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[Four people in Slavic costume, woman giving another beads]

[Four people in Slavic costume, woman giving another beads]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Wades in Water, Piegan Indian, full-length portrait, seated on floor, facing front, with braids, beaded buckskin shirt and leggings, beads with ermine tail trim]

[Wades in Water, Piegan Indian, full-length portrait, seated on floor,...

J139765 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3097-09.

Peasant types. (Village sheikh telling his beads)

Peasant types. (Village sheikh telling his beads)

Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds back down into the sidewall of the finished tire for added strength. Passenger tires are normally supplied with only one wire bead, but truck tires usually have two or more, depending upon the size, weight and number of plies. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "c...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Negro women working as chippers, removing beads after a joint has been welded

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Negro women workin...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Chipper removing the welding beads where a lifting clip has been on an innerbottom unit

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Chipper removing t...

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

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain  drawing

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain drawing

Print shows a procession of various figures holding a large rosary around a large octopus. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych ma... More

[Plenty Coups, Crow Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, pompadour, temple braids, beaded buckskin shirt, shell beads around neck]

[Plenty Coups, Crow Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, ...

H113024 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2696-08.

Tanganyika. Arusha. Woman of Tanganyika weighted down with beads, Tanzania

Tanganyika. Arusha. Woman of Tanganyika weighted down with beads, Tanz...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Religious figure, probably a monk, seated, facing slightly left, holding a loop of prayer beads]

[Religious figure, probably a monk, seated, facing slightly left, hold...

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Jicarilla girl in feast dress

Edward S. Curtis - Jicarilla girl in feast dress

Jicarilla Apache girl, half-length portrait, wearing dress with buckskin cape, several necklaces, medallions; her hair is tied on each side of her head with large knot of yarn. H55649 U.S. Copyright Office. Cu... More

A Persian princess - 15 - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

A Persian princess - 15 - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Stereograph showing a woman in a costume featuring beads or pearls. J292821 U.S. Copyright Office. No. A-737. No. 15 on left side stereo recto. Copyright by E.S. Co.

It's cowboy hats and beads for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, for Cheryl Pittman, David Cross, and Marcia Cross outside the 11th Street Bar in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

It's cowboy hats and beads for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, for Ch...

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

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the girls at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the...

Public domain photograph related to Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain  drawing

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain drawing

Print shows a procession of various figures holding a large rosary around a large octopus. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych ma... More

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Black beads hung between the breasts are good for heart trouble

Fifty-seven year old sharecropper woman. Hinds County, Mississippi. Bl...

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

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain  drawing

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain drawing

Print shows a procession of various figures holding a large rosary around a large octopus. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych ma... More

[Ghost Bear, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, feather headdress, beaded buckskin shirt, bead choker with shell concho, large medal on strand of metal beads]

[Ghost Bear, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing...

H113003 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2675-08.

Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama

Mardi Gras beads hang in a tree for weeks after Mardi Gras in Mobile, ...

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

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain  drawing

Dōke hyakumanben - Public domain drawing

Print shows a procession of various figures holding a large rosary around a large octopus. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Triptych ma... More

[Fish Shows, an Apsaroke Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, pompadour, temple braids painted white, 2 eagle feathers, disk earring, shell beads with large disk ornaments, beaded buckskin shirt]

[Fish Shows, an Apsaroke Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dragot︠s︡i︠e︡nnai︠a︡ t︠s︡ata s ikony Ḟedorovskoĭ Bozhʹeĭ Materi. Khranitsi︠a︡ v riznit︠s︡i︠e︡ Uspenskago sobora v Kostromi︠e︡

Dragot︠s︡i︠e︡nnai︠a︡ t︠s︡ata s ikony Ḟedorovskoĭ Bozhʹeĭ Materi. Khran...

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A Persian princess - 8 - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

A Persian princess - 8 - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Stereograph showing a woman in a costume featuring beads or pearls. J292820 U.S. Copyright Office. No. A-737. No. 8 on left side stereo recto. Copyright by E.S. Co.

Lucille [B] - Public domain scan of print

Lucille [B] - Public domain scan of print

Lucille, half-length portrait, standing next to tree, facing front, wearing a headband and seashell decorated buckskin dress.

Edward S. Curtis - Wishham (i.e., Wishram) girl

Edward S. Curtis - Wishham (i.e., Wishram) girl

Tlakluit woman, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a heavily beaded buckskin dress, several necklaces, beads, shells, dentalium-shell nose ornament and a headdress of beads and hollow-centered Chinese ... More

These boys in Base Hospital 57 Paris, look as serious as if they were solving a mathematical problem. They have just learned how to string beads into necklaces, fobs, and handbags and they have to keep their minds on the work to keep the beads from slipping. A Red Cross instructor is showing them how

These boys in Base Hospital 57 Paris, look as serious as if they were ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Recreation. U.S. France. Used in: Ex. indef. Tech, Trade and Class Jr. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about ... More

[Native American with beads and woman. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

[Native American with beads and woman. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

A couple of women standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the girls at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the...

Public domain photograph related to Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Swallow Bird, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, painted pompadour, Apsaroke headdress, flannel shirt, beads on chest, studded pipe held in front of right arm]

[Swallow Bird, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, faci...

H113006 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2678-08.

[Strike On his Head, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, loose forelock, braids, beaded buckskin shirt, beads and two large shell disks around neck]

[Strike On his Head, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait...

H112963 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2635-08.

Edward S. Curtis - [Zuni Indian bead worker drilling holes in beads]

Edward S. Curtis - [Zuni Indian bead worker drilling holes in beads]

H34051 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 827.

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the girls at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Sweaters and long ropes of beads are popular with the...

Public domain photograph related to Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Doris Kenyon, Blue crepe, steel beads

Doris Kenyon, Blue crepe, steel beads

Public domain photograph - 1900s actress, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Men seated in a shop with beads and necklaces]
Edward S. Curtis - Apsaroke mother, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Edward S. Curtis - Apsaroke mother, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Arapsoke woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, child secured on her back with blanket. H113062 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2734-08. On verso: Her Horse Kills. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis C... More

Edward S. Curtis - Pomo baskets and magnesite beads

Edward S. Curtis - Pomo baskets and magnesite beads

Indian crafts, California. J268352 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 4062. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, ... More

Remnants of Mardi Gras beads hang from a tree on Dauphin Street in Mobile, Alabama

Remnants of Mardi Gras beads hang from a tree on Dauphin Street in Mob...

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

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman, both in Oriental costume, full-length portraits, both seated on a carpet on the floor, the man, on the left, cross-legged, turned three-quarters to the right, holding a string of beads; the woman turned slightly to the left, wearing a beaded (?) cap; between them is a hookah, the stem of which both are holding]

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman,...

Corners trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Written on back of plate: 507(X). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew ... More

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds back down into the sidewall of the finished tire for added strength. Passenger tires are normally supplied with only one wire bead, but truck tires usually have two or more, depending upon the size, weight and number of plies. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Covering the beads. Beads are covered with sturdy fabric which builds ...

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

A cigar-store Indian and a plethora of beads meet for Mardi Gras, a Cowboy Mardi Gras, in little Bandera, the "Cowboy Capital of Texas," west of San Antonio, Texas

A cigar-store Indian and a plethora of beads meet for Mardi Gras, a Co...

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

Cotton stockings. Paulette Goddard illustrates the new fashion trend of having her hose blend in color with her evening dress. The dress she wears is of gold bugle beads, designed by the famous Hollywood designer, Edith Head. Her stockings are gold-colored sheer crepe lisle

Cotton stockings. Paulette Goddard illustrates the new fashion trend o...

Public domain photograph of model, woman, photo, fashion advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Costumes, characters, etc. Drilling holes in beads

Costumes, characters, etc. Drilling holes in beads

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a 19th-century costume, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sudan. Omdurman. In the market. Beads and trinkets

Sudan. Omdurman. In the market. Beads and trinkets

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Dragot︠s︡i︠e︡nnai︠a︡ t︠s︡ata s ikony Ḟedorovskoĭ Bozhʹeĭ Materi. Khranitsi︠a︡ v riznit︠s︡i︠e︡ Uspenskago sobora v Kostromi︠e︡, photographic print

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Dragot︠s︡i︠e︡nnai︠a︡ t︠s︡ata s ikony Ḟedorovs...

In album: Views along the upper Volga River, from Kashin to Makarev, Russian Empire, LOT 10340, no. 383. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Len and her baby sister, children's house, Scutari, Albania. This is a red-headed baby and one exemplary member of the Baby Club. She wears beads on her hair, just 5 or 6 and very brightly colored, so that no evil may befall her. Her big sister has just learned that soap and water are more efficacious than beads in keeping off disease

Len and her baby sister, children's house, Scutari, Albania. This is a...

Caption from negative sleeve: Albania. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: J.R.C. Data: Mr. Scull, Sept. 1921. Classi... More

Cotton stockings. Paulette Goddard illustrates the new fashion trend of having her hose blend in color with her evening dress. The dress she wears is gold bugle beads, designed by the famous Hollywood designed, Edith Head. Her stockings are gold-colored sheer crepe lisle

Cotton stockings. Paulette Goddard illustrates the new fashion trend o...

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

Len and her baby sister, children's house, Scutari, Albania. This is a red-headed baby and one exemplary member of the Baby Club. She wears beads on her hair, just 5 or 6 and very brightly colored, so that no evil may befall her. Her big sister has just learned that soap and water are more efficacious than beads in keeping off disease

Len and her baby sister, children's house, Scutari, Albania. This is a...

Caption from negative sleeve: Albania. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: J.R.C. Data: Mr. Scull, Sept. 1921. Classi... More

[Young women modeling: facing left, with laurel of beads]

[Young women modeling: facing left, with laurel of beads]

Photo by Fitz W. Guerin. #71. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Glamour.

Outside church of St. Jean Baptiste, selling beads, etc.
Making the wire beads. Beads which reinforce the tire and hold it firmly on the rim, are made of the highest grade piano wire, and are extremely tough and durable. They must be made to precisely the correct length, and are foiled on the machine illustrated here. Care must be taken that there are no burrs, slivers or rough spots which might cut into the bead wrapping or fabric. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Making the wire beads. Beads which reinforce the tire and hold it firm...

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

Making the wire beads. Beads which reinforce the tire and hold it firmly on the rim, are made of the highest grade piano wire, and are extremely tough and durable. They must be made to precisely the correct length, and are foiled on the machine illustrated here. Care must be taken that there are no burrs, slivers or rough spots which might cut into the bead wrapping or fabric. General Tires, Akron, Ohio

Making the wire beads. Beads which reinforce the tire and hold it firm...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Chairman of Civil Aeronautics authority assumes new duties. Washington, D.C., Aug. 8. As the Washington summer heat fairly sizzled, Edward J. Noble today assumed his duties as chairman of the newly created Civil Aeronautics Authority. Wiping the beads of perspiration from his forehead after taking the oath, Noble is pictured as he plunged into the mass of details involved in putting the act in effect on August 22, 8/8/38

Chairman of Civil Aeronautics authority assumes new duties. Washington...

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

Decorated gravemarker on All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Note the beaded ornament, which is made of wire and beads

Decorated gravemarker on All Saints' Day, New Roads, Louisiana. Note t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, graves, monuments, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "cracker," or grinding machine, of a big Midwest tire plant. The machine breaks the scrap tire into small pieces to facilitate removal of rubber from fabric by the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Scrap tires, with beads removed, are fed to the "c...

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