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Norwich Free Academy (NFA) founded in 1854, Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich Free Academy (NFA) founded in 1854, Norwich, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Lone Free Rock, Looking Down - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Lone Free Rock, Looking Down - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

Part of series: Utah. American Fork Kanyon, Wahsatch Range. Part of series: Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories ...

Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Av...

Significance: Chestnut Hill was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Paschalville Branch, 6942 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Paschalville Branch, 6942 Woodlands Aven...

Significance: Paschalville was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Paschalville Branch, 6942 Woodlands Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Paschalville Branch, 6942 Woodlands Aven...

Significance: Paschalville was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More

Free classes in English! Learn to speak, read, & write the language of your children. [...] Special classes for educated foreign born.

Free classes in English! Learn to speak, read, & write the language of...

Poster announcing free English language classes; includes Yiddish text in Hebrew alphabet over Star of David. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Sponsored by WPA Adult Educati... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenue (in Vernon Park), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenu...

Significance: Germantown was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenue (in Vernon Park), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenu...

Significance: Germantown was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Significance: The Carnegie Free LIbrary was one of the first of 15 libraries established in towns throughout South Carolina by iron and steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie p... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1908, the Manayunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the tenth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew ... More

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, ME

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, M...

Significance: The Library is a notable example of the Victorian Gothic idiom of the 1870s, more especially since an ecclesiastical form is used for a civic structure. The original (1878-79) building in its exte... More

Free as a bird scottische - Public domain music sheet scan
[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXVIII M 37. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebriti... More

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford County, NH

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford Coun...

Significance: Built is 1842, this building is a good example of the Greek Revival Style and one of the few remaining historic churches in Somersworth to escape destruction by fire or demolition. It reflects the... More

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford County, NH

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford Coun...

Significance: Built is 1842, this building is a good example of the Greek Revival Style and one of the few remaining historic churches in Somersworth to escape destruction by fire or demolition. It reflects the... More

Oliver Ames Free Library, 53 Main Street, North Easton, Bristol County, MA

Oliver Ames Free Library, 53 Main Street, North Easton, Bristol County...

Significance: The library was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, one of America's greatest architects. Richardson's name has become synonymous with Romanesque design. Together with Landscape Architect, Fred... More

Free Methodist Church, Pleasantville, Venango County, PA

Free Methodist Church, Pleasantville, Venango County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51 Survey number: HABS PA-531 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, McPherson Square Branch, 601 East Indiana Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, McPherson Square Branch, 601 East Indian...

Significance: McPherson Square was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Car... More

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXX M 29. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Newton Free Library, 414 Centre Street, Newton Corner, Middlesex County, MA

Newton Free Library, 414 Centre Street, Newton Corner, Middlesex Count...

Significance: The building represents one of the first 19th century "free libraries" constructed in Massachusetts and was an important public building in Newton from 1870-1991. The original building was design... More

Newton Free Library, 414 Centre Street, Newton Corner, Middlesex County, MA

Newton Free Library, 414 Centre Street, Newton Corner, Middlesex Count...

Significance: The building represents one of the first 19th century "free libraries" constructed in Massachusetts and was an important public building in Newton from 1870-1991. The original building was design... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Haddington Branch, 446 North 65th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Haddington Branch, 446 North 65th Street...

Significance: Haddington was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street,...

Significance: Oak Lane was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie's ... More

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzibah, Richmond County, GA

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzi...

Significance: The Free Cabin is significant for embodying the distinctive characteristics of a rare vernacular house type and for its potential to yield information regarding nineteenth century agricultural hou... More

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzibah, Richmond County, GA

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzi...

Significance: The Free Cabin is significant for embodying the distinctive characteristics of a rare vernacular house type and for its potential to yield information regarding nineteenth century agricultural hou... More

Free! - Drawing. Public domain image.

Free! - Drawing. Public domain image.

Card showing African American slave reaching freedom. No. 8, no. 64. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Wyoming Branch, 231 East Wyoming Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Wyoming Branch, 231 East Wyoming Avenue,...

Significance: Completed in 1930, the Wyoming Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew Ca... More

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 block of Torresdale Avenue, southwest corner of Torresdale Avenue & Knorr Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 bloc...

Significance: While not initially established-but partially funded-by the Disstons, education and social betterment were a key part of their concept of benevolent industrial paternalism. The Tacony Branch Libr... More

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1100.

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Charles F. Adams: Free soil candidate for Vice President

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1100.

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

V16220 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Forbes.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: Fine example of nationalist influence on traditional Quaker plain style, and built for a group of dissenting Free Quakers who were expelled from the Religious Society of Friends for participation ... More

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: Fine example of nationalist influence on traditional Quaker plain style, and built for a group of dissenting Free Quakers who were expelled from the Religious Society of Friends for participation ... More

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: Fine example of nationalist influence on traditional Quaker plain style, and built for a group of dissenting Free Quakers who were expelled from the Religious Society of Friends for participation ... More

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Quakers Meetinghouse, 500 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia...

Significance: Fine example of nationalist influence on traditional Quaker plain style, and built for a group of dissenting Free Quakers who were expelled from the Religious Society of Friends for participation ... More

The  Free Lance - John Philip Sousa
Free and happy in his crude prosperity--life in the sand belt of North Carolina

Free and happy in his crude prosperity--life in the sand belt of North...

African American man with his wife and two children in an ox-drawn cart. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

FREE, ARTHUR M. HONORABLE - Public domain portrait photograph

FREE, ARTHUR M. HONORABLE - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[Exterior of Cliff Rodger's Free Public Library, Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts]

[Exterior of Cliff Rodger's Free Public Library, Marshfield Hills, Mas...

H82327 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Community Center Free - everybody welcome.

Community Center Free - everybody welcome.

Poster promoting use of community centers for such activities as "athletic activities, cultural groups, arts and crafts, music and dancing, library and forum," as well as meeting rooms for club meetings; poster... More

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES PAN AMERICAN BOARD ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 15. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, SHOWN HERE STANDING TO RECEIVE AN OVATION FROM MINISTERS AND AMBASSADORS FROM THE 21 PAN AMERICAN REPUBLICS, ADDRESSED THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE UNION ON ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY. HE SAID THAT HE HOPED THE AMERICAS WOULD NEVER HAVE TO RESORT TO FORCE FOR ITS DEFENSE, BUT THAT HE WAS CONVINCED THAT THE AMERICAS WOULD BY WHOLLY SUCCESSFUL IN DEFENDING THEIR WAY OF LIFE BECAUSE THE 'INNER STRENGTH OF A GROUP OF FREE PEOPLE IS IRRESISTIBLE WHEN THEY ARE PREPARED TO ACT

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES PAN AMERICAN BOARD ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY. ...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Free sleeping quarters for truck drivers at a truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue) in Washington, D.C.

Free sleeping quarters for truck drivers at a truck service station on...

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

A black and white photo of two men working on a fence, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of two men working on a fence, Colorado. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men working on a piece of wood, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men working on a piece of wood, Colorado. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men standing next to each other, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other, Colorado. Farm Security A...

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

A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat, Colorado. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a baseball bat, Colorado. Far...

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

Mrs. Free, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower, with incubator in her basement house. Dead Ox Flat, Oregon

Mrs. Free, wife of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation b...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Free Skyhorse & Mohawk and all political prisoners

Free Skyhorse & Mohawk and all political prisoners

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

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...

Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philade...

Significance: The Wagner Free Institute of Science exists as a rare, if not entirely peerless, relic of American Victorian educational-institutional architecture. The Institute remains essentially unaltered in... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Kingsessing Branch, 1201 South 51st Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Kingsessing Branch, 1201 South 51st Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1919, the Kingsessing Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was among the last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Passyunk Branch, 1935 Shunk Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Passyunk Branch, 1935 Shunk Street, Phil...

Significance: When the cornerstone of the Passyunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was laid in 1913, it was one of seven branches concurrently under construction through an endowment from industriali... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Av...

Significance: Chestnut Hill was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, West Philadelphia Branch, 201 South 40th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, West Philadelphia Branch, 201 South 40th...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the West Philadelphia Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

Free classes for adults - register now

Free classes for adults - register now

Poster announcing free adult education classes in such areas of study as "social studies, home-making, business, music, Americanization, language, science, arts" to be held at the School for Adult Education, Th... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenue (in Vernon Park), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenu...

Significance: Germantown was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenue (in Vernon Park), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenu...

Significance: Germantown was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Significance: The Carnegie Free LIbrary was one of the first of 15 libraries established in towns throughout South Carolina by iron and steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie p... More

The further adventures of Alice in Wonderland. [Chapter one] Boston, Mass., Sunday Free Press, c1908.

The further adventures of Alice in Wonderland. [Chapter one] Boston, M...

Massachusetts 1908. @+@; I. Title.; II. Title: Alice in Wonderland. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.... More

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, ME

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, M...

Significance: The Library is a notable example of the Victorian Gothic idiom of the 1870s, more especially since an ecclesiastical form is used for a civic structure. The original (1878-79) building in its exte... More

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, ME

Hubbard Free Library, 115 Second Street, Hallowell, Kennebec County, M...

Significance: The Library is a notable example of the Victorian Gothic idiom of the 1870s, more especially since an ecclesiastical form is used for a civic structure. The original (1878-79) building in its exte... More

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to be Free?]

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to be Free...

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXVIII M 37. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebriti... More

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford County, NH

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford Coun...

Significance: Built is 1842, this building is a good example of the Greek Revival Style and one of the few remaining historic churches in Somersworth to escape destruction by fire or demolition. It reflects the... More

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford County, NH

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford Coun...

Significance: Built is 1842, this building is a good example of the Greek Revival Style and one of the few remaining historic churches in Somersworth to escape destruction by fire or demolition. It reflects the... More

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford County, NH

Free Will Baptist Church, 10 Green Street, Somersworth, Strafford Coun...

Significance: Built is 1842, this building is a good example of the Greek Revival Style and one of the few remaining historic churches in Somersworth to escape destruction by fire or demolition. It reflects the... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...

Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Falls of Schuylkill Branch, 3501 Midvale...

Significance: Completed in 1913, the Falls of the Schuylkill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropis... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Cobbs Creek Branch, 5800 Cobbs Creek Parkway, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Cobbs Creek Branch, 5800 Cobbs Creek Par...

Significance: Completed in 1925, the Cobbs Creek Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the next to last of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropi... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing anchor with crucifixion, tall ship, and steepled church with text "Stand Fast in the Liberty ... Christ has made us Free"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing anchor with crucifixi...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Republican drag "Free Whiskey"

The Republican drag "Free Whiskey"

Man standing in foreground possibly James Blaine. "This way for the temperance and morality line" on banner. Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congr... More

Free Methodist Church, Pleasantville, Venango County, PA

Free Methodist Church, Pleasantville, Venango County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-51 Survey number: HABS PA-531 Building/structure dates: 1849 Initial Construction

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Thomas Holme Branch, 7810 Frankford Aven...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the Thomas Holme Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the fifth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist And... More

McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent ...

Significance: This Greek Doric structure, the most archeologically accurate example in Baltimore, set the standards for the city's early school architecture. Founded and endowed by John McKim, the private McKi... More

McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

McKim Free School, 1120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent ...

Significance: This Greek Doric structure, the most archeologically accurate example in Baltimore, set the standards for the city's early school architecture. Founded and endowed by John McKim, the private McKi... More

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXX M 29. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Southwark Branch, 1108 South 5th Street , Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Southwark Branch, 1108 South 5th Street ...

Significance: Southwark was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street,...

Significance: Oak Lane was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie's ... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 North 12th Street,...

Significance: Oak Lane was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie's ... More

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzibah, Richmond County, GA

Free Cabin, State Route 121-U.S. Highway 25-Peach Orchard Road, Hephzi...

Significance: The Free Cabin is significant for embodying the distinctive characteristics of a rare vernacular house type and for its potential to yield information regarding nineteenth century agricultural hou... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Branch, 1333 Wagner Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Branch, 1333 Wagner Avenue, Philad...

Significance: Completed in 1918, the Kingsessing Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the twenty-first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropi... More

Gilroy Free Public Library, 195 Fifth Street, Gilroy, Santa Clara County, CA

Gilroy Free Public Library, 195 Fifth Street, Gilroy, Santa Clara Coun...

Significance: A good example of an early 20th-century Beaux-Arts-classical small town Carnegie Library, the building served its original purpose from 1910 until 1975. In 1976 it was entirely occupied by the lo... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Lehigh Avenue Branch, 601 West Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Lehigh Avenue Branch, 601 West Lehigh Av...

Significance: Completed in 1906, the Lehigh Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was one of the first of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist An... More

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 block of Torresdale Avenue, southwest corner of Torresdale Avenue & Knorr Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 bloc...

Significance: While not initially established-but partially funded-by the Disstons, education and social betterment were a key part of their concept of benevolent industrial paternalism. The Tacony Branch Libr... More

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 block of Torresdale Avenue, southwest corner of Torresdale Avenue & Knorr Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Tacony Branch Library, Free Library of Philadelphia, 6700 bloc...

Significance: While not initially established-but partially funded-by the Disstons, education and social betterment were a key part of their concept of benevolent industrial paternalism. The Tacony Branch Libr... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Phila...

Significance: The Central Library, built between 1917 and 1927, was designed by well-known architect Horace Trumbauer and his associate Julian Abele and it is the flagship of the Philadelphia Free Library syste... More

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