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A woman on the battle front / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, sta...

Three images relating to battles near the Piave River, Italy during World War I. Images show soldiers marching; a YMCA car among the ruins of a town near the Piave River; and Helen Johns Kirtland being shown re... More

First correct composite photograph made of President Coolidge's first ...

Print shows the early morning inauguration of Calvin Coolidge on August 3, 1923, at the home of his father in Plymouth, Vermont, following the death of President Warren G. Harding. The oath is being administere... More

A true house that Jack built - Public domain book illustration

Illustration showing photograph of girl watering flowers and boys hammering shingles on roof of playhouse.

Captain Kidd in New York Harbor / J.L.G. Ferris.

Captain William Kidd welcoming a young woman on board his ship; other men and women crowd the deck as another woman steps aboard. K17400 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pag... More

Arturo Colombi, membro della direzione del P.C.I. - deputato alla cost...

Arturo Colombi, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Dirigenti Comunisti Uomini del Popolo. Exhibit loan 4225-L.

Antonio Roasio, membro della direzione del P.C.I.

Antonio Roasio, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Dirigenti Comunisti Uomini del Popolo. Exhibit loan 4225-L.

Vernon Court The Newport house of Mrs. Gambrill / / Matsy Wynn Richard...

Illustration shows formal garden with fountain and sculptures at the home of Anna Van Nest Gambrill, Newport, Rhode Island. Illus. in: Vogue. [New York, Condé Nast Publications, etc.], December 1, 1922, page 53.

Yanks in Germany want more books. Take good live fiction to the public...

Soldier sitting and reading book. Promotional goal: U.S. G63.J7. 191-. Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C... More

Stalingradskaia pereprava - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows Russian soldiers on river-bank, preparing to cross river at Stalingrad during World War II. Reproduction of painting by V.K. Dmitrievskiĭ.

[Molly Pitcher firing cannon at Battle of Monmouth] / E. Percy Moran.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crossing a lead on an ice cake as a ferry-boat

Men and dog sled crossing water on piece of an iceberg. K14586 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Frederick A. Stokes Company.

I'm proud ... my husband wants me to do my part See your U.S. Employme...

Husband, in suit, and wife in working clothes, standing in front of U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1944. No. 0-592572.

[Dick Hoblitzell, Cincinnati Reds, baseball card portrait]

Public domain photograph of a document related to baseball, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marinus Willett preventing removal of arms by the British, June 6th, 1...

Willett stepping in front of horse-drawn cart. J59368 U.S. Copyright Office.

The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency ... D...

Drawn by Frederic Remington from sketches taken on the spot. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1890 Dec. 6, p. 960-961.

[Chief Joseph, Nez Percé chief, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fr...

40025 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction from painting by E.A. Burbank, now in the collection of E.E. Ayer, Chicago.

[Bob Ewing, Cincinnati Reds, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Cumberland, Md., panorama photo], Panoramic Photograph

K131719 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Harry Shartle; June 9, 1919. On front: "Compliments of the Chamber of Commerce."

Drilling new recruits / Arthurs.

American colonial officers standing before recruits at present arms; fort entrance in background; during Revolutionary war(?) K14692 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Arthurs, 1905. Copyright b... More

Advanced photography for amateurs - II. Landscapes

Article with photographs by Zaida Ben Yusuf shows a woman by a window; a barn; two dirt roads; and the banks of a river. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 174, no. 25 (1901 December 21), pp. 8-9.

The first Thanksgiving 1621 / J.L.G. Ferris.

Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal. K17395 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation. No. 6. Copyright by The Foundation Press, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

Bird's eye view of Gatun Locks, Panama Canal

Stamped on front: "Isthmian Historical Society." Appears to form part of Panama Canal Commission collection transferred from LC Hispanic Division in 1983. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (Panama Canal Commissi... More

[Claude Ritchey, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

First steps to usefulness during World War I

Exhibit poster showing two scenes of men in hospitals recovering from war wounds - "simple designing while still in bed" ; "an American soldier begins again to take an interest in life." Poster caption: Bedsid... More

[Frank Bowerman, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Frank Bowerman, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

No. 2, Panorama of the ruins in the valley that sweeps from Russian Hi...

F43920 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Theodore Kytka; July 17, 1906.

[Abraham Lincoln, standing, full-length, facing right, holding rope of...

G20505 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Gerlach-Barklow Co., Joliet, Illinois.

[Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Illus. in: Yearbook U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1902. C. A. Browne collection.

Join modern mobile mighty Navy - Drawing. Public domain image.

Poster showing bow of aircraft carrier. Promotional goal: U.S. J26. 1957. By Joseph Binder.

James Marshall, discoverer of gold, at Sutter's Mill

Photomechanical reproduction of the 1850(?) daguerreotype by R. H. Vance shows James Marshall standing in front of Sutter's sawmill, Coloma, California, where he discovered gold.

Imperial Opera house, Ringe-Strasse, Vienna

Exterior view of Austria's Ringe-Strasse opera house with busy street scene in foreground.

Cheap clothing - The slaves of the "sweaters" / drawn by W.A. Rogers.

Woman and two children in street carrying heavy loads of clothing for tenement homework, New York City. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, April 26, 1890, p. 333.

George Washington - Public domain engraving

George Washington, full-length portrait, with right arm extended holding sword, on horseback. Reproduction of painting: "Washington receiving a salute on the field of Trenton"(?).

Walt Whitman in old age - Public domain monumental decor drawing

Plaster bust of Walt Whitman by S.H. Morse. Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) Saunders, 301 LC-X12-5 (glass).

The mystic picture--The puzzle of the Century--Figure it out

Mechanical postcard showing face of man which changes to another man when tab is pulled down. On back: Manufactured under U.S. Patent No. 537,441 by Isaac H. Blanchard Co., New York. Patent No. 537,441 was is... More

The Foreign element in New York--the Chinese colony, Mott Street / Dra...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1896 Feb. 29, p. 209. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Scenes from a Yale vs. Carlisle Indians football game at Manhattan Fi...

Full page includes four illustrations showing football game and letter from the University of Pennsylvania explaining why their football team participates in preliminary practice.

William R. Hearst, Head and Shoulders Portrait

William Randolph Hearst, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. 42486 U.S. Copyright Office. William Randolph Hearst - American newspaper publisher active during the late 19th and early 20th centur... More

Quartz mine and mill - famous de Lamar mine and mill

Photograph shows mining facilities of the De Lamar Mine and Mill in Idaho. Illus. in: Boise, Idaho. #1 (left, on page with two other illustrations).

Brig.-General W.S. Featherstone; Brig.-General Richard Griffith; Brig....

Head-and-shoulders portraits of ten Confederate leaders. Illus. in: Confederate military history / ... edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga. : Confederate Publishing Company, 1899, vol. 7, o... More

Fortifying Porto Rico. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Men renewing fortifications and preparing for the installation of modern artillery at forts in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Illus. in album: p. 32. Copyright by Albert S. Mohr.

The love affairs of Patricia - foiling fate / By Miss Zaida Ben-Yûsuf.

Photographs illustrating story by Lilian Quiller-Couch show women and men golfing and strolling together. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 174, no. 7 (1901 August 17), p. 4.

Kissing gates of America--Friend greeting emigrant just discharged

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

Honorable William P. Dillingham, Head and Shoulders Portrait

William Paul Dillingham, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. J21197 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Budger Co.

Paul Lawrence sic Dunbar - Public domain portrait print

Paul Laurence Dunbar, half-length portrait, seated, facing left. Illus. in: Lyrics of sunshine and shadow / by Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905, frontispiece. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Pittsburgh Pirates who are playing for the 1905 pennant

F34221 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Index Co.; August 22, 1905; DLC/PP-1905:43055.15. Under title: "Supplement to the Index, August 19, 1905". On front at lower right: "Photograph taken expressly fo... More

Boomers entering Oklahoma Territory

F39291 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of drawing by Albert Richter. Copyright by John D. Morris & Company.

Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.'s Building (Retail)

Print shows the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. department store, Chicago, Illinois. Illus. in: Souvenir of Chicago in colors. Chicago: Hammon Publishing Co., c1907, p. 35.

Seeing Halley's Comet--The chance of a lifetime

Young couple cuddling of rooftop.

[Using a street telescope, a newsboy glimpses Halley's Comet, which is...

Reproduction of drawing by Sidney H. Riesenberg. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1910 May 21, cover. Freitag, no. 2554. Published in: Halley's Comet: a bibliography / compiled by Ruth S. Freitag. Washington : Libra... More

Señor Don Adolfo Diaz, president of the Republic of Nicaragua

Adolfo Diaz, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Halftone reproduction of photograph by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

My wife and my mother-in-law. They are both in this picture--find them...

Illus. in: Puck, week ending 1915 Nov. 6, p. 11. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia University Library, New York City. Snead Standard Stack in on...

Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated. / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iro... More

Arrowrock Dam in 1915, at completion, with the construction camp still...

Illustration showing bird's-eye view of downstream face of dam with spillway, river, and construction camp. Illus. in: The Bureau of Reclamation : Origins and Growth to 1945, v. 1 / William D. Rowley. Denver, ... More

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Poster showing soldiers rushing to position at antiaircraft guns in an English town.

Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.; 82nd Division in review, honoring M...

Photograph shows Camp Gordon, which was established in Chamblee, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. K121216 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Spencer & Wyckoff; June 14, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45880. Copyright cl... More

At work again Back to the farm.

Exhibit poster showing two scenes "At work again" and "Back to the farm" in which men using "working protheses" perform manual labor in a woodworking shop and on a farm. Poster caption: Physical handicaps are m... More

312th Infantry, "Newark's Own", 78th Lightning Division

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage New Jersey postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Education - training Ordnance operations, maintenance & repair schools...

Recruiting poster showing ten "photographs of classes receiving instruction" at the Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, N.J. Ordnance recruiting poster no. 6. AGO. R.S. no. 215, 12-20-19.

Good use of time in hospital - Public domain engraving

Exhibit poster showing a man recovering from war wounds at Walter Reed Hospital learning the craft of engraving. Poster caption: The period of treatment in hospital can be put to good use by men who will be dis... More

The greatest moment in history / exclusive photographs by Helen Johns ...

Dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty ending World War I, June 28, 1919. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs. Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the... More

The great day at Versailles when France effaced the memory of 1871 / e...

Eight images taken on June 28, 1919 the day of the signing of the peace treaty ending World War I, at Versailles, France. Images show flags at the Place Vendome; crowds at the fountain, in the gardens and on th... More

Cutting a shine / drawing by J.D. Gleason.

Little girl in underclothes and woman's hat, standing on chair in front of mirror, powdering her face. Illus. in: Judge, 1920 Oct. 30, cover.

Panorama from Hairpin Turn, Mohawk Trail

K152598 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; C. R. Canedy; May 2, 1921; DLC/PP-1921:46321. Copyright claimant's address: North Adams, Mass. Landmarks labeled on image.

City market, Nashville, Tennessee

Print shows interior view of the market. Illus. in: Public buildings : a survey of architecture of projects constructed by federal and other governmental bodies between the years 1933 and 1939 with the assistan... More

City market, Austin, Texas - Public domain book illustration

The Lake Tahoe Dam controls the outlet into the Truckee River

Illustration showing the Lake Tahoe Dam and spillway. Illus. in: The Bureau of Reclamation : Origins and Growth to 1945, v. 1 / William D. Rowley. Denver, Colorado : U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of R... More

Giovanni Roveda, membro della direzione del P.C.I. - segretario gen. r...

Giovanni Roveda, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Dirigenti Comunisti Uomini del Popolo. Exhibit loan 4225-L.

Advertisement Poster: Lewitzky. Public domain reproduction.

Print is a direct mail advertisement for the "Bella Lewitzky Dance Campany" that includes a poster on one side showing a reproduction of a photograph by Dan Esgro of two dancers wearing a costume in which they ... More

Portrait--Mrs. Philip Lydig / by Gertrude Käsebier.

Print shows Rita de Acosta Lydig, half-length portrait, facing right, seen from behind. Illus. in: Camera work : A pictorial guide ... / Aflred Stieglitz, ed. by Marianne Fulton Margolis. New York : Dover Publ... More

Alexis de Tocqueville / nach der Lithographie von Chasseriau.

Print shows portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville after 1848 lithograph by Theodore Chasseriau. Illus. in: Das neunzehnte Jahrhundert in Bildnissen / Werckmeister, Karl, ed. Berlin: Kunstverlag der photographische... More

[Vive Lindaman, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Battle of Lake Erie - A painting of a group of people in a boat

Oliver Hazard Perry standing on front of small boat after abandoning his flagship, the Lawrence. K33650 U.S. Copyright Office.

The recent panic - scene in the New York Stock Exchange on the morning...

Photograph shows ship, the "W.B. Flint" at a dock in the East River, New York City. Copyrighted 1889 by the Albertype Co., 58 & 60 Reade St., New York.

I'm proud ... my husband wants me to do my part See your U.S. Employme...

Husband, in suit, and wife in working clothes, standing in front of U.S. flag. Promotional goal: U.S. F34.J71. 1944. No. 0-592572.

Pocahontas at the court of King James / Richard Rummels; American Colo...

Copyright by Jamestown A. & V. Co. No. 11. Public domain scan of the vintage New York postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jesse C. Burkett, Worcester Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Heinie Wagner, Boston Red Sox, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Cliff Blankenship, Washington Nationals, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge / painting by Dunsmore.

George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette on horseback at winter quarters in Valley Forge, Pa.; soldiers huddled around campfire in background. Copyright by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul and Toronto. Reproduction ... More

The Proposed Nicaragua Canal, the country through which it will pass, ...

Composite of reproduction of map of the Nicaragua Canal, reproductions of photos of women and children by J.W.G. Walker, Lake Nicaragua, and the San Juan River. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1899 June 17, pp. 598 and 599.

[George Ferguson, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Miller Huggins, Cincinnati Reds, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Pogostʺ = Cimetière du village / / D'après na...

Photomechanical print shows snow-covered rural church and graveyard. Notation on recto: Mowcou, le 19/1 Janvier 07. V. Hassek. Address and postmarks on verso. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the R... More

Russische grenzsoldaten in Sonntagsstimmung

Print shows six Russian border guards and one woman in dance poses with one border guard playing accordion. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purc... More

[Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga] / Percy Moran.

K34515 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lou Criger, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Amos Rusie, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Mayo Tobacco Works. "Russie"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

7th war loan. Now--all together / C.C. Beall from Associated Press pho...

Poster showing U.S. Marines raising flag at Iwo Jima. Official U.S. Treasury poster.

The bombardment of Port Hudson / painted by E. Packbauer.

Naval battle during the Civil War, Port Hudson, Louisiana. F7073 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Art Devlin, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt / Cosmos Pictures Co., New York.

No. 3085. Public domain photograph of Ghiza pyramids, Egypt archaeology, ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. No. 936. Reproduction of 1845 painting by E. Magnus.

Garza revolutionists in the Texas chaparral / drawn by Frederic Reming...

Mexican revolutionaries on horseback. Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbian Exposition--the grand court at night--electrical illuminatio...

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

The Great railway strikes--miles of burned freight-cars in the railroa...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1894 July 28, p. 704. Public domain image of Swedish railroads works, train yard, workshop, tracks, historical photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The "Brighton" water-closet]. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

44313aa U.S. Copyright Office Plate 170-D. Copyright by The Meyer-Sniffen Co., Limited.

Helsingfors. Finland postcard. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Print shows train tracks in Helsinki, Finland. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marshall Winokur; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:208). Accession bo... More

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