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The Americans have come. That's what the old woman in the doorway shouted to her sick husband as this American Red Cross medical unit arrived outside the thatched cottage in the Carpathian mountains. Red Cross Nurses are forced to travel on horseback and carry their supplies in ox carts in order to bring relief to the mountain districts of Roumania

The Americans have come. That's what the old woman in the doorway shou...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Dispensary Roumania. On caption card: (1036) Gift... More

Americans in Turkey. Admiral Bristol, his staff and American Red Cross relief workers, landing on Proti Island, near Constantinople, where refugees from Odessa and other Russian Black Sea ports are being cared for by the Amreican men and women of the Red Cross. There are 1,000 refugees at Prati Island who must be fed every day

Americans in Turkey. Admiral Bristol, his staff and American Red Cross...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: Ex. Keystone View. Oct. 13th. Group title: Personnel. Turkey.... More

[Native Americans at White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Native Americans at White House, Washington, D.C.]

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[Calvin Coolidge with group of Native Americans outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Calvin Coolidge with group of Native Americans outside White House, W...

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[Gathering with Native Americans, Washington, D.C.]

[Gathering with Native Americans, Washington, D.C.]

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

[Gathering with Native Americans, Washington, D.C.]

[Gathering with Native Americans, Washington, D.C.]

A crowd of people standing around a man holding a baby. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a stool, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a stool, West Virginia. Fa...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew Orne, Chinese, who has a mother, father, wife and four children still in China. Orne feels that the planes he builds will hasten the day of victory and bring about a reunion with his family. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. Building planes in an Eastern aircraft factory is Lew O...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial groups provide manpower for war industries. These youths, employees in a large Eastern bomber plant, are assembling bomb indicators. Both are graduates of government war training courses. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Americans of various racial grou...

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A poster comes to life. Thoroughly enjoying both Mrs. Woolslayer's homemade devil's food cake and his conversation with eight-year-old Georgie Ann Woolslayer, Sergeant Vineyard spends the kind of Sunday afternoon that spells "home" to all Americans. Thoughts of war are temporarily shelved as this serviceman chats with his new friends. Allegheny-Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

A poster comes to life. Thoroughly enjoying both Mrs. Woolslayer's hom...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Inspecting parachute shroud lines before they are packed and shipped from an Eastern plant. All the inspectors are good Americans of foreign descent. They represent, Irish, French, Italian and Hungarian ancestry

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Inspecting parachute shroud l...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Americans all. Checo Blanco comes from a long line of Americans, some of whom probably resented those "immigrants" who came over here on the Mayflower. An Apache Indian from the Mescalaro Reservation in Arizona, Blanco is fighting to protect the land of his forefathers from encroachment by the Axis wreckers. He's a skilled machine operator who is processing parts for Uncle Sam's medium tanks in a huge Midwest plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Checo Blanco comes from a long line of Americ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Americans all. Husky, bright-eyed Joe Gore, Jr., is a young American of Polish descent who is determined that Hitler shall be driven from Poland and kept from America's shores. An expert machine operator, Joe is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans of every possible background and heritage who are turning out medium tanks for Uncle Sam's fighting men in a Midwest tank plant. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Husky, bright-eyed Joe Gore, Jr., is a young ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midwest medium-tank plant, Herman Silldorf is an American of foreign-born parents. A skilled machine operator, young Silldorf, whose parents came here from Germany, processes parts for medium tanks with the hope that some day soon he'll be driving one of those tanks, taking a direct (instead of an indirect) slap at the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Like most of the young workers in a huge Midw...

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

Japanese-American volunteers. The remaining fifty-three volunteers of board no. 2, Lihue, Kauai, who passed their physical to complete their board's quota of fifty-eight inductees take the oath of induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat regiment. The oath is administered by Major Charles V. McManus, adjutant of the Kauai Service Command

Japanese-American volunteers. The remaining fifty-three volunteers of ...

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Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) volunteers to be inducted into the U.S. Army Combat Regiment now being formed, 18-year-old Mitsura Doi of Kauai, Hawaii, garage worker, receives congratulations from Major Charles V. McManus, adjutant of the Kauai Service Command who administered the oath of induction at 2:40 PM, Thursday, March 11. Doi was born at Koloa and volunteered with the blessing of his parents. "I'm just waiting to begin training and get into action," he said as he shook hands with Major McManus

Japanese-American volunteers. First of the territory's quota of 1,725 ...

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[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Shores, NAACP attorney, Birmingham, Alabama] / [MST].

[Group of African Americans viewing the bomb-damaged home of Arthur Sh...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10409, frame 18A.

Young Americans for Freedom, founded 1960

Young Americans for Freedom, founded 1960

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Library founded by Englishmen and Americans as a colony for people of high breeding in the community of Rugby near Nashville, Tennessee

Library founded by Englishmen and Americans as a colony for people of ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Loyal Americans, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Loyal Americans, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval, surrounded by bust portraits of members of his cabinet, as well as four military officers. Clockwise, from top: "Gen. Scott, H. H... More

Freedom for political prisoners. Are 110 million Americans afraid of the ideas of 66 men? ... Joint Amnesty committee, 233 Maryland Bldg., Washington, D. C. [1922].

Freedom for political prisoners. Are 110 million Americans afraid of t...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 208, Folder 33.

[Cold Harbor, Virginia African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle]

[Cold Harbor, Virginia African Americans collecting bones of soldiers ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

[Exterior view of "Dr. McDougald's Drug Store" with three African Americans standing in the doorway and a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground]

[Exterior view of "Dr. McDougald's Drug Store" with three African Amer...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Native Americans during mathematics class at Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

[Native Americans during mathematics class at Indian School, Carlisle,...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United State... More

Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Amerika - Ukiyo e print

Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Amerika - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows two American men. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Seal date: Cock 2. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga (People from foreign lands). Library has 2 versions with different colors;... More

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, tilling soil into raised humps, and sowing seeds, North America]

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

Nancy -- Americans loading a camion
Pershing decorating Americans - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Pershing decorating Americans - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

International College Chess - Americans - Hughes, Wolff, Johnson, Bloemberg, Williams, Ash

International College Chess - Americans - Hughes, Wolff, Johnson, Bloe...

Public domain photograph related to American politics and World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old bronze, muzzle-loading siege gun used by Filipinos against Americans in their advance toward Caloocan

Old bronze, muzzle-loading siege gun used by Filipinos against America...

(DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Making of a Regiment" by Frederick Funston, Scribner's, 49:645 (June 1911).

[Two Native Americans, wearing feather headdresses, looking at photographic film; they stand next to a stream with photographic equipment at their feet and tipis in the background]

[Two Native Americans, wearing feather headdresses, looking at photogr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[To Americans of foreign birth [...] Buy Liberty Bonds]

[To Americans of foreign birth [...] Buy Liberty Bonds]

Poster in Yiddish, encouraging immigrants to buy Liberty Bonds. Poster is text only, in Hebrew characters. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

2 million 500 thousand Americans signed a petition asking that Lt. [...]oven Griffis be pardoned from a prison term in Germany. Petition was presented to [...] Otto Wiedfeldt

2 million 500 thousand Americans signed a petition asking that Lt. [.....

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

[President and Mrs. Harding with Native Americans outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

[President and Mrs. Harding with Native Americans outside White House,...

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

Descendants of the original Americans and the early French settlers meet at the White Hou[se] as callers on their president

Descendants of the original Americans and the early French settlers me...

Members of the Evangeline Girls from Louisiana and Sioux from South Dakota, including Chief Spotted Crow, standing near the White House. In album: Washington, D.C., June 1927 to May 1929, v. 2, Herbert E. Frenc... More

[Washington baseball and Native Americans]

[Washington baseball and Native Americans]

A group of people standing around a man cutting a cake. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Painting portraits of Native Americans], portrait of american indian man

[Painting portraits of Native Americans], portrait of american indian ...

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

Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners of war or interned by Germany and Italy regularly receive standard American Red Cross food packages, shown here stacked like bricks in the International Red Cross warehouse at Geneva, Switzerland. U.S. prisoners of war receive one package a week as soon as the Red Cross is notified of their capture and location. Internees receive one package every two weeks. As of December 9, 1942, Germany and Italy had reported 243 American prisoners of war and 1512 interned civilians. Each package weighs eleven pounds and contains evaporated milk, buscuits, cheese, cocoa, sardines, pork, beef, chocolate bars, sugar, coffee, powered orange concentrate, prunes, cigarettes and smoking tobacco

Packages for prisoners of war and internees. Americans taken prisoners...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The four freedoms. Complete freedom of worship is taken for granted by Americans. More than ever before the religous leaders of America are determined that democracy must and will survive, and to that end they are devoting their energies. Subject is Reverend W.H. Jernagin of Washington, D.C.

The four freedoms. Complete freedom of worship is taken for granted by...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old country" and European customs are maintained in his home, Michael Kassalo is as American as pork and beans. Michael's job as a vertical turret lathe operator in one of the Midwest's largest medium-tank plants gives him the satisfaction of producing weapons to defeat the Axis. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Though his parents were born in the "old coun...

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

Americans all. "She's a beautiful ship," and it took the combined efforts of these three Americans to help build her. Marcell Webb, Negro; Henry Bennett; and Phillip Leung, Chinese, watch the test flight of a P-47 pursuit ship they helped build. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. "She's a beautiful ship," and it took the combined effo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Americans all. Philip Leung, Chinese, works on a powerful air-cooled aircraft engine alongside a young white worker. Leung, eighteen, came to this country four years ago and has a mother and two sisters in China, whom he helps by sending part of his wages. He is also helping to free their country by building fighting planes for the United Nations. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Americans all. Philip Leung, Chinese, works on a powerful air-cooled a...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what he can to shoot up the Axis - not with a gun but with the radial drill on which he makes parts for medium tanks. One of many hundreds of loyal, foreign-born Americans who work in this large Midwest tank plant, Sackwar is proud of his role in the war. "Maybe I'm too old to fight," he says, "but I'm giving our soldiers something to fight with." Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Born in Rumania, George Sackwar is doing what...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists half of Americans of Italian descent and half of Americans of Polish descent. The Queen of May was Emily Shuvak, of Polish extraction; the King was Philip D'Agostino, of Italian descent

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, whose student body...

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

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are shell ejectors for naval guns, a far cry from the peacetime product of the plant where they were turned out. This plant in New York state formerly made merry-go-rounds and other thrill rides, today it aids in the war effort, protecting the right of Americans to enjoy the thrill rides it formerly turned out. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are shell ejectors for naval g...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expect to find the back page. That's because it was printed for the Chinese who turn their pages from left to right. It was one of many pamphlets displayed by Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information (OWI) to show what his organization is doing to overcome Axis propaganda abroad. This pamphlet emphasises to the Chinese that their fliers and our fliers are parts of the same team

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expe...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a combat regiment to be made up of 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry was the signal for hundreds of loyal citizens in Hawaii to go to their draft boards and sign up. Here, a group of 110, many of them married and fathers, are smilingly waiting their turn to fill out their voluntary induction applications

Japanese enlistment. Official announcement recently of formation of a ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese enlistment. These Americans of Japanese ancestry are about to enter their draft board at Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to apply for voluntary induction into the U.S. Army. They intend to fight for Uncle Sam as member of a combat regiment made up of 1,500 American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Yoshito Matsusaka (right), thirty-six, is a former lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve

Japanese enlistment. These Americans of Japanese ancestry are about to...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Federalized National Guard troops on the campus of the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963 when African Americans Vivian Malone and James Hood registered for classes]

[Federalized National Guard troops on the campus of the University of ...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Integration at the Univ. of Alabama", ... #15-34 Federalized National Guard troops on Campus at Univ. of Ala. WKL, 6/11/63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collecti... More

Both will save your life. Only one has a vote in Congress Washington, DC's nearly 600,000 residents include firefighters, nurses, teachers and small business owners. They pay federal taxes like all Americans, but are denied representation in Congress. That's taxation without representation - and it's still wrong / / Bryan Potter.

Both will save your life. Only one has a vote in Congress Washington, ...

Photograph shows political poster for voting rights with two fire fighters: Larry Chapman of Washington, D.C., and Jayme Heflin of Maryland. Artist's name and date from file header. Gift; DC Vote; 2006; (DLC/PP-2008:021)

At the Battle of Palo Alto, the Americans greatly distinguished themselves ...

At the Battle of Palo Alto, the Americans greatly distinguished themse...

The artist exaggerates the humane treatment given by American soldiers to the Mexican wounded at the Battle of Palo Alto. The title continues, "the Americans greatly distinguished themselves, as well for their ... More

[Richmond, Virginia Barges with African Americans on the Canal; ruined buildings beyond]

[Richmond, Virginia Barges with African Americans on the Canal; ruined...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Photograph shows African American refugees on a boat with household belongings.

Americans throwing the cargoes of the Teaships into the river, at Boston

Americans throwing the cargoes of the Teaships into the river, at Bost...

Illus. in: W.D. Cooper, History of North Americas, London, 1789. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

American guide week, Nov. 10-16 Take pride in your country : State by state the WPA Writers' Projects describe America to Americans / / processed by Penna. Art Program, WPA.

American guide week, Nov. 10-16 Take pride in your country : State by ...

Poster showing stylized eagle and quotation from President Franklin Roosevelt about the Writers' Project. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher D... More

[African Americans dancing around a pile of watermelons]

[African Americans dancing around a pile of watermelons]

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of Native Americans, three standing, one seated on the ground, possibly Colville or Kutenai, at the winter quarters of the British Northwest Boundary Commission Survey in Colville, Washington]

[Group of Native Americans, three standing, one seated on the ground, ...

In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle of Brandywine in which the Americans were defeated : September the 11th, 1777 by General Sr. William Howe.

Battle of Brandywine in which the Americans were defeated : September ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Americans convertng canoes into schooners, in the Bay of Panama]

[Americans convertng canoes into schooners, in the Bay of Panama]

California Gold Rush. Wood engraving in Illustrated London News, July 14, 1849. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Bankoku zukushi - Amerikajin, Utagawa Yoshitora - Ukiyo e print

Bankoku zukushi - Amerikajin, Utagawa Yoshitora - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows an American couple looking at something in the distance. Signature: Yoshitora ga. Seal date: Monkey 12. From series entitled: Bankoku zukushi (About foreign lands). Annotations, stamps, et... More

Two kinds of fool Americans / F.M. Hutchins.

Two kinds of fool Americans / F.M. Hutchins.

Print shows Puck standing between two views of Americans depicted on large sheets of paper; on the left are "The Jingoes" identified as "Reid, Frye, Hoar, [and] Lodge" among others, Reid carries a flag that sta... More

[African Americans arriving at church]

[African Americans arriving at church]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 273. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African Americans standing outside of a church]

[African Americans standing outside of a church]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 277. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Native Americans] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Native Americans] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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SERBIAN MISSION TO THE U.S. ATL. LT. COL. MICHAILO MENADOVITCH; DR. SIMA LOZANITCH, FORMER MINISTER TO LONDON; FRONT, DR. MILENKO VESVITCH, HEAD OF THE MISSION; FRONT, GEN. MICHAILO RACHITCH; MR. L. MICHAILOVITCH, SERBIAN MIN. TO U.S. REAR: LEFT, VLADISLAV MARTINATZ; CAPT. MILAN YORITEHITCH. OTHERS ARE AMERICANS

SERBIAN MISSION TO THE U.S. ATL. LT. COL. MICHAILO MENADOVITCH; DR. SI...

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

Greek and Armenian refugee children in barracks near Athens. Greece received 1,000,000 refugees or one to each family in the country A refugee city that was built by Greek Americans. A model of cleanliness and order.

Greek and Armenian refugee children in barracks near Athens. Greece re...

Photographs show Greek and Armenian children, probably from Anatolia, standing outside barracks and a view of the barracks along a street, near Athens, Greece. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On ... More

Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the Chateau-Thierry Sector

Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the ...

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

Americans escorting German prisoners to the rear, Meuse-Argonne

Americans escorting German prisoners to the rear, Meuse-Argonne

Battle of the Argonne, in France, 1918. J13939 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19563.

Manuscript, Look Homeward, Americans!

Manuscript, Look Homeward, Americans!

Photo with brief caption. (General) Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.marthagraham.org. (Copyright Notice)

The four freedoms. The simple steeple of a country church is a familiar sight to millions of Americans everywhere. It is still a symbol of that religious freedom for which many of our earliest settlers came to the new world. Even today people are arriving from conquered lands to enjoy once again that freedom of worship which had been taken away from them

The four freedoms. The simple steeple of a country church is a familia...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra good appetite. Operating a vertical turret lathe in a Midwest tank plant, Michael is one of many hundreds of first and second-generation Americans whose sole purpose during working hours is to get as many tanks as possible off the lines and ready for shipment to the fighting fronts. Michael's grandparents, with whom he lives, cling to the Slavic language and to many "old country" customs, but Michael and his brothers and sisters are as American as the Smiths and Joneses. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. His war job gives Michael Kassalo an extra go...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, whose student body consists half of Americans of Polish descent. The Queen of the May was Emily Shivak, of Polish extraction; the King, Philip D'Agostino, of Italian

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, whose student body...

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

New York, New York. Audience at the Stage Door canteen includes Canadians, Australians, and Americans

New York, New York. Audience at the Stage Door canteen includes Canadi...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expect to find the back page. That's because it was printed for the Chinese who turn their pages from left to right. It was one of many pamphlets displayed by Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information (OWI) to show what his organization is doing to overcome Axis propaganda abroad. This pamphlet emphasises to the Chinese that their fliers and our fliers are parts of the same team

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expe...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Japanese-American volunteers. From surveyor and civil engineer to buck private in Uncle Sam's army--that's Shuichi "Pete" Sakamoto's idea of success in life. Member of the Engineers' Association of Hawaii and of the University of Hawaii Alumni Association, Sakamoto, thirty-four, married and the father of a two-year-old son undergoes a close examination of his teeth by Captain J.B. Daudelin, who was one of the panel of Army physicians who passed on Kauai's first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers

Japanese-American volunteers. From surveyor and civil engineer to buck...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson standing among group of Vietnamese soldiers and Americans during a visit  to Saigon, South Vietnam] / TOH.

[Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson standing among group of Vietnamese s...

Public domain photograph related to administration of President Lyndon Johnson, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Navy and Marine Memorial dedicated to Americans lost at Sea in Lady Bird Johnson Park, Columbia Island, Washington, D.C.]

[Navy and Marine Memorial dedicated to Americans lost at Sea in Lady B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. A.F. [i.e. A.T.] Mills teaching deaf and dumb boy in her private school, Che-foo, China

Mrs. A.F. [i.e. A.T.] Mills teaching deaf and dumb boy in her private ...

Photograph shows Annetta Thompson Mills, founder of Chefoo School for the Death, with a young boy. H24369 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7. Copyright by 1902 by C.H. Graves. Reproduction processed as item in LOT 1... More

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Poster asking Americans to conserve meat during the war. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556.

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity

Poster asking Americans to conserve meat during the war. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1942-O-489556.

[Richmond, Virginia Barges with African Americans on the Canal; ruined buildings beyond]

[Richmond, Virginia Barges with African Americans on the Canal; ruined...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Photograph shows African American refugees on a boat with household belongings.

[Company I, 24th Infantry regiment officers]

[Company I, 24th Infantry regiment officers]

Photograph shows a group portrait of soldiers from the Company I, 24th Infantry regiment in uniform. Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M114; 42 enlisted men, offic... More

[African Americans standing on sidewalk in front of house in Georgia]

[African Americans standing on sidewalk in front of house in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 344. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Freedom for political prisoners. Are 110 million Americans afraid of the ideas of 66 men? ... Joint Amnesty committee, 233 Maryland Bldg., Washington, D. C. [1922].

Freedom for political prisoners. Are 110 million Americans afraid of t...

Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 208, Folder 33.

[Native Americans and others outdoors at timber mill and shop(?)]

[Native Americans and others outdoors at timber mill and shop(?)]

Penciled on back of mount: illegible caption; X; 9. Written on left stereo image: 154. Probably photographed by C.L. Hamilton. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographer... More

Americans throwing the cargoes of the Teaships into the river, at Boston

Americans throwing the cargoes of the Teaships into the river, at Bost...

Illus. in: W.D. Cooper, History of North Americas, London, 1789. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Rappahannock River, Virginia Fugitive African Americans fording the Rappahannock]

[Rappahannock River, Virginia Fugitive African Americans fording the R...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862, July-August 1862.

United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in colors by C[harles] Parsons ; printed by G. & W. Endicott.

United Americans of the state of New York / designed & litho'd. in col...

A large, illustrated membership certificate for the Order of United Americans, a nativist secret society founded in New York City in December 1844. Originally called the American Brotherhood, the organization c... More

[Zora Neale Hurston and other African Americans, probably at a recording site in Belle Glade, Florida, 1935]

[Zora Neale Hurston and other African Americans, probably at a recordi...

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

"Johnny, what distinguished foreigner aided the Americans after the Revolution?" Johnny, after a pause: "God" / / William L. Jacobs.

"Johnny, what distinguished foreigner aided the Americans after the Re...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 37:463 (May 30, 1901). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Battle of Monterey--The Americans forcing their way to the main plaza Sept. 23th 1846 / Lith. by N. Currier.

Battle of Monterey--The Americans forcing their way to the main plaza ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0463

Young Americans for Freedom

Young Americans for Freedom

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gin on Smith's plantation]

[Port Royal Island, S.C. African Americans preparing cotton for the gi...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in ... More

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton]

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...

Stereo copyrighted by Kilburn Brothers. No. 465. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: African Americans Working; Pumps; Street vendors; Cotton Industry; Rice; Docks; Geogr.

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carrying cotton]

[African Americans working, Charleston, S.C.: Cotton warehouse, carryi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

N.Y. Americans ball field, Kleinow catching (Boston - N.Y.), New York

N.Y. Americans ball field, Kleinow catching (Boston - N.Y.), New York

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

Cleveland Americans posing as team

Cleveland Americans posing as team

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

[Native Americans at White House, Washington, D.C.]

[Native Americans at White House, Washington, D.C.]

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

[Group with Native Americans; U.S. Capitol in background. Washington, D.C.]

[Group with Native Americans; U.S. Capitol in background. Washington, ...

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

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Bernard Baruch, noted Financier, declared that the nation must choose between the "profits system and the hope of gain" and "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment". He added "that if it became clear tomorrow that Americans definitely chosen her traditional profits system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment," 2/28/38

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. App...

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

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge posters which employees of the Northern Pump Company, of Minneapolis, place on the sides of freight cars leaving the plant. The ideas originated with the men themselves. In this way the labor-management committee broadcasts to the countryside its resolve to help win the war. It is estimated that millions of Americans see these traveling posters as they move across the country to their destinations

War production drive poster. "We Have Axis to Grind" One of the huge p...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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