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Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI

Significance: Quincy was Michigan's second largest copper producer, and one of national and international importance. The mine was extremely long-lived and profitable. Unprocessed Field note material exists f... More

Quincy Mining Company, Hancock, Houghton County, MI

Tipy narodnosteĭ Sredneĭ Azīi. - Public domain portrait print

Photographs show portraits of men and women from Central Asia. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melrose Plantation, Big House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoche...

1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: The Big House, officially known as Melrose Historic House, was begun in 1833 by Marie Theresa Coin-Coin's grandson, Louis Metoyer, as a raised plantati... More

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: Ellis Island is significant as the primary port of entry into the United States for immigrants during the period 1892-1954. The Ellis Island facility is located in New York Harbor on three small ... More

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ten years in Washington. Life and scenes in the National Capital, as a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Macbeth, Count of Monte Cristo, Lord Invader, and Wilmoth...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in the 2014 [Bear Family] publication Calypso Craze, 1956-1957 and Beyond (EAN: 53971021694... More

Arbianoe proizvodstvo (arba sazi) . Dolblenie gniezd dlia spits

Photograph shows three men making chiseled sockets for the spokes of a cart. "Arba sazi" translated as the Persian expression for: cart manufacturer. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871... More

Louis the interpreter & matador de los Apaches Pasquial, Pimo [i.e., P...

Three-quarter length portraits. Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 123 (bottom) and 126 (top).

[Six Javanese women, two in native dress, four in costume, full-length...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Man of the Kikayu tribe, British East Africa - Frank G. Carpenter coll...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Africa, miscellaneous. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by Publishers Photo S... More

Wealthy Malays - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Ten people posed, Singapore. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. No. 183.

[Men in costumes with device used for punishment, Korea] - Frank G. Ca...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Korea. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Punishment.

[Indian family in Brazil posed in front of hut - 3 bare-breasted femal...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Amazon Indians, Brazil - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Five males posed with bows and arrows. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Brazil. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Caption ... More

Men squatting on sidewalk - two playing stringed instruments in foreg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joseph G. Pangborn in kimono. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Russian men and women at Iman (?)

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Costumes and characters, etc. Bethlehem woman

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Costumes and characters, etc. Family group, Ramallah / American Colony...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Costumes and characters, etc. Workers in mother-of-pearl / American Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of Abyssinian pilgrims, at Jerusalem

13176 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. Title from recto of item. No. 13065.

Armenians - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows a poor, widowed Armenian woman and her children, Makarid (on her back) and Nuvart (standing next to her). In 1899, after the murder of her husband in the aftermath of the Armenian Massacres of... More

Apaches. Chief James A. Garfield. Pouche Te Foya and Sanches

Photograph shows three Apache men including Chief James A. Garfield, Pouche Te Foya and Sanches, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. No. 53413.

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia - before entering school - seven ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Campus & Rural Life. C... More

The Village Tinker, Luxor, Egypt - stereocsopic card

No. 9714. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pee-a-rat and baby - Utes. Half-length portrait of woman, facing fron...

64927 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 150. Public domain photograph of mother and child portrait, young woman, infant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Costumes and characters, etc. Group of old Jews / American Colony, Jer...

Three elderly men holding books. On mount: Palestine Jerusalem Learned Jews. On mount: LC-M36-556. Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Collection profile with information ... More

Natives of Dahomey, Africa - Dahomey Village, Exposition of 1900--Pari...

D14380 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a world's fair that was held in Paris, Franc... More

Native women grinding wheat, Palestine - stereocsopic card

Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.). No. 11058. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arabs; Weavers; Women Empl.; Wheat; Dance; Palestine; Ph. Ind.

[Kingston, Jamaica, and vicinity: natives in front of thatched-roof ho...

Photo copyrighted by A. Duperly & Son, Kingston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Thatched-roof hosues; Jamaica Kingston; Dwellings; Geogr.; Shelf.

American Red Cross - Public domain photograph

A black and white photo of a group of people, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, ... More

Indian playmates - Public domain portrait print

Four Pueblo Indian children. Copyright by D.T. Duckwall, Jr., Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A man-powered shovel - working on foundation for new Post Office - N.W...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Labor; Building Construction; Ph. Ind.

Minnehaha view, photochrome print postcard.. Photochrom print, 1880-18...

Copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic Co. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54124". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.... More

Just kids - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "267" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09224. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

FU, TSAI, PRINCE. GROUP - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain image of aristocratic military leader, general, monarch, 18th-19th century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Mully v mecheti Azizīi︠a︡. Batum

A group of men standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Four people seated on a carpet, in front of a backdrop of textiles]

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

Portrait photo of Kochui︠u︡shchīe kirgizy. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ

Family of three, kneeling in a field. Public domain photograph of native people, ethnic group, Russian empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Indian children and their playhouses

Three Cheyenne girls, of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, posed at play with their small tipi dollhouses and dolls. (Source: Women and warriors of the plains, p. 101) 133825S U.S. Copyright Office. Cop... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Travel views of Japan and Korea

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. Public domain photograph - portrait, children of 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hunting Horse and daughters / photo by Dedrick, Taloga, Ok.

Group portrait of Indian family. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 57. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

In a Piegan lodge - Public domain portrait print

Little Plume and son Yellow Kidney seated on ground inside lodge, pipe between them.

Native troops, Cuba - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mary Garden & Indians from Glacier Park

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

The Faust family, Anderson County, E. Tenn. [Mountain man and 2 women ...

Photograph shows Mary Faust, center, standing with man and a women, with rifle over shoulder, in front of cabin.

Persia - Dervishes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Wishham child

Portrait of a girl, three-quarter length, seated, wearing basket like hat, cotton plaid dress, shell beads decorated with silver dollars. J139772 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3... More

"The Centennial Band", Nez-Perce and Yakima Indians, Astoria, Ore., Au...

J160055 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Marcell; September 11, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44357. Copyright claimant's address: Portland. No. 34. Add diacritical mark to 650 Nez Perce.

St. Emerich's Roman Catholic Church, 600 Chestnut Street, Johnstown, C...

Survey number: HABS PA-5747 Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction

Turcos Examining War Booty at Neufmentiers

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) at Chauconin-Neufmontiers, France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Eagle Rock record label Recording Label

Public domain scan of music disk label, pathephone record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Canadiens-Français enrolez-vous! L'Angleterre, rempart de nos libertés...

Poster showing two soldiers, French and English. Public domain scan of French poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stringers and leaf-girls, shed-workers for American Sumatra Tobacco Co...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4896. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Na... More

Group of tobacco pickers in Bermant plantation, 3 were 10 yrs, 3 were ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

So. Sea Islands - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption on photograph: "The Upper Ten of Tonga." Gift; Herbert A. Frenc... More

[Native types of Africa, 192-] - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows six Zulu men posed sitting on the ground near a small cauldron, facing front, eating.

Where Women Wear the Pants. Native women of Montenegro wearing the Bag...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Types, Montenegro. On caption card: 12848. Gift; ... More

Eva & Dagman Kuraz, [4/20/23] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

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

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Madras (vicinity), ...

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"Ordination - A", Louisiana - Public domain portrait print

Four newly ordained Roman Catholic priests posed standing, full-length. J15204 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.P. Bedou, New Orleans, La.

Boggis Jordan trip. River Jordan

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FFSA / ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Two young women of a leading family

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Hut with native young women and chi...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Three men of Uganda

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro family with supplies in wagon ready to leave for the farm, Satur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing in front of a house, Great Depression. FSA/...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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

Indian girls peddled charms, bead work and commercial Indian curios at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children's parade, Charro Days fiesta, Brownsville, Texas

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

[African men and woman arriving at the monthly wild rubber village mar...

U.S. Office of War Information. Public domain photograph related to native African people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Office of War Information, Farm Security Administration photo, 1940

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no ca... More

First Catholic Slovak Band Hall, 716 Chestnut Street, Johnstown, Cambr...

Survey number: HABS PA-5745 Building/structure dates: ca. 1943 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1950 Subsequent Work

Road building. Women laborers - Public domain scan of photograph

Photograph shows a Nepalese woman road builder, seated on pile of rocks, Sikkim. Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-2679. Label from color reference copy slide page: "Nepali road builders." Forms part of: Dr. A... More

[Prince Palden (left) and friend at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikk...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tibet. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:3,960,000. Includes list of administrative divisions to the Hsien level and location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

[Performers at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Warrior dancing at New Year's ceremony, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 014 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Victor Faith Building, 322-324 Second Avenue, Johnstown, Cambria Count...

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

Blaine Mitchell Special, Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska, 1983

Included in the photograph are Lawrence Gilpin, Helen W. Mitchell, Lebo Mitchell, Kathryn Gilpin, and Elaine Gilpin. 1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska.

Dancers Leave Arena for Supper, Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska, 1983

1983 Omaha pow-wow. Macy, Nebraska. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Painting "Golden Mountains/Golden Fields" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S....

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1999. Acrylic, dimensions: 7 x 12 feet. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photograph... More

Participants in the "Million Indian March" on Washington, D.C., photog...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Chef der Blut Indianer. Kriegs Chef der Piekan Indianer. Kutana Indian...

Print shows half-length portraits of a man from the Blood Indians, a man from the Piekann Indians, and a man from the Koutani Indians, posed as though they were conversing amongst themselves. Illus from: Reise... More

The champions of the ball racket: At the close of the season

Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1071.

Claudia Johnson and her daughter Mary Young, craftswomen, Chicago, Ill...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-15, Examples of dolls made by Claudia Johnson and her daughter, Mar... More

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