Celebrities 1920s-1960s | LOC's Public Domain Archive collections

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Sylvia Field, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actress Sylvia Field (1901-1998) who starred in the play "Broadway" in 1927. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. F... More

Mary A. Shanley being congratulated by Mayor La Guardia, Deputy Chief ...

Photograph shows Mary A. Shanley, New York City detective, half-length portrait, facing right, shaking hands with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia; John Lyons is standing on the right. NYWT&S staff photograph. Dat... More

Rookie Senators engage in first 'Bull' session with Vice President Gar...

A group of men sitting on top of a couch, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Genera... More

[Actress Mary Pickford, a strong supporter of women's rights, buys the...

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Mary Pickford, seated, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing a suit and hat, and holding a sheet of Equal Rights seals. Title derived by Library of Congres... More

Charlotte Greenwood proves her agility despite the fact that she's nea...

Actress Charlotte Greenwood throwing up her hands and laughing as she performs a split. NYWT&S staff photograph by Al Ravenna. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection ... More

[Oveta Culp Hobby, half-length portrait, seated, facing left] / World ...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, full-length portrait,...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Portrait of Doris Day, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 103 (gottlieb assignment) 103 (assign... More

Mrs. Alexander Stevens, pictured as she sails today on the Batory / Wo...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Louis Armstrong, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, looking a...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Carl Sandburg, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / World-Tele...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

[Marjorie Tallchief, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / Worl...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Children's author Ted Geisel, (Dr. Seuss), three-quarter length portr...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[New York City Mayor Robert Wagner greeting the teenagers who integrat...

Pictured, front row, left to right: Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls, Mayor Wagner, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray; back row, left to right: Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Melba Pattilo, Jeffe... More

[Betty Friedan, half-length portrait, facing right] / World Telegram &...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Malcolm X at Queens Court / World Telegram & Sun photo by Herman Hille...

Malcolm X, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Bayard Rustin (center) speaking with (left to right) Carolyn Carter, ...

NYWT&S staff photo by Ed Ford. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mayor John Lindsay, full-length portrait, seated behind desk and micr...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Elia Kazan, full-length portrait, standing before bookshelves at Bren...

World Journal Tribune staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Portrait of Alvin Ailey] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII MM 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday (Lady Day)]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: II GG 11. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 24. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks)]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I OO 2. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXV B 27. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Rufino Tamayo, holding guitar]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVI BB 16. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Portrait of Fannie Hurst] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I B 28. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Bill Robinson] - Public domain portrait print

Full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing bowler and pointing to the floor. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXV B. Also available on microfilm. Gift... More

[Portrait of Judith Anderson, as Medea]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII EE 19. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Clare Boothe Luce]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VI B 23. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Henry Miller] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV Q 5. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Helen Morgan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: FF 19. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

[Portrait of Margaret Bonds] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV PP 70. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Giovanni Martinelli]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: V O. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LO... More

[Portrait of John A. Williams, author of Night Song]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VII TT 13. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Portrait of Edith Sampson] / Edith

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV GG 13. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Leontyne Price] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I JJ 2. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Alexander Woollcott]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I O 18. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Malcolm Cowley] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: III VV 2. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Joyce Bryant] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVIII K 17. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Carol Brice] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXII CC 18. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I OO 13. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks)]

Full-length portrait, seated, facing left, playing horn. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I 00 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 19... More

[Portrait of Thomas Wolfe] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXIII K 15. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Beveridge Webster]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVII G 41. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Floretta McCutcheon demonstrates the proper way to hold a bowling bal...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Baroness Marie von Trapp (front) and five of her ten singing children ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mrs. Sally Benson, head-and-shoulders portrait, seated facing right] ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June 19...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb In: "Posin'," Down Beat, v. 13, no. 12 (June 3, 1946), p. 3. Forms part of:... More

[Portrait of Jack Teagarden, Jack Lesberg, and Max Kaminsky, Famous Do...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Alexander Stevens, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / World...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Handwritten note on verso: J.V. Peters [an alias of Alexander Stevens], communist at 70 Columbus Ave., Immigration Service hearing. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun N... More

[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen as they le...

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Jeryl Johnson, Hillie Merritt, Gretchen Foster, Carol Toby, Myrna Fah...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mrs. Mary Lasker, half-length portrait, presenting award] / World Tel...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

[Truman Capote, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in a chair,...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Venezuelan-born society sculptress Marisol Escobar looks quizzically a...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Whitney Young, three-quarter length portrait, standing next to a book...

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey shaking hands with Dr. King, as ...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dr. & Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facin...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Winston during early years - Public domain portrait print

During Churchill's final illness, early photographs of his life were published including: four year old Churchill, full-length, standing, held by his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill (left) three-quarter-length,... More

[Portrait of Ethel Waters, "Cabin in the Sky"]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVII S 1. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Anna May Wong, in "Turandot" at Westport]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: V L 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

[Portrait of Noble Sissle] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXII II 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Norman Douglas, on the Arno, Firenze]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII I 4. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI MM 21. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Gloria Davy, as Aida, Act I, Scene I, "Ritorna Vincitor"]

Full-length portrait, facing front. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I QQ 14. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: P... More

[Portrait of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VIII CC 10. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Bessie Smith] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: V J 23. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Diahann Carroll] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XII MM 18. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Portrait of Afrika Hayes] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVIII SS 21. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebriti... More

[Portrait of Bessie Smith holding feathers]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: V J 31. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Salvador Dali, Paris]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXV F 4. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. For more information about this collection see http... More

[Portrait of Marian Anderson] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XII Q. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More

[Portrait of Marsden Hartley] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VI P 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Sammy Davis, Jr., at an Urban League benefit at Birdland]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I PP 1. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Margaret Bonds] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV PP 15. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Oscar Polk] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIV K 32. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Truman Capote] - Public domain portrait print

With puppets in background. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV EE 16. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait... More

[Portrait of Janet Collins, in dancing pose]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: V GG 8. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a... More

[Portrait of Eartha Kitt] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVIII JJ 4. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of Pavel Tchelitchew]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV G 29. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Barnes foundation, Merion]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVI Q 14. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Alicia Markova, "The Dying Swan"]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV FF 9. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Leontyne Price, Porgy & Bess]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVII KK 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebritie... More

[Portrait of John Gielgud] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IX K 14. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Laurence Olivier] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VII P 32. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Roald Dahl] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XII LL 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

[Portrait of Jacob Lawrence] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. No Van Vechten number. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT ... More

[Portrait of Tallulah Bankhead]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXII E 7. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Abraham Cahan, half-length portrait, looking down at printed material...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Tom Yawkey, full-length portrait, facing left, seated on a bench with...

NYWT&S staff photo by Wm. C. Greene. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Rhys John Davies at Penn Hotel / World Telegram staff photographer Al ...

Rhys John Davies, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Kay Boyle, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned to the left, full face...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.

Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin and Oscar Hammerstein II, seated in bac...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Max Elitcher, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / World-Tele...

NYWT&S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Ed Sullivan, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

JU8317 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Maurice Carnes LaClaire. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Senator Lehman and Mayor & Mrs. Wagner / World Telegram & Sun photo by...

Photograph showing Senator Herbert Lehman, Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Mrs. Wagner eating hot dogs at Nathan's. NYWT&S staff photograph. Fischer story. Title from inventory. Forms part of: New York World-Telegra... More

[Will Mahoney, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, waving ha...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Bengt Strömgren, astronomer, Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin / World Tel...

Bengt Strömgren, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Jean Jacques Perrey and his Ondioline World Telegram & Sun photo by Ph...

Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Edgar J. Hoover - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, half-length portrait, facing front. Photo by Marion S. Trikosko. This record contains unverified data from "Famous People" reference aid. U.S. News & World Report ... More

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