The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print
Print shows a female figure as the Mud Island fortress, Fort Mifflin, with two flags on her bonnet, astride a cannon firing on the British warship "Isis"; also show the "Somerset", "Roebuck", "Eagle", and the "... More
View of the water gap and Columbia Glass works - River Delaware T. Bir...
Print shows, in the foreground, men in a boat on the Delaware River, with views of the water gap in the distance and of the Columbia Glass works across the river.
General Jackson slaying the many headed monster
A satire on Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States and its support among state banks. Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and Jack Downing struggle against a snake with heads representing the... More
On the way to Araby! - Political cartoon, public domain image
Satire on the Jackson administration's continuing battle against the Bank of the United States. The print was specifically occasioned by the re-chartering of the Bank by the Whig-controlled Pennsylvania Legisla... More
Thaddeus Stevens painted by I. Eichholtz ; engd. by J. Sartain
Print shows Thaddeus Stevens, half-length portrait, facing front, holding papers in left hand, resting on book. Includes facsimile signature. 192 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to act of Congress in ... More
Factory at edge of river, tucked below rolling hills, train passing be...
(DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).
Political Jesuitism--or interest versus principle
A virulent attack on Vice-President George M. Dallas, charging the former Pennsylvania attorney and senator with duplicity in his stand on the tariff of 1846. "Jesuitism" was a strong contemporary term for dece... More
Northumberland June 4, 1849 - Public domain scan / drawing
Drawing shows a the village of Northumberland from an elevated vantage point, at the confluence of the North Branch and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: Northumberla... More
Apprentices' library / A. Anderson sc.
Print shows an elderly man, holding a walking stick, directing two young boys to a library that glows on the top of a hill in the distance. Possibly a membership card or bookplate for Colonel James Anderson's M... More
Stone tavern on a dirt road, smoke coming out of chimney at rear of bu...
Inscribed in pencil on lower left: 1850. Stamped on verso: 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. Forms part... More
Gap in Big Mountain, Zerby's Run, no. 1 vein, 1851
Drawing shows the entrance to the Zerby's Run, no. 1 vein coal mine on Little Lick Mountain, in Pennsylvania, with a roadway or creek bed along the gap between the Big and the Little Lick Mountains, also shows ... More
Hotel Mount Carmel 1851 - Public domain scan / drawing
Drawing shows a building on the roadside with outbuildings and fenced corral; man seated in a horse-drawn wagon at front, near a sign hanging from a gibbet signpost. Includes a sketch of the head of a rabbit in... More
Mine building or sawmill among rolling hills, probably in Pennsylvania
Inscribed in pencil on lower left: 1851. Stamped on verso: 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. Forms part... More
Zerby's Run, 1851 - Public domain scenic drawing
Drawing shows a wooded scene with mountain stream at the location of Zerby's Run coal mine on Little Lick Mountain, in Pennsylvania. Inscribed in pencil on bottom: Zerby's Run, 1851. Stamped on verso: From the... More
Old mill at "Mount Carmel" Pennsylvania 1851
Drawing shows a sawmill with several logs in front, a ladder leaning against the roof, and possibly boards stacked on the left. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: Old mill at "Mount Carmel" Pa. 1851. Stamped o... More
James Ranmey, Zerby coal bason i.e., basin 1851
Drawing shows an exterior view of a small house with a porch off the left and a shed off the right, with trees around the sides and back, in the Zerby vein coal basin, Little Lick Mountain, in Pennsylvania. In... More
[Unidentified member of the Calwater Grays, a company of the 1st Regim...
Case: back - Rinhart 257. Stamped on brass mat: C. Evans, Philad'a. No electronic surrogate available. Label adhered to case: "59". Label adhered to cover glass: "63". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-... More
York County Agricultural Society, for the promotion of agriculture, ho...
Print shows a certificate with vignettes on the sides, top, and bottom showing a pastoral scene at top with farm animals (horses, pigs, cows, and sheep) grazing in pastures, with a city in the background, on th... More
Rough sketch of a gathering in the woods with carts and wagons and man...
Inscribed in pencil on bottom center: 1853. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Library of Congress).
York County Agricultural Society for the promotion of agriculture, hor...
Print shows a certificate with vignettes on the sides, top, and bottom showing a pastoral scene at top with farm animals (horses, pigs, cows, and sheep) grazing in pastures, with a city in the background, on th... More
A rowboat sitting on logs on the shore of a river or bay with a derric...
Date inscribed in pencil on lower left: 1855. Inscribed in pencil above the offshore structure, illegible, but may be "develp". Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997... More
Small girl standing next to a cluster of trees at the edge of the Dela...
Date inscribed in pencil on lower right: 1855. Stamped on verso: 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. Form... More
Setting a net for shad - Public domain city architecture drawing
Drawing shows a group of men standing in a line on the shore of a river or bay, possibly holding a rope to the end of a net that is being drawn across the inlet by several men in a long rowboat before turning b... More
Rural landscape in Pennsylvania
Drawing shows a rural landscape with a man walking along a roadway, a horse-drawn carriage approaching from the right, a telegraph pole on the lower right, meadows or croplands with fences or tree lines between... More
Diploma awarded by the Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural S...
Print shows a certificate with vignettes on the sides and bottom showing farm animals (horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, cows, and a turkey), a man standing behind a plow drawn by two horses, the interior o... More
Diploma awarded by the Washington County Agricultural and Horticultura...
Print shows a certificate with vignettes on the sides and bottom showing farm animals (horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, cows, and a turkey), a man standing behind a plow drawn by two horses, the interior o... More
Sketches with the Co. B 8th Reg., Pennsylvania Ma. [i.e., militia] und...
Drawing shows soldiers standing in residential street and sitting against fence along the roadside during rest period; some gathered around small campfires. Signed in pencil "J Queen" on lower left of mount. (... More
"Autumn on the Wissahicon" [sic]
Print shows a man with a fishing pole standing on the shore of the Wissahickon Creek on an autumn day. Copyright 1880 by E.P. & L. Restein.
Joseph Pennell - Robert's Mill - Engraving, Public domain image
Prints shows grist mill with waterwheel along old Germantown Road in Pennsylvania. Library has two impressions. No. 15: [In Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1882, and His Views on the old Germant... More
Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Penna. Lieut. George P. Scud...
Print shows a blank membership certificate for the Grand Army of the Republic, Dept. of Pennsylvania, Lieut. Geo. P. Scudder Post, No. 340, with a infantry soldier holding a rifle, standing on the left, a caval... More
A street in a mining village in Pennsylvania
Title on verso. Variant title on verso: Miner's village. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Life in the Coal Villages," Harper's weekly, 32... More
An exterior view. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Title on verso. Variant title on verso: Pa. miners: a miner's home. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Pennsylvania Wage Earners," Harper's... More
Emergency hospital in anthracite coal mines
One man bandages head of injured man while another bandages his arm. JO7129 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Keystone View Co. No. 32565.
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. P...
Images listed from upper left, clockwise. In album: Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania, p. [3]. Item title devised.
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. T...
In album: Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania, p. [1]. Item title devised.
Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania. T...
Images listed from upper left, clockwise. In album: Photos by a commercial "wanderer" through New York and Pennsylvania, p. [6]. Item title devised.
Source of the world's most gigantic fortunes-- pumping wells in the oi...
Stereograph showing men standing in oil field next to large oil rig. H30011 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. On mount: Works and Studios, Washington, D.C., Arlington, N.J.,... More
Homeward bound with the noon day load, a Pennyslvania farm
Stereograph showing a man riding in horse drawn wagon filled with hay. H27848 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by William H. Rau. No. 4931.
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 1904, Landscape view print
Print showing a bird's-eye view of the skyline of Pittsburg at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. G5552 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903, by William Campbell.
Source of the world's most gigantic fortunes-- pumping wells in the oi...
Stereograph showing men in oil field; oil rigs pumping. H30010 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. No. 1. On mount: Works and Studios, Washington, D.C., Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H.
Cutting wheat with cradle, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
Stereograph showing two men in wheat field harvesting wheat using cradle scythes. H65376 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1905 by Keystone View Company. No. 6217.
Cutting wheat with reaper and binder, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
Stereograph showing men in wheat field harvesting wheat; man operating horse-drawn reaper & binder machine. H65377 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1905 by Keystone View Company. No. 6217.
Pennsylvania pumpkins, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.
Stereograph showing a man in a pumpkin patch gathering pumpkins as his dog watches. H87923 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by Keystone View Company. No. 14139.
Two track levels of P.R.R. on the horseshoe curve, train rounding curv...
H98986 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13253. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Great bridge over the Monongahela - train of molten iron approaching, ...
H102325 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13110. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Buckwheat in blossom on a Pennyslvania farm
Stereograph showing a buckwheat field on farm; barn in background. H104575 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1907 by Keystone View Co. No. 14228.
Rounding the bend, ascending the heavy grades (90 ft. to the mile) of ...
Bird's-eye view of train, Pennsylvania Railroad. H98987 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13252.
Early years, with images of family, self portraits, landscapes and arc...
Album title devised. In album: Early years, with images of family, self portraits, landscapes and architectural interiors, p. [10].
Filling shell with nitro-glycerine, preparatory to shooting the well--...
Stereograph showing a group of men in oil field watching another man pouring nitro-glycerine into a metal cylinder. J193091 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1914 by Keystone View Co. No. 20058.
Tomhieben Valey [sic], Pennsylvania, Sept. 5, 1914
J196520 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; T. F. Sewell; October 5, 1914. Copyright claimant's address: Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
"Jack Squib" loaded with dynamite, caps and fuse, ready to drop into w...
Stereograph showing oil field workers. J193097 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1914 by Keystone View Co. No. 20351.
Letting down steel tape into well to locate position of shell-- oil fi...
Stereograph showing man in oil field readying to drop steel tape into well hole. J193092 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1914 by Keystone View Co. No. 20059.
Plants. Allamanda hendersonis. Horydczak collection.
Logbook annotation: made in DuPont Gardens at Envil Tavern, Pennsylvania on Delaware.
Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Safe Harbor electric d...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Plants. Lilium Orerstum (sheppers)
Logbook annotation: made in DuPont Gardens at Envil Tavern, Pennsylvania on Delaware.
Plants. Petunia (Delaware red). Horydczak collection.
Logbook annotation: made in DuPont Gardens at Envil Tavern, Pennsylvania on Delaware.
[The ugliest bridge in the world, between Camden and Philadelphia]
Forms part of: Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rural Pennsylvania Colonial Pennsylvania exists to-day in many churche...
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing pottery. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 103. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Poster - Visit the aquarium - Public domain lithograph
Poster promoting aquariums as places to visit, showing jellyfish. Poster designed by Hugh Stevenson, Philadelphia. Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Visit Pennsylvania Where pre-revolutionary costumes still survive / / ...
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman in eighteenth-century costume against a background of fraktur. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 55. Work Projects Administration ... More
Pennsylvania, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing head-and-shoulders of a miner. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher D... More
Pennsylvania Travel Poster - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Con...
Poster promoting Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, showing an Amish family. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Pre... More
Rural Pennsylvania / K. Milhous.
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing a man and a woman from a religious community and scenes depicting rural Pennsylvania. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 102. Work Projects Administration Poster Collecti... More
Pennsylvania - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing landscape with farm and plowed fields. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly... More
Pennsylvania / Katherine Milhous.
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing an Amish family. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 105. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Lo... More
Don't jay walk Watch your step.
Poster encouraging pedestrians to obey the laws, showing a man being hit by an automobile while crossing the street, a policeman stands in the background. Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937. Work Projects Admini... More
Visit the zoo - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress
Poster promoting the zoo as a place to visit, showing two penguins. Date stamped on verso: Aug 4 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Frakturs illumination - Pennsylvania Costumes and handicrafts, the Pen...
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing an Amish couple. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Rural Pennsylvania Katherine Milhous
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing children from a religious community. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 101. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Ch... More
Frakturs illumination - Pennsylvania Costumes and handicrafts, the Pen...
Poster promoting Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, showing an Amish couple. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 25. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Frakturs illumination - Pennsylvania The little red schoolhouse / / Ka...
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing children from a religious community attending school. Signed in pencil by the artist. No. 106. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Rural Pennsylvania / Katherine Milhous.
Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing children from a religious community. Date stamped on verso: May 2 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christop... More
This is your air raid protection Get it now / / ZJ.
Poster encouraging civilians to be properly prepared for air raids, showing shovel, ax, fire extinguisher, flashlight, first aid kit, bucket of sand, goggles, and a hose. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work... More
Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Entrance facade, Anne...
In album: Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography, p. 79. Print from negative 79321.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.
W. Lochman Boot, Shoe, Cap & Hat Store
Photograph shows a street view of a shop with children standing on the front porch. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. Inscribed on verso: "Lochman's Store." Insc... More
L.T. Greenfield Dry Goods Store, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscop...
Photograph shows a family standing in front of L.T. Greenfield Dry Goods Store as identified by the sign on the shop. Boxes are stacked on the street in front. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).... More
Co. C, 18th Regt. (Cap. McKibben)
Photograph shows members of Company C of the 18th Regiment Infantry of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, the Duquesne Greys, pose with their weapons and drums during an encampment. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2... More
Brown, John, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Thomas J. Dorsay, John Horn, Franklin Turner, John Brown, B.F. Blackwell, Robert E. Lee, Rev. James Glocester. Page 12 is signed and dated by Frederick Douglass.
Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...
In album: Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography, p. 78. Print from negative 79331.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.
L.T. Greenfield Dry Goods Store, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscop...
Photograph shows a family standing in front of L.T. Greenfield Dry Goods Store as identified by the sign on the shop. Boxes are stacked on the street in front. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).... More
W. Lochman Boot, Shoe, Cap & Hat Store
Photograph shows a street view of a shop with children standing on the front porch. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Title devised by library staff. Inscribed on verso: "Lochman's Store." Insc... More
Co. C, 18th Regt. (Cap. McKibben)
Photograph shows members of Company C of the 18th Regiment Infantry of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, the Duquesne Greys, pose with their weapons and drums during an encampment. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2... More
Brown, John, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Thomas J. Dorsay, John Horn, Franklin Turner, John Brown, B.F. Blackwell, Robert E. Lee, Rev. James Glocester. Page 12 is signed and dated by Frederick Douglass.
Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...
In album: Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography, p. 78. Print from negative 79331.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.
Brown, John, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Thomas J. Dorsay, John Horn, Franklin Turner, John Brown, B.F. Blackwell, Robert E. Lee, Rev. James Glocester. Page 12 is signed and dated by Frederick Douglass.
Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Teaching television s...
In album: Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography, p. 78. Print from negative 79331.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.
Brown, John, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Thomas J. Dorsay, John Horn, Franklin Turner, John Brown, B.F. Blackwell, Robert E. Lee, Rev. James Glocester. Page 12 is signed and dated by Frederick Douglass.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.
Brown, John, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Thomas J. Dorsay, John Horn, Franklin Turner, John Brown, B.F. Blackwell, Robert E. Lee, Rev. James Glocester. Page 12 is signed and dated by Frederick Douglass.
Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825
Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More
Allen, Richard, Frederick Douglass papers
Includes references to Richard Allen.