Isaac Fripp House, Off of County Road, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-861 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Welfare Island, Farmhouse, New York, New York County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-6079 Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Blue Ridge Railroad, Greenwood Tunnel, Highway 690 vicinity, Greenwood...
Significance: The Greenwood Tunnel was the easternmost of the four tunnels designed by Claudius Crozet for the Blue Ridge Railroad. The brick, elliptical arched tunnel is a representative example of 19th centu... More
Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Alfred Jones, Los Angeles County,...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
East Locust Street Commercial District, Garton Bakery & Confectionery,...
Significance: Built as a retail store; contributes to the last remaining cluster of Victorian commercial buildings in Des Moines. Survey number: HABS IA-143-B
Penasco, New Mexico. Adobe houses last well when lived in, but decay q...
Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wye House, Smokehouse, Bruffs Island Road, Tunis Mills, Talbot County,...
Survey number: HABS MD-88-B Building/structure dates: 1785 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000264
Fort McKinley, Battery Carpenter Observation Station, West side of Eas...
Significance: Fort McKinley attains significance as the largest of Portland Harbor's five military complexes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fort protected Maine's principal city with one ... More
Isaac Fripp House, Off of County Road, Frogmore, Beaufort County, SC
Survey number: HABS SC-861 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Decay of sawmill at Ericsburg, Minnesota
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Van Dorn House, Van Dorn Drive, Port Gibson, Claiborne County, MS
Significance: The house was constructed c. 1830 by Peter A. Van Dorn, who was prominent in territorial and early statehood politics. Peter Van Dorn's son, Earl, won fame in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. (H... More
Welfare Island, Farmhouse, New York, New York County, NY
Survey number: HABS NY-6079 Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Henry L. Russell House, Route 6, West Grove Township, Bloomfield, Davi...
Significance: The Henry L. Russell House is one of a handful of octagon houses remaining in Iowa. Built in 1859 of brick manufactured at the site, the house was Russell's adaptation of octagon forms promoted d... More
Hermitage, 335 North Franklin Turnpike, Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-77 Survey number: HABS NJ-98 Building/structure dates: 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1845 Subsequent Work National Registe... More
Midland School Building, Northwest corner of Broadway & Cuba Avenue, M...
Significance: This rural four room schoolhouse is significant for its architectural detail and for its use as a grammar school in which all lower grades were taught. Survey number: HABS OH-2376
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Roundhouse & Shops, Broadway & ...
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The decay of home-life among the "smart set" / Ehrhart.
Print shows a vignette cartoon about the aspirations for social life among the well-to-do; at center, "The Will-o'-the-Wisp of Social Aspirations" shows a crowd of rich people chasing after "Social Ambition", a... More
McMillan Reservoir, Washington, D.C.
The reservoir supplies the majority of the city's municipal water. Originally called the Howard University Reservoir or the Washington City Reservoir, it was completed in 1902 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer... More
Midland School Building, Northwest corner of Broadway & Cuba Avenue, M...
Significance: This rural four room schoolhouse is significant for its architectural detail and for its use as a grammar school in which all lower grades were taught. Survey number: HABS OH-2376
![Petra, el-Kazne [i.e., el-Khazne]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTgvMDEvMDEvcGV0cmEtZWwta2F6bmUtaWUtZWwta2hhem5lLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "Petra, el-Kazne [i.e., el-Khazne]")
Petra, el-Kazne [i.e., el-Khazne]
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If only he had been born in the days when Rome was beginning to decay!
Gift; Ernest Fuhr estate; (DLC/PP-1934:0111). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Pink Sheep" by Hugh MacNair Kahler, Saturday evening post, 193:92 (Dec. 4, 1920).
Savoy Mountain. Farmstead typical at the many farms that are in decay ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with a watermill, water, decayed building, 18th, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ellis Island, Island 3 Powerhouse, New York Harbor, New York, New York...
Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Henry S. Overton House, 1526 Frick Avenue, West Overton, Westmoreland ...
Significance: The Henry S. Overton House is the earliest 2nd-generation family dwelling built in the West Overton distilling complex, reflecting the growth and development of the Overholt Company and the relate... More
2801 Park Avenue (House), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH
Significance: This was a contributing building in a cluster of more elaborately detailed frame dwellings dating from circa 1865-1885. Survey number: HABS OH-2347 Building/structure dates: 1880 Initial Constru... More
33-35 Strandgade (House), 33-35 Strand Street, Christiansted, St. Croi...
Significance: The building is an unusual example of the Christiansted town house. Its roof and large dormers give the outline of the building a character allied to the Moravian architecture as found on the Vir... More
Watrous House, Watrous, Mora County, NM
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NM-18 Building/structure dates: ca. 1841 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000480
Quickmore Log Cabin, Amherst County, Virginia
Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ex-slave and wife on steps of plantation house now in decay. Greene Co...
Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dowers-Okill House, 115 North Water Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...
Significance: 18th century Philadelphia dwelling. Survey number: HABS PA-1410 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More
House, Road E, Deepwater, Henry County, MO
Significance: Originally a one-room shack, this house has an addition constructed of pressed metal, formerly a ceiling - a remarkable example of reuse of building materials. Survey number: HABS MO-1232
William Pennock House, Swarthmore Avenue (moved to Upland, Delaware Co...
Significance: Interesting example of vernacular log construction. Survey number: HABS PA-1243 Building/structure dates: ca. 1790 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1966 Subsequent Work
1302 Third Avenue (House), 1302 Third Avenue, Huntington, Cabell Count...
Survey number: HABS WV-233 Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Roosevelt Stadium, State Route 440 & Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, Hud...
Significance: A significant structure in the history of New Jersey and the racial integration of baseball. The stadium is associated the Mayor Frank Hague as a physical manifestation of his power and strong con... More
Frederick A. Rex House, 726 Cooper Street, Camden, Camden County, NJ
Significance: Significant as the residence of Frederick A. Rex, a prosperous Camden grocer. One of the last remaining rowhouses representative of the upper class residential neighborhood which characterized thi... More
Rose Hill, Chestertown, Kent County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-869 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oakwood, West of Wrightstown on Springfield Meeting Road, Wrightstown,...
Survey number: HABS NJ-1242 Building/structure dates: 1853 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1885 Subsequent Work
Abandoned barn overwhelmed by kudzu
Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
S. F. Barber House, Newmarket, St. Mary's County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-872 Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Lifting a wooden manhole cover in...
Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The decay of our commercial marine. John Codman. Boston, December 1870...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 74, Folder 5a.
Unrestored interior stairway at a Strawbery Banke Museum building in P...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day ... More
Conservation. Wooden manhole covers. Strength of the wooden manhole co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Panorama of construction during the restoration of the Willard Hotel, ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More
Penasco, Taos County, New Mexico. Adobe houses are nearly indestructib...
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Estate Reef Bay, Wattle House, Reef Bay, St. John, VI
Survey number: HABS VI-2-D
Unrestored interior at a Strawbery Banke Museum building in Portsmouth...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day ... More
Allstadt Farm, West of U.S. Route 340, South of County Road 27, Harper...
Survey number: HALS WV-2 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Quickmore Log Cabin, Amherst County, Virginia
Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-5. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; ... More
Typical small neighborhood street showing decay and stray dogs, Havana...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More
Locust Grove, Villa Road, Easton, Talbot County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-308 Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Initial Construction
Guyn's Mill, Grist Mill, Mundy's Landing & Pauls Mill Roads, Troy, Woo...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wall tombs of the old St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Page 100 (same place?) Public domain images of ruins, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description