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[Illustration of the dangers of alcoholic beverages]: The sins of the ...

The "peanut" Hagenbeck and his "senatorial courtesy" animal show / C.J...

Print shows David B. Hill as the animal trainer Carl "Hagenbeck" performing a circus act with trained animals labeled "Murphy, Pugh, Chandler, Peffer, Morgan, Coke, Higgins, Stewart, Teller, Cullom, [and] Hoar"... More

[Woman and 2 children watching bird fly from cage]

Photoprint by Fitz W. Guerin. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women Misc.; Children; Sentimental; Pets; Birds.

[New York City Police Dept. activities: cells in new Tenderloin statio...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Police; Crime; Shelf.

Cell at Occoquan [Workhouse]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a prison cell in Occoquan Workhouse seen through door with bars.

County jail, San Marcos, Texas. Great Depression public domain photogr...

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

Organs and other relics on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. To...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Music machines and mining pans now on display in the Bird Cage Theater...

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

Twenty-mule team wagon on display at the Bird Cage Theater museum in T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old faro table and other objects in the Bird Cage museum. Tombstone, A...

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgia convicts working on a road in Oglethorpe County

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Island, Virgin Islands. An inmate of the ...

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. Animal cage room 501

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

Folsom State Prison is a California State Prison located 20 miles nort...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. As of early 2013, Folsom Prison, one of America's most famous penal institutions (thanks to a song of that name performed by country singer Johnny Cash),... More

[Prison cell block, man playing organ, prisoners sitting on bench behi...

Title devised by cataloger. No accession number. No publication information. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Flippo House, Woodford, Caroline County, Virginia

Survey number: HABS VA-344 Building/structure dates: after 1790 Initial Construction

[An animal keeper feeding raw meat to lions in a circus cage as specta...

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

Samuel Tilton House, 12 Sunnyside Place, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: This house is an outstanding early building of the architects McKim, Mead, and White. An example of their "Shingle Style" work, it is characterized by open planning and richly textured surfaces on... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

Sedgeley Porter's House, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-1665 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001151

U.S. San Antonio Arsenal, Storehouse, San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio...

Significance: During the period of Texas frontier in the 19th century, the storehouse was used for the storage of arsenal supplies and ordnance. It was also charged with issuing there supplies to all military p... More

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

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

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

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

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

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Roosevelt Base, Administration & Brig Building, Bounded by Nevada & Co...

Significance: The Roosevelt Base Historic District, constructed in 1940-1943, consists of 11 buildings designed in the International Style with Mediterranean Revival detailing, five structures, and extensive hi... More

Stratford, State Route 214, Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virgi...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-140 Survey number: HABS VA-307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000851

[Cashier cage, probably Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.]

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Polar bear in cage] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Negro waiting behind barricade at streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, O...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold miner waiting for cage to be lowered underground, Mogollon, New M...

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

Bird Cage Theater, scene of riotous entertainment during the mining bo...

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

Display at the Bird Cage Theater museum. Tombstone, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First National Bank, Post Rd., Greenwich, Connecticut. Safe deposit gr...

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

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The belly turret of the B-17F heavy b...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Group of miners on the...

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

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, East Fort Avenue at ...

Significance: The pentagonal fort is the most important, least changed, surviving feature of the historic bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814. The sally port, casemates, and guard rooms were bui... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Post Office, Pearl Harbor Boulevard nea...

This structure was moved to its current location in 1945. (5/14/03, KEY) Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, due to the crucial role it played in... More

Jefferson County Jail & Sheriff's Office, Courthouse Square, Madison, ...

Significance: The Jefferson County Jail and Sheriff's House was built in 1848-50 and survives virtually unaltered. The temple-like form of brick and heavy masonry encloses the utilitarian jail block with the S... More

Edward Hazlett House, 823 Main Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Significance: Built by Henry K. List and his wife Sarah, wealthy citizens of Wheeling, for their daughter, Jessie L. Hazlett, the Hazlett House represents one of the residential building achievements of 1891. ... More

Skinner Meat Packing Plant, Main Plant, 6006 South Twenty-seventh Stre...

Survey number: HAER NE-12-A Building/structure dates: 1918-1920 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after. 1950- before. 1960 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work Buildi... More

[Design drawing for stained glass memorial window showing money-change...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Bird Cage Theatre, Allen Street, near Sixth Street, Tombstone, Cochise...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS AZ-10 Building/structure dates: 1881 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000171

Charleston County Jail, 21 Magazine Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: Built in 1802, the Charleston District Jail was the result of a state effort to erect a modern structure that incorporated recent reforms in the national criminal code. The Robert Mills addition t... More

Charleston County Jail, 21 Magazine Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: Built in 1802, the Charleston District Jail was the result of a state effort to erect a modern structure that incorporated recent reforms in the national criminal code. The Robert Mills addition t... More

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

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

Alcatraz, Cell House, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Francisc...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2216 Survey number: HABS CA-1792-A Building/structure dates: 1853-1859 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1909-1912 Subsequent Work Bu... More

Warden T.M. Osborne, Sing Sing - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows Thomas Mott Osborne (1859-1926), a prison administrator and reformer who was appointed warden of Sing Sing prison, Ossinsing, New York in 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Secret Service - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a window. Office of War Informat...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Miner on the surface w...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Group of miners on the...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Trolley conductors check in with the dispatcher b...

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

Lord & Taylor, business in Garden City, Long Island. Bird cage III

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Elioenai Clark Tavern, Old Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge, New Haven ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-20 Survey number: HABS CT-76 Building/structure dates: 1780 Initial Construction

[Parade with lion in cage on wagon, circus tent in background]

9841W1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 68. Copyright by the Calvert Litho. Co.

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Travis Air Force Base, Building No. 925, W Street, Fairfield, Solano C...

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

[An animal keeper feeding raw meat to lions in a circus cage as specta...

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

Fort Independence, Castle Island, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-570 Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Testing Facility, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Dow...

Significance: The Northwest Corner of Building 1 is of unknown significance. However, Building 1, as a whole, is the administrative and historical "heart" of the NASA Industrial Plant at Downey. Beneath Build... More

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Variable Angle Launcher Complex, Variable Angle Launcher, CA State Hig...

Significance: Morris Dam Test Facility (MDTF) was built at the Morris Dam Reservoir for the purpose of obtaining basic hydrodynamic data for use in design and development of Naval Ordinance, particularly air-to... More

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Count...

Previous structure names, Andrew Hamilton House & William Hamilton House, removed from name field due to more current research which revealed that Andrew Hamilton House was incorrect & William Hamilton House wa... More

Vida Milholland [in jail cell]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.). Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9,... More

A group of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unlocking the door of a commission house opposite the vegetable market...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a jail cell, Great Depression. FSA...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a jail cell. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Ne...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detail of Bird Cage Theater museum showing boxes of theater. The decor...

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

In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lord & Taylor, business in Washington, D.C. Bird cage entrance

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jailhouse cells, made of narrow-gauge-railroad ties, behind the 1882 f...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Remote Ridgway was an early railroad town that declined alarmingly in the 1980s after plans were afoot to flood the little town to mak... More

The Ed Jones Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse, Jackson, Tennessee

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Built by architect Louis A. Simon in 1932. Credit line: Pho... More

[Parade with lion in cage on wagon, circus tent in background]

9841W1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 68. Copyright by the Calvert Litho. Co.

Fort Lawton, Guard House, Discovery Park, Seattle, King County, WA

Significance: The only non-residential building on the post that was always used for its original purpose. Architecturally intact. Demonstrates the most extensive use of embossed metal that remains on the pos... More

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Montgomery County Jail, Washington & Spring Streets, Crawfordsville, M...

Significance: The Montgomery County Jail, the first of six rotary jails built in the Midwest during the second half of the nineteenth century, represents a significant attempt to answer the problem of human inc... More

Ferry TICONDEROGA, Route 7, Shelburne, Chittenden County, VT

Significance: TICONDEROGA, considered to be the only extant unmodified vessel of its type in the United States, symbolizes an era of travel that has all but vanished from American waters. One of only two remain... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Pitts' Folly, House & Outbuildings, State Highway 21, Uniontown, Perry...

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

Bird Cage Theatre, Allen Street, near Sixth Street, Tombstone, Cochise...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-10 Survey number: HABS AZ-10 Building/structure dates: 1881 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000171

Northern Saving Fund, Safe Deposit & Trust Company, 600 Spring Garden ...

Significance: Early bank design of Furness and Hewitt, two leading 19th century architects. Includes elements characteristic of their work. Survey number: HABS PA-1733

Charles Street Jail Complex, Jail, 215 Charles Street, Boston, Suffolk...

Significance: "The Suffolk County Jail has major national architectural significance as the prime institutional example of the Boston Granite Style of the mid-19th century. The design was executed by one of th... More

Charleston County Jail, 21 Magazine Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

Significance: Built in 1802, the Charleston District Jail was the result of a state effort to erect a modern structure that incorporated recent reforms in the national criminal code. The Robert Mills addition t... More

Eastern State Penitentiary, 2125 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Phila...

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

Physics Assembly Laboratory, Area A/M, Savannah River Site, Aiken, Aik...

Significance: The Physics Assembly Laboratory, a testing facility at the Savannah River Plant that housed a zero power reactor known as the Process Development Pile, is significant for its role in establishing ... More

Alcatraz, Cell House, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, San Francisc...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2216 Survey number: HABS CA-1792-A Building/structure dates: 1853-1859 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1909-1912 Subsequent Work Bu... More

Horse-drawn lion cage of trainer Chas. P. Doelger and lions, driver M....

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Treasury Dept. Ofc. U.S. Treasury, Express Clerks Cage, money to be re...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ape in cage] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

At the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia

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

A black and white photo of a person standing in a window, possibly rel...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

San Augustine, Texas. Sheriff Jim Halberd talking with a prisoner in t...

Public domain photograph of working people, Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lord & Taylor, business in Garden City, Long Island. Bird cage II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portion of a cellblock at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, a reti...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Currently (as of 2015) the huge stone structure that housed hundreds of inmates is maintained as a tourist attraction and training fac... More