group portraits

Coronation 1965, the King & Queen

Photograph shows the newly-crowned King Palden Thondup Namgyal and Queen Hope Cooke walking in procession, Gangtok, Sikkim. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library... More

The Duchess of Devonshire 1784 Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. pinxt ; P. Ligh...

Print shows Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, with her infant daughter Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish. Caption continues: From the picture in the Royal Collection. Ownership stamp on verso, with... More

[Group of Bedouin women huddled together, two standing, others seated]...

Title devised by library staff. On verso: Asia. Natives. Palestine. Hourani? Bedouins.

[Gen'l. John W. Geary and staff - taken at Harper's Ferry]

Among the staff, the third man from left, holding a sword, has been identified as Captain Thomas Hollingsworth Elliot (Source: L. C. Wagner, 2007). The third man from the right is James Gillette (Source: Amy Jo... More

George Washington and his family [around table]

Black servant William Lee standing in background. Engraving from the Eclectic.

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Va., 1861 i.e.1862

No. B785. Date based on 22nd NY history. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Bedouin from the province of Halep (Aleppo); (2): Bedouin woman from the province of Halep (Aleppo); and (3): married Jewish woman from Halep (Aleppo). French caption from book: Alep: Figure 1: Bèdewi du ... More

Bedouins du desert Syrien Beduins of Syria.

Two Bedouin men, one standing, the other seated, holding a rifle.

Hawaii album, p. 26, portraits of men and women

Photographs show a portraits of Hawaiians including John Kapea, governor of the island of Maui, Princess Likelike, sister of King Kalakaua, a woman identified as "half cast" and others. Photographs show portrai... More

Sitting Bull and nephew, One Bull

Sitting Bull and nephew, One Bull, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding calumet.

The Irish members in their seats in the House of Parliament, 1886

Print shows, from back to front, 1. Alexander Blane, 2. J.D. Sheehan, 3. Sir Joseph N. M'Kenna, 4. Donal Sullivan, 5. Patrick O'Hea, 6. Dr. Fox, 7. Joseph Nolan, 8. Edw. Harrington, 9. J.F. Smithwick, 10. Willi... More

U.S.S. Massachusetts, group of sailors

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait group of Mrs. Frances (Folsom) Cleveland and the ladies of th...

Wives of Brigham Young

Seven of the wives of Brigham Young. 5122 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Johnson Co., Salt Lake.

[Sauk Indian family, full-length portrait] / F.A. Rinehart, Omaha.

2201 U.S. Copyright Office. Names of individuals pictured are written on neg. but unreadable on print. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

Group of Seminole braves

Seven Seminole Indians posed, full-length, wearing native dress.

[Eleanor and Billy Prentiss and Enyeart Crume, Wright neighbors]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 159. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... More

[Group of workers posed with bucket cart outside Leland & Faulconer Ma...

Photo shows men at the foundry and machine shop that produced automobile engines and merged with Cadillac Motor Co. in 1905. In middle row, owner Robert

Gov. Beckham and party at the races, Derby Day, Louisville, Ky.

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

The Western College for Women class of 1904, Oxford, Ohio

Title from jacket. "1910" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043148. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Edward S. Curtis - A morning chat--Acoma

Four Acoma women with pottery vessels gathered at watering hole. Curtis no. 1189-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis.... More

Banquet of the National Association of Agricultural Implement and Vehi...

H83753 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; October 12, 1906. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. No. 8385.

Eskimo mother with child on back, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collecti...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Original copyright holder: Lomen Bros. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Ch... More

[Arthur "Solly" Hofman batting and Jack Pfiester, a pitcher playing ca...

Title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Mother and child--Apsaroke

Portrait of a woman, half-length, seated, facing right, holding baby in beaded cradleboard. H113122 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2794-08. Published in: The North American India... More

Posed portrait of St. John's T.A.B.S. Fife and Drum Corps, Paterson, N...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Boys cleaning snow off the ice, so that they can ice skate, Washingto...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Three year old Emperor of China, Pu Yi

Pu Yi, throne name Hsuantung, on the right. On the left is his father, Prince Chun, the Regent, holding a younger brother. From the Gilliams Press Syndicate. George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 737-1.

[Two people seated on snow, and putting on ice skates, in the Washingt...

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

A Seminole mother and children

Locale based on negatives with similar numbers. "G 7719" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072721. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Buckner Orphans Home, Dallas, Texas

J154315 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Dallas, Tex. Copyright deposit; Johnson & Rogers; April 17, 1911.

Ute Indian Camp, Garden of the Gods, Shan Kive, 1913

J185937 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Colorado Springs. Copyright deposit; Stewart Brothers; September 9, 1913.

[Coeur D'Alene man, Phillip Wildshoe and family, in his Chalmers autom...

J218692 U.S. Copyright Office. Wildshoe Family members identified by Bob Bostwick (Coeur d'Alene tribe press secretary) and Bertha Swan (grandaughter of Phillip Wildshoe) as: front seat: Phillip Wildshoe, his w... More

Warburg [wedding] bridesmaids

J211094 U.S. Copyright Office.

Saarinen office staff (before hirsute enhancement; Eero Saarinen, uppe...

Washington Monument. Group of men standing by cap stone of Washington ...

Old negative number: 1995-7. The Washington Monument is an iconic obelisk located in Washington D.C., United States. It is located on the National Mall and is dedicated to George Washington, the first Presiden... More

High caste Hindus of Bombay, India

Four women, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing traditional dress. J253009 U.S. Copyright Office. Keystone View Company copyrighted. No. 12573

Mr. Liang Shih-Yi (lft.) and Mr. Yung Kwai Charge D'Affaires of the Ch...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stanley Harris and Conny [sic] Mack. The oldest and youngest managers ...

Stanley Harris, Washington Nationals baseball club manager, shaking hands with Connie Mack, Philadelphia Athletics manager. National Photo Company Collection. No. 30067.

Frank Farnum coaching Pauline Starke. And now the Charleston is moving...

Washington, D.C. area. National Photo Company Collection. Poorer copy of this image has been photographed as LC-USZ62-63993.

[President Coolidge and Helen Keller, full-length portrait, standing]

National Photo Company Collection. In album: v. 3, p. 23. LC-F81-38916 (b&w glass plate neg.)

Behind the scenes at the circus

Photo shows Miss Lillian Leitzel, star with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus helping Dolly Jahn celebrate her birthday.

Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison

Menominee Indian family

J08904 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.H. Wessa, Antigo, Wis.

[Man holding child, taken during recording expedition on Cat Island, B...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "prob. ... More

Private Sam Oka hands over to Private Henry Oshiro his share of the ge...

Distribution of boxes of candy and cigarettes, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Photograph by Bureau of Public Relations, U.S. War Department.

[Portrait of Rex William Stewart, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

[Portrait of Lena Horne and Lennie Hayton, New York, N.Y., between 194...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (L... More

[Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis, Cecil Payne, Ray Brown, and ...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (L... More

[Portrait of Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy H...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

[Portrait of Joan Brooks and Duke Niles, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947...

[Portrait of Machito, Jose Mangual, Carlos Vidal(?), Mario Bouza, Ubal...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Rosa Parks and friend, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich., 1948

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

[Diane Scholen, left, and Pat Kizeminski, right (runners-up) place dou...

NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Christmas greetings

Postcard inscription on verso: "May God bless and stregthen you. Christmas greetings from me and mine to you and yours" Dorothy Hutchinson, Am. Friends Service Comm. Postmark on back: Dec. 13, 1956, Jenkinto... More

Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the mo...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al. Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Long wait ahead / World Telegram & Sun photo by Roger Higgins.

Photograph showing Gladys Santiago, 5, wearing "Leap Year's Little Lady" sash, being kissed by Kerry O'Hagen, 6, on left and Donald Kaplan, 6, on right. NYWT&S staff photograph. On verso: "Gladys Santiago, 5, o... More

Rosa Parks at the home of Elizabeth Caffey during the State of Alabama...

"May God bless you and keep you. Yours truly, Elizabeth" inscription on back of print. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

[Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (third from left), standing behind a g...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Admiral Hyman G. Rickover at Senate Preparedness Subcommittee hearings, with Ralph Flanders of Vermont, Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 1/58. TOH" U.S. ... More

[Constance B. Motley with her husband Joel]

NYWTS staff photo. Handwritten note on verso: Constance Baker Motley, 1st woman Senator, 21st Senatorial District, N.Y. and her husband Joel. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photog... More

Sylvester McCauley Jr. and family

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

Rosa Parks with family

Photograph includes William McCauley and another unidentified woman. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

Rosa Parks and nephew, Robert D. McCauley

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

Rosa Parks visiting friends and family during a visit to Cailfornia, 1...

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

Rosa Parks and Elaine Steele

Photograph shows Parks and Steele likely at a promotion event for Parks' autobiography "Rosa Parks, My Story," published 1992. Printing date on photo processing envelope: "07/92". Forms part of: Visual Materia... More

Mamie Till-Mobley (left), Rosa Parks (center) and Rev. Willie Barrow a...

Photograph shows a group portrait of Till-Mobley, Parks and Barrow. Possibly at St. John Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).

Portrait of Rosa Parks at the White House after receiving the 1996 Pre...

Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress). "Official White House Photo 14Sep96" printed on back of photograph.

Portrait of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, 1947 or 1948

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Nat King Cole

Photographs show singer Nat King Cole performing and socializing. Includes Cole performing in a nightclub; performing for patients at a Chicago hospital; visiting a church and playing piano with choir member; d... More

Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More

[Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt with children and dog, some seated, o...

H98756 U.S. Copyright Office Published in: Presidential Pets / Niall Kelly (1992), p. 48, top.

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friend...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting an... More

[Portrait of Man Ray and Salvador Dali, Paris]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXV F 18. Also available on microfilm. Exhibited: Paris, Capital of America, Terra Foundation for the Arts, Chicago, IL, 2003-... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 194...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

[Portrait of Lena Horne, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948]

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Washington at home / E. Percy Moran.

George Washington, full-length portrait, reading, with his family in living room. K30917 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by E. Percy Moran.

The Pittsburg[h] natl. league base ball club

Photograph shows the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team posed for a team portrait. 29849 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright May 16, 1896, by Geo. F. Bain, Allegheny, PA.

[Dancers in a jazz club, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948]

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Genl. Grant & his family / painted from life by Wm. Cogswell, Washingt...

Print shows Ulysses S. Grant standing next to his wife who is sitting, with their four children outdoors; their daughter is sitting on a pony and one son holds a croquet mallet. Entered according to Act of Con... More

[Two children with an African American woman]

Netselingmeut Eskimo woman holding snow shovel with child on her back ...

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

Tipy Dagestana

Group of women posed outdoors.

[Portrait of Benny Goodman, Sid Catlett, and Vido Musso, 400 Restauran...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/g... More

Portraits of the Vester and Whiting families and other members of the ...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden.

Portraits of the Vester and Whiting families and other members of the ...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden.

Portraits of the Vester and Whiting families and other members of the ...

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden.

[The First Battalion of the First Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Gu...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 1. No. 119. In album: The Imperial Guard, War Ministry and barracks, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

The champions of the Union. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print is a group portrait of Union Army generals; caption identifies each man. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1077

Students, Normal School, Tempe, Arizona

H108224 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; California Panorama Co.; 1908.

Diary in photos, vol. I, 1934-1935

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Diary in photos, vol. I, 1934-1935

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Kurdskai︠a︡ zhenshchina s di︠e︡tʹmi. [Artvini︠e︡]

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Members of the Terra Nova expedition at the South Pole: Robert F. Sco...

Photographs show (1) expedition members Capt. Lawrence Oates, Lt. Henry Robertson Bowers, Capt. Robert F. Scott, Dr. Edward A. Wilson, and P.O. Edgar Evans at the South Pole, (2) on skis, towing a sled of provi... More

A group of "contrabands". American Civil War 1861-1865.

Stereograph showing a group of seven African American men, former slaves, dressed in old Union uniforms standing in front of a wagon and shack. No. 2594. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War ... More

Employees of 7-20-4, R. G. Sullivan, Cigar Factory, Manchester, N.H., ...

J249003 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. H. Russell; July 1921. Photographer's address: Lowell, Mass.

[Members of the Cresson and Prichett families, with three seated women...

Embossed on velvet lining inside case: W. & F. Langenheim Philadelphia Exchange. Written on seal: Restored by A.R. Phillips, Jr., May 1943. Case: flowers and butterflies. Probably a copy daguerreotype (a latera... More

[Stirrup Branch Plantation, Bishopville, S.C., on the 75th birthday of...

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

International Sweethearts of Rhythm [album cover]

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and unidentified boy, probably ...

Case: Leather; floral design. Information from the seller indicates that the soldier was from Kentucky. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at htt... More