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[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... More

[Captain Augustus C. Thompson of Co. G, 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment...

Photo shows soldier believed to be identified as Augustus C. Thompson. Case: Berg, no. 3-22. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: B.G. "Chip" Newman, Broker of Fine Antiquities, Mad... More

Portrait of Emanuel Rudasill, Company M, 16th North Carolina Regiment,...

Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Copy photo made by LC in 1961 of a photograph from unidentified source. Previously identified as Capt. James R. Love. The North Caro... More

[Portrait of Emanuel Rudasill, Company M, 16th North Carolina Regiment...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Private Silas A. Shirley of Co. H, 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment...

Photo shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; central oval and scroll design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Matthew Fleming, Milan, Ohio, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Fa... More

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cummings of Co. E, 1st Vermont Heavy Artill...

Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 1468; tape on glass support: 1334 [crossed out]. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inf... More

Photo of DCM 1121: Triebert Flute in C - Public domain dedication

Instrument type: Flute in C Medium: Cocus, silver keys and ferrules.; 61.35 cm. Key Holes System: 6 keys, saltspoon, on crescent-shaped flanges. Diamond-shaped guide saddles for C and long F. Mark Maximum: (ba... More

DCM 1326: Anonymous, English or American Fife in B-flat (Fife in C)

Instrument type: Fife in B-flat (Fife in C) Medium: Unidentified wood, dark stain with dark pigment varnish, brass end ferrules.; 36.9 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: R. S. ... More

DCM 1041: Anonymous Fife in A-flat

Instrument type: Fife in A-flat Medium: Silver or silver plate.; 44.2 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes, raised toneholes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Condition: Slightly bent just above upper fingerhole. The embouch... More

[Lace pattern with flowers] - Public domain dedication image

Print shows overall lace pattern in blue and white with hand-colored flowers in the center; possibly a greeting card. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by La... More

Autumn flowers - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows two girls in a garden with a statue of a reclining figure in the background. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 3.... More

The war in Virginia Lieutenant General Grant in a council of war at Ma...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Inger.

General Grant - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Marshall, Wm. Edgar.

Ellerson's Mill. Battle-field of Mechanicsville, Virginia

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 920. Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with shield and American flag and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of postal stamp, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Washington's reception on the bridge at Trenton in 1789 on his way to ...

Print shows Washington and soldiers passing through a garlanded canopy labeled "The hero who defended the mothers will protect the daughters" as girls and young women toss flowers in their path. Date based on ... More

Residence and tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, on the Potomac / W.H. ...

In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], p. 128. Library of Congress copy is trimmed. Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071

The guitar / D.G. Johnson, sc. - Engraving, Public domain image

Print shows a woman playing guitar as a man flirts with her. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 2. Library of Congress copy i... More

United States slave trade, 1830 - Public domain engraving

An abolitionist print possibly engraved in 1830, but undocumented aside from the letterpress text which appears on an accompanying sheet. The text reads: "United States' slave trade, 1830. The Copper Plate from... More

Map of the location of part of the North-Western Turnpike Road /

Shows road from Winchester westward to the Cheat River in Preston County, West Virginia. Relief shown by hachures. "This copy made by Fr. Koch, Richmond, Va. Jan. 27th 1862." Pen-and-ink, pencil and watercolor ... More

Alfred Beckley's Private Memorandum Book, 1856-1865, including "Statem...

The son of John Beckley, the first clerk of the House of Representatives under George Washington, Alfred Beckley is widely recognized as the founder of Raleigh County. The man for whom the county seat of Beckle... More

Alfred Beckley's Private Memorandum Book, 1856-1865, including "Statem...

Henry Russell / R. Street pinxt. ; R. Street lith.

Print shows Henry Russell, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, with right hand resting on piano keyboard, open sheet music in the foreground and a shipwreck on storm tossed waves in the background. Inc... More

Battle of Windmill Point (near Prescott upper Canada) on Tuesday Nov. ...

Print shows spectators in the foreground along the shore of a river, watching the battle of the windmill during which gunboats in the river fire on rebels on the far shore near a windmill, in Ontario, Canada. ... More

Crimson fronted Purple Finch / Drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R....

Print shows bird on flowering pea vine surrounded by border of vines, birds, a woman, and a bird's nest. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

Walking dresses for January 1843 Engraved for the Lady's World.

Print from Lady's World magazine shows two women dressed in clothing for the outdoors. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], no. F1 (f... More

[Unidentified cadet in Virginia Military Institute uniform]

Case: Rinhart, no. 138 (reverse image). Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Bill Turner, La Plata, Maryland, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogra... More

Artilleryist group - Mathew Brady seated on left

Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More

Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec: at the city of Mexico Sept. 1...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Houses of Parliament / Pearson sc. during American Civil War

Print shows Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, on the banks of the Thames River. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album c... More

The nearest way in summer time - Engraving, Public domain image

Print after 1854 painting by Thomas Creswick shows a horse-drawn cart carrying logs and fording a creek. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmit... More

Sunset view of Fort Sumter before the bombardment [1861]

Engraving by N. Orr [?] of drawing by H. Fenn. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Civil War Forts Sumter 1861; Shelf.

[Battle scene surrounded by portraits of American presidents]

Print shows miniature portraits of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Tayl... More

[Lieutenant Colonel Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Trebra, Union officer ...

Sitter identified by Michael Peake. Date based on Trebra's emigration from Germany in 1854 and death in 1863. Subject is wearing a German military uniform. In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 16. Colo... More

Unidentified soldier in New York Infantry uniform with shako hat

Case: Berg, no. 3-160. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Libra... More

Lives of the presidents of the United States. By Robert W. Lincoln

Print shows trimmed frontispiece to one of the G.H. Salisbury edition's of Lives of the presidents of the United States ... / By Robert W. Lincoln with portrait of George Washington in front of soldiers. In al... More

Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama

Originally built in 1852, the Battle House was established on the site of a military headquarters set up by Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812. The property served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil ... More

Architectural detail, interior, Battle House Hotel, Mobile, Alabama

[Portrait of seated man holding the Charleston Zeitung, possibly the o...

Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:147). Forms part of: Daguerreotype Collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

[Abraham Lincoln while campaigning for the U.S. Senate, taken in Chica...

Original photograph: The original daguerreotype is at the Chicago Historical Society. Ostendorf, no. 6 Meserve, no. 3 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Roc... More

De Joinville, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Constitutional Convention, Topeka, Kansas Territory [Topeka]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 1, no, 1 (1855 Dec. 15), p. 16.

Honorable Chas. Brooks Hoard of N.Y - Public domain portrait photograp...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Manufactured arms for the Gov't during Civil War. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purc... More

Honorable Sempronius Hamilton Boyd, American Civil War Photograph, Gla...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. M.C. from MO; Commanded Lyon Legion Regt in 1861; Raised the 24th Mo. Inf. during Civil War and served as Colonel. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph colle... More

Honorable John Bell of Tenn, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Nega...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of C... More

General John Gordon, C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Nega...

A black and white photo of a man with a pipe in his mouth. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andrew Johnson, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Confederate Generals. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War pe...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Copy neg; Gen. Pierce, Wilcox; Photographed in Mexico Oct. 9, 1865. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogra... More

General William Cogswell, U.S.A., Glass negative photograph, American ...

A black and white photo of a man in a military uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maj. Tinletty, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General D.B. Birney, U.S.A., Glass negative photograph, American Civil...

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Honorable Gerrit Smith of N.Y., American Civil War Photograph, Glass N...

A man with a long beard sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Honorable Andrew Johnson, half-length portrait, facing left]

Brady-Handy Collection (Library of Congress). Print reversed from original(?) LC-BH82-4437.

General Briggs. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side: _iggs. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Mrs. U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

General Meredith, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Briggs, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lt. Stoakes, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Meigs, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War pe...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Meigs. M.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More

Executive Committee of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Left to right: Dr...

Title from: Nevins, A., ed. The Diary of George Templeton Strong, The Civil War, 1860-1865, 1952, p. 208a. Caption from unverified information on negative sleeve: New York Police. Commissioners in sixties. File... More

Honorable John Bell of Tenn, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Nega...

Gideon Welles, 1802-1878. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Half length, seated, facing right. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crane ; Croskey ; Davis, Jefferson ; Davis, L.R

Page in album contains cartes de visite portraits of a Union officer named Crane; a man in civilian dress named Henry Croskey by photographer Edward P. Hipple, 820 Arch Street, Philadelphia, which is signed on ... More

General W.S. Hancock, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. C... More

General and Mrs. J. B. Ricketts - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Meigs, U.S.A., Glass negative photograph, American Civil War t...

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Honorable Abram Wakeman, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. M.C. N.Y.; at the outbreak of Civil War raised the 81st Pa. Vols. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ulysses S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Unverified information on negative sleeve: Grant. Horan item no. 260. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Ev... More

General Tyler, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bishop Reverend (John) McGill, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Ne...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. [?] of his church destroyed during the Civil War; Care of wounded and established an infirmary in Richmond to their benefit; consecrated Bishop on Nov. 10, ... More

Mrs. U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jefferson Davis in uniform with sword in front of painted backdrop sho...

In album: U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period, leaf 5, lower left.

General W.S. Hancock, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Hancock. Stereo filed in LOT 4191. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Lib... More

Col. E.G. Marshall. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War peri...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: E.G. Marshall. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

George H. Boker, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: George H. Boker. Author. During Civil war wrote many patriotic lyrics collected in volume called Poems of... More

James J.M. Wardrop, Esqr. Grenadier Guards - Roger Fenton's Crimean Wa...

James J.M. Wardrop, full-length portrait, seated on gabion, facing slightly right. Title transcribed from verso. Photo marked for cropping with vertical line on the left. "231" written or printed to the left of... More

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General U.S. Grant, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Storming of Palace Hill at the Battle of Monterey [i.e. Monterrey] / D...

Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey, led by General Zachary Taylor and General William J. Worth, during the Mexican-American War. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos... More

General H.W. Halleck, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Halleck. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints a... More

Executive Committee of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Left to right: Dr...

Title information from: Nevins, A., ed. The Diary of George Templeton Strong, The Civil War, 1860-1865, 1952, p. 208a; and D. Dodge, 2017. Caption from unverified information on negative sleeve: New York Police... More

Confederate Generals, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Col. F.G. D'Utassy & Brother, Glass negative photograph, American Civi...

A couple of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Col. E.G. Marshall, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time...

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Honorable William Irvine of N.Y, American Civil War Photograph, Glass ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. B. Broome Co, N.Y. 1820, d. San Francisco, Cal. 1882; practiced law, Corning, N.Y. 1849; M.C. 1859-61; served Civil War; Lieut. Col. 10th Reg. Cav. N.Y. Vo... More

Alex Stephen, C.S.A., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Joinville, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andrew Johnson, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring & summer 1855, publ...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, men, a woman, and two children standing in a large drawing room, and at bottom, men, a woman, and two children standing outdoors on a street at seaside. At bottom c... More

Prof. French, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

A black and white photo of a man with a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John C. Fremont, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Explorer. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; ... More