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Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation

Negro slaves. Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. Ref. copy may be in P&P - A Pictorial History of Blackamericans - E185.H83 1973, p. 16. This record contains unverified data from caption card. C... More

Sumpter Prison, Andersonville, Georgia, June 1864

Shows the prison with wooden fence, 18 guard towers, the famous "deadline," the north and south gates, Sweetwater Creek, "Valley of Death," fortification, batteries, and cook house. He depicts overcrowding by a... More

Map showing the investment and siege of Savannah, Georgia by Genl Sher...

Regional view of Savannah, Ga., with the many landforms (rivers, sounds, swamps, islands) noted as well as the locations of forts Jackson and Pulaski. The Savannah & Gulf Railroad, Georgia Central Railroad, and... More

Plan of Andersonville Prison or "Camp Sumter," April, 1864.

Illustrates the layout of Andersonville Camp, as Sneden refers to the prison, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Capt... More

[Old peasant with dagger and long smoking pipe, Mestia, Svanetia, Geor...

James Guthrie Harbord Collection No. 5916, no. 64.

Live Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A

No. 6699.

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 86. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[African American man, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 2, no. 112. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly ...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 70. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[Interior view of room showing furniture and framed pictures]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 288. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American woman, half-length portrait, wearing hat, facing fro...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 89. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[African American girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 215. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P ... More

[Young African American woman, half-length portrait, facing right, wit...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 74. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Greene's Monument, Johnson Square, Savannah, Ga

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 04872. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bon Air Hotel, Summerville, [i.e. Augusta] Ga.

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Greene Street, Augusta, Ga.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park alley, trees, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Ga. Little girl on end has been ther...

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

Doffers in Willingham Cotton Mill, Macon, Ga. The three boys in front ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 532. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Colored tenant farmer taking home bags of fertilizer. Greene County, G...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Woman standing, facing front, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax ...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

Drought corn. Central Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomaston (vicinity), Georgia. A Georgia tenant farmer who says, "THis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main street. Macon, Georgia, c.1930s

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aged cotton farmer, Greene County, Georgia. He inherited his lands whi...

Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farm boy. Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgia photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inf...

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

Cowles-Coleman-O'Neal House, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia

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

Woods Plantation, Washington vic., Wilkes County, Georgia

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

Barbeque picnic on the occasion of the dedication of a FSA (Farm Secur...

Georgia photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inf...

Lucille West, at pressure cooker, and Nancy Engram canning vegetables ...

Baseball game, Atlanta, Georgia

Chopping cotton near Montezuma, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mosquito Crossing, Greene County, Georgia. The new Negro school

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

Saturday afternoon shoppers in the Bickers Goodwin store in Greensboro...

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

Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Singing class in a Negro school

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

Union meeting of textile workers in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

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

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Look at that boy come, riding a chute ...

[Taxi cabs with sign "White only, Becks cabs" on side, Albany, Georgia...

Georgia Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Built 1885-1889. Title, date, and keywords provided by ... More

Tift Theater, Tifton, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Rosa Parks with Jane Gunter, Director of Family Life Ministries, East ...

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

Oil painting "The Two Rivers" at Federal Building, Post Office & U.S. ...

Artist: Peter Blume, 1943. Dimensions: 6' 4" x 13' . Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Ninety-two-year-old former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discusses the m...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Aerial view of the St. Simons Island, Georgia, Lighthouse Museum

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Located near the village and pier, the St. Simons Lighthouse is one of only five surviving light towers in Georgia. An operational nav... More

Three red barns in Bartow, an old cotton-mill town in the U.S. state o...

Aerial view of Fort James Jackson, usually called Old Fort Jackson, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. President Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of a national defense system of fortifications to defend his new nation. Jeffer... More

Elizabeth Shoumatoff's "Unfinished Portrait" of Franklin Roosevelt on ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally named Bullochville for the Bulloch family of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt and maternal ... More

A map of South Carolina and a part of Georgia. Containing the whole se...

Scale ca. 1:322,000. Hand colored. "West longitude from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1518 Available also through the Library of Congress Web... More

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street. Washington DC sterescope ca...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

The Levee, Louisville, Ky

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10070, 10069. Originally part of a three-part panorama; right section not in collection. "Georgia Lee" on steamboat. "G 4319," "G 4318" on ... More

Dorsey's Barbecue, Ty Ty, Georgia

Tifton, Georgia - Automobiles of 1940s

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Savannah Victorian Historic District, 215 West Gwinnett Street (House)...

Significance: An outstanding example of a mid 1880s frame townhouse noted for its formerly elegant interiors. The advanced deterioration of this house made documentation imperative. The house is one of the few ... More

Trip with Rusty Marshall to Ocilla, Georgia; Various buildings, Carlto...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Note singing get-together at Macedonia Baptist Church, Sylvester

Old Medical College, 598 Telfair Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-2, FN-3, FN-4, FN-5 Survey number: HABS GA-14-70 Building/structure dates: 1835 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places N... More

Vance Farmstead, Main House, State Route 88, Hephzibah, Richmond Count...

Significance: The Vance Farmstead, Main House is a ca. 1900 two-story Georgian house type with Gothic Revival details. It is significant for its architecture as a representative example of a Georgian house type... More

Tifton Bridge, U.S. Route 82/State Route 50 over Seaboard Coastline Ra...

Significance: The Tifton Bridge is one of 10 camelback bridges identified in the state, only 7 of which are pin-connected, and only 2 of which are in the southern portion of the state. The camelback truss of t... More

Wise Sanatorium No. 2, Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, GA

Significance: Jimmy Carter was born in the Wise Sanitarium, October 1, 1924. At that time in Plains, most babies were born at home, but Jimmy's mother, Lillian Carter (1898-1983), was a nurse at the hospital, a... More

Cochran Log House, Hoschton, Jackson County, GA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS GA-14-23 Building/structure dates: 1774 Initial Construction

Central of Georgia Railway, Up Freight Warehouse, 227 West Broad Stree...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Significance: Erected in 1853, the warehouse is one of the oldest structures in the yard. Constructed by Mueller and... More

[The Georgia Negro] Occupations of Negroes and whites in Georgia.

Circle graph shows percentage of African Americans and whites in various occupations. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section a... More

[Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, New Mexico]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV HH 1. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Atlanta, Georgia. View on Whitehall Street

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

126-255 Auburn Avenue (Commercial Buildings), Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, ...

Buildings include: Atlanta Life Building, Atlantic Life Building, Smith House, Rucker Building, Hooper Building, Alexander Building, Bethel Towers, Big Bethel Church, Odd Fellows Building & Auditorium, Cox Buil... More

Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century building, Victorian architecture style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Frederica, Welch House (Ruins), Lot No. 5, South Ward, Saint Simo...

Significance: One of the largest houses built by the original settlers of Fort Frederica; dates from about 1739 and is in ruinous condition. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27 Su... More

Beale Air Force Base, Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased-Array...

Significance: It is one of four large phased-array radars designed and built by Raytheon. PAVE PAWS was the first solid-state, phase-phase steered array radar operational in the world. The PAVE PAWS at Beale an... More

Going to market--a scene near Savannah, Georgia / E.A. Abbey.

Print shows African Americans carrying food to market in baskets on their heads and by ox-drawn cart. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1875 May 29, p. 436. Reference copy in LOT 4422-D.

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

See HAER GA-1, Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops, for additional information. Survey number: HAER GA-1-G National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000610

Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton Cou...

Significance: The original 1924 building, which has been added to eight times, reflects the appearance of an Italian palazzo, a favorite theme associated with department stores constructed in the early twentiet... More

[African American children outdoors, Eatonville, Florida; Zora Neale H...

Railey-Hall, Shed, State Highway 3/U.S. Highway 19 at Croxton Cross Ro...

Significance: This shed is associated with the Railey-Hall House which is part of a district which comprises the core of the rural crossroads community of Sumter in Sumter County. The district contains five com... More

Odd Fellows Building & Auditorium, 228-250 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Ful...

Significance: It constituted the first large-scale, black-owned, black-operated, multiple use complex in Atlanta. Built in 1911-13 for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, the complex was the brainchild of Be... More

Savannah City Hall, Bay & Bull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Significance: Savannah's City Hall has served as the center of the municipal government in this city since its erection in 1905. The building occupies a prominent position in the community. Unprocessed Field n... More

Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep

The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More

The army map of Georgia.

Scale ca. 1:800,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 129.8 "Deposited [for copyright] July 27, 1864. Recorded vol. 39, page 496" and "No. 41" are written in the right margin. "Copyright Library, 28 Jan. 1865." "En... More

Destruction of the depots, public buildings, and manufactories at Atla...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 9, no. 419 (1865 Jan. 7), p. 4.

Unidentified Civil war veteran O. Pierre Havens, Jacksonville, Florida

Photograph shows portrait of unidentified Confederate veteran. Related to photograph processed as LOT 14043-2, nos. 493, which is of the same person. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly dep... More

[Two women winnowing grain, Caucasus, Georgia (Republic)

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

[Chain gang prisoners and guards, Thomasville, Georgia]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia; looking north from Georgia...

Photo by R.A. Ellis. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Negro city tenements, Atlanta, Georgia]

Title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 300. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are... More

[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly le...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 1. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More

Kindergarten at Haines Normal and Industrial Institute, Augusta, Georg...

African American children in a classroom. No. 19. Exhibited: Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition universelle internationale de 1900), images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "America... More

[African American baseball players from Morris Brown College, with boy...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 337. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, seated with le...

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

[Young African American man, half-length portrait, facing right]

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 91. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P R... More

[Mamie Westmorland, school teacher; half-length portrait, with left ha...

Attribution to Askew and title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 79. B&w copy prin... More

[Young African American woman, half-length portrait, facing front, smi...

In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 3. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Re... More