1920 s commoners

W. H. Grigsby - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Obregón - Campbell meeting / Roberts Foto, Nogales, AZ.

Obregón, Campbell and three other people in front of crowd on street.

[Men wearing gas masks standing in industrial building]

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Suffrage fire - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Group outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

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

Memorial Bridge. Construction of Memorial Bridge

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Judge Jn. Barton Payne (Golf) - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Outside Ebbets Field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Group, Wayne Smith garage - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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New York Times - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Guards on duty during the railroad strike

Six men standing along road by railroad tracks and bridge, Washington, D.C. National Photo Company Collection. No. 20089.

[Group of men and boys outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Hamilton Hotel, 15th and K Sts., N.W. Interior of Rainbow Room in Hami...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Maytag Washing Machine Company. Attaching legs

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International Nickel Co. at Walter Reed Hospital. Man soldering in nic...

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Organ grinder, New Orleans, first half of 20th century

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Fishing. Boys fishing in Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) canal

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Captain Mitchell group - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

F. Benjamin Postman - Public domain portrait photograph

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Outside Ebbets Field - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Crowds of people. Crowd leaving Griffith Stadium

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Hikers, 11/24/20 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a man and two children, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washing... More

Peoples Drug Store, 14 & U, interior, [Washington, D.C.]

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Dr. Grayson & Harman Davis - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Peoples Drug Store crowds, 14th and [...]

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L to R: Wilbur W. Marsh, Treas., Iowa, S.W. Fordyce, St. Louis

A black and white photo of two men sitting next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Capitol power plant. Roof repairs of U.S. Capitol power plant III

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th... More

Peoples Drug store, 18 & Col. Rd., [Washington, D.C.], soda fountian

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Cameron & Hays at Rotary Club luncheon

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Street scene, crowd walking - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Crowds at Mt. Vernon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Men at medium wave receiver and typewriters]

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[Street scene, two children on bicycle in front of S.S. Kresge, Washin...

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Crowd at church to view body of William J. Bryan, [7/30/25]

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A Republican-Democratic snow battle at the Capitol. Page boys

Date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Corresponding negative no.: LC-F81-27912. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Griffith Consumers Co. Men in work room with machinery

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Quaker Oats Factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Labeling and inspecting

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Gus. Gus at bar - Public domain photograph

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U.S. Capitol. Section of roof on U.S. Capitol being repaired I

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Freedom Gas Distillery. Men working

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

International Nickel Co. at the National Institute of Health. Man at c...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office, workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Electric Institute of Washington. Woman teaching men to iron II

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Mildred Harris Chaplin - Public domain demonstration photograph

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

Crowds of people. Crowd on field leaving ball game

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Alley Committee [...] - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Glass factory in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Several men at boilers in gl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sweeping up broken glass following Wall St. explosion in 1920, New Yor...

Photograph shows men with push brooms cleaning up rubble on sidewalk after explosion. ACME Photograph. No. 810331. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun News... More

Peoples Drug Store group - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Mrs. Adelaide Johnson - Public domain architectural photograph

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

Fokker Expresse, [9/21/21] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Peoples Drug store, 31 & M, [Washington, D.C.], soda fountian

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[Military camp?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[People dancing on beach], 7/6/22

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[Hooch Hound, a dog trained to detect liquor (as suggested to Commissi...

No. 17649. National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Street scene, Washington, D.C.]

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Crowds at cathedral, [2/7/24] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Public domain photograph of crowd, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[People at entrance to Harris & Ewing studio, Washington, D.C.]

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[Man dipping a bucket of sorghum sap from barrel at a mill propelled b...

J289980 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint by Caulfield and Shook. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Men watching debris being cleaned up at row houses on A St., NE, near...

Title devised by Library staff based on illustration showing the same houses and roof damage in the Washington Post, Nov. 19, 1927, p. 20. (Formerly misidentified as damage from a storm on July 30, 2013.) Writt... More

Tidal Basin. People leaving Tidal Basin

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man working at pri...

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Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man binding books ...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indians selling pottery at Santa Fe R.R. station, Albuquerque, N. Mex.

Stereograph showing three Indian women with children selling pottery on street outside of railroad station; man with camera buying small trinket from woman. J240540 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1905 by Keys... More

The milkman tunes in at milking time

Photograph showing dairy farmer tuning radio as he prepares to milk a cow while wearing headphones. J263373 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from SSF item. Formerly in LOT 5191

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A group of men walking down a sidewalk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. a... More

Broom factory for blind - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Men standing or sitting in front of the former Bank of Louisiana, 334 ...

Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New bicycle helps solve transit problem

Photograph shows a man posed with unusual bicycle; approximate in size and shape of a unicycle.

Canadian scenes. At the road sign

Public domain photograph - historical image of Canada, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowds of people. Pedestrians crossing at Vermont and H Sts. II

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[Dr. Charles Norris, New York City's first chief medical examiner]

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

William R. Williams - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Hutchinson, Ray Vardon, McLeod - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Camera men - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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C. Newburgh - Public domain 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

A. Mitchell Palmer - Public domain portrait photograph

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

O. D. Kinsman - Public domain portrait photograph

A man in a suit and hat holding a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Policeman and another man at White House gate - snow view]

Photograph by National Photo Co. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Crowd in line outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

A long line of people in coats and hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martens, Kenneth Durantt - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of three men in coats and hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group outside White House; includes James J. Davis, center. Washingto...

A group of men in suits and hats standing outside of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Racing returns crowd - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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[Henry C. Wallace addressing crowd outside Agriculture building. Washi...

Public domain photograph related to architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Street scene, Washington, D.C.]

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group at train station] - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous subjects. Printer setting type

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Miscellaneous subjects. Man filing documents in cabinets

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Baseball fans--"Hot dogs" for fans waiting for gates to open at Ebbets...

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Baseball Americana" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 2018-June 2019.

People's Drug Store baseball team, Washington, D.C.

People's Drug Store baseball team standing on field behind two men in suits holding trophy. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

"The barber" - A man getting his hair cut at a barber shop

Photograph shows barber shaving a man's face. J260519 U.S. Copyright Office.

Boats. People watching regatta II

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

Wall St. bomb - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo taken at the Wall Street terrorist bombing, Sept. 16, 1920, in the New York City financial district. (Source: Library staff, 2008)

J.S. Flannery - Public domain monumental decor photograph

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

U.S. Capitol power plant. Roof repairs of U.S. Capitol power plant IX

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th... More

Peoples Drug Store, interior, 11th & G, [Washington, D.C.]

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Chas. Clause - Public domain portrait photograph

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

New ether - a great medical discovery. ... Dr. J.H. Cotton, the invent...

Photo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston Misc.; Medicine; BI; Photog. I.; Laboratory animals; Ansethesia; Medi... More

Justice Van Devanter & McKenna - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Hayes, Harding & Coolidge - Public domain portrait photograph

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