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The Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. The staff group with lake in background

The Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. The staff group with lake in bac...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheat field, Walla Walla County, Washington. Combines had already been through the field in background

Wheat field, Walla Walla County, Washington. Combines had already been...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orchards in Hood River Valley. Mount Hood in background. Oregon

Orchards in Hood River Valley. Mount Hood in background. Oregon

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army tent manufacture.  Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Colorado. Some of the ninety-five eight-man pyramidal tents being manufactured per day by this small plant. In the background workers are sewing the sod cloths for these tents. Each tent is made to rigid Army Quartermaster Corps specifications which include such details as the length of stitches and the width of seams

Army tent manufacture. Schaeffer Tent and Awning Company, Denver, Col...

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

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. 1918 Times in foreground shows similarity with present day headlines and news. In background, man sorts clippings for filing

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. 1918 Tim...

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

New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. The "bull pen" where managing editors and others sit at one side. In foreground, assistant managing editor Rae. In background, managing editor James and night managing editor McCaw conferring

New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. The "bul...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel and the National Capital School Visitors' Council, over 200 high school students chosen for their intellectual alertness visited Washington for a week. Students posing for a group photograph with the Capitol in the background

Washington, D.C. Under the auspices of the Bureau of University Travel...

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

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Sulphur well with a vat in the background

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Sulphur well with a va...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trinity College. Eleven bright dots running horizontally near the top of a dark background

Trinity College. Eleven bright dots running horizontally near the top ...

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

Dry canal, full of weeds and garbage, that is part of the raceway system that formerly supplied hydraulic power to mills; mill building in the background.

Dry canal, full of weeds and garbage, that is part of the raceway syst...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

Foreground: rows of potatoes in Ivan Jarrell's garden.  Background: Ivan Jarrell's parents' house.

Foreground: rows of potatoes in Ivan Jarrell's garden. Background: Iv...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church of St. Andrew (1702), southeast view, with White Sea in background, Bol'shoi Zaiatskii Island, Russia

Church of St. Andrew (1702), southeast view, with White Sea in backgro...

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

Boat on river with Ziggurat office building in background. Located in Sacramento, the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County

Boat on river with Ziggurat office building in background. Located in ...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Aerial view of commercial street in Salt Lake City, Utah, with horse drawn wagons, and in the background, urban sprawl]

[Aerial view of commercial street in Salt Lake City, Utah, with horse ...

On verso: Chas. W. Carter, Photographer, Salt Lake City. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sharecroppers being moved from highway to area between levee and the Mississippi River, New Madrid County, Missouri

Sharecroppers being moved from highway to area between levee and the M...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri

Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri

Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Family of sharecropper on front porch, Southeast Missouri Farms

Family of sharecropper on front porch, Southeast Missouri Farms

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Background photo. FSA (Farm Security Administration) client who will become owner-operator under tenant purchase program, Caruthersville, Missouri

Background photo. FSA (Farm Security Administration) client who will b...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Horse Shoe Curve." On B[urlington] and M[issouri River] R'y.  Buckhorn Mountains in background

"Horse Shoe Curve." On B[urlington] and M[issouri River] R'y. Buckhor...

Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of a train on tracks, just beyond a marked curve, with mountains in the background. Title transcribed from item. Copyright deposit. Forms part of: John C. H. Grabill Collectio... More

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Cows in field with barn in background; Dirt road bordered on left by rock wall
In the background is the "17 gun Union Battery"...In the foreground is shown the interior of the right flank defences of the rebel works...

In the background is the "17 gun Union Battery"...In the foreground is...

Photograph shows the "gopher holes" of Battery 11, known as the "Citadel," the southernmost battery at Port Hudson, after the siege.

Chicken house, New Madrid County, Missouri

Chicken house, New Madrid County, Missouri

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Crowd marching and log cabin in background with "Tipacanoe & Tyler Too" sign]

[Crowd marching and log cabin in background with "Tipacanoe & Tyler To...

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Old Time Presidential Campaign."

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Sacrament of Confirmation with young man in contemporary suit blessed by officiate with crook; candles in background]
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