california

Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]

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Gold mines of California!! W. R. Andrews, having just returned from Ca...

2366 E 1 Jy 46.; Rec. 7-11-46.; $40.00; On verso: 2366 E 1 Jy 46. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Colle... More

A new map of Texas, Oregon and California.

Monterey - Capitol of California

Bird's-eye view, with ships in harbor. Lithograph by Wm. Endicott & Co. after sketch by J.W. Revere. Illus. in: Joseph Warren Revere. A tour of duty in California. New York : C.S. Francis, 1849, frontispiece. R... More

The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th Nov.1856; for o...

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Chinese Miners--Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, 19th century st...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 987. LOT subdivision subject: Chinese Miners. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Hoisting works of the Bullion Mine, Gold Hill

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 736. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified data from old caption... More

Nevada City - Union Hotel and Court House, Nev. County

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Nevada, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Digger Indian Camp, Knight's Ferry, Stanislaus County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 299. LOT subdivision subject: Indians. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Placer Mining--Columbia, Tuolumne County, Looking into the Dump-box

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1010. LOT subdivision subject: Placer Mining. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Free trade & free lands of Magdalena. The Al clipper schooner Sarah .....

1. Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 2, Folder 39u.

Mission Indians of Southern California making baskets and hair ropes

Wood engraving after drawing by Frenzeny. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1877 Oct. 20, p. 821. Reference copy may be in LOT 4391 B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracing... More

20 mule Borax team, Mojave, Cal. Valley line

Photograph shows teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons in the desert; two pale horses, positioned closest to the wagon, wear coverings over faces. No. 6.

[Man shearing a sheep in stall at headquarters of the San Emigdio Ranc...

No. 306. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Farms; Sheep; Shelf.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, rear view, hands o...

29875-aa U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Steckel. No. 10.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing, facing left, right...

29874-aa U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Steckel. No. 9.

Arnold Genthe - The little mandarin, Chinatown, San Francisco

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Arnold Genthe - Doorways in dim shadows, Chinatown, San Francisco

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Arnold Genthe - The fish dealer's daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arnold Genthe - Washington Street, Chinatown, San Francisco

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Los Angeles Earthquake - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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REO Mountaineer, New York to San Francisco and back

Public domain image of an early automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The fireplace on the porch, Feather River Inn, Calif.

Photograph shows guests sitting on porch near large stone fireplace. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President Roosevelt's choicest recreation - amid nature's rugged grand...

Photograph shows Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing on mountain top. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. New York Herald. Not released for publication until Feb. 9 1919. Title taken from s... More

"American scholarship - capacity to do good original work" - President...

Stereograph showing Theodore Roosevelt speaking to crowd from a platform. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martha Ewing and George W. Harris out for a buggy ride in California a...

Photograph taken in Hot Springs, Arkansas or California. Caption continues: "Both were then working for Bushnell Studio in San Francisco." Caption from George Harris's daughter, Aileen Harris Jordan. Forms par... More

Edward H. Mitchell - A carload of grapes from California

Postcard shows montage of farm workers in a vineyard standing inside a horse-drawn cart as a rail car marked "S.P.R.R. 81424" rolls past carrying a gigantic bunch of grapes. 21522 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrig... More

San Francisco earthquake, 1906: Fort Mason, where thousands of destitu...

Soldiers, tents, etc. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 8730. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US; Ca. SF Earthquake; Refugees; Cal. S.F. Fort Mason; Shelf.

Grain fields of Tulare Co. Cal.

Photograph shows five man crew in grain field riding on harvester being pulled by a team of over twenty horses. No. 76 and No. 7255. 145 Combined Harvester at work in a grain field in Tulare County.

[Stanford University crew rowing on Hudson River with Poughkeepsie Bri...

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Aviation, Latham over San Francisco

Photograph shows airplane flying over cityscape and harbor. Public domain photograph of propeller aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Suffragettes - U.S.: Mrs. Charles D. [Isabella] Blaney, Mrs. Willmarth...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Women's suffrage in the United States - Individual and group portraits, 1905-1917. George Grantham Bain Collection (L... More

[Tony Pizzo, with sailor hat on bicycle "New York to Los Angeles and R...

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California, San Francisco. Panama-Pacific Int. Exp. View of Tower of J...

Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Exhibitions.

Palm Canyon, California, Panoramic Photograph

This catalog record contains preliminary data. William Amos Haines, photographer. Gift; Ruben and Sheryl Haines Gonzalez; 2010; (DLC/PP-2011:011). Was AP 961.

The famous American Bison that once roamed in countless thousands over...

Photograph shows a close view of Bison grazing. Stereo by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Michael Cochrane Armour house, 962 Linda Vista Avenue, Pasadena, Cali...

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Arnold Genthe - Street in Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bernheimer home, Hollywood, Calif.

Aerial view of estate in hills of Hollywood. J254777 U.S. Copyright Office.

Sentinel Rock at the mouth of Waweap Creek / E.C.L.

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[Hupa mother, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, hold...

J262592 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3840-A. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 13, pl. 450.

Edward S. Curtis - Fish-weir across Trinity River--Hupa

J262586 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3854-B. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 suppl., v. 13, pl. 459.

Murals and details in Avalon theater located at the Catalina Casino, b...

The rebuilt Catalina Casino opened in 1929 under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and David M. Renton. Designed by Sumner A. Spaulding and Walter Weber, it is described as being Art Deco and Mediterranean ... More

Senator from California. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. Appearing in the b...

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The Merry Widow, Art Deco Poster

The Merry Widow May 23 8:15pm Pasdena Civic Auditorium Federal Music sponsored by Project WPA United Service Clubs of Pasadena (Content)

Human sacrifice before Tohil - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title from Kislak Collection guide. Watercolor painted by Diego Rivera in San Francisco, Calif. during the summer of 1931, originally commissioned to illustrate a never-published English translation of the Popo... More

Manzanar War Relocation Center, Observation (Guard) Tower, Independenc...

Survey number: HABS CA-2399-K National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000484

Dorsey House, Sonora, Tuolumne County, CA

Survey number: HABS CA-1134 Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potato harvesters. Kern County, California

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003807-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Migrant pea pickers on the road. California

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Wife and five children of migratory fruit worker. American River camp ...

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

Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp talking with drought refugee...

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

Drought refugees from Oklahoma at work in the pea fields near Nipomo, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On the highway. Riverside County, California

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

Young Oklahoma mother, age eighteen, penniless, stranded in California...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boy Scout Jamboree. Washington, D.C., May 21. Boy Scout officials visi...

Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Date (year) based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General informat... More

Waiting for relief checks. Calipatria, California

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

Charges Hollywood rampant with Communism. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. H...

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Children at Halloween party, waiting for signal to come for refreshmen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Housing for rapidly growing settlement of lettuce workers on fringe of...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Luis Obispo County, California. Cowboy coming in from the hills

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Filipinos waiting for the signal to start cutting lettuce. Near Westmo...

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Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. General view of army and cr...

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

A grandmother washing clothes in a migrant camp. Stanislaus County, Ca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tun...

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

Near Los Banos, California. Migratory agricultural workers. Cotton hoe...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Architecture in the Potrero district. San Francisco, California

Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pregnant woman, the daughter of a migrant family. Imperial Valley, Cal...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More

April. The city of San Francisco, California. Seen from the first stre...

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Loading bins of potato planter which fertilizes and plants potatoes in...

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Imperial Valley, California. Old Mexican laborer saying "I have worked...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Vintage car in Weedpatch, a town just south of Bakersfield, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Migrant girl. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California

Annotation on original negative jacket: AR. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Workers eating lunch on curb across the street from the Consolidated A...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp of single men by the roadside. They have come in to work in the p...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). File print is reversed; printed backwards. File print misnumbered LC-USF343-003806-ZE; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Vallejo, California. Mail racks at the office of the FSA (Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Construction work on Pit River bridge. Shasta County, California

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Two men, one playing guitar, seated behind a microphone

a) Farm Labor Camp for Mexicans in El Rio, Cal (handwritten on reverse); b) 1941 Mexican fruit pickers performing to Todd Sonkin [sic] at El Rio Camp, near Oxnard, Cal. The farmers preferred them to the "Okies.... More

Sign of Federal Housing Administration housing. San Diego, California

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

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - a young evacuee Japanese-Americ...

No. 9CA-42-2112-PSF. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign of Federal Housing Administration defense housing. San Diego, Cal...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. Engines for C-47 transport planes r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women aircraft workers. Precision assembly at a West Coast aircraft fa...

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Snake charmer in carnival which came to Santa Clara, California, for t...

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Sergeant pilot about to grab his parachute. Lake Muroc, California

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

A Negro woman at North American Aviation uses an electric hand drill t...

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

Sonoma County, California. Pruning grape vines in wine vineyard

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turlock, California. Housewife works in her vegetable garden. She live...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

North American Aviation's P-51 fuselage overhead conveyor line

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.

Woodville, California. FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers...

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Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. The SS Booker T....

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sonoma County, California. Pruning grape vines at wine vineyard

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A scale model of North American's B-25 bomber is placed in the company...

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

Production. C-47 transport planes. Great numbers of C-47 transport pla...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. A North American "Mustang" ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Carnival attraction at the Imperial County Fair, California

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Entrance to the Italian Catholic church. Oakland, California

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Production. Airplane maufacture, general. A noontime rest for a full- ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More