85,097 China Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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Silk Mfg. In China. Drying and throwing the silk fiber and preparing t...

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

Treasury, Internal Revenue Dept., [Washington, D.C.]; opium smokers ou...

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

The first battle near Manturia [i.e. Manchuria]. The Japanese soldiers...

Captions in Japanese and English. Forms part of: The Illustration of the Siberian War, no. 5.

Furniture and other home furnishings. Built-in cabinet with china I

Public domain photograph of Washington DC area, 1920s-1930s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Severance Hall, reading room, Nanking Univ., Nanking, China]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Mrs. Bonsol, residence. China closet of Mrs. Bonsol I

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

Planta geral da cidade e nôvo pôrto de Macav

Scale 1:2,000. At head of title: D.O.P. LC copy imperfect: Brittle and small sections missing. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Includes index to adjoining sheets. Sheet 2 includes ill. Available also thr... 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...

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma high...

Public domain photograph related to Chinese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American bu...

Photograph shows Catalina flying boats flying from Singapore to patrol the seas. Caption continues: Their work takes them on long distance patrols from the civilisation of Singapore to sparsely inhabited islan... More

Chiang Kai-Shek, World War II photo

Portrait, bust, facing left. (Taken during visit to Army Air Force base.)

[A man with a shovel burying a child in a shallow grave in a rural are...

Gift; John Portogallo; 1972 (DLC/PP-1972:209). Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

China-Viet-nam boundary. - Public domain map

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes location map and notes. "50446 10-64." LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. LC copy stamped on: 897.

China-North Vietnam border area. - Public domain map

"52597 11-65." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped on: 730B. Mounted on cloth and laminated.

Tibet. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:3,960,000. Includes list of administrative divisions to the Hsien level and location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

[Street-level view of a new building in Shanghai, China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Exterior view showing tourists at a temple in China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207). Public domain photograph of historic landmark building, Chinese temple, Asian architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictio... More

[Temple in the Forbidden City, with plaza and tourists, Beijing, China...

[Exterior view of the "Trade Fair" building, in Guangzhou, China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Roof detail on garden facilities in China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Exterior view showing scaffolding around a temple in Beijing, China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Agricultural village buildings and cropland, in China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Maple tree with large rocks in a garden in China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Actors in the role of "bad guys" in the Peking Opera]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Pavilion at a garden in Shanghai, China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

[Four sightseers walking on the Great Wall of China as it descends fro...

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Canton, China: An early morning scene - a characteristic Street

3 Chinese men squatting; long banners. D15670 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street Scene... More

A busy street in old Shanghai--looking from city wall across canal int...

D20597 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fair damsels in the Botanical Gardens of Hong Kong, China

D15720 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain scan of drawing, 20th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Papyrus, from which paper was first made and takes its name, China

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Papyrus.

The Jesuit Orphanage, Shanghai, China - stereocsopic card

Large group of orphans and teachers. No. 14170. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ready for a "negative" expedition - our photographer James Ricalton on...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Photographers; PI; Transportation 1901; China Peking; Animals Camels; Geogr.; Shelf.

Naval brigade of H.M.S. Albion drilling at Hong Kong--China

Troops in line formation on open field. H24480 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co., Philadelphia. No. 118.

Inscribed stones, the reputed writings of Confucius. Temple of Confuci...

Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An Old Chinese Woman and Her Son Grinding Millet Seed, the Principal F...

H97397 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The new religion - A black and white drawing of a crowd of people

Chinese leader Mao Zedong inaugurated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in August, 1966. It was was intended as a means of restoring the spirit of the Chinese Revolution. Mao's own personality cult took... 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

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

Xiang zong shu : si juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

Once widely circulated among Muslims, the text is now scarce. Ms. In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. January 27, 1941 600022. 舊鈔本無欄格無版匡全幅高29.1寬17.8公分；補：書寫較草. 十行十八字 .... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g, col...

Xin'an Bi shi zu pu : shi qi juan

In case. Also available in digital form. 頁260-261. 提要400字. 述畢族傳承及本書謹嚴之體例. 又云是譜僅刷印百餘. 十二行二十五字小字雙行. Twelve lines, with twenty-five characters per line, and paired lines of small characters. 明畢蕙畢蘭畢濟川等撰，詳"執事名氏"葉，其... More

Bushō no zu - Public domain portrait drawing

Prints show paper samples of one before and two after illustrations; the before print shows a warrior wearing brightly colored garments, and the two after prints show this warrior and another warrior blending i... More

William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1 and 2

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The most unkindest cut of all / W.A. Rogers.

Uniformed soldier "New China" cutting off pigtail "long ages of graft" from kneeling Manchu in traditional garb. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Publis... More

[Musicians accompany two men eating, attended by three servants]

Drawing shows two older gentlemen seated at the head of a table being served by three young servants while three musicians accompany the feast in a well-furnished home with a western clock on a shelf at right a... 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

[Destroying a fleet -- battleship Pallada struck by a 500 lb. Japanese...

H63425 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7739.

William Speiden journals: Illustrations removed from volume 1

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

Nankin, Oroshiy, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows Chinese man holding a paintbrush while an assistant mixes ink as a Russian military officer looks on. Signature: Motome ni ōzu Hiroshige ga (by request). Seal date: Monkey 12. Annotations,... More

Ch'ŏnha chido. Historic map, Library of Congress

Gift; Robert A. and Rosalinda Yangas; 2011. Leaves are joined end to end in a scroll. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes description of 13 provinces in China. Im... More

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

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

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

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

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of fabric, textile pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

William Speiden journals: Vol. 2, July 3, 1854-Feb. 16, 1855

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

Le Jardin des Plantes à Pékin--Les Chinois admirant beaucoup un quadru...

Chinese admiring Frenchman and pig in the Garden of Plants, Peking. Signed with initials on stone. Delteil, 2597 Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... More

[Russian warships in harbor; in background smoke from a fire near Gold...

H6363447 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

[Sunken warships, Port Arthur] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

H63457 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

Naval Ordnance Test Station Inyokern, Randsburg Wash Facility Target T...

Significance: The Randsburg Wash Target Test Towers (Buildings 70021 and 70022) are significant for their role in the naval testing of proximity or variable time (VT) fuzes, a vital element of the Navy's weapon... More

Buruburu taishō - Public domain drawing

Print shows a jagged-edged depiction of a man on horseback, holding raised sword. Verbal puns. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From ... More

[The heroine of Port Arthur -- the only woman soldier, killed here a f...

H63423 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7733.

[Early morning in a Russian battery during the siege of Port Arthur]

H63422 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7741.

6th U.S. Cavalry honoring Count Waldersee on his arrival--between Chie...

H2185 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ikaiei kōgeki - Public domain drawing

Print shows Japanese troops surprising Chinese soldiers at Weihaiwei and the death of a Chinese officer on horseback leading his troops into battle during a snowstorm. Title and other descriptive information co... More

Si sheng Yunhe shui li quan yuan he dao quan tu.

Scale ca. 1:400,000. Covers Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhili. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated with descriptive notes in Japanese. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially. Pictorial m... More

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 dedication image

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

Descripción del Río Tigris desde Canton hasta la Ysla de Lankeet.

Relief shown pictorially and by shading and form lines. Depths shown by soundings. Watermarks: J. Honig & Zoonen; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis over the characters JH & Z. Watermark dated from 1737-87. Pen-and-in... More

[A residential compound with fence and outbuildings near grove of tree...

Chinese script and two chops in upper left corner.

[Tōjinbutsu], portrait - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a Chinese official, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing slightly right, holding papers in his right hand. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo p... More

A young nobleman, Iran, watercolors

"Azerbaijan or North Iran" upper right side of mount. Sheet has a blind stamp at center left of fold line. Purchase; Brad Verter, Carpe Librum; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:006). Forms part of: Qajar paintings commissio... More

[Buildings inside the imperial palace compound in Beijing, China, show...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 158. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Summer scene with an elderly man resting against a tree on the left, ...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 221. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Amerika, Furansu, Nankin, Utagawa Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows three spectators viewing an unseen object or event: a woman holding a drinking vessel sits beside a man gazing through binoculars while a Chinese man touchs his head. Signature: Motome ni ... More

[Street scene, possibly outside a temple, with adults and children, so...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 190. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dancers or acrobats with cymbals tumbling, with marchers in the backg...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 39. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Elderly Chinese man, possibly a scholar, three-quarter length portrai...

Blind stamp in upper left corner: Bristol [Crown] Paper. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 148. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Seisha - Orandajin, Nankin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print shows a Dutch merchant holding a goblet seated on a chair, a Chinese man holding a bottle stands next to him and there is a small table on the right in the foreground. Signature: Issen Yoshikazu... More

Johnson's China Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From Johnson's new illustrated (steel plate) family atlas, with descriptions, geographical, statistical, and historical. New York, 1862. Inse... More

Commercial and geographical relation of New York to Europe and Asia, w...

Composite of seven illustrations showing: Aspinwall, New Granada, Central America; Honolulu, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; Panama, New Granada, Central America; snow shed on the Central Pacific Railroad; map of the... More

Group of Chinese women - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows three Chinese women, two seated, one standing. Title from front and back of item. Caption on back of item: "Group of Chinese women. The gentler sex are all particularly fond of adorning their h... More

Foochau woman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a Chinese woman from Foochau, full-length portrait, standing, facing right. Title from front of item. Photograph taken by John Thomson in Shanghai, 1870-72. (Source: Regine Thiriez, 2009) In al... More

Hong Kong--Dock workers - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Laborers pulling loaded cart on wharf, Hong Kong. Photo by De Cou. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Copyright by Ewing Galloway, New York.

Hong Kong--Sampans at a suburb - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Sampans in water. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Hong Kong--Cheap labor - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Laborer carrying two bags on pole across his shoulders. No. 15. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photo by Ming Yuen, Hong Kong.

Tennis club, Shanghai, Kiangsu province, China

People around 2 tables in foregrd.; people on tennis courts in backgrd.

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] on bridge of Chinese ship

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

On the grand canal between Tong-chow and Peking

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Peking - view along wall and Emperor's Palace

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-USZ62-78829. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library... More

Boatmen towing sailboat against the wind up the Pieho to Peking

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Family living in an arch under the Great Wall

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

Colorful dragon painted on wall, Qingdao China

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Coolies working on barge, Qingdao China

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... More

Canton - junks on Pearl River. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Queens Road street scene. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street view with San Francisco Restaurant at right

WTC [i.e. World Transportation Commission] members inside their privat...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

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