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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys take one day a...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys gr...

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

Franklin Statue, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvani...

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

The Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room, one of the diplomatic recepti...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. The building was designed by architects, Gilbert Stanley Un... More

Benjamin Franklin Papers: Series I, 1772-1783; Records of the United S...

A painting of a large group of people Franklin before the lord's counc...

Benjamin Franklin standing before the Lords in Council in Whitehall Chapel, London in 1774, presenting the concerns of the American colonists. There is a key for the original painting, printed by John H. Butle... More

Convention 1861 - Public domain drawing

One bust portrait of Benjamin Butler and four full-length sketches of figures bowing. Title inscribed below image. Five full-length studies of figures gesturing. See also Waud, no. 864. Formerly Waud no. B-100.... More

[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right...

H93461 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. No. 9011[...].

Benjamin Franklin - born in Boston, Jany. 17th 1706 -- died in Philade...

Print showing Benjamin Franklin, full-length portrait, sitting in chair, facing slightly left, holding compass, with globe at his feet, and electrical storm visible through the window in the background.

In Congress, May 2, 1780 : Instructions to the captains and commanders...

Signed on p. [2]: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Originally published: Philadelphia : David Claypoole, 1780. Imprint from Livingston. Probably printed about the end of April, 1781. Cf. Li... More

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...

Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maen-Coch, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware C...

Significance: Maen-Coch, currently known as The Grange, owes its significance to its high-style Gothic design with an 18th century core, its association with prominent individuals, and to its old and extensive ... More

Reconstruction / eng. by J.L. Giles, N.Y. ; printed by F[rancis] Rate...

Print shows a grand allegory of the reconciliation of North and South through the federal program of Reconstruction. Visionary in its breadth and scale, the work is a remarkable combination of religious and pat... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Gen Butler, Adgt Gen Thomas, Adgt Gen Schout[sic]& staff watching the ...

Title inscribed on verso. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 19, 1864, p. 740, as: Gen. Butler and Staff watching the Battle from Johnson House, October 27, 1864. Reference print available in the Civil War... More

Experience de la machine areostatique

Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Caption (French): Experience de la machine aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier d... More

Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit cœlo fulme...

Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing front; map and his spectacles are on the table.

Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. F.R.S. - one of the American plenipotentiarie...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, without spectacles, wearing fur cap, in oval. After a portrait by Cochin. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present war in America;... More

Benjamin Franklin engraved by T.B. Welch from the portrait by Martin i...

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

General Butler's Head Quarters, Chapin's farm

Farm buildings surrounded by tents and soldiers. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 2443.

In a critical condition / F. Opper.

Print shows a domestic scene with Benjamin F. Butler as the mother of a sick child labeled "Butler Boom" who is being examined by Puck as a physician; various medicines labeled "Grand Reforms, Tewksbury Investi... More

The new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass / J. Ke...

Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as a large tree labeled "Eucalyptus Clevelandus" with roots labeled "Honor" and "Honesty", and branches that spread over swamp land from which rise gaseous ghosts labeled "St... More

Tammany throws away its "butt", and the monopoly bootblack picks it up...

Illustration shows Benjamin F. Butler as a shoe shiner with his kit, stooping to pick up a smoldering cigar butt labeled "Grady" that John Kelly, on the left, has discarded; they are on a sidewalk in front of t... More

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black dog sitting on top of a wooden bench, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, ... More

[Benjamin Franklin Tracy, three-quarter length portrait, standing by d...

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

SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916

A man in a suit and top hat with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, printer, Philadelphia, Print

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Arthurs, S.M., artist. Ketterlinus Litho. Mfg. Co.... More

Benjamin Franklin celebration [Washington, D.C.]

A crowd of people standing around a fountain. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin University. Entrance to School of Accountancy, Benja...

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

Benjamin Franklin University. Entrance to School of Accountancy, Benja...

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

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 / J.L.G. Ferris.

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams meet at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High (Market) streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence. K17406... More

Centennial Guard Box, Traffic Triangle, Benjamin Franklin Parkway vici...

Survey number: HABS PA-1652 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of the circular walk leading from the Benjamin Franklin Post Of...

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Post Office, Edna Strain [...]4313 Stillen [...]St. Little Rock, [...]...

A woman in a polka dot dress standing on a map of the world. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys take one day a...

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

Dining room at the French Embassy, Washington, D.C.

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

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Print, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Edwin, David.

Butlers battery going into position

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 635. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.408) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings f... More

A painting of a large group of people Franklin before the lord's counc...

Benjamin Franklin standing before the Lords in Council in Whitehall Chapel, London in 1774, presenting the concerns of the American colonists. There is a key for the original painting, printed by John H. Butle... More

Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 5, 1864, pp. 712-713, as part of: Yankee Improvements in Front of Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print avai... More

The Declaration committee - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows members of the Declaration Committee (left to right: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and John Adams) working at a table. G744 U.S. Copyright Office. Public... More

[Contraband, Fortress Monroe]. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

Print shows a slave at the Union fort taunting his plantation master. The planter (left) waves his whip and cries, "Come back you black rascal." The slave replies, "Can't come back nohow massa Dis chile's contr... More

Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Ja...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, in oval on pedestal with poem. Tiré du cabinet de M. Le Ray de Chaumont &c. After painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. Publi... More

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

Benjamin Franklin Pearson House, Dodge Street, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co...

Survey number: HABS IA-30-27

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...

Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin: The statesman and philosopher

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0562.

Maen-Coch, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware C...

Significance: Maen-Coch, currently known as The Grange, owes its significance to its high-style Gothic design with an 18th century core, its association with prominent individuals, and to its old and extensive ... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

[Diagrams of various electrical phenomena and title page of Experiment...

Frontispiece and title page in: Experiments and observations of electricity / Benjamin Franklin. London : Printed for F. Newbery, 1774. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C... More

B. Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. - ambassador from the Congress of America t...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in oval. After the medal by the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres in 1778. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between... More

Dr. Benjamin Franklin engrav'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing fur hat and spectacles, facing left, in oval tied with a ribbon at top and festooned with ivy.

Barn-burners in a fix - Political cartoon, public domain image

A satire on the Barnburners, a radical faction of New York State Democrats, led by John Van Buren, whose commitment to social and monetary reforms was likened to a farmer's burning his barn to rid it of rats. H... More

Martin, Honorable Benjamin Franklin of W.Va

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

Speaker Keifer's kaleidoscopic speech, at the N.Y. Chamber of Commerce...

Print shows a vignette cartoon with a carriage at center in which Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and William H. Vanderbilt are riding with large money bags, the wheels are labeled "Corporations" and "... More

The only Democratic presidential candidate who stands a chance of elec...

Illustration shows a man with hooks for hands and with labeles over his ears and mouth that state "Deaf" and "Dumb", hanging from one hook is a paper that states "Elected". Drowning in paper in the background a... More

Why they dislike him -- he will not prove himself a cat's-paw in the e...

Illustration shows Grover Cleveland as a lion with his paw on a monkey labeled "T. Grady" on top of a rock labeled "Civil Service Reform" near a small fire in which are roasting chestnuts labeled "City Spoils, ... More

The honor of the country in danger / Gillam.

Illustration shows the spirits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln looking at a throne draped with an American flag beneath a sign that states "This coming term will end the first hundred years of the Amer... More

Genl Butler holding the mob in check at New Orleans

Benjamin Franklin Butler, Civil War Union army Major General, stands on the portico of a marble building with the American flag waving overhead. With a stern expression and arms folded, he appears before a mob... More

Singed paws / Dalrymple. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows Benjamin F. Tracy as a cat who got his paws burned on a hot stove labeled "Mayoralty Campaign 1897" on which food labeled "Budget of Greater New York 70,000,000 Dollars" is cooking. Thomas C. Platt ... More

Benjamin Franklin and Richard Oswald discussing the Treaty of Peace Pa...

Depicts events from 1782. Halftone repro. of drawing by Howard Pyle. Illus. in: Scribner Magazine, 1898, v. 24, p. 721. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412K. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... More

Benjamin Franklin - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General B.L. [i.e., F.] Tracy at his desk

Benjamin F. Tracy, full-length portrait, seated at his desk, facing slightly right. J188279 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Benjamin Franklin reading draft of Declaration of Independence, John ...

G62596 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by J.L.G. Ferris.

Benjamin Franklin Birthplace Site, 17 Milk Street, Boston, Suffolk Cou...

Survey number: HABS MA-1161 Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Barclay, June 19, 1785, Salaries for Forei...

Salaries for Foreign Ministers; Extract of Resolution with Notes by Thomas Jefferson

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in oval with ribbon at top. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Libr... More

Mirabeau arrive aux Champs Élisées / J.M. Moreau le Jne. inv. ; F.J. M...

Print shows Mirabeau at center arriving at the Champs Élisées where he hands a copy of the French Constitution to J.J. Rousseau as Benjamin Franklin reaches to place a wreath on his head; in the left background... More

The great national game - last match of the season to be decided Nov. ...

Print shows a sandlot baseball game of presidential hopefuls with James G. Blaine pitching to Chester A. Arthur, with Samuel J. Tilden behind the plate and Roscoe Conkling as umpire, at first base is Benjamin F... More

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

Maen-Coch, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware C...

Significance: Maen-Coch, currently known as The Grange, owes its significance to its high-style Gothic design with an 18th century core, its association with prominent individuals, and to its old and extensive ... More

Benjamin Franklin - né a Boston, le 17 Janvier 1706 / dessiné par Desr...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in oval. Caption continues: Imprimeur; fondateur de la République des Etats unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale - mort à Philadel... More

Benjamin Franklin Currey to Andrew Jackson, August 11, 1831

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Reconstruction / eng. by J.L. Giles, N.Y. ; printed by F[rancis] Rate...

Print shows a grand allegory of the reconciliation of North and South through the federal program of Reconstruction. Visionary in its breadth and scale, the work is a remarkable combination of religious and pat... More

[Four naval scenes] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Inscribed below ships as identifiers: Butlers Flag[ship]; Louisiana exploded off Ft. Fisher 1864 [December 23]. Inscribed below cityscape: Ripraps 1861. Partial sketch deck of ship on verso. Form... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

The United States in Congress assembled, to all who shall these presen...

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marsh, Honorable Benjamin Franklin of Ill. enlisted in Regt. Ill. late...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: 717, BF Marsh, Ill, 1083 [crossed out]. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congre... More

It looks that way now / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows four men as children labeled "Tracy, Saxton, Morton, [and] Schieren" fighting amongst themselves to be the first to get up a ladder labeled "Rep. Nomination" and reach a large apple labeled "New Yor... More

[Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, seated in sedan chair, facing left, fac...

G48957 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.