Parthenon from w. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 14. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with... More
Karnak. Ruines de la salle hypostyle, vue de l'intérieur (Égypte) / Bo...
Interior view of the remains of a hypostyle hall, Thebes. No. 149.
Sculpture that belonged to Arnold Genthe
Title devised. Photograph by Arnold Genthe of a sculpture in his art collection. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.
Petra, el Khazne, Extinct City, Jordan
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from transparency sleeve. On transparency sleeve: Finlay p[ositive]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
El Khazne, Petra, Extinct City, Jordan
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from transparency sleeve. On transparency sleeve: col[or]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra, May 1929 Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Picryl description: Public domain image of a Roman forum, large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. Massi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Baalbek. Sunset effect Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusa...
Public domain photograph of classic architecture, sculpture, antiquity, ancient Greece, Rome, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Petra. Khazne, Extinct City, Jordan
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
At Caesars Palace's Magical Empire in a catacomb far below the resort,...
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
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Freska na li︠e︡voĭ sti︠e︡ni︠e︡ v t︠s︡erkvi Io...
Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, between Yaroslavl, Vla... More
Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain print
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More
Diary in photos, vol. II, 1936-1937
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1936 and 1937. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and photographer. Phot... More
Church of John the Baptist at Tolchkovo (1671-87), interior, northwest...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Temple of the Winds - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 3. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with ... More
Arch of Hadrian / D. Constantin á Athénes.
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 7. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with ... More
Médînet-Abou (Thèbes) - constructions postérieures - deuxième cour / F...
View showing construction and ruins of the second court at the back of the Palace/Temple of Ramses III at Medinet-Habu, Thebes, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour ... More
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). First of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross / Am...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mount of Olives, Bethany, etc. Tomb of Lazarus
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Palestine. Transjordania. Petra
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Majestic dignity of Athene's ancient temple, Aegina, Greece
Photograph shows herd of sheep grazing next to Temple of Athena Aphaia. H88916 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2178. Printed on recto: "Copyright 1907 by American Stereoscopic Company."
Ruins of Jerash (Gerasa). Jerash village from the ruins. Picturesque s...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Pillars of the western cloister
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Fragments of the entablature, etc., at the ma...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Temple of Bel, Palmyra. Eric Matson public domain photograph collectio...
(Source: researchers T. Bolen and T. Powers, 2009) On negative sleeve: "Palmyra." On negative sleeve: "X" numbers. On negative: 17. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). Temple of Nannar, the moon God
Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tanganyika. En route to Longido. A girl with large ear decorations and...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Africa, Africans, an indigenous group of people, tribe, tribal activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Baalbek. Sunset effect, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jaffa to Jerusalem. Tower of the 40 Martyrs, Ramleh
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jaffa to Jerusalem. Tower of the 40 Martyrs, Ramleh
Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. On slide mount: Tower of the 40 martyrs, Ramleh. On slide mount: Copyright Matson Photo Service. Color slide reprodu... More
Fortuna Street, Pompeii, Italy view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8597". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More
Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...
Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More
Fort Sumter, Charleston, Charleston County, SC
Significance: The defense of this fort by its Union garrison marked the beginning of the Civil War; the existing remains display interesting structural features. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this... More
Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More
Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. I
Photographs taken during a trip by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson to the Cappadocia region of Turkey in October and November of 1935, on the request of the National Geographic Society. Whiting, a member of ... More
Photographs of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Photographs show locations in Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt. Also shown are Bedouins and other indigenous people. (p. 1-20) Photographs include: arched street from Damascus Gate, Co... More
Photographs of the West Bank, Jordan, and Syria
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips in the Middle East region in 1936 and 1937. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Photogr... More
Rome. Palace of the Caesars - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. R4. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of e... More
Baalbec. Interior of the Great Court / Bonfils.
"No. 198" written in image. In album: Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout, Baʻalbec, Damascus, p. 32A, pl. 63.
Petra, tomb in storeys. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph...
Public domain photograph of historic place, landmark, 19th-century vintage travel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East of Jordan and the Dead Sea. The basilica at 'Amman / American Col...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Tomb of the Soldier - stereocsopic card
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Caption on negative sleeve: Petra. "Tomb of the Soldier". Caption from catalog: Petra in Transjordan. Tomb of the S... More
Palmyra (Tadmor). Triumphal arch at entrance to colonnade
Public domain image of a romantic ruins landscape, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Potomac Electric Power Co. Plaster models of electrical history at Pot...
The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Fragments of the entablature, etc., at the ma...
Public domain photograph of classic architecture, sculpture, antiquity, ancient Greece, Rome, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ruins of Jerash (Gerasa). The Jerash forum. Showing section of excavat...
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title and date based on caption for similar image (LC-M32-3346). Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Baalbek. "Heliopolis." Temple of Bacchus, looking out of the great doo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a Roman forum, large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Petra. Lower Siq. Nabatean Assyrian type monument with double crowfoot...
Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Palmyra, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: "X" numbers. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Iraq. Babylon "the great." Various views of the crumbling ruins. A sub...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Baalbek. Grand court, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
At Caesars Palace's Magical Empire in a catacomb far below the resort,...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sphynx entry portal to the Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Designed by Las Vegas architect Veldon Simpson and opened in 1993. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digi... More
Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...
Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. II
LOT title from album and caption list. Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson... More
Trip to Cappadocia, 1935, vol. I
Photographs taken during a trip by John D. Whiting and G. Eric Matson to the Cappadocia region of Turkey in October and November of 1935, on the request of the National Geographic Society. Whiting, a member of ... More
Verona. Roman amphitheatre, A.D. 81. Architecture of 1860s Europe
In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 121. No. 235.
Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...
Illus. in: Turkestanskīi al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia ..., 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 65.
Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medresse [sic] Tillia Kari. Vnutrennii dvor....
Antiquities of Samarkand. Creator: Bogaevskīĭ, N. V., photographer The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a... More
[Interior of Jaffa Gate from near Hotel Mediterranean] / Bonfils.
In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 91. "No. 134" written in image.
[Temple of Saturn and Triumphal Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome, Italy]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1099". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More
Pillar of Shishak, ancient temple of Karnak, upper Egypt
Copyright 1897 by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain image of 19th-century Egypt architecture, historical building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gate of Christ's triumphal entry / American Colony, Jerusalem.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Petra. The Garden Tomb - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra (Tadmor). Street of village in Temple of the Sun
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Street of village in Temple of the Sun. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
[East of the Jordan and Dead Sea. Triumphal gate from the South]
Photograph showing ruins of a partially standing building at Gerasa, Jordan. Original negative: LC-M32-1187. Title from caption for no. 1187 in: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?] On verso: A... More
Mount of Olives, Bethany, etc. Tomb of Lazarus
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Baalbek. Northern colonnade of the Temple of Bacchus
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Northern colonnade of Temple of Jupiter. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Carved lintel above the main entrance
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Petra (Wadi Musa) El-M'esrah area. Typical double corniced tomb. With ...
Public domain reproduction of artwork related to ancient civilizations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Iraq, Ctesiphon, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: Dups. Taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Agrigento, Sicily. Ruins of Greek temples
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The big bell of Burma, second largest in the world (weight 80 tons,) M...
H91654 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14542. Public domain photograph of Egypt, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...
Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More
Hacienda Azurarera Santa Elena, Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.44 miles North of ...
Significance: The ruins are the only extant remains pertaining to an industrial building in Puerto Rico dating back to the late 18th century. They illustrate the transition from a cattle-driven vertical wooden... More
Ruins of Circular Church and Secession Hall, no. 623 / George Stacy.
Stereograph shows an exterior view of the destroyed buidlings of the Circular Church and Secession Hall, Charleston, South Carolina. Card number: "No. 623." Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stere... More
U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Bombproof Facilities, Various locations...
Significance: The bombproof buildings at Pearl Harbor Naval Base include several distinctive building types which were all constructed circa 1942, typically in response to the December 7, 1941 attack. However, ... More
Diary in photos, vol. V, 1939 - Public domain print
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1939. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Photographs... More
The hypaethral Temple at Philae called the bed of Pharoah / David Robe...
Public domain reproduction related to Ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Olympieum or Temple of Jupiter Olympus
Southeast view of Olympieum (Temple of Olympian Zeus) with men standing and sitting at tables before the ruins. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 7.
Erment (Hermonthis) - vue générale des ruines - temple et mammisi / Fé...
General view of ruins of temple and mammisi (birth temple) at Armant (the ancient city of Hermonthis), Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'... More
Gebel Silsileh. (Égypte) / Bonfils.
Rock-cut temple in mountain at Silsila el-Gebel (ancient Khenu) on the Nile. No. 177.
Profile of the eastern façade, showing the curvature of the stylobate
Photograph shows stylobate or foundation for the columns on the eastern facade of the Acropolis in Athens.
Baalbek (Heliopolis), etc. Columns of Temple of the Sun
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. On negative sleeve: 437. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra. Section of outer colonnade temple enclosure
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Palmyra (Tadmor). Well-preserved temple of the king's mother
Public domain photograph of classic architecture, sculpture, antiquity, ancient Greece, Rome, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Baalbek. Interior of the Temple of Bacchus
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Interior of the Temple of Bacchus. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra (Tadmor). Pillars in Temple of the Sun
Date from Matson LOT cards. On negative sleeve: x772. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]
Church of Kalat Siman, near view
Title from negative sleeve. Date based on information for similar image (LC-M32-1777). On negative: 3346. On negative sleeve: 1777A, 3346. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The Parthenon, Athens. Now that the occupations of peace have been res...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Jr. Red Cross. Group Title: General. Greece. Gi... More
Jebeil. (Biblos). The colonnade of Biblos
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jebeil. (Biblos). The colonnade of Biblos
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Northern views. Caesarea. Castle. The well preserved glacé
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). The ziggurat from the N.W
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Iraq. Kirkuk. A street scene in the older town
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Santa cleans touches up the centurion statues in Union Station, Washin...
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