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Chinese settlement in the suburbs of San Francisco, California / ... F...

Humble dwellings along bay. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 June 21, p. 21.

Lincoln School, Historic View, Fifth Street, San Francisco, San Franci...

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

Laying the Deck Plates of Monitor Camanche, San Francisco

Laborers and spectators. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which cre... More

Starr King's Tomb, Geary Street, San Francisco, March 4, 1865

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

Private Residences on Harrison Street, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 482. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More

What Cheer House, Sacramento St., San Francisco

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

San Francisco, from Corner of 2nd and Folsom Streets

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 378. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More

Residence of R.B. Woodward, San Francisco--interior of Conservatory

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 422. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Private Residences. This record contains unverified ol... More

The cliff house, near San Francisco, Cal. Taber Photo., San Francisco

Photo shows a bird's-eye view of the Cliff House overlooking Seal Rocks in the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, California. No. B. 59. Printed on verso: Taber Photographic Parlors, 8 Montgomery Street, San Franci... More

Panoramic map of Skaneateles, N.Y.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 635 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2

Market St. Taber Photo., San Francisco

Photo shows a bird's-eye view of Market Street in San Francisco, California, with many horse-drawn carriages and cable cars, along with pedestrians on the broad street between commercial buildings. No. B. 2146... More

[Jersey, coast from the Devil's Hole, Channel Islands]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10438". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Caledonia, N.Y. - Public domain vintage map

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

Mission Dolores, San Francisco by Louis K. Harlow

Print shows a street-level view of the "Mission Dolores" with basilica in San Francisco, California. AA66753 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 521. Label on verso with title and publication statements. Printed on lab... More

Arnold Genthe - The drug store sign, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 42. Purch... More

Arnold Genthe - In front of the Joss House, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Man carrying a child accompanied by another child, Chinatown, San Fran...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arnold Genthe - Fleeing from the camera, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Washington Street, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Washington Street, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Gambling hall, Jackson Street corner, Chinatown, San F...

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

Arnold Genthe - Bob Lim and brother, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arnold Genthe - Children of high class, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman and a child walking down a street, 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 - In front of the Joss House, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arnold Genthe - A slave girl in holiday attire, Chinatown, San Francis...

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

Arnold Genthe - Bob Lim and brother, Chinatown, San Francisco

Travel views of the American Southwest

Picryl description: Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Wreck of Times Building - Los Angeles

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Hollenbeck Park, LA. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51397". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Pr... More

The stately cathedral, San Jose, Costa Rica, C. A

H21140 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12818. Public domain photograph of cathedral, church, 19th-century, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Governor Aycock welcoming President Roosevelt on behalf of North Carol...

H 19071 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chapel of the House of Annas, Jerusalem

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

Threshing on A. Fenstermacher's farm, Amherst, Buffalo County, Nebrask...

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

Windmill Hill. Louisiana Purchase Exposition - stereocsopic card

Dozens of different windmills on display. Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves (The Universal Photo Art Co.). No. 121. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.... More

Exposition grounds, showing Festival Hall and Cascade Gardens, St. Lou...

H53842 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Los Angeles Public Library at Los Angeles City Hall]

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

Section 2. Over refugees' Camp Lake showing edge of unburned district....

No. 20616. Caption card tracings: Shelf. California. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco, April 18, 1906, San Francisco, California

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

Companies A and G of 5th California National Guards drilling in street...

At time of earthquake and fire. H77104 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index (2); Natl. Guard... More

Ruined but not disheartened, his safe, his business souvenir, San Fran...

Stereo shows two men standing near a toppled safe amid a rubble of bricks after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. H77361 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7840. Copyright May 14, 1906 by E.W. Kelley. Exhibited: D... More

San Francisco Earthquake, April 18, 1906: Post Office [tent] in Hamilt...

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

End view of the magnificent City Hall, showing wreck caused by the fir...

Artist seated in rubble, painting scene. Stereo copyrighted by R.E. Steele. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Artists at work; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Looking up Post St. from Kearney St., San Francisco, Cal

"3157" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019233. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mission San Buenaventura de Cochiti, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of church building, Christianity, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Ruins after San Francisco earthquake, 1906 / Genthe.

Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Public domain photograph - San Francisco earthquake and fire, ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Ca...

Group of men and women on sidewalk in front of ruins. H77406 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. No. 019239.

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

Title partially devised by cataloger. "3152 B" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Ruins of City Hall, from the corners of Van Ness Ave. and Market Sts.,...

Street view showing earthquake damage, San Francisco, California. H76493 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by James Tod Cornwall. No. 6.

Market St., the business centre, after terrible earthquake and fire, S...

Low aerial panorama. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California; Shelf.

Panorama from roof of Ferry P.O., San Francisco, Cal

"3149" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019203. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

San Francisco disaster - earthquake and fire - several buildings in fo...

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

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

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

Palace Hotel, new Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal.

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.

San Francisco disaster - earthquake and fire - man and woman standing ...

H78483 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Arnold Genthe - Blanchard(?) Bldg. alley in Chinatown, S.F.

H97046 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Marion Johmann(?), L.A. No. 420.

Panorama of Los Angeles, from Hotel Trenton, Owens River Day

H96768 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: Los Angeles. Copyright deposit; California Panorama Co.; June 29, 1907.

Kearney St. and Hall of Justice after the great disaster, San Francisc...

Stereograph showing ruins following the earthquake and fire in 1906 in San Francisco, California. H96571 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8773. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. Exhibited: "Documenting Disaster: Phot... More

Birdeye, Kelvin, Arizona. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

H108228 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; California Panorama Co.; April 2, 1908.

Panorama of San Jose, Calif., Panoramic Photograph

H128597 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; June 19, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal.

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 23rd, 1909, looking northwest from 4th and Bro...

H124284 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: Los Angeles, Cal. Printed on image: "Chas. Z. Bailey, Panorama Artist". Copyright deposit; Chas. Z. Bailey; March 17, 1909.

Float representing Fort Shafter, Floral Parade, Honolulu

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

City market of Los Angeles, Cal., 9th & San Pedro St., Aug. 8th 1910

J146334 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; T. Utsushigawa; September 29, 1910. Printed on image: "Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, Cal."

San Pedro, north from public library

J160349 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal. No. 999. Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; September 22, 1911.

The museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A

No. 733. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Panorama taken from Vallejo Street showing Main Exhibit Palaces]

J193800 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co.; June 29, 1914. No. 2400. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

[Field day to H.I.M. Japanese Naval Training Ships]

J193332 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. Wesley Swadley; June 15, 1914; DLC/PP-1914:44812. On front: "[Copyrighted] 1914, Official Photograph by W. Wesley Swadley, International Exposition and Conven... More

Newsies. See California report. Location: Los Angeles, California / L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Palace Fine Arts, San Francisco

J238942 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. D. Givens; 1919; DLC/PP-1919:46014. Photographer's address: S.F., Cal.

Los Angeles Harbor, Aug. 9, 1919

J227800 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: Los Angeles, California. Handwritten on verso: "San Pedro Harbor, Aug. 9, 1919." No. 8750. Copyright deposit; Huddleston Photo Co.; October 1919; DLC/PP-1919:46067.

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Window display of Los Angeles Chamber...

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

Market St,. looking toward Ferry Station, San Francisco, Calif

No. 23130. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beaches. Cliff House in San Francisco

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Linemen on poles

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beverly Vista School, Primary Building, 200 South Elm Drive, Beverly H...

Significance: At Beverly Vista, the Primary Building (Building D) is a fine example of public school design. Building D, was designed by the Los Angeles architectural firm of Gable and Wyant in the Italian Ren... More

Congressman on Job for [...] Special Session of Congress, Members of t...

A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Removing the barbecued beef from the pits, Los Angeles Sheriff's Barbe...

Photograph showing crew of barbecue cooks around a brick-lined pit, with servers and crowd in the background. Photographed as part of the "America eats" project for the Federal Writers' Project. Southern Califo... More

California Sunkist displays. Window display at Piggly Wiggly

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

Pontifical Massachusetts, Los Angeles, September 6, 1931

J 10126 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Mayben & Van Oosting; September 21, 1931. Stamped on verso: "Mayben & Van Oosting, 7611 1/2 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Calif."

Telegraph Hill (House), 1301 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, San Fra...

Survey number: HABS CA-1241 Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Metroplitan Theater, Historic View, Montgomery & Jackson Streets, San ...

Survey number: HABS CA-1745 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Appraiser's Building, Sansome Street, San Francisco, San Francisco Cou...

Survey number: HABS CA-1231 Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

KEHE Radio Studios, 133-141 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, Los Ang...

Significance: The center of this Streamline Moderne building poses as an elaborate sculptural base, centering on the vertical sign containing the Radio Station's call numbers. As with other Moderne buildings, ... More

Hiss Tower, 5400-5420 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Cou...

Significance: This building represents a classic Moderne type of the 1920s and 1930s. A central tower is presented as an attenuated vertical block where the scale is deceptively presented so that one is not aw... More

Rees & Wirsching Building, 223-227 North Los Angeles Street, Los Angel...

Significance: Late 19th century commercial building, designed by C.J. Kuback for Rees and Wireching, a partnership established in 1875, and dealing in agricultural implements and wagons. A 3-story building of m... More

San Francisco Civic Center, Civic Auditorium, Civic Center, San Franci...

Survey number: HABS CA-2222-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78000757

Fort Mason, NCO Quarters No. 12, San Francisco, San Francisco County, ...

Survey number: HABS CA-1178 Public domain photograph of a house in California, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carter Farmhouse, State Route 1100, Gatesville, Gates County, NC

Survey number: HABS NC-32 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

S.F. Bay Bridge D27, San Francisco, California

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, under construction. J15259 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Associated Oil Company. No. D. 27.

Hightstown, New Jersey. Progress photograph taken during construction ...

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

Names in Omaha politics, South Omaha, Nebraska

Other title from Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988, p. 109. Title an... More

News of the surrender of Canton to the Japanese. San Francisco, Califo...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Hollywood Playhouse now "Two a day" A cavalcade of vaudeville : Ride t...

Poster banner for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Two a Day" at the Hollywood Playhouse. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Waving goodbye to migrant family bound for California, Muskogee, Oklah...

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

Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Return of the army seen thr...

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Western Washington, Thurston County, Tenino. Seven Day Adventist Churc...

Type house in model lumber company town for millworkers. Gilchrist, Or...

A black and white photo of a sign with a bull on it, Great Depression....

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 Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

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