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[Miners panning for gold ; entering a mine shaft ; miners with equipme...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of mining life; attached blank leaf.

Gold in California - "El Dorado," in Sacramento

Interior of crowded gambling house. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1852 June 5, p. 437. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392-J. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More

As it was written - Drawing. Public domain image.

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

The fact that he had a solid gold front tooth made him peculiarly attr...

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Her First Marrying" by Una Hunt, Scribner's magazine, 58:247 (Aug. 1915).

Gertrude Belier, 15 years old. Hemming curtains on machine at Boutwell...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Madame Alla Nazimova, the great Emotional actress, picks up the Purple...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, three-quarter length, Alla Nazimova, looking up, standing with tricolor NWP banner draped across chest. Verso: "Photos & Publicity File N... More

White House (gold piano), 9/20/28

Public domain image of musical performance, piano music, keyboard instrument, pianist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold Dust Mine, Mill, & Camp Complex, Cabin, Wards Gulch, Salmon, Lemh...

For additional historical and descriptive information, see HAER ID-24. Significance: The Gold Dust Mine, Mill, and Camp are locally significant as a representative example of the small lode mines which operated... More

"Battle hymn" [by] Michael Gold and Michael Blankfort epic drama of pr...

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.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESENTS MEDAL TO EXPLORER LINCOLN ELLSWORTH. WASH...

A group of men in tuxedos shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

White House gold piano replaced with new instrument. Washington, D.C.,...

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

Gold mining camp. Madison County, Montana

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 mining camp. Madison County, Montana

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

Grain elevator and Gold Metal flour mill. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prospector taking material left in rocker which he will place in pan f...

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

Miners' union hall. Silver City [i.e. Gold Hill], Nevada

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Eugene Davis panning gold. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

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.

PRESIDENT PRESENTS MEDAL TO COHAN FOR 'OVER THERE' WAR SONG. PRESIDENT...

A man in a suit is holding a medal. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prospector taking a sample of dirt from creek bed which contains scatt...

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

The Sunnyside mill with general managers now abandoned. There is still...

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

A couple of men standing next to each other. War Production FSA/OWI Ph...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospector examining rock formation along creek bed which contains gol...

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

Farmers' meeting. Gold Hill, Placer County, California

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

Gold mine office. El Dorado Canyon, Clark County, Nevada

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

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a chair. Great Depre...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street scene, Mogollon, New Mexico, second largest gold mining town in...

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

A black and white photo of men working on a train. Great Depression Er...

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

Workers at mill at gold mine in Mogollon, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold miner operating pneumatic drill at Mogollon, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Looking at the gold cup. Horse races at Warrenton, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of dog, animal, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old degenerating structure that later apparently served some artistic ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More

Americana Hotel, 52nd St. and 7th Ave., New York City. American suite,...

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madam Felix-Hodson District Gold Mines & Mills, Southern Edge Salt Spr...

Significance: The Madam Felix-Hudson Mining District is significant in that it contains remains representing the entire span of mining activities in this area, from the middle 1850s through to the present day. ... More

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

Sculpture "Gold Rush" at the Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, Sacrame...

Artist: Tom Otterness, 1999. Bronze, variable dimensions. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. C... More

"The Great Lompoc Gold Rush," a "mural in a day" in Lompoc, California...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Stone field structure on Gold Street in Hartford, Connecticut

Created by artist Carl Andre in the year 1977. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Hi... More

A California gold hunter meeting a settler

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Serrell & Perkins.

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

Public domain photograph of cabinet furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Our star of gold - Public domain World War One sheet music

For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Gold dust galop - Public domain American sheet music, 1881

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Man panning gold on Nome Beach. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

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

The buckskin bag of gold - Public domain American sheet music

Goldfield, Nevada, Sept. 30th, 1909, the greatest gold camp in the wor...

J133753 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; October 25, 1909. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles. No. 524.

Leaves of gold idylle - Public domain American piano sheet music

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

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Five dollars. This bill entitles the bearer to receive five Spanish mi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of banknote, paper money, numismatic catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Miner panning gold, 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.

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

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

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

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

Gold Ridge Farm, 7777 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA

See also HABS CA-2201 for related information. Significance: On this site, from 1886 until his death in 1926, Burbank had the space, soil and climate to experiment with large plantings of fruit trees and vegeta... More

Gold Ridge Farm, 7777 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA

See also HABS CA-2201 for related information. Significance: On this site, from 1886 until his death in 1926, Burbank had the space, soil and climate to experiment with large plantings of fruit trees and vegeta... More

Gold Ridge Farm, 7777 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA

See also HABS CA-2201 for related information. Significance: On this site, from 1886 until his death in 1926, Burbank had the space, soil and climate to experiment with large plantings of fruit trees and vegeta... More

Gold Ridge Farm, 7777 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA

See also HABS CA-2201 for related information. Significance: On this site, from 1886 until his death in 1926, Burbank had the space, soil and climate to experiment with large plantings of fruit trees and vegeta... 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

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

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

Quartz mining works at Gold Hill

Photograph shows bird's-eye view of mining facilities including Empire and Imperial at Gold Hill, Nevada. The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scene... More

A burro train bringing gold from the mines near Ouray, Colorado

H87987 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1535. Copyright by W.S. Smith. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, 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 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 Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 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

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

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

Public domain photograph of California industry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

No. 48 State Street. Boston, Sept. 11, 1865. Dear Sir: The undersigned...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 45.

Whim of the Four-Twenty Claim, Gold Hill

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 734. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Empire, Imperial, Challenge, and other Mining Works at Gold Hill

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 739. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Hornet Hill Cut, Central Pacific Railroad near Gold Run

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1092. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route.... More

Gold Hill, from the North, California, 19th century sterescope card.

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 740. LOT subdivision subject: Nevada Cities and Towns. This record contains unverified old data fr... More

Shading the gold - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows a schematic design for applying gold leaf, labeled "light" on one side and "thick" on the other. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Lacquer" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms ... More

The gold and coal fields of Alaska : together with the principal steam...

Unloading gold from boat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of ship, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The impressive World War Memorial, the First Division Monument, erecte...

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

[Oliver Kirk, American boxer and two-time Olympic gold medal winner]

Public domain photograph related to Olympic games, sport, athletics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold dredge, 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.