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Map of the State of Maryland laid down from an actual survey of all th...

Scale ca. 1:300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes "Plan of the city of Washington and Territory of Columbia" and a dedication. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ra... More

Daniel Carroll of Duddington's family on porch of house, F and 2nd Str...

Photograph shows members of the family of Daniel Carroll (1764-1849) with African American man, seated and standing on the porch of Duddington house, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Caption from another copy of ... More

[Thomas Paine cottage at New Rochelle, N. Y.]

Photograph shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine's cottage. Notation on verso: "From Mr. Goldsmith, 1325 E. 79 St., New York. Cottage at New Rochelle. Former home of Paine. Return to Moncure D. Conway."

Burn's cottage (earliest building on site of D.C.)

Photograph shows the home of David Burnes (Burns) and his daughter, Marcia (Burns) Van Ness, with the Washington Monument in the background, Washington, D.C.

Cyrus Elders' house, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889

17850U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Minot's Ledge light house with comparative sections of other Sea Rock ...

Above print: U.S. Light-house establishment, 1894. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1894, plate opposite p. 221.

[A House in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; in foreground, cattle ...

In album: Photographic Album of Trinidad, p. 39, lower left. Gift; Louise McDaniell Browne; 1948 Apr. 27.

Genrikhsen house, (1902), Blagoveshchensk, Russia

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Horse-drawn sleighs with passengers in front of house]

H40708 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.E. Marr, Boston. Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses and mansions - Vanderbilt Mansion. Wedding day of Gladys Vander...

Photograph shows crowds gathered outside the residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899), 1 West 57th Street, New York City, New York.

Dauksh house (Kim-Yu-Chen Street 37), (around 1913), Khabarovsk, Russi...

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

["Il Paradiso," Mrs. Dudley Peter Allen house, 1188 Hillcrest Avenue, ...

Site History. House Architecture: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913. Landscape: Greene & Greene, 1911-1913. Other: Elisabeth Severance (Mrs. Dudley P.) Allen married Francis Fleury Prentiss the year Frances Benjamin J... More

[...] House, Bull Run - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Miscellaneous houses. Illustration and floor plans of a Cape Cod-style...

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

Miscellaneous houses. Brick house with porch

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

Amsterdam, Netherlands. Workers' houses of the Patrimonium Housing Ass...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Wichita grass-house

J293348 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 19, p. 654.

Mark Twain House, Division & Spear Streets, Carson City, Carson City, ...

Survey number: HABS NV-13-2 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

J. N. T. Miller House, Old Stage Road, Jacksonville, Jackson County, O...

Survey number: HABS OR-105 Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

On Ettricks Island, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia

Photograph shows a cotton spinner's village. (Source: notes on back of print in LOT 12643-15).

First & Main Streets (House), Zoar, Tuscarawas County, OH

Survey number: HABS OH-2105 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction

Umstead House, Poolesville, Montgomery County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-593 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, Middlesex County, C...

Survey number: HABS CT-388 Building/structure dates: ca. 1828 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000688

[Man standing in front of house, possibly from the visit by Alan Lomax...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

Company houses at Pursglove Mines, Scotts Run, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sweet Hall, Sweet Hall, King William County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1700. Related names: N.R. Palmer. Home of Wm. Claiborne, first of Virginia. Built on original patent. Corresponding reference print in LOT 1184... More

Houses on Laconia Street in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group of houses in 600 block on East Detroit Street. Milwaukee, Wiscon...

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

Autoworkers' houses. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dolla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houses in Negro section. Dover, Delaware

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hudgins House, Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina

Alternate title: Johnston-Plummer House. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1775. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-93. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture ... More

One of the eight houses built by the Farm Security Administration to p...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pile of cotton seed hulls. Cotton seed warehouse, McLennan County, Tex...

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

Modern House, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tennessee Valley Authority Houses For Defense Workers. To help allevia...

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

Cot house in the oil town of Hobbs, New Mexico. Hobbs is now experienc...

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

Harlem River Houses, 7th Ave. and 151 St., New York City. Exterior II

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

Vigas in Spanish-American home. This is regular ceiling construction o...

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

A black and white photo of a house. Ohio during Great Depression.

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Queens, New York. Nursery children at Queensbridge houses

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sheffield, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Homes built by ...

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

A black and white photo of a train yard. Office of War Information Pho...

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

Miller house, Ontario, Canada, 1950-52. Living area

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, fireplace, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bostwick residence, Palm Beach, Florida (project). Perspective renderi...

Perspective rendering, for a house designed for Albert Bostwick, intended for Palm Beach, Florida. Date from Rudolph office project list. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Bostwick residence, Palm Beach, Florida (project). Second floor plan

Floor plan with furnishings, for a house designed for Albert Bostwick, intended for Palm Beach, Florida. Date from Rudolph office project list. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Indian Mission Village of Bac, House No. 4, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Public domain photograph of village home, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

96-120 East Street (Houses), Frederick, Frederick County, MD

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

Monte Layman House, Glasgow, Howard County, MO

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

Whitlock Double House, 628-630 North Seventeenth Street, Richmond, Ind...

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

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

Jewish house and store, Sovetskaia Street (late 19th century), Nerchin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Built circa 1896, by Annie and Bartow Cohen, this home is one of the i...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

"Painted Ladies" row of Victorian houses located at 710 to 720 Steiner...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. One of the best-known groups of "Painted Ladies" it is sometimes known as "Postcard Row." This block appears frequently in media and mass-market photogra... More

Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith) was design by George Washin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

The (brown) Sherburne House at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmout...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The c. 1690 building is the sole existing building from the original days when the neighborhood was called Puddle Dock,the oldest neig... More

Comfortable home in Takoma Park, Maryland, an older former "streetcar ...

Originally a settlement of humble cottages to which people moved to escape the "miasmal" air of the city, Takoma Park is now (2018) a city of diverse neighborhoods and many Victorian-style homes. Title, date an... More

Houses of Parliament, London, England. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Item removed from FOREIGN GEOG FILE - England London-Government Buildings in 2017. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz Forms part of: Photoc... More

Warwick, Quinby vic., Accomack County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Related names: Ralph T. Whitelaw. Built by Arthur Upshur in 1673. The west wing is the oldest portion of a much larger house which was burned by the British in 1776. Restore... More

Captain Nelson Merrell House, East of I-35 on Texas Route 79, Round Ro...

Significance: The Merrell house is significant historically because of its association with Captain Merrell, a prominent Austin area land owner and early Texas Ranger. It is architecturally important as a repre... More

Captain Nelson Merrell House, East of I-35 on Texas Route 79, Round Ro...

Edgerton House, Buckland Avenue, Fremont, Sandusky County, OH

Survey number: HABS OH-22-16 Building/structure dates: 1823 Initial Construction

Members and activities of the American Colony (Jerusalem)

Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Includes photographs of American Colony leader Anna Spafford and her ... More

Members and activities of the American Colony (Jerusalem)

Benjamin Harrison House, 1230 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Mar...

Significance: The house is the large, Italianate Victorian home of a successful Indianapolis lawyer and politician who became the twenty-third President of the United States. Survey number: HABS IN-53 Buildin... More

William T. Bonniwell House, Wauwatosa Avenue, Thiensville, Ozaukee Cou...

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

Dr. John Brockenbrough House, 1201 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepen...

Significance: The White House of the Confederacy served as the Executive Mansion for Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family from August 1861 to April 1865. Survey number: HABS VA-861 Building/s... More

David Nichols House, 229 Mulberry, Newark, Essex County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-178 Survey number: HABS NJ-242 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Governor Thomas Prence House, King's Highway (U.S. Route 6), Eastham, ...

Survey number: HABS MA-2-79 Building/structure dates: 1646 Initial Construction

Lastrapes House, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-41 Survey number: HABS LA-89

Charles Bissell House, 666 East Avenue, Rochester, Monroe County, NY

Significance: Built between 1852 and 1854, for Mr. & Mrs. Charles Perkins Bissell this Gothic Revival structure is attributed to Andrew Jackson Warner. This inspiration for the exterior treatment was undoubtedl... More

Samuel Forman House, 409 West Seneca Street, Syracuse, Onondaga County...

Survey number: HABS NY-5-S-2 Building/structure dates: 1812 Initial Construction

Dr. Charles W. Tait Plantation House, Route 71 Vicinity, Columbus, Col...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14 Survey number: HABS TX-282 Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction

Makepeace, Johnson Creek vicinity, Crisfield, Somerset County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-698 Building/structure dates: before 1700 Initial Construction

Makepeace, Johnson Creek vicinity, Crisfield, Somerset County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-698 Building/structure dates: before 1700 Initial Construction

Storer House, 8161 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Count...

Structure incorporates FLW's "Textile Blocks." Significance: One of several of Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete block houses built in southern California. The John Storer residence, built in 1923, is one of severa... More

Christie-Parsils House, 195 Jefferson Avenue, Tenafly, Bergen County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-395 Survey number: HABS NJ-470 Building/structure dates: 1804 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1836 Subsequent Work

Workman House, Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum, 15415 East Do...

Survey number: HABS CA-2736 Building/structure dates: 1842 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1870 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000519

William Remshart Row Houses, 104, 106, 108, 110 West Jones Street, Sav...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

David Lambert House, Danbury Post Road, Wilton, Fairfield County, CT

Survey number: HABS CT-29 Building/structure dates: 1725 Initial Construction

Morris Landau House, 638 North Faring Road, Los Angeles, Los Angeles C...

Significance: Los Angeles based architect Paul R. Williams designed the two-and-one-half-story, single-family, Georgian Revival style residence for electrical engineer Morris Landau and his wife Mabel. Situated... More

Queen Street Area Survey, 319-325 Queen Street (Row Houses), Alexandri...

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

Dunn House & Outbuildings, 105 South Sycamore Street, Petersburg, Pete...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-59, FN-60, FN-61, FN-62, FN-63, FN-64 Survey number: HABS VA-130 Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction

John C. Trube House, 1621-27 Sealy Avenue, Galveston, Galveston County...

Significance: The house is representative of the Romantic Revival style in vogue at the end of the 19th century. Alfred Muller, the architect, was proficient in this German eclectic style and designed two other... More

Oliver Hewlett House, 86 Main Street, East Rockaway, Nassau County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-536 Building/structure dates: after 1700 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Subsequent Work

River Street Historic District, 95 Main Street (House), Claremont, Sul...

Survey number: HAER NH-5-G Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Keith-Brown House, 529 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co...

Significance: The Keith-Brown House, home of Utah mining millionaire David Keith, is one of the few remaining mansions on the once fashionable South Temple Street. The design by Salt Lake City architect Frederi... More

Isaiah Thornton Montgomery House, West Main Street, Mound Bayou, Boliv...

Significance: Isaiah T. Montgomery was the black founder and first mayor of the town of Mound Bayou, which was one of the first independent black settlements established during the Post-Reconstruction period. ... More

Pitot House, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Pitot House is an example of West Indies architecture. This type of construction is well suited to the climate of New Orleans which, like the West Indies, is... More

Mrs. A. L. M. Vhay House, 835 Leguna Street, Santa Barbara, Santa Barb...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS CA-37-37 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction

[96 Cheyne Walk - Corner of a room with Japanese decoration]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Melville Klauber House, 3060 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, San Diego County...

Significance: The Melville Klauber House is a significant example of the work of Irving J. Gill, showing the transition from his formative period to his mature style. The Klauber family was one of San Diego's ... More

Melville Klauber House, 3060 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, San Diego County...

The LaFayette House near Yorktown, Virginia / McIlvaine.

Scene of the LaFayette House with a large military encampment in the fields beyond. Inscribed: LaFayette House near Our(?) House. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

Park Hill, Between Farm Roads 229 & 2076, Crockett, Houston County, TX

Survey number: HABS TX-233 Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Construction

Johnson-Taylor Ranch House, Black Mountain Road vicinity, Rancho Penas...

Significance: This ranch house is one of the few remaining adobe structures of the nineteenth century in the San Diego area. It is in a relatively changed valley which once supported extensive cattle and citru... More

Clough-Langdon House, 21 Unity Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: This is one of three brick houses built in Boston between 1700-1720. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-122 Survey number: HABS MA-342 Building/structure dates: after... More

D. V. Cain House, Green & Fuller Streets, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: The Ghost Town of Bodie is a Registered Historic Landmark and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was located in August, 185... More

Dr. Alexander Glass Strachan House, 302 Cross Street, Petersburg, Pete...

Significance: The main portion of this house was probably built by Dr. Alexander Glass Strachan, a physician, and graduate of the University of Edinburgh, about the middle of the eighteenth century. Strachan w... More

Acosta y Fores, Jaime, Casa, Calle Dr. Santiago Veve No. 70, San Germa...

Significance: The residence stands out in the cityscape of San German for its traditional and elegant features. The one story wooden house with a concrete basement, zinc roofing and separate garage was construc... More

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