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Lenskīĭ Gornyĭ Okrugʺ. Koreĭtsy starateli. Promyvka zolota lotkami / F...

Print shows Korean men panning for gold in Lena Mining District, Russia.

[Mr. Dodson, jeweller in Knoxville, Tenn.]

Photo shows Mr. Dodson, half-length, standing, facing slightly left, behind a display of watches, examining a pocket watch. Title from caption card. Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for... More

The Bell Telephone office at Hamburg, N. Y.

Photograph shows an interior view of telephone office with four workers; two women operators work at switchboard. Copyright by John Van Epps, Hamburg, N. Y.

[Negro, the photographer's assistant]

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buckwheat harvest - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lock and drill dept., National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio

"WHJ-[...]" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 014756. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Picking crabs for market, on banks of Chesapeake Bay, Md., U.S.A.

African Americans picking meat out of crabs. Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 6893. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind. Shellfish; African Americans; Ph. Ind.

Carhart & Brother celebrated B-D & T roasted coffee

Advertisement for Carhart & Brother coffee, showing an African American woman holding a tray to serve coffee. Caption: De missus won't hab nuthin' else. Copyright by Carhart & Brother.

[Women putting checks in envelopes in the Veterans Bureau, Washington,...

No. 3392. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Bureau Ptg. & Eng. Trimming room, Examining Div., Washington, D.C

Photograph shows women at their workstations in a Bureau of Engraving trimming room. Neg. no. 388. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

The sealer girl - A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk

Photograph shows young woman sitting at a desk sealing envelopes. Copyright 1909 by Woodson L. Craig Co., San Francisco, Cal. Copyright registration title: Sealer girl.

[Men loading snow onto wagon, after snow storm, in Washington, D.C.(?)...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Employes [sic] of Linn & Scruggs Department Store

J144946 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; International Stereograph Co.; September 3, 1910. On front: "Copyright 1910 by International Stereograph Co., general photographers, Decatur, Ill.".

Anna Dazet (14 years old) 334 West 49th St. Girl unable to procure emp...

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

Matthew A. Henson Cigarette Card

Cigarette card for American Tobacco Company's Hassan Cork Tip cigarettes shows portrait of Matthew Henson in parka in front of frozen landscape. Issued by: American Tobacco Company.

First women chauffeurs of Japan

Woman in driver's seat of automobile. Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loading for Incendiary Bullets Frankford Arsenal, Frankford, Pennsylva...

Women employees in ordnance plant, World War I. Photoprint by U.S.A.S.C. (U.S. Army Signal Corp) No. 35796.

Unemployment - New York City employment bureau - registration

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Unemployment; Geogr; Shelf.

Wash women at work during World War I

Photograph shows women on both sides of a long wash basin in an industrial facility, with men standing in the background. J208984 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Dec. 1, 1915.

Secty. Wilson & Rowland B. Mahaney

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Secty. Wilson, Industrial Conf., 10619

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is availabl... More

New York photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Employment agency, Sixth Avenue, New York, New York

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

"Women in white" doctor Navy planes (motors) at the Naval Air Base, Co...

12002-18. 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

Day laborers waiting along railroad tracks for possible employment, Ra...

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

Rita Rodriguey, - A woman working on a machine in a factory

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

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Ven...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A young woman employee of North American Aviation, Incorporated, worki...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

War production worker at the Vilter [Manufacturing] Company making M5 ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the sc...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Clerk in one of the stock rooms of North American Aviation, Inc., chec...

12002-38. 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

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolida...

12002-19. 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

With careful Douglas training, women do accurate electrical assembly a...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op orange packi...

12002-10. 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

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

12002-13. 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

Tennessee Valley Authority Houses For Defense Workers. To help allevia...

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

Filling out applications for employment at the Du Pont powder plant ne...

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

Newly-arrived farm workers talking to the Idaho state employment repre...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Manpower. Negro aircraft propeller workers. American industry develops...

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

Kalispell, Montana. Flathead Valley special area project cooperative s...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women in war. Filling station attendant. Tires need checking too? Shif...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ralph Lopez, foreman of a transparent box factory, tells Carmen Zapata...

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Congratulations, you just spent twelve thousand dollars so she could j...

The odds are 2 to 1 against a dropout

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the tread mill for the employment of prisoners...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: View. Etching with engraving.

A Chinese fish market, Huai An, China

J298307 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 23965. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Getting working papers. Location: New York, New York (State)

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 17-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

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

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

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

St. Anthony's Orphanage, Chapel, 1500 Indian School Road Northwest, Al...

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

Monastyrskīĭ si︠e︡nokos. [Leushinskīĭ Monastyrʹ, Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii...

Women raking hay in field; monastery in background. Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alice Barber Stephens - [Dorothea busy in the old library]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

The market delivery, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nurse and baby Bill, no. 2] - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a woman, three-quarter length, facing left, seated, holding an infant against her chest.

Scenes on a cotton plantation / sketched by A.R. Waud.

Thirteen scenes depicting life on a cotton plantation. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Augustine, Texas. Mrs. Thomas, the wife of a wholesale grocer, in ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The times - A drawing of a group of men standing in front of a buildin...

A commentary on the depressed state of the American economy, particularly in New York, during the financial panic of 1837. Again, the blame is laid on the treasury policies of Andrew Jackson, whose hat, spectac... 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.

Will you help the women of France? Save wheat / Edward Penfield.

Three women pulling cultivating machine. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Na zhnitvi︠e︡. U sela Bychi - Public domain scan / print

Woman holding scythe posed in front of hay rack (hay stack) and thatched-roof buildings.

St. Anthony's Orphanage, 1500 Indian School Road, Northwest, Albuquerq...

Significance: The Chapel, the Classroom-Dormitory Building and the Auditorium of St. Anthony's Orphanage stand as rare institutional examples of Mission Style architecture in New Mexico. They constitute a thre... 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".

Our cotton campaign in South Carolina - gathering, ginning, packing an...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 Feb. 15, pp. 200-201.

Sunny South, Landscape view print

African Americans picking cotton, riverboats on river, plantation house in distance. 6057(?) U.S. Copyright office. Below image: "View on the lower Mississippi."

Sunny South, Landscape view print

African Americans picking cotton, riverboats on river, plantation house in distance. 6057(?) U.S. Copyright office. Below image: "View on the lower Mississippi."

Part of exhibit, N.Y.C.L. and Consumers League. Location: New York, N...

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

Arnold Genthe - The First Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San...

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

Charles Batties. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows an African American man, Charles Batties(?), full-length portrait standing, facing front, wearing sailor uniform. Title from inscription below photograph. Gladstone's inventory number: CDV115. ... More

[Mary A. Shanley, New York City detective - "pickpockets' captor fears...

Photograph (recto) shows Mary A. Shanley, New York City detective, half-length portrait, facing left, holding service revolver; the halftone (verso) shows (from the newspaper) the published version with two add... More

[Men working the floor at the Chicago Board of Trade]

Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Girls working in Tampa, Fla., Box Factory. I saw 10 small boys and gir...

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

Ito zukuri, Yoshifuji Utagawa - Public domain drawing

Print shows two women preparing silk thread. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Hōnen kaiko yōiku : Sericulture. Forma... More

[Man with a broom, wearing geta; woman with spinning wheel; man with a...

Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Federal-Abolition-Whig trap, to catch voters in

An illustrated anti-Whig broadside, designed to combat the "Log Cabin campaign" tactics of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The text warns the people of New Orleans of Whig election propaganda: "P... More

[Proof for bank note vignette showing Afro-American men tapping sap fr...

Chickering Collection.

Negro dance on a Cuban plantation Coolies and Negroes ; Farm scene nea...

Three illustrations show laborers from Africa and China dancing, interacting, and working on a farm in Cuba. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. III, no. 109 (1859 January 29), p. 73.

Working the monoliths, Washington, D.C.

Photo shows construction at U.S. Capitol, including "S. Wing" and "Centre Building." The workmen include African Americans. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs", p. 41. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v.... More

The "Lincoln column," first monolith raised, Nov. 1860, Presidential e...

Photo shows construction at U.S. Capitol, including African American workmen with a column named in the photograph to recognize Abraham Lincoln's election as president on Nov. 6, 1860. In album: Benjamin Brown... More

The late Senator Sumner. Ceremonies in the Capitol -- colored people o...

Illustration shows the body of Senator Charles Sumner lying in state in the U.S. Capitol. Other illustrations on the same page show Mate Brady, a hero of the "Atlantic" disaster...; Bertie Winkler, the Virginia... More

Colored Chieftains - Print, Library of Congress collection

3926 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. Rewell (George M.) & C... More

[Honjo tatekawa], depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a man sawing a large piece of wood to make boards and two men removing tiles(?) from a tall stack at a lumberyard in Honjo, with distant view of Mount Fuji.

Kago travelling chair - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman with parasol in a sedan chair on a street in front of the Hafuya Hotel. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a stone lantern with mountain in the background in the upper... More

View of Uyeno, Tokio - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a man with a rickshaw on a walkway beneath blossoming cherry trees in Ueno Park in Tokyo. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a cat in the upper right and mice in the lower left. No. A235.... More

Newfoundland cod-fishery wood engraving, Library of Congress

Woman carrying large corrugated sheets

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The land of cotton - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

African American men standing in front of bales of cotton near brick buildings. 18923-B-1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 601.

A Virginian oyster shucker - 19th century Virginia.

Black man standing in front of pile of oyster shells. 23277B U.S. Copyright Office. No. 695.

Puck magazine cover - A little suggestion / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows President McKinley taking a break to smoke a cigar while a wax figure sits at his desk to suggest that he is hard at work reviewing applications from office seekers who are clamoring in the backgrou... More

[African American man standing on platform or loading dock with large ...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 235. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Women and children in cotton field

Photograph shows African American women and children cotton pickers at work.

Egypt - Cairo. Women carrying river mud from the Nile to enrich the so...

Two women carrying mud in containers on their heads. Public domain photograph - historical image of Egypt, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman typist]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows woman seated at desk using stenograph. Public domain photograph - studio female portrait, 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Seven women working in Roycroft shop, E. Aurora, N.Y.]

No. 81445. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Pan-Am. emergency hospital nurses

Photograph shows six Pan American Exposition nurses, in uniform, posed at a doorway with a flower garden.

Puck magazine cover - The Pullman porter's "kick" / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a thin, tattered "Pullman Sleeping Car Porter" holding a piece of paper "Tips Daily Average on each Trip" which shows a 70% reduction in tips between 1890 and 1900, at the bottom it states "P... More

Binding department, National Cash Register [Company], Dayton, O[hio]

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. A.F. [i.e. A.T.] Mills teaching deaf and dumb boy in her private ...

Reproduction of half of stereograph shows Annetta Thompson Mills, founder of Chefoo School for the Death, with a young boy. No. 7. Copyright by 1901 by H.C. White Co. Original stereograph processed as STEREO F... More

Three native girl curio venders at Yakutat, Alaska / Miles Bros.

Three Native American women by waterfront. H27309 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 865. Title transcribed from item.

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along the Old Avenue, Na...

Copyright 1906 by H.C. White Co. No. 4057. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Situation wanted - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0079). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly (Sept. 1, 1906), pp. 14-15.