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[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washington, D.C. Boiler house. Heating boiler, ventilating fan, bathroom, and water closet. Plans, elevations, and sections] / Tho. U. Walter Archt.

[Government Hospital for the Insane (Saint Elizabeths Hospital), Washi...

Sheet no. 4. No. 301 in pencil on back. No. 2175. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ; 2010 ; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congre... More

[Man wearing ceremonial costume, carrying a long staff (possibly a small tree trunk sprouting a branch with leaves) and a fan made of feathers; appears to have wings that terminate in sharp points]

[Man wearing ceremonial costume, carrying a long staff (possibly a sma...

Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Woman wearing pink dress, holding fan, and sitting on swing]

[Woman wearing pink dress, holding fan, and sitting on swing]

X1253 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyrighted 1892 by Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich." No. 20. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Olga Nethersole, full-length portrait, reclining in chair, facing front, holding fan]

[Olga Nethersole, full-length portrait, reclining in chair, facing fro...

59192 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo: Theo Endean, Cleveland. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cripplld [sic] by fall while putting up aerial this radio fan still "listens in"

Cripplld [sic] by fall while putting up aerial this radio fan still "l...

Photograph shows Lester Picker lying in bed wearing earphones connected to a short wave radio; he is convalescing after breaking his back when he fell 55 feet while erecting an aerial for his radio. No. 290839F.C.

Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York. Tower fan room

Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School, Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York....

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Creek Valley, east of County Road No. 306, 3 miles north of U.S. Highway 189, Kemmerer, Lincoln County, WY

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Cre...

Significance: The fan house performed a critical function within the complex by providing ventilation to the underground mine workers. // Constructed of cut stone and concrete in its lower level with brick wall... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Details of screen, back of fan of Hall of Representatives

Details of screen, back of fan of Hall of Representatives

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Woman with fan display] - Public domain image related to music prformance, photograph

[Woman with fan display] - Public domain image related to music prform...

A woman sitting on top of a tree stump. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Magnetic fan made for electric machinery co. (Mr. Kyle) II

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Magnetic fan made for ele...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. Supply fan room

Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. Supply fan room

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Couple, seated, surrounded by plants with woman holding fan]

[Couple, seated, surrounded by plants with woman holding fan]

"A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. (copyright)." Created by A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road...

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of Sta...

Significance: The aerovane fan illustrates the evolution of mine ventilation in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. It is an example of an axial flow fan. These fans generally re... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. No. 6A induced draft fan at Buzzard Point plant

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. No. 6A induced draft f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs Fan Williams House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina

Mrs Fan Williams House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mrs Fan Williams House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina

Mrs Fan Williams House, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Robert Bacon, farm wife, with some of her electric appliances: fan, ironer, radio

Knox County, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Mrs. Robert...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Patient receiving treatment in new fever machine which keeps temperature at 107 degrees (108 degrees is fatal). Note ice in basin and fan to cool head

Melbourne, Australia. United States Army hospital. Patient receiving t...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fan Tan man - Public domain American sheet music

Fan Tan man - Public domain American sheet music

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Creek Valley, east of County Road No. 306, 3 miles north of U.S. Highway 189, Kemmerer, Lincoln County, WY

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Cre...

Significance: The fan house performed a critical function within the complex by providing ventilation to the underground mine workers. // Constructed of cut stone and concrete in its lower level with brick wall... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated in chair beside small table with tablecloth, wearing bonnet and black lace gloves; hands in lap, one elbow on table on which there is a folded fan]

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on face of plate: 167. Scratched on back of plate: 48. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. G.E. attic fan, Joseph Crowe

Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. G.E. attic f...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mr. Kean Sea Park, brush artist, Chicago, Illinois

Mr. Kean Sea Park, brush artist, Chicago, Illinois

Image numbers, descriptions: 1-4, fieldworker Chungmoo Choi and Mr. Kean Sea Park, brush artist, 6244 N. Claremont, Chicago, Mr. Park is holding an example of his work; 5-9, brush painting by Mr. Park; 10-18, f... More

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Creek Valley, east of County Road No. 306, 3 miles north of U.S. Highway 189, Kemmerer, Lincoln County, WY

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Cre...

Significance: The fan house performed a critical function within the complex by providing ventilation to the underground mine workers. // Constructed of cut stone and concrete in its lower level with brick wall... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Fan rooms and fans, U.S. Gen'l Post Office

Fan rooms and fans, U.S. Gen'l Post Office

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pic... More

Steam indicator diargams, engine of Committee Room fan, north wing

Steam indicator diargams, engine of Committee Room fan, north wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[A man, possibly a government official, holding a fan, seated, facing left, wearing a crown-like hat]

[A man, possibly a government official, holding a fan, seated, facing ...

No. 802. Illegible blind stamp across upper right corner. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 15] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purcha... More

Galleries and fan windows, New Orleans

Galleries and fan windows, New Orleans

Public domain photograph of costume accessory, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster, a plant superintendent built this machine. It makes possible a speedy checking of thread accuracy in contrast to the old hand method. The inventor made the machine out of a fan base and a couple pieces of machine steel in a matter of hours. Months would have been necessary to buy such a machine on the market

To save time in checking threads on a twenty-millimeter shell booster,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bale  of raw rubber is now being squeezed against the knife blades on the left under terrific pressure. These blades fan out into eight selections, cut the rubber into eights like an orange divides into sections. General Tires (Firestone), Akron, Ohio

The guillotine. Having slid down the trough on the lower left, the bal...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road...

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

[Barefoot boy with papers and fan]

[Barefoot boy with papers and fan]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1936:0044). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

[Portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan]

[Portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan]

Case: Floral design. Purchase; 2007; (DLC/PP-2007:103.1). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Larrmore [holding fan] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Larrmore [holding fan] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Magnetic fan made for electric machinery co. (Mr. Kyle) I

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. Magnetic fan made for ele...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

John Thompson Dorrance Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Large fan

John Thompson Dorrance Laboratory, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts. L...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fanny fancied a fancy fan - Public domain American sheet music

Fanny fancied a fancy fan - Public domain American sheet music

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road...

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road...

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer Smoke House-Spring House-Summer Kitchen, Fan Hollow Road...

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of Sta...

Significance: The aerovane fan illustrates the evolution of mine ventilation in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. It is an example of an axial flow fan. These fans generally re... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

[Design drawing for stained glass fan light window with shepherd/lamb theme]

[Design drawing for stained glass fan light window with shepherd/lamb ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Chinese official or gentleman, half-length portrait, facing front, holding a folding fan with landscape scene]

[Chinese official or gentleman, half-length portrait, facing front, ho...

Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 42. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

[Lillian Russell, 1861-1922, half length portrait, seated in chair, flowers around head, holding fan, facing slightly left]

[Lillian Russell, 1861-1922, half length portrait, seated in chair, fl...

Photo copyrighted by W.M. Morrison, Chicago. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; BI; Shelf.

Girl with fan, autochrome color photo

Girl with fan, autochrome color photo

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"Bernhardt of Russia", driven out by Boshevists, now in New York - a radio fan

"Bernhardt of Russia", driven out by Boshevists, now in New York - a r...

Mme. Asta Souvorina, and "the Bernhardt of Russia", ... and Buster [dog] listening in on the radiophone. Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 324,169. This record contains unverified data from c... More

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new experimental radio apparatus with which the Dept. hopes soon to make possible night flying. The little lead fish at the bottom of the picture is let out while flying and carries with it a long copper wire which serves as the antennae. A sound-proof covering over the pilot's set and transmitter is necessary and the electricity is manufactured by a generator run by a free fan. Experiments conducted at Bolling Field, Wash. Aug. 2, 1922

Close-up of a Post Office Dept. mail plane equipped with the new exper...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fan mail has become so heavy that the Federal Radio Commission has seeked Congress for special legislation to allow the destruction of accumulated letters
Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Piles nearly to the roof and covering a huge area of floor space is the big stock of accessories for army truck engines, such as air cleaners, oil filters, fan belts, and so forth

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Piles nearly to the roof and covering ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of costume accessory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Creek Valley, east of County Road No. 306, 3 miles north of U.S. Highway 189, Kemmerer, Lincoln County, WY

Sublet Mine No. 6, Fan House, North structure, west side of Willow Cre...

Significance: The fan house performed a critical function within the complex by providing ventilation to the underground mine workers. // Constructed of cut stone and concrete in its lower level with brick wall... More

[Couple, seated, surrounded by plants with woman holding fan]

[Couple, seated, surrounded by plants with woman holding fan]

"A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. (copyright)." Created by A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of State Route 936, Midlothian, Allegany County, MD

Consolidation Coal Company Mine No. 11, Aerovane Fan, East side of Sta...

Significance: The aerovane fan illustrates the evolution of mine ventilation in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. It is an example of an axial flow fan. These fans generally re... More

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Route 115 & Riechard Street, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, PA

Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, South side of Susquehanna River at Rout...

Significance: The Dorrance Colliery's mine fan complex spanned the history of the colliery. The oldest fan, an 1883 cast iron and wood Guibal, is the last known survival of the most common type used in the ant... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Levi Springer House, Fan Hollow Road, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

Significance: The Springer House is the second-generation dwelling of one of western Pennsylvania's pioneer families. The building was built in 1817, as construction of the National Road approached Uniontown fr... More

[Luisa Tetrazzini, 1871-1940, full length portrait, standing, holding fan, facing left]

[Luisa Tetrazzini, 1871-1940, full length portrait, standing, holding ...

J152076 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Kirkland, Denver. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Operas & operettas?;Shelf.

Louisiana Senator blossoms out in first straw hat and yells, 'It's a hit!' Washington, D.C., April 21. Senator Allen J. Ellender went to the ball game between the Nats and the Yankees today. He proved it was spring because he wore a panama hat and yelled like a true baseball fan

Louisiana Senator blossoms out in first straw hat and yells, 'It's a h...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Barking Crab restaurant on the Fan Pier across the Northern Bridge from downtown Boston, Massachusetts

The Barking Crab restaurant on the Fan Pier across the Northern Bridge...

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

[Elegant woman in silver dress holding a fan] / John Held, Jr.

[Elegant woman in silver dress holding a fan] / John Held, Jr.

Illustration of full-length woman shows her in a silver dress facing front and back. She wears a large hat, flowing shawl, and holds a fan. Purchase (Swann Memorial Fund); 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:085). Forms part of... More

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Allegany County, MD

Ocean Mine No. 1 Complex, Powerhouse & Ventilation Fan, Midland, Alleg...

Significance: The Ocean Mine Number One Ventilation Fan and Powerhouse are among the few structures remaining from what was once the Consolidation Coal Company's Ocean Mine Number One complex. Together they re... More

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