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Side street, Salem, Illinois - Automobiles of 1940s

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Miss America pageant contestant Yolande Betbeze, full-length portrait...

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

Avenues and streets. View down Pennsylvania Ave., with Capitol and Old...

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

[Road construction delays traffic on West Side Highway, at 79th Street...

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

Shopping center, Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Street view, Mille...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Julie Harris, as Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera]

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

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing f...

JU7302 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ethel Merman still has the touch / World-Telegram photo by Walter Albe...

Ethel Merman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated at typewriter. NYWT&S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Little Rock, [Arkansas]. Filming high school classes / [TOH].

Photograph shows an African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S.... More

U.S.S.R. Moscow, Mr. Khrushchev & V.P. Nixon on T.V. at American exhib...

Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 2808, frame 33.

Portrait photo of [Portrait of Dr. Godfrey Nurse]

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

U.S.S.R., Moscow, temporary exhibit of Russian material

Photograph shows two men looking at an automobile display, one of several models exhibited at the USSR Exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, next to the American National Exhibition. (Source: Arianne Kouri, 201... More

Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

[John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963]

Photograph shows a close-up view of President and Mrs. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally and his wife. VAU 617-360 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Victor Hugo King. Mr. King has since placed the pho... More

[Martin Luther King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, a...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Martin Luther King meets with Pres. Johnson at the White House, WKL, 12/3/63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purp... More

[Portrait of William Warfield] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, N.M.]

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[President John F. Kennedy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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

[Portrait of Diahann Carroll] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal]

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

[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim ...

Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in Harper's bazaar, January 1950. Original negative: LC-F9-01-4911-019-05. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New Yor... More

[Frank Lloyd Wright, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / Worl...

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

[Men pulling racks of clothing on busy sidewalk in Garment District, N...

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

Little Rock, Ark. Attempts to reopen schools / [TOH].

Photograph shows three pajama-clad white girls being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News &... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley at a news conference with Medgar Evers and Jack...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...

Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin L... More

[Attorney General Robert Kennedy testifying before a Senate subcommitt...

Public domain photograph related to JFK, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A. Philip Randolph, half-length portrait, facing front] / World Teleg...

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

[Congressman Alexander Pirnie reaching into a container of draft numbe...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Nationwide Draft Lottery: Selective Service Headquarters. 9-10a, Center, Rep. Alexander Pirnie (R-NY), Left, Retiring Selective Service Director Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Right,... More

[Portrait of Harold Arlen] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Margaret Bonds] - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, three-quarter length portrait, seated, fac...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jefferson Street Area Survey, 215 Jefferson Street (House), Alexandria...

Survey number: HABS VA-1052 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

Vintage car parked next to the Barcardi Rum building in Havana, Cuba

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

[ Danny Kaye, at left, stands in profile facing right, with both arms ...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye, free to use, no copyright... More

[Dwight D. Eisenhower, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson at the Democratic National Conve...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[ Mai Zetterling on phone standing next to a policeman with a woman in...

Production photograph from the film "Knock on Wood." (General)

[ Mai Zetterling and Danny Kaye with ventriloquist dolls - scene from ...

Production photograph from the film "Knock on Wood." (General) Public domain photograph of theatrical or movie production, scene, actors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Publ... More

[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).

[ Mai Zetterling (taking notes), Danny Kaye (in wig) and man in unifor...

Public domain photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. He was born on January 18, 1911, in B... More

[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

[Robert Frost, poet poses with his birthday cake on his 85th birthday]...

Robert Frost, half-length portrait, facing front, with his birthday cake.

Interview: Berry [i.e., Barry] Goldwater / MST.

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Goldwater. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&W... More

[Mrs. Constance Motley with Rev. Martin Luther King and William Kunstl...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Martin Luther King with leaders at the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10364, frame 25.

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).

[Seated left to right: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, Rep. William Fitts...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

Pres. L.B. Johnson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Bill / [WKL].

Photograph shows President Johnson signing the bill while seated at a table surrounded by members of Congress.

[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 Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond playing saxophone]

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

[Portrait of William Warfield] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Roy Wilkins] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXIX M 5. 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

American vintage cars line up near the Havana, Cuba, Capitol and China...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

A 1950s-vintage truck outside a general store in Jefferson, a town in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Vintage cars are everywhere in the suburbs of Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

Greeff Fabrics, business, at Mrs. Price's on E. 92nd St., New York Cit...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Diane Scholen, left, and Pat Kizeminski, right (runners-up) place dou...

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

[Tennessee Williams, full-length portrait, walking, at service for Dyl...

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

[John F. Kennedy leaving on gurney from hospital following spinal surg...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "100th Anniversary of the Birth of President John F. Kennedy" in th... More

[ Danny Kaye with Vera-Ellen - scene from "White Christmas"]

Production photograph from the film "White Christmas." (General) Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph related to Ameri... More

[Frank Lloyd Wright, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / Worl...

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

Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majority leader / [TOH].

Photograph shows Lyndon B. Johnson, half-length portrait, left profile, looking out a window.

Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the mo...

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

[Althea Gibson, half-length portrait, holding tennis racquet] / World ...

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

Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) at work on a drawing of a grinch, the hero of h...

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

[Ralph Schneider, bust portrait, facing front] / World Telegram & Sun ...

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

[Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (third from left), standing behind a g...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Admiral Hyman G. Rickover at Senate Preparedness Subcommittee hearings, with Ralph Flanders of Vermont, Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 1/58. TOH" U.S. ... More

[Robert Frost, poet who is 85 years old today] / World-Telegram photo ...

Robert Frost, bust portrait, facing right. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Pushcart market on Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City]

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

Pete Seeger arrives at Fed. Court with his guitar over his shoulder / ...

Pete Seeger, half-length portrait, turned right with guitar case slung over his shoulder. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

D/A Henry Wade (l) conducts press conf. in line-up room / New York Her...

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

Martin Luther King press conference / [MST].

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of King leaning on a lectern. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference... More

[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing front] / Wo...

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

[Asa Philip Randolph, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, beh...

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

[Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson reaches hand out to greet crowd of supporters...

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

[Elijah Muhammad addresses followers including Cassius Clay] / World T...

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

Salvatore Dali with ocelot friend at St Regis / World Telegram & Sun p...

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

Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party ...

Photograph shows bust portrait of Cleaver facing right. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR C... More

[Pres. Richard Nixon tossing out baseball, at Senators' opening game w...

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

Vintage car and telephone pods in Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

[Portrait of Diahann Carroll] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]

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

[Portrait of Ralph Bunche] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Matthew Henson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, holding a ...

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

[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

[Two women's league roller derby skaters leap over two who have fallen...

[Janet Collins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / World Tel...

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

Ludwig Baumann, Grand Central Palace Exhibit. Living room, model seate...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Lester P. W. Wehle, a live-poultry inspector for the city of New York...

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

Radiant-looking Grace Kelly waves good-bye to New York from the ocean ...

Title from note on verso. United Press photograph. No. NXP 1103145. Note on verso: The lone cameraman getting another angle on the departure is United Press staff photographer Joe Schuppe, who is accompanying t... More

[Katherine Dunham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / World ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Date stamped on verso: Jan 25 1956. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Sharply dressed, [gangster/gambler], Meyer Lansky as he left court tod...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Note on verso: Lansky plans return despite ban by Cuba: Jaunty and smiling, gambler Meyer Lansky walked out of Manhattan Arrest Court today and indicated, that despite what Cuba says, h... More

[Meyer Lansky, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left, at...

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