vintage advertisement

Dude sweet music, superb costumes.

Harry Montague's Comedy Company. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Déesse 16, rue Halévy, Paris / / PAL.

Poster shows semi-nude goddess in flight holding bicycle above crowd of bicyclists from all over the world.

Electors, do you want to "wait and see" any more of this?

Black and red ink on white lithograph depicting Redmond as a cat ("Irish American Party"), toying with Asquith as the mouse of "Government", produced by the Unionist Party, December 1910...Artist: Unknown.Print... More

Kellar, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Caption: Levitation. Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." No. 6152B. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress)

Publicola, Publius Valerius - Public domain portrait engraving

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William de la Cour - Jacob de Gheyn II - La jardiniere Italienne

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Front and back covers printed on the same sheet for a collection of lo...

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Beleg van Maastricht, 1676 - Public domain old map

Beleg van Maastricht door het Hollandse leger onder prins Willem III. Aangevangen op 7 juli maar afgebroken op 29 augustus 1676. Gezicht op de versterkingen van de stad in vogelvluchtperspectief. Op de voorgron... More

Driade. J. B. Martin inv. sculp.

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Edme Bouchardon - The Sign Poster

Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus (French, Paris 1692–1765 Paris)

Barbara, Erzherzogin von Österreich

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War and Pestilence! Horrible and unparalelled [i.e. unparalleled] mass...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4391E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Woman In the West; West Indian attacks; Broadsides; Shelf.

Moulin-Rouge (La Goulue) - Rijksmuseum public domain dedication

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Rope dancing - Marguerite Antoinette Lalanne Saqui

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Et l'on revient toujours A ses premiers amours.

Cartoon showing Napoleon I stepping down from throne into a marsh filled with frogs; in his left hand he holds a long pike with a liberty cap on top at which he is looking. DeVinck, 9541 Purchase; S. Emmering; ... More

Ballroom dancing on British and American 19th-century music covers

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Portrait of M.-J.-A.-N. de Coritat, Marquis de Condorcet

Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio (French, Monaco 1764–1827 Paris) Public domain photograph of portrait painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mademoiselle Taglioni. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Poster - Saxoléine pétrôle de sureté - Public domain lithograph

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Plate 12: Mr. de Robert Macaire, restauranteur, from 'Caricaturana,' p...

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Plate 8: Robert Macaire, doctor, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Le...

Public domain reproduction of Honore Daumier artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Honoré Daumier - French artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who lived in the 19th century.... More

Marie Taglioni als Sylphide, Dance

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Eugenie garter--Manufactured by the American Garter Company / Rae ...

Advertisement poster showing woman putting on garter. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

diable a quatre. Ballet d'Ad. Adam. Mazurka [Lithograph] Imp. Bertauts...

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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

Dance Les polonaises. Mazurkas - Public domain musical sheets

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French laundry - Kendall Mfg. Co. Providence R.I.

Advertisement for Kendall Mfg. Company's "French Laundry Soap" showing a young woman beating clothes on a rock.

Eugène Grasset - Nouveau Larousse illustré en six volumes

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Une rencontre en pleine eau - Drawing. Public domain image.

An encounter in open water Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caricature, La manoeuvre à bord, public domain cartoon image

A boat-manoeuvre Courtesy of Boston Public Library Public domain scan of 1840s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Best & cheapest book on the management of horses, mules, &c. By Denton...

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 197, Folder 34. Copy scanned: 1

Texas coming in. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A pro-Democrat cartoon forecasting the collapse of Whig opposition to the annexation of Texas. James K. Polk, the expansionist candidate, stands at right near a bridge spanning "Salt River." He holds an America... More

The minuet quadrilles. And The minuet de la cour composed by Jullien.

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Hydrarchos!! greatest wonder of the world. or great sea serpent ... No...

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 119, Folder 31.

Ultimatum on the Oregon question, Political Cartoon

In his typically jingoist view of Polk's handling of the Oregon question, the artist Edward Williams Clay belittles the self-interested attitudes of Europe toward the dispute. The issue of whether to settle the... More

Mr. Clay taking a new view of the Texas question

Illustration shows Henry Clay, dressed in doublet and breast plate with a brace of pistols at his waist, holding a carving knife and fork, at an open door in which a tiny "Mexican" cowers on a shelf. Below the ... More

Jim Crow Jubilee - A black and white drawing of a group of animals

Sheet music cover illustration with caricatures of ragged African American musicians and dancers. LOT subdivision subject: Negro Minstrels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Co... More

Leydekker, Melchior - Public domain portrait engraving

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Portret van Guillaume Natalis - Public domain portrait engraving

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Jim Crow complete in 150 verses

In English. (language) Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moritz der Gelehrte, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel

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[A farmer plowing a field]

Illus. in: Ruralia commoda. [Augsburg] : Johann Schüssler, ca. 16 Feb. (XIIII Kal. Mart.) 1471. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D... More

Card Number 161, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series...

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Ad convivium Euntis ornatus - Drawing. Public domain image.

Staande vrouw in een kostuum, ca. 1570, met klokvormige lange rok, waarvoor een schort. No. XIX Ein Fraw wann sie zu ....gehet.

advertisement from "Benjie's Guide to Edinburgh and vicinity ... Fifth...

This image has been taken from scan 000155 from "Benjie's Guide to Edinburgh and vicinity ... Fifth edition. [By James Brown Gillies.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, ... More

Portret van John Wilkes (staatsman)

Portret van de Engelse staatsman John Wilkes, zittend aan een tafel met een schrijfveer in de hand. Voor hem liggen manuscripten en boekbanden, waaronder Algernon Sidney's 'Discourses concerning Governement'.

Jost Amman - Adellijke vrouw in Venetiaanse dracht

Dame in Venetiaanse dracht ca. 1577, met 4 regelig vers in het Duits. Nr. CXIX uit "Habitus praecipuorum populorum, tam virorum quam foeminarum singulari arte depicti. Trachtenbuch darin fast allerley und der ... More

advertisement from "William Ewart Gladstone and his Contemporaries: fi...

This image has been taken from scan 000370 from volume 02 of "William Ewart Gladstone and his Contemporaries: fifty years of social and political progress". The title and subject terms of this image have been g... More

Miss Fabian, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by D...

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Card Number 11, Mattie Ferguson, from the Actors and Actresses series ...

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Card Number 165, Emma Corson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N1...

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Card Number 243, Lester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1)...

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Card Number 142, Miss Trowbridge, from the Actors and Actresses series...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century actress, cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette pack... More

Miss Belle, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Du...

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Card Number 198, Dollie Haskin, from the Actors and Actresses series (...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century actress, cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette pack... More

Jeune villageois, les jambes nues, montrant à un petit garçon des oise...

France Public domain scan of 17th-18th century artwork depicting a person and landscape background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wurmbrand, Josef Graf - Public domain portrait engraving

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Card Number 78, Miss Maynard, from the Actors and Actresses series (N1...

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Card Number 98, Miss Dille Dean, from the Actors and Actresses series ...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century actress, cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette pack... More

Halloo! Turks in Gotham - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed in stone: WA. Title appears as it is written on the item. Purchase (Hubbard Fund); (DLC/PP-1976:041). Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Oxygenated bitters. A sovereign remedy for fever & ague, dyspepsia, as...

Print shows a female figure sitting on a large ball with two cornucopia-like vases of flowers as part of a scroll design around the margins. Printed at bottom: Reed, Bates & Austin, Wholesale Druggists, Boston... More

Carter's spanish mixture, for the removal and permanent cure of all di...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Price & Sons, Engravers... More

Théâtre du Cymnase [sic] Dramatique. La Senora Perea Nena: Lith. Desto...

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Slave traders branding an African woman at the Rio Pongo (in Guinea, W...

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Plato at Bridge End. J.D. Gray & Co. importers

Print shows a large advertisement with fashionably dressed men and women outside "J[ames] D. Gray & Co. Importers" with their purchases, as others race to enter the store in the background, also shows a railroa... More

Poster - Fine flavored new crop teas - Public domain lithograph

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Chapman, Henry, publish... More

Young America denims - Public domain scan / engraving

Advertising label showing boy on rigging of ship. Engraving by Everdell & Son.

All hail good templars - Engraving, Public domain image

LOT subdivision subject: Fraternal Organizations. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Balmer & Weber. Lithograph by Jno McKiltrick, No. 36 N. Main St., St. Louis, Mo.

Steamboat line. Stage notice. fare reduced! Cohasset, Scituate & the G...

Transportation.; Stage coach. 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 64, Folder 30.

Alphonse Mucha - Salon des Cent

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the FLYING MAN/ Who will again prove his wonderful power from the Gard...

Affiche Lettre - " DE [GROOT]/ Having studied the subject of Aer[o]sta[t]ion and benefited by the [ex]perience of every great Artiste for the last two centur[ies] incl[uded]/ RACQUVILLE/ BLANCHA [RD]/ GARNERIN/... More

Poster - Rodeo parade - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing a parade. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frank Miller presents the world's greatest dancing horses

Poster showing dancing horses. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tea tax, and Humble wish. Sold retail and wholesale by L. Deming, No. ...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laird's bloom of youth, for perserving the complexion & skin or liquid...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Laird, James, copyright... More

The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy

The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More

The folly of secession. - Political cartoon, public domain image

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The home of the American citizen after the tax bill has passed

Cartoon shows four tax collectors searching the home of an "American citizen," including under his wife's dress and under the children's bed; with the caption: "Scroggs says he is ready and willing to pay any a... More

[Preliminary emancipation proclamation.] during American Civil War

The house that Jeff built - Public domain drawing

An extended and bitter indictment of Jefferson Davis and the Southern slave system. The work consists of a series of twelve vignettes with accompanying verse, following the scheme of the nursery rhyme "The Hous... More

Advantage of "famine prices" - Public domain portrait engraving

Cartoon showing a nurse about to give some quinine to a sickly boy who tells her that he wishes he was in Dixie because the cost of quinine is so high there that it would be unlikely she would waste it on him.

The True Issue or "Thats Whats the Matter"

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Poster - The Yeomen of the guard - Public domain lithograph

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Dance Ruck-ruck-galop: hitch-hitch - Public domain musical sheets

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Franchise. And not this man? / Th. Nast.

Columbia speaking, with hand on shoulder of Civil War soldier, who lost a leg in the war. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Aug. 5, p. 489.

Poster - The grand Duke poster - Public domain lithograph

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Poster - The chieftain poster - Public domain lithograph

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Boy's reins with bells attached. Lunch boxes, all sizes and styles ......

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 71, Folder 59.

The Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866

A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the conventi... More

The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the ...

One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 186... More

Edward Penfield - Harper's: August

Edward Penfield (American, Brooklyn, New York 1866–1925 Beacon, New York)

Spring-Heeled Jack parts the lovers from "Spring-heel'd Jack: the Terr...

This image has been taken from scan 000101 from "Spring-heel'd Jack: the Terror of London. A romance of the nineteenth century, by the author of the “Confederate's Daughter” ... Illustrated, etc". The title and... More

Poster - Tribune: Sunday Fiction - Public domain lithograph

George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L'Escarmouche journal illustré hebdomadaire

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Philadelphia Sunday Press: November 15

George Reiter Brill (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1867–1918 Florida) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Full page of advertisements and a political cartoon "Preparing for th...

Poster - Tribune: Sunday, 19th century - Public domain lithograph

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Irène Henry poster - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Beale's late Powell's embrocation

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Beale, Jos. B., designe... More

El Vulcano - Drawing. Public domain image.

Tobacco label showing vulcan, god of fire and patron of metallurgy, making a sword in front of volcano with cutout section. LOT subdivision subject: Mythology (Greek and Roman) Gods. Title and other informati... More