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[Retinue attending Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, when he visited P...

Photograph shows Li Hung Chang and another man riding in a horse-drawn carriage with crowds on both sides of the street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No. 549. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the... More

Arnold Genthe - Two little maids from school, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Some casual cartoonlets - Public domain dedication image

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

Portion of an illustrated Japanese or Chinese manuscript or scroll tha...

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

Arnold Genthe - Chinese girl, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arnold Genthe - A native son, Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

A Chinese family, Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51168". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

Chinese Army on march - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Chinese economist at White House. Washington, D.C., Oct. 12. Visitors ...

Two men standing next to each other in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese Pagoda-,Missionary exposition

Public domain photograph of mosque building, Islam, Islamic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied ...

D24252 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12027. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

After the city's capture--burning bodies of Chinese outside the wall a...

XXc4259 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Store and restaurant in Chinatown, New York]

H28272 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese girls - Public domain scan of print

Photograph shows portrait of Chinese girls taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Missouri. Copyrighted 1904 by Gerhard Sisters, St. Louis, Mo.

Japanese sailor with rifle holding three Chinese battleships at bay

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: Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō : Long live ... More

CHINESE COMMERCIAL COMMISSIONERS - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

A man in a top hat sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portion of an illustrated Japanese or Chinese manuscript or scroll tha...

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

Arnold Genthe - Buying fish in the market, Chinatown, San Francisco, C...

Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson (International Stereograph Co.). No. 30557. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Street vendors; Shelf.

Chinese fishing village - Monterey

Houses on stilts by body of water. Copyright by N.H. Gere, Los Angeles, Calif.

The lost trail a comedy drama of western life by Anthony E. Wills.

Caption: Cyrena and Sam. Created and "copyright 1906 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 10829. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

A Chinese farmer turning the soil with a wooden plow drawn by donkeys

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chinese Wall, Pekin--China - the Great Wall, Peking - Rebels have pass...

Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Chinese men and boys on street around pile of logs

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: China History; Bread lines and soup lines;... More

Chinatown, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows street scene in front of Cafe Mandarin, 11-13 Doyers Street, Chinatown, New York City. Sign at upper right is for the Morning Star Mission, 17 Doyers Street. Sign at lower right is for the Resc... More

"Birthday party" postcard, San Francisco, California

Photograph shows Chinese children posed with a birthday cake, probably in San Francisco, California. Photo copyrighted by Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun Yue Clemens, San Francisco, Calif. Wong Sun Yue and Ella May Clemen... More

Chinese barber [and customer], Peking, China

Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century fashion, China or Chinese-inspired design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arnold Genthe - Street in Chinatown, San Francisco

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) was a German-born American photographer who is best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown and the 1906 earthquake. He began his... More

Lee Ying, Chinese cigar maker - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

Chinese Exclusion Group - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-Ming at...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

At party to Chinese Minister of Finance. Washington D.C. July 1. Dr. R...

A man in a white suit and a man in a black and white photo. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese Ambassador and daughter. Washington, D.C., July 30. At the lar...

A black and white photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

McNutt sees President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Feb. 24. High Commi...

A black and white photo of a man in a coat and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese Aviatrix receives gift of new plane from Col. Roscoe Turner. W...

A man and a woman standing next to an airplane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boy and girl playing Chinese checkers. Eufaula, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of people around a table, meeting, boardgame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Garden and orchard of Chinese farmer. Placer County, California

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Americans all. "She's a beautiful ship," and it took the combined effo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Americans all. Philip Leung, Chinese, works on a powerful air-cooled a...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese soldier smiling proudly by his newly acquired weapon, a 75 pac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Chinese characters. Main Reading Room, Library of Con...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet has the cover where most Americans expe...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Camille Dreyfus, residence in the Hotel Pierre, New York City. Chinese...

Public domain photograph of living room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese technical experts in Washington in connection with the UNRRA (...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

China, Taiwan Province (Formosa) / - Public domain map

English. Place names also in Chinese. "2-49." "10873." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Actor in the role of a granddaughter in the Peking Opera]

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

[Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping leaves the White House, Washington...

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

Aerial Photo of Chinese Archaeological Excavation Site

Feature 2 at left of red pointer; arrow points north Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping shakes hands with President Jimmy ...

Contact sheet folder caption: Chinese Vice Premier Teng arrival at White House. TOH & WKL & MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

Produce stand in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York ...

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

Scene in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood in New York City

Chinatown, said to be, as of 2018, the highest concentration of people of Chinese heritage in the Western Hemisphere with an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one o... More

The Chinatown Gateway, an outdoor paifang and sculpture that serves as...

Architect Yu Tang Wang and artist Sun Chau completed the gate's design, which was built in Taiwan. It was then shipped to Portland and dedicated in 1986. The structure was the largest of its kind in the United ... More

Busy markets in Chinese (southern) Peking - on Kaiser Street, between ...

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 Boxer uprising ... personally co... More

Manchurian ladies at tea and cards, Peking, China

H24430 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 68. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: Universal Photo Art Co.

A Chinese Bride and Groom - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpap...

Bride's face is covered, groom and another woman on either side. H66376 U.S. Copyright Office No. 6293.

Chinese Method of Removing the Silk

H87708 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12057. Public domain photograph of Chinese silk textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Study in Chinese Faces - Public domain portrait print

Group of Chinese people posing. H120625 U.S. Copyright Office No. 12088.

Establish a new standard of merit for the people : just as the heroic ...

Poster showing soldier and Red Guard standing in a breaking wave under portrait of Mao Tse-tung. Title translated from Chinese. Published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai. Exhibited: "'You Say Y... More

View of Chinatown; Fishing on Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-10, scenes of Korean and other Asian shops and organizations in Chi... More

Geng zhi tu : bu fen juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

Title from spine of case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (清) 佚名 繪圖. Qing Dynasty artist unknown. 二冊二函. Two volumes in two cases. 清彩繪本 冊葉裱裝 白口 無魚尾 裝裱内心高32.0寬39.6公分（對開） 全書高36.... More

Chicago's Chinatown near S. Wentworth Ave., Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-20, scenes of Chinatown near S. Wentworth Ave and 23d St. 17-20, Pui Tak Center (former On Leong Building).

Yi jing : si juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Collection of Wang Shunan April 3, 1929 379064. 清咸豐元年潯陽萬氏蓮峰書屋刻本 四周單邊 白口 無魚尾 匡高20.9寬14.2公分 白紙. 九行十七字. Nine lines, with seventeen chara... More

Fang Guancheng, Mian hua tu - poems

Fang Guancheng created the paintings and poems in this book. The essays inside the book were created to correspond with the illustrations. The book praises the fine cotton that grew near the capital which was u... More

Zi chai ji : er juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

Running title. In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. 明萬曆間刻本 版匡高19.5 寬13.1公分. 下欄十行二十二字 上欄雙行五小字. Lower section, ten lines, with twenty-two characters per line; upper sectio... More

Wei shi kai meng da wen : er juan

Questions and answers intended to inspire the study of Buddhism; author Yunfeng was a monk in Yitai Temple. In case. Also available in digital form. 九行十九字. Nine lines, with nineteen characters per line. 舊題:「元宣授... More

Wei shi kai meng da wen : er juan

Questions and answers intended to inspire the study of Buddhism; author Yunfeng was a monk in Yitai Temple. In case. Also available in digital form. 九行十九字. Nine lines, with nineteen characters per line. 舊題:「元宣授... More

Tui peng wu yu : 9 juan, fu Yu lu yi juan

In case. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. January 6, 1947 0477F. 明隆慶五年李氏思敬堂刻本 四周雙欄 白口 黑單魚尾 匡高19.4寬13.6公分 (卷一為鈔配, 此以卷二葉一計). 十行二十一字. Ten lines, with twenty-one characters per li... More

Tian wen tu zhu xiang yi fu : bu fen juan

This work was comprised of two categories of 'xing zhan' (astronomy) and 'yun qi' (floating clouds) then were revised into an incomplete work with four volumes of 'yuan', 'heng', 'li', 'zhen'. Ms. In case. Also... More

He Fen jiao : shi liu juan - Chinese rare book collection, LOC

Written by Wen Xiangfeng when he was in charge of the Education Department of Shanxi Province in 1621. Also available in digital form. Library's copy imperfect: missing part of preface plus juan 10, ff. 11, 16.... More

Da Ming hui dian : yi bai qi shi ba juan

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. October 28, 1948 9367C. 九十九冊十函. Ninety-nine volumes in ten cases. 十行二十字. Ten lines, with twenty characters per line. 明宏治十年奉敕撰.十五年書成.正德四年重校刊行.卷... More

Pekin yori Kankō ni itaru /, Qingdao China

Shows road from Beijing to Hankou (present Wuhan). Covers five provinces in Eastern China: Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Hubei. Relief shown by hachures. Each section of road separately titled (drawn on on... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

[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

Chaĭnai︠a︡ fabrika v Chakvi︠e︡. Master kitaet︠s︡ Lau-Dzhenʹ-Dzhau

A couple of women standing next to each other in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

But the hands that were played by that heathen Chinee [sic] ... / Hull...

Cartoon showing Chinese-American man and two other men playing cards. Copyright by Western News Co. No. 5.

"Till at last he put down a right bower, which the same Nye had dealt ...

Photograph depicts a line from the poem Plain Language from Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte, 1870, showing Truthful James, Bill Nye, and Ah Sin sitting on boxes and barrels, cheating in a game of Euchre. B... More

Kiacta [i.e, Kiakhta] on the Russian frontier. View shows neutral grou...

Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, portrait print

Print shows Ralph Waldo Emerson, bust portrait, facing slightly right. Signed and dated on stone on lower left. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Stamped in lower right: 21 Jan. 1860. Form... More

[Humorous pictures showing Chinese religious practices (may include Ra...

Signed on block by artist on left, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nisshinsensō shōraku gakai : Comics of the Sino-Ja... More

On a Chinese junk, Qingdao China

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

Chinatown, H Street Northwest, 600-800 Blocks & Seventh Street, 700 Bl...

Survey number: HABS DC-456 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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

Chinese firecrackers - Sheet music, Popular songs of the day

[Chinese man frightened by two toy figures of Japanese soldiers and a ...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

Tōjin no yoshiwara asobi - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows scene in and around a yoshiwara with women playing musical instruments, eating & drinking, walking with their Chinese guests, and boating along the coastline.

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

KATHRYN-Two-sail Bateau "Skipjack", Dogwood Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Ti...

Significance: National Historic Landmark. This vessel is one of the oldest skipjacks in the Maryland oyster dredging fleet and is of unusual construction, having a V-bottom construction, but with a rounded chi... More

KATHRYN-Two-sail Bateau "Skipjack", Dogwood Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Ti...

Significance: National Historic Landmark. This vessel is one of the oldest skipjacks in the Maryland oyster dredging fleet and is of unusual construction, having a V-bottom construction, but with a rounded chi... More

KATHRYN-Two-sail Bateau "Skipjack", Dogwood Harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Ti...

Significance: National Historic Landmark. This vessel is one of the oldest skipjacks in the Maryland oyster dredging fleet and is of unusual construction, having a V-bottom construction, but with a rounded chi... 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

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.

Bataille des pyramides, 21 Juillet 1798 peint par Gros ; gravé par Fri...

Print shows Napoleon on horseback during the Battle of the Pyramids, gesturing toward the pyramids in the distance while speaking to his officers and soldiers on the left; in the lower right foreground are defe... More

The Rev'd James Milnor D.D. rector of St. George's Church / drawn on s...

Print shows the Reverend James Milnor, D.D., half-length portrait, sitting, facing front, holding book in right hand.

Tojin ja-odori no zu - Public domain dedication image

Japanese print shows eight men holding up a dragon with sticks for the dragon dance. Nagasaki print. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 159; 47623a. Earlier control number: 236.3-7. Gift; Mrs. E. Cra... More

[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

[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