1847

Africans - Public domain dedication museum photo

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The liberator. v.17:no.51(1847:Dec.17)

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The liberator. v.17:no.48(1847:Nov.26)

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Schweden und Norwegen / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphasize coastlines and international boundaries. Map in German; cover title in English. Prime meridian: Ferro. Signed in inked handwriting on paper label affixed at h... More

Map and profile of the proposed Paterson and Dover Rail Road and Pater...

Map of northern New Jersey from Jersey City to Andover. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, cities & towns, roads, iron works, forges, mines and mills. The Paterson and Ramapo was chartered March 10, 1841. Scal... More

Emma - Print, Library of Congress collection

278 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baillie.

The liberator. v.17:no.39(1847:Sep.24)

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Death of Daniel O'Connell. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...

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Portrait of a Boy - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Artist: Mathew B. Brady.Artist Bio: American, 1822 - 1896.Creation Date: 1847.Print Date: ca. 1847.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

[Unidentified woman holding child in her lap]

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[William Penn Cresson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wi...

Date based on brass mat. Case: plain leather, embossed with gold leaf on back "J.E. Mayall, Daguerreotype Institution, 433 West Strand". Label inside case: "Wm. Penn Cresson." Labels adhered to case: "174". Pur... More

Fairest flower so palely drooping / Mary Balmanno, del. ; C. Currier's...

Print showing title page illustration with entrance gate to Greenwood Cemetery. Poetry by Mrs. Balmanno, music composed by Miss Augusta Browne. This song was occasioned by the recent deeply lamented demise of a... More

The liberator. v.17:no.40(1847:Oct.1)

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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

The liberator. v.17:no.17(1847:Apr.23)

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[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old goods! old goods! Come and get them at your prices! ... J. B. Brag...

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 198, Folder 26.

The liberator. v.17:no.52(1847:Dec.24)

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The liberator. v.17:no.38(1847:Sep.17)

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The liberator. v.17:no.19(1847:May 7)

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Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico : segun lo organizado y definido ...

Covers the United States southwest of Georgia and Iowa, and south of Oregon Territory. Notes within map describe historical events, including those of the Mexican War. Relief shown by hachures. Notes in Spanish... More

The liberator. v.17:no.50(1847:Dec.10)

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Incipit liber primus Theophili monachi, de diversis artibus The beginn...

Text, in Latin and English, on the mixing of pigments to produce certain colors in oil paint. Illus. in: Theophili, qui et Rugerus, presbyteri et monachi, libri III. de diversis artibus: seu, Diversarum artium... More

Electors of the Western district! Read and consider!!! At a meeting of...

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 170, Folder 22.

Washington, February 26, 1847. Sir: I beg to solicit your favorable at...

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 198, Folder 12.

La valse de l'esperance - 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

The liberator. v.17:no.7(1847:Feb.12)

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The liberator. v.17:no.20(1847:May 14)

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Townsend House. Nos. 369 & 371 Broadway, Albany. This new and spacious...

Single meals 25 cents, at the Rail-road exchange, entrance Nos. 25 & 2...

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 120, Folder 13.

The sailor's wife. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Love is the lightest - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

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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

Plan of Genl. Wool's camp at Buena-Vista, August 1847.

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink. Oriented with north toward the lower right. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 561 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Volunteers! Men of the granite state! Men of Old Rockingham !! the str...

Letter from Jane Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapma...

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Washington. Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1847,...

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The liberator. v.17:no.15(1847:Apr.9)

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To all who shall see these presents, greeting Know ye, that reposing s...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 198, Folder... More

The liberator. v.17:no.10(1847:Mar.5)

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Horses for hire. Benjamin Bohrer, High, fronting West Street, Georgeto...

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 198, Folder 13.

Monterey, A National Song - Respectfully dedicated to Genl. Zachary T...

LOT subdivision subject: War with Mexico. Title and other information transcribed from item. Published by Wm. VanDerBeek, 305 Broadway. No caption card found in file.

Draught of a part of the York Farm tract situate in Norwegian Township...

Cadastral map showing some landowners' names. Area covered is now within the city of Pottsville (Pa.). Sheet titles in ink on verso: Yorkville &c. -- Pottsville & Yorkville. Black, brown, and red inks, watercol... More

Harper's cereographic map of the United States and Canada : showing th...

Shows only southeastern and southwestern portions of Canada. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 24 ins... More

Daniel Webster: New Englands choice for twelfth President of the Unite...

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The Grocer. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Interior view with small city view outdoor; grocer helping customer. Illus. in: The Book of Trades. Philadelphia : Edward W. Miller, 1847, p. 49. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397 T. This record contains unveri... More

The liberator. v.17:no.5(1847:Jan.29)

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Santa Anna declining a hasty plate of soup at Cerro Gordo

An exultant view of Winfield Scott's second major victory in the Mexican War, at the Battle of Cerro Gordo, where Mexican commander Santa Anna beat an unceremonious retreat. In the mid-April victory Santa Anna'... More

Design of the original Washington Monument

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Palo Alto Triumphant - Grand March...to the memory of the late Major R...

Music cover, illustrated with five scenes of teh Battle of Palo Alto, Mexico, May 8, 1846. LOT subdivision subject: War with Mexico. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Caption c... More

Dance California quick step - Public domain musical sheets

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 bandits bride vide Herald May 5th 1847

Lith. & pub. by H.R. Robinson 142 Nassau St. N. York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

The liberator. v.17:no.31(1847:July 30)

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[Grace Church (Brooklyn, New York). Plan] / Rich Upjohn, archt.

Signed. No. 1. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1996:111.11.4 Public domain scan of architectural plan, map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Map showing coast of Mexico from Vera Cruz to Chuxula] /

Depths shown by soundings. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink; black and red inks on tracing paper. Includes notes. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 586 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

[United States attack of Mexico City, September 13th and 14th, 1847].

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink, blue, green, red, and yellow inks, and pencil on tracing paper. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 590 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

The liberator. v.17:no.9(1847:Feb.26)

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Portrait of a Man - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1847.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

The young mother - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baillie.

Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, December 22, 1847 (Printed Resolution and...

[The chief's daughter] / J. G. Chapman, del. ; Rawdon, Wright & Hatch...

Native woman standing in stream, clutching her clothes to her breast. Illus. in: The Evergreen. Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1847, title page. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for th... More

Letter from Jane Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapma...

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A cannon sitting on top of a wooden platform. Gun antique weapon.

A cannon at the battle of waterloo. A cannon on a wooden platform. Public domain stock photo.

Higashi no kata Arakuma - Public domain portrait print

Print shows sumo wrestler Arakuma, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Sum... More

Dr. Roby's Brazilian hair curling liquid / Wagner & McGuigan lith., Ch...

Advertising or window display card showing a woman looking into a mirror, admiring the curls in her hair. Includes text advertising a Brazilian hair curling liquid.

An act of general amnesty, and for the liberation of certain persons t...

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 170, Folder 24.

Music of the Ethiopian Serenaders

Music cover showing Pell playing bones, Harrington and White playing banjos, Stanwood playing accordian, and Germon playing tambourine. LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information tran... More

State of New Hampshire. Resolved by the Senate and House of representa...

On verso: 50940 '04. 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 93, Folder 18.

Brown's paintings, at the Odd-fellows' hall, on Monday night, Tuesday,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 198, Folder 29. Copy scanned: 2

The liberator. v.17:no.44(1847:Oct.29)

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The liberator. v.17:no.39(1847:Sep.24)

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The Liberty Almanac for 1847: [title page, showing freed slave with U....

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th... More

[Animal and plant cells drawn to show their similar nature and origin]...

Illus. in: Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants / Theodor Schwann. London : Sydenham Society, 1847. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. ... More

The liberator. v.17:no.46(1847:Nov.12)

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A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Moustache kottletten bear...

Stock photography: A black and white photo of a man with a big mustache / A black and white photo of a man in uniform.

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

President's house after its destruction by the British

Print shows fire damage to the White House after burning by the British during the war of 1812. Inscribed on mount: Watterson's new guide to Washington, 1847-48. Library has two impressions. Phillips, 1189 Pub... More

American agency office.. Washington, D. C. April, 1847. Dear Sir: The ...

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 198, Folder 15.

The liberator. v.17:no.13(1847:Mar.26)

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[Grace Church (Brooklyn, New York). Front elevation] / Rich Upjohn.

Architectural drawing showing front elevation of church. Signed. No. 1. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1996:111.11.1

The liberator. v.17:no.19(1847:May 7)

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Independent opposition day boat for New-York, & intermediate landings,...

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 120, Folder 3.

Letter from Jane Wigham, Edinburgh, [Scotland], to Maria Weston Chapma...

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The liberator. v.17:no.29(1847:July 16)

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The liberator. v.17:no.49(1847:Dec.3)

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Operations of Genl. Scott's Army on 8th, 12th & 13th Sep. 1847 : [Mexi...

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink, blue and red inks, and pencil on tracing paper. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 591 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Sketch of the route of Genl. Worth's column from Chapultepec to the Al...

Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink and red ink on tracing paper. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 595 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

The liberator. v.17:no.34(1847:Aug.20)

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Portrait of a Woman - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1847.Print Date: ca. 1847.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

Plantation melodies / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.

Music cover showing two boys seated on bench, with one of them playing a flute, and the other holding book of music.

Maxime Lalanne - [Landscape with house] / Lalanne.

This record contains unverified, preliminary data. Stamp on back: ERP. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Bequest; Pennell Estate; 1926; (DLC/PP-1926:R01) Conserved, 8.86.848.58.

Gale's Arenaceous Concrete, for cleansing, whitening, and beautifying ...

Illustrated with picture of Zachary Taylor beside horse. LOT subject: Cosmetics. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by M. D. Gale. Copied by permission from Howland's ... More

Calvary Church, erected 1846-7 - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott (G.W.) & Co.

The liberator. v.17:no.16(1847:Apr.16)

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Mr. Clay taking a new view of the Texas question

Illustration shows Henry Clay, dressed in doublet and breast plate with a brace of pistols at his waist, holding a carving knife and fork, at an open door in which a tiny "Mexican" cowers on a shelf. Below the ... More

Dance Rough and ready quick step - Public domain musical sheets

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

Right Revd. John Hughes, D.D. - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baillie.

Portrait of a Man - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Artist: Unknown artist.Creation Date: 1847.Print Date: ca. 1847.Process: daguerreotype.Credit Line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns ... More

The liberator. v.17:no.33(1847:Aug.13)

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Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico, California &c. : segun lo organi...

Shows Mexico and the southern United States. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Washington. Gift; Thomas W. Streeler; Dec. 28, 1937. Includes distance chart, distance list, and 2 profile... More