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Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Paris, France

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Operating track, covered with rubber flooring, and crossed with lines ...

Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and... More

[Person in elaborate costume and turban, three-quarter length, rear vi...

Pencilled on mount: "black yellow." Image content features: PEOPLE men? women? Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth with laurel wreath and staff]

On verso: "o," pencil mark. Published title: Torso Pilat (?). Image content features: PROPS laurel wreaths, staffs; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93.... More

[Gertrude Mercer Hubbard Grossman, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell, and M...

Attributed to Southworth & Hawes or Whipple & Black. Plate cut down. Roberta Wolcott Hubbard Bell alternately identified as Grace Hubbard Bell. Case: plain leather, push button. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1... More

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion, profile, left, with two Roman soldiers]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: ivory, grey, greenish buff, grey. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day and ?; PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Fo... More

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion, profile, right]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: greenish buff, grey. On recto: "98" black, lower left. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC... More

The Horse in motion. "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; driven...

Photograph with twelve frames showing motion of a race horse harnessed to a sulky. 8263 U.S. Copyright Office Description of each frame on verso. "Morse's Gallery, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco." "Automati... More

The Horse in motion. "Abe Edgington," owned by Leland Stanford; driven...

The zoopraxiscope--Horse galloping

Images on a disc which when spun gives the illusion of a man riding a galloping horse. 14706Y U.S. Copyright Office. No. 42. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relations... More

[Young woman (Nancy Lovis (Kraft)) in Middle Eastern costume and jewel...

Blind stamp: lower left. On verso of mount: "Gy" pencil upper right. Image content features: MODEL Nancy Lovis (Kraft); COSTUME Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/N. African, jewelry; PEOPLE young women. Title and o... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy with laurel wreath, face]

Image content features: MODEL (Pippy, Joseph Costanza); PROPS laurel wreaths; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guine... More

The zoopraxiscope--Athletes--Boxing

Images on a disc which when spun gives the illusion of two men boxing. 14666Y U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: "Moving Pictures : The Un-easy Relationship between Ameri... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

F. Holland Day - [Youth in African costume in throne]

Published title: An Ethiopian chief (or Menelek)? 1, African chief 2. Image content features: PROPS leopard skins, spears; COSTUME African, jewelry; PEOPLE men? boys?; NATIONALITY African. Title and other data ... More

F. Holland Day - [Christ with crown of thorns, looking down to right]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: buff, green grey. On mount: top mount (recto) "last 7 #1" pencil, lower left (Day's hand). Title published: Woman, behold thy son, son, thy mother. Image content features: MODE... More

F. Holland Day - [Christ with crown of thorns, looking up]

Head-and-shoulders of F. Holland Day posing as Jesus Christ, wearing crown of thorns. Published title: Father forgive them, they know not what they do. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE men. On mou... More

F. Holland Day - [Clarence White in suit, seated]

Portrait of Clarence White, three-quarter length, seated, facing right. Image content features: MODEL Clarence White; PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93... More

F. Holland Day - [Clarence White in suit, seated]

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Photographer unidentified. Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:003). Forms part of: Papers of Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, 1824-1979 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype col... More

[Unidentified man, about 40 years of age, three-quarter length portrai...

Scratched on back of plate: 76; 177 [cancelled] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Stephen Arnold Douglas, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to left...

Democratic Congressman from Illinois, 1843-1847; Senator, 1847-1861. Hallmark: J ROUSSEAU & CO. Written on back of plate: Douglas Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978,... More

[Mr. Zina Hitchcock Benjamin family, posed left to right: Cornelia, Zi...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Cyanotype of a daguerreotype made between 1845 and 1858 (DAG - no. 1123). No. 8317.

Jean Margaret Davenport, three-quarter length studio portrait, facing ...

Inscribed or printed on photo on upper left corner: 39. Inscribed in pencil on mount: Portrait of a woman (Davenport?). Image is a copy of a daguerreotype held by the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Libra... More

"Uncle Retta Thomas" - Early photography, Public domain image

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Photograph of Mead's Lincoln monument in Springfield Illinois.]

Public domain photograph of tower, column, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal river. Pauline Bailey, of Bailey Mountain. Southern West Virginia...

Event: Historic photo. Pauline Bailey was the mother of Jim Bailey, Sarah Boggess's grandfather. They lived on Bailey Mountain around the turn of the last century.

[Lt. Rufus King, Lt. Alonzo Cushing, Lt. Evan Thomas and three other a...

Original negative no.: LC-B815-579. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil war 1861-1865; BI; CW Battlef... More

[Framed photographs of General Ambrose Everett Burnside and Abraham Li...

Meserve 38. The first photograph of Lincoln as President, by M. B. Brady, Washington, early 1861. Three pieces in a frame.

Group of the Construction Corps U.S. Mil. R. Rds., with working tools,...

Attributed to Isaac H. Bonsall based on the subject of the photograph and the photographic mount. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Tennessee Chattanooga; Constructi... More

First Bell Telephone motion picture

Attached caption: "10. First Bell Telephone, June 1875." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gra... More

Tenn. - Smithville - Hanging of Presswood in courthouse square

A heavily retouched copy of "The Hanging of John Presswood, Jr. at Smithville, Tenn." No. 2 "The Adjusting of the Rope" (the middle of 3 photos in LC-USZ62-13721). Montage or composite photograph with image i... More

Ruins of the Church of Santo Domingo, Panama

Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 50

Deer, running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twelve consecutive images of a deer running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing var... More

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of four consecutive images of a man riding a horse named Mahomet, running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive posit... More

Horses. Hauling. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twelve consecutive images of a man driving a horse "Clyde" who is pulling. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assume... More

Horses. Pacing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twenty consecutive images of a man driving a sulkey pulled by "'Nimrod," a horse. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions... More

Deer, trotting 1/2 stride - Public domain book illustration

Photograph shows six consecutive images of a deer trotting. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing vario... More

Horses. Walking. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows six consecutive images of a man driving a sulkey pulled by "Abe Edington", a horse. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positio... More

Athletes. Flip flap. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows nine consecutive images of a man doing a "flip flap" or a back hand spring. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assum... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a nude girl crawling. 9511J U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge, Phi... More

Animal locomotion. Plate 365 - Early photography, Public domain image

Man doing forward gymnastic flip; 24 frames of front and side views. Photo by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Acrobats...; Animal Locomoti... More

[Hawk in flight] - Early photography, Public domain image

Photo by Eadweard Muybridge. Illus. in Animal Locomotion, pl. 766. Note: copy negs were made from identical volume in General Collections. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ca... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty-four consecutive images of man distance jumping. 9203 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York... More

Animal Locomotion: [24 frames of hand drawing chalk circle, plate 532]

Motion picture sequenced photographic plate by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion pictures; Rear views.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty consecutive images of a man riding a horse. 9668S U.S. Copyright Office. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York, 1887, pl. 628.

[Animal Locomotion. Motion-picture frames: 3 sequences of woman pitchi...

Plate 404, copyrighted by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animal locomotion; Motion pictures; PI; Shelf.

Animal locomotion - Early photography, Public domain image

Twenty-four frames of chickens scared by a torpedo. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Twenty-four consecutive images of a cat running. 9760S U.S. Copyright Office. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure Company of New York, 1887, pl. 720. Exhibited: American Tr... More

St. Cloud / Eugène Atget. - Early photography, Public domain image

Pond and statues in St. Cloud, a suburb of Paris, France. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 1. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known ... More

Jake Plum and wife, Rose Valley, near Broken Bow, Nebraska.

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

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy with laurel wreath kissing head of Pan]

Image content features: MODEL Maynard? Pippy?; PROPS sculpture, laurel wreaths; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Gui... More

F. Holland Day - [Boy in profile]

Monogram on recto: "19 FHD 05" red, lower left. Image content features: PEOPLE: Boys; NATIONALITY: African American. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part ... More

F. Holland Day - [Man, in suit, with hand on chin]

Image content features: PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Collect... More

Pouring a basin of water over head

Illus. in: Animals in motion : an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions / by Eadweard Muybridge. London : Chapman & Hall, Ld., 1907, pl. 409. Published in: The tradition ... More

F. Holland Day - [Youth with laurel wreath, face]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: cream & tan. Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; COSTUME laurel wreaths; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992... More

[Youth in Middle-Eastern costume with turban (cropped at torso)]

Published title: [Il Moro]. Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; COSTUME turbans, Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/N. African, robes; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet... More

[Beatrice Baxter Ruyl in white and Ruth Ruyl in shorts on couch, holdi...

Image content features: MODELS Beatrice Baxter Ruyl and Ruth Ruyl; PROP books; PEOPLE women, girls, families. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the ... More

[George Demetrios in sweater and tie, in profile (cropped slightly at ...

Monogram on recto: "FHD 1913" red, lower left. On verso: pencil marks "10"? Image content features: MODEL George Demetrios; PEOPLE men; NATIONALITY Greek. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet ... More

[George Demetrios in Greek folk costume, face]

Monogram: black, lower right. On recto: "FHD 1913" black, lower right. Image content features: MODEL George Demetrious; COSTUME Greek, folk; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet c... More

Lucy Stone, with Alice Stone Blackwell, half-length portrait of a woma...

Photographer unidentified. Case: oval with scrolls. LC Manuscript Division citation number for color copy transparency: LC-MS-12880-25. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms pa... More

Carte d' visite: Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

Reproduction number: LC-MSS-44297-33-007 (b&w negative) Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Robert Cornelius, self-portrait; believed to be the earliest extant A...

Daguerre announced his invention of a photographic method to the French Academy of Sciences in August 1839. That October, a young Philadelphian, Robert Cornelius, working out of doors to take advantage of the l... More

The Horse in motion. "Sallie Gardner," owned by Leland Stanford; runni...

Photograph with twelve frames showing motion of a race horse. 2437K2 (copy 2) U.S. Copyright Office. Description of each frame on verso. "Morse's Gallery, 417 Montgomery St., San Francisco." "Automatic Electro... More

Photograph of home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View (Chic...

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

F. Holland Day - [Young woman in black with flower, profile]

Former number: D273 A416. Image content features: MODEL Isabelle Giles; PEOPLE women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Col... More

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Photographs, 1885, undated; Folder 1 o...

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Wellington Reed Papers: Photographs, 1885, undated; Folder 1 o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Boy (or girl) in dotted shirt, close-up of face] Whittier School, Ham...

On recto: "1905" red, lower left. Image content features: PEOPLE: boys?, girls?; NATIONALITY: African American. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Cite as: The Lou... More

[Young woman in Middle Eastern costume and jeweled headband, seated on...

Blind stamp: lower left. On verso of mount: "n" pencil upper right. Image content features: MODEL Nancy Lovis (Kraft); COSTUME Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/N. African, jewelry; PEOPLE young women. Title and ot... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth with lyre]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: grey fiber & cream. Image content features: MODEL Pucky Costanza; PROPS lyres; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Fo... More

F. Holland Day - [Woman in white cape, breastfeeding a baby]

Published titles: Motherhood; or Mother and child. Monogram: pencil, lower right. On recto: "FHD 1905" pencil, lower right. On verso: "trifle heavier" pencil. Image content features: MODELS Beatrice Baxter Ruyl... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait]

Case: front - Rinhart 262; back - Rinhart 91. Transfer; Manuscript Division (John Franklin Jameson papers); 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of:... More

[Re-photograph of the series "The Seven Words" mounted in elaborately ...

Framed series of seven images of F. Holland Day as Jesus Christ wearing crown of thorns. Published titles: The seven words (1 + 4); The seven last words (2-3). Model: F.H. Day. People: Men. Title and other data... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy in rocky landscape, arms raised]

Monogram on recto: "FHD 1906" red, lower left. Image content features: PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Colle... More

Portrait photo of David Octavius Hill - [Newhaven fisherboy]

Full-length portrait of barefoot boy, standing, with arm resting on basket. Purchase; Rizzuto Fund; 1973 Dec. 3; (DLC/PP-1973:305). David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and photographer. He was a pioneer... More

[Youth with winged hat, cropped at chest]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: cream & green-gray. Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; COSTUME winged hats; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in ... More

["Chug" & boy(?) playing checkers, "Pippy" reading, and Tony watching,...

Image content features: MODEL Pippy, Tony, & James (?) Costanza & ?; PROP Books; COSTUME sailor suits; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part o... More

F. Holland Day - Beauty is truth, truth/beauty

Young man in robe and headband holding vase of metal and ceramic flowers and reflective orb, in studio. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. :... More

[Nude youth with laurel wreath embracing Herm of Pan]

Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Published under title: On the glade. MODEL Joseph "Pippy" Costanza? Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Collection, Library of Con... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion, profile, right]

Exhibit object number: 2. Mounts are layered top to bottom: greenish buff, grey. On recto: "98" black, lower left. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE men. Title and other data comes from a curatoria... More

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion, profile, right]

Series of first aerial photographs of Palestine and Syria. Volcano and...

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

William Blake - Photograph of a page from William Blake's Milton, unda...

Transcribed from item: "Los and Enitharmon Regard With Horror the Flaming Orc. Blake's Milton. 1804." Item is from the Rosenwald Collection.

[Jerusha Field, half-length portrait, seated in chair, with arm restin...

Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 141. Accompanying note: Jerusha Field, Quaker of N.Y. & Peekskill. Gift; Family of William B. Osgood Field; 1997; (DLC/PP-1999:155). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collect... More

Lucy Stone, half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing slightly r...

Photographer unidentified. No case. Forms part of: Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Transfer; Manuscript Division; 2014; (DLC/PP-... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front, seated in cha...

Case: oval design surrounded by scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.059. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right]

Scratched on face of plate: Fowler. Scratched on back of plate: 449. Alternative identification: Fowler (cat. 5). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (... More

David Octavius Hill - [David Roberts, R.A., full-length portrait, stan...

Purchase; 1995 (DLC/PP-1995:158). David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and photographer. He was a pioneer of photography in Scotland and is best known for his collaboration with Robert Adamson in which t... More

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Case: back only, Rinhart 219. Accompanying note in case: From Wm. Shew's Miniature Case Manufactory, corner of Court and Howard Streets, Boston. Gift; Charles W.... More

[Unidentified woman, about 25 years of age, half-length portrait, thre...

Scratched on back of plate: 297. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Bridge with man sitting on top, two men standing below]

Photograph. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of the arch tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified man, half-length portrait, facing left]

Case: ornamental circle theme. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.053. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Charles Marville - [Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, France] / Ch. Ma...

Photograph showing the Fontaine des Innocents as installed at the Marché des Innocents in Paris, probably in 1858, just prior to one of its several relocations and reconstructions. Inscribed in pencil: Fontain... More