Collection Items

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Another view of Sirhan during his outburst] 1 drawing : lithographic crayon and inpriomia color. | Side-view courtroom portrait sketch of Sirhan Sirhan standing before his chair during an outburst as his defense team attempts to restrain him during his trial for the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Brodie shows Sirhan's left arm in motion. Howard Brodie covered the trial for CBS.
    • Contributor: Brodie, Howard
    • Date: 1969-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    C&O Canal, Georgetown DC 1 drawing : watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Landscape drawing shows buildings by the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal in Georgetown, Washington, DC.
    • Contributor: Chase, Susan Brown
    • Date: 1916-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Old Georgetown DC 1 drawing : watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Landscape drawing shows two men standing on a street corner in Georgetown, Washington, DC before a building occupied by a packing company. A delivery truck is parked at the corner.
    • Contributor: Chase, Susan Brown
    • Date: 1910-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Pa. Ave bet. 22 & 23 Washington DC 1 drawing : gouache and watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Landscape drawing shows storefronts on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC between 22nd and 23rd streets. A shopkeeper stands in the doorway of one of the buildings. Women are on the sidewalk. A car is parked at the curb.
    • Contributor: Chase, Susan Brown
    • Date: 1920-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [African American sitting in the doorway of a frame house in Washington DC] 1 drawing : gouache and watercolor over graphite underdrawing.
    • Contributor: Chase, Susan Brown
    • Date: 1910-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [A Louisiana plantation] 1 drawing : watercolor.
    • Contributor: Cruise, Boyd
    • Date: 1920-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    1732 - George Washington - 1799 1 drawing : graphite, ink and watercolor. | Bust portrait of United States president George Washington as an older man is design for enamel mosaic in Alexandria, Virginia.
    • Contributor: Facchina, Victor
    • Date: 1930-06-21
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    A Continental enemal [sic] mosaic 1 drawing : graphite, ink and watercolor. | Bust portrait of United States president George Washington as a young man is design for enamel mosaic in Alexandria, Virginia.
    • Contributor: Facchina, Victor
    • Date: 1930-06-14
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Calvin Coolidge and Charles Lindbergh] 1 drawing : graphite, ink and watercolor.
    • Contributor: Facchina, Victor
    • Date: 1928-05-24
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Alex. Galt about 1860 1 drawing : graphite. | Portrait drawing shows Canadian finance minister Alexander Tillich Galt about the time he worked on the Canadian Confederation.
    • Contributor: Galt, M. J.
    • Date: 1915-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Carnival Domincia [sic] 1 drawing : ink brush, watercolor, and opaque white. | Drawing shows people in a town square celebrating Carnival, including a man on stilts, a man dressed as a bull, a drummer, and a masked dancer, possibly in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic.
    • Contributor: Hart, George Overbury
    • Date: 1919-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen] 1 drawing : charcoal. | Memorial bust portrait drawing of Miss Etta Josselyn Giffen, director of the National Library for the Blind in Washington, DC. In 1897 when the Library of Congress set aside a special room for the blind, she took charge, campaigned for a universal Braille system, and introduced readings by local notables. She established a system to send books in braille…
    • Contributor: Holt, Naomi
    • Date: 1933-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Curley [for] mayor every vote a cog in the machine of progress. 1 drawing : graphite and ink. | Drawing is a design for an election campaign, in the shape of a Boston T token, for James Curley (1874-1958), who was mayor of Boston 1922-1926, 1930-1934, and 1945-1950, as well as governor of Massachusetts from 1935-1937 and U.S. representative for the 78th-79th congresses.
    • Contributor: Klubnik, Joseph G.
    • Date: 1929-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Silhouette of man facing left, no. 13] 1 picture : cut black paper silhouette, mounted on white board ; irregular image 10 x 5 cm. | Bust silhouette portrait shows an unidentified man facing left. He wears a long tie and collar. He sports a mustache.
    • Contributor: Shield, A. P.
    • Date: 1900-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    New bridge over Shulkill [i.e. Schuykill] on Columbia rail road 1 drawing : graphite on cream wove paper ; sheet 34.2 x 47.5 cm.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Rubens
    • Date: 1934
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The lower or southern end of Philadelphia as seen from just below the wharf at Cairns Point N. Jersey - Kaighn's Point 1 drawing : graphite on cream wove paper ; sheet 32.9 x 46.4 cm.
    • Contributor: Smith, John Rubens
    • Date: 1934
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Old mills along Cobb's Creek
    Early industries on Cobbs' Creek
    1 drawing : ink and ink wash over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 52 x 36.5 cm. | Drawing shows exterior views, numbered 1-3, of three mills along Cobbs' Creek engaged in the various functions of the manufacture of gunpowder and the processing of grains. At top is a building known as the "Old Drying House" and at bottom is a mill known as the…
    • Contributor: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
    • Date: 1924-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The U.S. sanitary fair, Logan Square, Phila. 1864
    Fair of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in 1864
    1 drawing : ink and ink wash with opaque white over graphite ; sheet 24.2 x 47.5 cm, on mount 28.7 x 51 cm. | on verso 1 drawing on board : ink over graphite, with blue pencil ; sheet 28.7 x 51 cm. | Drawing shows a bird's-eye view at the corner of Logan Street and Vine Street of the facilities of the…
    • Contributor: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
    • Date: 1915-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Park com.
    The "monastery"
    1 drawing : ink and ink wash over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36.5 x 57 cm. | Drawing shows an exterior view of a house with a wrap-around porch.
    • Contributor: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
    • Date: 1922-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Park com.
    Where American paper was first made
    1 drawing : ink and ink wash over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 36.5 x 57 cm. | Drawing shows an exterior view of the Rittenhouse homestead, as seen from behind where it borders the Wissahickon Creek, over which is a foot bridge where two people stand looking at the Creek and a person on horseback is riding, with a dog, along the pathway in…
    • Contributor: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)
    • Date: 1922-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Mother with child under grapevines] 1 drawing on laid paper : pencil. | Head-and-shoulders view of mother holding baby.
    • Date: 1930-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Abraham Lincoln] 1 drawing on wove paper : graphite. | Drawings shows head-and-shoulders portrait of United States President Abraham Lincoln facing right, with his eyes closed and head bowed.
    • Date: 1910-04-17
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Illustrations to song & chorus Sunshine & shadow 1 drawing : ink and graphite. | Eleven panel drawing illustrates the lyrics of the 1905 song Sunshine and show, showing a married couple in happy times and sad. The husband, not able to see his name reviled when his wife turns on him in anger, leaves the family. The wife, tending to the cradle of the child, realizes the toddler is dead and…
    • Date: 1905-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The Washington Monument as a gnomon 1 drawing : ink, wash, and opaque white ; sheet 50 x 34 cm. | Drawing shows Washington Monument with shadow projecting into dark sky.
    • Date: 1903
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The governor's palace Williamsburg 1 drawing : pencil. | Drawing shows the governor's palace rising above a stone wall. Three people in colonial dress stand before the wall or at the gate. The Governor's Palace was completed in 1722, after 16 years of fitful building. It served as the focus of the city's fashionable society and finest entertainments. Colonial Williamsburg purchased the property in 1928. Nearly two years…
    • Contributor: Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill
    • Date: 1936-01-01