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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, Drawing[The Recorder Lesson]- Contributor: Cattini, Giovanni
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe Trio Flamand (The Flemish Trio)- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1670
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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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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
Collection Items: View 3,841 Items
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Photo, Print, Drawing[The itinerant monk Shintoku cures a mute girl] 1 print (2 pages) : woodcut. | Illustration showing girl sitting on a mat surrounded by her parents and Shintoku with people working nearby.- Date: 1713-01-01
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CollectionFinding 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 - Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl
- Date: 1495
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Photo, Print, DrawingLes Plaisirs de Village (Village Pleasures)- Contributor: Ghendt, Emmanuel-Jean-Nepomucéne De
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingUne faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrument Maker)- Contributor: Rössler, Michael
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flutist in garden with exotic birds]- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1700
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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, DrawingL'Ouie (Hearing)- Contributor: Probst, Georg Balthasar
- Date: 1700
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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 - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Sadahide - Ikkei - Utagawa, Hiroshige - Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Ochiai, Yoshiiku
- Date: 1615
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Photo, Print, DrawingEdmund 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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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flute playing Cupid]- Contributor: Jacob De Wit, or Witt
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Musique Enragée (Mad Music)- Contributor: Possibly Jacob Gole
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Boy playing transverse flute]- Contributor: Charles White
- Date: 1700
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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
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Photo, Print, DrawingLa Sainte Vierge (The Holy Virgin)- Contributor: Pigné, Nicolas
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Flute Lesson- Contributor: Valck, Gerard,/52
- Date: 1670
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Photo, Print, DrawingFrancis Eugene, Prince of Savoy, &c. 1 print. | Illustration showing half-length portrait of the prince in armor, facing left.- Contributor: Gucht, Michael Van Der
- Date: 1713-01-01
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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, DrawingSchreiber collection of European book illustrations Wilhelm Schreiber (1855-1932), German printmaking scholar and author of the major reference work Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle (1891-1911), organized a personal study collection of over 20,000 book illustrations produced during the 15th through the 18th centuries. The Library acquired this collection in 1929 along with Schreiber's handwritten inventory. (Source: Melville guide)
- Contributor: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig
- Date: 1400
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Flute player and singer]- Contributor: Trautmann, Johann Georg
- Date: 1700