Pennell book collection (Library of Congress)
Joseph Pennell personal library (Library of Congress)
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ca. 1,000 items ; various sizes. | Includes books, exhibition catalogs, pamphlets, and serials collected by artist and printmaker Joseph Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Many volumes contain annotations made by Pennell, and many have original engravings, woodcuts, or lithographs; many contain illustrations by Pennell. The subject matter often concerns the history and techniques of the graphic arts (illustration, printmaking, and printmakers),…
Contributor:
Pennell, Joseph - Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Date:1750
Collection
Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress)
Historical print collection (Library of Congress)
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ca. 13,000 prints : many color; various sizes. | Collection includes prints showing a wide variety of popular subjects, from city and harbor views, street scenes, and manufacturing plants to genre scenes, historical events, portraits, and advertisements. These examples of the popular graphic arts were created for display or other uses in homes, commercial settings, or public spaces. Most of the prints are by…
Date:1700
Collection
PH filing series photographs (Library of Congress)
F. Holland Day photograph collection | Day (F. Holland) photograph collection
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ca. 3,200 photographic prints : most b&w, some color; various sizes. | This filing series contains many of the Library's photographic prints that have special aesthetic, technical, or historic importance. All photographic portfolios are also part of this series. A primary interest in the photos is studying the creative expression and techniques of individual photographers from mid-1800s to the present. American photographers created most…
Contributor:
Day, F. Holland (Fred Holland)
Date:1850
Collection
Advertising poster collection (Library of Congress)
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ca. 500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | This collection includes posters created to advertise many kinds of events and consummable products; some are billboard sheets. The themes include promotions for books & magazines, elections, fairs & expositions, food, horse racing, patent medicines, railroads, soaps, and sports. Most of the posters were produced in the United States. Many are by unidentified creators;…
Date:1870
Collection
Artcraft poster collection
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ca. 1,500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | Collection consists of posters printed by the Artcraft Lithograph & Printing Co. announcing dramatic and muscial performances, mostly Broadway shows with major stage stars.
Date:1950
Collection
Circus, carnival, and rodeo poster collection (Library of Congress)
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ca. 500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | Includes posters created to advertise many kinds of general circuses, acrobatic and animal acts, and wild west shows, including Barnum & Bailey, Forepaugh & Sells, Ringling Brothers, Buffalo Bill, and other companies. In addition, a few posters feature carnivals and rodeos. The bulk of the posters were produced in the United States, but circuses…
Contributor:
Strobridge & Co. Lith
Date:1840
Collection
Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)
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144 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color ; various sizes. | Posters mainly depict magicians, performing and in portrait. Magicians featured include Herbert Flint, Hardeen, Harry Houdini, Harry Kellar, C.A. George Newmann, Howard Thurston, and others. Images depicted as part of magic acts include devils, skeletons, levitation, decapitations, telepathy, hypnotisms, and crystal balls. Featured magicians not always depicted in image. Some posters are…
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Otis Lithograph Co - Donaldson Lith. Co - Strobridge & Co. Lith - National Prtg. & Engr. Co
Date:1879
Collection
Minstrel poster collection (Library of Congress)
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177 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color ; various sizes. | Posters mainly depict minstrels and minstrel companies, performing and in portrait. Minstrels, usually, though not exclusively, performed programs of African-American music, broad comedy and jokes, and African-American impersonations, frequently in blackface. Featured minstrels include Lew Dockstader, Al G. Field, Carroll Johnson, Richard J. José, Ezra Kendall, Chas. H. Larkin, Tom Lewis, George…
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U.S. Printing Co - Courier Co. Lith. Dpt - Otis Lithograph Co - Courier Litho. Co - Strobridge & Co. Lith
Date:1847
Collection
Spanish Civil War poster collection (Library of Congress)
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123 prints (posters) : lithographs, chiefly color ; 213 x 161 cm. or smaller. | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen, color ; 43 x 28 cm. | Items from this poster collection are sponsored by all factions in the Spanish Civil War including Republican, anti-Republican groups (including the Falange, party of Francisco Franco), trade unions, Catalonian nationalists and various international factions. A large number…
Contributor:
Confederación Nacional Del Trabajo (Spain) - Catalonia (Spain). Comissariat De Propaganda - Puyol, Ramón - Spain. Ministerio De Instrucción Pública Y Sanidad - F.A.I. (Organization : Spain) - Falange Española. Jefatura Nacional De Prensa Y Propaganda. Seccion Mural - Unión General De Trabajadores De España - Hinsberger, Aleix - Bardasano, José - Fontseré, Carles
Date:1936
Collection
Work Projects Administration poster collection (Library of Congress)
WPA poster collection (Library of Congress)
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907 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | Includes almost half of the posters created by the United States Works Progress Administration, later Work Projects Administration (WPA). Many posters publicize the Depression-era activities of WPA branches such as the Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, Federal Theatre Project, and the Index of American Design. These groups produced plays, concerts, dance performances, revues, operas,…
Date:1936
Collection
World War I and World War II poster collection (Library of Congress)
WWI poster collection (Library of Congress) | WWII poster collection (Library of Congress)
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ca. 2,800 prints (posters) : most color, some b&w ; various sizes. | WWI posters. Among these 800 posters the major themes include recruitment and enlistment, fund raising through liberty loans, communications, medical and social aspects, economic and industrial aspects. Some posters also represent the civilian war effort. About half of the posters were issued by the United States government or the American Red…
Date:1914
Collection
Yanker collection of political and propaganda posters
Gary Yanker collection of political and propaganda posters
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ca. 3,500 prints (posters) : most color; various sizes. | Collection consists of political, propaganda, and social issue posters, handbills, and a few bumper stickers. About 1,500 of the posters were produced in the United States, with the remaining issued in more than 50 other countries and the United Nations. The major themes portrayed were often considered radical protest pieces in the 1960s and…
Contributor:
Yanker, Gary
Date:1927
Collection
Artist poster filing series
Poster filing series (Library of Congress) | Bill Graham collection of psychedelic posters (Library of Congress)
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ca. 50,000 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color; various sizes. | Collection includes posters notable for their designs. The bulk were issued in the United States, but artists in many other countries are also represented. Subjects and promotional goals vary widely, for example, advertising, health issues, musical performances, political activities, travel and transportation, and war. Some posters are by unidentified artists or are…
Contributor:
Graham, Bill - Strobridge & Co. Lith
Date:1840
Collection
Processing reserve filing series for photographs, prints, and drawings (Library of Congress)
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ca. 3,363,000 pictures. | The images include photographs, prints, drawings, and other types of pictures not yet processed for routine public service or too fragile to serve without special arrangements. The subject matter, creators, and countries represented in the pictures are international in scope with an emphasis on people, places, and events in the United States.
Date:1500
Collection
Presidential File filing series (Library of Congress)
15,000 photographs and prints. | Portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of U.S. presidents, including their homes and birthplaces, friends and associates in group portraits, political campaigns, inaugurations, and statues and cartoons. Most of the portraits depict presidents prior to Harry Truman, with extensive documentation for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Date:1790
Collection
Souvenir viewbooks filing series (Library of Congress)
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ca. 1,100 items ; various sizes. | Souvenir booklets containing color and black-and-white views of cities and towns in the United States and Europe. Includes architecture, historical sites, monuments, parks, railroads, resorts, and other popular tourist attractions.
Contributor:
Albertype Co - Wittemann Brothers
Date:1880
Collection
Specific Subject File filing series (Library of Congress)
ca. 20,000 photographic prints. | Photographs series, about 20,000 items Includes single photographs showing many kinds of activities, events, objects, and structures. A sample of the subject categories for the letter "A" indicates the wide range of original and copy photographs: Accidents, African Americans, Aged, Air Mail Service, Amusement parks, Animals--Horses, Animals in Human Situations, Atomic Bomb, Automobile Racing, Automobiles, and Avalanches. Graphics series,…
Date:1850
Collection
Stereograph File filing series (Library of Congress)
Stereo Collection (Library of Congress)
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ca. 36,000 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereographs ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | The STEREO FOREIGN GEOG series has ca. 22,000 views of places, scenes, structures, and people outside of the United States and spanning the entire globe. Countries particularly well represented include Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Russia, and Switzerland.…
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Rau, William Herman - American Stereoscopic Company - Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) - Underwood & Underwood - H.C. White Co - International Stereograph Co - Keystone View Company - Strohmeyer & Wyman
Date:1860
Collection
Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)
Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)
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2,085 items. | Political prints and drawings, satires, caricatures, cartoon strips and panels, and periodical illustrations by more than 500 artists, most of whom are American. Includes images that reflect political and economic conditions, social mores, employment, domestic life, families and children, relations between the sexes, and superheroes.
Contributor:
Swann, Erwin - Swann, Erwin,. Erwin Swann Papers - Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1780
Collection
Thacher collection about judges and commissioners for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
John Boyd Thacher collection about judges and commissioners for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | Portraits of judges and commissioners who served at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
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portraits ca. 400 photographic prints ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | manuscript biographies ca. 300 items. | Portraits of men and women from the United States and many European and South American countries who served as judges or commissioners at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. The portraits, usually carte de visite or cabinet card photographs, are often accompanied…
Contributor:
Thacher, John Boyd
Date:1880
Collection
[Liljenquist Family Collection (Library of Congress)]
Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress) | Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Ambrotypes and Tintypes (Library of Congress)
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ca. 2,050 photographs : ambrotypes and tintypes, many hand-colored | 24 photographs : daguerreotypes | ca. 4,500 photographs : albumen prints ; 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | ca. 700 photographs : prints, chiefly gelatin silver and albumen | 13 photographs : gelatin silver prints (panorama format) | 14 albums | ca. 850 items : chiefly patriotic envelopes and memorabilia |…
Contributor:
Liljenquist, Brandon Paul - Reader, Samuel J. - Liljenquist, Thomas Richard - Liljenquist, Christian Blaine - Liljenquist, Jason George
Date:1850
Collection
Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress)
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ca. 7,600 photographic prints ; 8 x 10 in. | ca. 6,800 negatives : film ; 8 x 10 in. | A systematic visual record of the early buildings and gardens of nine southern states: Virginia (ca. 600 sites), North Carolina (ca. 300 sites), Georgia (ca. 250 sites), Louisiana (ca. 170 sites), Alabama (ca.150 sites), South Carolina (ca.150 sites), Maryland (ca.135 sites), Florida (ca.…
Contributor:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin - Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date:1864
Photo, Print, Drawing
Visual materials from the Howard Dearstyne papers
Howard Dearstyne archive | Dearstyne collection
557 items (chiefly architectural and design drawings); various sizes, in folders 89 x 123 cm. or smaller. | 1 v. (42 photographic prints) : gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in. | Primarily student works by Howard Dearstyne, executed during his study of architecture and design with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Josef Albers, both at the Bauhaus and privately; some drawings…
Contributor:
Dearstyne, Howard - Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig - Reich, Lilly - Bauhaus
Date:1910
Collection
Visual materials from the Harold L. Ickes papers
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whole collection ca. 1,800 items. | ca. 1,800 gelatin silver prints, albums, photomechanical prints, cyanotypes, charcoal and ink drawings, and glass-mounted color transparencies. | The Visual materials from the Harold L. Ickes papers depicts tours Ickes took to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, and Olympic National Park; participation in activities such as dedications; conferences, and speeches. Political figures photographed include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman,…
CollectionPennell book collection (Library of Congress)
CollectionPresidential File filing series (Library of Congress) 15,000 photographs and prints. | Portraits and other pictures relating to the lives, careers, and families of U.S. presidents, including their homes and birthplaces, friends and associates in group portraits, political campaigns, inaugurations, and statues and cartoons. Most of the portraits depict presidents prior to Harry Truman, with extensive documentation for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
CollectionSpecific Subject File filing series (Library of Congress) ca. 20,000 photographic prints. | Photographs series, about 20,000 items Includes single photographs showing many kinds of activities, events, objects, and structures. A sample of the subject categories for the letter "A" indicates the wide range of original and copy photographs: Accidents, African Americans, Aged, Air Mail Service, Amusement parks, Animals--Horses, Animals in Human Situations, Atomic Bomb, Automobile Racing, Automobiles, and Avalanches. Graphics series,…
Photo, Print, DrawingVisual materials from the Howard Dearstyne papers