Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Miss...
Artist: John Steuart Curry. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the... More
Merkwürdige Hügel am obern Missouri. Collines singulières sur le haut ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Snags (im Missouri versunkene Baumstämme) - Snags (troncs d'arbres obs...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
DCM 0929: Edward Baack Flute in C
Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Boxwood, stained medium, ivory(?) cap and ferrules, brass key.; 59.95 cm. Key Holes System: 1 key, square flat flap, pin in block. Mark Maximum: E. BAACK / N-YORK Mark Addit... More
Dédiée a Monsieur Coustard de Massi, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Mil...
Print shows "Le Suffren," the balloon of Anne-Pierre Coustard de Massy and R.P. Mouchet, ascending from Nantes, France. (Source: Le Temps des Ballons, www.perso.wanadoo.fr.)
Photograph family record, St. Louis, engraving, Library of Congress
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gast (August) & Co.
Missouri Indianer. Indien Missouri. Missouri Indian. Oto Indianer. Ind...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bodmer, Karl.
Die Weissen Schlösser am obern Missouri. Les cat[ea]ux blancs Missouri...
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Merkwürdige Hügel am obern Missouri. Collines singulieres sur le haut ...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bodmer, Ch.
[Mississippi river, with Ohio, Rock, Iowa River de Moins, Missouri, Wh...
Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. Includes 7 "Indian boundary lines." In lower left corner in pencil: 91. On verso: Transferred from Interior Department, Office of Indian Affairs. Jan. ... More
Tivoli. Le dimanche 22 aout, 1824, grand fete extraordinaire a l'occas...
Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Jean Margat, August 22, 1824, Tivoli, Paris, at a festival on the occasion of St. Louis Day. Text indicates Margat will stand on an oblong platform below a ... More
Fifty cents. Shin plaster - Public domain scan / drawing
Another mock shinplaster (see also nos. 1837-9 and -10 above). Again the artist attributes the shortage of hard money to the successive monetary programs of presidents Jackson and Van Buren, particularly to the... More
Uncle Sam sick with la grippe - Drawing. Public domain image.
A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference to recent bank failures in New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The artist blames th... More
Treasury note, Washington, D.C., Political Cartoon
A parody of the often worthless fractional currencies or "shinplasters" issued by banks, businesses, and municipalities in lieu of coin. These fractional notes proliferated during the Panic of 1837 with the eme... More
Fort Clark am Missouri (Februar 1834) : sur la Missouri (février 1834...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Illus from: Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Coblenz : J. Hoelscher, 1839-41, tab. 36. D... More
Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Ro...
Mandan Indians using two dogs to drag a toboggan on the frozen Missouri River. Illus. in: Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Coblenz : J. Hoelscher, 183... More
North Bend game cock - Political cartoon, public domain image
A Whig campaign print glorifying presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The title derives from the candidate's farm on the North Bend of the Ohio River. The game cock has a dual significance: as an all... More
[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, wit...
Author, teacher, editor of the St. Louis Leader. Alternative identification: McLoud. Scratched on back of plate: Mc-Loud. Written in ink on back of plate: 434. Identification from engraving by Capewell & Kimmel... More
Jefferson City E. Sachse del - Public domain city architecture drawing
Drawing shows a scene near the waterfront with a capitol building atop a hill next to the Missouri River where a steamboat approaches the shore; shows other buildings along the waterfront and, in the foreground... More
Payne House, Portage Des Sioux, St. Charles County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-168 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction
Brick House, Saint Charles, St. Charles County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1564 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Ben Ruskaup Shed, U.S. 50 West, Drake, Gasconade County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1415-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Frame House, First Street, Hermann, Gasconade County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-101 Survey number: HABS MO-1420 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
House, Lexington, Lafayette County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1508 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Digges House, Arrow Rock, Saline County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1680 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Brick House, Dover, Lafayette County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey number: HABS MO-1495 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Wright House, Spring Street, Boonville, Cooper County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1368 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Bruett House, Farmington, St. Francois County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-133 Survey number: HABS MO-1605 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Brick House, Sainte Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1619 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000892
Christian Church, Rocheport, Boone County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1304 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Brick House, Saint Charles, St. Charles County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132 Survey number: HABS MO-1572 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1860 Subsequent Work
First Parochial School in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-112 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction
Bodenstein House, Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1313 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Mount Moriah Church, Fayette, Howard County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1487 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction
Frame House, Saint Charles, St. Charles County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-132 Survey number: HABS MO-1569 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Frame House, West Second Street, Hermann, Gasconade County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1426 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
McKibben House, Overland, St. Louis County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-133 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction
[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....
Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.
Fort Union am Missouri. Fort Union sur le Missouri. Fort Union on the ...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bodmer, Karl.
Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850
A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... More
Gunpowder for sale here / Oliver J. Stuart, N.Y.
Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices [at] 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." sh... More
St. Louis in 1832. From an original painting by George Catlin in posse...
Print shows a side paddle wheel steamer named the "St. Louis" headed up the Mississippi River under steam, with a view of the Saint Louis waterfront in the background. Based on an original oil painting by Geor... More
The sad parting between two old friends
Senators Thomas Hart Benton and Henry S. Foote are paired here in a facetious farewell scene, as Benton departs the "Shop of the Senate." In reality Benton lost his Senate seat in a January 1851 election, large... More
The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House
The artist parodies recent outbreaks of violence in Congress, and offers a pointed comparison between the elevated rhetorical sparring in the Senate and a more physical brand of combat in the House of Represent... More
A dish of "black turtle" - Political cartoon, public domain image
The cartoonist mocks the opportunism evident in Winfield Scott's endorsement of both the abolitionist cause and the Missouri Compromise. Scott, in military uniform, is seated at a table with a plate of soup be... More
"View of the Iron Mountain" - Public domain portrait print
Mo. Lithograph by L. Gast & Brother, St. Louis. Illus. in: Annual Review. History of St. Louis, Commercial Statistics, Improvements of the Year, and Account of Leading Manufactories, etc., from the Missouri Rep... More
"View of the Pilot Knob" [Mo.] - Public domain book illustration, Libr...
Lithograph by L. Gast & Brother, St. Louis. Illus. in: Annual Review, History of St. Louis, Commercial Statistics, Improvements of the Year, and Account of Leading Manufactories, etc., from the Missouri Republi... More
Honorable Benj. G. Brown, MO., Glass negative photograph, American Civ...
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Thomas Lilbourne Anderson of Missouri
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Austin A. King, MO., Glass negative photograph, American Civ...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Austin A. King, MO., Glass negative photograph, American Civ...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Austin A. King, MO., Glass negative photograph, American Civ...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Thomas Lilbourne Anderson of Missouri
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
Honorable John Brooks Henderson of Mo.
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable John Brooks Henderson of Mo
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Great Kansas meeting at St. Louis, Missouri / [from a photograph by Fi...
Crowd at public meeting on question of slavery in Kansas in front of the courthouse, St. Louis, Missouri. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 2, no. 40 (1856 Sept. 13), p. 209.
Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...
A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More
Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the...
Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.
Hannibal, Missouri - Public domain scenic drawing
Raft with sail on river; city in backgrd. Lithograph by Jnst. Arnst & Co. after drawing by H. Lewis. Illus. in: Henry Lewis, Das Illustrirte Mississippithal. Düsseldorf : Arnz & comp ..., 1857, opposite p. 268.... More
Composite of eight illustrations showing skyline view of St. Louis, Mi...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1857 July 4), p. 429. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.
M.S. Mepham Bro & Co nos. 63 & 65 Locust St. Saint Louis Mo. P.S. Duva...
Print shows a street view of the "Sun Tobacco Works" building showing workmen with horse-drawn carts, barrels, and wheelbarrows, also shows pedestrians and a military officer on horseback at the head of a group... More
[James S. Green, Senator from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-le...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 264. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[John S. Phelps, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, ...
Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mr. La Mountain's aerial voyage - the descent of the balloon
John La Moutnain's balloon voyage with John Wise and Gager from St. Louis to Rochester, 1859.
[John B. Clark, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 267. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Francis P. Blair, jr., Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Con...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 265. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Samuel H. Woodson, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congres...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 269. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Thomas L. Anderson, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congre...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 266. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[James Craig, Representative from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, hal...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 268. Each item includes subject's orig... More
"Granby in 1857", engraving, Library of Congress
Granby, Missouri. Lithograph by Schaerff & Brother, after a sketch by R.B. Price. Illus. in: George C. Swallow's Geological Report of the County along the line of the South-Western Branch of hte Pacific Railroa... More
[Trusten Polk, Senator from Missouri, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-leng...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 263. Each item includes subject's orig... More
Honorable Charles Daniel Drake of MO.
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable William Henry Stone of MO - Public domain portrait photograp...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable John Smith Phelps of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Carman A. Newcomb of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Carl Schurz of Missouri - Public domain photograph
Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Honorable Lewis V. Bogy of MO. - Public domain portrait print
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Andrew King of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stover, Honorable John Hubler of Missouri, 40th Congress. (Private in ...
A black and white photo of a man with a pipe in his mouth. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Aylett Hawes Buckner of MO.
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable William A. Pile of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable John Smith Phelps of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Erastus Wells of Mo. - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable John Hubler Stover of Mo. - Public domain portrait print
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Honorable Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg of MO.
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Strayed, Confederate States of America., Confederate States of America
An exultant view of the rout, by Union forces commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, of troops under Gen. Sterling Price and Claiborne F. Jackson at Boonville, Missouri, in June 1861. Jackson, the secessionist gove... More
The charge of the First Iowa Regiment, with General Lyon at its head, ...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, 1861 Aug. 31, p. 244.
Die Schlacht bei Springfield in Nord-Amerika
Print shows the death of General Nathaniel Lyon during the battle at Wilson's Creek, Missouri. Purchase; Detrich Hecht, 2009 (DLC/PP-2009:039.0800) Forms part of: Dietrich Hecht collection of Bilderbogen. Exhi... More
Rebel prisoners in the dungeon of the State House at Jefferson City, M...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"United States Volunteers Attacked by the Mob, Corner of Fifth and Wal...
Engraving after M. Hastings. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1861 June 1), p. 349. Reference copy may be in LOT 4416 R (1861). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mi... More
The Gun-boat New Era, just built at St. Louis, Missouri / sketched by ...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Oct. 12, p. 646. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
United States Volunteers attacked by the mob, corner of Fifth and Waln...
Soldiers firing at crowd of people attacking them. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 231 (1861 June 1), p. 349 (botttom).
Arrival of the Twenty-Second Indiana Volunteers, Colonel J.C. Davis, a...
Soldiers getting off steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 246 (1861 Sept. 14), p. 582.
[Unidentified soldier of "First Scotch Regiment," 12th Illinois Infant...
Case: Leather; star and scroll design. Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25. Gift; Tom Liljen... More
Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Mo., lately the scene of great exciteme...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 12, no. 293 (1861 June 29), p. 106. Caption card tracings: C.W. Units Militia Mo.; C.W. Camp scen... More
General Fremont's camp near Jefferson City, Missouri / Sketched by Ale...
Illus. from: Harper's weekly, 1861. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The CARONDELET running the gauntlet at Island No. 10
Ironclad under artillery bombardment from Island No. 10 in Mississippi River, Missouri, April 6, 1862. Steel engraving by Samuel Sartain after drawing by J. Hamilton. This record contains unverified, old data f... More
Issuing passes at St. Louis - A group of people standing around a tabl...
Travel passes being issued to citizens by Federal government agents. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history of the Civil War, 1862 March, p. 292. Copyright by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden.
[Aerial view of commercial district of St. Louis, Missouri]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Unidentified soldier of 33rd Missouri Infantry Regiment with bayonete...
Case: Rinhart, no. 68. Photographer's name attribution based on article: Ertzgaard, John. "The elusive photographer of Benton Barracks." Military images, 10.6 (1989): pp. 24-25. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DL... More