Collection Items
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Collection[Architectural and engineering drawings used in the construction of Union Station in Washington, D.C.] 616 drawings : blueprints and diazo prints.
- Contributor: D.H. Burnham & Co
- Date: 1903
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Photo, Print, DrawingTurkestanskīĭ alʹbom
Kun Collection 4 albums (6 volumes) : albumen prints and watercolors ; 45 x 60 cm.- Contributor: Turkestanskoe General-Gubernatorstvo (Russia). General-Gubernator - Bogaevskīĭ, N. V. - Kun, A. L. - Kaufman, Konstantin Petrovich Fon
- Date: 1872
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CollectionBooks in the Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress)
ESL Book Collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 600 items ; various sizes. | The estimated 600 book, serial, and pamphlet volumes collected by the Engineering Societies Library in New York City document the engineering profession as it developed in Europe and the United States. Sample titles indicate the range of the holdings: Dry dock, New York (1838); Heating by steam (1857); Industrial Drawing (1896); Manhattan Bridge (1909); Moderne Farben auf...- Date: 1796
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CollectionHABS / HAER / HALS Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection | Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection | Architecture, Engineering, and Landscapes: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record / Historic American Landscapes Survey Collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available more than 600,000 items ; various sizes. | This collection documents more than 40,000 historic structures and sites through large-format photographs (b&w and color), measured drawings, and written historical reports. Additions are made each year. More detailed information is available in the descriptions for the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).- Date: 1933
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CollectionArchitecture, design, and engineering drawing filing series (Library of Congress)
ADE filing series (Library of Congress) | HABSI and HAERI collections Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 50,000 items : most b&w, some hand-colored ; various sizes. | Design drawings. This assemblage of 50,000 design drawings documents architectural and engineering projects throughout the world, but chiefly in the United States. Well known architects and engineers include Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, Robert Fulton, and Cass Gilbert. The entire surviving archives of firms based in Washington, D.C., area are among the...- Date: 1750
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CollectionBiographical File filing series (Library of Congress) ca. 110,000 items, chiefly photographs and prints. | Portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of distinguished or notable persons and groups, including their homes and birthplaces. Most of the people depicted are American or European who lived between 1500 and the present day (chiefly 1800 to 1950) in such occupations as actors and actresses, government officials, military officers, politicians,...
- Contributor: Washington Press Photo Service - Brady, Mathew B. - Bain, George Grantham - Underwood & Underwood
- Date: 1500
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CollectionHerblock collection (Library of Congress)
Herbert L. Block cartoon collection | Herbert L. Block collection | Block cartoon collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 101,000 items. | The archive features more than 14,000 original cartoon drawings from the first to the last years of Herbert Block's career as a pre-eminent editorial voice in American newspapers. The archive also has fragile unprocessed material for which special service arrangements are needed, including the preparatory sketches used to conceptualize his finished pieces and clippings and photographs.- Contributor: Block, Herbert
- Date: 1930
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CollectionCabinet of American illustration collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 3,966 items : chiefly drawings. | Drawings and other graphic representations by American illustrators for magazines, novels, children's books, and advertisements. Includes literary and editorial cartoons and illustrations, and poster sketches. Images reflect political, social, and economic conditions, domestic and family life, popular culture, and contemporary and historical events. Includes illustrations relating to World War I and the Spanish-American War. The subject headings on...
- Contributor: Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett) - Rogers, W. A. (William Allen) - Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green - Fogarty, Thomas - Herford, Oliver - Steele, Frederic Dorr - Beard, Daniel Carter - Wright, George Hand - Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay) - Smedley, W. T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1830
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CollectionCase book collection for books with original prints and photographs (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 2,000 items ; various sizes. | Includes books and serials (bound volumes) that contain original visual materials such as engravings, woodcuts, lithographs, fine photogravures, and photographic prints. The illustrations are often the featured aspect of the work. Subject matter and country of origin vary widely. Representative examples include: The designs of Inigo Jones (1767); Suite de vues pittoresques des ruines de Pompǐi (1819);...
- Date: 1550
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CollectionCartoon drawing filing series (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 9,500 items : chiefly drawings. | Contains original drawings and illustrations for political, editorial, and humorous cartoons published by international cartoonists in chiefly American newspapers, magazines, and books. Focus is on politics and government, international relations, with emphasis on United States relations with Russia and the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, Japan, and Italy; domestic affairs, including African American...
- Contributor: Bartholomew, Charles Lewis - Mauldin, Bill - Johnson, Herbert - Frueh, Alfred Joseph - Berryman, Clifford Kennedy - Cesare, Oscar Edward - Kirby, Rollin - Crockett, Gib - Covarrubias, Miguel - Mahony, Felix - Conacher, John C. - Muḥaṣṣiṣ, Ardashīr - Kelly, Walt - Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell)
- Date: 1794
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CollectionDaguerreotype photograph filing series (Library of Congress)
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 735 photographs : daguerreotypes. | The majority of the daguerreotypes are portraits by American photographers, including many by Mathew Brady's studio and the first American daguerreotype, made by Robert Cornelius. The collection also includes some early architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art. Portraits are primarily of men, chiefly politicians, but also artists, journalists, and entertainers. Some of the portraits are...- Contributor: Washington, Augustus - Cornelius, Robert - Brady, Mathew B. - Anson, Rufus
- Date: 1839
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CollectionMaster drawing filing series (Library of Congress)
DRWG/MA filing series (Library of Congress) | Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection | Joseph Pennell drawings and paintings | Pennell drawings and paintings | Drawings and paintings in the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 5.000 drawings : b&w and color ; various sizes. | The Master Drawings Collection offers works by artists of various nationalities. Although most of the images date from between 1830 and 1930, the oldest drawings were created before 1600 and the most recent in the 1950s. The collection represents diverse styles and media and includes finished artworks as well as sketches, preparatory drawings,...- Contributor: Pennell, Joseph
- Date: 1500
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CollectionDocumentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress)
Drawings (documentary) filing series (Library of Congress) | DRWG filing series (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available This assemblage of documentary drawings features many eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War. Also included are topographical views, bank note vignettes, portraits, and courtroom sketches. A large group of Russian drawings show areas of China in the 1800s. Among the well-known artists represented by numerous works are William Birch, Howard Brodie, Kenyon Cox, Edwin Forbes, Augustus Kollner, James Fuller Queen, John Rubens...- Date: 1750
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CollectionDocumentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress)
Drawings (documentary) filing series (Library of Congress) | DRWG filing series (Library of Congress) | Civil War drawings collection (Library of Congress) | J. Pierpont Morgan collection of Civil War drawings (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 4,000 drawings : b&w and color ; various sizes. | This assemblage of documentary drawings features many eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War. Also included are topographical views, bank note vignettes, portraits, and courtroom sketches. A large group of Russian drawings show areas of China in the 1800s. Among the well-known artists represented by numerous works are William Birch, Howard Brodie,...- Contributor: Forbes, Edwin - Waud, William - Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph) - Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont)
- Date: 1750
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CollectionFine print filing series (Library of Congress)
Cut in wood, the 5. chie masters, vol. VIII Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 57,000 prints : most b&w, some color ; various sizes. | Collection includes prints created as art works. The bulk are by American printmakers and artists (e.g., Paul Revere, Mary Cassatt, Jim Dine, Joseph Pennell), but creators in many other countries are also represented (e.g., Albrecht Dürer and Marc Chagall). Subjects vary widely, for example, portraits, religious themes, historical events, and street scenes.- Contributor: Beccafumi, Domenico - Coriolano, Bartolomeo - Parmigianino - Pembroke, Henry Herbert - Carpi, Ugo Da - Pembroke, Thomas Herbert - Andreani, Andrea
- Date: 1450
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CollectionFarm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress)
FSA-OWI photograph collection | Office of War Information photograph collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 107,000 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | ca. 170,000 negatives : nitrate and safety, b&w ; 8x10 in. or smaller. | ca. 1,200 transparencies : nitrate and safety, b&w ; 8x10 in. or smaller. | ca. 1,610 transparencies : color ; 4x5 in. or smaller. | ca. ___ items (text records). | A visual encyclopedia of rural...- Contributor: United States. Farm Security Administration - United States. Office of War Information
- Date: 1935
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CollectionGeographic File filing series (Library of Congress) ca. 38,300 items, chiefly photographic and photomechanical prints. | Photographs show structures, cities & towns, countrysides, and people, among other geographically related subjects. In the FOREIGN GEOG FILE the countries of England, France, Germany and Italy are heavily represented. In the U.S. GEOG FILE, California, Massachusetts, New York, particularly New York City, and Virginia are the most heavily represented. The U.S. GEOG FILE --...
- Date: 1880
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CollectionLamb Studios archive
Lamb collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available PR 13 CN 2003:109 ca. 2,871 drawings : most color ; 30 x 40 in. or smaller (check dimensions) | PR 13 CN 2004:061 ca. 2,921 items. | The Lamb Studios Archive features nearly 2,900 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings are striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the 1990s, primarily for churches, synagogues,...- Contributor: J. & R. Lamb Studios
- Date: 1869
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CollectionLook magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress) contact sheets ca. 100,000 photographic prints (ca, 3,500,000 images) ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | slides 1,000,000 transparencies : chiefly color slides ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | negatives ca. 3,750,000 : chiefly b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | miscellaneous prints 150,000 : various sizes. | The photographs depict mid-20th century American life, culture, and interests, as...
- Contributor: Cowles Communications, Inc
- Date: 1937
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CollectionLot filing series for groups of photographs, prints, and drawings (Library of Congress) ca. 1,500,000 pictures. | The images include photographs, prints, drawings, and other types of pictures maintained and cataloged as groups to preserve a unity of subject, provenance, or format. The subject matter, creators, and countries represented in the pictures are international in scope with an emphasis on people, places, and events in the United States.
- Date: 1500
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CollectionPanoramic photograph filing series (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 4,250 photographic prints : b&w and some color ; various sizes, most 28 in. long or longer. | ca. 75 photomechanical prints : b&w and some color ; various sizes, most 28 in. long or longer. | Most are panoramic scenes of the United States and over 20 foreign countries, especially views of towns, cities, and tourist locations, with emphasis on California, New...
- Contributor: West Coast Art Co - Bandholtz, F. J. (Frederick J.) - Pillsbury Picture Co - Geo. R. Lawrence Co - Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio)
- Date: 1851
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Photo, Print, DrawingBritish cartoon prints collection (Library of Congress)
British cartoon collection (Library of Congress) | British political cartoon collection (Library of Congress) | British cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) | Cartoon prints, British (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 9,000 prints : some hand-colored ; various sizes. | Primarily satirical prints by British artists and/or publishers to highlight the foibles of politically and socially prominent persons. Also includes some Dutch, French, and German cartoons. Frequently depicted are members of Parliament, the royal family, and their mistresses. Also depicted, often in allegories, are symbolic characters such as Britannia, Brother Jonathan, John Bull, and...- Date: 1620
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CollectionAmerican cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Political cartoon prints, United States (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 438 prints : predominately b&w, some color ; various sizes. | Political cartoons and caricatures that cover a wide range of topics from pre-revolutionary America through the presidency of Chester A. Arthur. The predominate theme is the growth and development of the political process and its role in the governance of the United States. These prints were used to advance political candidacies, attack individuals...- Contributor: Currier & Ives - Baillie, James S. - Maurer, Louis - Magee, John L. - Bucholzer, H. - Baillie, James S., Active - Currier, Nathaniel - Childs, John - Clay, Edward Williams - Childs, John, Active - Robinson, Henry R.
- Date: 1766
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CollectionPennell book collection (Library of Congress)
Joseph Pennell personal library (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 1,000 items ; various sizes. | Includes books, exhibition catalogs, pamphlets, and serials collected by artist and printmaker Joseph Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Many volumes contain annotations made by Pennell, and many have original engravings, woodcuts, or lithographs; many contain illustrations by Pennell. The subject matter often concerns the history and techniques of the graphic arts (illustration, printmaking, and printmakers),...- Contributor: Pennell, Joseph - Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
- Date: 1750
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CollectionPopular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)
Historical print collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 13,000 prints : many color; various sizes. | Collection includes prints showing a wide variety of popular subjects, from city and harbor views, street scenes, and manufacturing plants to genre scenes, historical events, portraits, and advertisements. These examples of the popular graphic arts were created for display or other uses in homes, commercial settings, or public spaces. Most of the prints are by...- Date: 1700