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Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Conveyor to the painting and packing department

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Seamen's Bank for Savings, 74 Wall St., New York City. New accounts department

Seamen's Bank for Savings, 74 Wall St., New York City. New accounts de...

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Gladys Chase (left), former beautician, using an acetylene torch to burn defects from a twenty-foot steel billet which will later be shaped into a machine gun barrel. It takes six months to learn this process, which is called scarfing

Buffalo, New York. In the finishing department of Republic Steel. Glad...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers engaged in war work, operated under the supervision of the District of Columbia Health Department by Mrs. Leroy Bonbrest, at her home at 1144 Branch Avenue, S.E. Having milk and cookies

Washington, D.C. A day nursery for pre-school children of mothers enga...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chicago, Illinois. The accounting room in the ticket selling department at the Union Station

Chicago, Illinois. The accounting room in the ticket selling departmen...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. W. Briscoe of the publicity department

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. W. Briscoe of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Employees eating their lunch in a shed. From left to right: Norma Webber, pit woman; Mrs. Violet Storey, take-away; Mrs. Elizabeth Esty, pond woman; Florence Drouin, pond woman; Mrs. Dorothy De Greenia, slip woman

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Rail...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the dedication of a mural installed in the United States Department of the Interior building, commemorating the outdoor concert which she gave at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing in Constitution Hall

Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marian Anderson at the ceremony held in the auditorium of the U.S. Department of the Interior at the dedication of a mural painting commemorating a free public concert given by her on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939

Marian Anderson at the ceremony held in the auditorium of the U.S. Dep...

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the dedication of a mural installed in the United States Department of the Interior building, commemorating the outdoor concert which she gave at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing in Constitution Hall

Washington, D.C. Marian Anderson broadcasting a Negro spiritual at the...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Review girl cadets at Dunbar High School. Military drill has become an important part of the curriculum at Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C., for girls as well as for boys. In a recent competitive drill, Company C, under command of Captain Crystal Malone, was adjudged the outstanding military unit among the girls of the school. Photo shows the judges saluting the winning company following a review. Left to right: Lieutenant James Chambers of Fort Huachuca, Arizona; First Officer Harriet West; Second Officer Mildred Osby and Second Officer Ina Mae McFadden of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC); Miss Julia Brooks, assistant principal of Dunbar High School; Captain Cornelius King, Cadet Corps instructor and Lieutenant H.O. Atwood, chief of Military Science and Tactics Department of the Colored High Schools of Washington

Review girl cadets at Dunbar High School. Military drill has become an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. A U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Rounding up logs on the pond, a job these men do at all the government salvage mills in the vicinity

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. A U.S. Department of Agricul...

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

Clovis, New Mexico. Engine and car spare parts at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe store department

Clovis, New Mexico. Engine and car spare parts at the Atchison, Topeka...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Freeman and Lucy De Greenia are one of three married couples working at Turkey Pond. Freeman De Greenia works at the "sticking field" where the lumber is stacked and dried. Lucy is one of the "take-aways"

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Railroad store department. Over 35,000 different items are carried here

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant Fe Rail...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Ruth De Roche, eighteen year old "pit woman," resting her head on her lunch pail during the lunch hour

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, started by the WPA (Work Projects Administration), now conducted by the state (?) vocational education department. Women pay three cents each for cans and two cents per can for use of the pressure cooker. Women preparing cans to be heated and cooked

Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The Jefferson County community cannery, start...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Logs are chained together, attached to the cable and pulled up the slip from the pond

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A group of leading Indian scientists who arrived in the United States on Dec. 8, 1944, for an eight weeks tour of the country. They had just completed a tour of England and were anxious to meet leading United States scientists in the fields of physics and chemistry. Left to right seated: Sir Jnan C. Gsosh, Prof. J.N. Mukherjee, and Dr. N. Ahmad. Standing: Dr. M.N. Saha, Dr. F.S. Coan, United States State Department, Dr. S.K. Mitra and Sir S.S. Bhatnagar

Washington, D.C. A group of leading Indian scientists who arrived in t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Secretary of State Stettinius and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet on the occasion of the signing the United Nations declaration for France at the State Department

Washington, D.C. Secretary of State Stettinius and French Ambassador H...

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

Star Drug, business on Kingsbridge Rd., Bronx, New York. Prescription department, inside

Star Drug, business on Kingsbridge Rd., Bronx, New York. Prescription ...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crawford Clothes, business at 225 Main St., Paterson, New Jersey. Women's department

Crawford Clothes, business at 225 Main St., Paterson, New Jersey. Wome...

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

Pomeroy Co., business in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Furniture department XVIII

Pomeroy Co., business in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Furniture departmen...

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

Franklin Simon Co., business on Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C. Boys' department

Franklin Simon Co., business on Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C. Boy...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business at Boston Post Rd. and Wilmot Rd., Scarsdale, New York. Basement shoe department

Lord & Taylor, business at Boston Post Rd. and Wilmot Rd., Scarsdale, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leader's, business in Lima, Ohio. Men's department through arch

Leader's, business in Lima, Ohio. Men's department through arch

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sosnick & Thalheimer, business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Layette department

Sosnick & Thalheimer, business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Layet...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Curtain and drape department

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Curtain and drape d...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bonwit Teller, business in Cleveland, Ohio. Deb shop department

Bonwit Teller, business in Cleveland, Ohio. Deb shop department

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Children's department

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Children's depar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Men's department

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Men's department

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dilbert's Big Ben, Brentwood, Long Island, New York. Vegetable department

Dilbert's Big Ben, Brentwood, Long Island, New York. Vegetable departm...

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

Porte Cochere at the headquarters Building of the Department of Housing and Human Resources, Washington, D.C.

Porte Cochere at the headquarters Building of the Department of Housin...

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

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, headquarters of HUD, the U.S. Depar...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Quilt hanging from wall in lobby on ground floor, near main entrance; each quilt square represents a different department in the hospital.

Quilt hanging from wall in lobby on ground floor, near main entrance; ...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close-up of individual quilt squares; each square represents a different department in the hospital and features artifacts, scenes etc. that are associated with the departments.

Close-up of individual quilt squares; each square represents a differe...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Woman with spools of thread in warping department.

Forms part of a group of images documenting scenes at Kalkstein Silk Mills, Inc., 75 Wood Street, Paterson, New Jersey on the morning of August 15, 1994.

Quilt hanging from wall in lobby on ground floor, near main entrance; each quilt square represents a different department in the hospital.

Quilt hanging from wall in lobby on ground floor, near main entrance; ...

Forms part of a group of images depicting scenes at St. Joseph's Hospital, 703 Main Street, Paterson, New Jersey on September 14, 1994. The label on the quilt reads: "This album quilt was planned, designed and... More

[Northeast Pavilion, The Pavilion of the Seals. Left detail of Mural in Lunette devoted to the Treasury Department and Department of State by William Brantley Van Ingen. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Northeast Pavilion, The Pavilion of the Seals. Left detail of Mural i...

Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 34, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 34, Department of...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-M Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, Building No. 12, 2597 B3/4 Road, Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, Building No. 12, 2597 B3/...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), ...

Significance: Mound's I Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importance to the ... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), ...

Significance: Mound's I Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importance to the ... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Isolated Building (I Building), ...

Significance: Mound's I Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importance to the ... More

[Brandy Station, Virginia Commissary department, Army of the Potomac headquarters]

[Brandy Station, Virginia Commissary department, Army of the Potomac h...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

Medical faculty of the University of New York, and the founders of the medical department

Medical faculty of the University of New York, and the founders of the...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6023, Spanning Norfolk Southern tracks at State Route 646, Nokesville, Prince William County, Virginia

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6023, Spanning Norfol...

Significance: Virginia Department of Transporation Bridge No. 6051 is a five-panel Pratt through truss bridge 73'-11 1/2" in length. Manufactured by the Keystone Bridge Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1... More

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051, Spanning Catoctin Creek at State Route 673 (Featherbottom Road), Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051, Spanning Catoct...

Significance: Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051 is a nine-panel Pratt through truss bridge 159'-0" in length. Manufactured by the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio, and most likely erec... More

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051, Spanning Catoctin Creek at State Route 673 (Featherbottom Road), Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia

Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051, Spanning Catoct...

Significance: Virginia Department of Transportation Bridge No. 6051 is a nine-panel Pratt through truss bridge 159'-0" in length. Manufactured by the Variety Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio, and most likely erec... More

Fort Snelling, Department of the Dakota, Bounded by Mississippi River, Airport, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Fort Snelling, Department of the Dakota, Bounded by Mississippi River,...

Significance: The construction of the Department of the Dakota marks the decline of the Army's interior defense mission as the century ended and its new function as an administrative center, concerning itself w... More

Fort Sam Houston, Headquarters of the Department of Texas, Commanding Officer's Quarters, 6 Staff Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Headquarters of the Department of Texas, Commanding ...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Sam Houston, Headquarters of the Department of Texas, Commanding Officer's Quarters, 6 Staff Post Road, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Headquarters of the Department of Texas, Commanding ...

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Steam Plant, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Steam Plant, Department of Vet...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-K Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of...

Significance: Originally Building 29 was a component of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The entire facility has been under Federal control since 1929 and is currently a Department of Veterans Af... More

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of...

Significance: Originally Building 29 was a component of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The entire facility has been under Federal control since 1929 and is currently a Department of Veterans Af... More

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 29, Department of...

Significance: Originally Building 29 was a component of the New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The entire facility has been under Federal control since 1929 and is currently a Department of Veterans Af... More

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V., and of the Army of the Valley Dist. of the Department of Northern VA., during the campaign of 1864 : [Virginia] /

Report of the camps, marches & engagements, of the Second Corps, A.N.V...

Relief shown by hachures. A number of the maps from this report are reproduced in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95. Pen-and-ink and pencil (some col.) wit... More

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, Building No. 2, 2597 B3/4 Road, Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, Building No. 2, 2597 B3/4...

Survey number: HAER CO-87-L Public domain photograph - historical image of Colorado, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Department of Veterans Affairs...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Department of Veterans Affairs...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339 Building/structure dates: 1878 Initial Construction

U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Court, Fifteenth Street & Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Treasury, South Court, Fifteenth Street & Penns...

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

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Main Chapel, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Main Chapel, Department of Vet...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-P Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Main Chapel, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Main Chapel, Department of Vet...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-P Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, Blind Department Building, 400 Sixth Avenue, Southeast, Faribault, Rice County, MN

Minnesota State Academy for the Blind, Blind Department Building, 400 ...

Survey number: HABS MN-161-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Minnesota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Maintenance Building (M Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Maintenance Building (M Building...

Significance: M Building is significant for its role as a support building in the Mound Complex, which played a large part in the development of chemistry and metallurgy research for polonium-210 after the clos... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Maintenance Building (M Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Maintenance Building (M Building...

Significance: M Building is significant for its role as a support building in the Mound Complex, which played a large part in the development of chemistry and metallurgy research for polonium-210 after the clos... More

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, 2597 B3/4 Road, Grand Junction, Mesa County, CO

Department of Energy, Grand Junction Office, 2597 B3/4 Road, Grand Jun...

Survey number: HAER CO-87 Building/structure dates: 1943-1946 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1947-1975 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1975-1977 Subsequent Work National Register o... More

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 76, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 76, Department of...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-V Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cleaner and Sweeper - Spinning Department of American Linen Co. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Cleaner and Sweeper - Spinning Department of American Linen Co. Locat...

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

[Powder magazine for the Navy Department, Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Elevation, section, plan]

[Powder magazine for the Navy Department, Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmout...

Inscriptions on recto: "No. II Design of a powder house proposed to be built for the Navy Department at Gosport, Virginia." "This is the same design with reduced dimensions B.HL. Jan 1873" "BHLatrobe Survey... More

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 78, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 76 Veterans Avenue, Bath, Steuben County, NY

New York State Soldiers & Sailors Home, Building No. 78, Department of...

Survey number: HABS NY-6339-W Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, B Building, One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, B Building, One Mound Road, Miam...

Significance: Mound's B "Biology" Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of Mound Laboratory during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Radioactive polonium had importan... More

Delivery boys for Hammel Department Stores. Location: Mobile, Alabama.

Delivery boys for Hammel Department Stores. Location: Mobile, Alabama...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Post Office Department, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Post Office Department, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washi...

Significance: One of Washington's few examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, and the only government building built in this style. it was the first federal structure to occupy the Fede... More

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Electronics Laboratory Building (E Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Electronics Laboratory Building ...

Significance: E Building is significant for its operational role in the polonium processing mission of the Mound Laboratory, polonium having importance in the 1940s for its use in nuclear weapon manufacture and... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

United States Department of Commerce, Bounded by Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and E streets and Constitution Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

United States Department of Commerce, Bounded by Fourteenth, Fifteenth...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Hydrolysis House Building (HH Building), One Mound Road, Miamisburg, Montgomery County, OH

Department of Energy, Mound Facility, Hydrolysis House Building (HH Bu...

Significance: HH Building's historic significance is based upon its operational role in the polonium processing mission. During the polonium processing era, HH Building housed the facilities for the treatment o... More

U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, W...

Documentation of teller's cages & cash room are included. Significance: Financial headquarters for the U.S. Government. No other government department has continuously occupied its present headquarters as long... More

U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, W...

Documentation of teller's cages & cash room are included. Significance: Financial headquarters for the U.S. Government. No other government department has continuously occupied its present headquarters as long... More

Blacksmith's shop, Quartermaster's department, Washington, D.C., April, 1865

Blacksmith's shop, Quartermaster's department, Washington, D.C., April...

No. 864. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

[Group photograph of the students of the Imperial School of Civil Engineering, artillery department] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople.

[Group photograph of the students of the Imperial School of Civil Engi...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. No. 357. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A.

Filling skins, sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chica...

Men and boys stuffing sausage skins at table. 2353y2 U.S. Copyright Office. Title also in Spanish.

Huge postcard sent Minnesota Senator. Washington, D.C., May 2. Said to be the largest postcard ever sent through the mail, this 4x6 message urging passage of a bill to provide sick and annual leave for substitute employees of the Post Office Department, was received today by Senator Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, from the Minneapolis Substitute Committee of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. It took $1.50 in stamps to carry the card. Officers of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks are shown with the Senator shortly after the card was delivered. Left to right: Senator Ernest Lundeen, W.T. Horner, Legislative representative of the Federation; Leo [...]orge, President; W.H. Duke, Secretary; and A.B. [...]ombie, Chairman of the local unit

Huge postcard sent Minnesota Senator. Washington, D.C., May 2. Said to...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Washington DC postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Harvey Washington Wiley, looking through optical instrument in laboratory at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry]

[Harvey Washington Wiley, looking through optical instrument in labora...

Photo made for article in N.Y. Herald, 1902 May. Harvey W. Wiley Collection.

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