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[Kara nishiki (Chinese brocade) with red background] [Kinran (gold bro...

Drawings show stylized floral designs for kimonos. Title and date devised by Library staff, no information provided by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints an... More

[Indians pouring molten gold into mouth of bound Spaniard; corpse bein...

Illus. in: Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, p. 50 (Venetia, 1572). Reference copy may be in SSF - CANNIBALISM. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I... More

Hydraulic gold mining, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Victor, Colo., and the Gold Coin Mine

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Mr. Kah smelting gold at the Assay Office - Frank G. Carpenter collect...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

[Group portrait of a woman and three men, crouched outside, smiling; o...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Stove in the Assay Office used to melt gold dust and nuggets

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Weighing the gold bricks

Gold brick(?) and scale.

[James Brendan Connolly, Olympic gold medal winner, head-and-shoulders...

H71566 U.S. Copyright Office. Olympic gold medal winner, Athens, 1896. Copyright by J.E. Purdy, Boston

Coolidge & Gold Star mothers, 2/20/24

Public domain photograph related to President Coolidge, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Craig in new dress uniform. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25. Resplen...

A man in uniform standing in front of a fireplace. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White House (gold piano) - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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WPA paintings by Yvonne Twining, Waldo Kaufer, Albert Gold, [and] Fran...

Poster announcing exhibition of paintings at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Date stamped on verso: Dec 16 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

"Battle hymn" by Michael Gold & Michael Blankfort epic drama of pre-ci...

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Battle Hymn" at the Columbia theater, showing a half-length portrait of a white man, facing left, reaching his hand toward the hand of an African American. Wo... More

Gold miner working in sluice box, Two Bit Creek, South Dakota

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Settling tank in gold ore. Mill. El Dorado Canyon, Nevada

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mill for processing gold and silver ores. El Dorado Canyon, Clark Coun...

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Officers of Farm Bureau presiding at meeting at Gold Hill, California

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

Mill at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico

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Rocks coming out of gold dredge after ore has been removed. Nye County...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospector pouring dirt which he thinks contains gold in sluice box. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House in Georgetown, New Mexico. Ghost gold mining town. There are two...

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

Main street of Mogollon, New Mexico, second largest gold mining town i...

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Gold prospector blowing away dirt to find the gold in his pan while a ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stirring molten gold and silver in furnace. El Dorado Canyon, Nevada

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tailings and mill at gold mine. Mogollon, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold Coast Battery in action. Bofors gun firing at target during train...

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abandoned gold mill east of Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado

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Abandoned gold mill at Ophir, Colorado

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

Keystone, South Dakota. Gold mining town

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The mill. Gold mine at Mogollon, New Mexico

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Butte, Montana. John D. Eddy, former miner, now living at 3030 Amherst...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold dredge / from a photograph by Bradford Washburn.

Postcard shows a gold dredge in the valley of Goldstream Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska. J 38287 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 792425.

Gold Placers Incorporated, Worker Quarters, Near Coal Creek & Yukon Ri...

Significance: Gold mining is an important theme in the history of the upper Yukon River region in Alaska and Canada. One of several mining camps in the area, the Coal Creek Mining Camp contains many important c... More

Angels Camp, California's most famous Gold Rush town

The town was the setting for Mark Twain's 1865 short story,"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection ... More

The Main Building's gold dome topped by a golden statue of St. Mary at...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift;... More

Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

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Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a religious building interior, church, cathedral, hall, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

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Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

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Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

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Church furniture of wood artistically carved, or decorated white & gol...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a church tower, column, fre...

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[Gold miners, El Dorado, California]

Photograph shows miner's camp and large log cabin on hillside; prospectors, some with shovels and pix axe pose near ditch and flume.

The greastest story ever told When the blues are changed to gold

words and music by W. R. Williams. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

McCulloch Gold Mill, Copper Branch, north of State Route 1153, Jamesto...

Significance: Only known existing ante-bellum engine house built solely as a gold mill in North Carolina. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HAER NC-7 Building/str... More

Upon a Cross of Gold - Public domain music sheet scan

The little gold star in the window

words by Lydia Wiley ; music by Leopold A. Richard. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notati... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

[Preparatory drawing for "Mining for Gold" mural, Hispanic Division, L...

Drawing shows men panning for gold, two men in water and four others in rowboat Signed in pencil Gift; Cândido Portinari; 1942 April 6. Exhibited: "Nexus New York : Encounters in the Modern Metropolis, 1900-19... More

The buckskin bag of gold - Public domain American sheet music

Desert Queen Ranch, One Stamp Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernard...

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

Miner's Union Hall, B Street, Gold Hill, Storey County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-15-14 Public domain photograph of wooden church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Great Culebra Cut with Gold Hill, showing landslide in the foregro...

On verso at top left: "O. E. Jorstad, Box 1364, Cristobal, C.Z." On verso at bottom left: "P9. I. L. Maduro Jr., P.O. Box 281, Panama (Copyright)". Transfer; LC Hispanic Division (Panama Canal Commission (Canal... More

White cotton, black pickers and a gin. Humble and crude, but the crop ...

J200226 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; February 6, 1915. Printed on image: "Cirkut Photo by Coovert, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.A., copyright 1914".

Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper.

Report of the grand committee of the Continental Congress, read May 13, 1785; with the plan of Robert Morris, dated January 15, 1782, and Notes on the establishment of a money unit, and of a coinage for the Uni... More

Gold Dust Mine, Mill & Camp Complex, Wards Gulch, Salmon, Lemhi County...

Significance: The Gold Dust Mine, Mill, and Camp are locally significant as a representative example of the small lode mines which operated in the Leesburg Basin during the late nineteenth and early twentieth c... More

Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields, Nome, Nome Census Area, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-3 Building/structure dates: 1922 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work

Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields, Nome, Nome Census Area, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-3 Building/structure dates: 1922 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1941 Subsequent Work

Hydraulic mining, at Gold Run, Placer County

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hill, Lee County...

Survey number: HABS AL-581 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hill, Lee County...

Survey number: HABS AL-581 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Bald Mountain Gold Mill, Nevada Gulch at head of False Bottom Creek, L...

Significance: The technology used at Bald Mountain Gold Mill provides an excellent illustration of the development of the cyanide process of gold milling in the first half of the twentieth century. Historicall... More

Down in a Colorado gold mine--taking out ore, Eagle River Canyon, Colo...

Two gold miners at work in tunnel. H57143 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. No. 12377.

Mountain King Gold Mine & Mill, 4.3 Air miles Northwest of Copperopoli...

Significance: The Mountain King Mill was originally constructed as a stamp mill for processing gold ore, and was in intermittent but fairly continuous use from 1905-1946. It was significantly altered in a numb... More

Coggins Gold Mine, Rich-Cog Mining Company, Eldorado, Montgomery Count...

Significance: Representative example of gold stamp mill. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HAER NC-4 Building/structure dates: 1913-1925 Initial Construction

Stampede Gold Mine, Kantishna, Denali Borough, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-31 Public domain photograph of a cabin, lodge, log home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stampede Gold Mine, Kantishna, Denali Borough, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-31 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stampede Gold Mine, Kantishna, Denali Borough, AK

Survey number: HAER AK-31 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

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

Wall Street Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

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Bridge at Mouth of Rogue River, Spanning Rogue River on Oregon Coast H...

Significance: The bridge is the first reinforced-concrete arch span built in the U.S. using the Freyssinet method of arch decentering. In this technique, arch ribs are pre-stressed by hydraulic jacks placed at ... More

Bridge at Mouth of Rogue River, Spanning Rogue River on Oregon Coast H...

Significance: The bridge is the first reinforced-concrete arch span built in the U.S. using the Freyssinet method of arch decentering. In this technique, arch ribs are pre-stressed by hydraulic jacks placed at ... More

Bridge at Mouth of Rogue River, Spanning Rogue River on Oregon Coast H...

Significance: The bridge is the first reinforced-concrete arch span built in the U.S. using the Freyssinet method of arch decentering. In this technique, arch ribs are pre-stressed by hydraulic jacks placed at ... More

Lost Horse Gold Mill, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA

Significance: The Lost Horse Gold Mine and Mill is a prime interpretive exhibit of efficient early western gold-mining practices and compactness of design, whereby the mine's ten-stamp mill was located directly... More

[Model of a statue dedicated to French balloonists, Joseph and Etienne...

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description