This pristine scene at Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley dates from the 1860s. Photographer Carleton Watkins' images are credited with encouraging members of Congress to pass legislation that required California to protect the area from development. Subsequent efforts by landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and naturalist John Muir resulted in Yosemite becoming a national park in 1890.
Watkins created more than 100 views of Yosemite, which you can visit online at the Library of Congress.
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer
Mirror Lake, Yosemite
[ca. 1865]
1 photographic print : albumen ; photo 52.1 x 39.9 cm, mount 68 x 54.7 cm.
Subjects:
Reflections.
Mountains.
Lakes & ponds.
Trees
Yosemite National Park
United States--California
Format:
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Landscape photographs--1860-1870.
Mammoth plates--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09982
Call Number: LOT 4590, no. 1 (H)
Tags: Yosemite Mirror Lake Watkins California national park
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer.
[Shows As He Goes, half-length portrait]
c1905.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Curtis no. 276-05.
LC no. 87.
Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 26.
Title devised by Library staff.
Subjects:
Shows As He Goes.
Indians of North America--1900-1910.
Format: Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
For more information about this collection, see www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ecur/
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03891
Call Number: LOT 12331, box 3 [item]
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03891 xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ American Indian Native American Indian Edward Sheriff Curtis Edward S. Curtis North American Indian
Levine, Estelle, artist.
Amateur contest for children
[New York : Federal Art Project], 1936.
1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color.
Notes:
Date stamped on verso: Dec 18 1936.
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 184
Poster announcing amateur piano contest, showing two girls playing piano.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004-05.
Subjects:
Children--1930-1940.
Contests--1930-1940.
Pianos--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
Format: Posters--1930-1940.
Screen prints--Color--1930-1940.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
For more information about this collection, see www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos/
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05592
Call Number: POS - WPA - NY .L45, no. 1
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.05592 xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ poster piano children music music contest 1936 art nouveau A2FP
Temple of liberty
1834.
1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; image 23.5 x 38 cm.
Notes:
Copyrighted by Jared Bell, New York, 1834.
The print was deposited for copyright by Jared Bell in the District Court of the Southern District of New York on April 2, 1834.
Title appears as it is written on the item.
A crude allegorical woodcut, bold in design, and probably produced for a banner or similar type of display. In the center is a peristyle Temple with an altar on which the figure of Liberty rises from a flame. The figure holds the "Bill of Rights," a staff and a liberty cap. The altar is inscribed "Preserved by Concord." To the left is a man with a horse, offering wheat; on the right an Indian with a buck deer offers an animal pelt. Behind the temple are thirteen stars. Above is an eagle with shield, olive branch and lightning bolts, and a streamer with the slogan "The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved." Two pedestals with figures flank the image. On the far left is Justice, on the right Minerva.
Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1834-2.
Exhibited in: Creating the United States, Library of Congress, 2008.
Subjects:
Minerva (Roman deity)--1830-1840.
Liberty--1830-1840.
Temple of Liberty.
Format: Allegorical prints--1830-1840.
Woodcuts--1830-1840.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2005680400
For more information about this collection, see www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/app/
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17520
Call Number: PC/US - 1834.B444, no. 1
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17520 xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ Temple of Liberty The Union Must and Shall Be Preserved Jared Bell woodcut banner Liberty Bill of Rights liberty cap Preserved by Concord Justice Minerva cartoon print Union New York 1834
Askew, Thomas E., 1850?-1914, photographer
[Four African American women seated on steps of building at Atlanta University, Georgia]
[1899 or 1900]
1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
Notes:
Untitled photo in album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 362.
Title and photographer attribution based on research by D. Willis in Small nation of people.
Served by appointment only. Material requires special handling. For more information, see www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html
Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Small nation of people ... / Library of Congress ... New York: Amistad, 2003, p. 62-63.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005.
Subjects:
African Americans--Women--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900.
Clothing & dress--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900.
Students--Georgia--Atlanta--1890-1900.
Format: Portrait photographs--1890-1900.
Group portraits--1890-1900.
Gelatin silver prints--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. Du Bois albums of photographs of African Americans in Georgia exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 (DLC) 99471631
For more information about this collection, see www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08778
Call Number: LOT 11930, no. 362
Tags: Library of Congress dc:identifier=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08778 xmlns:dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ African American black women seated steps Atlanta University 1900 Thomas E. Askew photograph Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A. W.E.B. Du Bois