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[Six different weather measuring instruments] 1 print : engraving.

Date: 1667-01-01

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[Birds and turtles of the French West Indies; men spear-fishing from rowboat] 1 print : wood engraving.

Date: 1667-01-01

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Edmund A. Bowles collection of musical iconography, 1300-1985 Edmund Bowles (born 1925) is a musicologist specializing in the history of the timpani and other musical instruments. This collection consists of photostats and photographic prints of musical iconography dating from 1300 through 1985, the bulk of which was created during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. It is especially rich in representations of percussion instruments, particularly the timpani, and includes a considerable amount of…

Contributor: Bowles, Edmund A. (Edmund Addison)
Date: 1300

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The Young and Elder Goatherd

Contributor: Vorsterman, Lucas
Date: 1600

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Tubicines, Liticines, Lÿricines, Cornicines, qui praecedebant Victimam et Hecatoniben (Trumpeteers, cornetists, lyre players, horn players, who precede the victims and sacrifice...)

Contributor: Unknown Artist
Date: 1600

Collection

Case Books Consists of more than 2,200 books and serials spanning the period 1550 to the present, with most published between 1840 and 1970. Illustrations are the featured aspect of these works, and many of the volumes contain original visual materials such as engravings, woodcuts, lithographs, fine photogravures, and photographic prints. The subject matter and country of origin vary widely. Representative examples include: The Designs of…

Date: 1550

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[Sugar manufacture in the Antilles Islands] 1 print : engraving.

Date: 1667-01-01

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The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America See and Hear American History Through Song "Know the songs of a country and you will know its history for the true feeling of a people speaks through what they sing."

Date: 1581

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The Flute Player

Contributor: Vorsterman, Lucas
Date: 1600

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Les Danseurs à la flûte et au tambourin (Dancers with flute and tambourine)

Contributor: Unknown Artist
Date: 1600

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Pastorale - Flute Playing Shepherd

Contributor: [Dc?]
Date: 1600

Collection

Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.

Contributor: Macfarlane, Seth - Sagan, Carl - Druyan, Ann
Date: 1495

Collection Items: View 352 Items

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[Boy with recorder]

Contributor: Ganière, Jean
Date: 1600

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[Young Man playing a Viola da Gamba and Woman in a Landscape]

Contributor: Lefebre, Valentin
Date: 1600

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Ménagerie 1 print : wood engraving. | Blacks working in plantation factory, French West Indies.

Date: 1667-01-01

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[Examples of Florentine thermometers and a hygrometer] 1 print : engraving.

Contributor: Magalotti, Lorenzo - Magalotti, Lorenzo, Conte
Date: 1667-01-01

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Cities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.

Date: 1500

Collection Items: View 3,841 Items

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Popular Graphic Arts About 15,000 historical prints (ca. 1700-1900) created to document geographic locations or popular subjects and sometimes used for advertising and educational purposes. Most are by American printmakers (e.g., Baillie, Currier & Ives, Sachse & Co.), but publishers in many other countries are also represented (e.g., Antonio Vanegas Arroyo). Subjects vary widely, from city and harbor views, street scenes, and manufacturing plants to genre scenes,…