Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingView from Charlestown 1 drawing on laid paper mounted on linen : watercolor, ink and graphite. | Drawing shows a rocky island or peninsula in the water as viewed from Charlestown, Massachusetts.- Date: 1773-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingView of Roxbury from the advanced guard house at the lines 1 drawing on laid paper mounted on linen : ink. | Drawing shows Roxbury, Massachusetts during the American Revolution, perhaps by a British officer or someone sympathetic to the British showing the positions of American forces. Two points in the map are identified by letters: a - "Rebbels Centinels" [e.g. rebel's sentinels] and b - "Our advanced guard." In addition, the town of Roxbury…- Date: 1775-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingUniform of a lieutenant 3d Artillery 1 drawing on wove paper : graphite. | Drawing is half-length drawing of the uniform of a lieutenant in the 3rd Artillery, perhaps a British military officer.- Date: 1750-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingGerman 1 drawing on wove paper : graphite. | Drawing shows three Germans dancing and three others watching.- Date: 1750-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingView of Mud Island before its reduction, 16th Novr., 1777, under the direction of John Montresor, Esqr., chief engineer in America, taken from the dyke in front of the six gun battery … 1 drawing on laid paper : ink and watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Topographical drawing of Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River near Philadelphia. The fort is shown as it appeared before its designer, British engineer John Montresor, destroyed it during an occupation by American troops in the American Revolution.- Date: 1777
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Silhouettes of Burd, Yeates, and Shippen family members] 1 drawing : ink over graphite underdrawing, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 37 cm. | Drawing shows silhouette portraits of "Col. Burd", "E. Burd Senr.", "Edward Burd Senior" labeled "Best", "Dr. J. Shippen", two of "Mrs. Jasper Yeates" one of which is hand-colored, and on the verso two of "Mrs. Judge Yeates" one labeled "Good", and a silhouette of "Mary Pattison" or "Patterson".- Date: 1790-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Portrait of a boy] 1 drawing : graphite and charcoal on laid paper mounted on board ; sheet 37.8 x 29.7 cm.- Date: 1785-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Billy Wilder house, architectural model. View of house interior with boy and table] 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format)- Contributor: Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress) - Office of Charles and Ray Eames - Smith, John Rubens
- Date: 1949
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Billy Wilder house, architectural model. View of house interior with boy, woman and man] 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format)- Contributor: Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress) - Office of Charles and Ray Eames - Smith, John Rubens
- Date: 1949
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CollectionDrawings (Documentary) The Documentary Drawings category includes more than 4,000 drawings made between 1750 and 1970. Eye-witness sketches made during the U.S. Civil War are the most frequently used images. 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,…- Date: 1750
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