clothing and dress

Three brothers, old head-men of the Kak-Von-Tons of the Chilkat tribe

Three elderly Indians posed, half-length, seated, two wrapped in blankets, one wearing bird headdress and bone(?) necklace. H90591 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Case & Draper.

Girl in brown - Public domain portrait painting

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

Spring and summer 1908 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congre...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Ptg. Co., copyright cl... More

Lorenzo, gelatin silver print - Public domain portrait print

Photograph showing an elderly Pueblo Indian man wearing a hat with feathers and holding bows and arrows.

Modern fashions. Fall & winter, 1908-9

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Rude, A. D., designer. Category designation on ori... More

Autumn 1908, winter 1909 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Cong...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. U.S. Fashion & Sample Book Co., copyright claimant... More

American fashions, spring & summer

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Mitchell (Jno. J.) Co., copyright claimant. Sartor... More

Edward S. Curtis - Yakima boy - Public domain portrait print

Portrait of a man, half-length, seated, with loose hair, a cloth shirt, shell beads, and a fur strip around his shoulders. J139782 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3053-10. Publish... More

Wren? Sinper said she is 12 years old, been spinning one year. Manches...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 2952. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

In the bazaar at Stamboul Artistic gate of Turkish design. Entrance to...

Photographs show a woman wearing a çarşaf with a headscarf walking through a market and the gate to the War Ministry, Istanbul, Turkey. On page: no. 1492 (top image) and no. 1493 (bottom image). In album: Euro... More

The Opinga boy - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man and two boys selling opinga, which are sandals, Tirana, Albania. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

Beth Shemesh, 1931, Israel, Matson photograph collection

Creator name based on date. Title from negative sleeve. Caption on negative: Bethshems, May 1931. Guide card: Beth Shemesh. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Review of Horace Mann's two lectures : delivered in New-York, February...

This is a scathing attack on two lectures delivered by educator Horace Mann, entitled "Hints to a young woman." Among her other accomplishments, Ernestine Rose worked for passage of the Married Women's Property... More

Horse car sports going to a chicken show: all flush

R653[?] U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower right. Stamped on lower right: Library of Congress... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, November 19, ...

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Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Woman in traditional dress and jewelry standi...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Man using tool to strip logs, Central Asia?, ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Armi︠a︡nki (katolichki) v obychnom kosti︠u︡mi...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire,... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Di︠e︡vushka s zemli︠a︡nikoĭ. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ im...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russia... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Krestʹi︠a︡nskīi︠a︡ di︠e︡vushki. Rossiĭskai︠a︡...

Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Li... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Isfandiyr, Khan of the Russian protectorate o...

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by Dr. Daniel G. Prior, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of History, Ohio State University. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Con... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

A Christmas Carol: Street Scrooge with top hat

Marionette (Content) Public domain photograph - hat, dress accessory, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Man with camel loaded with packs, color separ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Digital color composite made for the Library by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2004. General information about ... More

Mary Rawls interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. ...

Mary Frazier Rawls, born in 1927, shared experiences of her life-long circus career. She began trouping with her parents at a young age and would go on to perform on the high wire for much of her career. Mary t... More

Lorna Chavez interview conducted by Ellen E. McHale, 2012-07-17

Lorna Chavez is an exercise rider who divides her time between Saratoga Springs (May through November) and the racecourse at Gulf Stream Park in Florida. She is a contract rider, who works for several trainers ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Richard Sisson and Sharon Sisson interview conducted by Clark Douglas ...

Sharon, a 25-year veteran iron worker and an Iron Workers Union (IWU) #63 member. Her husband, Richard Sisson, is an even more experienced veteran iron worker. They review their personal background, entry into ... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, November 6, 1...

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Article by Alexander Graham Bell, 1910

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, November 19, ...

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Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, November 6, 1...

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Review of Horace Mann's two lectures : delivered in New-York, February...

This is a scathing attack on two lectures delivered by educator Horace Mann, entitled "Hints to a young woman." Among her other accomplishments, Ernestine Rose worked for passage of the Married Women's Property... More

Lorna Chavez interview conducted by Ellen E. McHale, 2012-07-17

Lorna Chavez is an exercise rider who divides her time between Saratoga Springs (May through November) and the racecourse at Gulf Stream Park in Florida. She is a contract rider, who works for several trainers ... More

William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview focuses on Bill Kerwin's experiences as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bill Kerwin's home, Waunakee, Wisconsin, July 8, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest :... More

Mary Rawls interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. ...

Mary Frazier Rawls, born in 1927, shared experiences of her life-long circus career. She began trouping with her parents at a young age and would go on to perform on the high wire for much of her career. Mary t... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

George L. Bunders interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...

Interview concerns Bunders' working life as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bunders' home, Madison, Wisconsin, July 7, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest : Archie Gree... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...

B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21

Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More

Primitive style of hair dressing--Hopi

Hopi girl, half-length portrait. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fujiwara no hidesato no mukade taiji

Print shows Fujiwara Hidesato and another warrior on board a ship with a woman being attacked by a sea monster. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, March 3, 1909

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, an...

number of pages: 4 p.

"Little," the instigator of Indian revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890 / photo ...

Little, Oglala band leader, full-length studio portrait, seated, facing left, wearing turkey feather headdress, holding rifle and bow and arrows on lap.

Hotaru - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows five women and a man on a veranda extending above a pool, eating and drinking, playing music, and catching fireflies (a shamisen and an insect cage are in the foreground on the veranda).

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Mattie V. Oblinger and Ella Oblinger,...

number of pages: 4 p.

Letter from Stella Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, and ...

number of pages: 4 p.

[Young woman and man sitting on a steamer rug]

Advertisement for Hart, Schaffner & Marx clothes. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Wi-Jun-Jon - The Pigeon's Egg Head Going to Washington : Returning to ...

Two views of Wi-jun-jon, first, on his way to Washington wearing traditional Native American dress and carrying a calumet, then, on his return to his village wearing a uniform with top hat and carrying a fan an... More

Jūshi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan (Genji Monogatari)

Print is illustration number 14 from a series of pictures depitcting scenes possibly from the tale of Genji, showing three figures, courtesans or geshia and members of the nobility, in a building. Title and oth... More

Letter from Mattie V. Thomas to Uriah W. Oblinger, January 6, 1867

number of pages: 4 p.

Sidney R. Ellis' Bonnie Scotland

A245923 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Arrival of the "regiments." Created and "copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cinti. = N. Y." No. 6683. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

General Washington at Christ Church, Easter Sunday, 1795 / J.L.G. Ferr...

George Washington, full-length portrait, standing beside horse drawn carriage in front of church, while others gather around him.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Ella Oblinger and Mattie V. Oblinger,...

number of pages: 6 p.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Ella Oblinger and Mattie V. Oblinger,...

number of pages: 6 p.

Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Laura I. Oblinger, Sadie Oblinger, Ne...

number of pages: 8 p.

Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga - Amerika - Ukiyo e print

Japanese print shows two American men. Signature: Ikkeisai Yoshiiku ga. Seal date: Cock 2. From series entitled: Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga (People from foreign lands). Library has 2 versions with different colors;... More

Portrait photo of Di︠e︡vushka s zemli︠a︡nikoĭ. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠...

An old photo of a woman standing in a field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Toshinobu Okumura - [The beauty Osome] - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Osome, a tragic beauty, full-length, standing, looking at a book. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Rival balloons, Tissandier Collection, France, Political Cartoon

British cartoon shows how on a windy day a woman's hat is blown off and takes flight like the balloon shown floating in the distance. Tissandier collection.

Yuki no shōgatsu oiran dōchū - Public domain drawing

Print shows an oiran courtesan walking in the snow, with a male attendant holding a large parasol over her; they are wearing tall geta. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored ... More

Wearing the breeches Drawn and etch'd by R. Newton, British Cartoon Pr...

This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Caricatures, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1... More

Utagawa Toyokuni - Yamatoya - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows an actor in the role of a woman. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Yakusha butai no sugatae : Portraits of ... More

Ah! s'il y voyoit! / Vincent ino. et del. ; Commarieux sculpt.

Print shows two fashionably dressed women walking on a country road, one is carrying a purse on her left hand; they ignore a "blind" beggar with a small dog on a leash and holding a cup and stick in right hand.... More

Teisai Hokuba (蹄斎北馬) - Matsu no sita no tōkei

Print shows a woman and two young men or boys watching a cockfight beneath a pine tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: part... More

Odawara, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows two travelers, a woman standing next to a large trunk, possibly pondering an offer made by the other traveler or porter who is sitting next to the trunk, holding a small box in raised left hand; lar... More

Godaime matsumoto kōshirō, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Matsumoto, Kōshirō V, a kabuki actor, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding a picture showing the head of a horned monster in his left hand. Title and other descriptive information c... More

A fourth day morning view of Friends meeting house on Cherry Street, P...

Print shows many Quakers walking along the sidewalk on Cherry Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the Friends' Meeting House in the background. Caption continues: This building which is about 42 feet fron... More

Oharame, Katsushika Hokusai - Public domain drawing

Print shows an oharame from Ohara carrying bundles of reeds on her head and leading an ox laden with bundles of reeds. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print special... More

Maria J.P, portrait print - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Maria, possibly Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing dress and a large hat with feathers. Signed on stone on lower left: J.P.

Nakamura tomijūrō no shizukagozen - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Chuban Nishikie, Osaka-e. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Red Jacket. Seneca war chief painted by C.B. King

Print shows Red Jacket, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing coat and large medallion that shows Red Jacket meeting George Washington in 1792.

Man standing, waiting for his horse T.C.W

Print shows a man, facing left, standing in front of a building, waiting for the stable-hand to bring his horse.

S. Bautinck T.C.W - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a man leaning against a building at a window, holding a riding crop, listening to two men speaking in the building.

Geschichte von Griseldis und dem Markgrafen Walther Freudig rief der G...

Illustration for a story showing, at top, Walther, a German nobleman, standing with Griselda, a peasant girl, outside the door to her father's farmhouse; Walther is introducing her as his wife-to-be to friends ... More

To-Ka-Con, a Sioux chief A.H - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows To-Ka-Con, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, with feathers in his hair, wearing several earrings, a beaded buckskin garment, and holding a sword in his right hand. Probably a trial proof ... More

La polka - Print, Library of Congress collection

Caption: "The gentleman takes the hand of his partner. Both lift first the right foot, and twice strike the left heel with the right heel, and then turn as in the waltz step." Stamped on verso: From the file o... More

Caubul costumes. Preparing to go out in the streets. His Majesty Shah ...

Illustration shows vignettes of Afghan women in traditional dress Kabul, Afghanistan; portrait of Shāh Shujāʻ; and Governor Ghulam Haider Khan hiding in Ghaznī, Afghanistan. Lithograph by Louis and Charles Hagh... More

Die Schwalbe und der Eisvogel X.A. v. Flegel E.E. sc

Illustration for a book of fables shows a young woman holding a parasol, wearing a shawl and bonnet, standing, facing left, in a bedroom with clutter on the floor, a cat playing with kittens, and clothing hangi... More

Reminiscences of a fancy dress ball, in Philadelphia, February 1850 / ...

Print shows a crowd at "Masonic Hall" during "Naylor's Grand Fancy Dress Party", a masquerade with an orchestra playing on the right as revelers mingle on the main floor and on the balconies. [Source: Library C... More

Portrait of an unidentified girl, full-length studio portrait, facing ...

Inscribed in pencil on mount: Unidentified portrait of a child. 1853. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Types Algeriens. Mauresque / ND.

Woman, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, Algeria. No. 144.

Native lady - Public domain portrait photograph

Moroccan woman laying on sofa holding tambourine. Possibly taken by Tancrède R. Dumas. No. 14.

Scene at the opera - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows a woman in a formal dress sitting, holding a fan. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 44A. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and o... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese women carrying children, two men with sw...

Captions on front of item: "Native mode of carrying children" (upper left); "Daimio's commissioner" (upper right); "Sweetmeat vendor with flageolet" (lower left); and "Japanese girls and mode of carrying umbre... More

[Studio portraits of Japanese women and men]

Captions on front of item: "A Japanese girl and attendant with "shibatchi" tinder box" (upper left); "Japanese high officer" (upper right)"; "Fencing girl - another pose" (lower left); and "A group of Japanes... More

The Chinese lady - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of a woman sitting in a chair, hands folded in lap. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GM 6. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collectio... More

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Sarty (Osiedlye zhiteli). Iusuf...

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Sart man wearing a turban.

Religioznye obriady i obychai Tadzhikov. Sakhikh khani (Chtets predani...

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 65.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Araby. Seid-Omar

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 28.

Winter, Head and Shoulders Portrait, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a young woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a hooded shawl, pearl necklace and a jeweled ornament with a strand of pearls on her hair. A5130 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication... More

Luz Acosta - Public domain portrait photograph

Luz Acosta, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 31, upper right. On verso: Andres Martinez y C... More