The historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The historic Chicago Theater opened in 1921. Its archwa... More
Edward Kemeys' guardian lions stand before the Art Institute of Chicag...
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A large metal sculpture in front of a tall building Carol M. Highsmith...
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Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois, with a focus on Willis Tower, long k...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Chicago silhouette, Chicago, Illinois
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Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois, with a focus on Willis Tower, long k...
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Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
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Skyline view of Chicago, Illinois, dominated by Willis Tower, long kno...
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
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Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Bohemian Nat[ional] Cemetery Cremetorium, Chicago, Il[linois]. People ...
Photograph showing columbarium with urns, flowers, and photographic portraits. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Aerial view of skyline, with a focus on Willis Tower, long known as Se...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
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Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken in the 1990s. Title, date, subject not... More
Aerial view of skyline, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1990s. Title, date, subject... More
Art "Chicago Murals" interior of Harold Washington Social Security Cen...
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White City from top of "Shoot the Chutes," Chicago
H70029 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Crowd outside of fashionable Negro church after Sunday service, Chicag...
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[Birdseye of World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago]
35398Y1 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. W. Irish; July 29, 1893. Title derived from copyright deposit records.
[Birdseye of World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago]
35398Y1 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. W. Irish; July 29, 1893. Title derived from copyright deposit records.
Window shopping, Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago's water front. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
H103648 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; December 13, 1907; DLC/PP-1907:43370. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, New York, Washington.
The wreck of the Eastland, Panoramic Photograph
J205219 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Kaufmann, Weimer & Fabry Co.; July 29, 1915. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago.
Chicago Kennel Club's dog show / George Ford Morris 02.
Poster showing a woman admiring dogs at the Chicago Kennel Club's dog show. F6775 U.S. Copyright Office. From caption card: Lithograph and letterpress by George Ford Morris.
New ticker instrument [manufactured by the Morkrum Kleinschmidt Corpor...
Photograph shows ticker tape machine made by Morkrum Kleinschmidt Corporation, Chicago, U.S.A.
Street corner, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois
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This week the big store Siegel-Cooper Co. celebrate their first annive...
Advertising poster showing exterior view of the Siegel-Cooper Co. store at night, illuminated by many lights, draped with banners and flags, and a crowd of shoppers both inside and outside the store. At the far... More
People shopping for shoes at shop on Maxwell Street, Chicago, Illinois
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Visit Brookside Zoo free - Public domain dedication image
Text with leopard. Attributed to Carken. Promotional goal: U.S. K5. 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Photograph album owned by the Spafford family
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Photograph album owned by the Spafford family
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Photograph album owned by the Spafford family
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Photograph album owned by the Spafford family
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[World's Championship Series, Detroit vs. Chicago, Oct. 9, '07]
H100902 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; October 12, 1907; DLC/PP-1907:43380.184. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, New York, Washington. Title derived from copyright deposit ... More
Waiting room at the municipal tuberculosis sanitarium, Chicago, Illino...
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Children in front of grocery store, Chicago, Illinois
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Illinois Central [Railway] station, Chicago, Ill.
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Apartment building in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois
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Randolph St., east from LaSalle St., Chicago
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Activity around newsstand on street corner, Chicago, Illinois
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Operation at Provident Hospital on South Side of Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago skyline. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph
J295329 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Kaufmann-Fabry; October 28, 1927; DLC/PP-1927:47238. From a painting by Wm. Macy.
Douglass Frederick correspondence Undated: W
You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More
Delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party of t...
Photograph shows a group portrait of Socialist Party delegates with a key to people depicted printed on the mount. H48530 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright 1904 by Geo. D. Evans". Copyright deposit; 1904.
Harbor entrance and Illinois Steel Works, So. Chicago
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The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public bu...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 Oct. 28, p. 101.
Republican National convention at Chicago, June 2, 1880 Independent Am...
Photograph shows the President, delegates, reporters, prominent men on the platform, and the visitors' gallery watching as Gen. Garfield delivers a speech to hundreds of attendees at the National Republican con... More
[Woman riding camel on the Street of Cairo section of the Midway at th...
Photo by Weber. 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 creates a g... More
[Street scene at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois]
Photographic print by Weber. Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago]
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cattle driven to slaughter /. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...
"A herd of long-horn cattle being driven through the Chicago stock yard gates to the slaughter house, where 280 of the animals are killed every hour of the day"--Maguire & Baucus catalogue. Part of the Erie Rai... More
McKinley Statue, McKinley Park, Chicago, Ill.
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[South from Museum of Art, Chicago, Ill.]
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The Heart of Chicago - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Bridge in Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill.]
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[Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.]
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Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...
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[The old conservatory, Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill.]
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[Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill.]
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Chicago Club, Chicago - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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Chicago River elevators view, photochrome print postcard.
Copyright 1900 by Detroit Photographic Co. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-12626) lists title as: [Chicago River elevators, Chicago, Ill.]. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53631". Forms part of: Photochrom Print ... More
[Lincoln Monument in Lincoln Park, Chicago]
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Railway Exchange Building, Chicago, Ill.
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Grand banquet given to President Roosevelt at the auditorium by the Ir...
H61409 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 9934. Copyright by H.C. White Co.
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Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of ship dock, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Miehle P.P. & Mfg. Co.], Panoramic Photograph
H63393 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: 274 Wabash, Chicago. No. 5500-A. Title based on similarity to PAN US GEOG - Illinois, no. 49. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; July 17, 1905.
Lake Shore Drive, Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill.
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Lipton Banquet at Chicago Athletic Club, Oct. 5, 1906
Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Image was printed laterally reversed. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; 1906.
Bird's-eye view of Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.
H87060 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2916. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Co.) store, Chicago, Ill.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Patrick Joseph Moran, Chicago NL baseball player, standing at home pl...
No. 841-5. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
National League Park, Chicago, Giants vs. Cubs, Aug. 30, 1908
H115468 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; September 2, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43550. Copyright claimant's address: 274 Wabash Ave., Chicago.
[In the heart of the Great Union Stock Yards, Chicago, U.S.A.]
J134811 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from caption card and item. Copyright, 1909, by Kelley & Chadwick.
Grant Monument, Lincoln Park, Chicago
Postcard shows monument to Ulysses Grant in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. H128532 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1909 by S. R. Hamilton, Chicago.
Madison Ave. [i.e. Street], west from Wabash [Avenue], Chicago, Ill
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Under the bridges, Chicago / J. Pennell.
View under bridge of steamboat coming under another bridge, Chicago. Signed in pencil. Pennell Collection. Wuerth, 593
Under the tracks, Washington Boulevard, C. & N.W. Ry. [Chicago and Nor...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Miss Alice B. Henkle., Head and Shoulders Portrait
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from image. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoulders, Alice B. Henkle, facing left with head turned toward camera, wearing light colored, v-neck blouse... More
The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Ill.
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Lobby stairs to waiting room and concourses, C. & N.W. Ry. [Chicago an...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
University of Chicago Law School, 1955-63. Law School detail
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Wabash blues - gramophone disc, record label
Jazz/dance band Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Panorama of the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1933
Two airships over exposition. J 13952 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Harry Koss; August 22, 1933. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, Ill. Landmarks labeled on image.
Oil painting "Winter Vista" at Region 5 Customs House, Chicago, Illino...
Artist: Karl Eugene Fortess, ca. 1935; dimensions: 29" x 46". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographe... More
A lifelong job--the constant protection of their health--The Cook Coun...
Poster showing a woman and two children in the rain. Date stamped on verso: Jan 8 1941. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Brookfield Zoo--By the "L" / Long.
Poster showing a panda bear hugging a tree. Date stamped on verso: Jun 15 1938. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles: Wheatl... More
Illinois Central R.R., freight cars at the South Water Street freight ...
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Half a century of American art The Art Institute of Chicago - Nov. 16,...
Poster for art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Date stamped on verso: Feb 16 1940.
Michigan photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
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Reflection in window of employment agency, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of people walking down a street, Great Depress...
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A man and a woman sitting on a suitcase, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Girls waiting for street car, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of a group of children. 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
A woman in a dress is playing with a rope. Office of War Information P...
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
Selling Easter lilies on sidewalk on Easter morning, South Side of Chi...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Circus posters, Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of people crossing the street. Office of War I...
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
A black and white photo of a man and a woman on the steps of a buildin...
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A black and white photo of children playing in a puddle. Office of War...
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