dresses

Long dresses in the ball-room - A black and white drawing of a crowd o...

Dancers falling after tripping on long dresses; accompanying text criticizes the tyranny of fashion that calls for such expensive and hazardous clothing. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1872 July 27, p. 589.

Bathing dresses - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Students wearing dresses they made in home economics class in school a...

Public domain photograph of South Carlina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Detroit, Michigan. Two little girls in their party dresses at a hair s...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Messinger's, business in New Rochelle, New York. General view, to tail...

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

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Better dresses II

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

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. General view to sho...

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

Higbee Department Store, business in Cleveland, Ohio. Misses dresses

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

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush on August 18,... More

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Title devised by staff. On verso of mount: Miss Prall. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

Old acquaintances in new dresses - American sheet music, 1870-1885

left-hand arrangements From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes:... More

Profile view of seated woman wearing yellow dress

53903 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title devised by Library staff or Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Elson (A.W.) & Co... More

Bathing dresses - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

3 women modelling dresses: Frock of Sym - ...

Woman holding plume. J237050 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Clothing and Dress 1919; Shelf.

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. General view to dre...

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

Formfit Dresses, business at 1385 Broadway, New York City. Interior I

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lord & Taylor, business in Washington, D.C. Better dresses

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

Dressmaker Elsa Mantilla helps contestant (wearing one of Elsa's dress...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

[Unidentified young women in dresses in front of American flag]

Case: Berg, no. 7-22. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Home Sweet Homes Antiques, Anacortes, Washington, 2005. Exhibited: "The L... More

[Man dresses as Roman with raised arm standing on steps above body of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Abrams, 15 E. 118th St., N.Y. (ground floor). Makes hair-puffs an...

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

Pick-up at Merry-go-round. Girls are 14-16 -- short dresses. See 4184....

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

Toledo, Ohio. Evangelical church ceremony at which the preacher delive...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Another Hot Grill employee, a recent immigrant from eastern Europe, dr...

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

[Unidentified young women in dresses in front of American flag]

Case: Berg, no. 7-22. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Purchased from: Home Sweet Homes Antiques, Anacortes, Washington, 2005. Exhibited: "The L... More

[Dresses, possibly made by students in a Washington, D.C. school, on d...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 192. In album: "2nd Division."

Society maid, no. 3 - Public domain portrait painting

g20721 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barrick, J., artist.... More

Gourgeous holiday costumes of Roumanian Peasantry. Beautiful hand embr...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Official Red Cross Photo. Group title: Roumania. Used in: Hold until publish... More

Franklin Simon, business at 5th Ave. and 38th St., New York City. Bett...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bond's, business at 6th and Vine Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio. Long view to ...

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 Millburn, New Jersey. Better dresses

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

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

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

Albert Steiger Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Women's and misses...

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

Burdine's department store, business in Miami Beach, Florida. House dr...

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

Halle Bros., Westgate. Better dresses

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

Dressmaker Elsa Mantilla helps contestant (wearing one of Elsa's dress...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Teo sic mountain children, Thethi, Albania. They are among the members...

Caption from negative sleeve: Albania. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Jr. Red Cross. Data: JR. Red Cross. Classi... More

Martin's, business in Garden City, Long Island. Millinery to dresses

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 Washington, D.C. Women's dresses

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

Dressmaker Elsa Mantilla helps contestant (wearing one of Elsa's dress...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the annual banquet and beauty pageant sponsored by "The Dominicans of New Jersey," held at "The Fiesta," Route 17, Woodridge, New Jersey.

Artist Julie P. Carpenter poses with her wire dresses at the Kentuck A...

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

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Title devised by staff. On verso of mount: Miss Prall. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Title devised by staff. On verso of mount: Miss Prall. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

Bathing dresses - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) client holding dresses whic...

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Material from last year's garment fashions the skirt of Cynthia's dres...

Title and other information from materials accompanying lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collecti... More

Brooklyn, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration. Norwegian-...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Franklin Simon, business at 5th Ave. and 38th St., New York City. Bett...

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

Franklin Simon, business at 5th Ave. and 38th St., New York City. Bett...

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

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

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

Albert Steiger Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Daytime dresses I

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

Higbee Department Store, business in Cleveland, Ohio. Womens' budget 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.

Another Hot Grill employee, a recent immigrant from eastern Europe, dr...

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush on August 18,... More

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Society maid, no. 1 - Drawing. Public domain image.

G20119 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barrick, J., artist.... More

Capps family at Columbia vaudeville. Baby of 21 months (been on stage ...

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

3 women modelling dresses: A frock of Du-Bel

J237053 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Clothing and Dress 1919; Shelf.

Roumanian embroidered dresses, N.G. A Roumanian school on an excursion...

Photographs show scenes in Romania including boy standing in front of dresses hanging on lines and a group of school children walking down a road. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1325... More

Two women wearing print dresses and large straw hats, resting on a par...

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

Material from last year's garment fashions the skirt of Cynthia's dres...

Formfit Dresses, business at 1385 Broadway, New York City. Interior II...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gimbel Brothers, business in Cross County Center, Yonkers, New York. 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.

Lord & Taylor, business in Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Budget dresses

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

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Jeff's Soliloquy to be or not to be (hanged) that's the question

Photographic montage combines painting by M.A. Andrews showing a woman walking through an ominous forest and photograph of Jefferson Davis's head atop the body of the woman, referring to a story that Davis was ... More

[Two girls wearing white dresses and dark stockings reading a book]

Title devised by staff. On verso of mount: Miss Prall. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

[Two unidentified young girls, probably sisters, wearing matching dres...

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

High School Grads wearing $1 dresses

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

Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...

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

C.A. Rowell, business in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Better dresses I

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

Ohrbach's, business at 5th Ave. and 34th St. General view to dresses

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 Washington, D.C. Moderate priced dresses

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

Tom Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More

Bathing dresses - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Sincerity - Print, Library of Congress collection

K5516 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Moran, [E. Percy], ar... More

Material from last year's garment fashions the skirt of Cynthia's dres...

Formfit Dresses, business at 1385 Broadway, New York City. Interior IV

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

Gimbels, business in Valley Stream, Long Island. Girls' dresses

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 Washington, D.C. Moderate dresses

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

The fashions of the day, or time past and time present / Woodward delt...

Print shows a woman from "the year (1740) a Ladys full dress of Bombazeen", wearing a dark, padded, armor-like dress contrasted to a woman from "the year (1807) a Ladys undress of Bum-be-seen" wearing a light, ... More

[Two unidentified young women wearing printed dresses and necklaces in...

Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: The Civil War remembered. Virg... More

Society maid, no. 2 - Public domain portrait painting

G20120 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barrick, J., artist.... More

Making dollar dresses, Washington Irving High School

Girls using sewing machines to make dresses in high school, New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Woman examining dresses in front of shop, Laurel, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of a costume design, accessory, fashion, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bernard Shultz Department Store, business at Third and Main St., Evans...

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

Bond's, business at 6th and Vine Sts., Cincinnati, Ohio. View to dress...

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

Albert Steiger Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. Misses dresses

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

Halle Bros., Westgate. Figure to better dresses

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

Nick Doris cooks and dresses Hot Texas Wieners.

Forms part of a group of images documenting lunchtime work processes at the Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey (just southeast of Paterson), before and during the lunchtime rush. One of the ... More