Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Turkestanskīĭ 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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    Cabinet 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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    Daguerreotype 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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    Master 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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    Documentary 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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    Geographic 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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    Lamb 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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    Panoramic 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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    PH filing series photographs (Library of Congress)
    F. Holland Day photograph collection | Day (F. Holland) photograph collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    ca. 3,200 photographic prints : most b&w, some color; various sizes. | This filing series contains many of the Library's photographic prints that have special aesthetic, technical, or historic importance. All photographic portfolios are also part of this series. A primary interest in the photos is studying the creative expression and techniques of individual photographers from mid-1800s to the present. American photographers created most...
    • Contributor: Day, F. Holland (Fred Holland)
    • Date: 1850
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    Advertising poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | This collection includes posters created to advertise many kinds of events and consummable products; some are billboard sheets. The themes include promotions for books & magazines, elections, fairs & expositions, food, horse racing, patent medicines, railroads, soaps, and sports. Most of the posters were produced in the United States. Many are by unidentified creators;...
    • Date: 1870
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    Circus, carnival, and rodeo poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | Includes posters created to advertise many kinds of general circuses, acrobatic and animal acts, and wild west shows, including Barnum & Bailey, Forepaugh & Sells, Ringling Brothers, Buffalo Bill, and other companies. In addition, a few posters feature carnivals and rodeos. The bulk of the posters were produced in the United States, but circuses...
    • Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith
    • Date: 1840
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    Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 144 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color ; various sizes. | Posters mainly depict magicians, performing and in portrait. Magicians featured include Herbert Flint, Hardeen, Harry Houdini, Harry Kellar, C.A. George Newmann, Howard Thurston, and others. Images depicted as part of magic acts include devils, skeletons, levitation, decapitations, telepathy, hypnotisms, and crystal balls. Featured magicians not always depicted in image. Some posters are...
    • Contributor: National Prtg. & Engr. Co - Otis Lithograph Co - Strobridge & Co. Lith - Donaldson Lith. Co
    • Date: 1879
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    Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 177 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color ; various sizes. | Posters mainly depict minstrels and minstrel companies, performing and in portrait. Minstrels, usually, though not exclusively, performed programs of African-American music, broad comedy and jokes, and African-American impersonations, frequently in blackface. Featured minstrels include Lew Dockstader, Al G. Field, Carroll Johnson, Richard J. José, Ezra Kendall, Chas. H. Larkin, Tom Lewis, George...
    • Contributor: Courier Co. Lith. Dpt - Strobridge & Co. Lith - Courier Litho. Co - U.S. Printing Co - Otis Lithograph Co
    • Date: 1847
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    Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 1,784 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color; various sizes. | Collection includes posters advertising individual plays and operettas, burlesque, vaudeville, and specialty acts, dance companies, extravaganzas produced by the Kiralfy Brothers, portraits of entertainers, and stock posters. Featured performers include Julia Arthur, De Wolfe Hopper, Joseph Hart Vaudeville Co., Thomas W. Keene, Andrew Mack, Robert B. Mantell, Mathews & Bulger, Lewis Morrison, Phil...
    • Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith - National Prtg. & Engr. Co - Otis Lithograph Co - A.S. Seer Print - U.S. Printing Co - Courier Co. Lith. Dpt - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - Donaldson Lith. Co - Metropolitan Litho. Studio - U.S. Lithograph Co - Courier Litho. Co
    • Date: 1850
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    Artist poster filing series
    Poster filing series (Library of Congress) | Bill Graham collection of psychedelic posters (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    ca. 50,000 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color; various sizes. | Collection includes posters notable for their designs. The bulk were issued in the United States, but artists in many other countries are also represented. Subjects and promotional goals vary widely, for example, advertising, health issues, musical performances, political activities, travel and transportation, and war. Some posters are by unidentified artists or are...
    • Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith - Graham, Bill
    • Date: 1840
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    Souvenir viewbooks filing series (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available ca. 1,100 items ; various sizes. | Souvenir booklets containing color and black-and-white views of cities and towns in the United States and Europe. Includes architecture, historical sites, monuments, parks, railroads, resorts, and other popular tourist attractions.
    • Contributor: Albertype Co - Wittemann Brothers
    • Date: 1880
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    Specific Subject File filing series (Library of Congress) ca. 20,000 photographic prints. | Photographs series, about 20,000 items Includes single photographs showing many kinds of activities, events, objects, and structures. A sample of the subject categories for the letter "A" indicates the wide range of original and copy photographs: Accidents, African Americans, Aged, Air Mail Service, Amusement parks, Animals--Horses, Animals in Human Situations, Atomic Bomb, Automobile Racing, Automobiles, and Avalanches. Graphics series,...
    • Date: 1850
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    Stereograph File filing series (Library of Congress)
    Stereo Collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    ca. 36,000 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereographs ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | The STEREO FOREIGN GEOG series has ca. 22,000 views of places, scenes, structures, and people outside of the United States and spanning the entire globe. Countries particularly well represented include Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Russia, and Switzerland....
    • Contributor: H.C. White Co - Keystone View Company - American Stereoscopic Company - Strohmeyer & Wyman - Underwood & Underwood - Rau, William Herman - Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) - International Stereograph Co
    • Date: 1860
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    Thacher collection about judges and commissioners for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
    John Boyd Thacher collection about judges and commissioners for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | Portraits of judges and commissioners who served at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    portraits ca. 400 photographic prints ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | manuscript biographies ca. 300 items. | Portraits of men and women from the United States and many European and South American countries who served as judges or commissioners at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The portraits, usually carte de visite or cabinet card photographs, are often accompanied...
    • Contributor: Thacher, John Boyd
    • Date: 1880
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    [Liljenquist Family Collection (Library of Congress)]
    Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress) | Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Ambrotypes and Tintypes (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    ca. 1,325 photographs : ambrotypes and tintypes, many hand-colored. | 15 photographs : daguerreotypes. | ca. 2,800 photographs : albumen prints ; 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | ca. 350 photographs : prints, chiefly gelatin silver and albumen. | 10 photographs : gelatin silver prints (panorama format) | 6 albums. | ca. 400 items : chiefly patriotic envelopes, manuscripts, and memorabilia....
    • Contributor: Reader, Samuel J. - Liljenquist, Christian Blaine - Liljenquist, Jason George - Liljenquist, Thomas Richard - Liljenquist, Brandon Paul
    • Date: 1850
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    James M. Goode collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available whole collection ca. 9,000 items. | ca. 9,000 photographic prints, negatives, and bookplates. | The James M. Goode collection includes diverse material which documents architecture, sculpture, and history related to Washington, D.C. and other areas of the Mid-Atlantic region. Emphasis is on buildings which were altered, demolished, or featured in Goode's publication Capital Losses.
    • Contributor: Goode, James M.
    • Date: 1850
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    Visual materials from the Harold L. Ickes papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available whole collection ca. 1,800 items. | ca. 1,800 gelatin silver prints, albums, photomechanical prints, cyanotypes, charcoal and ink drawings, and glass-mounted color transparencies. | The Visual materials from the Harold L. Ickes papers depicts tours Ickes took to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, and Olympic National Park; participation in activities such as dedications; conferences, and speeches. Political figures photographed include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman,...
    • Date: 1874
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    Visual materials from the Sigmund Freud papers
    Visual materials from the Sigmund Freud collection Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    whole collection 784 items. | 784 items.
    • Contributor: Reitler, Rudolph - Sigmund Freud Archives - Augenfeld, Felix
    • Date: 1870
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    Visual materials from the Daniel Carter Beard papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available whole collection ca. 2,917 items. | ca. 2,917 photographs : stereograph cards, postcards, prints, and tintypes. | Daniel Carter Beard was an American book illustrator and art instructor who specialized in the drawing of outdoor life and wildlife in the United States and Canada. He was very involved in outdoor activities and was an important figure in the formation of the Boy Scouts of...
    • Contributor: Beard, Daniel Carter
    • Date: 1840
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    Chadbourne collection of Japanese prints (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 181 prints : woodcut, chiefly color. | Collection testifies to Japanese interest in Western dress, manners, and technology, emphasizing foreigners in Japan as well as imagined scenes in places outside Japan. Some depictions of foreign subject matter may be drawn from Western representations. Many portray national "types," including Americans, English, French, Dutch, Russians, and Chinese; their recreational, business, and military activities and their children...
    • Contributor: Utagawa, Sadahide - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Chadbourne, E. Crane (Emily Crane) - Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Andō, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshitora, Active - Ikkei - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Yoshikazu, Active
    • Date: 1801