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[Two women looking upwards with expressions of shock and horror, during the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / Don Halasy.

[Two women looking upwards with expressions of shock and horror, durin...

September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Holy horror of Mrs. McCaffraty in a Washington City street passenger car

Holy horror of Mrs. McCaffraty in a Washington City street passenger c...

Cartoon showing an Irish woman, with a basket of produce, fish, and bottles of wine, and an African American woman riding in a street railroad car. Includes many advertisements. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. ... More

A George Stern, 1545 Falkland Lane, Silver Spring, MD., who in the last three years has developed a formula for a highly volatile fluid which vaporizes so rapidly that flames from the gases released will not burn as demonstrated by the picture. The secret formula's only value, he says, will be to produce weird effects in 'horror' movies. He is Assistant to the Chief Technology Branch, Bureau of Mines, in College Park, MD, 11/10/38

A George Stern, 1545 Falkland Lane, Silver Spring, MD., who in the las...

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

... the U.S. Government continues, methodically, to murder thousands of innocent Vietnamese -- how much longer can the American people accept this horror? ...

... the U.S. Government continues, methodically, to murder thousands o...

Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983. Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Exhibit showing cameras used by those who watched in horror as President John F. Kennedy, passing them by along Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, was shot and killed by an assassin or assassins' bullets on Nov. 22, 1963. The camera in the case to the right is not the original but an exact copy of the famous 8 mm Bell & Howell Zoomatic film camera used by Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas clothing manufacturer who recorded the famous frames of the fatal blows to the president

Exhibit showing cameras used by those who watched in horror as Preside...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The cameras are on display at the sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Oswald was perche... More

Chatsworth horror. Full view of the wreck, Aug. 11, 1887

Chatsworth horror. Full view of the wreck, Aug. 11, 1887

Photograph shows wreck of railroad train near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887. S22943 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.S. Johnson, Pullman, Ill. Copyright stamp and date appear on lower right corner. ... More

The horror of war, ghastly glimpse of Belgian wounded, Antwerp hospital

The horror of war, ghastly glimpse of Belgian wounded, Antwerp hospita...

Nurse attending badly-wounded man. J203015 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 11839. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Nurs... More

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chatsworth horror. Full view of the wreck, Aug. 11, 1887

Chatsworth horror. Full view of the wreck, Aug. 11, 1887

Photograph shows wreck of railroad train near Chatsworth, Illinois, Aug. 11, 1887. S22943 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.S. Johnson, Pullman, Ill. Copyright stamp and date appear on lower right corner. ... More

A thrill of horror passed over the courtroom as the Judge pronounced the fateful words -- you are sentenced to fourteen years in the United States

A thrill of horror passed over the courtroom as the Judge pronounced t...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 73:791 (May 8, 1919).