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Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

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

Beyrout / P. Bergheim.. Cityscape photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Glimpse of Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chambers st. car - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis: 4 midshipmen carrying a man; crowd of g...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Pres. I.; Military education; Univ. & Colleges; Shelf.

110th Street "l" station, New York

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View in New York City showing its highest building, Park Row Building ...

House of Parliament and Westminster Abbey

H124753 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of parliament building, political parties, politicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ethel Shumate (see photo 2190). Has been rolling cigarettes in Danvill...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2192. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

World War I - American Red Cross

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, ... More

Victory Arch, New York City - A black and white photo of a city street

J234458 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Night lights of Manhattan], New York City

New York City. Night view past tug on river to series of dots forming the night lights of Manhattan, outline of buildings barely visible against dark background.

Signs, Fourth Avenue, New York City

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air view of sugar refinery. Near Ponce, Puerto Rico

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buyers and farmers in pens at Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Associati...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Empire State Building in daytime with lights on]

Photograph shows lights glowing from top floors of the Empire State Building as it towers over surrounding buildings.

Levee at Shawneetown, Illinois - A black and white photo of a boat in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a baseball game, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, with Ohio River in background

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

Denver, Colorado - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Continuous stream of trolleys carrying workers fr...

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Gene Sedric, Cliff Jackson, Olivette Miller, and Josh Whi...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html In: "Fringe spots jump; vocals, shows click," Do... More

[Looking toward downtown Gangtok, the Capital of Sikkim]

Photograph shows two women walking down a steep path toward the streets of downtown Gangtok filled with cars and people. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congre... More

The Homer Building, a downtown office building, Washington, D.C.

A Neo-Classical concrete structure with a glazed terra cotta facade, it was designed in 1913 by Washington D.C., architect Appleton Prentiss Clark as an expression of the Beaux Arts aesthetic in the nation's ca... More

Empire State Building, New York, New York

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Federal Courthouse, Houston, Texas

Beautiful sky over Transamerica Tower, San Francisco, California

Skyline, dominated by the Space Needle, which appeared in the 1962 Sea...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. ... More

Historic downtown Florence, Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Downtown Athens, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Founded in 1842, the city of Athens is located 15 miles from the Tennessee State line in Limestone County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landeg... More

Downtown Montgomery, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Historic downtown Tuscumbia, Alabama

The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial, a monument to U.S. President Joh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect Philip Johnson and erected in 1970, the concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Da... More

Colorful art statues, New York Ave., NW, in downtown Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, it was designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company. Cr... More

Aerial view of downtown Los Angeles, California

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain image of Los Angeles buildings, city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Distinctive urban art in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed largely o...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As one of Dallas's first commercial districts for African-Americans and European immigrants, Deep Ellum is one of the most historical... More

Dusk shot of Houston, taken from the Downtown Aquarium. The spinning w...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ferris wheel, luna park, attractions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Administration Building, known locally and fondly as the "Taj Maha...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Randolph Field, Texas, played a pivotal role in the development of the air arm of the U.S. Army, which eventually achieved its indepe... More

Decorative architectural detail of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buildings on the square surrounding the Williamson County Courthouse i...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Palace Furniture Building in downtown Clarksburg, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Aerial view of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Prominent in the foreground, along the Ohio River, is Paul Brown Stadium, home of the city's National Football League team, the Cincin... More

Scene along West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of New York C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

"Syndicate [Park Row] Building in course of construction"

View from Broadway, New York City. Photo copyrighted 1898 by A. Loeffler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Chrysler Building, New York City

J0 6886 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eddowes Co. Inc., NYC; no copyright renewal "PKW 2-28-78" This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; New York New... More

Title Guarantee & Trust Building, 401 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, ...

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

C. W. Post Office Building, 63-65 West Michigan Avenue, Battle Creek, ...

Significance: The C.W. Post Office Building was constructed for C.W. Post as part of his complex known as the "Post Block." The original building was constructed in conjunction with the Post Tavern, both desig... More

Empire State Building, 34th St. & 5th Ave.

JO8771 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc, NYC. No. C 20611.

Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...

Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More

Arnold Genthe - Paying New Year's calls, Chinatown, San Francisco

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Empire State Express (New York Central Railroad) passing thru Washingt...

Title from jacket. "H 111" and "extra" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039378. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Bleecker Street, Utica, N.Y.] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Flatiron Building, New York, N.Y.]

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

Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

St. Paul and Park Row buildings, New York, two tallest buildings in th...

"722-2" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29541. "722-1" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013102. Gift; State Historical Society of Col... More

City Hall, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Flatiron Building, Broadway and Fifth Av., New York City

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018842. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Panorama of Oakland from the Court House

H97611 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; August 2, 1907. No. 1255.

6 yr. old Earle Holt (or Hope) 712 H St., S.W., sells papers for a nei...

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

The Cathedral of St. Gudule, Brussels, Belgium

[Old tavern, Brook Road, Richmond, Virginia]

Photo shows twelve African American children standing in a row by a three-story wooden building. Sign on front: Groceries ... R.L. Hilliard ... On slide (handwritten): "Tavern, Richmond." Slide for lecturing on... More

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses and steel mill in Midland, Pennsylvania

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alley, downtown Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a city, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a city, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and el... More

Yauco, Puerto Rico. A funeral procession on a street

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Portrait of Mary Lou Williams, Café Society (Downtown), New York, N.Y...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Tishman building, 666 5th Ave., New York City. Night view of building,...

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

New York World's Fair, Warren K. Leffler photo

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 11795, frame 9. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. The 1964-1965 New Yor... More

Women's liberation march from Farrugut Square to Layfette i.e., Lafaye...

Photograph shows women carrying banners and signs while marching down a street in Washington, D.C., during a demonstration in favor of equal rights for women. Title transcribed from contact sheet folder caption... More

Esquire Theater, Amarillo, Texas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

The 1915 Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Building in downto...

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

Lower Manhattan skyline, including the World Trade Center, New York, N...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The shot was taken two months before the 9/11/2001 terr... More

[Fire fighter in front of burning building and rubble following Septem...

Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rose Center for Earth and Space by Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mural depicting actors in the play and book, "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

Scenic downtown Huntsville, Alabama

The Art Deco, 1100 New York Ave., NW., Washington, D.C.

Building was once a Greyhouse Bus depot. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Hig... More

Close up of sculpture located in César Chávez Plaza is a park in downt...

The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More

Mural by Cleburne, Texas, artist Stylle Read depicting local history i...

View of downtown San Antonio, Texas, from the Tower of the Americas

Streetscape in the Crockett Street entertainment district of downtown ...

An art installation (mural) in Deep Ellum, a neighborhood composed lar...

"Gateway to the Blues" neon sign at the visitor center promoting Tunic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Scene along Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of New Yor...

The origin of the "Flushing" name is interesting: The settlement was named after the Dutch city of Vlissingen. By 1657, the residents called the place "Vlishing." When the British took control of the city, they... More

Park Row looking south [toward Old City Hall], New York City

Photograph shows Park Row, New York City, with City Hall Post Office and Courthouse, and the Woolworth Building. A45159 U.S. Copyright Office. Date from copyright office stamp on item. 75-309. Caption card tra... More

Photographs of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston, Massach...

Images show exterior and interior views of federal building in Boston, Massachusetts. Details include the courtroom, lobby, atrium, plaza and architectural decoration including painting and sculpture. Arrangeme... More

Will Marion Cook House, 221 West 138th Street, New York, New York Coun...

Significance: Will Marion Cook was known for his great abilities in musical performance and composition, and theatrical organization. Especially noted for his contributions to ragtime music, Cook is also rememb... More

[The Heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] - Public domain image. Dry pla...

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revol...

Public domain image with Picryl description as title Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Camp Travis from wireless, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 1917

J225762 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; C. W. Henningsen; October 15, 1917; DLC/PP-1917:45491. Copyright claimant's address: San Antonio, Texas.

Baltimore from Federal Hill - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

[Marlborough House, Atlantic City, N.J.]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aleppo from castle - A black and white photo of a city

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

Lower Peachtree Street. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows view of lower Peachtree Street with Lester's Book Store, the Flatiron Building, Piedmont Hotel, and the Candler Building visible, also shows trolley cars. Illus. in: Souvenir of Atlanta, Georgia.

Park Avenue Hotel, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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