childhood and youth

[Prince Palden Gyumed and Princess Hope Leezum seated on white scarves...

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Poem by Alexander Graham Bell, 1861

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[Quentin Roosevelt and Roswell Newcomb Pinckney as children]

(Source: K. Pinckney, 2008). Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly in LOT 4273.

Jean Balukas lines one up in Grand Central Station / World Telegram & ...

Photograph shows Jean Balukas, age six, playing pool in Grand Central Station. NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt catching June bugs

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt in a field of daisies at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Listening to a story - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Walter Russell sitting on a beach with Nicholas and Quentin Roosevelt as dog digs a hole in sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to be Edwar... More

Quentin [Roosevelt] and Roswell Pinckney at play

Photograph shows Roswell Pinckney lassoed by Roosevelt Quentin at the White House. Pinckney was the son of White House steward Henry Pinckney (source: K. Pinckney, 2008). H19124 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4163... More

Princess Hope & Queen Hope in the palace, Sikkim

Date from information on related slide: LC-KAN05-0072. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 027 (color reference... More

[Princess Juliana, future queen of the Netherlands, full-length portra...

142952 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Press Association, N.Y. "Origineel Guy de Coral".

F. Holland Day - 2d Position

Photograph shows a back view of Maynard White, on a diving board with his arms raised, preparing to dive, Little Good Harbor, Maine. In album: The seventh thousanth [sic] and eighth hundredth and sixty third ... More

[Reproduction of print showing Virgin and Christ Child in a garden wit...

Photograph of an unidentified woodcut, fifteenth century, northern European. On slide: Red seal sticker. Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam ... More

Woodrow Wilson stops on his daily drive to purchase Tuberculosis Seals...

Girl standing on running board of Wilson's car, with Wilson seated in back. No. 27819. Photographic print by National Photo Co. Photograph of a composite photograph.

Portrait photo of Khentse Rinpoche [i.e., Jamyang Khyentse]

Photograph shows Jamyang Khyentse (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche), a young lama, seated behind a table, Sikkim. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Con... More

[Jamyang Khyentse, full-length portrait, standing, mountains in backgr...

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Related photograph published in: Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kande... More

[Prince Palden (second from left) making silly faces with friends, Sik...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Palden Thondup Namgyal was the hereditary ruler of the independent Kingdom of Sikkim, locat... More

Listening to a story - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Walter Russell sitting on a beach with Nicholas and Quentin Roosevelt as dog digs a hole in sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to be Edwar... More

[Archie Roosevelt on pony] - Public domain portrait print

H33680 U.S. Copyright Office. By Pach Bros., New York. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Queen and son in Palace playground

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Queen and Prince of Sikkim playing outdoors, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

Portrait photo of L'Aiglón - Public domain portrait

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris, Déposé. Aiglon, or eaglet was a nick... More

Dr. D. Jayne's tonic vermifuge. A sure remedy for worms

Advertisement for patent remedies, showing Moses held in a basket by a young woman. U4201 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption: The Child Moses. Knapp & Co. Lithographers, N.Y.

3rd Position, gelatin silver print

Photograph shows Maynard White, diving into water, Little Good Harbor, Maine.

[Reproduction of print showing Virgin and Christ Child in a garden wit...

Photograph of an unidentified woodcut, fifteenth century, northern European. On slide "Set no.," "Slide No.," and "Title" (all blank). Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Title, date, and subjec... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

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Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

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The Virgin, Child, and a bishop / AC [monogram of Alessandro Casolani]...

Print shows Madonna and Child with bishop kneeling beside them. After Alessandro Casolani. Dedication: Al Sig. Mutis Peui Nobile senese. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photo... More

Alexander Graham Bell at about the age of 14 or 15 [...]

Alexander Graham Bell, full-length portrait, standing, facing right. Title transcribed from caption list in album. Photograph taken by Bell's father at Milton Cottage, Trinity, Edinburgh. In album: Photographs ... More

Zur freundlichen Erinnerung an die Rapperswiler Schulreise im Juli 190...

Postcard shows a group portrait of schoolgirls, including Helen Johns (later Helen Johns Kirtland), taken on a school trip to Rapperswil, Switzerland. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1981:339, container 1, folder 4.

Playing in the sand - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Quentin, Archie, and Nicholas Roosevelt, with Walter Russell, burying a dog in the sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to be Edward S. Curt... More

Playing in the sand - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Quentin, Archie, and Nicholas Roosevelt, with Walter Russell, burying a dog in the sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to be Edward S. Curt... More

Edward S. Curtis - Getting a sand bath

Photograph showing Nicholas Roosevelt lying covered with sand surrounded by Archie and Quentin Roosevelt and Walter Russell at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thought to ... More

HM the Gyalmo, HH Prince Palden, HH Princess Hope

Photograph shows Queen Hope Cooke with her children, Prince Palden and Princess Hope Leezum, Gangtok, Sikkim. Palden Thondup Namgyal was the hereditary ruler of the independent Kingdom of Sikkim, located in th... More

Albrecht Durer - Saint Christopher facing left AD monogram

Print shows Saint Christopher crossing a river carrying infant Jesus on his shoulders. Trimmed to plate mark. Print no. 53 from Marsh Collection.

George Washington in his boyhood

George Washington leading other boys with swords lifted in mock charge as another group of boys are advancing from background. The United States, p. 281.

[Archie Roosevelt riding pony] - Public domain print

H33679 U.S. Copyright Office. By "Pach, N.Y.," possibly G.W. Pach. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quentin Roosevelt at the birch tree

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt leaning on a birch tree at Sagamore Hill.

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt in the daisy field

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt standing in a field of daisies at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

Mrs. Harry K. Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit-Thaw, & child

Photograph shows Evelyn Nesbit, wearing a feathered bird hat, and her son Russell William Thaw. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Article by Alexander Graham Bell, 1910

Article by Alexander Graham Bell, 1910

Edward S. Curtis - Archie & Quentin Roosevelt

Photograph showing boys blowing bubbles on lawn at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

Archie Roosevelt, full-length portrait, on his calico Shetland pony "A...

Published in: Presidential Pets / Niall Kelly (1992), p. 49. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calvin, William T., and Mary Hornaday, taken about 1860

Photograph shows William T. Hornaday at age six with Mary and Calvin Hornaday. Case: Leather geometric scroll. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:007). Forms part of: William Temple Hornaday ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt planting a tree

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt with sapling at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

The seventh thousanth [sic] and eighth hundredth and sixty third --- P...

Cover of album with title written in ink. Album includes images of Maynard White diving at Little Good Harbor, Maine. In album: The seventh thousanth [sic] and eighth hundredth and sixty third - Performance a... More

Portrait of a young boy, standing outside, possibly Sylvester McCauley...

"2 1/2" handwritten on back of print. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

Royal baby playing with Queen Mother during ceremony

Photograph shows Prince Palden Gyumed Namgyal with his grandmother at the coronation of his father, King Palden Thondup Namgyal, Gangtok, Sikkim. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell ... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Edward S. Curtis - Romp in the sand, Sagamore Hill

Photograph showing Walter Russell with Quentin Roosevelt on his shoulders as Archie digs in sand and Nicholas lies buried in sand at Sagamore Hill. The identification of the newspaperman Russell (formerly thoug... More

Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

Public domain image related to Carl Sagan, science, astronomy, physics, astrophysics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Who can blow the hardest? - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Quentin and Archie Roosevelt blowing bubbles at Sagamore Hill.

[King and Queen of Sikkim and their daughter Hope Leezum watch birthda...

Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-69. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Col... More

The Virgin, Child, and saints / Iacopo Ligozia Veronese pittore del Se...

Print shows Madonna and Child surrounded by saints. After Jacopo Ligozzi. Dedication: All [...] Signor Nicolo Gaadi in Fiorenze. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs D... More

Albrecht Durer - Adoration of the Magi AD monogram

Print shows Madonna presenting infant Jesus to the Three Wise Men. Trimmed to image. Print no. 208 from Marsh Collection.

William Howard Taft (seated center) and classmates at the Woodward Hig...

Photograph shows reproduction of group portrait of Taft and classmates. Forms part of: William H. Taft papers (Library of Congress). Accession box no. DLC/PP-1980:167 c2

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt in the strawberry patch

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt picking strawberries at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

[Quentin Roosevelt, half-length portrait, facing front] / Pach Bros., ...

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F. Holland Day - 1st Position

Photograph shows a side view of Maynard White, on a diving board with his arms raised, preparing to dive, Little Good Harbor, Maine. In album: The seventh thousanth [sic] and eighth hundredth and sixty third ... More

Winners in the annual award of the Original Amateur Hours Left to righ...

Notation on verso: Gladys hugs loving cup she won in Original Amateur Hour radio show. She also copped $2000 by singing "Too Young." NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part o... More

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim; and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikk...

Label in color reference copy slide page: "Formal royal family shoot, 1971." Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no... More

Canoeing with the Cree,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910

This is the narrative of a canoe trip by renowned news commentator Eric Sevareid (1912-1992). After graduating from Minneapolis High School, he embarked with his classmate, Walt Port, on a journey that would ta... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt feeding the rabbits

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt at a rabbit hutch at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

Public domain image related to Carl Sagan, science, astronomy, physics, astrophysics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

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

Rahway High School yearbook : select pages

Public domain image related to Carl Sagan, science, astronomy, physics, astrophysics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woodrow Wilson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right] / Wearn & ...

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[Ellen Herndon Arthur, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] / W....

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[Reproduction of print showing Christ Child in a garden with basket of...

Photograph of a German woodcut, 1470, as reproduced in Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XV siècle, volume 1, Berlin, 1891. With verse based on the vision of Heinrich Seuse. On slide (... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Poems by Alexander Graham Bell, from 1858 to 1859

Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Quentin Roosevelt on the fence - Presidence of Theodore Roosevelt

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt in the woods at Sagamore Hill. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nicholas, Archie & Quentin & the dog

Photograph showing boys and dog playing on the lawn at Sagamore Hill.

Marian Griswold Nevins - Public domain portrait drawing

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

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More