendor who is an... More

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

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

The national hall of statuary - 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.

An old saying twisted / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Peter B. Olney, N.Y. District Attorney, passing a paper that states "Charges Against the Central Office Detectives - Peter B. Olney, Dist. Att'y" over the head of Fredericka Mandelbaum to Tho... More

The slush will have to stay / F. Graetz.

Illustration shows a sleepy Uncle Sam wearing a robe and standing in the snow marked with "$" at the foot of snow-covered steps, with the "U.S. Treasury" in the background; he is handing a shovel labeled "Repea... More

A great past and a pitiful present / Gillam.

Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid, John Sherman, George F. Hoar, and John Logan lifting Uncle Sam above a swamp filled with several faces of corruption labeled "Blainism, Robesonism, Mahone Repudiation, Land Gra... More

Caricature, Another "boycott" / F. Opper., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows David B. Hill holding a large brush and George H. Sterling holding a bucket of paste, as bill stickers posting a notice that states "Notice. We Hereby Boycott Cleveland, the Civil Service Hum... More

The custom-house code of morals under our beautiful tariff system / F....

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with William Dorsheimer seated at center in the "Office of the U.S. District Attorney and Editorial Rooms of the New York Star" where he receives a letter from "Daniel Mann... More

U.S. commissioners and delegations of Sioux chiefs visiting Washington...

Group portrait of commissioners and Sioux Indians on steps of U.S. Capitol building. Copyright by C.M. Bell. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska n... More

A chairman - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "London Mock Parliament" by John Lillie, Harper's magazine, 79:620 (Sept. 1889).

Energy - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "London Mock Parliament" by John Lillie, Harper's magazine, 79:628 (Sept. 1889).

Capt. George Dewey, Bureau of Equipment

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021443. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks

Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. John C. Boyde, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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

A Bureau official at his desk - Public domain portrait photograph

Date based on negatives with similar numbers listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Possibly United States Navy. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021485. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Pay Director Edwin Stewart, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts

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

A Bureau official at his desk - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Pay Director Edwin Stewart, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts

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

Portrait photo of Paymaster Rodgers and Mr. Lasiers

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

Asst. Sec'y of the Navy Soley - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Locale based on negative D4-21446. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021447. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Dr. John C. Boyde, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021439. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Locale based on negative D4-21446. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021448. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

John M. Swadall, Chief Clerk of War Department

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021474. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Portrait photo of Chief constructor Hichborn, Washington, D.C.

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

Pay Director Edwin Stewart, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021472. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Chief Engineer George W. Melville, Bureau of Engineering

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

John M. Swadall, Chief Clerk of War Department

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chief Engineer George W. Melville, Bureau of Engineering

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "X 159" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021462. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Commander Chas. H. Davis, Bureau of Intelligence

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Asst. Sec'y of the Navy Soley - Public domain portrait photograph

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021469. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Portrait photo of Chief constructor Hichborn, Washington, D.C.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021456. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Capt. George Dewey, Bureau of Equipment

Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Official, India - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man standing, full-length, holding umbrella, left hand on back of chair. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Capt. George Dewey, Bureau of Equipment

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of Chief constructor Hichborn, Washington, D.C.

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

Capt. N.H. Farquhar, Bureau of Yards and Docks

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office, table, bureau, desk, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Commander Chas. H. Davis, Bureau of Intelligence

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021442. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Capt. George Dewey, Bureau of Equipment

Negative broken lower left corner. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021444. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Chief Engineer George W. Melville, Bureau of Engineering

Picryl description: Public domain image of an office, table, bureau, desk, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Capt. W.M. Folger, Bureau of Ordinance [i.e. Ordnance]

Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description