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[Images of Hinduism and Buddhism] / G. Heck, dirt. ; Henry Winkles scu...

Includes images of Vishnu, Buddha, and Hindu ascetics. Illus. in: Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art / Johann G. Heck. New York : Published by Rudolph Garrigue, 1851, division 8, vol. 2, pl. 3.

Map of Calcutta from actual survey in the years 1847-1849 /

Includes index to districts. Annotations in ink and crayon along bottom of all sheets. In ink on blue bordered label on sheet 1: 69 C14 1857. In ink on blue bordered label on sheets 2-4: 69 C14 1858. Copy imper... More

[The British lion's vengence on the Bengal tiger] / J.T. 1870.

Political cartoon showing a lion pouncing upon a tiger that is attacking a woman and baby. Title from earlier published version. Letter from artist on mount. Purchase; Draper and Sarah Hill; 2009; (DLC/PP-2008:... More

Delhi. Jumma Musjid Gateway view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: " India. Delhi. Jumna. Musjid Ghat". Print no. "20063. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/P... More

[Snake charmers, India] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows three men, one man squatting before a cobra in a pot, holding the snake with his right hand and making a fist with his left in front of the snake's head, the second man is standing with a large snak... More

Black coach with gilded wheels drawn by two horses

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Coolies transferring bales of jute from boats at Saraghat (?)

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collec... More

A truck-load of supplies and laborers' families enroute to a many-time...

Image source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. B. Mayne. Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1... More

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Lt. General Joseph W. Stilwell inspecting Chinese troops in India He i...

OWI copy neg. 410-ZC. Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman carding wool at cottage industries, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Sick girl in bed, Sikkim] - Public domain portrait photograph

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4912 Forms part ... More

[Looking toward downtown Gangtok, the Capital of Sikkim]

Photograph shows two women walking down a steep path toward the streets of downtown Gangtok filled with cars and people. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congre... More

HM the Gyalmo, HH Prince Palden, HH Princess Hope

Photograph shows Queen Hope Cooke with her children, Prince Palden and Princess Hope Leezum, Gangtok, Sikkim. Palden Thondup Namgyal was the hereditary ruler of the independent Kingdom of Sikkim, located in th... More

Coronation 1965, Queen accepts traditional white scarf

A new map of North America, with the British, French, Spanish, Dutch &...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, roads, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and vegetation. Also shows anchorages, currents, and route... More

Futepore Sikreeh, Panch Mahal view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Agra. Futepore-Sikreeh, Panch Mahal". Print no. "20041. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 201... More

Railway station at Ghoom, East Bengal

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage glass negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph colle... More

Nautch girl dancing with musicians accomp. Calcutta, India - Frank G. ...

Photo shows a female dancer standing between two musicians, one with drums and the other with a stringed instrument. Title from caption card and item. No. 216. LOT subdivision subject: India. Forms part of: Fra... More

Eastward ho! - Drawing. Public domain image.

Britannia, a female figure dressed in armour and holding a trident, introduces India, depicted as a young woman, elegantly dressed in native costume, to Lord Kitchener. India keeps her eyes cast to the ground,... More

India, A street in Lahore, the center of Indian wheat region

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

India, A Hindoo [i.e., Hindu] wedding

Public domain image of India, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unidentified men seated in racing cars

Photo copyrighted by H.H. Coburn Co., Indianapolis, Ind. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Automobile racing; Shelf.

A Hindu bridal party - Public domain portrait

Group portrait of a Hindu bridal party wearing traditional clothing. Public domain photograph of ethnic groups in India, ethnography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chinese soldiers of the United Nations forces in India register their ...

Public domain photograph related to the history of China, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Officers entering their mess, a version of the famous Stork Club in Ne...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Shinglay Lama turning giant prayer wheel]

Title from: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 153. Photographer's stamp on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell ... More

[Woman and boy, members of the Jorbu family, farming in a field next t...

Label from LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 086 (color reference copy): "Jorbu family farming". Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-2203. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs ... More

[Poh, a shaman, performing a ritual to heal a sick child]

Two Speeches by Frederick Douglass; West India Emancipation.. And the ...

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Portrait photo of Coronation 1965, the King & Queen

Photograph shows the newly-crowned King Palden Thondup Namgyal and Queen Hope Cooke walking in procession, Gangtok, Sikkim. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library... More

Woman wearing court dress and Indian jewelry

Photo shows a young noble woman, seated, facing front, wearing a dress with head covering, also arm, wrist, and ankle bands, finger and toe rings, nose piercing, and a large necklace.

Lucknow. Modjibaman view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Lucknow. Modjibaman seen from Imambara." Print no. "20032. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; ... More

India. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Durbar, Delhi, India: Richly dressed elephant from Khairpur, in the gr...

3 men seated on elephant and 2 others standing in foregrd. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Jumma Mosque, Delhi, of white marble and red sandstone, the greatest i...

Crowd in front of the Great Mosque or Jami Masjid. Copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 14043.

High caste Hindus of Bombay, India

Four women, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing traditional dress. J253009 U.S. Copyright Office. Keystone View Company copyrighted. No. 12573

Supplies arrive in India for American armed forces. Here is a line of ...

Public domain photograph of train tracks, car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman power in India. Indian cleaning and oiling spare parts for tanks...

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

Sikkim, ploughing rice terraces / Alice Kandell.

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Photographer's stamp on back of print. Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Market, Gangtok, Sikkim, photo by Alice S. Kandell

Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-2926. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 128 (color reference copy). Gift; D... More

Rosenberg's great east India horse invigorator

Print shows two men forcing "Rosenberg's Great East India Horse Invigorator" from a bottle into a horse's mouth. Caption continues: Depot 698 Broadway, cor. 4th St. New York. Publication date based on copyrigh... More

Address at the Celebration of West India Emancipation, Rochester, N.Y.

The history of Persia - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress ...

Pedro, not Antonio, Teixeira was the compiler of this work.--cf. Silva, Dicc. bibl. port., Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale, and Brit. mus. Catalogue. A translation, with additions, of Pedro Teixeira's Relaciones... More

[Khosrau I (d. 579), king of Persia, seated on throne, directing Burzu...

Woodcut frontis. Illus. in: Kalilah wa-Dimnah. German: Directorium Humanae vitae. German. Ulm, Lienhart Holle, May 28, 1483. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I... More

A map of the countries between Constantinople and Calcutta : including...

Shows railroads, submarine telegraphs, and boundaries of British possessions colored in red. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Stanford's Geogl. Establ." Includes distance table between cities in Brit... More

Weaving blankets on street - Madura - photo by William Henry Jackson

Similar to lantern slide W7-284. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1943. World's Transporta... More

State house, from Soldiers' Monument, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.A

No. 11665. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bank of Bengal on the Hoogly River, Calcutta

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

Hindu Priest - India - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[Jimmy Murphy, winner of 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Ind., May...

J255563 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Gravelle. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motorcycles; BI (2); Photog. I.; Shelf.

Chandeliered ballroom of government house, Calcutta, India

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

An American flying squadron in India. Shake it Baby! The jive session ...

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

Ancient art of weaving with self-supported back-strap loom. [...] This...

Caption continues from item: This type of weaving is found in some South American Indian tribes. Photographer's stamp on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Li... More

[Man standing with yak, next to monastery, Lachung, Sikkim]

Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 081 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).

[Nursing mother and children of the Jorbu family, Lachung, Sikkim]

Same woman shown in Kandell slides: LC-KAN05-0017 and LC-KAN05-0018. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: ht... More

[School children at the Paljor Namgyal Girls School, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 056 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Lama ringing bell to begin New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 82-83, where image appears with caption "Lamas chant pray... More

[Schoolchildren raising hands in classroom, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 048 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Bhotia tailor sewing a vest at Geyzing (Gyalshing) Government Farm in...

Date from information for related slides: LC-KAN05-2612 and LC-KAN05-2613. Date on slide: "Aug. 71" possibly reflects date of later use or publication. Published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Ali... More

[People walking along mountain path, Lachung, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 064 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Headman Pipon standing in rocky field, as children use hoes in earth,...

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

Kashmir region. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading. Shows boundaries and disputed areas. 763634AI (C00002) 1-04." Includes inset location map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Zigzag journeys in India, or, The antipodes of the Far East : a collec...

Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 284-292 LC copy is a copyright deposit: Jun. 13, 1887, 11620 S2.

[Priest holding crucifix standing beside boat, looking at map of "Tart...

Illus. in: Dell'Historia Della...(Rome, 1653) frontis. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Disc. & Expl; Geogr.; Missionaries.

Lucknow. Residence view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Lucknow. Print no. "20013. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:141). More in... More

Benares. Palace of Maharaja of Indore

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Benares. Ganges. Palace of Maharajah of Indore". Print no. "20023. P.Z." Purchase; Marc ... More

Boys in a Cannery, Indianapolis, Ind. Unloading new tomato cans from f...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Canneries. Hine no. 57. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divis... More

London Strike gates of Great East India dock; closed

Public domain photograph of military activity, parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, United Provinces, I...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to politics, political campaigns, committee, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

India in the war. Girl workers in a booming Bombay textile mill. Thirt...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

All-American news. 1945-08, no. 1

All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More

[King and Queen of Sikkim getting ready to fly to Bhutan in helicopter...

[Primula flowers at Pemayangtse in western Sikkim]

[Shinglay Lama and grandchildren sit in haystack near Singhik,Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 87, where image appears with caption "Shinglay Lama and gr... More

Ploughing rice terraces, old methods of farming

Photograph shows boys and man with yoked cattle in a field, Lachung, Sikkim. Photographer's stamp on item. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also repr... More

[Men with horses, possibly unloading wood in courtyard of house, Lachu...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 095 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikk...

Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-69. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.go... More

Amritsar. Golden Temple view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Amritstar. Golden Temple". Print no. "20062. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/PP-... More

Parsee wedding, India - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Group of 21 people posed. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, Bombay.

Tuticorin - street scene, William Henry Jackson photograph

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1943. World's Transportation Commission photograph collec... More

Two river steamers at Saraghat (?) on the Ganges

Mohammedan woman, street dress, India

An old photo of a person in a ghost costume. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

India in the war. Girl workers in a booming Bombay textile mill. Thirt...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. General view, gun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[People carrying wood on their backs as they walk along a mountain roa...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 092 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Bhutia man from Lachung in North S[ikkim]. Long braid is typical [for]...

Photograph shows a Bhotia man, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding hat, Sikkim. Photographer's stamp on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (L... More

[Boys from Lachung carrying wood in the mountains, Sikkim]

Assam. 7-69. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:4,570,000. "76411." Inset: India. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Clown dancer, ceremonial masked lama dances, Sikkim

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

[Woman weaving on loom, Lachung, Sikkim]

Title devised by Library staff from information for similar slide: LC-KAN05-2276. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg... More

Kashmir region. Historic map, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Hindu, India, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian women in railway coach below signs reading "Native females" and...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Atlas of South India, from cape Comorin to the river Kistnah /

Relief shown by hachures. Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Hindu temple and tombs of the kings from inside the walls - Jammu, Kas...

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 974. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

[Prince Palden Gyumed and Princess Hope Leezum seated on white scarves...

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

[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, f...

Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-072. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc... More

An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the Br...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Lowery 409 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 20 Includes historical notes, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular map of Baffin ... More

An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the Br...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. w. from London." From Thomas Jefferys' American atlas. 1775. no. 5, 6. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 23 Includes historical notes, ex... More

Agra. Taj Mahal view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Agra. Taj Mahal". Print no. "20029. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:141.... More

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