beauty

Geisha to hakoya, Shigemasa Kitao - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women wearing geta, walking, one carrying a long box. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). F... More

Uzuki - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a man serenading, holding a flute in one hand, standing outside a window through which two women are visible.

Segawa kikunojō, Bunch Ippitsusai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows an actor portraying a woman holding an umbrella. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Purchase; ... More

Yatsushi kusazuribiki. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a man sitting on the floor clutching a long piece of cloth held by the woman standing next to him; she has her hand on a hairpin, perhaps getting ready to remove it. A screen painting behind the wom... More

Kōkan Shiba - Tamagiku dōrō, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a woman and a young girl; the woman is pointing with her right hand toward a view of a busy street in a city. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Chōjiya uchi hinazuru, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows two courtesans and two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seirō shiki jūni no hanag... More

Katsukawa Shunchō - Uchū sanbijin - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women walking along the banks of a river during a rain storm. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban ... More

Ōshima shimajo, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Saishikizuri Kyoka Ehon. Part of an illustrated Kyoka book. Forms part of: Japanese prints a... More

Matsubaya uchi Yachiyo, Eizan Kikukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Yachiyo, a courtesan, full-length portrait, walking beneath blossoms with an attendant; she has several hairpins and her kimono has a design on the back showing writing equipment. Title and other de... More

Kiseru o motsu onna - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows a woman holding a pipe (kiseru). Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Driveway of Parisian wealth and beauty - Ave. Bois de Boulogne and Arc...

Photograph shows carriages and an automobile on the Bois de Boulogne with the Arc de Triomphe barely visible in the background. D18780 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount u... More

Festal beauty of leaping fountains and noble exhibit buildings around ...

H51053 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vigorous beauty of MacNeil's "Captive Bull" on terrace above fountain...

Public domain photograph of vintage stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Did she fall or was she on? / W.E. Hill '10.

Illustration shows a meek little man standing between an attractive young woman and his wife, a brutish matron. Caption: The Married Man How absent-minded I am getting, dearie! I was about to address this you... More

Saved! / Gordon Ross. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a beautiful, partially nude, winged woman goddess rescuing an airman who has fallen out of an airplane, and giving him a kiss. Caption: An airmaid to the rescue! Illus. in: Puck, v. 68, no. ... More

A Dutch treat / painted by Ruth Murchison in Holland.

Illustration shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, turned to the left with face front, holding a vase in her lap. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1969 (1914 November 28), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puc... More

BEAUTY CONTESTS AT TIDAL BASIN - Public domain portrait photograph

An old photo of a man and a child in the water. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beauty show, 1922, [8/5/22] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

Beauty show, 1922 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

The ruins of the world's ancient civilization, the Forum in Rome The c...

Photographs show Italian police officers, the Roman Forum and Frank Carpenter at St. Peter's Basilica and the Palace of Justice (Palazzo di Giustizia), in Rome, Italy. On page: no. 1533 (top left image), no.... More

Galata bridge most famous in the world is made of pontoons. From it on...

Photographs show boats at the Galata Bridge, and two women wearing çarşaf and face veils walking across bridge, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1350 (top image) and ... More

Beauty contestants, 11/26/23] - Public domain portrait photograph

A group of women standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Frank "Beauty" McGowan, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In Romania youthful grace and beauty often becomes matronly stoutness ...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including: two women walking with umbrellas near building and women with baskets of fruit outside of railroad car.

A little girl standing in front of a crowd of people, Great Depression...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Junior entries in beauty contest during July 4th celebration at Salisb...

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

Spectators at beauty contest held during July 4th celebration at Salis...

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

Manpower. Former actress now aircraft worker. From central casting to ...

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

Martin's department store, business on Fulton St., Brooklyn, New York....

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

Elsa Mantilla, backstage, helping beauty pageant contestants with thei...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Elsa Mantilla, backstage, helping beauty pageant contestants with thei...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Elsa Mantilla, backstage, helping beauty pageant contestants with thei...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

The southern belle, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows a young woman with a rose in her hair, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, pulling a diaphanous shawl over her shoulders. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. De... More

[Head of a girl] - Public domain portrait drawing

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Gibson Girl's America : Drawings by Charles Dan... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

Honorable Paynter of Kentucky -- the effect of a cyclone upon Beauty

Title from typed caption on verso of mat. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0123). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Mary's beauty - Public domain American music sheet

Camp Beauty, Cañon de Chelle; walls 1,200 feet high, width of Cañon at...

Original negative number: 13. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 25. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lie... More

Agnes / on stone by H. Grevedon, Paris 1860 ; lith. L. Letrenne, 17 Ru...

Print shows a young woman, half-length portrait, facing front. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. ... More

Nightclub, beauty shop, public baths and entrance to apartment, Black ...

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

Peggy's Beauty Shop, U.S. Highway 341 at South Church Street, Odum, Wa...

Significance: Peggy's Beauty Shop is historically significant as a ca. 1940 commercial structure located between the town of Odum. It contributes to an understanding of the commercial development of this early ... More

Jewell Pathe's Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for "Cap...

J270283 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; June 28, 1924. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles], Cal. Photograph made to promote the film, "Captain Blood". No. 3143-2.

Niwa no yukimi, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women on a veranda looking at a snow-covered garden. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: right panel of a vertic... More

Ōkawabata yūryō, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women strolling next to the Sumida(?) River, enjoying the cool evening air. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: ... More

Katsukawa Shunchō - Yanagi no niwa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women and a child, standing next to and sitting on a bench beneath a willow tree at the edge of a pond. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Sumiyoshi odori, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain drawing

Print shows five women dancing beneath a large parasol during the annual rice planting ritual at the Sumiyoshi shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Okamotoya uchi sayagata, Eishi Hosoda - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Sayagata, a courtesan, full-length, standing, facing left, with two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-0... More

Otomo Kuronushi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows the poet Otomo Kuronushi and two women on a veranda.

Ne no ji no kakejiku o motsu musume

Print shows a woman holding a calendar scroll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Kogata Nshikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japan... More

The American horse show. Power, action, speed & beauty

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chōyō, print by Utamaro Kitagawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women looking at flowers, one is holding scissors. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Beauties having fu... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga

Sheet consists of two broadsides (número 2 on left and número 1 on right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead illustration of a man and woman sitting next to each other as well ... More

Turkish Beauty [Turkey] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A forgotten corner where beauty still lingers, New Orleans

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Roumanian beauty out for a stroll in Sinaia. Tall, dark with jet bla...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including a young woman walking in a street, Bucharest and a Romanian man filling out an application to come to the United States. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C2... More

Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Beautysage from Beauty...

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Admitted to Supreme Court practice at 22, Washington, D.C. Oct. 5. Pro...

A black and white photo of three men and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Senatorial Beauty. Washington, D.C. June 4. A real beauty in the senat...

A black and white photo of a woman on a ladder, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. ... More

Emile's Beauty Shop, 82 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, Long Island...

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

Emile's Beauty Shop, 82 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, Long Island...

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

Spectators at beauty contest held during July 4th celebration at Salis...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entries in beauty contest during July 4th celebration at Salisbury, Ma...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One of the comic entries in beauty contest during July 4th celebration...

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

Goubaud Beauty Bar, business at 743 5th Ave., New York City. General f...

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

Elsa Mantilla, backstage, helping beauty pageant contestants with thei...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Several beauty pageant contestants (wearing evening gowns) stand on st...

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

Beauty pageant contestants on stage; master of ceremonies in foregroun...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Beauty and Barber shop, Route 66, Ash Fork, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Little beauty; Waltz - Public domain American sheet music, 1884

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Amelia - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a young woman, half-length portrait, facing right. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0110

Studies in expression. When women are jurors

Drawing show a variety of expressions on the faces of an all woman jury. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: American women : a Library of C... More

I cannot sing those melodies [and] Rest on me, dark eye of beauty

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Onnna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a scene in a public bathhouse where several women are bathing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 section... More

Sweetest story ever told - Public domain portrait drawing

Illustration shows a young woman standing and playing the violin. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 45:8 (August 13, 1910... More

Agnes / on stone by H. Grevedon, Paris 1860 ; lith. L. Letrenne, 17 Ru...

Print shows a young woman, half-length portrait, facing front. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. ... More

Nightclub, beauty shop, public baths and entrance to apartment, Black ...

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

Peggy's Beauty Shop, U.S. Highway 341 at South Church Street, Odum, Wa...

Significance: Peggy's Beauty Shop is historically significant as a ca. 1940 commercial structure located between the town of Odum. It contributes to an understanding of the commercial development of this early ... More

Satsuki ame, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women walking beneath an umbrella and a young woman about to open an umbrella as it has started to rain. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print speci... More

Kiyonobu Torii - [A popular beauty] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, facing left. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Nami ni goshoguruma moyō no tachi bijin

Print shows a courtesan, facing left, wearing a waterwheel and waves pattern kimono.

Kaze ni nayamu tōka no onna - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows a woman huddled against the wind beneath wisteria blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa).... More

Sumida kahan no bijin - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, full-length portrait, standing on the bank of the Sumida River, facing left, holding a fan.

Utagawa Toyokuni - Sanya karitaku no zu

Print shows two courtesans, full-length, standing, one leaning on a railing, facing right, the other holding a scroll, reading, facing left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spons... More

Henjō - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows the poet Henjō with two other women reading poetry.

Sake zuki, print by Utamaro Kitagawa

Print shows a woman pouring sake into a saucer for a man. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Tōsei kōbutsu hakkei : Eigh... More

Yanagi no sita no bijin - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows two women, one wearing a large white hat, and a child standing beneath a willow tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Fo... More

Preciosa D. Huntington ; J. Cheney, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a beautiful young woman, three-quarter length portrait, sitting in a chair at a window, holding an open book on her lap as she looks out the window at the landscape. (DLC/PP-1998:151) Forms part of... More

The rose of beauty - Public domain portrait engraving

13878 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Lubrecht, Charles, co... More

[Two Japanese women, full-length studio portrait with backdrop, standi...

No. 815. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 6] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some may ... More

Madame Mole-Reymond Jasinski - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, her body turned to the left, facing front, with her hands in a large muff. Includes a remarque on the lower left that appears to be a self-portrait of t... More

The flush of success - Public domain portrait drawing

71113 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Compton & Sons Co., c... More

Caricature, A stage whisper, public domain cartoon image

Illustration shows a handsome young man rescuing a beautiful young woman from drowning. Caption: Her Rescuer (soothingly) You're safe. I've got you, but I was just in the nick of time. / The Actress (weakly) ... More

Love-lorn lyrics of a lonesome lad / Gordon Ross.

Illustration shows a lonely man with arms crossed and chin on his chest, sitting in a chair next to a small table with a shelf of books, his dog at his feet, and on the table a tobacco pipe billowing smoke show... More

Pippins / Goldbeck ; painted by W.D. Goldbeck.

Illustration shows a bust portrait of a woman, facing slightly left, next to a "pippin" apple; a woman admired.

Bathing beach beauty contest, 1920, Eliz. Margaret Williams, Eliz. Roa...

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright res... More

Jewell Pathe's Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for "Cap...

J270285 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; June 28, 1924. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles], Cal. Photograph made to promote the film, "Captain Blood". No. 3143-1.

California Beauty Week, Mark Hopkins Hotel, July 28 to Aug. 2, auspice...

Each contestant numbered and refers to key on image. Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; August 31, 1927. No. 1.

Emile's Beauty Shop, 82 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, Long Island...

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

Emile's Beauty Shop, 82 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre, Long Island...

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