11,358 India Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Durbar, India, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows carriage of H.H. the Maharaja of Rewah, at a festival ehld by Lord Curzon in honor of the coronation of Edward VII. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collect... More

Humble shawl-weavers at Cashmere patiently creating wonderful harmonie...

H86977 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elephants passing the palace at Jeypore, India

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

General Sir P.W. Chetwode - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows British general, Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode (1869-1950) who served as Commander in Chief in India. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

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

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.

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.

Lord Chelmsford - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows British statesman Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868-1933). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Pilgrims bathing in the sacred Ganges before the Temple in Benares, In...

Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

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.

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Madras (vicinity), ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, 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

American flying squadron in India

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

A black and white photo of a group of men sitting at a table, American...

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

An American flying squadron in India. A letter home. Captain Richard J...

Title and other information from caption card and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Lend-lease materi...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A direct hit on a 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel by India Air task...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian workmen op...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[Alice Kandell hiding behind a Sikkimese soldier to take a photograph ...

Soldier in photograph is identified as "the General" by Alice Kandell in her presentation. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Fo... More

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

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Rinchen Namgyal Lachungpa and boy standing next to yak-butter churns,...

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Primula flowers at Pemayangtse in western Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Mount Kānchenjunga, third highest mountain in the world]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Monks praying inside Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim]

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

[Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa Lama, seated, with a monk, at ...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 002 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Portrait photo of "Bhotia" villager in North Sikkim

Photograph shows a man with a sack over his shoulder, standing in a snow covered landscape. Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Title from accompanying caption supplied by the photographer. For... More

Road building. Women laborers - Public domain scan of photograph

Photograph shows a Nepalese woman road builder, seated on pile of rocks, Sikkim. Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-2679. Label from color reference copy slide page: "Nepali road builders." Forms part of: Dr. A... More

[Prince Palden (left) and friend at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikk...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

[Performers at New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[Suspension bridge over river, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

[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 gra... More

[Young girl, Kimu, carrying a birthday cake through the Lachung Monast...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 165 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:... More

[Warrior dancing at New Year's ceremony, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 014 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Nepalese family outside of clay home, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 176, where image appears with caption "Sikkimese Nepali cla... More

[Nepalese family sitting outside on haystacks, Sikkim]

Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN05-0035. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[Alice Kandell with villager and horse, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... 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).

Royal procession, King, Queen & court, Sikkim

Photograph shows Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, and Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, in brocaded dress, walking to the Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple) for the King's birthday celebration, Gangtok, ... More

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

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

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Ja...

Published anonymously. Written by William Watts, formerly attributed to John Campbell. LC copy imperfect? Prelim. leaf may be wanting. ESTC T102030 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web ... More

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

ESTC T146751 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-20

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Delhi - Jumma Musjid, or Great Mosque - rear view

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

India : a country study /. Library of Congress Federal research divisi...

"Research completed September 1995." Supercedes the 1985 ed. of India : a country study, edited by Richard F. Nyrop. Includes bibliographical references (p. 671-785) and index. Also available in digital form.

[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. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Col... More

Darjeeling, bridge over the Rungroo

Photograph of pedestrians on a wooden bridge over rocky falls, Darjeeling, India.

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.

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

Ceylon. Groupe i.e. group of Singhalese Nobilities

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Ceylon. Group of Singhalese Nobility." Print no. "20051. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 20... More

Bombay. Girgaum Road view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Bombay. Girgaum Road". Print no. "20016. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015... More

Delhi. Kashmere Gate view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: " India. Delhi. Cashmere Gate with the Breach of 1857". Print no. " 20019. P.Z." Purchase; Marc ... More

Benares - preparing dead bodies for cremation

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

Madura - Temple of Siva from the Palace of Tiru

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-D4271-285. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library o... More

Two river steamers at Saraghat (?) on the Ganges

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

Five men in village street. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Public domain reproduction of lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Birds-eye view of Darjeeling - photo by William Henry Jackson

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

Madura - street procession with men on elephants

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 686. 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

Indian puppies - man holding 3 puppies on his lap

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

Woman carrying large corrugated sheets

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Railway guard standing on tracks

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

Benares - courtyard area behind burning ghat

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

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

Delhi - Palace of the Moguls - pool built and blessed by the Saint Nig...

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

Hindu devotee - 3 men squatting beside barbed-wire fence

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

Temples of Jammu from distance. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

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

Coffee-making at Mosque, Ahmedabad

Photograph shows a man standing next to an oven(?) outside a mosque in Ahmedabad, India.

Caricature, Muscovite caution / Keppler., public domain cartoon image

Illustration showing a bear wearing a crown labeled "Russia" looking across a river in India at a large beehive labeled "British Beehive Herat Honey" on a building with minarets. Caption continues: Russia I w... More

Durbar, Delhi, India: H.H. the Raja of Jind, in his solid silver phaet...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

From the Viceroy's House, over the great Durbar encampment, on the Del...

Enormous tent complex of royal entourage. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Edw. VII, King of G.B.; Tents; Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

State elephants of H.H. the Maharaja of Gwalior, superbly decorated, D...

H31807 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marvels of richness and grandeur - the great Durbar Procession, Delhi,...

Bird's-eye view of parade with many people and people on elephants. H31404 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Marquis of Ripon - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows British courtier and Liberal politician Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon (1852-1923). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Maharajah of Kapurthala - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Jagatjit Singh Bahadur (1872-1949) who was the ruling Maharajah of the state of Kapurthala in the British Empire of India. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

American Red Cross Canteen #4, Paris. Personnel, left to right: Grace ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Guerin, ARC. Group title: Personnel, Groups. 8 July 1919 [date received] Used in:... More

Hindu children of high caste, Bombay, India

Three children seated, dressed in elaborate clothing and accessories. J252992 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12574.

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

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee to India. A concrete...

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

Top-ranking Anglo-American army officials meet in New Delhi, India. Le...

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

An old black and white photo of two people. Office of War Information ...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Indian troops in East Africa. The largest crowd Bombay city has seen f...

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

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

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

A black and white photo of a man leaning against a building. Office of...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

A black and white photo of a dog in a jail cell. Office of War Informa...

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 Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Lieutenant Will R. Underwood in India being fitted with sandals over h...

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

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. S. Chandrasekhar, lea...

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

Chinese troops receiving instructions in the laying of wire from Corpo...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An American flying squadron in India. "What's cooking?" asks Technical...

Public domain photograph of United States in World War Two, home front, industrial military production, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An American flying squadron in India. "Hump Happy Tavern." Looming lik...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An American flying squadron in India. A switch in time. Seated in his ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. A mixed crew of E...

Annotation on negative and/or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washing... More

A 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel after a direct hit by India Air T...

Image source: U.S. Army Air Forces from Royal Air Force, Washington, D.C. Title and other information from file print. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington D... More

A 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel after a direct hit by India Air T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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.

Allied military conference in India. Following a session of the Allied...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Skilled Indian wo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Workmen in India ...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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