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Photo, Print, DrawingHinamatsuri 1 print : woodcut ; 21.8 x 15.2 cm. | Japanese print from a book shows three richly dressed women or girls eating and drinking, probably celebrating Hina Matsuri (Girl's Day) with a doll ceremony showing dolls sitting at a table in the background.- Contributor: Nishikawa, Sukenobu
- Date: 1716-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Tubes containing mercury with vacuum at top showing development of first barometer capable of measuring atmospheric pressure, includes page of text] 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Torricelli, Evangelista
- Date: 1715-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[The Recorder Lesson]- Contributor: Cattini, Giovanni
- Date: 1700
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Collection[Broadsides, primarily textual edicts and decrees as well as certificates and playbills]
Edikte, Dekrete, Aufrufe, Remondini, Arabisch 64 prints : letterpress, lithograph, and manuscript ; sheets 60 x 75 cm or smaller. | Includes an eclectic selection of broadsides, mostly unillustrated, containing royal and national decrees, military orders and travel passes, religious decrees, edicts, invocations, newspapers, and certificates. Predominant themes include World War I and the Third Reich in Germany, but a few items represent earlier events including the July Monarchy…- Date: 1718
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CollectionThe 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
Collection Items: View 51,843 Items
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CollectionPopular 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,…- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingKage e 1 print : woodcut, color ; 26.8 x 36.1 cm. | Print shows two geishas entertaining a man, one is making shadow puppets and the other is playing a shamisen.- Contributor: Nishikawa, Sukenobu
- Date: 1716-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLouis Quinze--Roy de France et de Navarre 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Gobert, Pierre - Audran, Jean
- Date: 1715-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[possibly Michel de La Barre, flutist and composer, ca. 1675-1745]- Contributor: [Possibly André Bouys]
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Sainte Vierge (The Holy Virgin)- Contributor: Pigné, Nicolas
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingDersich so nennende Melech Augustus Hultazob, printz Americaner aüs der Provintz Canada aüs Achem, wie er in Bresslau, Anno 1718, nach dem leben geseichnet worden 1 print : engraving ; 25.5 x 16.5 cm (plate), 27.7 x 18.6 cm (sheet) | Print shows "Melech Augustus Hultazob" also known as August Melech Hultazob or Federico Gualdi, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a turban and robe (5), with an ornate cross (2) hanging from a ribbon around his neck, the handle of a knife? (1) is visible extending above a sash…- Date: 1718-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[possibly Michel de La Barre, flutist and composer, ca. 1675-1745]- Contributor: [Possibly André Bouys]
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Flûte lui tint lieu de Lyre chez Admète (The Flute took the place of the Lyre at the home of Admetus)- Contributor: Duflos, Claude-Augustin-Pierre
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLycopersicon, apples of love 1 print : engraving. | Tomato in bud, full fruit, and section.- Date: 1719-01-01
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CollectionCities 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
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CollectionFine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library of Congress appreciates the financial support provided by Nicihibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, an Inter-University Research Institute Corporation) to scan 1,100 of the Ukiyo-e prints.- Contributor: Andō, Hiroshige - Ikkei - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Sadahide - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Kuniteru
- Date: 1615
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Photo, Print, DrawingTrade between the Indians of Mexico and the French at the Port of Mississippi.
Le Commerce que les Indiens du Mexique font avec les François au Port de Mississipi In the 18th century, French Louisiana covered territory comprising some 20 present-day U.S. states. Explored and named by Robert Cavelier de La Salle in 1682, it was colonized beginning in 1699. In that year, King Louis XIV and his minister, Pontchartrain, ordered Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, assisted by his brother, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, to form a permanent settlement at the mouth…- Date: 1717-01-01
- Resource: Image
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Tentation de St. Antoine (The Temptation of St. Anthony)- Contributor: Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing[John Hus, 1369-1414, oval bust portrait, left profile, above scene of his being burned at the stake] 1 print : engraving.- Date: 1712-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDess Heldenmütigen Printzens Eugenij beglückter Sieg wider die Türcken
Translated title: About the heroic Prince Eugene's happy victory agains the Turks 1 print : engraving ; sheet 18 x 29 cm on card mount 36 x 46 cm | Print shows a birdseye view of a battle scene on a hillside, in the distance are the rivers labeled "Donau" [Danube] and "Sau" [Sava], with the city of Belgrade at the confluence. The figure of Prince Eugene of Savoy on horseback with other generals is preparing…- Contributor: Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
- Date: 1717
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flutist in garden with exotic birds]- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingWarhaffter Grund-Riss und eigentliche Abbildung des von denen Türcken und Tartarn eingeschlossenen Moscowitischen Lagers nebst denen dabey vorgefallenen Treffen worauf die Moscowitische Armee nach gross-erlittenem Hunger zu einem ihr nachtheiligen Frieden schreiten …
Translated title: True plan and actual picture of the Muscovite camp surrounded by Turks and Tatars and the battle that occured wherein the Muscovite army after experiencing severe hunger was forced into a peace treaty and all that one can report of what occured accurately and briefly described | Additional engraved caption title: Warhafftige vorstellung des durch den König von Schweden kluges Comando umringtes Moscowitisches Lager welches sich den 23 Julÿ per Ac[c]ord mit den Türckischen Gross Vezier in erherz. Friedens Tractat eingefallen | Translation of additional engraved caption title: True depiction of the clever military command by the King of Sweden to encircle the Muscovite camp which occurred on July 23 by treaty with the Turkish Grand Vizier 1 print : engraving ; sheet 44 x 38 cm on card mount 61 x 51 cm | Birds-eye view print shows plan of the four-day Battle of Pruth begun on July 18, 1711 along the Prut River near Stănileşti or Iași, Romania when joint Tatar and Muscovite troops were surrounded and forced to surrender to Ottoman troops. Includes locations of troops with a…- Contributor: Hauslab, Franz,, Dlc - Hauslab, Franz
- Date: 1711
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Photo, Print, DrawingYūjo chōkarō 1 print : woodcut, color. | Print shows a courtesan portraying the Chinese sage Zhang Guo Lao Chōkarō releasing his magic horse from a small gourd.- Contributor: Okumura, Masanobu
- Date: 1715-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Busts of Frederick I and Ulrica Eleonora, King and Queen of Sweden, with allegorical figures] 1 print : engraving.- Contributor: Heumann, Georg Daniel - Preissler, Johann Daniel
- Date: 1718-01-01