["Building of the Griffin," Canada, ca. 1690]
Illus. in: Voyage curieux du R.P. Louis Hennepin / Louis Hennepin, 1704, oppos. p. 100.
Kijin zu, Utagawa Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing
Print shows a court official, full-length, facing slightly left, wearing court dress. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: part o... More
Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport / photo by Manchester Bros., Pr...
Full-length portrait of Ida Lewis standing on rocky shore of Newport, Rhode Island; female lighthouse keeper who has saved many lives with her small rowboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, July 31, 1869, p. 481 (t... More
[Two women riding in a rickshaw]
Photograph shows two women with a large parasol riding in a rickshaw pulled by a man with a second man walking nearby, possibly to relieve the first man. Exterior view of building with tiled roof in the backgro... More
Stone cutter and tools - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows a stone cutter chiseling a piece of stone with several types of tools on the ground next to him. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. 1878. From the "Construction" s... More
Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana
Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana
Public domain photograph - historical image of Louisiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
How to keep a girl / J.K. & F.O.
Print shows a vignette cartoon with 12 vignettes, around a central figure, that show how the employer should treat her woman domestic, if she wants to keep her, such as 1) "Promise her anything and everything",... More
Overload Congress-- there's room for everything but that
"Congress. How do you spose I can carry that bill? Don't you see how I'm loaded? Not one cent for Liberty, millions for jobs?" Verso. Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illus... More
Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from...
Photograph shows view of ruby mine with structure in the background and women, in the foreground, searching in pools and ditches for rubies that have spilled out of the washing pans. In album: p. 63, no. 73.
Pontoon C. Bayliss photo, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Photograph shows men with steam engine or boiler and pontoon to be used in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 6. Album d... More
Ave Maria - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a young woman shepherd from behind, full-length, standing in a field, holding a long staff, watching the sheep graze under a crescent moon. Includes a remarque on lower left showing a sheep grazing.... More
The house maid - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gathering sisal, Nassau, Bahama Islds
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Attribution based on negatives with similar numbers. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013484. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Hiring place for women, St. Petersburg
Crowd of women waiting in line outside building, Leningrad. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sorting cotton - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Venetian water carriers - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Photographer's assistant - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...
Title from jacket. "G 3812" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034361. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Celebrities under the camera / By Zaida Ben-Yusuf.
Article with photographs by Zaida Ben Yusuf shows a self-portrait of Ben Yusuf and portraits of F. Marion Crawford, Ernest Seton-Thompson, Anthony Hope, and W.D. Howells. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 1... More
The shepherd's star - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Indian guide for the rapids, standing in canoe, in the Sault Sainte M...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Jewish life--selling New Year's cards, East Side, New York City]
George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Primitive manufacturing - natives making pottery, Fiji Islands
Stereograph shows four women sitting on the banks of a river making pottery. H74595 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8106. U-86613. Copyright, 1906, by Underwood & Underwood.
[Interior view of Bulloch Hall dining room, scene of marriage of Theod...
Photograph showing African American man and woman in dining room. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Women and children, Aiken, S.C.
Photograph shows African American women, children, and men cotton pickers at work. Copyright 1907 by O. Newton Cripps, Aiken, S.C.
Miss Laura Eckels, chief of the Orders Division of the U.S. Bureau of ...
Photograph shows Miss Laura Eckels, chief of the Orders Division, seated at a desk at the Bureau of Engraving and printing. No. 4223. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
Spoolers where the yarn is wound from bobbins onto spools, White Oak C...
J136540 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 13822. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of in... More
[African American men shovelling snow in street, Washington, D.C.(?)]
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Le tragedie del lavoro - Public domain document scan of drawing
Front page of newspaper, Il progresso Italo-Americano, with story about the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Includes list of Italian American victims, a drawing of a victim and photograph of police.
Employes [sic] of Augustus Pollack Crown Stogie Factories, Wheeling, W...
J191402 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Wells View Co.; March 27, 1914.
The most primitive reeling tools for silk thread, Mt. Lebanon, Syria
Public domain photograph related to child labor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Artillery vehicles - Camouflaging Dept., American Car & Foundry Compan...
Women employees in ordnance plant during the first World War. No. 35851. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo.
Women are working day & night to win the war / Witherby & Co. London.
Poster showing women working at a lathe in a factory complex, with a YWCA structure visible through the window. Text continues: £25,000 immediately needed for the Women's War Time Fund to provide rest-rooms, ca... More
[Woman changing tire of Stutz Weightman Special no. 26 on Benning race...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Perforating rolls of postage stamps, Bureau of Printing and Engraving,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of postal stamp, free to use, no copyright restrictions
The Frenchwoman in war-time - Drawing. Public domain image.
Scene depicting French women in war-time. One woman is working in a factory, one is nursing her child, and another woman is hoeing in the field. In the background is an outline of Victory. French women made up ... More
Skipperena soothed Pauline when she wept, taught her the swiftest ways...
(DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Harai" by John Colton, Collier's weekly, 65:24 (April 10, 1920).
Preparing the engraved plate for the new small size paper currency
Photograph shows a man checking the printing plate (?). In album: Washington, D.C., 1 June 1929 to 27 Sept. 1929, v. 3, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, p. 8, no. 42985. Forms part of: National Photo... More
Forging ahead Works Progress Administration / / [monogram].
Poster for Works Progress Administration encouraging laborers to work for America, showing blacksmith. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
A black and white photo of a crowd of people. Great Depression FSA pho...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Miscellaneous subjects. Kaiser Industries, labor-management teamwork c...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child. Ex-housewife, ...
Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. ...
12002-22. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Migrant camp, Weslaco, Texas. Local employment men say that there was ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a refugee camp, migrant workers, 1930s, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
War production workers at the Heil Company making gasoline trailer tan...
Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Operating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif.
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Lorena Craig is cowler under civil service at the Naval Air Base, Corp...
Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mary Louise Stepan, 21, used to be a waitress. She has a brother in th...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Doris Duke, who is 26 and a mother of one child, Corpus Christi, ...
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gist inspector, Mrs. Mary Betchner inspecting one of the 25 cutters fo...
12002-22. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports, Consolidated Aircraft ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Air...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis, senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs De...
Public domain photograph related to navy, naval warfare, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Federal Reserve Board Chairman urges approval of administration's lend...
A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
C. & N.W. R.R., women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the gia...
Photograph shows Marcella Hart at left, Mrs. Elibia Siematter at right.
Reflection in window of employment agency, Chicago, Illinois
Public domain image of Chicago city buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida state empl...
Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Shenandoah Valley. J.C. Myers, because of his intermittent employment,...
Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Filling out applications for employment at the Du Pont powder plant ne...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Richwood, West Virginia. Employment office of the Cherry boom lumber c...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nyssa, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) mobile camp now inha...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Production. Aircraft engines. She used to be a librarian, now she insp...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Buffalo, New York. People waiting to be interviewed at the employment ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Washington, D.C. P. Bernard Young, Sr., publisher of the Norfolk Journ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Reed Hall and his wife in thier home ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a couple, husband and wife, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Tea from Nyasaland - A black and white photo of a group of people work...
Print shows men in single file with baskets of tea leaves on their heads, mountains in background. Note below photograph: 4. The bushes are pruned every three years to keep the leaves succulent and the bush si... More
[Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]
Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A woman's place is in the house... and also in the Senate!
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Longshoremen loading cargo onto a ship at Port Authority Piers, Furma...
NYWT&S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Making the soft wool of the viouna into rugs, La Paz
Stereograph shows men, women and children preparing wool. J192293 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 11536. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Back our girls over there United War Work Campaign / / Clarence F. Und...
Y.W.C.A. poster for the United War Work Campaign showing a young woman seated at a switchboard with soldiers in the background. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas ... More
Picking cotton, Detroit publishing company photo
Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31408. Attribution to Jackson and locale based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Either Louisiana or Mississ... More
Unloading a banana steamer, Mobile, Ala
"G 3672" and "72" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019455. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
The girl on the land serves the nation's need Apply Y.W.C.A. Land Serv...
Poster showing four young women carrying tools and a basket of produce, and leading a team of horses.
Soldiers without guns / Adolph Treidler.
War poster shows three women who work for the war effort an office worker, a welder, and factory worker. I.S.D. No. 180. U.S. Army official poster.
The more women at work the sooner we win! Women are needed also as [.....
Woman working in an airplane factory. Based on a photograph by Alfred T. Palmer. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1943. OWI Poster No. 52. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study... More
Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1332 V St., Washington, D.C., makes a ...
Poster shows a rear view of a woman holding a camera and tripod while facing a pond with the sun rising or setting. Poster is an advertisement for Johnston's business as a photographer and author. Published in... More
Mrs. Teruko Kiyomura, / photograph by Ansel Adams.
Mrs. Teruko Kiyomura, bookkeeper, seated at a desk, operating an adding machine while reading a ledger. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-55. Gift; Ans... More
Land of cotton / E. W. Day, Charlotte N.C. Photos.
Photographic print showing a group of African American men, women, and children standing in a cotton field, some holding baskets containing cotton.
The lady cop / J. Norman Lynd. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...
Illustration shows a policewoman observing a crowd of women outside a store advertising a "Sacrifice Sale of Millinery"; she is torn by her obligation to her duties as a police officer and her desire to take ad... More
Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Culpepper [i.e., Culpeper], Virginia--Stacking wheat / E.F.
African Americans stacking wheat near Culpeper Courthouse, Va. Reference copy in: Civil War Drawings - Miscellaneous. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.187) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Culpepper [i.e., Culpeper], Virginia--Stacking wheat / E.F.
African Americans stacking wheat near Culpeper Courthouse, Va. Reference copy in: Civil War Drawings - Miscellaneous. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.187) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
San Augustine, Texas. Mrs. Thomas, the wife of a wholesale grocer, in ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Leaders favorite chewing A&E manufactured by Allen & Ellis / Chica...
Print shows an interior view of "The Leader Tobacco Works" at "37 River Street, Chicago" with young women and men sorting, selecting, drying, and preparing tobacco products. B7708 U.S. Copyright Office. Upper ... More
Central Files, National Recovery Administration, Washington, D.C., Jun...
Gift; Eunice K. Lipkowitz; June 11, 1990; DLC/PP-1990:167. Photographer's address: 1516 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. No. 5057. Donor is tenth person from left.
Los gendarmes - Print, Library of Congress collection
Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: two gentleman and a policeman confront a woman street vendor and a drunk wearing a sombrero. Corn is shown in front of the woman on a small table. The script relates a br... More
[Eleanor Roosevelt talking with woman machinist during her goodwill to...
Corresponding print filed under: LOT 12446, no. 17. Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New York : Doubleday, 1994, p. 22. Published in... More
White cotton, black pickers and a gin. Humble and crude, but the crop ...
J200226 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; February 6, 1915. Printed on image: "Cirkut Photo by Coovert, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.A., copyright 1914".
[84 broadsides issued through the U. S. employment service U. S. Depar...
84 broadsides. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 242, Folder 6.
To the right hon'able the Earl of Hertford, ... this plate representin...
Print shows an interior view of a mill where three men are engaged in winding, warping, and weaving yarn. Plate VII. Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Fide Et Amore" with "Honi soit qui mal y pens... More
King Cotton, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph
H103681 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; December 16, 1907. Printed on image: "'Cirkut' Photo, copyright 1907 by J.C. Coovert, 63 N. Main, Memphis."
Gruppa rabochikh na sbori︠e︡ chai︠a︡. Grechanki. [Chakva]
A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Applicants for working papers at Department of Education Building. Lo...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Col. Roosevelt measuring his second big bull
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and African men with dead elephant. J234336 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Barclay telegraph instrument. Stamping machine with woman operator
Photograph shows a woman in an office operating a teletypewriter. Copyright 1908 by John Robert Schmidt, Cincinnati, Ohio. Copyright registration title: Barclay telegraph instrument [1-3].
[Farmers nooning, from the original picture in the possession of Jona....
Print shows workmen resting in the shade of a tree, one man is sharpening a tool, an African American man reclining on a stack of hay, a young boy is leaning over the stack, tickling the man's ear with a piece ... More