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Edith Cavell - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows British nurse Edith Louisa Cavell (1865-1915) a British nurse who was executed by German forces during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013).

[Bombardier Billy Wells, English boxer, preparing in Rye, N.Y., for fi...

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[Woman in cowgirl outfit aiming small rifle; English Setter standing b...

Photo copyrighted by A.S. Currier. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Women In sports; Hunting; Shelf.

English woman worker - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Harry Hawker to try transatlantic flight from St. John / Photo. by Bai...

Harry Hawker, half-length portrait, standing in front of airplane, facing slightly left.

Paris. Edith Cavell Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses i...

Caption from negative sleeve: Hospital "Edith Cavell," Paris, Rue Desmouette. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: GuÚ... More

$2,500,000 in rare books acquired for Folger Library. Washington, D.C....

William Shakespeare books and illustrations

National Gallery of Art. English painting in National Gallery of Art

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

English lesson in sixth and seventh grade school room. Selma Sutton at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church Missionary Society English hospital, Jerusalem. The chapel

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

New York, New York. Children's Colony, a school for refugee children a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Oxford England. American Army men, attending Oxford University for spe...

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

Steuben Glass, business at 718 5th Ave., New York City. Antique Englis...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of an engine. Each ...

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

Signage in the shop, with instructions for customers in Spanish, Itali...

Forms part of a group of images documenting John Granata's Prudential insurance company office.

Signage in the shop, with instructions for customers in Spanish, Itali...

Forms part of a group of images documenting John Granata's Prudential insurance company office.

Claude Graham White [i.e. Grahame-White] flying his Farman biplane alo...

Photograph shows crowds watching English aviator Grahame-White fly his Farman III biplane in front of the State, War & Navy building, Washington, D.C. "4995 A.S." Forms part of: Ernest L. Jones Collection.

The two songs a drama in one act

Picryl description: Public domain image of music song book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cecil Raleigh & Seymour Hicks' great English play, Sporting life

Caption: Lord Woodstock H.M. 2d Life Guards. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Jacob Litt, proprietor. N.Y. no. 8188. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More

Sketches of Louisville and its environs : including, among a great var...

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Sketches of Louisville and its environs : including, among a great var...

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Madame Noailles de Tesse to Thomas Jefferson, August 7, 1788, with Lis...

with List of Plants of Virginia and the Carolinas; in French with Thomas Jefferson's Notations in Latin and English

The zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault

Images on a disc which when spun gives the illusion of a man doing a somersault on horseback. 14571Y U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Exhibited: Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Ti... More

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-459 Survey number: HABS NJ-552 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Reformed Church of English Neighborhood, Edgewater Avenue, Ridgefield,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-459 Survey number: HABS NJ-552 Building/structure dates: 1793 Initial Construction

Humanity the latest English success : by Sutton Vane, author of The co...

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Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Benedictine rule for nuns. A Middle English version of the Gospel of ...

Ms. codex. Middle English; some Latin. Title and description derived from the full description in Library of Congress. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, v. 2, p. 143-154, by ... More

Alber Therien at right end of picture, 30 Salem Street, appears 13 yea...

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

English Village, Loves Lane & Arthur's Round Table Circle, Wynnewood, ...

Significance: The English Village is an example of a planned early 20th century middle class development which achieves its character through its replication of English country architectural and landscape desig... More

English Village, Loves Lane & Arthur's Round Table Circle, Wynnewood, ...

Significance: The English Village is an example of a planned early 20th century middle class development which achieves its character through its replication of English country architectural and landscape desig... More

English Village, Loves Lane & Arthur's Round Table Circle, Wynnewood, ...

Significance: The English Village is an example of a planned early 20th century middle class development which achieves its character through its replication of English country architectural and landscape desig... More

The little duke Hess English opera.

"Copyrighted 1878 - J.E. Jackson, N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

A visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois : wit...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

Joseph H. Finch House, 128 South Main Street, English, Crawford County...

Significance: The Joseph H. Finch House is architecturally significant on the local level as a well-preserved example of a small-scale, Queen Anne-style residential building, and is the best example of this sty... More

Joseph H. Finch House, 128 South Main Street, English, Crawford County...

Significance: The Joseph H. Finch House is architecturally significant on the local level as a well-preserved example of a small-scale, Queen Anne-style residential building, and is the best example of this sty... More

Rose Hill English Folly Co. - Public domain portrait print

Caption: Miles & Raymond. The original baby in the cradle. Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2835. Rice & Barton, props & managers. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (... More

Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, five years old, and a mountain of chi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A novelty, the first in 20 years, Harry Houdini as a magician

At head of title: Empire Theatre all-star matinee, Friday, Feb. 20th, 1914. Created by "John Waddington, Ltd., Printers and Lithographers, Great Wilson Street, Leeds." Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special... More

A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe o...

"Only 200 copies privately printed" (for Charles Gorham Barney, of Richmond, Va., cf. Sabin, Dict.) The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) "To the R. and my most esteemed friend Mr. D.M. at his house a... More

The history of Genghizcan the Great, first emperor of the antient Mogu...

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The history of Genghizcan the Great, first emperor of the antient Mogu...

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The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

Whole booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English metre.

The first book printed in British North America, commonly known as the Bay Psalm book. Translated by Richard Mather, John Eliot, and Thomas Weld, among others. The preface is possibly by Mather, but could be by... More

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues whic...

LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting. Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44. LAC ecr 2019-02... More

The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues whic...

LC copy imperfect: p. 39-41 wanting. Dedication signed: Gervace Marchan. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift: A. W. Bitting, Oct. 6, 1939; Rec. R.B. 7-10-44. LAC ecr 2019-02... More

Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... Herrn Fra...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 8. German] Franckfurt, 1599. Copy 1. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 194. The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by... More

Additamentvm; das ist, Zuthuung zweyer fürnemmer Reysen ... Herrn Fra...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 8. German] Franckfurt, 1599. Copy 1. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 194. The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by... More

The emigrants, &c., or, The history of an expatriated family : being a...

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English grammar in familiar lectures : accompanied by a compendium : e...

Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Orlando fvrioso : in English heroical verse, / by Iohn Haringto[n].Imp...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...

A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More

Fleet of sailing ships on the English Chanel between Dover and Calais

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brugge.

Thomas Shotter Boys - Rue de la Grosse Horloce, Rouen [France]

Lithograph by Thomas Shotter Boys. Illus. in: Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen & c. London: T. Boys, 1839. Reference copy may be in LOT 4620. This record contains unverified, old data fr... More

English party at Rejkjavik - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a group of English visitors in Iceland examining two horses while Icelandic men and a boy stand in the background. Taylor visited Iceland in 1862, perhaps en route to Russia. Gift; Charles F. Hear... More

The English pirate ALEXANDRA seized by the British government at Liver...

Ship at dock. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 June 6, p. 364. Reference copy may be in LOT 4248. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gt. Britain Eng. Liverpool 1... More

Residence of James Rogers at Watsonville, Cal[ifornia] / Muybridge Pho...

Photograph showing residence including grounds, greenhouse, and windmill. Gift; Edgar Dethlefsen; 1994; (DLC/PP-1994:061) Exhibited: Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Was... More

Horses. Leaping. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of four consecutive images of a man riding a horse named Phyrne L., leaping over fence. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the cons... More

Horses. Irregular. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows fifteen consecutive images of a man "Vaquero?" riding a horse named "Riata?". Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions ass... More

Horses. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows two series of five consecutive images of a man riding a horse named Phyrne L., running. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive pos... More

Athletes. Running long leap - Public domain book illustration

Photograph shows ten consecutive images of a man leaping. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various... More

Athletes. Irregular. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows eight consecutive images of a man doing acrobatics. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in perform... More

Athletes. Swinging clubs. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows eight consecutive images of a man swinging clubs. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performin... More

Athletes. Running. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle. Irregular

Photograph shows twenty-four consecutive images of a man riding a horse named "Frankie", jumping over a hurdle. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecu... More

Horses. Backing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows twelve consecutive images of a man with a horse which is backing. Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by anim... More

Animal Locomotion. Plate 762 - Early photography, Public domain image

12 frames of gull in flight. Photo copyrighted by Eadweard Muybridge. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI WORKS; Animal locomotion; Birds; Shelf.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Thirty-six consecutive images of partially nude woman walking to a mat, sitting on the mat, then getting up, walking and sitting again. 9288 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal ... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing twenty consecutive phases of man riding a horse. 9676 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphi... More

[Ostrich running] - Early photography, Public domain image

Photo by Eadweard Muybridge. Illus. in Animal Locomotion, pl. 773. 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

Thirty-six consecutive images of partially nude woman walking and turning. 9093 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure ... More

An English tea planter on horseback at Gampola rest house

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 439. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

Georgia English - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[Enameled stone effigy of Eleanor of Aquitane from her tomb in the Abb...

Copyright by George Barrie & Son. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christlike work in benighted Korea - Miss Peary's home for destitute a...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Missions; Blind.

English Women Suffragists Parade with Sandwich Boards to Aid "Cause"

Women's Freedom League, which split from Women's Social and Political Union in October 1907, protest at London police courts against man-made laws. Date based on sandwich board signs announcing suffrage meeting... More

[English lead figurine holding sundial, Graham Nichols garden, Greenwi...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of Militant English Suffragettes, photomech...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smallest is Anatole Gernon, Maple St. Apparently 11 or 12 years old. D...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Eight-year-old Lizzie, earns 30 cents a day shucking oysters in the Du...

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

[Bombardier Billy Wells, English boxer, preparing in Rye, N.Y., for fi...

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SAINT THOMAS P.E. CHURCH. CONSECRATION SERVICES. 2ND FROM LEFT, REV. D...

A group of men standing around each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

7 year old oyster shucker. Speaks no English. Father and mother earn a...

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

Detail from Edith Cavell memorial to be erected near Trafalgar Square,...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Credit Press Illustrated. Group title: Monument. Graves. Used in: May Bullet... More

Department of Labor, training service. Italian class receiving instruc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teaching, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alice Paul conferring with English members of newly formed Internation...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul and English feminists seated and standing in room, (left to right, seated) Alice Paul, Elizabeth Robins, Viscountess Rhondda, Dr. Louisa Martindale... More

Lend-Lease to Britain. English girls, members of the Auxiliary Territo...

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

Lend-lease to Britain. A "Whirlwind" radial airplane engine on test af...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dover, England. A scene from "Twenty-one Miles" produced by the Britis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.