A black and white photo of people in a building, Chicago, Illinois. Un...
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. In a ticker seller's booth at Union Station
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Chicago, Illinois. In the main concourse of the Union Station
Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Walter V. Dew, rear brakeman, on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Ra...
Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. In the tube room of the Union Station are also kept...
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. Warehouses and elevator near the freight yards of t...
Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illnois. Reservation girl at the Union Station making reserva...
Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. A bus driver collecting tickets at the Greyhound bu...
Public domain photograph of bus station, bus terminal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A girl, who is a cook in a roadside restaurant but plans to leave her ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Reservation girl at the Union Station taking a rese...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. Private D.N. Daniels kissing his wife goodbye at th...
Public domain photograph of bus station, bus terminal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Freight train operations on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad betw...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Calumet City, Illinois. Loading sheep at the Calumet Park stockyards
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. The Union Station handles by far the largest amount...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cicero, Illinois. A switchman at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlin...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Soldier departing at the Union Station
Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. Porters, conductor, and brakeman at Union Station
Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a train coming down the tracks. Office of W...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Joliet (vicinity), Illinois. Passing the eastbound streamliner "The Ch...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Smelter in a steel mill, Chicago, Illinois]
Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 12 of contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[People arriving at a Chicago theater for show starring, in person, Ja...
Frame 16 of contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[Butcher holding slab of beef in a meat locker]
Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 5 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[African American children seated around a table in an apartment, eati...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Spectators at wrestling match in Chicago]
Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 2 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[Racks of meat in cold storage in a meat locker]
Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 4 of contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Attendees at the 1952 Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinoi...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
University of Chicago Law School, 1955-63. Law School
Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior deta...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior deta...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, woods, trees, arbor, outdoors, romantic landscape, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Deere & Company Headquarters, Moline, Illinois, 1956-64. Exterior
Box. no. 3. No. 602. Title and date from Eero Saarinen by De Long and Peatross, 2008. Credit line: Balthazar Korab collection of photographs showing Eero Saarinen architecture, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Christian Science Student Center, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illi...
Adhesive label on item: Christian Science Student Center. Dates from Rudolph office project list. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Illinois & Michigan Canal Bri...
Significance: Of the two surviving plate-girder swing bridges built across the I & M Canal, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Canal Bridge is the only one which contains a center pivot pier. The others were b... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Sycamore Public Library, Sycamore, Illinois
Built in 1905. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note, and keywords ... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. A Mies van der Rohe-designed house that is a National H... More
Sears Tower is very prominent in this aerial of Chicago, Illinois take...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
O'Hare International Airport passenger terminal, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Chicago Ironwork, 711 North Rush Street (Cast Iron Fence), 711 Rush St...
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Mother and child at the Chicago firefighter mural, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions... More
Farnsworth House, designed and constructed by modernist architect Ludw...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The one-room steel and glass house was commissioned by ... More
Giraffes at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of the city, skyscraper buildings, cityscape, downtown, urban environment, free to use, no copyrig... More
Robie House, created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hyde Park ...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Gold Coast neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
O'Gara and Wilson antiquarian booksellers in the Hyde Park neighborhoo...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Merkel Farmstead, Barn, 8570 Louella Lane, south side of U.S. Route 64...
Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carol M. Highsmith - Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois
Photo shows baseball game played between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals on May 1, 1996 (Source: Society for American Baseball Research, 2016) Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to repres... More
Sculpture "Agriculture" exterior southwest side of Federal Building an...
Artist: Freeman Schoolcraft., 1939. Stone 6' 3" x 4' x ? Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Cr... More
Patriot Auto Sales sign, Clearlake Street, Springfield, Illinois
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Auto; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America... More
People's National Bank of Kewanee, North Tremont Street, Kewanee, Illi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Banks; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Americ... More
Duellman's Motel sign, Westmont, Illinois
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More
Art "Chicago Murals" interior of Harold Washington Social Security Cen...
Artist: Ilya Bolotowsky, 1976. Architectural arts, porcelain enamel on steel; four murals: 14' x 45', 10' x 60', and two at 10' x 42'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administrati... More
Sculpture "Sky Cathedral" at entrance plaza of Federal Building and U....
Public domain photograph of cathedral, church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The skyscraper with the somewhat pointed roof is (as of 2016) the city's tallest building: the 49-story Chase Tower, formerly known as... More
Corner of an eclectic gift shop and convenience store mere feet off hi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More
Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Rou...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More
The old Hackberry General Store in the tiny crossroads of Hackberry, a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More
National emancipation mounment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows a rendition by architects Bullard & Bullard of a national monument to emancipation proposed for Springfield, Illinois, showing an obelisk topped with a statue of a Union soldier, and with other stat... More
Villa Kathrine, 532 Gardner Expressway, Quincy, Adams County, IL
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Villa Kathrine was built in 1900 for W. George Metz, the son of a weathy Quincy, Illinois, businessman. Metz hired Quincy architect George Behrensmeyer to des... More
Illinois, Detroit publishing company photo
Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-28996. Size: 6.5 x 8.5 in. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09000. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Opening prayer. Republican National Convention, June 21, 1904
Photograph shows hundreds of attendees at the opening prayer of the Republican National convention, Chicago. Photo and copyright 1904 by S. L. Stein, Milwaukee.
Chicago, Ill. - Streets: Van Buren St., west from Wabash Ave., elevate...
H64960 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street railroads; Elevated railroads; Ill. C. Sts.; Shelf.
Market Street, Chicago. Michigan peaches arriving
H70169 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted in 1905 by C.H. Graves. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill. C. Bldgs.; Ill. C. Sts.; Markets; Shelf.
Randolph Street, showing Iroquois Theatre, Chicago
H71261 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted in 1905 by The Globe Stereograph Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ill. C. Buildings; Ill. C. Sts.; Shelf.
Chicago, Ill. - South Water Street - produce market
H77208 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Markets; Ill. C Sts.; Shelf.
Dearborn St., north from Van Buren, Chicago
H81058 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted in 1906 by H.C. White Co. No. 208. Caption card tracings: Street rr; Elevated railroads; Ill. C. Sts.; Shelf.
Bathers, Lake Michigan, Chicago. Stereoscopic card of Chicago, IL, 19t...
H106421 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Stereo-Travel Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Bathing beaches; Ill. C-; Shelf.
Baseball Fans - Chicago Day at White Sox Park
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Masonic Temple, Chicago's Great Sky Scraper (265 ft.), Randolph an...
H124233 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted 1909 by E.W. Kelley. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Freemason temples; Ill. C. B... More
When the boys come back from Berlin
words by May Dawson Jordan ; music by Jessie Crosby Osborne. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Sta... More
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lovington, Moultrie County, Illinois
Apr 1922. 5 Sheet(s). Illinois fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More
Evangelist preaching sermon. Pentecostal church, Cambria, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
An old black and white photo of a woman listening. Office of War Infor...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A man standing next to a horse drawn carriage. Office of War Informati...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Bandurist Youth Group, Chicago, Illinois; Danish Singing Society; proj...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-4a, solo player in Bandurist Youth Group, the field documentation d... More
St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church, 5649 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, Ill...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-16, views of interior and exterior of St. Andrew's Church 5649 N. S... More
Mrs. Aldona Veselka, weaver, Chicago, Illinois
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-5, at the home of Mrs. Aldona Veselka, weaver, 6531 S. Washtenaw, Chicago, parts of Lithuanian costume in front of living room fireplace; 6, vest, skirt, and apron; 7-8, Mrs. Vese... More
Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago; project activities, Chicago, Il...
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-3, at Jazz Alley, 50th and Langley, Chicago, vendor's truck (fruit seller?); 4-11, wall murals; 13-17, hot dog vendor's truck, with customer; 18-20, fieldworker Carl Fleischhauer ... More
Ada Sparks, interview scenes, quilts, jewelry, Chicago, Illinois; Nanc...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, Ada Spark's writing book (continued from roll at call number afc... More
Robert Ledwith interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-08-13
Ledwith is the business manager for IWU #46 in New York City. During the interview, we discuss his personal background, entry into the iron trade, the history of the Local and iron workers in New York City, his... More
Oak Woods Cemetery, Confederate Mound, 1035 East 67th Street, Chicago,...
Survey number: HALS IL-2-A Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Driveway near Field Museum of Natural History, Jackson Park, Chicago, ...
Possibly by Hans Behm. Negatives are close variants. Negative A cracked upper right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070171. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
African American craft makers: Katy Gregory and daughter, Ethel Lois J...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, interior of Mrs. Katy Gregory's home, 335 W. 114th, Chicago; 3-7... More
Home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, Chicago, Illinois
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-9, at the home of Mr. Jae K. Lee, 6225 N. Claremont, Chicago, Mrs. Lee modelling traditional Korean costume; 10-14, Korean foot wear; 15-17, the Lee family; 18, Mrs. Lee with chil... More
Raising a chapel pole made by Antanas Poskocimas in front of the Lithu...
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-16, Mr. Antanas Poskocimas (dark brown shirt) and helpers raising a Lithuanian chapel pole in front of the Jesuit Fathers Lithuanian Youth Center, 5620 S. Claremont; Mr. Poskocima... More
Morra players, Chicago, Illinois; performers and fans before the Flead...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-6, morra players outside MaMa Sue's Restaurant; 7-36, scenes of the... More
Quilts, Mrs. Katy Gregory and her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Lois Jackson, c...
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-8, Mrs. Katy Gregory and her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Lois Jackson, craftswomen, 335 W. 114th St., Chicago, red, white and blue quilt - unidentified child - possibly a family record, ... More
Great American Coffeehouse, Appalachian Bar, Chicago, Illinois
Image numbers, descriptions: 1-2, exterior of the Great American Coffeehouse; 3-4, Iberius Hacker outside the Great American Coffeehouse; 5-7, Iberius Hacker; 8-12, fieldworker Becky Browning and Iberius Hacker.
Lamb roast and picnic at Yugoslav Benevolent and Pleasure Club and Pic...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, Croatian American lamb roast and picnic at Yugoslav Benevolent ... More
Polonia Grove and Ballroom, 4604 S. Archer, Chicago, Illinois
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, picnickers at Polonia Grove and Ballroom, 4604 S. Archer, Chicago
Annual Midwest Fleadh Cheoil, Bogan High School, 79th and Pulaski, Chi...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-9, Seamus Connelly (adjudicator, without tie) and Johnny McGreevy (... More
Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicag...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe at the Museum of Science and Industry
The Kin-der-Kids (abroad). The kids' terrible adventure with a whale!
Five-panel Sunday comic strip in which Daniel Webster, Strenuous Teddy, Piemouth and Japansky are in their bathtub boat sailing away from Aunty JimJam, who is not pictured. They spy whales in the distance. The ... More
Skyline from lake front, Chicago
Date from jacket. Originally part of a larger panorama; other sections not in collection. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10424, 10423, 10422. "G 8250 L," "G 8251 LC dup,"... More
Fort de Chartres, Prairie du Rocher, Randolph County, IL
Survey number: HABS IL-304 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1772 Demolished National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000329
The Bishop Misbehaves - theatrical playbill, public domain image
Majestic Theatre (venue) A playbill (program or brochure that is distributed to theater patrons prior to or during a performance that contains information about the play, its cast, and crew, as well as other d... More
Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicini...
Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's firs... More
Mrs. Edith Wilson, Chicago, Illinois; Big Time Sara Streeter, Blues si...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-20, Mrs. Edith Wilson at her home; 2-9, Mrs. Edith Wilson (5921 Ind... More
Greek needlework shop, Yarn and Canvas Ltd., 4650 N. Western, Chicago;...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: at the Greek needlework shop, Yarn and Canvas Ltd., 4650 N. Western A... More