Original Plan of Washington, D.C.

Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825)
Plan of the city intended for the permanent
seat of the government . . .
Manuscript map on paper, 1791
Geography & Map Division

The U.S. Capitol

Stephen Hallet (1755-1825)
[Sectional elevation Showing the
U.S. Capitol Conference Room]
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1793
Prints & Photographs Division

The President's House

Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)
View of the East Front of the
President's House . . .
Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper, 1817
Prints & Photographs Division

Early Views of Washington

John Plumbe, Jr. (1809-1857)
[United States Capitol, Washington,
D.C., east front elevation]
LC-USZC4-3595
Half-plate daguerreotypes, ca. 1846
Prints & Photographs Division

A Gothic Revival Church

Richard Upjohn (1802-1878)
[Unidentified Gothic Revival
Church], interior view
Graphite, ink and watercolor
on paper, ca. 1850s
LC-USZC4-4560

The Genius of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Dr. John Storer House, Hollywood,
California. Perspective
Graphite and colored pencil on
Japanese paper, 1923
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-1867

The Woolworth Building

Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
Woolworth Building, New York City.
Sketch elevation
Graphite on paper, December 31, 1910
Prints & Photographs Division

Portinari Murals at the
Library of Congress

Cândido Portinari (1903-1962)
Teaching of the Indians
Gouache on paper
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist,1941

Charles and Ray Eames

Christmas Cards sent to Charles
and Ray Eames
Design: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner,
ca. 1946
Prints & Photographs Division
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames
by bequest of Ray Eames, 1988

Early American Architecture

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)
Johnston Mill, Albermarle County, Virginia
Gelatin silver print
Prints & Photographs Division

St. Louis Bridge

F. Welcker
Democrat Lithography and Printing Company
The Bridge at St. Louis
Color lithograph, 1874
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposits, 1874 (133.5)

The Cotton Exchange

Hughson Hawley (1850-1936)
New York Cotton Exchange Building,
New York City
Perspective rendering, ca. 1883
Watercolor on illustration board
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchase, 1999 (141.7)

Modernist Architecture

Paul Rudolph (1918-1997)
Walker Residence, Sanibel Island, Florida Perspective rendering, 1952
Ink and acetate shading film
on illustration board
Prints and Photographs Division
Bequest of Paul Rudolph, 1997 (139.7)

Healy Guest House

Grand Central Station

Barry A. Birrie
Grand Central Terminal, New York City
Ink on linen, 1910
Prints and Photographs Division
Purchase, 1999 (230.4)

A Working Class Home

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Project for the Blumberg House
Colored pencil and
ink on paper, 1955
Prints and Photographs Division
Purchase (195.3)

Grammar of Ornament

Owen Jones (1809-1874)
The Grammar of Ornament.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchase, 2000 (146B.3)

Early American Wallpaper

Joseph Rameé, distributed by
Messrs. Virchaux & Co.
"Design of double columns, ornamented with grapes and vine leaves--another part ornamented with losanges, placed horizontally forming the intervals"
Color block prints from wood engravings
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit,
between 1810 and 1820 (146.7)

Fabric Design

Ray Eames (1912-1988)
Dot Pattern fabric designs, ca. 1941
Pencil on tracing paper
Prints & Photographs Division
The work of Charles and Ray Eames
Collection at the Library of Congress
by bequest of Ray Eames, 1988 (141.10a)

Iron Architecture

Sarony, Major & Knapp
Illustrations of Iron Architecture
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1865
Prints & Photographs Division
(146a.6, 146a.7)

A Shaker Community

Peter Foster
Diagram of the South Part of
Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH
Manuscript map
Ink and watercolor on paper, 1849
Geography & Map Division (25.2)

Gordon Strong Automobile Objective

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Perspective for the Gordon
Strong Automobile Objective,
Sugar Loaf Mountain, Maryland,
ca., 1925-1929
Graphite and colored pencil on Japanese paper
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift, Donald D. Walker, 1986 (141.9)

Studies for Jefferson Building Murals

Kenyon Cox (1856-1919)
Study for Architecture, ca. 1895
Drapery study for figure of Botany, ca. 1895
Graphite drawings
Prints & Photographs Division
Exchange with the
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1945 (7.11a,b)

Majestic Library Interior

George W. Peters
Congressional Library, [1896-1910]
Watercolor on paper.
Cabinet of American Illustration
Prints & Photographs Division
(7A.8)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09898

A Muralist's Study

Kenyon Cox (1856-1919)
"Venice" [drapery study for central figure],
ca. 1893
Graphite drawing
Prints & Photographs Division
Exchange, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1945 (195.7a)
Digital ID# ppmsca-05390

Worthy of Washington

Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823-1896)
Washington Monument As It Stood for 25 Years
Copyprint made from original glass plate
negative, ca. 1860
Prints & Photographs Division (146A.14)
Digital ID# LC-DIG-cwpbh-03248

Boston's "Big Dig" Project

Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947)
View of the Expressway at North End, Boston
Gelatin silver print, 2001
Prints & Photographs Division (142.9a)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09894

The Willard Lobby, ca. 1904

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)
Willard Hotel [Lobby viewed from balcony],
ca. 1904
Gelatin silver print
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the Frances Benjamin Johnston estate, 1953 (243)
Digital ID# ppmsca-11571

Documenting the Restoration

Carol M. Highsmith
Willard Room under demolition with fallen capital and column, ca. 1981
Cibachrome color print
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of photographer, 1992 (233)
Digital ID#s ppmsca-11563

The "New" Willard

George R. Lawrence
Ninth Annual Banquet, Architectural League of America, April 24, 1907
Gelatin silver print
Copyright deposit, 1907
Prints & Photographs Division (240)

The Washington Skyline

Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, architect
Mansard roof design study with window
Graphite on tracing paper, 1982-1983
Gift of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, 1991
Prints & Photographs Division (239)
Digital ID#s ppmsca-11568

Early American Wallpaper

Thomas Hurley, distributed by
Messrs. Virchaux & Co.
[Wallpaper design, composed of arch and trees]
Color block print from wood engraving, ca. 1816
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (146.10)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09892

Reporting Disaster

The Call-Chronicle-Examiner
San Francisco: April 19, 1906
Serial & Government Publications Division

The Baltimore Fire

Frederick W. Mueller, photographer
Cycloramic View of the Burned Area of Baltimore's Big Fire
Gelatin silver print, February 1904
Prints & Photographs Division (142.1)
Copyright deposit, 1904

Picturing the World

Underwood & Underwood.
Searching for Family Relics
in Ruins of the Dear Old Home,
San Franscisco.
Washington, D.C.: 1901
Stereograph Copyright deposit, 1901
Prints & Photographs Division (144.4a,b)

Eyewitness to Disaster

Nellie Keohane to Mrs. Herman Hollerith
Holograph,
May 24, 1906
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Hollerith Family, 1995 (143.4)

World's Columbian Exposition

Rand McNally and Company
Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: 1893
Color lithograph map
Geography & Map Division (213A.4)
Digital ID# 4104c pm001522

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

Pillsbury Picture Company
The Burning of San Francisco, April 18, [19]06, Gelatin silver print, 1906
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1906 (142.4)
LC-USZ62-130410

Street Musicians

William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
Street Musicians, ca. 1940
Silkscreen
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Harmon Foundation, ca. 1970 (151.9)

Martha Graham's Lamentation

Herta Moselsio
"Lamentation,"ca. summer 1937
Silver gelatin prints
Music Division
Purchase, 2001 (233.2, 234.2)

Hans Christian Andersen

Frank Loesser (1910-1969)
"I'm Hans Christian Andersen."
New York: Frank Music Corp, 1951
Sheet music
Music Division
Gift from Sylvia Fine, 1990 (169.5a, 169.5b)

Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
"The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Holograph score for band,
April 26, 1897
Music Division

Courting Flutes

Native American flutes
Red Fox, Quapaw
Miami, Oklahoma, 1900-1925
John Spear, maker
Nebraska Winnebago, 1922
Henry Johnson, maker
Ute, 1921
Music Division

Jelly Roll Morton and the
"Frog-I-More Rag"

Ferdinand Joseph "Jelly Roll" Morton (1885-1941)
"Frog-i-More Rag"
Music manuscript, ca. 1908
Music Division
78 rpm Paramount recording
Hand-colored photograph
Recorded Sound Reference Center

"London Blues"

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll"
Morton (1890-1941)
"London Blues" [1923]
Holograph score, in ink.
Music Division
Copyright Deposit (153.5)

Porgy and Bess

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
Porgy and Bess, title page
Holograph full score, 1934-35
Music Division

A Ballet for Martha

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Holograph score, 1943-44
Music Division

Appalachian Spring

Sophisticated Gentleman

William P. Gottlieb (b. 1917)
[Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington]
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1947
Prints & Photographs Division

A Ballet for Balanchine

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Agon
Composer's autograph reduction
for two pianos, 1957
Music Division

Something's Coming

Leonard Bernstein (1918-90)
and Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
"Something's Coming" from
West Side Story
Holograph piano-vocal score, 1957
Music Division

The Last Tour

Program, 1925
Photograph of Houdini Souvenir Program
From the McManus-Young Houdini scrapbooks
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

The Nature of Dance

William Bowne
Le Sacre du Printemps, August 5, 1937
"Chosen Virgin"
Mixed media costume designs
Music Division

Empress of The Blues

Carl Van Vechten
Bessie Smith
Gelatin silver print, 1936
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-100863

Apollon-Musagète

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Apollon-Musagète
Composers autograph score, 1928
Music Division
Gift of the composer, 1963 (167.1)

Costume for Show Boat

Lucinda Ballard
Costume design for dancer
Show Boat, 1946 revival
Music Division
Gift of Dorothy Hammerstein, 1960s (163.3)

Theatrical Wigs and Beards

The Graphic Company
M. Shindhelm's Theatrical Wigs, Beards, &c.
New York:[187-]
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (166A)

Dance Theater Designs

Peggy Clark (1915-1996)
Elizabeth Montgomery (1902-1993)
Designs for the Agnes de Mille
Dance Theatre, 1953
Watercolors
Music Division
Gift of Douglas and Nancy
Clark, 1998 (159.4 a-f)

"Star Dust"

Hoagy Carmichael, music
Mitchell Parish, words
"Star Dust"
Holograph full score, 1930
Music Division
Gift of the composer (161.4)

Clare Boothe Luce's The Women

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
The Women
Scene descriptions with notes and playscript, ca. 1935-36
Clare Booth Luce Papers
Manuscript Division
Gift, 1958 (179.6a, b)

Cushman on Stage

Washington Theater
Charlotte Cushman in Hamlet!
Broadside on silk, February 16, 1861
Manuscript Division
Gift of Victor & Louise Cushman, 1925 (166.5b)

Costume Designs
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Robert Byrne
Costume designs, Olivia and Feste, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
September 19, 1935, New York City
Graphite and watercolor
Music Division
W.P.A. Transfer (159.6, 159.7)

Some Enchanted Evening

Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)
"Some Enchanted Evening"
from South Pacific
Holograph, 1949
Music Division
Motion Picture, Broadcasting &
Recorded Sound Division
Gift of Composer, 1960 (170A)

Tenor Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes (1887-1977)
N'Goni: A Lament. An East [African
Native Song of Nyasaland]
Holograph manuscript, 1957
Music Division
Copyright deposit, 1959 (156.4 )

El Capitan March

Photograph
Silver-gelatin print, ca. 1915
Music Division
Gift of John Phillip Sousa IV (151.7, 151.8)

The Indian Court Series

Louis B. Siegriest (1899-1990)
Pueblo Turtle Dancers from an Indian Painting, New Mexico Indian Court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939
[California]: Federal Arts
Project, WPA, 1939
Silkscreen color poster
Prints and Photographs Division (158.6)

The Black Patti

The Black Patti,
Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones:
The Greatest Singer of Her Race.
Metropolitan Printing Company,
New York: 1899
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (155.2)

"This is the Army, Mr. Jones"

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
"This Is The Army, Mr. Jones,"
Copyist's manuscript piano-vocal
score for the title song
Music Division
Gift of the Berlin family, 1992 (169.4a)

Actress Minnie Maddern Fiske

Langdon Mitchell
The Picture Book for "Becky Sharp"
a Play in Four Acts
New York: Herbert S. Stone, 1899
Manuscript Division
Gift of Olive Kooken, 1961

Shuffle Along

Eubie Blake (1883-1983), music
Nobel Sissle (1889-1975), lyrics
Shuffle Along
Libretto
Music Division
Copyright deposit, 1921 (155.3b)

Blind Singer

William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
Blind Singer, ca. 1940
Silkscreen
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Harmon Foundation, ca. 1970 (151.10)
LC-USZC4-1782

Tenor Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes
"Gi Me Yo Han"
Holograph manuscript
Music Division
Copyright deposit, 1959 (156.7)

My Fair Lady

Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
"I Could Have Danced All Night"
from My Fair Lady, 1956
Composer's autograph manuscript
Music Division
Gift of the composer (162.5)

Theater Poster Collection

Bencke & Scott
[Edwin Booth as "Hamlet"]
Chromolithograph poster, ca. 1873
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1873 (166A.2)

Minstrel Theater

H.C. Miner Litho. Co.
Primrose & Dockstader's Great Minstrels, Back Again, Lew Dockstader: 'the man who makes millions laugh.' New York: 1878
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1898 (169.7)

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Shows Combined. Phenomenal Acts of Contortion . . .
Color lithograph poster
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit (140.16b)
Digital ID# ppmsca-10078

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Wizard of Oz, 1949
Color lithograph poster
Lester Glassner Collection of Movie Posters
Prints & Photographs Division (154.10b)
Digital ID # ppmsca-09889

Pinocchio

Walt Disney Productions
Pinocchio, 1940
Color lithograph poster
Lester Glassner Collection
Prints & Photographs Division (154.10a)
Digital ID # ppmsca-09890

Piano Extract for The Birthday of the Infanta

Maurice Goldberg (b. 1895)
The Birthday of the Infanta
(Ruth Page (1899-1991)
Gelatin sliver print
Music Division
Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, 1963 (155.4)

Designer Robert Edmond Jones

Robert Edmond Jones (1889-1954)
Set Designs for Scene I of
The Birthday of the Infanta
Watercolors with graphite and ink
Music Division
Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, 1963 (155C)

Costume Design

Robert Edmond Jones (1889-1954)
Design for costume for
The Birthday of the Infanta
Water color and graphite and ink
Music Division
Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, 1963 (155D)

The Birthday of the Infanta

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Birthday of the Infanta
Portland, ME: T.B. Mosher, 1905
Rare Book & Special Collection Division (156.9)

Washington Post March

John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
"Washington Post March"
Holograph score for piano, 1889
Music Division
Gift of the Sousa Estate
(151.5)

Set Designs for Little Me, 1982

Tony Walton (b. 1934)
Designs for "Casa Mañana," scene in Little Me, 1982
Tony Walton Collection
Music Division
Purchase (155.5)
Shown online with permission of the artist

Bob Fosse's Dance notation for Little Me, 1962

Dance notation for Little Me, 1962
Fosse/Verdon Collection
Music Division
Gift of Gwen Verdon
(155.9)

Duck Soup

Paramount Pictures
The 4 Marx Brothers in Duck Soup
Color lithograph poster, 1933
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1933 (154.11a)

Favorite Shakespeare Play

Poster for Thomas Keene in Richard III
Cleveland: W.J. Morgan,1884
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (1)
LC-USZC4-6155

Father and Son from Hamlet

Bernard Brussel-Smith (1914-1989)
Polonius's Charge to Laertes, 1957
Color wood engraving
Prints & Photographs Division
Courtesy of Peter Brussel-Smith (2)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13464

Edwin Booth as Hamlet

Edwin Booth (1833-1893) as Hamlet
New York: J. Gurney & Son, ca. 1870
Prints & Photographs Division (3, 3.1)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13465

Lincoln's Favorite Play

Shakespeare Applied to Our National Bereavement
Boston: April 1865
Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (4.1)

Internationally Acclaimed American Actress

Prompt book for Charlotte Cushman's production of Hamlet, ca. 1860
Papers of Charlotte Cushman
Manuscript Division (5)

Hamlet in Shorthand

Tales from Shakespeare:"Hamlet," by Charles and Mary Lamb
Shorthand plates written by Winifred Kenna Richmond
Illustrations by Astrid F. Gescheidt
New York: Gregg Publishing, 1931
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (6.1)

Hume Cronyn Prepares for Role

Zoë Dominic, photographer. Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) as Shylock
Program for Stratford Festival of Canada production of The Merchant of Venice, 1976
Papers of Hume Cronyn/Jessica Tandy
Manuscript Division
Courtesy of the Stratford Festival of Canada (8)

LBJ as Caesar

Herb Block (1909–2001)
Ev tu? June 10, 1966
Published in the Washington Post, June 10, 1966
Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on layered paper
Herbert L. Block Collection
Gift, 2002, Herb Block Foundation
Prints & Photographs Division
Courtesy of the Herb Block Foundation (10)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03497

Richard Nixon as Juliet

Herb Block (1909-2001)
"'Tis But Thy Name that is My Enemy," 1960
Published in the Washington Post, October 6, 1960
Ink, ink spatter, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing
Herbert L. Block Collection
Gift, 2002, Herb Block Foundation
Prints & Photographs Division
Courtesy of the Herb Block Foundation (11)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13466

Grover Cleveland as Hamlet

George Yost Coffin (1850-1896)
"Still am I called, unhand me gentlemen. . . ." Hamlet, 1880-1900
Prints & Photographs Division (12)
LC-USZ62-10335

Andrew Johnson as Iago

Thomas Nast (1840-1902)
Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction and How It Works
Harper's Weekly, September 1, 1866
Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection
Prints & Photographs Division (13)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13467

Bill Mauldin on Vietnam War

Bill Mauldin (1921-2003)
"From this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." (Shakespeare, Henry IV), 1965
Published in the Chicago Sun-Times, April 13, 1965
Crayon, ink, white out and blue pencil over pencil on layered paper
Bill Mauldin Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright Bill Mauldin, 1965. Courtesy of the Mauldin Estate
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13268 (14)

Paul Robeson as Othello

Scene from Othello with Paul Robeson (1898-1976) as Othello and Jose Ferrer (1912-1991) as Iago
Theatre Guild Production, Broadway, 1943-1944
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USW33-054941-ZC (7)

Antony and Cleopatra as Opera

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Opening of Act III of Antony and Cleopatra, op. 40, 1966
Holograph manuscript
Music Division (15)

Kiss Me Kate Lyric Sheet

Cole Porter (1891-1964)
"Brush up Your Shakespeare," from Kiss Me, Kate, 1948
Holograph lyric sheet
Cole Porter Collection, Music Division (17)

Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth

Nat Karson (1908-1954)
Costume design for Macbeth, 1938
Watercolor with fabric attachments
Performance photograph of Macbeth,1938
Federal Theatre Project Collection
Music Division (19)

Taming of the Shrew Costumes

Alexander Jones
Costume design for Bianca
Watercolor with fabric attachments
The Taming of the Shrew, New York City, 1938
Federal Theatre Project Collection
Music Division (20)

Romeo chewing tobacco label

James Moran & Co.'s Romeo, fine cut, chewing tobacco
St. Louis: James Moran and Co., 1873
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (23)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-13469