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Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D. along the A...

Relief shown pictorially. "Pendleton's Lithography." From: American Antiquarian Society. Transactions and collections. Vol. 2, 1836, fol. p. 264. Hand colored to show the location of Indian tribes and 11 lingui... More

[Bank note illustration showing colonists praying for deliverance from...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Clock for the House of Representatives chamber flanked by American In...

Photograph of design drawing for clock with maquettes of figures by William H. Rinehart. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 120. Notations: Figures by Rhinehart; M.C. Meigs, Capt. of Engineers; ... More

The Metropolitan Sanitary Fair - the Indian Department [NYC. Indians d...

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

Maxey, Honorable Samuel Bell of Texas Colonel of 9th Texas Infantry., ...

A black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Late Indian outrages: body of Sergeant Wyllyams [stuck with arrows]

After a photograph by Major Calhoun and Dr. Bell. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 July 27, p. 468.

[Composite of four scenes related to Indian relations with the U.S. go...

Four scenes: The Indian Question - Red Cloud Agency - distributing goods; The hosiptal; Fort Sill; Officers' quarters. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 May 13. Reference copy in LOT 4391.

New York City - Our Indian allies - Sioux warriors making purchases on...

Native Americans examining goods inside a shop on Broadway, New York City. Title transcribed from item. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 45, no. 1151 (1877 October 20), p. 105 (top).

Map showing Indian reservations with the limits of the United States :...

Prime meridians: Washington, D.C. and Greenwich. Inset of Indian Territory in Northeastern Oklahoma. 6 x 6 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth... More

American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail

Trade card, advertising Red Man chewing tobacco, showing half-length portrait of Spotted Tail. No. 14.

Reversing station or switchback on the Bhor Ghat incline of the Great ...

Similar to photograph in Lot 11948 from negative LC-D4271-365. Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library o... More

Bankston Johnson - full blooded Choctaw Indian "Rough Rider" [on horse...

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

Indian Rock, Narragansett, R.I.

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

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Hampton Institute, Virginia - Indian orch...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LOT subdivision subject: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute - Campus & Rural Life. C... More

[Shooting Pieces, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Shooting Pieces, three-quarter length portrait, seated, turned left, wearing a breastplate and feathers on the back of his head, while holding a tomahawk with feathers on the end of the stick. LOT 10136 (locati... More

[Bad Bear, American Indian] - Public domain image related to music prf...

Bad Bear, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, back to camera. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). ... More

[Amos Two Bulls, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Amos Two Bulls, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaught... More

A group of Shawnee Indian hunters

Stereograph shows one man on horseback, three seated on ground; in white man's dress. Sold only by Underwood & Underwood. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Indian tribes Shawnee; Indians Hunting; Shelf.

Portrait photo of [Charles American Horse, American Indian]

Charles American Horse, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing front, holding a peace pipe. Title from mount of corresponding print in LOT 10136. LOT 10136 (location of... More

Portrait photo of Havasupai Indian school, Cataract Canyon

H11398 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 366. Copyright by H.G. Peabody. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Laundry class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of 20th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Debating class, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

Photo shows a young woman standing before a group of seated students. A partially visible chalkboard says "Debate. Resolved: That the U.S. Senate [...]" An older woman is seated at a piano on the right. The mot... More

Indian village, Howkan, Alaska / Winter & Pond, Juneau, Alaska.

People outside of houses and totem poles. H2818 U.S. Copyright Office.

A dreary place to live - Main Street, Wrangel, Alaska - famous for its...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street scenes; Hotels; Gold Towns; Gold Traveling in...; Alaska Wrangel; Alaska K... More

[Two old Paiute Indian women with baskets and woven hats, one identifi...

H21789 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.A. Forbes. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Crow indian view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51408". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.... More

[Captain John, Paiute Indian, full-length portrait, standing, facing s...

H37840 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographer may have been A.A. Forbes. No. 256.

Frederic Remington - [An Indian dance], portrait of american indian ma...

Indian, wearing long headdress, and holding peacepipe, dancing. H28524 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Houghton Mifflin Co. Reproduction of painting by Frederic Remington.

Hopi Indian Girls Grinding Corn--a home scene at Shonghopavi [i.e. Shu...

Older man sitting by; food (?) hanging on walls; pots. H29809 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copryighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracing... More

[Indian guide for the rapids, standing in canoe, in the Sault Sainte M...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Three Indian children, Guatemala] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - French children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian Defying Civilization and Festival Hall beyond, Louisiana Purcha...

H49436 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 15004. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Siwash [i.e., Salishan] Indian women in war canoe

H67826 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by J.A. Blosser, Snohomish, Wash. No. 522. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Canoes...; Photog. Index; I... More

Indian basket market, Mackinac, An

Public domain photograph of picnic, leisure time, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ha-zah-zoch-kah (Branching Horns), a Winnebago Indian

Three-quarters length portrait of man wearing facial paint, seated, facing left. H61518 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 414. Caption card tracings: JK; I. tribes Winne.; Shelf.

[The Creek Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Frederi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Goverment [sic] Indian School, Chamberlain, S. Dak.

H99852 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; F. J. Bandholtz; September 19, 1907. Copyright claimant's address: Des Moines, IA.

How all our pottery manufacturers began - an Indian potter at work - A...

2 Indian women. Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Co. No. A41092. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Indians; Pottery.

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.

A Pawnee Indian brave - Public domain portrait print

A Pawnee man, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, wearing full headdress, aiming rifle. H112328 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item.

[Quanah Parker, Comanche Indian Chief, full-length portrait, standing,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Louise Jorgensen in Indian dress

Photograph shows dancer and teacher Louise Jorgensen (d. 1995) who lived in Oakland, California. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Group of workers in Indian Head Mills. Youngest ones would not be phot...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian Massacre, ca. 1911. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Bodies found at Indian massacre Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentatio... More

HORSE SHOWS. BABY VINCENT McLEAN ON 'INDIAN FLOWER'

Picryl description: Public domain image of a horse, animal husbandry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Jim, a Navajo Indian, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing r...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Massasoit, Indian chief, 1580-1661, full-length statue, facing front]

J242813 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo of statuette by Cyrus Dallin. Photo copyrighted by Fine Art Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indian tribes W-; S... More

Indian delegation who called to present the President a tobacco pouch ...

Pres. Harding with Sioux and Crow chiefs and Indian Commissioner Burke; White House in background.

Indian Com. Burke & Ossage [i.e., Osage] Chiefs, [1/10/23]

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Neil M. Judd of Natl. Georaphic Society with Indian Pottery, 11/20/24

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Indian union], gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph

Woodlands & Plains Indians. J279272 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Madison, Wis. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; Photoart House; October 24, 1925.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Setting poles to Indian Head IV

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Line construction to Indian Head VII

Public domain photograph related to Potomac Electric Power Company, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Notable visitors and approx. chronological events since 1930. Funeral ...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pan-Islamic conference gathers at Shunet Nimrin, Transjordan. Mawalana...

Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Comm. and Mrs. L.S. Perry, Aide to the Commandant of the Navy Yard, ph...

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

A Warm Springs Indian chief at the Molalla Buckeroo. Molalla, Oregon

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian children. Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian woman picking blueberries, near Little Fork, Minnesota

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

Indian baby in blueberry picker's camp. Littlefork, Minnesota

Public domain image of infant, child, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian mother and baby, blueberry pickers' camp near Little Fork, Minn...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian family picking blueberries near Little Fork, Minnesota

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian boy between portraits of his ancestors. Near Sallisaw, Oklahoma

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian troops in East Africa. Subadar Mohd Bekhsh, O.B.I., I.O.1., of ...

Public domain image of a military uniform, officer portrait, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Anglo-American and Indian friends, Taos, New Mexico

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

Indian leveling land. Nevada - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a woman making something, Great Depression....

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Diversion on board a troopship bound for the Middle East Picture shows...

British Official photo: BF 244. No. BO 772. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Charms, beadwork, ashtrays, and commercial...

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

Windsor Locks, Connecticut. An Indian who came all the way from Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Indian troops in East Africa. These photos show the large-scale produc...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Frank Barnett, a Negro farmer who is part Cherokee Indian. Scull S...

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

Malaya - Britain pursues "scorched earth" policy ... British forces in...

British Official photo: FLM.798. No. BO-890. Notation on recto: Still photograph from a motion picture on the destruction of supplies and facilities as the British Army retreated. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collec... More

Barn on farm of FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borr...

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

An old man sitting on a bench next to a dog. 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

Robert M. Hillas, Indian Harbor, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American residential architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Robert M. Hillas, Indian Harbor, residence in Greenwich, Connecticut. ...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Manuelito, New Mexico. Indian "hogans" along the Atchison, Topeka and ...

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

Cajon, California. Indian section gang working on the Atchison, Topeka...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

Indian farms and houses near Laguna, New Mexico enroute to Gallup on t...

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

Beltsville, Maryland. Indian scientists visiting the Agricultural Rese...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Robert M. Hillas, residence in Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Connecti...

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

Wooden Indian statue in rural Utah

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

Participants in the "Million Indian March" on Washington, D.C., photog...

Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park located in California's Sierr...

Created in 1968, the park preserves a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes. It is also a regional Indian museum. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit ... More

Prehistoric indian mound, Florence, Alabama

This mound was built probably between 100 B.C. and 400 A.D. It contains no burials. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alaba... More

Outcroppings in Andreas Canyon, one of three "Indian Canyons" owned an...

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

Neon sign "Indian Jewelry" Northern California Redwood attraction

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

A portion of the Indian Canyons Golf Resort, once the Canyon Country C...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The resort is now owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. H... More

The silversmith's daughter - Navajo Indian, near Gallup, New Mexico

Photograph shows young Navajo girl, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing necklaces and silver bracelets. Photographer and date from record for same photograph at National Anthropological Archive... More

[Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, listening to recording with ethnologis...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 3332. Title from information supplied by American Folklife Center staff. Title was formerly "Piegan Indian, Mountain Chief, having his voice recorded by ethnologist France... More

A pretty group at an Indian tent

Four Lakota women standing, three holding infants in cradleboards, and a Lakota man on horseback, in front of a tipi, probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. ... More

Indian officers of the British Indian Troops, Hong Kong, China

Photograph shows a man, wearing a turban, walking on street in Hong Kong. H24482 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. No. 120. Exhibited: Picturing Hong Kong; p... More

George Clinton, April 11, 1793, Report on New York Indian Land Deeds

Report on New York Indian Land Deeds

Indian braves, splendid with savage finery, riding their ponies down t...

H53979 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image ... More

Moki corn festival, Indian camp, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

No. 5787. H52206 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau.

The American Indian Past. Present / / Albert Levering.

Print shows two caricatures of Native Americans: a war dance of the past and a football game of the present; a Carlisle Indian School pennent flies from a pole in the stands. Copyright by Keppler & Schwarzman... More

"Little," the instigator of Indian revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890 / photo ...

Little, Oglala band leader, full-length studio portrait, seated, facing left, wearing turkey feather headdress, holding rifle and bow and arrows on lap.

New York City - the Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, in the Great Hall of the C...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1870 July 2, p. 241. Title transcribed from item.

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