130 Black and white Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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Miss Anita Phipps, 11/24/23 - Public domain dedication image

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

A black and white photo of a pillar in a building. Dodge Brothers Moto...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

[Young woman (Angela Grimké) in Middle Eastern costume and Tuareg trib...

Pencilled on verso: "black & yellow." Image content features: MODEL Angela Grimké; PROP cross?; COSTUME Jewelry; Mediterranean/Mid-east/N. African; PEOPLE Young women. Title and other data comes from a curatori... More

[Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools: general classroo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of England - champions in "pairs" skating at Davo...

A couple of people that are standing in the snow. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Houdini and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln]

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologis... More

Lynching - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Clinton, TN. School integration conflicts

Photograph shows a line of African American boys walking through a crowd of white boys during a period of violence related to school integration. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available... More

Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia Notch, White Mountains

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

Helen Keller, 1880-1968 - Public domain portrait print

Full lgth., kneeling, facing right; right hand on dog; left hand on book. Photoprint copyrighted by Whitman, Chelsea, Mass. No. 12. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A woman in a dress and hat standing on a sidewalk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washing... More

Little Rock, 1959. Rally at state capitol

Photograph showing a group of people, several holding signs and American flags, protesting the admission of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High School. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Formerly ident... More

[Man in wheelchair at the March on Washington, 1963]

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10361, frame 17.

[Martin Luther King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, a...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Martin Luther King meets with Pres. Johnson at the White House, WKL, 12/3/63." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purp... More

John Lewis speaking at a meeting of American Society of Newspaper Edit...

Frame 29 of contact sheet. Original negative not available for frame 29 of LC-U9-18801.

City Hall subway station, New York

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

Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]

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

[Sinai. Monastery of St. Catherine, Greek monks at the modern entrance...

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

Miss Philadelphia. -- Ruth Malcolmson - Public domain portrait photogr...

A woman sitting on the grass with a fan. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Florence MacBeth - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows Florence MacBeth (1891-1966), American operatic soprano and organizer of the Los Angeles Opera Guild. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Helen Keller - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows Helen Keller (1880-1968) possibly at the International Flower Show, New York City, April 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Luncheon was given at the Pan American Union by Dr. L.S. Rowe, the Dir...

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

Roxy Theatre, 49th Street, New York, N.Y. [Interior] with curtain down

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

Lumber mill being dismantled at Careyville, Florida

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Five women holding hands and walking together in a row, sky in backgr...

Published in Vogue magazine, August, 1935. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell ; introduction by George Plimpton ; foreword by Si... More

Bathing beach beauty contest, [1920], Eliz. Roache (most beautiful sui...

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

Avalanche of snow across railroad tracks, Alaska

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, 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

[Double exposure "spirit" photograph of girl standing, holding flowers...

H62881 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Public domain portrait print

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

Angela Davis, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Detroit Museum of Art - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a t...

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

Julia Margaret Cameron - [Portrait of Charles Darwin]

Signed on mount: From life, registered photograph copyright Julia Margaret Cameron, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1969:031).

"Fast asleep" / Louis D. Tandy, Schenechtady [sic], N.Y.

Donkey laying in hammock. 31992C2-1 & 2 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Grade school children posed in classroom, with teacher standing in ba...

In album: "1st Division." Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winston Churchill - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Wood-nymph - Public domain scenic print

Woman in classical drapery seated on rock near stream in woods.

[Young woman, full-length portrait, wearing lace dress, standing, faci...

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

C & P TELEPHONE CO. MAN ON PHONE

A black and white photo of a man in a suit talking on a telephone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Visiting nurses' building, showing group, Detroit, Mich.]

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

Navajo boy - Public domain portrait print

Indian, half length, facing front. H95205 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Fred Harvey. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Children; Photog. I... More

Mrs. C.M. Depew - Public domain portrait print

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

Laurel race track, 1913 - A crowd of people standing around a stadium

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

Gioacchino Rossini - Tancredi. Libretto. English & Italian

the music by Rossini ; as represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden ; the libretto edited and translated by Manfredo Maggioni. (statement of responsibility) U.S. RISM Libretto Project. Printed price... More

Eskimo in kayak, Alaska. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Public domain photograph of people with a small paddle boat, or canoe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irving Trust Bldg., 1 Wall St. - Irving Underhill Co. photo

JO8624 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 20599. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C.

Jaffa - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

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

Trans-Jordan types. Bedouin and wife. (Of the Bdul tribe of Petra)

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

Mrs. E.C. Wilson (Elsie Tilford)

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

Broadway and Hotel Victoria, New York, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of broadway, city downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[King Street lights at night, Charleston, S.C.]

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

Barclay telegraph instruments. Showing instruments on stand with women...

Photograph shows three women working together in an office; one operating the teletypewriter, the other writing, and another handling the receiving tape. Copyright 1908 by John Robert Schmidt, Cincinnati, Ohio.... More

Spanish War poster - Public domain movie poster

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

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new school for Negro ch...

Washington, D. C. A speaker for the Catholic Evidence Guild speaking i...

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

[Louis Armstrong, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, looking a...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C. / [WKL].

Photograph shows a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Maga... More

[British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with President Jimmy Carter ...

Contact sheet folder caption: Margaret Thatcher & Pres. Carter at White House. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

A spinner in the Mollahan Mills, Newberry, S.C. Dec. 3/08. Witness, Sa...

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

Aphrodite marble, Greek - Public domain monumental decor print

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of 4th century B.C. marble head in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 138. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Victor Hugo - Public domain portrait print

Victor Hugo, half-length portrait, facing front. Image appears to be a 19th century photoprint mounted on a 20th century postcard.

[Portrait of a woman] - Public domain portrait print

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

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL: CLASSROOM - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

Earle Ovington & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows aviator Earle Lewis Ovington (1877-1839) with his wife Adelaide. Possibly taken in New York at start of the Hearst Transcontinental Flight. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009, 2012)

Spanish War poster - Public domain movie poster

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Democratic National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla., 3rd session Shirley...

Photograph shows Shirley Chisholm smiling at microphone. Title from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 26274, frame 23. Forms part of: U.S. News ... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Gray Building, 227 West Broad Street, Sava...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information, and HABS GA-2168. This building is now part of Savannah College of Art and Design. Significance: Finished in 1856, t... More

Miner panning gold, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

[The Library of Congress in the U.S. Capitol Building]

Photograph of an engraving. Title and date from Ten First Street, Southeast: Congress Builds a Library, 1886-1897 / Helen-Anne Hilker. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980, p. 60, no. 8.

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Reversed a...

"On February 28, 1857, Alexander Hesler took the famous photograph of Lincoln in Chicago. About seven months earlier, so the story went, Lincoln had posed for William H. Masters of Princeton, Illinois. No photo... More

Sec. of War Simon Cameron, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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

[Coupon made for Merchants Life Insurance Co. of New York City]

2 sculptors at work. Steel engraving by A.D. Holly. Copyrighted by American Bank Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Advert.; Occupations; Ind. Insurance; Publ. Ind.

[Reproduction of page from notebook of Leonardo da Vinci showing a wat...

Illus. in: Il codice atlantico di Leonardo da Vinici nella Biblioteca ambrosiana di Milano. Milano : U. Hoepli, 1894-1904. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leon... More

Aerial view, Camp Wilson, San Antonio, Texas

J223158 U.S. Copyright Office Printed on image: "Archer's Art Shop, San Antonio, Tex." Printed on image: "Frank W. Hines, Pvt., Signal Corps, U.S.A." Duplicate of this image in PR 13 DLC/PP-1980:200, Woodrow Wi... More

Shepherd scenes. Shepherd boy playing to his sheep. The typical reed-p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empire State Building, New York City

JO8930 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eddows, New York. Public domain photograph of New York skyscraper building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hattie W. Caraway] - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[A couple walking along the Seine River in Paris]

On negative sleeve: "Bookboard" [i.e. Book board]. On negative sleeve: "F#G43-14-10; Paris." Photograph may be available in LOT 12452. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Salvador Dali A, gelatin silver print

Portrait photograph of Salvador Dali, including objects, cats, and water caught in motion. The photo is similar to Halsman's published photo "Dali Atomicus" before retouching. J3769 U.S. Copyright Office Transf... More

Klan show competes with Wallace talk

Group of Ku Klux Klan members with cross burning before them.

Martin Luther King press conference / [MST].

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of King leaning on a lectern. Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference... More

Helen Keller, no. 8 portrait photograph, facing right

Photograph showing Helen Keller, half-length portrait, facing right, seated with hand on braille book in her lap as she smells a rose in a vase. H52235 U.S. Copyright Office. "No. 8." On verso: "...man, Chels... More

The Shores family near Westerville, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Pictured (l - r): Minerva (with the infant), Rev. Marks, Rachel and her husband Jerry and their son, Jim Shores. The younger members of the family were noted musicians. See additional information. o... More

[William Howard Taft, three-quarter-length portrait, seated facing lef...

Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unveiling monument to Peter the Great, St. Petersburg

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

Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. "While shepherds watched their floc...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Demonstrators holding signs during the March on Washington, 1963] / M...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10344, frame 17. Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil rights march on Washington, ... More

The Beatles British Rock and Roll group putting on their show at the W...

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 11372, frame 24. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Policeman confronts a group at Seventh Ave. and 126th St. during renew...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, speaking ...

World Journal Tribune photo by Don Rice. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.

[President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela with members of the Congres...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1994-655 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1994-655, frame 8. Contact sheet or negative sleev... More

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is tou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Come together in peace - Drawing. Public domain image.

Poster showing two hands clasped together. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

[Yebichai, the beggar, Tonenili-Navajo Indian, dressed in spruce branc...

Curtis no. 1055-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Illusion of the American Frontier" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2015-Feb. 2016.