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Mural showing Native American woman by artist Velino Herrara at the In...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. The 7 story building is of steel frame construction, clad in granite and limestone. It consists of a north-south core which bisects... More

Untitled mural by unknown artist, Chinatown, San Francisco, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Artist Nall poses with his art, Fairhope, Alabama

A Southern artist with an international following, Nall has a unique style that has captivated the attention of the world. The gifted artist grew up in Troy, Alabama and began drawing, arts, and crafts at his f... More

Mural by unknown artist located in Chinatown, San Francisco, Californi...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. San Francisco Chinatown is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia as well as the oldest Chinatown in North America. It is one of the t... More

"Texas Ranger," San Antonio artist Don Hunt's sculpture of a 19th-Cent...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

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

Dance at the Holy Ghost Park, Lowell, Massachusetts; Grotto and Statio...

Index data: 2-12, Dance at the Holy Ghost Park; 13-19, Grotto and Stations of the Cross behind the Franco-American school, Lowell; 20-21, City scape; 22, Self portrait while driving; 23-30, Jack Lueders-Booth a... More

New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing t...

Immigrants on deck of steamer "Germanic." Reference copy in LOT 7010. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1887 July 2, pp. 324-325.

Alice Barber Stephens - A marine artist's studio

"After painting by M.J. Burns." (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Scribner's monthly, 19:363 (Jan. 1880).

The South Dome, 6000 ft. high. View from Artist's Point, at sunrise

Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite, California. No. 162. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mix... More

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb / artist, James S. Reid...

View of exterior of the institution surrounded by images of the dormitories, the chapel, the director's room and other interiors, and a head-and-shoulders portrait of Joshua Foster. 8492L : U.S. Copyright Offic... More

Capt. Harry Doolittle, 2d Iowa Infantry. / W. P. Egbert, photograph & ...

Photograph shows identified soldier, Captain Henry "Harry" B. Doolittle of Co. C, 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, and Co. K, 20th Iowa Infantry Regiment, who was wounded at Fort Donelson, Tennessee and Corinth, Mis... More

Franconia Notch from artist's bluff, White Mts., N.H.

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

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length self-portrait dressed as a man...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Who's Afraid of Women Photographers?" at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France, Oct. 2015-Jan. 2016.

[Portrait of Diego Rivera and Frida (Kahlo) Rivera]

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

[Portrait of Diego Rivera and Frida (Kahlo) Rivera]

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

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

[Brandy Station, Virginia Capt. Samuel A. McClellan, Capt. J. Henry Sl...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Alfred R. Waud, artist of Harper's Weekly, s...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863.

[Christ preaching]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, NT; Aritsts Works; Shelf.

[Rembrandt in flat cap and embroidered dress]

Public domain photograph of 17th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rembrandt van Rijn - Crucifixion between two theives

Christ on the cross between 2 other men on crosses. Drypoint in oval by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. 2nd State. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Christ; Executio... More

[Rembrandt drawing by a window] / Rembrandt, 1648.

Public domain photograph of 17th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rembrandt van Rijn - [Flight into Egypt: crossing a brook]

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible, NT; Artists works; Shelf.

[St. Francis beneath a tree, praying] / Rembrandt.

Christ on cross behind tree. Public domain photograph of 17th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illustrations of the adventures of the renowned Don Quixote & his doug...

A burlesque history of the Jackson administration, with particular reference to his campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States. The narrative, in a series of twelve episodes, is based on Cervantes's "Don... More

Rembrandt Peale, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

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

Rembrandt Peale, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

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

John Brown ascending the scaffold preparatory to being hanged / from a...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 211 (1859 Dec. 17), p. [33].

The government arsenal in Charleston, S.C., guarded by detachments of ...

Print shows a crowd of people and troops in front of the arsenal building. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, no. 262 (1860 Dec. 1), p. 25.

Front parlor in Abraham Lincoln's house, Springfield, Ill. / sketched ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, no. 276 (1861 Mar. 9), p. 245, right half of upper illustration.

The Honorable Jefferson Davis, president-elect of the new southern con...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 16, p. 257.

The head of the canal, opposite Vicksburg, Miss., now being cut by com...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 March 28, pp. 8-9.

Contrabands building a levee on the Mississippi river, below Baton Rou...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 May 9, pp. 104-105.

Loading wagons on the Calle de Cesar, Matamoras, for Piedras Negras / ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Feb. 20, p. 348. One of four images on page of scenes on the Rio Grande.

The operations near Washington--scene of the fight in front of Fort St...

Illustration showing soldiers behind low wooden barricades; the remains of a building burned to the ground; and the smoke from cannon fire in the background. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.... More

Scenes on the Rio Grande / from sketch by our special artist, C.E.H. B...

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

Mrs. Cornelia Adele Fassett (Artist) Painted "The Electoral Commission...

A woman sitting on a chair holding a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Contrabands accompanying the line of Sherman's march through Georgia /...

Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).

[Bookplate of artist Francis D. Millet]

Print shows an artist painting outdoors; buildings and the American flag in the background. Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. Accession box no. 23-1

The Wedding at the White House. The ceremony in the East Room--Reveren...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 June 6, cover, p. 193.

Washington, D.C.--the new administration--colored citizens paying thei...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1877 April 7, p. 85. Reference copy in BIOG. FILE.

Louisiana--the withdrawal of the federal troops from the State House i...

Three illustrations showing: "Fort Packard" - the inner courtyard of the State House; the salute on the levee in honor of the evacuation; and the United States troops leaving the Orleans Hotel for Jackson Barra... More

[The Imperial School of Engineering, seen from the direction of the Ha...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 54. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[The police station of the ammunition magazines in the Pen Kuyrucak] /...

Located at Kıvırcıkoǧlu. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 45. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-po... More

[Water machinery at the imperial factory in Zeytinburnu] / the photogr...

Pumping station. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 30. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: ... More

[The ammunition magazine in the Pen Kuyrucak] / the photograph studio ...

Located at Kıvırcıkoǧlu. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 43. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-po... More

New York - Preparing the Statue of "liberty" on Bedloe's Island, for t...

Men working on headless Statue of Liberty. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1886 Oct. 9, p. 120.

[Marble bust of woman in artist studio]

Image content features: PROP sculpture. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Col... More

Evolution of the book, east corridor. The cairn / J.W. Alexander, arti...

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting semi-clad men working at cairn. Copyright by John W. Alexander.

Clipping from an article on Arnold Genthe, including a self-portrait o...

Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

The Evolution of civilization, dome of the rotunda / E.H. Blashfield, ...

Photo of mural collar acknowledging countries which have contributed to the development of civilization. Judea for religion, Greece for philosophy, Rome for administration, Islam for physics. Copyright by E.H. ... More

Echo Lake and Crawford Notch [i.e., Franconia Notch] from artist's blu...

Public domain photograph of a lake, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Supposed portrait of artist's son, engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old studio of artist Hall, near Palenville, Catskill Mountains, N.Y.

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Miss spring, artist / Frank A. Nankivell.

Illustration shows Spring as a woman artist wrapped in a diaphanous material, painting a tree with blossoms and a bird on a large canvas. Illus. in: Puck, v. 69, no. 1781 (1911 April 19), cover. Copyright 1911... More

Mrs. Ben Ali Haggin - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows actress Helen Roche (Bonnie Glass) who married artist Ben Ali Haggin in June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

R. Bruce Horsfall, Artist of Nature magazine, [3/16/26]

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s - 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Austrian artist paints Speaker of House. The Speaker of the House of R...

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

[ self-portrait] - Public domain portrait engraving

Ilka Kolsky's woodblock print. (General) Public domain photograph of 20th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Noted British artist completes portrait of President Hoover. Douglas C...

A man standing next to a painting of a man. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Tuton, Suburban Resettlement artist, at work

Part of a ceramic-tile mural by Works Project Administration artist Ke...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. A similar panoramic frieze hangs on the front facade of the Will Rogers Coliseum to the right of the auditorium. Built... More

Off with the yoke of Uncle Sam depicted in post office mural, is charg...

A woman standing in front of a large painting. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rembrandt Lamps, business at 206 Lexington Ave., New York City. Interi...

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

Rembrandt Lamps, business at 206 Lexington Ave., New York City. Interi...

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

Artist J. Alden Weir's farm, Ridgefield, Connecticut

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

[Rosa Parks at her Congressional Gold Medal ceremony with (left to rig...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1999-314 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1999-314, frame 32. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Self portrait / K. Murphy. - Public domain portrait print

Photograph showing pair of cupped hands. Forms part of: Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Exhibited: Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library o... More

The 1984 painting "Matilda Lockhart Comes Home," by artist Lee Herring...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

Untitled box-like art, sometimes called "Judd's cubes," by "Minimalist...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Chinati Foundation, founded in 1986 by artist Donald Judd, presents permanent, large-scale installations by a limited number of a... More

The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument, by New Mexico artist Duke...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The monument is a tribute to the Texans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Coll... More

Mural by an unknown artist or artists on the wall of a small business ...

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

Rembrandt Peale - George Washington, head and shoulders portrait

Title devised by cataloger. Listed in Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of painting inscribed "Patriae Pater" at the United States Capitol. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) ava... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

A Virginia slave child in 1863 / Van Dorn, photograph artist, 285 Fult...

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of a young girl, probably Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, facing slightly right. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by T. C. Fanning, in the C... More

Frances L. Clalin 4 mo. heavy artillery Co. I, 13 mo. Calvary Co. A. 2...

Photograph shows portrait of Frances Clalin Clayton, woman who disguised herself as a man, "Jack Williams," to fight in the Civil War, standing, wearing uniform. Purchase; Thomas Harris; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:182... More

Rebecca. A slave girl from New Orleans / J. E. McClees, artist, 910 Ch...

Photograph shows a bust portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing front. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a m... More

C.T. Hibino, artist, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel ...

C.T. Hibino, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding paintbrush and palette, in front of large painting. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-40-B. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso o... More

[Portrait of Diego Rivera and Malu Block and Frida Kahlo de Rivera]

Standing with bookcases in background. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVI 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of:... More

[Half-length portrait of bearded man wearing artist's smock and cap an...

On verso: From the studio of Addie Kilburn Robinson, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Attributed to Fr[...]y Gercher, Addie K. Robinson's assistant. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs col... More

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

Rembrandt Peale Museum, 225 North Holliday Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Quite possibly the first "purpose-built" museum building in the United States, the Peale Museum is associated with two prominent members of the Peale artistic dynasty: Rembrandt (who commissioned ... More

[The three trees] / Rembrandt f 1643.

Print shows landscape with three trees. "The view is probably taken from near the Diemerdijk in the vicinity of Amsterdam." (Source: White & Boon, p. 103)

[Compound microscope as rendered by artist in Descartes "La Dioptrique...

Illus. in: Discours de la methode .... Plus La dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et La geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete methode. Leyde : De li̓mprimerie de I. Maire, 1637. Published in: The tradition of techno... More

Pietro Testa - [Self-portrait] - Public domain portrait engraving

Rittratto di Pietro Testa pictore eccel., delineauit et sculpsit. Romae superiorum permisu Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis. Nagler, 1. Pennell Fund, 65-16. Title from shelflist card.

Sleeping-bunks of the First Rhode Island Regiment, at the Patent Offic...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 June 1, p. 347. Public domain photograph of cabinet furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The charge of the First Iowa Regiment, with General Lyon at its head, ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, 1861 Aug. 31, p. 244.

Review of the volunteer troops in Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island,...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Feb. 23, pp. 216-217. Mrs. Pickens is Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens, third wife of Gov. Pickens of S.C.; identification based on date of event depicted (M. K... More

The campaign in Kentucky--The national troops under General Johnston a...

2 illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Jan. 18, p. 129.

Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 15, no. 367 (1862 Oct. 11), p. 33.

The head of the canal, opposite Vicksburg, Miss., now being cut by Com...

Print shows Union troops and contrabands constructing a canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 16, no. 391 (1863 March 28), p. 8-9.

[Arrival of visitors outside home of James A. Garfield, at Mentor, Ohi...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Dec. 18, p. 252.

[The middle ammunition magazine at Gul̈hane] / the photograph studio o...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 10. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

[Infantry section of the artillery] / the photograph studio of the Imp...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 37. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Madame Mole-Reymond Jasinski - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, her body turned to the left, facing front, with her hands in a large muff. Includes a remarque on the lower left that appears to be a self-portrait of t... More

[M. Eiffel, our artist's latest tour de force, June 29, 1889] / Linley...

Caricature of Gustav Eiffel in the form of the Eiffel Tower, which he built for the Exposition universelle in Paris in 1889. A balloon is in the background. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82). Illus. fo... More

Portrait of the Artist by William Orpen. Figure in front with nude st...

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