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Inside an old woodshop, one of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s h...

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

[Interior wall with architectural ornaments of the U.S. Capitol buildi...

Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 668. (DLC/PP-1996:032.13). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

Syout - constructions modernes - le divan &ca / Félix Teynard.

Exterior view of contemporary Arab buildings in Asyūṭ, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie,... More

The old Genoese Castle at Balaklava, from above the castle pier

View of ships in Balaklava harbor and hill with castle or fort ruins, conical tents, buildings, and animals. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crim... More

[Construction of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Officers' house, Hudson's Bay Co's. Fort Colville, 1860

Photograph shows buildings of the officers' quarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's post at Fort Colville, Washington. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861, leaf 22].... More

U.S. military post at the Cascades, May 1860

Photograph shows the guardhouse and other buildings at a United States Army post on the Columbia River in the lower Cascade Range; mountains in the background. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission ... More

[The Charleston convention] - A black and white drawing of a building

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 9, no. 228 (1860 April 14), p. 303 (title page).

Kisherer? - the Roman Catholic mission on the left bank of the Kootena...

Photograph shows a log building at the Roman Catholic mission near the Kootenai River in Idaho. , supplemented by annotated inventory. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Postroiki v tsitadeli

Photograph shows buildings on the Samarkand citadel. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 142.

Meeting St., near Broad, Charleston, S.C., looking north. St. Michael'...

Stereograph showing buildings and a church on Meeting Street. A horse drawn wagon in the middle distance. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1... More

Meeting St., Charleston, S.C., looking South, showing the ruins of Cir...

Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. III, p. 174. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Libra... More

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Perovsk. Vostochnaia chast' goroda vid s u...

Photograph shows the eastern section of Perovsk (Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan). Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 49.

Lima. The street of Las Mantas - Public domain albumen print photogrpa...

Photograph shows a commercial street for blankets. Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 2.

Coliseum - interior / John P. Soule, 199 Washington St., Boston.

Stereograph showing interior of concert hall, including the 8 feet in diameter drum, for the National Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts.

Calistoga Napa County, Cal. Mount St. Helena, from Mount Lincoln

Photograph shows a view of Calistoga with two buildings, a dirt road, mountain in the background. No. 1796.

University at Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania

Print showing view of main buildings of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Ripon - market place - Victorian era public domain image

No. 18341. Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philadelphiadelphia, Pennsylvania - Ceremonies in front of Independenc...

Fireworks. Wood engraving after sketches by Harry Ogden. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1876 Jan. 22, p. 317. Reference copy may be in LOT 4435A. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

Horticultural building, Centennial International Exhibition, 1876. Phi...

Print shows view of exhibition building. In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 6. Advertising card for play "Deacon Crankett" mou... More

[View of market (left) and buildings in Moret-sur-Loing, France]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Meat market, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal]

Public domain image - related to Portuguese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The bakery and the stables, recently built in the vicinity of the Imp...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 25. In album: Police stations and other buildings, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II C... More

Cathedral, Mexico City, William Henry Jackson photograph

Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Jackson based on negative D4-3160. "S" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30158. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

St. Agnes Chapel of the Trinity Church Parish, New York, New York. Fro...

Architectural drawing for competition to design church. On recto: "471." Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collectio... More

[Pavilion of Uruguay, 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

[Pavilion of Tunisia, 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

[Palace of Fine Arts, 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

[Pavilion of Chile, left, and Pavilion of Bolivia, right, Paris Exposi...

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

[Pavilion of Brazil, 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

[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]

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

[Pavilion of Paraguay, 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, seen through the base of the Eiffel Tower, Paris Exposi...

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]

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

Fire engine at World's Columbian Exposition grounds while buildings we...

Photograph shows two men operating steam powered fire engine; thick black smoke blows from steamer. No. 424.

Authentic birds-eye view of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Henderson-Achert-Krebs Lithographing Co., copyrigh... More

The Chicago Fire, 1871 - A black and white photo of a city street

Photo of painted cyclorama copyrighted by G.M. Watson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Workers' gate at Pullman Company railroad yard during strike(?)

No. 62-2135. No. 68-355. Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, California, 19th century...

No. 9991. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, California, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Road and buildings] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Assembly hall - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece for: "Undergraduate Life at Smith College" by Alice Katharine Fallows, Scribner's magazine, 24:3... More

[People in front of buildings, possibly at American University, Beirut...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Exterior view of Graves(?) Hall, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 333. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Mighty buildings of a mighty city--sky-scrapers of lower New York--fro...

Steamboat J.S. Warden on the North River, with skyline of New York City in background. 74948 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Exterior view of Graves(?) Hall, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 297. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Whitehall Street - shopping district

Print shows view of Whitehall Street with carriages and electric trolley cars along the street and pedestrians on the sidewalks. Illus. in: Souvenir of Atlanta, Georgia.

Post Office and Broadway, New York City, N. Y., U. S. A

[Broad Street, north from Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Washington buildings in a plaque or plate design invented by George R...

Public domain image of a decorated plate, tableware, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Panoramic view of Tremont Hotel, Galveston /

From Edison films catalog: This picture shows several buildings which were wrecked and also shows a rear view of this hotel, which is on the highest point of land in Galveston, and in which several thousand peo... More

[Liberty Avenue, looking west, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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

[Bleecker Street, Utica, N.Y.] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Tents and log buildings], Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpent...

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

[Street scene, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago]

In album: Photographic Album of Trinidad, p. 39, lower left. Gift; Louise McDaniell Browne; 1948 Apr. 27.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of shipyard, ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Looking through Eiffel Tower to the Trocadero and Colonial Section, Ex...

D16006 U.S. Copyright Office. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a world's fair that was held in Paris, France from April 15 to November 12, 1900... More

U.S. flag in Prague - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Empire State Express (New York Central Railroad) passing thru Washingt...

Title from jacket. "H 111" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039378. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

View of Woodward Avenue and Washington Boulevard, Detroit, Mich.

Title from jacket. David Whitney Building in center, by Grand Circus Park. Possibly part of a panorama; negative D41-46 may be the left section. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of C... More

St. Paul and Park Row buildings, New York, two tallest buildings in th...

"722-2" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29541. "722-1" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013102. Gift; State Historical Society of Col... More

Westminster Bridge and the House of Parliament, London, England

Photograph shows view of the Westminster Bridge in the foreground with the House of Parliament in the background. H6871 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2531.

Temple of Music, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York.

Temple of Music at night, at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York. Copyright by C.D. Arnold. No. 517.

Electric tower, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York.

Tower lit up at night. No. 516. Public domain photograph of German city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pan American Exposition, Harris & Ewing Collection

A black and white photo of a clock tower, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C.... More

[View of Herald Square]

Copyright by John Bergman, N.Y. No. 146. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Banff Springs Hotel, Alberta, Canada]

No. 014588. Public domain photograph of hotel resort, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fuller Building, N.Y., A. Loeffler

H20894 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 304. Copyright by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y.

[East from Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.]

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

From Empire Building (N.) past Trinity Church Steeple, up Broadway, sh...

City Hall, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

North American and Real Estate Trust buildings, Philadelphia, Pennsylv...

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

Electricity and Machinery Buildings. Night. Louisiana Purchase Exposit...

H54986 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 23. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harris & Ewing, exterior, old studio

Photograph shows the facade of the Harris & Ewing photography studio at 1311-1313 F Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Forms part of: ... More

Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - Public domain image. Dry plat...

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

State St., looking towards Adams St., Chicago, Ill.

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Adobe buildings and burial mounds in desert area]

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

[West Twenty-third Street from Sixth Avenue, New York, N.Y.]

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prairie settlement - Street scene, Seneca, Nebraska

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paiute Indians in Front of Kemler's Store, ca. 1906

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

Government Printing Office - Public domain historic place print

Copyright by L.H. Nelson Co. Illus. on p. 28. Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scenes in San Francisco, [no. 2] /

Panoramas filmed in the ruins of downtown San Francisco and outlying refugee camps following the 1906 earthquake and fire. A scene-by-scene description of the film: [Frame: 0102] Begins with a long, pan of down... More

Bull St. [Street], Savannah, Ga.

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

California Street, from the top of the hill, San Francisco, Cal.

Stereo shows a photographer and assistant setting up a camera on California Street on Nob Hill after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H81793 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. No. 4. ... More

Up Market St. from Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal.

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, 1906, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Panorama of Oakland from the Court House

H97611 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; August 2, 1907. No. 1255.

University of Chicago, Ryerson Laboratory, Chicago, Ill.

Copyright by Detroit Publishing Company. No. 070162. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Warren Hall," Clark University, S. Atlanta, Ga. / A. P. Bedou, N.O.

H98924 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright date on verso: August 29, 1907.

Laborers at work laying apipe in the Kearney, Nebraska buisness distri...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Macy's Bldg. & Herald Square - Drawing. Public domain image.

H101849 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 6238. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

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

Greetings from Hillsdale, Mich. Central Building, Hillsdale College

Vertical Postcard shows pathway through grounds towards the Central Building of Hillsdale College in rural southern Michigan. F65835 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1907109.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

View of college campas [i.e., campus], Fayette, Ia.

Postcard shows view "D." of Upper Iowa University campus from a green field, centered on four large brick buildings amongst the trees. H112053 U.S. Copyright Office.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

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

Carnegie Library, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts First floor pl...

Print from The Western architect, June 1908. Forms part of: [U.S. Treasury Department Office of the Supervising Architect and General Services Administration resource volumes and scrapbooks]. Accession box no.... More