citizenship

Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia waving American flag and riding o...

Addressed to Isaac French, South Chesterville, Maine; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Washington, D.C. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War P... More

Citizenship lessons: American family at breakfast

Stereo by Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, traditionally called "l...

Copy of photo by Alexander Gardner taken at Gardner's Gallery in Washington, DC, on Sunday, February 5, 1865. This last photo in Lincoln's last photo session from life was long thought to have been made on Apri... More

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school auditorium, college, education, building interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

I pledge allegiance and silence about the war

Poster promoting patriotism and suggesting that careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing the American flag. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collect... More

Good citizenship and plain common sense. This man is performing a duty...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians give...

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So then, to every man his chance; to every man, regardless of his birt...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close up of mural painting "Night Before Last/Chicago" at main entranc...

Artist: Arturo Herrera, 2006. 8 x 37 feet. A fusion of abstraction and figuration. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provid... More

Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" interior atrium of U.S. Citizenshi...

Artist: Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2006. Titanium alloy foil. 2 at 10 x 11 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a fest...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop American flag and "American Con...

Addressed to Miss Marslin Blanchard, Keeseville, Essex County, N.Y.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

[Civil War envelope showing eagle and American flags atop an arch list...

Addressed to Rev. C. L. Ehrenfeld, Altoona, Pa.; postmarked Johnstown, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogr... More

Abolishing Slavery. Joint resolution of the thirty eight Congress of t...

Includes list of Congressmen voting aye. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, half-length portrait, facing...

Photo of Lincoln made from a negative taken in Springfield, Illinois, by Alexander Hesler on June 3, 1860. One of several poses from that day. "Wrote Lincoln's law partner, William H. Herndon, 'There is the pec... More

"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our s...

Poster showing a soldier with a flag and a sailor with a sign, "We depend on you." No. 4.

Emblems and seals. Seal of the President of the United States

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school hall, building, education facility, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pledge to the nation. "I pledge allegiance to the United States of Ame...

Carol M. Highsmith - The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1177.

Colossal hand and torch "Liberty", Pennsylvania, 19th century stereosc...

Photograph shows the torch and part of the arm of the Statue of Liberty, on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Information booth at base of arm and two persons seen at railing below flam... More

W. Hamilton Stockwell to John P. Usher, Friday, August 28, 1863 (Citi...

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

Sculpture "Eagle; Justice Above All Else" at Jacob K. Javitz Federal B...

Artist: Theodore Roszak, 1970. Bronze. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photogr... More

[Civil War envelope showing an eagle carrying an American flag in its ...

Addressed to Mrs. Sarah Ann Prall, Christianna, Lancaster County, Pa.; hand-canceled; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation: Post master, please forward soon. 1[?]th Penna. Regt. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-20... More

[Spanish caravel Santa Maria] - A black and white photo of a ship in t...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

140th flag day, 1777-1917 The birthday of the stars and stripes, June ...

Poster showing a man raising the American flag, with a minuteman cheering and an eagle flying above. Text continues: 'Tis the Star Spangled Banner, oh, long may it wave, o'er the land of the free and the home o... More

Last Austrian Minister to lecture at Georgetown University. Washington...

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

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school hall, building, education facility, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

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

New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians give...

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

Girls on a float in the Columbus Day parade, San Francisco, California

In a Columbus Day parade in San Francisco in 1991, Italian American girls dressed as angels ride with an image of the Madonna surrounded by flowers on a festival float created by the Societa de la Madonna del L... More

Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" interior atrium of U.S. Citizenshi...

Artist: Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2006. Titanium alloy foil. 2 at 10 x 11 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More

The Tocsin of liberty: rung by the state house bell, (Independence Hal...

Print shows a man ringing the Liberty Bell while crowds in the background cheer. Reference print in LOT 4412 LF. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c... More

Hail! Glorious banner of our land. Spirit of the Union / Gibson & Co. ...

Patriotic music cover showing woman holding U.S. flag. Copyright by Mrs. Mary Farrell Moore.

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney, with an intr...

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

General map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the f...

Map of the United States of America.

Insets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

General map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the f...

"Entered in Sta. Hall, London - & according to act of Congress in the year 1857 by H.D. Rogers, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts." Publishers advertisements on cover panels pasted on ... More

Liberty Bell [resting upon dais ringed with liberty caps and fasces to...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 13, (1869 July 10), p.437. Ref. copy in 4412LF. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Liberty Bell; Eagles; Geogr.

[Abraham Lincoln, last portrait sitting in Springfield, Illinois, befo...

Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 59. Ostendorf, no. 43 Meserve, no. 35 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Ll... More

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with i...

Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11. LC-USZ62-9459 damaged; digi... More

Remember your first thrill of American liberty Your duty - Buy United ...

Poster showing immigrants on a ship's deck, sailing past the Statue of Liberty. No. 9.

Citizenship lessons: father putting on his shoes

Stereo by Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

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

Stainless-steel trooper on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memoria...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Some of the 19 stainless-steel soldiers, created by Frank Gaylord, on ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Stainless-steel troopers on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memori...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" interior atrium of U.S. Citizenshi...

Artist: Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2006. Titanium alloy foil. 2 at 10 x 11 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene ... More

A black and white photo of two men. Office of War Information Photogra...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The naturalization of foreigners in New York City - Judge McCunn sitti...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 29, 1869 Nov. 13, p. 141.

[Liberty Bell being moved on wagon with an escort of uniformed militia...

Photo copyrighted by Thomas E. Marr. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Bells...; Geogr.; Militia Penna.; Ph. Ind.

Are you 100% American? Prove it! Buy U.S. government bonds Third Liber...

Poster showing text bordered by flags, bunting, an eagle, and smoking cannons. No. 10-A.

"We are never too old to learn." This old adage has been clearly prove...

Public domain photograph of White House, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.

The central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library system. Ludwig Miles van der Rohe designed the steel, brick, and glass structure. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photogra... More

Bust of Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, who, with his brother Aubrey, opened a fe...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Bo Pilgrim, wearing traditional Pilgrim dress, with a pet chicken named "Henrietta" under his arm, was featured in Pilgrim's Pride ad... More

Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams.

Postcard showing Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1622, with buildings identified. Reproduction of painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank. No. 13997.

[Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, 1620] / P.F. Rothermel pain...

Print showing a woman being helped ashore from a small boat held in position against a rock or ledge by men with ropes and poles; in the background on the right, other Pilgrims kneel in prayer. Entered Accordi... More

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing portrait of Lieutenant General Winfield Sc...

Addressed to David Weir, 33 Gansevoort Stre[et], New York C[ity], New York; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked in Baltimore, Jul. 30[?]. Entered according to act of Congress by Bloom & Smith, in 1861, in the Clerk... More

The volunteers in defence of the government against usurpation, 1861 /...

Print shows a man standing at center, holding an American flag, with two soldiers in uniform and holding rifles, standing to the right and left in the foreground; behind them are the wheels of a wagon attached ... More

[Pledge of allegiance to the flag, 8th Division]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "8th Division."

"Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16, 1773

G6078 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction based on engraving by D. Berger, 1784, after D. Chodowiecki. No. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Treasury Dept. Savings Committee, Italian class receiving instructions...

A group of people sitting around a table in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Remember! The flag of liberty - support it! Buy U.S. government bonds ...

Poster showing immigrants on a ship with the American flag. No. 6-A.

[People holding sign: "George Washington said: "The Constitution which...

A couple of people standing next to a sign. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York. New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians give...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" interior atrium of U.S. Citizenshi...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sculpture "La Tormenta (The Storm)" interior atrium of U.S. Citizenshi...

Artist: Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2006. Titanium alloy foil. 2 at 10 x 11 x 16 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provide... More

Close up of mural painting "Night Before Last/Chicago" at main entranc...

Artist: Arturo Herrera, 2006. 8 x 37 feet. A fusion of abstraction and figuration. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provid... More

To everyone in this plant: This plant is engaged upon government work ...

Poster showing a small scene of work in a shipyard, above lengthy text. Issued by Publications Section, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of W... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

[Christopher Columbus leaving Spain to go to America]

Public domain scan of 16th-17th century print, engraving, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing eagle with American flag in its talon and ...

Addressed to Mrs. A.C. Elsbree, Lewis Centre, Delaware Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Map of the United States, showing the territory in possession of the F...

Scale ca. 1:7,400,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 48 Indicates by color the territories "claimed by the confederates in 1861," "in the military possession of the Confederates in 1861," "reclaimed from rebelli... More

Department of Labor, training service. Italian class receiving instruc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women Ask President for Equal Rights Legislation. Fifty prominent memb...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members with President Harding on the lawn in front of the White House.

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York...

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

New York, New York. Class in citizenship and English for Italians give...

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

Landing of Columbus frieze in U.S. Capitol dome, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Covering four acres, the memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction. Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information pr... More

The star spangled banner / written by Francis S. Key, Esq. of Georgeto...

Print shows the text of the Star Spangled Banner within an oval design at center, surrounded by circular star-bursts that contain letters spelling "Bombardment of Fort M'Henry" within a frame that has a ship in... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

Thanksgiving scene in ye old Plymouth colony / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a Thanksgiving Day celebration at Plymouth Colony with a "Hot Dog" vendor in the foreground, a "Pink Firewater" booth on the upper left, where the Natives have congregated, and a large group ... More

Certificate of oath of allegiance

Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Civil War envelope showing American flag with second stanza from Fran...

Addressed to Michael Fox Esq., Marlboro, Stark Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of C... More

[Silver statue of Justice in exhibit hall, Montana exhibit, World's Co...

55575Y1 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyrighted 1893 by Souvenir Photo Co." Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ideals of Citizenship, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks

Anne Fitzhugh Miller notes:" Mrs. W's notes of her lecture. Ann Fitzhugh Miller" Changes in technology, urban growth, and educational opportunities make cooperation between men and women essential to improving society

To enjoy American opportunities become an American citizen

Educational poster showing group of people and hand pointing to sun radiating American prosperity. Copyright by the Stanley Service Co. No. 69.

Emblems and seals. Seal of the President of the United States

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