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Bird's eye view of Los Angeles taken from balloon, height 1500 ft.

Bird's eye view of Los Angeles taken from balloon, height 1500 ft.

Copyright deposit; J. W. Austin; April 15, 1902. Public domain image of Los Angeles buildings, city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The world's smallest "doughboy", Nicholas Casele, of Newark, N.J., began to picket the U.S. Capitol today and announced he would continue until congress grants him a medal as compensation for his allged illegal draft into the army. Casele served more than a year overseas, fighting in seven major battles. He contends the draft law provided for a minimum height 5 feet 3 inches and 110 pounds of weight while scaled only 4 feet 10 inches and weighed only 104 pounds, 5/26/37

Smallest member A.E.F. pickets Capitol. Washington, D.C., May 26. The ...

A man holding a sign in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a baseball player getting ready to bat, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a baseball player getting ready to bat, Gre...

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

And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers stationed along the principal rivers of the United States soon will be able to follow the rise and fall of nearby river merely by picking up a telephone and dialing a given number. Preliminary trials for the last few months here show that a new automatic sound river gauge effectively and economically supplies the facts weathermen need in forecasting floods and supplying other information on river conditions for many interests. More weather bureau stations will install the new gages as fast as possible. (1)A river gauge on the Potomac River in the Capitol, where formerly a U.S. Weather Bureau Scientist had to go to this gauge box to take a reading on the river's height, all he has to do now is to pick up his telephone, dial the number of Potomac River, listen for a gong, then a buzz and at last another buzz, and then he will know whether the river is rising or falling, 4/9/38

And fall. Washington, D.C., April 9. Weather Bureau observers statione...

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

Child Jesus comes from heavenly height Christmas carol

Child Jesus comes from heavenly height Christmas carol

the words translated from Hans Christian Andersen ; the music composed by P.C. Lutkin. (statement of responsibility) For four-part mixed voices, unaccompanied. Caption title. acquire 2 shelf copies [policy defa... More

Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.

Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.

Print shows an African American girl playing adult (holding toy lorgnon to her eye), with dog in her lap. Exhibited: "Angels & Tomboys : Girlhood in 19th Century American Art" at the Newark Museum, Newark, New... More

View from the "Dead Rabbit" barricade in Bayard Street, taken at the height of the battle by our own artist, who, as spectator, was present at the fight

View from the "Dead Rabbit" barricade in Bayard Street, taken at the h...

View of fight between two gangs, the "Dead Rabbits" and the "Bowery Boys" in the Sixth Ward, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 4, (1857 July 18), p. 108.

John C. Heenan, champion of America born in West Troy, New York, May 2, 1835, height 6 ft. 1 1/2 inch, fighting weight from 180 to 185 lbs / / from photograph in attitude taken by Gillis & Johnson, 156 Broadway, New York ; lith. by Cameron & Walsh, 32 & 34 John St., N.Y.

John C. Heenan, champion of America born in West Troy, New York, May 2...

Print shows a full-length portrait of John Carmel Heenan, in boxing stance. 774 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Wm. Carland, in the Clerk's Office of the Distri... More

Festival Hall (height 200 ft.) and Central Cascade (Fall 90 ft.) from base of Western Casade, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

Festival Hall (height 200 ft.) and Central Cascade (Fall 90 ft.) from ...

H50969 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5807. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Front view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Front view of flight 41, Orville flying to the left at a height of ab...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Logging in Cascade Mtns.: piles 132 feet long used in the trestle - height 107 feet to top of rails

Logging in Cascade Mtns.: piles 132 feet long used in the trestle - he...

J252602 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Darius Kinsey, Seattle. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trestles; Lumbering Wash.; Shelf.

A group of men standing on a train track - FSA / Office of War Information Photograph

A group of men standing on a train track - FSA / Office of War Informa...

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Rockefeller Center, New York City The observation roofs are in reality commodious promenades overlooking the vast city from a height of 850 feet / / Mophochrom - Irving Browning - natural color.

Rockefeller Center, New York City The observation roofs are in reality...

Print shows people looking at New York City from the top of Rockefeller Center. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 038, Box 17, New York New York City Skyscrapers

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Distant view of Explorers column, Cañon de Chelle, about 900 ft. in height.

Distant view of Explorers column, Cañon de Chelle, about 900 ft. in he...

Original negative number: 14. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Working on the levee at Bird's Point, Missouri during the height of the flood

Working on the levee at Bird's Point, Missouri during the height of th...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md., Private Jackson O. Broshears [i.e. Brashears], Co. D, Indiana Mounted Infantry. Age 20 years; height 6 feet 1 inch; weight when captured, 185 lbs.; was in rebel hands three and one-quarter months, 2 months of which were passed on Belle Isle. Under treatment in U.S. Hospital 8 weeks - constantly improving - now, May 19th, 1864, weighs 108-1/2 lbs.

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md.,...

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. Wallace, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms ... More

Looking down the Cañon de Chelle, walls about 1200 ft. in height.

Looking down the Cañon de Chelle, walls about 1200 ft. in height.

Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolution, oil industry history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to industrialrevolutio...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Child Jesus comes from heavenly height Christmas carol

Child Jesus comes from heavenly height Christmas carol

the words translated from Hans Christian Andersen ; the music composed by P.C. Lutkin. (statement of responsibility) For four-part mixed voices, unaccompanied. Caption title. acquire 2 shelf copies [policy defa... More

Working on the levee at Bird's Point, Missouri during the height of the flood

Working on the levee at Bird's Point, Missouri during the height of th...

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

Wood cutter standing in front of log with a diameter almost equal his height

Wood cutter standing in front of log with a diameter almost equal his ...

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

Washington National Monument proposed height in dotted lines, 485 ft. Completed, shown by dark lines, 174 ft. Stone terrace, 25 ft. high, diameter 200 ft.

Washington National Monument proposed height in dotted lines, 485 ft. ...

Print showing a drawing of Washington Monument half completed with dotted lines representing the proposed height. Drawing possibly drawn by Fred D. Stuart.

Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. Royal Gorge, walls 1500 feet in height

Grand Canyon of the Arkansas. Royal Gorge, walls 1500 feet in height

No. 138. Part of series: Colorado Views. 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 an... More

Aeroplane attacking troops from low height at Vierzy during Soissons attack / L. Jonas, 1927.

Aeroplane attacking troops from low height at Vierzy during Soissons a...

Print shows German airplane firing on Allied troops at Vierzy, France, during World War I. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Copyright by Wendell Westover.

Beauty contest winners visit the White House. Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Marvin McIntyre, Secretary to the President greets Miss Dorothy Parker, of Washington, DC, winner of the beauty contest held in Washington annually. 18yrs old, she weighs 112lbs, and is 5 feet, 4 inches, in height, Miss Parker, will compete for the title of Miss America in Atlantic City Labor Day, 8/4/38

Beauty contest winners visit the White House. Washington, D.C., Aug. 4...

A man and a woman are standing on the steps of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Front side view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. The after end of the fuselage opens to the complete height and width of the interior, which is square. To allow freight to be stowed directly from a truck, bottom of fuselage is the height of a standard truck from the ground. This plane carries heavy military cargo, and is designed to land such loads safely on rough fields near battle points

Front side view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by Un...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

Head of Cañon de Chelle, looking down. Walls about 1200 feet in height / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Head of Cañon de Chelle, looking down. Walls about 1200 feet in heigh...

Plate no. 16. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geolog... More

[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the left at a considerable height; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Side view of flight 45, Orville flying to the left at a considerable ...

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More

Trinity River at its height, Dallas, Tex.

Trinity River at its height, Dallas, Tex.

H113204 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. Clogenson; July 8, 1908.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Excavations. Wady Ghazzeh (south of Gaza). Wady Ghazzeh mounds. Excavated area showing height of debris above ancient town

Excavations. Wady Ghazzeh (south of Gaza). Wady Ghazzeh mounds. Excava...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. Hall off reception room which gives access to a good view of the tailrace through a window, thus making it possible for visitors to observe all essential parts of the project (generator hall, switchyard, reservoir, tailrace) from either the reception room or the hall. It also gives access to the elevator, the main stair, toilets, and to a promenade roof deck over the lower electrical bay of the powerhouse (foor at end). The decreasing height of the ceiling was necessitated by structural considerations ad was exploited for effect. Floor is terrazzo; walls, glazed structural tile; ceiling, plaster

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. Hall off reception room which gives ac...

Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA photogpraph

A black and white photo of a group of people. Great Depression FSA pho...

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

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately four-year-old guayule plant. The seedlings remain in the nursery for eight or nine months, the age of the shrub being determined by the length of time it is in the field. Guayule reaches maturity in from four to six years. At maturity the plant is about three feet in height. The rubber content is from eighteen to twenty percent of the dry weight

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. Approximately ...

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

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Smokestack, which is the largest in the world: 585 feet in height with a diameter at base of seventy-five feet and at top of sixty feet. Flue gases are discharged at the rate of three to four million cubic feet per minute. The arsenic plant is seen at the base of the stack

Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Smokestack,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, column, chimney, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. Mid-day view, adjacent walls about 1000 feet in height / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho. Mid-day view, adjacent walls about...

Photograph showing rock formations by the waterfall. 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 eg... More

John Morrissey: born February 5th 1831. height 6 feet. weight 170 lbs.

John Morrissey: born February 5th 1831. height 6 feet. weight 170 lbs.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3537

Tom Sayers, champion of England born at Pimlico near Brighton, Sussex 1826, height 5 ft. 8 inches, lowest feichting weight 10 st. 10 lbs / / lith. by Cameron & Walsh, 32 & 34 John St., N.Y.

Tom Sayers, champion of England born at Pimlico near Brighton, Sussex ...

Print shows Tom Sayers, full-length portrait, facing right, in boxing stance. Includes list of fights with opponent's name and date of bout. 680 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in t... More

Three of the youngest boys working in Holden, Leonard Co., Bennington, Vt. Said they work [i.e., would] continue to work after summer vacation. Louis Godbout (right hand end) 132 Lincoln Street. John Friedman, (Tallest) 120 Lincoln St., Joe Lacroiz, (Second in height) 110 Lincoln St. Location: Bennington, Vermont.

Three of the youngest boys working in Holden, Leonard Co., Bennington,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Measuring height of grain on government farm, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Measuring height of grain on government farm, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank...

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

[New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition]

[New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watchi...

Title devised by Library staff using information from photo slug. Photo was marked with a grease pencil during editing for publication. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Co... More

Topping off a spar mast for the high lead logging operation. This tree was two hundred fifty feet high. The high climber is topping it off at a height of one hundred eighty-five feet. Washington

Topping off a spar mast for the high lead logging operation. This tree...

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

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, President of the National Council of Negro women, presenting certificates to hostesses for USO duty, at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA on Rhode Island Avenue. Facing the camera is Miss Dorothy Height, Director of the YWCA

Washington, D.C. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, President of the National C...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pe...

Official U.S. Navy photograph. W-Ph-30-8981. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain ... More

Washington, D.C. Students at the Woodrow Wilson High School are examined annually by the visiting doctor. In preparation for this, the school nurse records each student's height and weight on his chart

Washington, D.C. Students at the Woodrow Wilson High School are examin...

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Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work qualifications, Mabel Goodwin has a physical examination at the Bell Aircraft plant. A nurse records her height and weight. She is forty-five, worked in a factory in the last war, and has since been a housewife and has two children over fourteen

Buffalo, New York. After being interviewed as to past history and work...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman, nurse, caring, hospital, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Eight-foot mercury barometer and water pumping demonstration from four-story house proving law that height of fluids raised by suction or pressure varies inversely to its specific gravity]

[Eight-foot mercury barometer and water pumping demonstration from fou...

Public domain image of a historic building, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Gabion, a cylinder basket, open at both ends, about three feet wide, and as much in height

Gabion, a cylinder basket, open at both ends, about three feet wide, a...

Print shows a gabion. Caption continues: They serve in sieges to carry on the approaches under cover, when they come pretty near the fortification. Illus. in: A new military, historical, and explanatory dictio... More

[Flight 82: Wilbur piloting at a considerable height, flying a distance of 2 3/4 miles in 5 minutes and 4 seconds, almost four circles of the field at Huffman Prairie, the best and longest flight of the year; Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 82: Wilbur piloting at a considerable height, flying a distanc...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 58. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; H...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

[Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio]

[Flight 41: Orville flying to the left at a height of about 60 feet; H...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 59. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy i... More

George Brown. Measures a little over 50 inches in height. See also photo #748. Location: Manchester, New Hampshire.

George Brown. Measures a little over 50 inches in height. See also pho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to relatives off to the Land of Opportunity, the U.S.A. On the S.S. Conte Verde a new luxurious Italian express steamer of the Lloyd Sabaudo Co. two extra propeller blades are carried. This one [text missing] ; Showing the height of the propeller blade on the S.S. Conte Verde. Mr. Carpenter in the picture.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

On page: no. 1568 (top image), no. 1570 (bottom left image) and no. 1571 (bottom right image) Text under image no. 1568: "Same as 1565". Text under image no. 1570: "Same as 1569". In album: European pictures (... More

Dr. Eleanor Hunt. Dr. Hunt measuring boy's height

Dr. Eleanor Hunt. Dr. Hunt measuring boy's height

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

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo, Illinois

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo,...

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Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane pilots. Washington, D.C., Oct. 10. An instrument which gives airplane pilots their height above the ground over which the plane is flying was demonstrated today to members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority by officials of the Western Electric Co. and the United Airlines. Claimed to be the first successful altimeter showing terrain clearance, the new device operates by radio, using the shortest wave ever employed for aviation, officials of the companies stated. In the photograph, left to right: Col. Sumter Smith, Peter C. Sandrette, Supt. of the United Airline's communication laboratory who was in charge of the demonstration; and Thomas Hardin. Smith and Hardin are members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, 10/10/38

Members of Civil Aeronautics Authority inspect latest aid to airplane ...

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photoelectric ray to determine flying ceiling. Washington, D.C., June 15. To permit a ground observer to determine at what height flying is safe during days of fog and heavy overcast, Miss Elizabeth M. Zandonini, of the Radio Section staff of the Bureau of Standards, is shown with the balloon transmitting equipment. A photoelectric cell measuring light brightness is used to control the pitch of the radio signal transmitted from the balloon as it ascends. A graphical frequency recorder plots the pitch and hence ... a measure of the light brightness as a function ... height. The experiments are carried on for the U.S. ...

Photoelectric ray to determine flying ceiling. Washington, D.C., June ...

A black and white photo of a woman putting something in a box, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date based on date... More

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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Baldwin making record tight rope walk over gorge, - length, 582 ft. height 555 ft., Eldorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.

Baldwin making record tight rope walk over gorge, - length, 582 ft. he...

H124520 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. No. 12433.

Convex wall, Cañon de Chelle, about 700 feet in height.

Convex wall, Cañon de Chelle, about 700 feet in height.

Original negative number: 37. On verso in pencil: Alexander Helwig Wyant, artist. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of... More

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md., Private Jackson O. Broshears [i.e. Brashears], Co. D, Indiana Mounted Infantry. Age 20 years; height 6 feet 1 inch; weight when captured, 185 lbs.; was in rebel hands three and one-quarter months, 2 months of which were passed on Belle Isle. Under treatment in U.S. Hospital 8 weeks - constantly improving - now, May 19th, 1864, weighs 108-1/2 lbs.

A Richmond prisoner U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Md.,...

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by E. Wallace, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms ... More

Cañon de Chelle. Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Cañon de Chelle. Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height / ...

Plate 12. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological ... More

Cañon de Chelle. Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Cañon de Chelle. Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 feet in height / ...

Plate 12. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological ... More

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky] / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Swinging from peak to peak. Aerial tramways have proved to be the most efficient means of transportation in many parts of Montenegro. This shows an aerial tramway rebuilt under American direction after its distinction by the Austrians. It was used by the American Red Cross to transport its relief supplies from the bay of Cattare into the hinterland. At one point this cable tram reaches a height of 3,000 feet. Below can be seen an American Red Cross car making the ascent up Jacob's Ladder, the only road across the mountains, covering a distance of ten miles to reach a height of 3,000 feet

Swinging from peak to peak. Aerial tramways have proved to be the most...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Group title: Montenegro (Transportation) On caption card: 12885... More

Visitors' overlook building at Kentucky Dam. This structure is in the form of an open shed because the other functions of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) visitors' buildings being accommodated in the nearby construction village, there was need for shelter only at this point. Since the project is in a hot climate, ample ventilation is promoted by the open front, a balustrade height opening toward the back underneath the display and grilles to ventilate the roof space. Most of the displays are arranged as transparencies, with natural illumination during the day, and with floodlights used as substitutes during the night

Visitors' overlook building at Kentucky Dam. This structure is in the ...

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Radio waves high flyers, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. Experiments conducted by H.W. Wellex at the radio station of the Carnegie Institution have proven that radio waves travel a distance of 80 miles heavenword before they are reflected back to earth. Traveling like lightning as they ascend in to the ionosphere the radio impulses have to be measured in 10,000ths of second to accurately check the height reached before they return to the radio set

Radio waves high flyers, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. Experiments conduct...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Squatter washing face in abandoned warehouse, Carutherville, Missouri. This warehouse was used during the height of the river steamboat era as passenger and freight station

Squatter washing face in abandoned warehouse, Carutherville, Missouri....

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Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration camp. Unable to obtain work in pea fields because of labor surplus in height of season

Westley, California. Migrant family in Farm Security Administration ca...

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

USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pe...

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Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule nursery beds. This machine mows the seedlings off to a uniform height for ease in digging and packing. The tops are collected in a bin on the machine and disposed of outside of the nursery. The tops are worthless for rubber production. Guayule plantings will produce an estimated 600 tons of rubber in early 1943, provide a crop in 1944 which should yield 33,000 tons and a harvest in 1945 to yield 47,000 tons. An annual production of 70,000 tons to 80,000 tons will materialize if full capacity of nurseries now being built is utilized. Addition: This program is part of the Department of Agriculture's Emergency Rubber Project, administered by the Forest Service under congressional authorization "to make available a source of crude rubber for emergency and defense uses"

Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Seedling topper at work on guayule n...

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New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Head of Cañon de Chelle, looking down. Walls about 1200 feet in height / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Head of Cañon de Chelle, looking down. Walls about 1200 feet in heigh...

Plate no. 16. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geolog... More

Column walls of sandstone, Cañon de Chelle, about 800 ft. in height.

Column walls of sandstone, Cañon de Chelle, about 800 ft. in height.

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Demountable employee housing. Three-bedroom war workers' house constructed in five slices. On this project, where the houses went into an existing community in Alabama to provide housing for employees of chemical and metallurgical industries of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), the local desire for traditional appearance was accommodated by the use of a pitched roof. Each side of the roof is hinged at the eaves and is laid down, during transport, over the ceiling to bring overall height within normal highway clearances

Demountable employee housing. Three-bedroom war workers' house constru...

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A group of men standing on top of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of men standing on top of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/...

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Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo, Illinois

Piling sandbags along the levee during the height of the flood. Cairo,...

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"Miss Washington" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Miss Dorothy Parker has been selected as Miss Washington and will compete for the title of "Miss America" at the Atlantic City beauty pageant to be held during Labor Day week. 18 Years old, she weighs 112 pounds and is 5 feet, 4 inches in height. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Albert Parker of Washington, 8/4/38

"Miss Washington" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Miss Dorothy Parker has be...

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Future may see hens lay eggs of different colors through experiments of government experts. Washington, D.C., April 7. Joseph's coat of many colors may now be duplicated in the poultry laboratory where hens paint their own eggs over a range of hues from pearly white, through the various shades of brown, to sky blue. These experiments are in progress at the National Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. In this picture is shown Charles A. Denton, Junior Chemist, measuring the width, circumference and height of the white of a colored egg to determine the amount of albumen present. 4-7-39

Future may see hens lay eggs of different colors through experiments o...

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Front side view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. The after end of the fuselage opens to the complete height and width of the interior, which is square. To allow freight to be stowed directly from a truck, bottom of fuselage is the height of a standard truck from the ground. This plane carries heavy military cargo, and is designed to land such loads safely on rough fields near battle points

Front side view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by Un...

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Truck being loaded into the new C-82 at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. The after end of the fuselage opens to the complete height and width of the interior, which is square. This is first plane designed solely for hauling military cargo, and is the product of the combined engineering staffs of Air Technical Service Command and the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation

Truck being loaded into the new C-82 at demonstration of equipment hel...

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Cedars, cedar chapel on the height of cedar grove

Cedars, cedar chapel on the height of cedar grove

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Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Upper section of El-Khazne. Close side view, taken from precarious hazardous height

Upper section of El-Khazne. Close side view, taken from precarious haz...

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[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

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[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 500 pickers in the height of the season. Not many young workers yet.] Location: [Bowling Green vicinity, Kentucky]. / L.W. Hine.

[Picking strawberries on Clagett and Covington farm. They will have 50...

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Allies advance in Libya. At the height of the Allied pursuit of the Axis forces heavy rain fell in the Western Desert turning the sand and dust into mud and flooding low-lying parts. It made things difficult for the Axis, but even more so for the British troops, like these General Grant tanks ploughing through a wet and muddy stretch of road

Allies advance in Libya. At the height of the Allied pursuit of the Ax...

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Allies advance in Libya. At the height of the Allied pursuit of the Axis forces heavy rain fell in the Western Desert turning the sand and dust into mud and flooding low-lying parts. It made things difficult for the Axis, but even more so for the British troops, like these General Grant tanks ploughing through a wet and muddy stretch of road

Allies advance in Libya. At the height of the Allied pursuit of the Ax...

British official photograph from OWI. No. D-8529. Public domain photograph of World War Two period military equipment, vehicle, 1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Handling ropes and fingers. Frayed ropes are attached to the rubberized fabric "fingers" by sewing and cementing to give maximum "grip" on the balloon. Such ropes are fastened to the ground cable which controls the height and flight of the balloon. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Handling ropes and fingers. Frayed ropes ...

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Conversion. Silverware plant. To meet Air Corps Ordnance specifications, this bomb shackle must be accurate to the 1/10,000th of an inch, and that's pretty tight measuring by anybody's standards. An employee of an Eastern plant which produced silver tableware in peacetimes, inspects the shackle aided by a surface height device. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. To meet Air Corps Ordnance specification...

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Schenectady, New York. At the Elmer Avenue School Library table and chairs are graduated in height. The teacher sits in the rear

Schenectady, New York. At the Elmer Avenue School Library table and ch...

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Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, all were taken in a simultaneous operation as AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers on Kauai, Hawaii, first island to begin induction into the new combat unit, underwent physical examination prior to induction of 150 men

Japanese-American volunteers. Weight, height and chest measurements, a...

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Rear view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by United States Army Air Forces. The after end of the fuselage opens to the complete height and width of the interior, which is square. In order to allow freight to be stowed directly from a truck, the bottom of the fuselage is the height of a standard truck from the ground

Rear view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by United S...

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Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster on the Continent, on the T.P. & W.R.R. near Chatsworth, Illinois, of the Niagara Excursion Train, at midnight, August 10th, 1887 ; From south, showing sleeper "Tunis," the height and width of the culvert 5 1/2 by 8 feet, the cause of the wreck, and seventeen pairs of trucks in one pile / / Harlan Holferty, view artist.

View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster ...

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Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.

Height of fashion / painted by Mrs. L.M. Spencer ; lith. by LaFosse.

Print shows an African American girl playing adult (holding toy lorgnon to her eye), with dog in her lap. Exhibited: "Angels & Tomboys : Girlhood in 19th Century American Art" at the Newark Museum, Newark, New... More

The Great Tree Wawona, Height 260 Ft., Diameter 28 Ft., Mariposa Grove, Calif.

The Great Tree Wawona, Height 260 Ft., Diameter 28 Ft., Mariposa Grove...

3 people in horse-drawn wagon coming through cut in tree; 5 women standing alongside the tree; man with camera on tripod in foreground. Stereo by William Rau, copyrighted by E.W. Kelley. Sold only by Universal ... More

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