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1005 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

1005 E Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, Distric...

Significance: Originally designed in 1906 as a printing establishment and store building by Henry J. Blauvelt for A. Zichtl & Co., the building housed printing-related concerns through the 1930s. The Crown Bar ... More

Gus. Gus at bar - Public domain photograph

Gus. Gus at bar - Public domain photograph

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. A heated ingot of steel is removed from the soaking pit. In this pit ingots are thoroughly heated to the extremely high temperature required for conversion into slabs, billets or sheet bars for further conversion

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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

Aberdeen Hotel, 17 W. 32nd St., New York City. Bar with pictures

Aberdeen Hotel, 17 W. 32nd St., New York City. Bar with pictures

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made primarily of copper; they're part of the workings of giant transformers which are necessary to war Production. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Transformer manufacture. These bus bars are made primarily of copper; ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing mill where copper wire bars are reduced to copper rods by running them through a series of rolls. From this mill the rods are coiled and are then treated with a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and washed with water after which they are ready to be drawn into wire

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing mill where copper wire bars are reduced to copper rods by running them through a series of rolls. From this mill the rods are coiled and are then treated with a dilute solution of sulphuric acid and washed with water after which they are ready to be drawn into wire

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. The finishing m...

Public domain photograph of train depot, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail XI

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail lounge VI

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail loung...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Locke-Fuller House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Locke-Fuller House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Significance: An early post-Revolutionary farmhouse of a design unique in this area and long the home of the painter, George Fuller (1822-1884). / This farmhouse was built about 1790 for Captain Jonas Locke, mi... More

The Tap room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts.

The Tap room, Longfellow's Wayside Inn, South Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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

[Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, Louisiana]

[Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, Louisiana]

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

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Bar in Club Bar II

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Bar in Club Bar II

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

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. General view of Club Bar I

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. General view of Club Bar I

Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Lounge area in Club Bar I

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Lounge area in Club Bar I

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shoreham Hotel. Cocktail rooms in Shoreham Hotel IV

Shoreham Hotel. Cocktail rooms in Shoreham Hotel IV

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aberdeen Hotel, 17 W. 32nd St., New York City. Bar with pictures

Aberdeen Hotel, 17 W. 32nd St., New York City. Bar with pictures

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Sam Houston, Texas. When the Kizer brothers of Belvidere, Illinois, were promoted to first lieutenants, the identical twin daughters of Colonel C. Lloyd Middleton, their commanding officer, pinned the silver bars on their shoulders. Left to right: Lieutenant Howard Kizer, Alice May Middleton, Lieutenant Harold Kizer and Jane Louise Middleton

Fort Sam Houston, Texas. When the Kizer brothers of Belvidere, Illinoi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large...

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

Putting bars up to hold bags of olive pulp in place while under the hydraulic pressure which forces out the oil. Lindsay, California. About seventy-five percent of the oil content of the olives is removed by the first application of pressure; it is the oil obtained in the first pressing which is termed virgin oil

Putting bars up to hold bags of olive pulp in place while under the hy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, Claifornia. Construction work at the dam showing wooden forms for concrete and steel reinforcing bars

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, Claifornia. Construction work at the dam sh...

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

Buffalo, New York. After placing chains around steel bars, "hookers" give signal to the crane operator to hoist in the finishing department of Republic Steel

Buffalo, New York. After placing chains around steel bars, "hookers" g...

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

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. VIII

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. VIII

Public domain photograph of office, auditorium, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktail room I, general view lighting no. 1

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

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

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail lounge V

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail loung...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a modernist architecture building, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - Modern bar

Carol M. Highsmith - Modern bar

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The great Costellos ... on the aerial horizontal bars

Sells Brothers enormous united shows. ... The great Costellos ... on t...

Circus poster showing men performing on high-wire horizontal bars. Copyright by the Strobridge Litho. Co., Cincinnati & New York. Exchange; R.B. Hastings, 1944.

William Marceron Building, 1335 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

William Marceron Building, 1335 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This is an excellent example of a one-story commercial building of c. 1890 with architectural embellishments and a permanent awning. Survey number: HABS DC-107 Building/structure dates: ca. 189... More

Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, La.

Old Absinthe House, New Orleans, La.

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

The moral of the canteen question / Dalrymple.

The moral of the canteen question / Dalrymple.

Illustration shows Puck, at center, looking at both sides of the issue; on the left, "The result of abolishing the canteen" shows soldiers drunk on whiskey, in a stupor, and engaged in a barroom brawl; on the r... More

Caricature, A timely exposure / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Caricature, A timely exposure / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows Secretary of War Elihu Root holding up a lantern to illuminate a scene in an "Anti-Canteen Saloon" where soldiers have gone to drink and socialize in the absence of a canteen on the army base... More

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Lounge area in Club Bar I

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Lounge area in Club Bar I

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Typical handpump manned by twenty-four men, twelve along each of the handle bars

Firemen's muster. Boothbay center, Maine. Typical handpump manned by t...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Sharp view of bottle display

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Sharp vi...

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

Tying iron reinforcement bars together before pouring concrete at migrant camp under construction at Sinton, Texas

Tying iron reinforcement bars together before pouring concrete at migr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Sharp view of bottle display

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Sharp vi...

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

Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York. Main bar I

Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York. Main bar I

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

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire bars are placed on a conveyor which pushes them gradually into the heating furnace where they are brought up to correct temperature for rolling into rods

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Wire bars are p...

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

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Trainload of wire bars

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Trainload of wi...

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

Mount Vernon Theatre, 918 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Mount Vernon Theatre, 918 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: The Mount Vernon Theatre, a well designed if short-lived example of the 5c theatre or "Nickelodeon," is a rare survivor of that first building type, once common across the nation, specifically des... More

Haunted House, New Orleans, La.

Haunted House, New Orleans, La.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mayflower Hotel. Cocktail room in Mayflower Hotel I

Mayflower Hotel. Cocktail room in Mayflower Hotel I

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Cocktail tables and banquette in Club Bar II

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Cocktail tables and banquette in Club Bar II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Copy negative of old PEPCO pictures III

Potomac Electric Power Co. miscellaneous. Copy negative of old PEPCO p...

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

Shiney new automobiles, bars and dance halls are found among the squalid shacks in the Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida

Shiney new automobiles, bars and dance halls are found among the squal...

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

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin in the form of "bars" is removed from the molds at a Southern smelter. The bars had previously been scrapped and trimmed to remove all excess metal for remelting. The smelter, the most modern in the world, extracts pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. Pure tin in the form of "bars" is removed fr...

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

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Part of dam under construction. Notice the fringe of steel reinforcing bars

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Part of dam under construction....

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A poster comes to life. He doesn't wear a sergeant's stripes or a captain's bars, but he's an essential soldier of the home front, just as vital to the winning of this war as the men in uniform on America's myriad battlefields. A steelworker, whose job includes shoveling limestone into an electric furnace, is helping to produce the weapons to smash the Axis

A poster comes to life. He doesn't wear a sergeant's stripes or a capt...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique stone sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large copper refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company

Production. Copper (refining). Trimming bars of pure copper at a large...

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

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Fresh from the shakeout pit, where the mold is broken up and the sand sent back for reconditioning, new castings go to the core cleanout room to have the core sand removed with air and sledge hammers, vibrating machines and powerful hydraulic jets. Notice the core arbors sticking out of the sand. They are placed in the cores for the same reason that steel reinforcing bars are put in concrete floors and pillars. Each of these castings has by now become the body of a milling machine working for victory

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Fresh from the shak...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Britain, Connecticut. Oil fuel furnace showing several bars being heated. A lever crane is being used to transfer a bar to the forging machine at the Fafnir Bearing Company

New Britain, Connecticut. Oil fuel furnace showing several bars being ...

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Upscale bar

Carol M. Highsmith - Upscale bar

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1980s. Title, date, subject not... More

Saloon. Beowawe, Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Saloon. Beowawe, Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Significance: One of the earliest remaining houses in the vicinity of Deerfield, used as a studio successively by the American artists, George Fuller and Augustus Tack. Survey number: HABS MA-658 Building/str... More

[Paul Wohlbruck Palm Garden Bar, Dayton, Ohio]

[Paul Wohlbruck Palm Garden Bar, Dayton, Ohio]

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

Statler Hotel. Bar in Statler Hotel II

Statler Hotel. Bar in Statler Hotel II

Public domain photograph of restaurant lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

345 Royal St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

345 Royal St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Furniture detail

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Furnitur...

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. General view of barroom II

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. General ...

Public domain photograph of the 1940s-1950s New York City interiors, commerce, advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Construction work at the dam, showing wooden forms for concrete and steel reinforcing bars

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California. Construction work at the dam, s...

Public domain photograph of construction site, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The cast wire bars proceed on a conveyor where they are inspected several times while cooling

Great Falls, Montana. Furnace refinery of Anaconda Copper Mining Compa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail VII

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Furniture group

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Furnitu...

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

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktail room III, high viewpoint detail

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

Public domain photograph of train station building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail lounge IV

Hotel Delmonico, 59th St. and Park Ave., New York City. Cocktail loung...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Griswold bar - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Griswold bar - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Jacket title: Hotel Griswold. Probably the Griswold in Detroit. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 1222. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Griswold bar - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Griswold bar - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mayflower Hotel. Cocktail room in Mayflower Hotel II

Mayflower Hotel. Cocktail room in Mayflower Hotel II

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Bottle display

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Bottle d...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster. A careless word...a needles loss. Poster distributed by the Office of War Information to bars and taverns, bowling alleys, bus terminals, libraries, theatres. The original comes in three sizes: 22 inches x 28 inches, 28 inches x 40 inches, 21 7/8 inches x 23 7/8 inches, and is printed in full color. Copies are obtainable from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Poster. A careless word...a needles loss. Poster distributed by the Of...

Public domain photograph of decorated book cover, binding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Poster distributed by Office of War Information to libraries, theatres, office buildings, post offices, terminals, bowling alleys, bars and taverns. The original comes in two sizes: 28 inches x 40 inches and 22 inches x 28 inches, and is printed in red, white, and blue. Copies are obtainable from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Poster distributed by Office of War Information to libraries, theatres...

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

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). These are lock nuts for Navy destroyer, cut from solid steel bars at the Braden and Van Fossen Works, Staunton, Virginia. A special set of dies, jigs and furring tools were built for this job, which was filled in half the time allotted by the prime contractor. The nuts in the center are already finished, the others await merely furring of the edges

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). These are lock nuts for ...

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

Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, banks, liquor stores, taprooms, hotels, bars, beauty parlors, barber shops, war plants, American Legion posts, railways, bus and airline terminals, and government agencies. The original is 26 inches by 13 3/4 inches and is printed in red and black on white. Copies may be obtained from the Bureau of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI ...

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

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso Texas. Interior of the plant showing stacks of wire bars

Phelps Dodge refining company, El Paso Texas. Interior of the plant sh...

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

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, with four bars symbolizing the Four Freedoms beside the Stars and Stripes

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, wi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, with four bars symbolizing the Four Freedoms beside the Stars and Stripes

The United Nations flag, an unofficial design by Brooks B. Harding, wi...

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

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail VI

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Detail ...

Public domain photograph of modernist office interior, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. X, corrugated

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. X, corr...

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bourbon Street bar, New Orleans, Louisiana

Bourbon Street bar, New Orleans, Louisiana

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

Omar Abukharma installing and testing tension bars on a horizontal pay-off machine.

Omar Abukharma installing and testing tension bars on a horizontal pay...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Significance: One of the earliest remaining houses in the vicinity of Deerfield, used as a studio successively by the American artists, George Fuller and Augustus Tack. Survey number: HABS MA-658 Building/str... More

Locke-Fuller House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Locke-Fuller House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Significance: An early post-Revolutionary farmhouse of a design unique in this area and long the home of the painter, George Fuller (1822-1884). / This farmhouse was built about 1790 for Captain Jonas Locke, mi... More

Haunted House, New Orleans, La - Victorian era public domain image

Haunted House, New Orleans, La - Victorian era public domain image

"G 3745" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019307. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Cocktail tables and banquette in Club Bar I

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. Cocktail tables and banquette in Club Bar I

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mercantile Bar, Atlantic City, Fremont County, WY

Mercantile Bar, Atlantic City, Fremont County, WY

Survey number: HABS WY-63 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Detail of bar mural

Seagram's Distillers Corp., Chrysler Building, New York City. Detail o...

Public domain photograph of life and commerce in the New YorkCity in1940s-1950s, interiors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fresh stock rolls over towering drying racks shown here. Weighted tension bars keep the festooned sheet of new fabric taut and straight as it cools and dries. From the drying racks, the fabric travels quickly onto rolls of cloth where it is rolled onto reels small enough to handle. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fre...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Pouring copper wire bars

Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Wire and Cable Company. Pouring copper ...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned before removal from the molds in which they were formed in a Southern smelter. All the trimmings are returned to the "pot boilers" for remelting. The plant, finest and most modern in the world, extracts the pure metal from South American ore

Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Loading steel bars on a truck

Detroit, Michigan. Loading steel bars on a truck

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

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. IX

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. IX

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktail room III, high viewpoint detail

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

Public domain photograph of office, auditorium, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktail room IV, detail through grille

Pennsylvania Station cocktail room, W. 30th St., Philadelphia. Cocktai...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Allen House, Bars Road, Deerfield, Franklin County, MA

Significance: One of the earliest remaining houses in the vicinity of Deerfield, used as a studio successively by the American artists, George Fuller and Augustus Tack. Survey number: HABS MA-658 Building/str... More

901 Wazee Street (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver County, CO

901 Wazee Street (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver County, CO

Significance: The building located at 901 Wazee Street is an intact example of turn-of-the-century commercial architecture which is associated with the development of the West Wazee Street Warehouse District...... More

William Marceron Building, 1335 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

William Marceron Building, 1335 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest, Washington...

Significance: This is an excellent example of a one-story commercial building of c. 1890 with architectural embellishments and a permanent awning. Survey number: HABS DC-107 Building/structure dates: ca. 189... More

Mount Vernon Theatre, 918 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Mount Vernon Theatre, 918 Ninth Street Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: The Mount Vernon Theatre, a well designed if short-lived example of the 5c theatre or "Nickelodeon," is a rare survivor of that first building type, once common across the nation, specifically des... More

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. General view of Club Bar II

Carlton Hotel, Club Bar. General view of Club Bar II

Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At last the District of Columbia is to have it's own official flag. George Washington's family shield of red and white--two red bars & 3 red stars on a white background-- is the design just approved by the flag commission created by Congress. D.C. Commissioner, Melvin Hazen, who chose the design, is pictured with the new banner, 10/17/38

At last the District of Columbia is to have it's own official flag. Ge...

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

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