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Marine lieutenant, glider pilot in training, ready for take-off at Pag...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri

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

Pile of cabbages with Mexican graders in background, Alamo, Texas

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

New Madrid spillway where evicted sharecroppers were moved from highwa...

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

Back door of sharecropper's house, Pace, Mississippi. Background photo...

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

Federal inspection of strawberries with growers in background. Hammond...

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

A black and white photo of an old barn, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to are...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Evicted sharecropper, New Madrid County, Missouri

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

Camp cook at work with chuckwagon in background. Cattle ranch near Mar...

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

Alfalfa field with farm unit in background. Fairfield Bench Farms, Mon...

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

State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to are...

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

[Gas pump with clothesline, barn and horse-drawn wagon in background]

Public domain photograph related to the history of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two of Andrew Whittaker's sons plowing cotton. Their house in backgrou...

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

Day laborer changing plow points on tractor-drawn four-row planter. Ga...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sheep and goat ranch with caprock showing in background. Kimble County...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. A Venetian night party at the Detroit yacht club, w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Row shelters in foreground, isolation units in right background, commu...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of clothes hanging out to dry, Washington DC. ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

"Ruth" story. "Ruth" story. "Ruth" carrying off wheat measured by "Boa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Burley tobacco, usually small and poor crop because of severe drought....

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

Spanish-American farmstead with farming land in background. Llano de S...

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

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. The sheeting-over of the second f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shipbuilding. "Liberty" ships. In the foreground is the track of a two...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Delivery of the first heavy tanks. The new fifty-seven-ton tank, known...

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

Sheep shearer, bags of wool in the background, Malheur County, Oregon

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

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Homes with the Jones and Laughlin steel mill ...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses rented to Mexican families with house of landlady in background...

Public domain photograph of a history of California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Iron ore dock. Grain elevator and coal loading docks in background. Al...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Inspection of Australian Guard of Honour at Government House by the Du...

Public domain image of aristocratic military leader, general, monarch, 18th-19th century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tennessee Valley Authority. The stator, rotor and exciter of a new gen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War birds aloft form a background for Old Glory and the 170-foot tower...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bird in flight, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Texture background for motion picture and filmstrip titles. Flagstone ...

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

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Julien H...

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

The band swings out with a snappy march. The brass section is standing...

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

Washington, D.C. South African Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Legat...

Picryl description: Public domain image - Massachusetts in the 1910s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gallipolis, Ohio. Life preserver on the towboat Charles T. Campbell, w...

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

Combined Munitions Assignments Board. Combined Munitions Assignments B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen op...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian farms and houses near Laguna, New Mexico enroute to Gallup on t...

Public domain photograph of American farm workers, countryside in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kansas City, Missouri. Team tracks at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lend-lease in action. American war planes, provided through lend-lease...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Erick Hawkins in the first production of Appalachian Spring. In the ba...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Behind the camera during filming at a CBS news desk, map of New Engla...

World Journal Tribune staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor training a horse on a longe (lunge) line, mountain...

Photograph taken for Vogue magazine photo shoot for May 1967 issue. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). PR 06 CN 651 C13 F2, sheet 1 (slide no. 21)

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor riding her horse Anadarko, about to go over a jump...

(Source: information for related image published in Vogue, "American Westerns, 1967: Mrs. Vernon J. Taylor, Jr.: A relaxed perfectionist. A great sportswoman", May 1967, p. 238) Date from similar Frissell slid... More

[Memorial Bridge with Rosslyn, Virginia in the background]

Date, and keywords provided by the photographer. 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 ... More

[President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin talk...

Contact sheet folder caption: Pres. Carter & Menachem Begin at White House. MST & TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Graffiti murals on walls around school playground; School Number 15 is...

Forms part of a group of images depicting graffiti murals that were painted on walls near School Number 15 as part of an organized, city-approved demonstration by graffiti artists from the metro area; School Nu... More

Proprietor Elsa Mantilla (in dotted dress) with seamstresses Aurora Go...

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at the dress shop on the second floor of Elsa's Wholesale & Retail on 21st Avenue, Paterson.

The picnic pavilion at the Stanley Heirs Park with a newly built stage...

The Stanley Heirs Park was formed by descendants of 19th-century settlers who farmed and worked in the mines. The heirs own both minerals and surface rights to this part of Kayford Mountain, which overlooks an ... More

Church of the Nativity of Christ (1746-48 and 1786-93), south facade, ...

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

Log house, Marshal Zhukov Street #95 (around 1900), foreground, and in...

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Rescue worker reaching into a New York Police car covered with debris...

Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph related to airlines, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elevated Ry. curve, Coenties Slip, Wall Street, skyscrapers in backgro...

Stereograph showing view of the city with skyscrapers in the background and street railroads traveling across elevated railroad tracks. H74261 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906 by H.C. White Co. On mount: T... More

[Three ironworkers on girder with steam and rooftops in background, Ne...

"July 11 '04" Verso. Title devised by cataloger. Probably done for, but not published in, the Century magazine. Gift; Jay Last; 1988; (DLC/PP-1988:240). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library ... More

[William Jennings Bryan, full-length view with arms spread, standing n...

No. S104428. Photo published during the 1920 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and greatcoat holding handgun w...

Case: Leather floral scroll center with two simple bands. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photogr... More

[Columbia Gardens amusement park, Butte, Montana, with mountains in ba...

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

Quilting in sharecropper's home near Pace, Mississippi. Background pho...

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

[Russian warships in harbor; in background smoke from a fire near Gold...

H6363447 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

[Three unidentified young soldiers in uniforms with shotguns, musket, ...

Case: Berg, no. 7-21. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Uncertain if Union or Confederate. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil ... More

[Stream and trees with Half Dome in background, Yosemite Valley, Calif...

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with griffin over circles bac...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Design drawing for stained glass window with griffin over circles bac...

Public domain photograph of stained glass design, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Burnham (previously Confederate Fort Harrison) Confederate Picket...

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Burnham (previously Confederate Fort Harrison) Confederate Picket...

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Booker T. Washington, half-length portrait, standing, against white b...

Copyright by C.M. Battey. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Big Foot's camp three weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec. 29,...

Title devised by Library staff, based on information provided by Lise Broer, 2009. Copyrighted 1891 by Trager & Kuhn, Chadron, Nebr. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Exhibited: "Expa... More

[Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Battery Chatfield Morr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Adobe building in a grassy field, trees in background]

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

Battle-field of Gettysburg. Temporary entrenchments thrown up by the F...

No. 968. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 38. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. II, p. 251. G... More

[Chunks of drift ice in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Labrador,...

Illus. in album: Photographs of arctic ice / William Bradford, [plate 31] Typewritten text in album lists photographers as J.L. Dunmore and G.P. Critcherson, but William H. Pierce, from the firm of J.W. Black,... More

[Pack ice forming off the coast of Labrador, with land visible in the ...

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 egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Salt Lake City - Camp Douglas and Wasatch Mountains in the background

Photograph shows bird's-eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah, with the Wasatch Mountains in the background. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographical and geological ... More

[Dominican Republic, 1871]: The embarkadero, or wharf of Santo Domingo...

Photo reproduction of watercolor. Watercolor by James E. Taylor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Washing; Transportation; Trees; Markets; Wharves; Navy, U.S.;... More

[Base of Eiffel Tower, with statues in foreground and Trocadero Palace...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Encampment of the G.A.R. in Washington, D.C. with Washington Monument...

No. G-3087. The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first President of the United S... More

Trans-Jordan. Petra. The theatre. (Showing tombs in the background).

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[African American women holding umbrellas to provide shade from the su...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 240. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Two women by water, rocky cliffs in background]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman at spinning wheel, young girl in background

Photograph shows a woman using large spinning wheel; young girl standing nearby.

[John Muir, full-length portrait, facing right, seated on rock with la...

H20557 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

H. Stover on horse with sod house and threshing machine in background,...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[City scene through trees, mountains in background]

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

Edward S. Curtis - Saliva, Slow Bull (in background), Picket Pin's arm

Three Dakota men, seated or kneeling on ground, one attending to bison skull. H104330 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2517-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

[Two daughters of a chief on horseback, riding away from camera toward...

H104406 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 2595-07. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 3, p. 20.

[Man and woman walking along a street with another man in background]

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[West Africa, 1909: 5 women bending over in garden; 5 men with staffs ...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.

[Scene from the silent film "The last days of Pompeii" showing a young...

J185325 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1913 by Photo Drama Co. The last days of Pompeii, after the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was an Italian production released through George Kleine. It was an elaborate... More

[German soldiers in a trench; in background, a town]

Photograph shows German soldiers in a trench during World War I. (Source: similar photograph at the National Archives) On mount of similar photograph at the National Archives: "German Official Photograph."

[Group with banner "Martha Washington" with White House in background,...

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

1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Hill covered with flowers ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Woodrow Wilson, half-length portrait, standing, facing left, Statue o...

G57834 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting signed Svensson, c1918. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description