1840

South West gate leading into Indapendance [i.e., Independence] Square,...

Framed. Accompanying labels detached from cover glass: "27" and "11." Label from back of frame: Daguerreotypes are "mirror Reflections" and show the picture in reverse. This is an entrance to Independence Squar... More

[Entrance to Independence Square, Philadelphia]

Framed. Accompanying labels on cover glass: "28" and "12." Label from back: Daguerreotypes are "mirror reflections" and thus show the ac... picture in reverse. This picture is the South West entrance to Indepen... More

Letter from Nathaniel Briggs Borden, Washington City, [District of Col...

In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Nathaniel B. Borden acknowledges that he received Garrison's letter and thanks him for providing "information in regard to the policy by which abolitionists are governe... More

The liberator. v.10:no.7(1840:Feb.14)

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Ishibe, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows an interior view through open panels of an inn with travelers bathing and having tea at the Ishibe station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponso... More

Der Uhrmacher. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a man making a small clock in a clock making shop.

[Fort Edward to Putnam's Creek, incidents of the French War.

The forty thieves or the common scoundrels of New-York

The title continues: "Breaking up of a Grand Spree in the Tea Room & total abflustification of the common scoundrels." Weitenkampf calls the print a satirical look at members of the New York Common Council "aft... More

Plan showing the proposed entrance into Boston of the Fitchburg Rail R...

Street map of part of Boston showing the railroad yards and the passenger depot. Chartered on March 3, 1842. Scale 1:24,000. At the upper right of the plan is the "Proposed Plan of Depot of Granite. Front View ... More

[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm restin...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 141. Accompanying note: Jerusha Field, Quaker of N.Y. & Peekskill. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collect... More

The liberator. v.10:no.10(1840:Mar.6)

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[Farmer with scythe walking down road after livestock]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The liberator. v.10:no.18(1840:May 1)

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[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Case: gothic design. Purchase; 1967; (DLC/PP-1967:040). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

The philosopher's stone! Gold & silver plating, by the electro-magneti...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 35.

To the public. [Regarding agricultural interests of the state of Illin...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 17.

The liberator. v.10:no.31(1840:July 31)

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Notice. A meeting of the Alton Lyceum, will be held this evening, Frid...

The liberator. v.10:no.38(1840:Sep.18)

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To the voters of Madison County. The people of [blank] precinct, are r...

Campaign.; Imprint. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 18.

[Shepherd with dog and lambs] - Public domain book illustration

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The truth: or, A review of a circular addressed "To the electors of th...

A proclamation by Alexander G. McNutt, Governor of the state of Missis...

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Andrew Jackson to J. H. Haugh, July 22, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label: Unidentified friend of C. B. Was part of LOT 8492. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms part of: Clara Barton Papers, 1834-1918... More

Supreme court of the United States. Susan Decatur, Appellant vs J. K. ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 197, Folder 1b.

[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

[Battle scene with line of bayonets]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The poor man's friend wood engraving, Library of Congress

A Whig campaign ribbon, "Dedicated to the Young Men's National Convention," probably issued for the Baltimore ratifying convention of May 4, 1840. (Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison was actuall... More

The liberator. v.10:no.28(1840:July 10)

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The Tippecanoe quick step / J.B.N. ; John Bufford's Lith. Boston.

Print shows a music sheet cover with an illustration for the Tippecanoe quick step showing William H. Harrison on horseback, leading troops against Native Americans at the Battle of Tipecanoe, Indiana, in 1811.

Honorable & Reverend B.R. Wilson of Monrovia, Liberia, died Oct. 9, 18...

Photograph shows portrait of B.R. Wilson, Methodist missionary to Liberia. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper suppor... More

Political meeting. A public meeting, for the purpose of discussing the...

On verso: 28. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 197, Folder 7.

[Walking hunter with two hounds]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in cha...

Case: oval design surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.059. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Full tilt for the Capitol - Public domain book illustration

The artist envisions public repudiation of Democratic hard-money policies, and the triumph of administration opponent Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, a conservative Democrat. Tallmadge, on horseback and armed with a l... More

The liberator. v.10:no.22(1840:May 29)

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Harrison quadrilles. Book illustration from Library of Congress

An illustrated sheet music cover for a set of "popular airs" for the piano, dedicated by the publisher to "Whigs of the United States." A Whig campaign piece, the work eulogizes the supposed humble rusticity of... More

The liberator. v.10:no.34(1840:Aug.21)

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[Copy of a painting of an unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portr...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral medallion. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Battle scene] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Nathaniel Green, half-length portrait, facing front, seated with arm ...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 36a. Case: variant of Rinhart 166. Accompanying note: Nathaniel Green, brother of Levi Green and son of William Green who was wounded in the Battle of Bunker Hill. S... More

[Donkey cropping grass]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Sixty reasons for attending public worship ... New Haven, Ct. Printed ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 8, Folder 25.

The liberator. v.10:no.8(1840:Feb.21)

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[Uncut sheet of cards showing 25 birds]

Damaged at top right corner and top left side with some loss to the illustrations. Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson co... More

President Robert's house, Monrovia / Wagner & McGuigan's Lith. Phil.

President Joseph J. Roberts' house, Monrovia, Liberia. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Morning Post extra. Boston, Wednesday Nov. 4, 1840. The elections. [Bo...

Handwritten on verso: 1840. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 57, Folder 9a.

American bank note company, Philadelphia, office 125 S. 5th St.

Print shows an advertisement for the American Bank Note Company with an engraved illustration showing the "Signing the Declaration of Independence" and on the verso the full text of the Declaration of Independe... More

John Leech - A row in a city kitchen / JL.

Cartoon shows an uproar in a kitchen. One cook wearing a white jacket attacks another with a large fish. Men dressed in horse costumes joust with each other and other men wave various kitchen utensils. Leech... More

South Reading, Massachusetts [1840?].

The lament of the Irish emigrant - a ballad / W. Sharp, del. ; printed...

Sheet music cover shows a man wearing a top hat with sack and walking stick leaning on a stile. Reference copy may be in LOT 7010. Printed below image: The music composed and most cordially dedicated to Mrs. Is... More

The liberator. v.10:no.36(1840:Sep.4)

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Boz / Phiz., portrait print - Public domain portrait engraving

Print showing Charles Dickens, full-length portrait, seated at table, facing front. Signed on plate on lower right: Phiz.

Maunsel White & Co. to Andrew Jackson, December 28, 1840

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Der Schneider. Der Knopfmacher - Public domain book scan / engraving

Print shows a tailor cutting cloth and two female(?) assistants sewing; on the right is a man making buttons. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

Trente jours de plaisirs. 1000 fr. de plaisirs pour 15 fr. Pour 50 cen...

Advertisement for a monthly subscription to theatrical productions, balls, concerts, the circus, and other entertainments, probably at venues in and around Paris. Text appears within an outline of a balloon asc... More

This is the house that Jack built

The Van Buren administration's record, particularly with regard to the handling of public finances, is condemned as corrupt and a perpetuation of unpopular Jacksonian policies. The artist echoes perennial Whig ... More

[White frame house with white picket fence at Cambridge, New York, wit...

Case: similar to Rinhart 108. Mirror inside case to show house in correct orientation. Labels adhered to seal: "Cambridge, New York," "46". Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.20). Forms part of:... More

The rights of conjugal happiness contended By Mary G. Doe. Biddeford, ...

Verse.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 27, Folder 9.

[Unidentified man, friend of Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Photographer unidentified. Case: variant of Rinhart 123. Accompanying label: Unidentified friend of C.B. Accompanying lock of hair. Was part of LOT 8492. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1959. Forms part of: Clar... More

A special meeting of the Tippecanoe club of the City of Alton, will be...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 11.

[Isaiah Lukens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Brass mat stamped: R. Cornelius, Philada. fecit. Case: green embossed leather; pressure sensitive label on case "#2." Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the dawn of photography / Stapp. Smithsonian Institution Pr... More

The liberator. v.10:no.50(1840:Dec.11)

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[Isaiah Lukens, half-length portrait, facing front]

Possibly by Paul Beck Goddard. Case: variant of Rinhart 271; pressure sensitive label on case "162." Resealed W.F. Stapp, NPG/Smithsonian 8/5/83. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:087.24). Forms pa... More

[1840 Presidential campaign cloth; printed on blue & white chintz. The...

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The liberator. v.10:no.17(1840:Apr.24)

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The North Eastern boundary question. Boston, 11th September 1840.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 57, Folder 6. Copy scanned: 1

La daguerreotypomanie / Maurisset., Tissandier Collection, France

French cartoon about the rush to try photography after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre revealed his process in 1839. Print shows long lines of people waiting to be photographed and others eager to support the craz... More

Map of the River Sabine from its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico in the se...

Phillips, 1384 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy in 3 parts. [See Sen. Doc. 199 2nd Session, 27th Congr. LC Vo. 397 for text and smaller maps] Mounted on cloth. ... More

The liberator. v.10:no.30(1840:July 24)

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Thomas Hart Benton to Andrew Jackson, September 25, 1840

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$100 reward! escaped from the Illinois penitentiary, on the night of F...

Imprint 2.; Reward. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 21.

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: front made by LC conservation office; back variant of Rinhart 131. Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[James Duncan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Colonel, U.S. Army. Photographer unidentified. Identification based on DAG no. 328. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:136). Forms part of: Henry Jackson Hunt Papers, 1841-1978 (Library of Congre... More

The last card. Tip overthrown - Public domain book illustration

A satire on the controversy surrounding charges of election fraud against New York State tobacco inspector James B. Glentworth and other Whigs during the election of 1838. The allegations were made two years l... More

[War of 1812 battle scene with soldiers and Indians]

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Snake game rules - Print, Library of Congress collection. Book illustr...

Print showing a game board with red, gold, and blue spaces, numbered between 1 and 122; on the board are illustrations that are numbered and correspond to the blue "starred" spaces, which are action spots, the ... More

The liberator. v.10:no.4(1840:Jan.24)

Journal of the times Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Texas meeting in Nashville [Nashville, 184-].

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 175, Folder 13a.

[Man shooting from horseback] - Public domain book illustration

"After Horace Vernet." Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1941:0074). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[New York Harbor] - Public domain drawing

Landscape drawing shows men fishing off the pier, perhaps on Staten Island, looking across New York Harbor. Sailboats dot the water. Below the image, on the mount, various locations are identified in the drawin... More

[Emlen Cresson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Printed on yellow paper label pasted to the paper seal: Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut [sic], Philadelphia. Written on paper seal: E. Cresson, May 30th, 1840. In cast b... More

Sketch from a cabinet picture by Gibert taken in 1843 by A.J.S.

Drawing shows an unidentified man, seated, holding a glass as if for a toast. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, 2005-2006.

Ch. D. Meigs, M.D. Prof. Med & Diseases of women & children in the Jef...

Charles Delucena Meigs, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Galaxy, Boston, Massachusetts. - Public domain engraving

Printed by J. Howe, Boston. Engraved by N. Dearborn, Boston. Engraving and letterpress. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Greenleaf.

[Mr. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: [illegible]. Case: Krainik 277. Accompanying note: Father and mother of Watts Todd Miller, husband of Olive Thorne Miller (Harriet Mann Miller). Housed with DAG no. 1228. Tr... More

The liberator. v.10:no.41(1840:Oct.9)

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Die Kunst Häringe einzusalzen - Public domain book illustration

Print shows men salting herring and packing in barrels on a wharf or the shore near a large sailing ship. In album: Oertels Lesebuch, 32 Bilder, 2te Abtg.

[Group portrait of an unidentified boy and girl, three-quarter length,...

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 46. Case: metal case with leather insert, variant of Rinhart 90, Source unknown. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

The liberator. v.10:no.7(1840:Feb.14)

Journal of the times Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Caricature, An interesting family, public domain cartoon image

A caricature of Martin Van Buren as an opossum. The marsupial, with a smirking Van Buren's head, rises on its hindquarters and displays in its pouch three of its "young." They are administration insiders (left... More

[Revolutionary War battle scene]

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The liberator. v.10:no.49(1840:Dec.4)

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A sketch of a survey made for Col. W'm Hickey, under a warrant from th...

Cadastral survey map. Manuscript--ink and col. pencil. Lacks sections along edges; faced and backed with rice paper. Notes in ink on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster im... More

Industrial & political map of Pennsylvania : exhibiting the population...

Printed to show extensive statistical data for each county. Does not show individual industries or minor civil divisions. "Compiled from the returns of the Sixth Census and from other official sources." "The ma... More

Going up Salt River - Public domain book illustration, Library of Cong...

Political cartoons friendly to Van Buren were the rare exception during the 1840 campaign. Here the artist parodies the exploitation by Whig politicians of populist candidate William Henry Harrison. Martin Van ... More

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic] with p...

Outline map showing major drainage, some relief by hachures, state boundaries, canals, and important place names. Finished and proposed railroads are indicated.

The 'destiny' of the United States in the hands of Martin Van Buren! a...

On verso: Van Buren Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 177, Folder 22.

Washington, Nov. 10, 1840. To his Excellency Governor of Dear Sir: Hav...

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