desert

Bass Harbor Head Light Station, At southwest tip of Mount Desert Islan...

Survey number: HABS ME-197

Construction train on desert. Near Humboldt Lake

No. 166. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada. Scenes in the Washoe Range.

Subduing the desert, Imperial Valley, California

J179556 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; S. U. Bunnell; March 25, 1913. On verso: "Duplicate copies mailed on receipt of $2.80, S. U. Bunnell, 45 Stevenson Ave., Pasadena, Cal." No. 626.

The latest in eye shields--for desert warfare. A shortage of non-infla...

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

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Forest Service Building, Tumamoc Hill, Tu...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS AZ-138-D Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000190

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Shop Building, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 Survey number: HABS AZ-138-B Building/structure dates: 1908 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000190

Snow White, a B-24 bomber of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force at a forward ...

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Carroll House, State Route 102, Mount Desert Island, Southwest Harbor,...

Significance: Built by John Carroll in 1825, this one and half story house typifies the early Mt. Desert homestead. Carroll, who had come to America in 1814 at the age of 24, purchased 24 acres at the base of S... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Schoolhouse, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Coun...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Guest House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Coun...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Lincoln Highway, Wendover Cutoff, Great Salt Lake Desert, Knolls, Tooe...

Significance: Last major link in the first transcontinental highway. Solved problems presented by vast mud and salt flats. Survey number: HAER UT-23 Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Initial Construction

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 77, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

Desert Queen Ranch, Keys Ranch House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Keys Ranch House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Keys Ranch House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock C...

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Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock C...

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Six mile Canyon, from office of Chollar Works, desert in the distance

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 733. LOT subdivision subject: Virginia City, Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from... More

Arabia: Desert caravan. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

3 Arabs with 6 camels.

Musician of the Sahara Desert - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Africa, miscellaneous. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph from the American Red Cross.

Wild flowers of Palestine. Desert meadow saffron (C. fasciculare Boiss...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cathedral Rock, Mt. Desert Island, Me.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lost in the desert the sensational event of the year : a drama on new ...

D14741 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Then you die together. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Seer Print, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

To Sinai via the desert. Entrance to the Geat [i.e., Great] Pyramid

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

Surf at Thunder Hole, Mt. Desert Island, Me.

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

To Sinai via the desert. Scene in Wady Taiybeh.

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Surf at Thunder Hole, Mt. Desert Island, Me.

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[Adobe buildings and burial mounds in desert area]

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

Palestine, a Moslem [Muslim] chief. Sheek [i.e., Sheikh] of the Palest...

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Scene in a desert oasis of Al-Gowf, Arabia - Frank G. Carpenter collec...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Arabia. Photograph by Alois Musil. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracing... More

South by West. From the summit of Mt. Catherine, 8536 ft. the highest ...

Men with rifles standing on boulders looking out over valley and mountains. J180390 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking southeast and ... More

Military subjects. Soldier and horses in desert

[A Desert Cahuilla woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

J270877 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 4154. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 Suppl., v. 15, pl. 522.

Agriculture, etc. Acacia tree in the desert near Asluj. Acacia Tortili...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air route to Baghdad via Amman and the desert. Kadimain. North of Bagh...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air views of Palestine. Flight down the delta of the Nile to Alexandri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, flight, airplane, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Professor Morris at the Hebrew University (of Gobi Desert fame, Oct. 1...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A bakery in the Western Desert - Egypt

Photograph shows a baker with stacks of newly-baked loaves all ready for delivery to the troops. [Summary taken from note on photograph] Note on photograph front: In a bakery in the Western Desert thousands of ... More

Dust storm on desert. Nye County, Nevada

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The M-7 is the Army's newest tank destroyer and is being given the aci...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Highway crossing the desert in Sandoval County, New Mexico

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

Late afternoon clouds over the desert. Apache County near Springervill...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mapping out the wastes of the Western Desert: a British military map-r...

Photograph shows soldiers in the desert studying maps and terrain. British official photograph : BM 6355. No. BO-645.

Las Vegas, Nevada. Buildings of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant...

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

Free French artillerymen with their trench mortar somewhere in the Wes...

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Buckhorn cactus in desert. Yuma County, Arizona

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of or...

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

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Desert Queen Ranch, Huntington Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino ...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1429 Survey number: HAER CA-111-B

Barren desert near Las Vegas, Nevada

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - Abandoned furniture, southwest desert

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

'Old Main' at the University of Arizona, which opened in 1871 as the f...

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

Flowers at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona

Picryl description: Public domain image of a flower, blooming, botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Palm trees at the Desert Studies Center at the tiny settlement of Zzyz...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in ... More

Tall palms surrounding an artificial pond called "Lake Tuendae" at the...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The Desert Studies Center is a field station of the California State University. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in ... More

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith and Welcome sign in Mojave Desert, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Joshua Trees dot the desert in the Mojave National Preserve in Califor...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. According to the National Park Service, Mormon settlers named the Joshua tree after the biblical figure. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of Ca... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: The Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artifacts ... More

Desert Queen Ranch, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: The Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artifacts ... More

Bass Harbor Head Light Station, At southwest tip of Mount Desert Islan...

Survey number: HABS ME-197

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 76, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

[Walled adobe structure with domes and arches in desert area, with man...

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Desert Queen Ranch, Storehouse, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Count...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Desert - Public domain American sheet music, 1885

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Carroll House, State Route 102, Mount Desert Island, Southwest Harbor,...

Significance: Built by John Carroll in 1825, this one and half story house typifies the early Mt. Desert homestead. Carroll, who had come to America in 1814 at the age of 24, purchased 24 acres at the base of S... More

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Maricopa Wells in Arizona on the boarders [sic] of the great desert Co...

People, possibly officer and his family, sitting in front of adobe house with porch on three sides and raised sod or thatched roof at Camp Colorado on the Colorado River Indian Reservation.

Desert Queen Ranch, Guest House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Coun...

Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artif... More

Painted Desert Inn, Residence 77, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-161-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87001421

[Adobe buildings in desert plains]

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Acadia National Park Roads & Bridges, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor,...

Significance: In many ways the carriage and motor roads of Acadia National Park appear quite distinct. Signs, grade separations, and two picturesque gatehouses remind today's visitors that these two systems we... More

Acadia National Park Roads & Bridges, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor,...

Significance: In many ways the carriage and motor roads of Acadia National Park appear quite distinct. Signs, grade separations, and two picturesque gatehouses remind today's visitors that these two systems we... More

Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Hancock C...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

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Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Painted Desert Inn, Navajo, Apache County, AZ

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cairo. Cemetery in the desert - Public domain albumen print photogrpap...

In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 153. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of ... More

Prière du désert, halte dans le désert et chameliers en prière / Bonfi...

Camels rest as men stop for prayer in the Egyptian desert.

North Africa. Merchants of the Sahara Desert - Frank G. Carpenter col...

Two men with wares on backs of two camels. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

Desert caravan - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Group of arabs on camels. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Arabia. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings... More

[El-Azrak & Wadi Sirhan in the Arabian desert. Druse [i.e., Druze] pol...

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