Hong Kong [harbor] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Plan of Italian concession Tientsin, Plan of Japanese concession Tient...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
CHINA. BRIDGE BROKEN UNDER AMERICAN TRUCK
A black and white photo of an old truck, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Copy. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. G... More
Beijing quan tu = Peking / - Public domain map
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy sectioned to 20 panels and mounted on cloth backing.
General Sir C.A. Anderson - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows Lieutenant General Sir Charles Alexander Anderson, (1857-1940), Commander of British Troops in South China. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)
A group in camp. The camp is divided into companies. At each street sa...
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group Title: Refugees, Camp, China. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Data: H.E. 12024. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. Gene... More
Peking, gateway to Ming tombs / CWB.
K133952 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed with monogram: CWB; titled on block.
Pupils of Methodist Mission Girls School, Chungking, Syechuan, West Ch...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Miss Stevenson. Group title: 14th. Div. China. Used in: Atlantic Div. 4/1919... More
Mrs. Bonsol, residence. China closet of Mrs. Bonsol III
Public domain photograph of Washington DC area, 1920s-1930s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children, China - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title and date based on information from Red Cross Caption cards for same group. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Jr. Red Cross. Data: Exc. to Jr. R.C. Indf. Gro... More
Little Betty Sze, daughter of the minister from China and Madam Sze me...
No. 17193. Photoprint by National Photo Co.
Distended stomachs, a sure sign of advanced starvation. Yet the faces ...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: L.M. Mead, Peking. Data: Mr. Stuart, Feb. 1922. Classification: Famine Relief. Gi... More
An Open Air Restaurant, Peking, China
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American Embassy, Nanking, China
A black and white photo of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date of negatives in same ra... More
Stigerwalt House, China Grove vic., Rowan County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...
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Governor of Bank of China presented to President Roosevelt. Washington...
A black and white photo of two men in suits, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.... More
"The Walkers Club." Eight U.S. airmen in China who were forced down be...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Applying blue bands on china for the wardroom officers mess of the U.S...
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Overseas forces observe sabbath with prayer. General view of Protestan...
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Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo da di tu /
Relief shown by spot heights. Inset : Wo guo Nan Hai zhu dao tu, scale 1:12,000,000 -- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo di xing, scale 1:21,000,000 -- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo da xing zheng qu yu tu, scale 1:30,000,0... More
New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor VII
Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Communist China, roads and inland waterways.
"10-67." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 265. Map number cut out. Mounted on cloth and laminated.
[View from a tall building or a portion of the Great Wall of China, lo...
Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).
Opium Tin and Pipes, Soy Jug, and Bowl Fragments
Late 19th century Chinese artifacts; photographed at the Lowie Museum, Berkeley
[Piece of machinery in a factory, in China]
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Chinese linguistic groups. Historic map, Library of Congress
"719766 (545114) 9-90." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
One of Hong Kong's business streets, China
59603-BB U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood.
Picturesque floating houses Hong Kong - stereocsopic card
D17528 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fish market - Hong Kong, China - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...
6610 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
In the Protestant Cemetery at "Happy Valley," Hong Kong, China
D15663 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A high caste lady's dainty "lily feet" - as they really are - China
Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Ph. Ind.; Podiatry; China.
The Pei Ho river and the Bund at Tien-tsin, China
Stereograph showing a throng of boats moored on the Pei Ho river near the bund in Tianjin, China. H11316 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3739. Copyright 1901, by H.C. White Co.
Typical springless, seatless Chinese coach, looking toward Coal Mounta...
H2171 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken by photographer James Ricalton during his trip to China in 1900. (Source: China through the stereoscope; a journey through the dragon empire at the time of the Bo... More
Britain's rich mart of the Orient - Hong Kong, from the harbor
View of Hong Kong, with men on boats in foreground. H2551 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken by photographer James Ricalton during his trip to China in 1900. (Source: China through the stereoscope; a jour... More
Chinamen eating chow in a restaurant, Canton, China
H24524 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. No. 168. Title transcribed from item.
Ancient and modern--Chinese junk and British battleship, Hong Kong, Ch...
H24466 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Copyright by C.H. Graves. No. 104.
Victoria Peak and residences, Hong Kong, China
H24473 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 111. "The Universal Photo Art Co."
The so-called "Lily feet" contrasted with the natural feet of Chinese ...
Copyright 1902 by C.H. Graves. On mount: Philadelphia, Naperville, Ill., London, Paris, Hamburg. No. 172.
Straw Stacks, China, Keystone View Co stereoscopic card
H66370 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6287. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Farmer bringing the Kao liang home by mule cart, N. China
Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Alcoholic beverages.
In the harbor of Hong Kong - a Chinese junk passing
H96530 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White & Co. No. 4451.
Street scene, Peking - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
J238435 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 14589. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Company. Caption card tracings: Shelf. China.
Native women coming to town by wheelbarrow chair, China
J213588 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo by the Keystone View Company, copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Woman In foreign cou... More
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...
Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More
Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g
Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...
Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More
Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...
Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More
Huang yu zhi lüe : shi liu juan
The writing style is succinct; personal likenesses stopped at the Song and Yuan Dynasties; however, the chapter on the Yi people is more detailed, gives the history of their official exchange with China, and gi... More
Shi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan
Also available in digital form. Bequest Mary L. McClure December 20, 1944. 明成化間刻本。四卷. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1465-1487. 十四行二十三字。色彩極豐富,請加強表現。部分中縫斷裂,請小心不要錯掃空白葉。 Fourteen lines with twenty-three characters per ... More
Chu ci : er shi juan, juan shou yi juan
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. September 17, 1940 580875. 是書就朱熹《集註》而廣之,凡分四集。 This book supplements 'Chu ci ji zhu' by Zhu Xi, and was divided into four parts. 八冊二函. Eight vo... More
Da Qing lü ji jie fu li : san shi juan, fu Ti ding zai ru lü tie tong ...
Preface states that this work was created under Imperial order, a compilation of Ming Dynasty laws and statutes that became the legal system of the Qing Dynasty. Also available in digital form on the Library of... More
Shi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan
Also available in digital form. Bequest Mary L. McClure December 20, 1944. 明成化間刻本。四卷. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1465-1487. 十四行二十三字。色彩極豐富,請加強表現。部分中縫斷裂,請小心不要錯掃空白葉。 Fourteen lines with twenty-three characters per ... More
The mystery of the Ravenspurs; a romance and detective story of Thibet...
Also available in digital form.
Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g
Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More
Da Fo ding ru lai mi yin xiu zheng liao yi zhu pu sa wan xing shou Len...
Translated by the Indian monk Pramiti; revised and translated by an Uddiyana monk in the Tang Dynasty; government official Fang Rong then compiled again; Buddhist monk Jiehuan of Kai yuan lian Temple in Wenling... More
Shi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan
Also available in digital form. Bequest Mary L. McClure December 20, 1944. 明成化間刻本。四卷. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1465-1487. 十四行二十三字。色彩極豐富,請加強表現。部分中縫斷裂,請小心不要錯掃空白葉。 Fourteen lines with twenty-three characters per ... More
Shi shi yuan liu ying hua shi ji : si juan
Also available in digital form. Bequest Mary L. McClure December 20, 1944. 明成化間刻本。四卷. Ming woodblock print, ca. 1465-1487. 十四行二十三字。色彩極豐富,請加強表現。部分中縫斷裂,請小心不要錯掃空白葉。 Fourteen lines with twenty-three characters per ... More
William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1 and 2
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A caravan outside the walls of Peking
(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Great Wall of China" by Romyn Hitchcock, Century, 45:328 (Jan. 1893).
[Tian di tu] Historic map, Library of Congress
Shows celestial sphere, China as a whole, and 15 provinces fo the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Turkestan, and the "South Seas", including Japan, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Calicut, Bagdad, etc. Covers Beijing, Henan,... More
Chicago Stock Exchange Building, 30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Coo...
Significance: Designed by Adler and Sullivan, the building is an important early skyscraper and was the first in Chicago to make use of caisson foundations. In February, 1961, it was designated a Chicago Archit... More
Last charge and capture of Port Arthur
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kurz & Allison.
Liu sheng Huang He sao ba he dao quan tu.
Scale [ca. 1:400,000]. Pictorial map. Covers Gansu, Shanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Jiangnan. Shows the complete course of the Yellow River form the headstream in the Tibet plateau to the old estuary, prior to... More
Weaverville Joss House, Oregon Street, Weaverville, Trinity County, CA
Significance: The Temple of the Forest and the Clouds, or as it is popularly known, the Chinese Joss House, is an important historical record of the Chinese culture that flourished in California beginning in th... More
William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Russia's fleet lying under great Golden Hill forts, being sunk by Jap...
H63737 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7801.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855
Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pekin kinbō zu. Historic map, Library of Congress
Shows city walls, streets, villages, forests, temples, pagodas, rivers, and roads. Covers Yanjiao, Xianghe from the east, to Sanjiadian, Liangxiang in the west, from Huairou, Changping, Nankou in the north to G... More
[A crowd of Japanese soldiers; Chinese coolies in right foreground, Ma...
H68989 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, Nov., 1905. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Humorous pictures showing the Chinese mode of transportation (four me...
Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nisshinsensō shōraku gakai : Comics of the ... More
[Sunken warships, Port Arthur] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...
H63457 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.
Tehidoi tsubushigata - Public domain portrait drawing
A large Japanese hand crushing Port Arthur, July 25, 1904, a reference to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in ... More
Company of Boxers, Tien-Tsin, China
Group of men walking down street. No. 9003. Twentieth Century Series. Copyright by Whiting Bros. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Librar... More
Hai jiang yang jie xing shi quan tu.
Scale ca. 1:760,000. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial map. Hummel gift 1962, no. 5. Insets: Huan hai quan tu -- Qi sheng yan hai quan tu -- Qiongzhou tu -- Penghu tu -- Taiw... More
Blocking - shutting the mouth of Port Arthur
Print shows two Japanese sailors driving battleships like spikes through the lips of the mouth of the harbor at Lüshun (Port Arthur), China. Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive... More
Narrative of a journey round Lake Yamdo (Palti), and in Lhokha, Yarlun...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ael 2019-04-04 update (1 card)
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
William Speiden journals: Vol. 1, Mar. 9, 1852-July 2, 1854 (includes ...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
[Quanzhou Fu yu di tu shuo]. - Public domain old map
Covers land and territory in Quanzhou Prefecture. Shows cities, towns, and military posts in Quanzhou fu. Title supplied. Previous supplied title: Quanzhou fu tu shuo. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also... More
[A Chinese sage sitting on a bench beneath banana trees, with attendan...
Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Chinese painting on silk. Forms part of: Arnold Genthe collection (Libra... More
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet: conten...
This atlas was prepared to accompany J. B. Du Halde's Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine ... La Haye, 1736. cf. Avertissement. Available also thr... More
Chūgoku hanga, Qingdao China - Drawing. Public domain image.
Print shows a Chinese wiseman holding a sword and riding on the back of a tiger.
Zhongguo tu Historic map, Library of Congress
Title devised by cataloger. Annotated on verso: "From original owned by Thomas W. Fina, 7400 Rebecca Drive, Alexandria, VA." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
The war in China - attack on the "Banterer's" boat in Sai-Lau Creek, C...
Opium War. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1858 March 6, p. 233. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; China Hist. 1858; Opium War.
[Farm buildings with courtyard and animals, and two figures standing o...
Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 229. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).
[Interior of a western style house, possibly at a border post, with Ru...
Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 86. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).
[Celebration in a Chinese public house]
Drawing shows a celebration in progress to pay homage to the woman seated cross-legged at right in a public house with ornate interior and showing western influences, with stove, charcoal burner, and wall clock... More
Chinese Embassy / photographed by J. Gurney & Son.
Photograph shows a group portrait of ten Chinese men (names written in Chinese under their portraits), including Chih Kang, Sun Chia Ku, and interpreters. Other sitters include Mr. Deschamps, Anson Burlingame, ... More
Johnson's China and Japan. - Public domain old map
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From Johnson's Atlas of the world, 1869. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to Japanes... More
[Portraits of a Chinese woman from Canton, a man mending a pot, a woma...
Captions on front of item: "Native Canton" (upper left); "The crockery mender" (upper right); "Foochau woman" (lower left); and "Chinese soldier" (lower right). Captions on back of item: [no caption] (upper le... More
[Portraits of a Chinese boy with a tray, a woman from Hong Kong, a gro...
Captions on front of item: "Boy with tray" (upper left); "Native of Hong Kong" (upper right); "Group of coolie" (lower left); and "Group of Chinese" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "Boy with tray" (up... More
Celestial wrath / F. Opper. - A book with a cartoon of a man holding a...
Print shows startled French soldiers in rice paddies confonting an angry blazing sun rimmed with cannon barrels and bayonets, and stating "Population 500,000,000", also signs labeled "Malaria, Disease, [and] Fe... More
Shanghai xian cheng xiang zu jie quan tu.
Scale ca. 1:5400. Revision of map originally drawn by Xu Yucang in 1875. Shows foreign concessions in Shanghai. Chinese area in yellow, French in red, British in blue, and American in orange. Available also thr... More
Girls of the new generation without bound feet in Central Park, Peking...
Four girls walking in park. Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description