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Living Room, Boggio Household. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Living Room, Boggio Household. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collec...

In main residence Occupants: Boggio, Joe and Geraldine Public domain photograph of bedroom, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project wa... More

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Old Buonanno Garage, Crockett Street, Providence, Providence County, R...

Significance: Built in the late nineteenth century for use as a stable, the garage was demolished in 1971. It was three stories in height, with arched windows and a corbelled cornice. The floors and stalls insi... More

Hawes House, 506 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Hawes House, 506 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virgin...

Significance: This house was at one time the home of Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, who wrote under the pen-name of Marion Harland. The following is a description taken from Marion Harland's Autobiography: "In t... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 53, 200 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 53, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

Christmas in the home of a government executive in Virginia

Christmas in the home of a government executive in Virginia

Photo shows home of Charles Wood Collier, Christmas Day, 1941, Falls Church, VA. Left to right are: Charles Wood Collier; John Collier, Sr.; Lucy Wood Collier (Mrs. John Collier, Sr.); Renee d'Harnoncourt, Litt... More

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Significance: The Samuel P. Grindle House is significant as a mid nineteenth-century, Greek Revival, domestic structure contributing to the cultural landscape of the Town Common in the coastal village of Castin... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Wheatlands, Queen Anne County, Maryland

Wheatlands, Queen Anne County, Maryland

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Laying a hardwood floor. Greenhills project, Ohio

Laying a hardwood floor. Greenhills project, Ohio

Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victoria, Australia. Brown kraft paper is made at this mill, one of the largest paper pulp mills in the Commonwealth from Australian eucalypt (hardwood) pulp, blended with United States (softwood) pulp

Victoria, Australia. Brown kraft paper is made at this mill, one of th...

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

Victoria, Australia. A paper pulp mill. Soft wood pulp from the United States and domestic hardwood pulp are blended for paper board manufacture. The largest logs are shown ready for conversion to pulp

Victoria, Australia. A paper pulp mill. Soft wood pulp from the United...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Maine--Firemen and Coal Passers, 1896 / Detroit Photographic Co.

U.S.S. Maine--Firemen and Coal Passers, 1896 / Detroit Photographic Co...

Group of men sitting on floor and some standing, with shovels. No. 020550.

Emporium Lumber Company's hardwood mill at Austin, Pennsylvania which stood the flood

Emporium Lumber Company's hardwood mill at Austin, Pennsylvania which ...

J161228 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. M. Beach; October 9, 1911. Copyright claimant's address: Remsen, N.Y.

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Happy childhood - bright eyes and faces in the day nursery

Happy childhood - bright eyes and faces in the day nursery

2 women with children seated at tables and on floor. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 5266. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

An awful tragedy of the Spanish War / Howard Chandler Christy, '98.

An awful tragedy of the Spanish War / Howard Chandler Christy, '98.

Young woman with knife in her chest lying on floor, killed by a drunk Spanish officer who sits sleeping with his head on a table. Illus. in: Leslie's weekly, 1898, Oct. 20, p. 313.

[Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family (father, mother and child) and their musical instruments, made in the photographer's New York City studio]

[Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family (father, mother and child) a...

Mr. & Mrs. Brundigee holding violoncellos as their son sits on the floor. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebie... More

Asking a blessing - Print, Library of Congress collection

Asking a blessing - Print, Library of Congress collection

Man and woman saying grace at small table set with two spoons, two pieces of dark bread, and bowl of stew; small dog sits on floor. Copyright by H. Bencke.

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Significance: The Samuel P. Grindle House is significant as a mid nineteenth-century, Greek Revival, domestic structure contributing to the cultural landscape of the Town Common in the coastal village of Castin... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Post 30 - floor of New York Stock Exchange

Post 30 - floor of New York Stock Exchange

Photograph shows three men at work on the floor of the exchange. J15825 U.S. Copyright Office.

"Help! Murder!! Burglars!!!" - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

"Help! Murder!! Burglars!!!" - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

Man on floor with person in suit of armor standing over him. Stereo copyrighted by Standard Scenic Co. No. 1645-(3). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Humor; Armor.

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Colorado. Flooring being laid on semi-trailers for general utility used around Army camps and supply depots. These trailers carry a payload of 7,000 pounds on a combination platform stake body of hardwood

Trailers for defense transportation. Winter Weiss Company, Denver, Col...

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

Chalfonte Hotel, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May County, NJ

Chalfonte Hotel, Howard Street & Sewell Avenue, Cape May, Cape May Cou...

Significance: Originally built as a private house, the building was later converted to hotel use. The Chalfonte is Cape May's oldest and most ornate large hotel in Cape May. Unprocessed Field note material ex... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Treasury. Packing internal revenue stamps for shipment Stamps to the value of $1,000,000 packed daily.

Treasury. Packing internal revenue stamps for shipment Stamps to the v...

Photograph shows men working on tables to pack stamps; packages piled on the floor. Neg. no. 398. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Original glass negative may be availabl... More

Automatic ticker apparatus, New York Stock Exchange. View of stations from floor

Automatic ticker apparatus, New York Stock Exchange. View of stations ...

Photograph shows view of automatic ticker apparatus and stock quotation kiosks from floor of New York Stock Exchange.

Treasury Department warehouse. Treasury Department sample rooms, room of wood I

Treasury Department warehouse. Treasury Department sample rooms, room ...

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into the gunstocks of Uncle Sam's army. An inspector in a converted hardwood flooring plant looks for the grain deviations or twists which would disqualify a piece for use in rifle "furniture." Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Only the best of walnut goes into t...

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

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 54, 200 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 54, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

Col. Theodore Roosevelt - Public domain portrait print

Col. Theodore Roosevelt - Public domain portrait print

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt in uniform, facing front, standing outside a tent with a wooden floor. 55683 U.S. Copyright Office On recto: Copyrighted 1898 by Siegel-Cooper Co.

Hawes House, 506 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Hawes House, 506 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virgin...

Significance: This house was at one time the home of Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune, who wrote under the pen-name of Marion Harland. The following is a description taken from Marion Harland's Autobiography: "In t... More

Adams Hardwood Floor Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Adams Hardwood Floor Co. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...

Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More

A Zouave, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph

A Zouave, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph

Roger Fenton, full-length portrait, dressed in a Zouave uniform, seated on the floor, with props. Attribution based on information from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs... More

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The entrance hall and reception room. The floors and railings are made of wood, and along the walls are exhibits of the work being done in the laboratory

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The entrance hall and ...

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

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

A Zouave, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph

A Zouave, Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph

Roger Fenton, full-length portrait, dressed in a Zouave uniform, seated on the floor, with props. Attribution based on information from: Gernsheim, Roger Fenton, photographer of the Crimean War: His photographs... More

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The entrance hall and reception room. The floors and railings are made of wood, and along the walls are exhibits of the work being done in the laboratory

Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. The entrance hall and ...

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

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 56, 200 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 56, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More

Substitute materials. Wood culverts for steel. Assembly of an emergency sectional wood pipe, twenty-four inches in diameter. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. Locking of adjacent rings with hardwood dowel pins produces a flexible structure. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants

Substitute materials. Wood culverts for steel. Assembly of an emergenc...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Selected pieces of walnut, carefully cut from large slabs of walnut -- and now known as gunstock butts -- are prepared for a kiln drying operation in a converted hardwood flooring plant. The ends are dipped in a solution of resin and paraffin to prevent checking (splitting slightly) during drying. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Selected pieces of walnut, carefull...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

John Coltrane House, 1511 North Thirty-third Street, Philadelphia, Phi...

Significance: It has cultural significance as the long-time residence of John W. Coltrane, the groundbreaking and innovative African-American jazz musician (1926-1967). Additionally, the building is a superlati... More

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virginia

York Hall, State Route 1005 & Main Street, Yorktown, York County, Virg...

Survey number: HABS VA-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Initial Construction

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A ripsaw in a converted hardwood flooring plant cuts gunstock blocks of clear walnut from selected pieces which have been bandsawed from a large slab, or flitch. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A r...

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.

Substitute materials. A shipment of 1,488 feet of 18-inch, 24-inch, 30-inch and 36-inch wooden pipe on one flat car. Weight 70,020 pounds. An equal footage of reinforced concrete pipe weighs 455,412 pounds, requires over ten cars. These pipes, used in place of corrugated iron or reinforced concrete pipes, are made of sections cut from short lengths of wood. Locking of adjacent rings with hardwood dowel pins produces a flexible structure. About 100,000 feet of these wooden pipes were installed in 1942 in drainage culverts, storm sewers and conduits, under highways and at army camps, naval stations, airfields and ordnance plants

Substitute materials. A shipment of 1,488 feet of 18-inch, 24-inch, 30...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The wrecked lobby. Here is how the lobby of the executive offices of the White House appeared on the day following the fire. Pools of water still remained atop the expensive hardwood floors and debris continued to fall from the roof

The wrecked lobby. Here is how the lobby of the executive offices of t...

Photo shows damage from Christmas Eve fire. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Small portable sawmill, very typical of the sawmills which are cutting small pine and hardwood growth of the area. Note mill and boiler, sawdust pile, stacks of slabs (or outsiders) located in fringe of trees between the highway and a corn field. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Small portable sawmill, very typical of the sawmills which are cutting...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A ripsaw in a converted hardwood flooring plant cuts gunstock blocks of clear walnut from selected pieces which have been bandsawed from a large slab, or flitch. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Rifle "furniture" for the Army. A r...

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.

Une dame brésilienne dans son intérieur / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Ch. Wolfe.

Une dame brésilienne dans son intérieur / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...

Illustration showing interior with woman sewing, girl reading, and black servants and infants sitting on floor, one servant carrying drink on tray. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis ... More

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 53, 200 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Veterans Administration Medical Center, Building 53, 200 East Beach Bo...

Significance: Architecturally the residences are nondescript, but classic, incorporating features and trim still being accepted from the pre-WWII period. The structure was constructed for use as a residence an... More

Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop

Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop

A cryptic satire possibly dealing with some facet of the 1844 presidential campaign. The print features two unsuccessful aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination: Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Joh... More

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Flooring the Axis. Following the last lot of hardwood plank flooring to go through a large Midwest plant before conversion to the manufacture of gunstocks or rifle furniture. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Flooring the Axis. Following the la...

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

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Samuel P. Grindle House, 13 School Street, Castine, Hancock County, ME

Significance: The Samuel P. Grindle House is significant as a mid nineteenth-century, Greek Revival, domestic structure contributing to the cultural landscape of the Town Common in the coastal village of Castin... More

The political rat catcher or Jack Renegado's new patent trap's / Annibl Scratch, de., British Cartoon Print

The political rat catcher or Jack Renegado's new patent trap's / Annib...

"The rat-catchers sits in the doorway of a bare, ramshackle room, on the floor of which are large steel traps and rats, some already caught..." (Source: Stephens) [Collings?] This record contains unverified dat... More

Annual Banquet, National Hardwood Lumber Dealers Assn., Memphis, Tenn.

Annual Banquet, National Hardwood Lumber Dealers Assn., Memphis, Tenn.

H77188 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Washington, DC. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; May 11, 1906.

Old kitchen, Dagget House, Dagget Park, Pawtucket, R.I. 1685 showing swifts of Gov. Jenckes.

Old kitchen, Dagget House, Dagget Park, Pawtucket, R.I. 1685 showing s...

Photograph shows interior of kitchen with table and chair, large spinning wheel, floor to ceiling cage containing kitchen equipment, and other items. "This room was decorated by D. A. Jillson & Sons in memory ... More