2,123 Beaches Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

The Sandman, Atlantic City, N.J

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Corresponding glass transparency (LC-D4-8 x) available on videodisc frame 1A-28652. "5865" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 05865. Gift; State Historical S... More

Beach View, Coney Island. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Ca...

Small crowd in water; in the foreground are two women looking down; in the background are several people on a raised platform in water. 64773-Bp2s-2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1896 by Alfred. S. Campbel... More

A jolly crowd, Atlantic City, N.J.

Stereograph showing large group of men and women in bathing suits mugging for photographers while wading in the ocean near the beach. 12620 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted 1897 by B.W. Kilburn. No. 11847.

Young America in the surf, Coney Island

Stereograph showing children playing in the water. 63736Cp2s-2 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1897 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Der. Lovasʹ-Guba na bolʹsh. gubi︠e︡ Onezhskag...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Annisquam Light, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017004. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The Beach, Rockaway, Long Island

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 06608, 06607. "G 1226" on right negative. Queens, New York. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 010758. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Easton's Beach, Newport, R.I. - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

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

Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marlborough-Blenheim and beach, Beach, Atlantic City, N.J.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Clarendon, Seabreeze, Fla. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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

The Beach, Atlantic City - Victorian era public domain image

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

The Beach at Old Orchard, Maine

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

Fourth Avenue Beach, Asbury Park, Panoramic Photograph

H20196 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; B. J. Falk; July 24, 1902. Copyright claimant's address: Waldorf-Astoria, N.Y.

Beach, Atlantic City, N.J. - Victorian era public domain image

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

Margate Elephant, Atlantic Avenue & Decatur Street, Margate City, Atla...

Survey number: HABS NJ-816 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000493

Margate Elephant, Atlantic Avenue & Decatur Street, Margate City, Atla...

Survey number: HABS NJ-816 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000493

Alassio. Corniche Route. Cityscape photograph. Architecture of 1860s E...

View of Alassio, Italy in distance with beach in foreground and mountains in back. In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 102. No. 34.

On the coast of Florida / Harry Fenn ; R. Hinshelwood.

Beach with palm trees and other vegetation. 4934L U.S. Copyright Office.

Seashore bathing - Drawing. Public domain image.

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0175). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Beach at Ormond, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

White caps / Brett Lith. Co., N.Y.

Print shows a scene on a decorative plate with three young children playing on a beach and collecting seashells. Copyright 1882 by J.L. Blamire.

New York - a scene at Long Beach, the new and popular seaside resort /...

People on beach and in the water, Long Beach, New York. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 54 (1882 Aug. 12), p. 389.

Flossie's favorite amusement at the seaside is digging in the sand

(DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's young people, 8:772 (Sept. 27, 1887).

Children riding donkeys at a beach

Title devised by cataloger. Possibly Atlantic City, N.J. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 030809. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[The Old Lady, York Beach, Me.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Club, Pointe aux Barques - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

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

[Atlantic City, N.J., the beach]

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Pistol and fallen body on beach with shipmast on horizon]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0175). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as tailpiece for: "The Sea-Robbers of New York" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper's ma... More

Shadows on beach, Coney Island--colored girls bathing

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

Holding down his life preserver, Atlantic City

No. 11418. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picnicing on the beach - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kennebunk beach, Maine - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Crowded beach with cabanas, Atlantic City, N.J.]

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

[Atlantic City, N.J., the Chalfonte]

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

The Beach at Rockaway, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

"766" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no.013726. Rockaway Beach, Queens. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

View of Toledo beach from chutes, Toledo, Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Children swinging on pier rope at beach]

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On the beach, Palm Beach, Fla. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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

[Wharf and beach, Avalon, Catalina Island, Calif.]

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

The Beach at Asbury Park - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Along the shore, Harbor Point view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-12311) lists title as: Beach and club house, Harbor Point. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53838". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collec... More

A Pailful for Daddy - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "G 1061" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09182. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The lone bather, Atlantic City, N.J

No. 15877. Public domain photograph of New Jersey, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Europe. Public domain artistic photogra...

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

Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Europe. Public domain artistic photogra...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Europe. Public domain artistic photogra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place, world heritage site, classical or neoclassical architecture, Venice, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fiske House and beach, Old Orchard, Me.

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

Bathing hour on the beach, Seabreeze i.e. Daytona Beach, Fla

"207" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017824. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Gagry. Dvoret︠s︡ Ego Vysochestva Print︠s︡a Olʹdenburgskago s shosse

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

Posing - Victorian era public domain image

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

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The bathers

Photograph of a painting. Image on videodisc possibly laterally reversed. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029445. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

A pleasing beach scene, Long Beach, near Los Angeles, Cal. U.S.A

Copyright by C.L. Wasson. No. 30607. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Point, Harbor Point, Mich. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Beach in the Carmel, California area

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Santa Monica Bay, gelatin silver print

H110751 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. D. Lambert; May 19, 1908. Copyright claimant's address: Long Beach, Cal.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

York Beach, York, Maine - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long Beach pier, Long Beach, Cal.

Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Cruz, California, gelatin silver print

Photo includes Neptune Casino and uniformed men in formation performing on beach. H104906 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; January 7, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43393. No. 3541.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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

Bath house, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072727. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Early years, with images of family, self scan /s, landscapes and archi...

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

[The sands are dotted with striped red-and-white tents]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0096). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Trouville - A Paris by the Sea" by Harrison Rhodes, Harper's magazine, 125:491 (Sept. 1912).

[Atlantic City, N.J. skyline from Garden Pier]

J222808 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. B. Smith; March 28, 1917. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

Maud Miller - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Beaches. View of beach and dunes II

Titles 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 the 19... More

Legs of the sea / George Bellows.

Beach scene with swimmers, boaters, and a well-dressed couple resting after a picnic. The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné / Lauris Mason, assisted by Joan Ludman. Millwood, New York : KTO P... More

General [view], Brazil, D.F. [Distrito Federal], Rio De Janeiro, Copac...

Photograph shows people on Copacabana Beach, with street and buildings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Title from negative sleeve. Forms part of: Archive of Hispanic Culture Collection.

Athlit. Various including excavations. Ruins fr[om] the beach. Buttres...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Overall beach skyline, Cape May, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Atlantic coast. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More

Florida beach - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Dusk view of Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii

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

Aerial view of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu, Hawaii

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Photographer's choice (America project). Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchas... More

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The beach community of Gulf Shores, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

The white sands of the beaches on the Gulf Coast are breathtaking in O...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vendor stands in Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M... More

Aerial view of Venice Beach, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Venice is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M... More

Aerial of Pacific Coast Beach, Los Angeles, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Cottonwood Beach on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coas...

The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More