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Pilgrims buying food from peddlers outside the Holy Sepulchre where th...

J180392 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-134218. Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From Jaffa Gate clock tower east over center of Jerusalem

J177990 U.S. Copyright Office. No. on recto left half: 127585. Public domain image of urban environment, buildings, city streets, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Days of revolution - barricades at the Arcenal [i.e., Arsenal], Petrog...

Photograph shows people in front of a barricade on a street in Saint Petersburg. Includes Russian caption. No. 362.

[Nearly identical views of street market in Paris, France] - Frank G. ...

No. 58. See also: LC-USZ62-79277. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Markets; Geogr.

Little Italy in the Vieux Carré, 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 064

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

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

Woman and child standing in or by a doorway, New Orleans or Charleston...

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

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

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

Man cleaning out a small building, New Orleans or Charleston, South Ca...

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

Travel views of Europe - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised. 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 Gent... More

Arnold Genthe. Travel views of Europe. Public domain artistic photogra...

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

Batten shutters and stucco walls, New Orleans

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

[People in a plaza(?), Florida, 1935]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Flori... More

621 Dauphine St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain image of a market, marketplace, city center, vendors, people gathering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calhoun Street, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

11671-13. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

[Street, with parked cars and pedestrians, along commercial and reside...

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

Merchants Court (Gostinnyi dvor) trading center (early 18th century), ...

Public domain photograph of court building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vuë de Boston. Prospect der König Strasse gegen das Land Thor zu Bosto...

Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Printed on top left: Collection des prospects. Printed on bottom: Se vend á ... More

Looking North showing Union Square and Broadway

Part of the series: New York City. Instantaneous Panoramic Views. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

The Capitol at Washington, Landscape view print

Print shows a perspective, street-level view from the northeast of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with pedestrians and horsedrawn carriages on the plaza in front. Caption continues: Height 307 ... More

Along the noted Bowery, New York

Photograph shows elevated railroad, delivery wagons, buildings and people in lower Manhattan. 83936 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, New... More

Fifth Ave. lined with the mansions of America's richest families, New ...

Stereograph view looking north with Temple Emanu-El at right. H41144 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1904 by William H. Rau. No. 5629.

East along 23rd St. to Metropolitan Tower, one-eighth mile high, New Y...

Copyright Underwood & Underwood. U117246. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J. No. 10722. No. 22.

Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St., N.Y., in which a great dea...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2887. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Wall Street, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Stereograph showing a statue of George Washington on right and Trinity Chapel in background. J225969 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 1009.

The main street in the bazaar at Caubul in the fruit season

Illustration shows Afghans in a marketplace buying and selling fruit. Lithograph by Louis and Charles Haghe after drawing by James Atkinson. Illus. in: Sketches in Afghaunistan, by Jas. Atkinson, Esq. London ... More

Swiping Behind the Cop's Back. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 873. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Kyōto sanjūsangendō no zu

Print shows a wooden building, Sanjūsangendō, a Buddhist temple housing 1001 statues of Kannon, a Buddhist goddess, with an archer kneeling at one end shooting an arrow into the bull's-eye of a target at the ot... More

Licking blocks of ice on hot day

Photograph shows a group of children licking large blocks of ice on the sidewalk in front of a grocery store.

Richmond - Public domain drawing during American Civil War

Street scene. Title inscribed lower right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.365) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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

Playing hand ball on Street. Street play - probably not working boys. ...

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

[Easter promenade] - Public domain drawing

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore St., Cumberland, after a snow storm, Apl. 10, 1862

Exterior view looking down Baltimore Street showing snow covered street. Penciled on front of mount: 504. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's addr... More

Life in Philadelphia. Plate 14 / Clay.

Print shows an African American woman in a millinery shop trying on a large bonnet; she asks the advice of a man who tells her he doesn't like it because it is too large and hides her face. Exchange; (DLC/PP-19... More

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

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

[View of the Battle Monument, Baltimore]

Street scene with view of monument to Battle of Baltimore (War of 1812), woman carrying laundry, and mail handler clearing bags from a postal coach.

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain 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, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain image related to music prfo...

Gajō icchō, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain scan of drawing

Gajō icchō, Ando Hiroshige - Public domain scenic 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.

Washington Street, Sonora, Tuolumne County, California

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 960. LOT subdivision subject: Sonora.

Bazar [i.e., bazaar] or market place at Barnaoul [i.e., Barnaul]

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

Mister, Give me a Lift? Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tōkyō Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendō ōfuku jōkitetsudō no zu

Japanese triptych print shows trains at station and traveling along tracks through the city and landscape. Triptych matted separately in 3 sections: right (23a), center (23b), left (23c). Annotations, stamps, ... More

Tōkyō Ueno yama shita yori Nakasendō ōfuku jōkitetsudō no zu

Government buildings, Ottawa, Canada / Chas. Shrober & Co., prop. Chic...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of street in foreground, three government buildings identified as "Western Departemental, Parliamental Building, [and] Eastern Departemental", with river, cityscape, and hills in t... More

No. 4. View of Honolulu. From the Catholic church

Print shows a view from the Catholic church of Honolulu looking toward Kaka'ako, with vignette views of stores, shops, and factories: "T. Spencer, ship chandler", "Rice & Co.", "F. Colburn, auctioneer", "H. Rob... More

A pulgue [i.e. pulque] shop in Tacubaya, Mexico

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

Edward Penfield - [Automobile in crowded street]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as cover of: Collier's magazine, Oct. 12, 1907. Exhibition 4105-L.

Yotsuya naitō shinjuku, Ando Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

View of shops seen beyond horses' legs. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban Nishikie. From the series: Meisho edo hy... More

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

Panorama of Constantinople, and environs ... / drawn on the spot by He...

Prints show a 360° view, from an elevated vantage point, of Constantinople and the Bosphorus Strait, with many rooftops, minarets, mosques, and other buildings, passageways, and boats and ships.

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [The barker at the fair]

Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. LeBlanc, no. 61.

This print representing part of the town and harbour of Halifax in Nov...

Print shows a broad view of the town and harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, with meadow in the foreground, buildings of the town along the waterfront, and ships in the harbor, also two islands and a distant view o... More

Canaletto - Le Preston. V / A. Canal. f.

Print shows pedestrians on the walkway of the waterfront with the canal on the right and buildings and a bridge on the left. Constable, no. 14 Forms part of: George Lothrop Bradley collection (Library of Congr... More

[Preliminary sketch for neoclassic building with "MDCCXIX" on pediment...

Preliminary sketches on verso. Watermark shows a dove holding an olive branch, representing Amies & Co. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 101. (DLC/PP-1995:140.101). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith colle... More

Takanawa ōkido no zu Andō Hiroshige

Print shows sailing ships in the harbor, men moving goods by hand and with carts in the port area, and a small building, possibly the customs house. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunk... More

Utagawa Hiroshige - Ōji ōgiya, Ando Hiroshige

Print shows tearooms lining a small stream with two people crossing to where a man and a child are sitting. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 200... More

Goyu, Andō Hiroshige - Public domain drawing

Print shows travelers, including two carrying a palanquin, on a street in the commercial district at the Goyu station on the Tōkaidō Road. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsor... More

Yoshiwara yuki no asa Andō Hiroshige

Print shows a snow covered community in the morning with porters carrying sedan chairs, probably containing male customers, down the main street leading away from the gated entrance to the yoshiwara. Title and ... More

[Lexington market, Baltimore, Maryland]

Photograph shows people near tables where fruit and flowers are being sold at the Lexington market in Baltimore, Maryland. On caption card: Photo. by Albertype Co.

First U.S. Mint - Public domain dedication image

Photograph shows a street level view of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

[Perspective view of Capitol] - Public domain architectural drawing

Photograph of architectural drawing showing U.S. Capitol, with people in foreground. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 161. On drawing: Original design adopted by the President A.D. 1851. Refer... More

Public bath at Simoda from nature by W. Heine ; Js. Queen delt. ; P.S....

Print shows an interior view of a public bathhouse in Shimoda, Japan, with men and women bathing. Inscribed in pencil on verso: "This was the 'suppressed' plate for the government publication of the Perry Expe... More

Shichūhan'ei tanabata matsuri, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows bamboo decorated with paper streamers and cutouts above the rooftops of the city during the Tanabata festival. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spe... More

Curious house with leaning turrets, Lannion, (p. 88.)

Published with: Jephson, J. M. Narrative of a walking tour in Brittany by John Mounteney Jephson, F.S.A. ; accompanied by notes of a photographic expedition by Lovell Reeve, F.L.S., no. 15.

Africa. Tunis. Mosque - North Africa and Middle East

People walking down street from a mosque, the minaret is seen behind them. On mount verso: 3572.

Broadway looking up -- New York. New York (state) 19th Century Stereos...

On mount: Stereoscopic Gems of New York & Vicinity. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Central Park, New York, New York. Gate design R.M. Hunt, architect

Landscape design drawing shows design for gate entrance to park, possible at 6th Avenue. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The A... More

Sketches with the Co. B 8th Reg., Pennsylvania Ma. [i.e., militia] und...

Drawing shows soldiers standing in residential street and sitting against fence along the roadside during rest period; some gathered around small campfires. Signed in pencil "J Queen" on lower left of mount. (... More

Citizens Volunteer Hospital - corner of Broad St. and Washington Ave. ...

Print shows an exterior view of the hospital building from the street across, beyond the railroad tracks, with locomotive approaching, and with pedestrians and soldiers standing on sidewalk on the side of the b... More

Skating on the Schuylkill Bispham del

Print shows a young man and a young woman ice skating on the Schuylkill River, with a fallen young boy, a dog, and a sled in the foreground, and many people skating in the background. Illus. from: Godey's lady... More

Speeding on the avenue - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870, by Currier & Ives in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of ... More

[Private school, Medrese-yi Edebiye] / Abdullah Frères, photographes d...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: Schools, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

James McNeill Whistler - [Butcher's shop, Sandwich, Kent]

Prints shows women and children at butcher's shop in Sandwich, England. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Alternate title and some other... More

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Painting shows a bird's-eye view of the coastline with two boats anchored offshore, and many pedestrians walking along roadway in front of buildings, with a view of Mount Fuji in the distance. Title and other d... More

[Fūkeiga], Andō Hiroshige, depicting Mount Fuji

Painting shows travelers around temple buildings surrounded by trees, with a view of lake and Mount Fuji in the distance. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Two children standing on a sidewalk eating, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - The children's hour, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

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

Title devised. 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 earthquak... More

Arnold Genthe - Weighing fish, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Oh, Michael, is it true you told Mr. Jones I looked like an angel at M...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 27:373 (May 7, 1896).

Two men, one holding a child, standing in the street, Chinatown, San F...

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 military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe - Young aristocrats, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - A stroll on the plaza, 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 Chinese cook, grinning from the doorway, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Street scene, possibly in Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - Dressed for a visit, Chinatown, San Francisco

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

Arnold Genthe - Paying New Year's calls, 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.