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View of Philadelphia as seen from top of Great Ship House, Augt. 1829 ...

(DLC/PP-1996:023.12) Notations below, above and within image identify types of ships and places. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory no. 152. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

French millinery, dress & flower making establishment / on stone by Ja...

Print shows a variety of bonnets on stands on a table. Includes text advertising Madame Petit's millinery store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia]

Exterior view of the U.S. Customs House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1999 (DLC/PP-1999:126.011) Published in: Gat... More

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...

Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.

Harrison's flavoring extracts. Philadelphia

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bigot.

Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia, engraving, Library o...

Published in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, July 1854, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pennsylvania Philadelphia; Hospitals Pennsylvania;... More

[Diploma of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, awarde...

Print shows two young men leading an ox team pulling a wagon loaded with hay on which a woman and children are riding; also shows farm animals and two female figures possibly representing Demeter, the goddess o... More

The director and prefect of the Sodality of St. Joseph's Church, Phila...

Print shows the Blessed Virgin Mary and scenes showing church services where young men and young women are "received into the Sodality" of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Includes pencil inscriptions that point out d... More

Diploma of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, awarded...

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform, unidentified woman, and uniden...

Case: Leather; floral design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:180) Purchased from: Rick Brown, 2014. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms... More

Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Exterior of Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No. 284.

John H. Rock, colored counselor / photographed by Richards, Philadelph...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Feb. 25, p. 124. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Handel and Hayden Hall occupied by the Union Business College of Phila...

Photograph shows students attending class at Union Business College, now named Peirce College, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Continuation of caption on verso: Thomas May Peirce, A.M., President. A popular and... More

Fitzgerald, Thomas Editor of the Philadelphia Item

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to Lemon Hill - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congres...

Print shows a view of walkways around a fountain leading to a stairway up a hill to the Lemon Hill mansion in the background, from a souvenir booklet of views of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, part 1st, 1870.

Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

Stereograph showing visitors on a terrace in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. From James Cremer's Stereoscopic Emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

Colonel Thomas A. Scott / photographed by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia. ...

Illustration showing two portraits: Colonel Thomas A. Scott, bust portrait, facing slightly right; and Horace F. Clark, bust portrait, facing left. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 17, no. 863 (1873 July 12), p. 596.

Horticultural Hall, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Phi...

Illus. in: Album of the International exhibition at Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the United States of America. New York : J. Bien, 1875, plate 11. Copyright by Schwarzmann & Pohl, architects.

Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1876--Fairmont Park, Philadelph...

Illus. in: Album of the International exhibition at Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of the United States of America. New York : J. Bien, 1875, plate 9. Copyright by Schwarzmann & Pohl, architects.

Machinery Hall - October 8. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Machinery Hall at International Exhibition in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. Copyright by the Centennial Photographic Company. No. 28.

International Exhibition, Philadelphia., Pennsylvania: Elevated railwa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Wall Paper Printing Press, Machinery Hall at the centennial, 1876, Ph...

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

[Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. 1876]: Machinery Hall, Russian S...

Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Sculpture; Shelf.

Our centennial--President Grant and Dom Pedro starting the Corliss eng...

Print show large crowd around Ulysses Grant, Pedro II (Emperor of Brazil), and large Corliss engine at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pa. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 May 27, p. 421. Published in: T... More

English Commission Building / Inger., engraving, Library of Congress

8495G2 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in souvenir album: Memorial of the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876. Philadelphia : Thos. Hunter, 1876.

Panorama of Philadelphia and Centennial Exhibition Grounds

G7373 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weise.

[President Grant declaring the exhibition open at the centennial at Me...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly (1876 May 27). Reference copy may be in LOT 4435-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: President; Shelf.

Giussepe Ceracchi, sculptor. Nat. 1760-Ob. 1801 / Albert Rosenthal, Ph...

From the original painting in the Trumbull Collection Yale School of Art. Gift; L.M. Rabinowitz; 1948.

"The sleeping party" / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain imag...

Illustration shows a woman labeled "Republican Party" asleep in the background, with members of her court, some dressed as women, also asleep, in the foreground; depicted are Whitlaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Russe... More

[Pop Schriver, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

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

[Deacon McGuire, Philadelphia Quakers, baseball card portrait]

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

[City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] - Public domain image. Dry pla...

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

Lemon Hill, country house of Robert Morris [sic], Fairmount Park, Phil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Philadelphia. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Aerial view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

33289 or 33292 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leading the parade - Philadelphia. Peace Jubilee

Stereo copyright by R.Y. Young. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The Girard Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Elevated station at Thirty-sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Broad Street station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Entrance to Keith's Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old Liberty Bell, [Independence Hall, Philadelphia]

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridge on Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Library, University of Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, [Philadelphia]

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

Independence Hall, [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

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

[Bedroom in Hotel Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] / Wi...

H63318 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1713-A. Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Paint shop showing dome casings and sand boxes, Baldwin Locomotive Wor...

H70655 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7084. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shad fishermen loading their half-mile of net (value $1500) for anothe...

Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tents on roof, Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newsboys, begging tobacco coupons. Edward F. Brown, Investigator. Lewi...

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

Willie Cohen, 1210 So. 6th St., 8 years of age, newsboy, attends John ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Alvin Gipe (left) & Topsy Hartsel (right), Philadelphia AL (baseball)...

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

[Ad Brennan, Philadelphia, NL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[George Chalmers, Philadelphia NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)]

A black and white photo of a baseball player. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Photograph shows Charles Albert "Chief" Bender (1884-1954). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

[Tom Daley, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Baseball team representing United Gas Improvement company of Philadel...

Public domain photograph related to sports, competition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Jimmy C. Walsh, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

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

[Chief Bender, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[John E. "Eddie" Murphy, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. DISTRICT GOVERNORS OF FEDERAL RESERVE: E.R. FR...

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

["Bullet" Joe Bush, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait photo of [Eddie Plank, Philadelphiadelphia AL (baseball)]

Full; throwing ball/Phila. A's team. Title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Title from caption card and item: Eddie Planck. LOT subdivision sub... More

[George Chalmers, Philadelphia NL, at Polo Grounds, NY (baseball)]

A black and white photo of a baseball player. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Dave Bancroft, Philadelphia NL (baseball)]

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

[George Chalmers, Philadelphia NL (baseball)]

Photograph shows baseball player George "Dutch" Chalmers (b. 1888) who was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

[Frank Carson Anderson house, 1321 Spruce Street, Phildelphia, Pennsyl...

Site History. The house of Grace Adele Smith (Mrs. Frank Carson) Anderson, who is the lantern slide artist credited by Frances Benjamin Johnston with the coloring of Johnston's "Our American Gardens" slides. O... More

Ocean liners: PHILADELPHIA - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the S.S. Philadelphia of the American Line, arriving in New York from Liverpool on Feb. 22, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

GADSDEN, P.H. OF PHILADELPHIA. SPEC. ELEC. RY. COMMN.; McGRAW, JAMES H...

A group of men standing next to each other on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wady Sha'ib Es-Salt, Amman, etc. Amman. Ancient Rabbath Ammon or Phila...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Joseph Pennell - Second Street market

Print shows Philadelphia's Second Street Market. Library has two impressions. No. 748-1: Wuerth, 748. Edition of 50? Plate in LC. Gift; Pennell Collection. Published in: American prints in the Library of Congr... More

[Fred Heimach, Philadelphia AL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Bing Miller, of the Philadelphia Athletics, tagged out at home plate ...

No. 37077. Forms part of: Washington Nationals baseball club from the National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Republican Mayor of Philadelphia tells Chief Executive desire to coope...

A group of men standing outside of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Port of Philadelphia, Art Deco Poster

Poster promoting Philadelphia, showing railroad freight cars at the Port of Philadelphia. Date stamped on verso: Nov 6 1936. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Blocks by Domen... More

Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Pile of oil drums near Grays Ferry Road

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Detail of city hall

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

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Grandstand of a baseball park at Girard Av...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

PRESIDENT THROWS OUT FIRST BALL. THE LID OF THE 1938 BASEBALL SEASON I...

A group of men standing next to each other in front of a crowd. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Fortieth Street housing group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

North Fortieth Street housing group, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a commercial or residential multi-story building, condominium, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Downtown buildings near Walnut and Broad S...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 9th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, ...

Public domain photograph of hall, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Row houses. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 9th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gimbel Brothers, business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. American livi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

War workers! are you looking for a - house? apartment? room? we can he...

Poster alerting defense workers to the availability of houses, apartments, and rooms through the Philadelphia Homes Registration Offices, showing a man dressed as a Quaker. Work Projects Administration Poster C... More

U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 9th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. North fac...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rag...

Poster for the Philadelphia Salvage Committee encouraging scrap drives to aid the war effort. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Approved and released by the Philadelphia Coun... More