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Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor

Drawing shows a distant view of Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Lib... 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 view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill

Print shows tents and wooden fence in foreground and Boston Harbor in the background. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... ... More

Boston from Willis Creek / William Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record ... More

A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced work...

Print shows open countryside looking toward Dorchester, Massachusetts, with soldiers in redoubt on the left. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph... More

Long Island open on the north side of Nicks Mate Island

Print shows islands (Long Island Head, Gallop Island, and Nix's Mate) in Boston Harbor and a distant view, on the right, of Boston. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of G... More

A plan of the sea coast from Boston Bay to the light house near Rhode ...

Scale 1:253,440; 4 statute miles to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Has watermarks. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of N... More

A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns hou...

Print shows two cheval-de-frise and two buildings in the middle distance. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 177... More

A perspective view of the salt works in Salisbury, New England

Print shows view of a salt works on the Merrimack River, near Newburyport, Massachusetts, with large meadow in the foreground. Engrav'd for the Penna. Magazine. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania Magazine: or America... More

A north view of the Castle William in the harbour of Boston

Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. V, 1789 (May), frontispiece. Engraving attr... More

Mount Auburn Cemetery--Monument to Judge Story [and map of the cemeter...

Copyright by R. Martin. Illus. in: Mount Auburn Cemetery illustrated, frontispiece.

[Title page from "Memoir of Ann Elizabeth Pierce" and frontispiece eng...

Illus. in: Memoir of Ann Elizabeth Pierce, who died in H n, Mass., aged nine years and seven months / Amos Augustus Phelps. Boston : Massachusetts Sabbath school society, 1833, frontispiece and cover. Published... More

A minister extraordinary taking passage & bound on a foreign mission t...

The second of two prints surrounding the scandalous trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery for the brutal murder of factory girl Sarah Maria Cornell. (See "A Very Bad Man," no. 1833-13). Contrary to Weite... More

A very bad man - Drawing. Public domain image.

The first of two prints formerly thought to be anti-Jackson satires, but actually dealing with the sensational trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery in May 1833 for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. (Se... More

The Massachusetts hoar, outwitted, or hopping-John, and Johnny-cake, f...

An imaginative but puzzling commentary on sectional tensions over slavery between New England abolitionists and southern agrarian slaveholders. In his sweeping satire the artist also portrays a considerable hos... More

The Indian's prayer - by I.Woodbury - American sheet music, 1870-1885

pgs missing at end 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: Cop... More

Twelve preludes and voluntaries for organ, or piano with aeolian attac...

cover page only 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: Copyri... More

Sled waltz - 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

Tom Thumb's grand march - Public domain sheet music. Piano, march.

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

Grand sliding thirds waltz - 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

Amelia Isabella waltz - 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

Camp march - Public domain sheet music. Piano, march.

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

The statesman's dirge - Public domain American sheet music

cover pageonly 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: Copyrig... More

[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, s...

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

Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846

Illus. in: Walden; or, life in the woods, 1854. Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corydon waltz - 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

Festival waltz - Public domain American sheet music

cover only 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 D... More

John Eliot preaching to the Indians

Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 10, (1856), p. 232. Reference copy in LOT 4709 L.

On the cross - 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

A View of the house of the late Hon'ble Jonathan Corwin (Judge of the ...

Place of trial for persons charged with witchcraft, Salem, Mass., 1692.

[Henry Laurens Dawes, senator of Massachusetts., three-quarters length...

Date based on similar image in the Brady-Handy Collection (LC-BH824- 5365).

[Civil War envelope for Company G, Stoneham Rifles, Massachusetts Volu...

Addressed to Mr. William Clark, Dery [i.e. Derry?], N.H.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Washington, Apr. 22, 1862. Annotation on verso: Geo. P. Boyce, Apr. 20, '62. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:1... More

An august convention - Political cartoon, public domain image

The National Union Convention met in Philadelphia in August 1866 to create a political party that would back President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program and to elect a new Congress. Here, the convention ... More

Thacher's Island lights--south tower / phot. by Hervey Friend, 77 Fron...

Stereograph shows the southern Thacher Island lighthouse with adjacent keeper's house. Cape Ann Views. Stamped: Office of the Light House Board, Oct. 4, 1869.

Iron light-house on Minot's Ledge

Illus. in: Galaxy, 1869, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 244. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thacher's Island lights--north tower / phot. by Hervey Friend, 77 Fron...

Stereograph shows the northern Thacher Island lighthouse with adjacent keeper's house. Cape Ann Views. Stamped: Office of the Light House Board, Oct. 4, 1869.

[Group of people on porch and balcony(?) of house in Massachusetts(?)]...

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Josephine redowa - Public domain American sheet music, 1870

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Wake now the song of glory - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Jerusalem, forever bright - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

I could not say good bye mother

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Labor and liberty - Public domain American sheet music, 1875

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

I will go west! - Public domain American sheet music, 1875

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Yet there is room - Public domain American sheet music, 1876

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Are you not a coquette, Lulu darling?

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Cuckoo song from La Marjolaine - Public domain American sheet music, 1...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Happy farmer - Public domain American sheet music, 1878

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Come birdie, come - Public domain American sheet music, 1878

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Hush, don't make a noise, or else you'll wake the baby

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Hildebrand Montrose - Public domain American sheet music, 1878

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Poor old vet - Public domain American sheet music, 1878

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

When 'tis starlight - Public domain American sheet music, 1878

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Kingdom shall be the Lord's

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Prayer, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Thy King cometh - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Submission, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music, 187...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Brass band music, march [title page only]

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

He comes for me - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Summer reveries [title page only] - American sheet music, 1870-1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Buds and blossoms [title page only]

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Easter anthem - Public domain American music sheet

The Waves on the seashore - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Sleep, baby, sleep - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Turkish reveille - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Map of the eastern junc. Broad Sound Pier, & Pt. Shirley railroad : st...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Winter, musical notation - Public domain American sheet music, 1880

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Twinkle, twinkle, little stars schottische - American sheet music, 187...

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Olivette, overture[cornetts 1st & 2nd]

Song - Im volkston - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Uncle Josh Whitcomb's reels - Public domain American piano sheet music

Child-faith; or, A. B. C - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Celebrated witch waltzes - Public domain American sheet music

The Pretty cantiniere - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Bird of the forest; Morceau - Public domain American piano sheet music

The Waiting heart - Public domain American music sheet

Massachusetts - incidents of the street-car troubles in South Boston a...

Also includes image of the schooner "Dauntless." Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.64, 1887 March 5, p. 40.

50th Congress Massachusetts Delegation / Brady & Handy Photo, Wash., D...

Composite of fourteen head-and-shoulders portraits of 50th Congress Massachusetts delegates including: Robert Davis, John D. Long, Leopold Morse, Patrick A. Collins, Edward D. Hayden, Henry C. Lodge, Henry L. D... More

Pilgrims going to church - Public domain book illustration

Print shows Pilgrims walking through a snowy landscape toward a church. Copyright 1893 by Gebbie & Co. Illus. in: The American continent and its inhabitants before its discovery by Columbus / Annie C. Cady. Ph... More

Minot's Ledge light house with comparative sections of other Sea Rock ...

Above print: U.S. Light-house establishment, 1894. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1894, plate opposite p. 221.

Fitting the masonry on government island

Print showsearly stage of construction of Minot's Ledge Lighthouse. Illus. in: New England Magazine, v. 15, no. 2 (1896 October), p. 136. From article: "The building of Minot's ledge lighthouse."

Walsh, Dem. Massachusetts., 10/3/19 - Public domain portrait photograp...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

My Massachusetts home / Photograph by Wm A.W. Eager.

Two people standing in front of house. No. 1. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Seal of the province of Massachusetts Bay

Public domain image of a decorated plate, tableware, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A Cornfield - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Photograph shows composite portraits of the Representatives of Massachusetts in 1901. All portraits are identified, the central portrait shows "Hon. J. Myers, Speaker". Print also includes insets of the House... More

Wachusett Dam - boulders in the excavation, Feb. 12, 1901

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Massachusetts.

Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusettsachusetts

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Mount Herman School. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-13672) lists title as: Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass. Detroit Publishing Co. ... More

Wachusett Dam, westerly end of excavation, Oct. 1 '03

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Massachusetts.

[Labor Day parade] / motion picture

Shows a parade through bunting-draped streets, probably in the town of Leominster, Mass. First, a decorated grandstand bearing the banner "Leominster heartily greets its guests" is seen, and then the camera pan... More

An unexpected challenge / J.S. Pughe., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows the newly elected Democratic governor of Massachusetts, William L. Douglas, as a gladiator holding a sword labeled "Popular Approval" and a shield showing the Seal of the State of Massachuset... More

Steamer Merrimac and Chain Bridge connecting Newburyport and Amesbury,...

Postcard shows entrance and surface of the chain bridge, a single-span, steel wire cable suspension bridge, decked in timber, crossing the Merrimack River, and the Steamer Merrimac on the left about to pass und... More

Park St. subway entrance, Boston, Massachusetts.

Postcard shows pedestrians and three entrances to the Boston subway on commercial area of Park Street. F34781 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7014a.

[Women at work in an unidentified laundry, possibly in Boston]

Photograph shows interior view of a laundry with two women standing next to large sinks, one operating a wringer, and another woman standing next to a drying rack placed near a stove, and several large baskets ... More

[The Huguenot and Rockrimmon, first electric cars through Brimfield to...

Group of men posed in front of two railroad cars. By(?) F. Edgar Brown, Brimfield, Mass.

The Chelsea, Massachusetts. conflagration, April 12, 1908

Postcard shows fire scorched landscape including: St. Rose's Church R. C., The State Armory, Washington Avenue, and Walnut Street.

Chelsea fire, Chelsea, Massachusetts., April 12, 1908

Postcard shows fire scorched residential landscape, man shouldering a rifle on the right, and people walking on the road. F67427 U.S. Copyright Office.

[The Turner garden at Waban, Massachusetts.]

The Turner family in an open area, hammock between two trees, Mrs. Turner seated at table, her son beside her. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service... More

Early automobiles - Kissel Kar, Whitman studio, Massachusettsachusetts

Photograph shows five men sitting in Kissel Kar with Massachusetts license plate. Copyright by Whitman Studio, Malden, Mass. Title devised Copyright registration.

[Lollipops, a study of Mina Turner and her cousin Elizabeth posed in W...

Mina Turner and cousin Elizabeth, eating lollipops as they are seated at the foot of stairs while light beams on them from above, in the background a woman watches them in the shadows of a doorway. LOT 10137 ... More

[Mrs. Turner and her children posed in a window at Waban, Massachusett...

Mrs. Turner, full-length portrait, seated, flanked by her children, all facing front. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Tur... More