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Puck magazine cover - Both satisfied / F.M. Hutchins.

Puck magazine cover - Both satisfied / F.M. Hutchins.

Print shows a female figure labeled "Rep. Party" trying to choose from among three suitors labeled "McKinley, Reed, [and] Harrison"; another female figure labeled "Dem. Party" is walking in the background with ... More

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...

Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Council of Trent

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Council of Trent

The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae is a collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in t... More

Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: William D. Kelley to Titian J. Coffey, Friday, October 25, 1861 (Telegram regarding conviction for piracy)
A council, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

A council, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

"An engraving showing the Privy Council, or that portion of it which was known to include "the King's Friends", seated round a table, on which lie rolls of paper, being petitions presented to the King from "Mid... More

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of their task-masters the excise officers, British Cartoon Print

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...

A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More

Mannen in een koffiehuis met een biljart

Mannen in een koffiehuis met een biljart

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

An election entertainment at Brentford, British Cartoon Print

An election entertainment at Brentford, British Cartoon Print

A party of freeholders of Middlesex, seated at a table, dining, during the election of a M.P. for the county, Dec. 1768, when Sergeant Glynn, Wilkes's friend and counsel, opposed Sir William Beauchamp Proctor,... More

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Print shows a pig sitting upright on the ground, dressed in ecclesiastical vestiments, on the right is a member of the Third Estate holding a long staff and a bell-like device on a string which he holds up befo... More

Plate H: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Plate H: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Public domain photo of German art print, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Jacques Callot - The Last Supper

Jacques Callot - The Last Supper

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

D. Philip. IV. Hisp. et Ind. regi opt. max. Ioannes de Solorzano Pereira..., [Title page]

D. Philip. IV. Hisp. et Ind. regi opt. max. Ioannes de Solorzano Perei...

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

Disposition du Festin fait par sa Majesté a M.rs les Chevalliers apres leurs Creations faitte a Fontaine blau le 14.me May 1633

Disposition du Festin fait par sa Majesté a M.rs les Chevalliers apres...

Le festin des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit à Fontainebleau (Artificial title) Planche 4 de l'ouvrage de Pierre d'Hozier "Les Noms, surnoms, qualités, armes et blasons des chevaliers et officiers de l'ordre du Sai... More

Pieter Holsteyn II - Portret van Adriaen Pauw

Pieter Holsteyn II - Portret van Adriaen Pauw

Portret naar rechts van Adriaen Pauw in een ovaal. Onder het portret acht regels in het Latijn.

Pieter Holsteyn II - Portret van Adriaen Pauw

Pieter Holsteyn II - Portret van Adriaen Pauw

Portret naar links van Adriaen Pauw in een ovaal. Onder het portret tien regels in het Latijn.

Etat abregé de la maison du grand seigneur, de ses revenus et le gouvernement civil, militaire et ecclesiastiques de cet empire

Etat abregé de la maison du grand seigneur, de ses revenus et le gouve...

Print shows bird's-eye view of Constantinople (after Merian, showing men with camels in the lower right foreground), view of the Sultan's palace, and a view of the Ayasofya Müzesi; includes extensive text about... More

Geleerde verdedigt zich in een vergadering van bisschoppen

Geleerde verdedigt zich in een vergadering van bisschoppen

Een vergadering van bisschoppen. In het midden van de zaal staat een geleerde die zijn standpunten verdedigt.

Lotterie royale - Musee Carnavalet Histoire de Paris

Lotterie royale - Musee Carnavalet Histoire de Paris

De 1680 à 1699. Généralités. Funérailles du Chancelier Boucherat (11 décembre 1699). (Serie's title) Fixé sur un montage.

William Hogarth - Pl. 4. Chairing the members

William Hogarth - Pl. 4. Chairing the members

Scene in a country town with two newly-elected members of parliament (one a representation of George Bubb Dodington, the other visible only as a shadow on a distant wall) carried shoulder-high along the street,... More

Geleerde verdedigt zich in een vergadering van bisschoppen

Geleerde verdedigt zich in een vergadering van bisschoppen

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Mannen in een koffiehuis met een biljart

Mannen in een koffiehuis met een biljart

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Cor meum diligit Princeps Jfrael : qui propriâ voluntate obtuliftis vos diferimini benedicite domino./Mon coeur aime les Princes d'Israel : Vous qui vous êtes exposeez volontairement au péril, bénéissez le Seigneur. Chap. 5e du Livre des Juges V.9

Cor meum diligit Princeps Jfrael : qui propriâ voluntate obtuliftis vo...

5 Mars 1717, Assemblée tenue en Sorbonne. (Artificial title), Epoque Louis XV, 2 Septembre 1715-1720. (Serie's title) Oeuvre fixée sur un montage.

The Committee (Plate 10: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

The Committee (Plate 10: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

After William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Philips - The Strong Family

Charles Philips - The Strong Family

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

William Hogarth - The Company of Undertakers

William Hogarth - The Company of Undertakers

After William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Représentation de la cérémonie du bâtesme de Monseigneur le Dauphin et de Mesdames de France [...]

Représentation de la cérémonie du bâtesme de Monseigneur le Dauphin et...

Epoque de Louis XV, 1736 à 1739 (Serie's title) Pas d'inscription au verso

Cérémonie de remise de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit le 3 juin 1724, par Nicolas Lancret, détail.

Cérémonie de remise de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit le 3 juin 1724, par Nic...

Epoque Louis XV, 1721-1725. (Serie's title) Collé sur montage commun avec CARGHIS107 Reproduction d'une peinture de Nicolas Lancret, conservée au Musée du Louvre.

Marriage A-La-Mode.  Plate I.  [The Contract]

Marriage A-La-Mode. Plate I. [The Contract]

Public domain reproduction of art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The burning of the Crisis, British Cartoon Print

The burning of the Crisis, British Cartoon Print

People burning a broadside entitled the Crisis. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection ( Library of Congress).

Cours des pairs / procès fieschi

Cours des pairs / procès fieschi

Evénements divers (Serie's title) Estampe collée sur un montage. Public domain scan of French 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Labour in vain: or an attempt to wash the Black-Moor white. Humbly inscrib'd to the author of the Chronicle. 1755?

Labour in vain: or an attempt to wash the Black-Moor white. Humbly ins...

Imprint 1.; Verse. 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 142, Folder 8.

Labour in vain: or an attempt to wash the Black-Moor white. Humbly inscrib'd to the author of the Chronicle. [1755?].
William Hogarth - An Election Entertainment

William Hogarth - An Election Entertainment

Public domain image of 17th-18th century artwork from the National Gallery of Art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Labour in vain: or an attempt to wash the Black-Moor white. Humbly inscrib'd to the author of the Chronicle. [1755?].
Rienk Jelgerhuis - Notabelen in de begrafenisstoet van prinses Maria Louise, 1765

Rienk Jelgerhuis - Notabelen in de begrafenisstoet van prinses Maria L...

Notabelen. Gemerkt rechtsonder: Pl. XVII. Op het blad onder de plaat de namen van personen in de stoet. Onderdeel van de serie platen van de begrafenis van prinses Maria Louise te Leeuwarden op 13 juni 1765.

"An Act for granting and applying ..."

"An Act for granting and applying ..."

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The repeal. Or the funeral procession, of Miss Americ-stamp

The repeal. Or the funeral procession, of Miss Americ-stamp

The Stamp Act is put to rest in a funeral procession on a London quay. George Grenville carries the coffin and Lord Bute follows as chief mourner. This was a very popular print, frequently copied, and this vers... More

[Hibernia in distress], British Cartoon Print

[Hibernia in distress], British Cartoon Print

Print shows Hibernia, a woman representing Ireland, lying on the floor holding a broken harp, Lord Townshend is holding her down with his left foot; on the left, Lord North reaches into a money bag labeled with... More

Bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen in het Mauritshuis te Den Haag

Bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen in het...

Interieur van het Mauritshuis te Den Haag met een bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen, die bijeen kwam van 12 januari tot en met 19 juli 1773. Op het blad onder de plaat in boekdruk ... More

Bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen in het Mauritshuis te Den Haag

Bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen in het...

Interieur van het Mauritshuis te Den Haag met een bijeenkomst van de Commissie ter Verbetering van de Rijmpsalmen, die bijeen kwam van 12 januari tot en met 19 juli 1773. Op het blad onder de plaat in boekdruk ... More

Magna Britania her colonies reduced. [Philadelphia 1765].
Petition to George III, King of Great Britain, 1775

Petition to George III, King of Great Britain, 1775

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

Magna Britania her colonies reduced. Philadelphia 1765

Magna Britania her colonies reduced. Philadelphia 1765

A copper plate, engraved in line, of the well-known Female figure with her limbs cut off. With 34 lines (also engaved) of "Explanation" and a Moral. "Engraved in Philadephia says Du Simitiere. The original part... More

Magna Britania her colonies reduced. [Philadelphia 1765].
Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, [Title page]

Common sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America, [Title page]

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

Bey einer versammlung einer anzahl Philadelphischer Bürger, gehalten auf dem Saal der Philosophischen Gesellscaft, den 8ten November, 1776 unter vorsitz Herrn Peter Chevalier. Wurde einmüthig brschlossen. Dass folgende Verhaltungs Vorschriften a

Bey einer versammlung einer anzahl Philadelphischer Bürger, gehalten a...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans or Hildeburn.; On verso: [John Dunlap]. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as facsimile page images. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 144, Folder 23.

Bey einer versammlung einer anzahl Philadelphischer Bürger, gehalten auf dem Saal der Philosophischen Gesellscaft, den 8ten November, 1776 unter vorsitz Herrn Peter Chevalier. Wurde einmüthig brschlossen. Dass folgende Verhaltungs Vorschriften a
At a meeting of a number of the Citizens of Philadelphia, at the Philosophical Society's Hall, November the 2d, Samuel Howell, Chairman. Jonathan B. Smith, Secretary. It was unanimously resolved, to publish the following address to the inhabitan

At a meeting of a number of the Citizens of Philadelphia, at the Philo...

Evans 15019.; Imprint 2.; Title. 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 144, Folder 22.

Bey einer versammlung einer anzahl Philadelphischer Bürger, gehalten auf dem Saal der Philosophischen Gesellscaft, den 8ten November, 1776 unter vorsitz Herrn Peter Chevalier. Wurde einmüthig brschlossen. Dass folgende Verhaltungs Vorschriften a
Noach van der Meer ii - Boeren en de landheer

Noach van der Meer ii - Boeren en de landheer

Vijf boeren zitten achter een tafel tegenover hun landheer en de te beroepen predikant. Zij weigeren de predikant aan te nemen, maar de landheer eist dat ze hem zullen beroepen.

Épitre a Don. Bernard de Galvez colonel des armées de Sa Majesté catholique, gouverneur & intandant [sic] géneral de la province de la Louisianne

Épitre a Don. Bernard de Galvez colonel des armées de Sa Majesté catho...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated rare book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Boeren en de landheer - Engraving, Public domain image

Boeren en de landheer - Engraving, Public domain image

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La folie des deux partis, où vue politique de l'etat et de la nation Anglaise, avec les senateurs en personnes

La folie des deux partis, où vue politique de l'etat et de la nation A...

Print shows a wagon, driven by Lord Bute, mired in the mud, and several men, including an Anglican bishop, pushing the cart which is drawn by five mules labeled Weymouth, Richmond, Senechal, Germain, and North,... More

Matthew Darly - Prattle / MD., British Cartoon Print

Matthew Darly - Prattle / MD., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a full-length portrait of a man, right profile, holding hat in right hand. Includes inscription below which expresses the opinion of the character depicted regarding the progress of the war in Ameri... More

Leonard Jarvis, on behalf of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, to Edmund Bridge, 23 November 1783
The case is altered, Thomas Rowlandson

The case is altered, Thomas Rowlandson

The election has gone against Sir Cecil Wray, and he has to turn elsewhere ; Fox, it will be remembered, in addition to his return for Westminster, was elected for Kirkwall (Scotland), and in the print he is sh... More

The poll, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain  drawing

The poll, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing

The scene is still the polling-booth, Covent Garden ; the canvassers, committees, and mobs are giving their entire attention to the performance carried on for their entertainment between the fair rival advocate... More

The drum major of sedition, Thomas Rowlandson

The drum major of sedition, Thomas Rowlandson

The portrait of Major John Cartright, one of the most energetic and disinterested Reformers, is given under this title. The Major is firmly grasping a pole of Liberty in his right hand, and is holding forth in ... More

Enoch Bartlett to Samuel Phillips and additional members of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, June 1784
William Turner to the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 4 June 1784
Rufus Putnam to the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 6 July 1784
Enoch Bartlett and James Duncan to Samuel Phillips and additional members of the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 5 July 1784
William Turner to the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 4 June 1784
William Turner to the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 4 June 1784
The Westminster Deserter Drum'd Out of The Regiment

The Westminster Deserter Drum'd Out of The Regiment

Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London) Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures, satirical drawings, and watercolors... More

Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
Barnabas Dodge to the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands, 25 May 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 9 September 1785
Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 9 September 1785
Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 28 March 1785
Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
The vision, British Cartoon Print

The vision, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a young man, possibly William Pitt, the younger, being visited by a ghost from the grave, possibly the elder William Pitt, who has come "to warn thee against thy impending fate - Beware of Prerogati... More

Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 29 June 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 28 March 1785
Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 29 June 1785
Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 9 September 1785
Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785
Rufus Putnam to Samuel Phillips, 14 May 1785
Voltaire, d'Alembert, Condorcet, l'Abbé Maury, Diderot

Voltaire, d'Alembert, Condorcet, l'Abbé Maury, Diderot

Le dîner des philosophes (Artificial title), François Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire (1694-1778), écrivain et philosophe (Artificial title) Marque du musée - En bas, à droite (Lugt 432d )

Copy of Letter from John Brooks, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells to Samuel Titcomb, 12 June 1786
Samuel Phillips and Nathaniel Wells to Jonathan Stone, 25 March 1786
Barnabas Dodge to Samuel Phillips, 13 March 1786
Rufus Putnam to Leonard Jarvis, 29 December 1786
Jonathan Stone to John Brooks and Samuel Phillips, 29 September 1786
Jonathan Stone to Samuel Phillips, 27 May 1786
Jonathan Stone to Samuel Phillips, 27 May 1786
Jonathan Stone to John Brooks and Samuel Phillips, 14 August 1786
Jonathan Stone to Samuel Phillips, 27 May 1786
Isaac Parsons to John Brooks, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 19 May 1786
Rufus Putnam to Samuel Phillips, 26 May 1786
John Brooks, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells to Samuel Titcomb, 11 February 1786
W. Greenleaf to Samuel Phillips, 27 April 1786
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