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Made in Mott Street / Raymond Crawford Ewer Chinatown 1914 ; drawn for...

Illustration shows a bird's-eye view of Mott Street in Chinatown, New York City, New York, with street life and buildings; also vignettes of Chinese engaged in various daily activities that characterize daily l... More

Alley scene. Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Lewis W. Hine.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Blind beggar. Location: Lawton, Oklahoma. / L.W. Hine.

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

View down a street, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arnold Genthe. Market scene, New Orleans. Public domain artistic photo...

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Arnold Genthe. Market scene, New Orleans. Public domain artistic photo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children playing in an arched passageway, New Orleans

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a narrow passage, corridor, street, old town architecture, arch, vintage print, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Two women standing in or by a doorway, New Orleans

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Child walking past a gate, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe. Market scene, New Orleans. Public domain artistic photo...

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View from across street of two women talking, New Orleans

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View down a street, New Orleans or Charleston, South Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Market scene, New Orleans. 1920s street life. Public domain.

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

Arnold Genthe. Market scene, New Orleans. Public domain artistic photo...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of street life, food vendor, city market, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women and children in a courtyard, New Orleans

Courtyard with cistern and woman cleaning, New Orleans

Faithful servant, New Orleans - Public domain portrait drawing

Title from a similar image in: Impressions of old New Orleans : a book of pictures / Arnold Genthe. New York : George H. Doran, 1926. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Plate 068

Arnold Genthe. Organ grinder, New Orleans. Public domain artistic phot...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

At the French market, New Orleans

Title from a similar image in: Impressions of old New Orleans : a book of pictures / Arnold Genthe. New York : George H. Doran, 1926. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Plate 081

Columbus Circle, north. Cityscape photograph

Columbus circle, north, New York City. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newsies at work in Newark, N.J. Aug 1, 1924. Location: Newark, New J...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woodward Avenue from City Hall, Detroit, Mich.

Stereograph shows crowds of pedestrians and vehicles along Woodward Avenue. J280543 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 26518. Copyright Dec. 31, 1925 by Keystone View Company .

On Chartres Street, formerly the main shopping thoroughfare, New Orlea...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[On Ettricks Island, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Street]

Photo shows man and boy standing outside wire fence, with flower garden and house behind them. House adjacent has man and woman inside wood plank fence.

Street in older Nazareth, vegetable market

Title from caption on envelope. On verso: Copyright, the Matson Photo Service, Jerusalem, Palestine. Forms part of: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

700 Royal at St. Peter St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Sidewalk trash can and two men on a bench in Guangzhou, China]

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

View of the bridge over Charles River

Print shows view from Atkins Wharf of the bridge across the Charles River, two couples sightseeing in the foreground, and buildings in the background. Engraved for the Massachusetts Magazine, Sept. 1789. Illus... More

Philadelphia. 11, State-house / drawn from nature by Aug. Köllner ; li...

175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11. Inscribed in ink at bottom: 175. Deposited in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New York May 24, 1849. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Lib... More

Post office, San Francisco, California / H.F. Cox del. ; lith. of Will...

Print shows long lines at each of four entrances to the post office at Pike and Clay streets in San Francisco, California; a comment on postal service, impatience, and human nature.

Amsterdam, Dam, palais & eglise. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Plaza, palace, and church, Amsterdam, Netherlands. No. 6114 P.Z. Item removed from FOREIGN GEOG FILE - Holland Amsterdam in 2017. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://h... More

Madison Square, New York City. New York (state) 19th Century Stereosco...

Copyrighted 1896 by Alfred. S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.A. No. 878.

The sidewalks of New York - Public domain portrait painting

Caption: A few of the characters shown on the sidewalks of New York. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 8614. Vignette captions: Herald Square at midnight ... More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nursery of vast fortunes--Smithfield St., lo...

North side of Washington Square [N.Y.C.]

Stereograph showing a crowd of people on pavement and street, in front of row houses; children in front facing camera. 133362 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright, 1909, by Stereo-Travel Co. No. 38.

Life on the lower East Side, cor. Pitt and Rivington Streets, North, N...

Stereograph showing a busy and over crowded street filled with pedestrians shopping at street vendors in the lower east side of Manhattan, New York City. J200150 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & ... More

The Bowery, New York City view, photochrome print postcard.

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53621. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Bost...

Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un de l'Academie... More

Arnold Genthe - Paying New Year's calls, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

State Street, Chicago. Stereoscopic card of Chicago, IL, 19th century.

H70159 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4463. Public domain image of Chicago city buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

24th Infantry Leaving Salt Lake City, Utah for Chattanooga, Tennessee,...

African American soldiers marching down main street, while pedestrians look on. Title from verso. Gladstone inventory code and notes: M69. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.281)

Rue de Rivoli et hôtel du Louvre / Photographie H.J. à Paris.

Stereograph shows aerial view of Rue de Rivoli, Paris. On mount: Vue instantée (Déposé). No. 14.

Amerika nigiwai no zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese triptych print showing supposed view of an American town square, with people walking around, although the source for the architecture was an illustration of the Fredericksburg Castle near Copenhagen th... More

Street scene, St. Petersburg, Fla., Panoramic Photograph

J177675 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Van Deventer, & Son; January 22, 1913.

Bazar [i.e, bazaar] at Semipalatinsk [i.e, Seme i]

Photograph shows a Kazakh man in the center; identification based on his dress. (Source: S. Satayeva, 2012)

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing

Prints show views of Edo, Japan. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views of Edo. Format... More

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

[Sleighing in New York] / T. Benecke 55.

Print showing crowded street scene with many sleighs in front of Barnum's Museum, Broadway & Anne St., New York City, New York. Printed by Nagel & Lewis.

Vuë de Boston. Prospect des plazes vor dem rath house zu Boston Vuë de...

Print shows view of street with the old statehouse and other buildings in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á A... More

Jeff Davis was inaugurated in this State House, Montgomery Ala. head o...

Stereograph shows horse-drawn wagons around fountain in Court Square with Alabama State Capitol building in the distance. Attributed to photographer C.I. Payne, Montgomery Alabama, based on similarity to anoth... More

223 E. 107th St., N.Y. Rent sign states that these are "Eleganti Apart...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeff Davis spoke on the piazza of Exchange Hotel Arrived at the Exchan...

Stereograph shows horse-drawn wagons in front of the Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, Alabama. Gift; Gist Blaiar; 1936.

Lewis Morrison's magnificent new Faust

U27951 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyrighted 1889 by Edw. J. Abraham." "Under the management of Edw. J. Abraham." Caption: The public square Nuremberg, Act I, scene 2. Created by "The MacBrair Lith. Co., Cin'ti, O... More

Scavengers. Miss Eddy interested. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Porte centrale de la cour de Suleymanié / Sébah & Joaillier.

A group of women, some with umbrellas, and children pass before the central door in courtyard of the Süleymaniye Camii (mosque).

Vuë de la rue des recolets de Quebeck. Prospect der Strafe gegen der K...

Print shows street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians in Québec; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Col... More

The Jewish Quarter, Boston - Drawing. Public domain image.

Street scene in Boston showing peddlars, women carrying baskets, and men walking on the sidewalks and in street, shops with wares hanging outside. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustra... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Nakazu no kei. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Print shows pedestrians crossing a bridge spanning a river crowded with boats. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: horizontal Chub... More

Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no zu

Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo, possibly during the lantern festival, with teahouses and shops lining the street.

Kanagawa, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan / drawing

Print shows travelers walking up incline on the Tōkaidō Road at the Kanagawa station with village buildings and harbor with ships on the left. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

Shinobazu no ike benten no hokora Andō Hiroshige

Print shows pedestrians on a bridge across Shinobazu Pond leading to the Benten shrine; pine trees along the bridge, buildings on pilings extending into the pond, and buildings of the town in the background. Ti... More

Keystone marble works S.F. Jacoby & Co. Market St. betw: 20th & 21st P...

Print shows five vignettes, at top, an exterior view, from the street, of the Keystone Marble Works, S.F. Jacoby & Co., with four interior views showing the "Cutting Room", "Machine Room", "Polishing Room", and... More

Fukagawa kiba, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows the parasol of someone walking past the Fukagawa lumberyard during a snowfall at night. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Fr... More

Yoroi no watasi koamichō Andō Hiroshige

Print shows a ferry filled with people crossing a channel while another boat with a man at the helm sits mid-stream, and several boats in the background are laden with goods; a woman is standing on a pier or wh... More

Horikiri no hanashōbu, Ando Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows irises growing in a large garden. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Meisho edo hyakkei : 100 famous views o... More

Teppōzu inaribashi minato jinja Andō Hiroshige

Print shows view from between the masts of a sailboat of the harbor with cargo boats, the Inari Bridge, the Minato shrine, and Mount Fuji in the distance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nic... More

An instantaneous view, the Calzada del Monte

Stereograph showing a view of Calzada del Monte in Havana, Cuba. No. 90. Copyright by E. Anthony, 1860.

Tripoli Mosque - North Africa and Middle East

Busy street scene, with minarets. On mount verso: 5480. Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An evening at Oakland. Romance, composed & respectfully dedicated to t...

Print shows a view from the street of a large white building, the Oakland Female Institute, on the top of a hill, with sidewalk, pedestrians, and parkland in the foreground. Signed on stone in lower left corne... More

Tōkyō meishō zu - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Japanese print showing street scene in Tokyo with wharf and sailboat in the foreground, parcels on the wharf, people in traditional and Western dress, and buildings in the background, one of which is flying the... More

Paris. Cour du Grand Hôtel du Louvre Charles Rivière del. et lith

Print shows an interior view of a covered courtyard with a horse-drawn carriage, pedestrians, and a street vendor selling papers labeled "Album Martinet Paris"; also shows a large stairway at the far end and en... More

Mosquée du Sultan Ahmed et l'Hélisque / Colonel Ali Riza, opérateur en...

Sultanahmet Camii (mosque) near site of the Hippodrome, obelisk and people in foreground. On mount recto: And Hippodrome. Caption also in Ottoman Turkish.

[Seattle's first street car turning from Occidental Avenue to Yesler W...

Caption on card: Seattle and vicinity. Frank H. Osgood installed the street car system in Seattle. He appears in this photograph standing behind the horses. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson co... More

Arnold Genthe - The fish dealer's daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Genthe's photographs of San Francisco's old Chinatown / photographs by Arnold Genthe ; selection and text by John Kuo Wei Tchen. New York : Dover Publications, 1984, pl. 20. Alter... More

Arnold Genthe - A corner on the hillside, 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

Woman and a child walking down a street, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - The alley, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Two sheenies, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The day of the Good Lady Festival, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Pigtail parade, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - The lily vendor, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 37. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Arnold Genthe - Weighing fish, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Woman house servant, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Fish Alley, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - The grocery store, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - The butcher, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arnold Genthe - Boy in doorway of lamp store, Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - The devil's kitchen, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men standing or walking on a street, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - The airing, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Arnold Genthe - Carrying New Year's presents, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - The fish dealer's daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco

A young boy standing in front of a basket. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - An afternoon airing, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 91. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Arnold Genthe - Woman house servant, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - A corner crowd, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Woman and children walking down a street, Chinatown, San Francisco

Public domain photograph of San Francisco Chinatown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - One Washington Place, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of living conditions, building, by Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Arnold Genthe - All Peace Hall drugstore, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - No likee, Chinatown, San Francisco

Title from a similar image in: Old Chinatown : a book of pictures / by Arnold Genthe ; with text by Will Irwin. New York : M. Kennerley, 1913, p. 99. Alternate title from a similar image in: Pictures of old Chi... More

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