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China - Peking - instruments atop observatory - Frank G. Carpenter collection

China - Peking - instruments atop observatory - Frank G. Carpenter col...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: China. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Men squatting on sidewalk  - two playing stringed instruments in foreground

Men squatting on sidewalk - two playing stringed instruments in foreg...

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

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delicate instruments are mounted on instrument panels by this North American woman employee

Delicate instruments are mounted on instrument panels by this North Am...

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

Washington, D.C. Preparing sterile instruments for use in the dental checkups held yearly at Woodrow Wilson High School

Washington, D.C. Preparing sterile instruments for use in the dental c...

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

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

Title on half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee. "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Col... More

[Diagram of 22 surgical instruments]

[Diagram of 22 surgical instruments]

Illus. in: John Woodall, The surgion's mate, or, a treatise discouering ... the contents of the surgions chest ... (London, 1617), opp. p. 40. Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified,... More

[Two men playing instruments] - Public domain portrait drawing

[Two men playing instruments] - Public domain portrait drawing

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

[Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family (father, mother and child) and their musical instruments, made in the photographer's New York City studio]

[Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family (father, mother and child) a...

Mr. & Mrs. Brundigee holding violoncellos as their son sits on the floor. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebie... More

NAVAL OBSERVATORY. TIME BROADCASTING INSTRUMENTS

NAVAL OBSERVATORY. TIME BROADCASTING INSTRUMENTS

Photograph shows instruments at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Georgetown University Seismological Observatory installs only Galitzin horizontal seismographs on this side of the Atlantic. The only one of their type on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Galitzin Horizontal seismographs have just been installed at the Georgetown University Seismological Observatory in Washington. These instruments are reputed to be the most sensitive in the field of seismic research. The picture shows Father F.A. Tondorf, Director of the Observatory, and his assistant Father [...] of Spain (left)

Georgetown University Seismological Observatory installs only Galitzin...

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

Young boys with instruments in schoolroom. Reedsville, West Virginia

Young boys with instruments in schoolroom. Reedsville, West Virginia

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

Photo taken in Palestine Broadcasting Service Studios, Jerusalem. Close group of band boys, without instruments

Photo taken in Palestine Broadcasting Service Studios, Jerusalem. Clos...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nurse training. Calm and capable, these nurses are assisting at an appendectomy. The nurse in the foreground is arranging instruments to be handed to the surgeon

Nurse training. Calm and capable, these nurses are assisting at an app...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a surgery, surgeon, physician, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month or so marches up Main Street to give drills and a concert. Players must buy their own instruments and costumes and pay for their own lessons. Lessons are given during school hours

Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month ...

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

[Six different weather measuring instruments]

[Six different weather measuring instruments]

Illus. in: Lorenzo Magalotti. Saggi di naturali esperienze (Firenze, 1667), Pl. 3. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Weather; Sciences.

Barclay telegraph instruments. Showing instruments on stand with women operators. One handling the receiving tape

Barclay telegraph instruments. Showing instruments on stand with women...

Photograph shows three women working together in an office; one operating the teletypewriter, the other writing, and another handling the receiving tape. Copyright 1908 by John Robert Schmidt, Cincinnati, Ohio.... More

Students at a Washington, D.C. school posed with their teacher and [musical] instruments

Students at a Washington, D.C. school posed with their teacher and [mu...

Public domain photograph of music band, orchestra, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Military band members playing instruments]

[Military band members playing instruments]

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

Uncle Sam seeking way to improve theaters for talkies. How to improve theaters for talking motion pictures is a problem now being tackled by the Bureau of Standards. V.L. Chrisler of the Sound Section, who looks like he is imprisoned in stocks, is really studying the "echo effect" in this room and his body and the observing instruments are enclosed so as not to interfere with the tests. It has been found that cushioned seats in talking picture theaters aid in the absorption of the "echo effect"

Uncle Sam seeking way to improve theaters for talkies. How to improve ...

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s - 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Radio Institute, U and 16th Sts. Man working with instruments

National Radio Institute, U and 16th Sts. Man working with instruments

Public domain photograph of midcentury American industry, technology, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Secondhand goods. Note surgical instruments in window, Omaha, Nebraska

Secondhand goods. Note surgical instruments in window, Omaha, Nebraska

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

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A lieutenant of a bombardment squadron stationed at Langley Field, Virginia checks his instruments before taking off in a mighty YB-17 bomber on which he is co-pilot

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. A lieutenant of a...

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

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware, this machine now buffs up delicate surgical instruments which will ultimately be sent to Army and Navy physicians. The Eastern factory in which these instruments are made is undergoing conversion from manufacture of silverplate and silverware. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware,...

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.

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Checking the outside diameter of a cast iron face cam to the nearest thousandth of an inch with a five to six inch micrometer caliper

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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

A thrilling experience for student nurses is the first assignment to the operating room. Student nurse Frances Bullock (left) hands instruments to a surgeon during an operation

A thrilling experience for student nurses is the first assignment to t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a surgery, surgeon, physician, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rose Bampton (Mrs. Wilfred Pelletier), residence at 400 Park Ave., New York City. Group of musical instruments

Rose Bampton (Mrs. Wilfred Pelletier), residence at 400 Park Ave., New...

Public domain photograph of 20th-century New York City interiors, commerce, 1940s-1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Polymorphia, for 48 String Instruments, 1961

Polymorphia, for 48 String Instruments, 1961

Performance instructions in Polish. Complete draft in full score, and incomplete sketches

The Magic Labyrinth, for any number of any instruments and/or any number of any voices

The Magic Labyrinth, for any number of any instruments and/or any numb...

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

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments)

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical...

after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally publish... More

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

Title on half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee. "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Col... More

Descriptive catalogue of musical instruments, strings, etc

Descriptive catalogue of musical instruments, strings, etc

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[Band group seated behind their instruments]

[Band group seated behind their instruments]

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[Children playing musical instruments outdoors]

[Children playing musical instruments outdoors]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0118). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Envy," Harper's Young People, 84:433 (May 3, 1887).

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Chaplains Jacob Rothschild and Harold Elsam learning to use instruments in a map reading class at the U.S. Army chaplain school. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Chaplains Jacob Rothschild and Harold Elsam learning to use instrument...

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Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the hamburger stand and Mickey Mouse, juke boxes like this, here being tested. From now on, electrical control instruments, based on the principle of the jukebox selection device, will be produced here for use by Uncle Sam's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to instruments of death. Edward Groe, Nowegian-born employee of a Chicago piano factory, has been regulating the pneumatic motors of trainer planes since the firm's conversion to war production. Employed by this same company since 1909, Groe is an expert mechanic whose pre-war work included regulating the keys of electric organs. Gulbransen Company

Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. From musical instruments to ins...

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.

Aluminum casting. To make certain that aluminum is being treated in exact accordance with specifications, this worker sets instruments to the correct temperature on heat treating controls of unit. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. To make certain that aluminum is being treated in ex...

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Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Outdoor practice on string instruments

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young mus...

Public domain photograph of music festival, band, orchestra, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Hygienist preparing instruments used in the dental checkup which is given yearly to students of all Washington schools

Washington, D.C. Hygienist preparing instruments used in the dental ch...

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

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Wind direction and velocity are measured by these devices. The instruments are known as wind vanes and anemometers

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the angle of a machined part in degrees and minutes with a five-inch sine bar and vernier height gauge, and consulting a table of constants for a five-inch sine bar

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airport. Wind direction and velocity are measured by these devices. The instruments are known as wind vanes and anemometers

Washington, D.C. The U.S. Weather Bureau station at the National Airpo...

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

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band, posed holding their instruments, Galax, Virginia Back row: Uncle Alex Dunford, fiddle; Fields Ward, guitar; Wade Ward, banjo. Front row: Crockett Ward, fiddle; Doc Davis, autoharp]

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band, posed holding their instruments, Ga...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Bog Trotters Band Galax, Va. 1937; back row: Uncle Alex Dunford f, Fields, Ward g, Wade Ward bjo; front row... More

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band, posed holding their instruments, Galax, Virginia Back row: Uncle Alex Dunford, fiddle; Fields Ward, guitar; Wade Ward, banjo. Front row: Crockett Ward, fiddle; Doc Davis, autoharp]

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band, posed holding their instruments, Ga...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Bog Trotters Band Galax, Va. 1937; back row: Uncle Alex Dunford f, Fields, Ward g, Wade Ward bjo; front row... More

[Large group of people gathered around some men with musical instruments, Mombasa, Kenya]

[Large group of people gathered around some men with musical instrumen...

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Pack horse used by U.S. Army Signal Corps, carrying chest of instruments for local outfit for wireless telegraph

Pack horse used by U.S. Army Signal Corps, carrying chest of instrumen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

BOWIE, EDWARD HALL. OF WEATHER BUREAU. RIGHT, WITH INSTRUMENTS

BOWIE, EDWARD HALL. OF WEATHER BUREAU. RIGHT, WITH INSTRUMENTS

Two men playing a game of chess in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the patio of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Musical instruments: dulcimers, fiddles, Irish bull fiddle, Paul Bunyan harp, others made from cigar box, pitchfork, gourds, cornstalks, bamboo fihing pole; made in lumber camps of Wisconsin and in Southern Highlands. Tapestry made by Katherine McAlister, Blue River, Oregon, from handspun wool, colored with native dyes; group of carvings from Tennessee;

Rural arts exhibition held under the auspices of the Farm Security Adm...

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

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Practice indoors on string instruments

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young mus...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer candidates at the U.S. Army medical field service school. Medical supplies and instruments are carried to the collecting station in chests which open up in this way

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Demonstration before Army doctors and officer ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Ukuladies" strum their instruments in front of a mural in the Mission District of San Francisco, California

"Ukuladies" strum their instruments in front of a mural in the Mission...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural: Mobius by Mark Bode (Source: San Francisco Mural Arts, 2013). Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Hig... More

Twelve Pieces of Harmony for Military Brass Bands of Seventeen Instruments
[Bog Trotters Band members seated with instruments, Galax, Virginia  Includes Doc Davis, with autoharp; Crockett Ward, with fiddle; Uncle Alex Dunford, with fiddle; Wade Ward, with banjo; Fields Ward, with  guitar]

[Bog Trotters Band members seated with instruments, Galax, Virginia I...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bog Trotters Band members seated with instruments, Galax, Virginia  Includes Doc Davis, with autoharp; Crockett Ward, with fiddle; Uncle Alex Dunford, with fiddle; Wade Ward, with banjo; Fields Ward, with  guitar]

[Bog Trotters Band members seated with instruments, Galax, Virginia I...

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Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 altos et 2 violoncelles par P. Tschaikowsky, Op. 70

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 ...

"A la société de Musîque de Chambre à St. Petersburg" (source note)

[Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celestial charts, and a world map].

[Collection of nine images including astronomical instruments, celesti...

Title devised by cataloger. English, French and Latin. James Ferguson article from Gent. Mag. March 1769. Nine printed images and two panels of printed text mounted on paper within hand drawn frames colored yel... More

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves

Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instrume...

Photograph by Kimball, N.Y.C. Copyright by George H. Hanks. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Marconi operator aboard ship "Deutschland", at his instruments

Marconi operator aboard ship "Deutschland", at his instruments

Public domain photograph, 1910s-1920s portrait, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hypnotist directing people to do unusual activities: woman playing table like a keyboard instrument, man riding chair like a racehorce, men using broom and umbrella as musical instruments, man with whiskey bottle]

[Hypnotist directing people to do unusual activities: woman playing ta...

Created by "The Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, KY." No. 1940. Title devised. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956. Forms part of: Magic poster collection (Library of Congress) F... More

U.S. WEATHER BUREAU. INSTRUMENTS

U.S. WEATHER BUREAU. INSTRUMENTS

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

Military subjects. Group of soldiers with musical instruments

Military subjects. Group of soldiers with musical instruments

Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eleven musicians posed with their musical instruments, in the Washington, D.C. area

Eleven musicians posed with their musical instruments, in the Washingt...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Scientific instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s - 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Automatic recording thermometer in cooperative creamery at Ruthven, Iowa. The latest scientific instruments are used here
A black and white photo of a man leaning on a fence, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a man leaning on a fence, Georgia. Farm Sec...

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

Members of Southwestern University band unloading instruments from truck, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

Members of Southwestern University band unloading instruments from tru...

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

Children at the private school held in the Farm Bureau building keeping time with homemade musical instruments with a phonograph. Pie Town, New Mexico

Children at the private school held in the Farm Bureau building keepin...

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

Members of a Negro battery somewhere in the Caribbean area getting meteorological information. The balloon is released and is followed by means of instruments to determine the necessary facts prior to the firing of weapons

Members of a Negro battery somewhere in the Caribbean area getting met...

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

Surveying transit - A metal clock hanging on a white wall
Instrumens Musicaux de la Côte d'Or / Speeltuigen van de Goudkust (Musical Instruments from the Gold Coast)

Instrumens Musicaux de la Côte d'Or / Speeltuigen van de Goudkust (Mus...

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

[ Danny Kaye, while on tour of Japan and six Asian nations, speaks to Japanese musicians crouched on floor of stage with their instruments as children in kimonos play or sing near them]

[ Danny Kaye, while on tour of Japan and six Asian nations, speaks to ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image. Photograph related to American actor Danny Kaye. Danny Kaye was an American actor, singer, dancer... More

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instruments, Galax, Virginia Includes band leader, Doc Davis, with autoharp; Uncle Alex Dunford with fiddle; Crockett Ward with fiddle; Wade Ward with banjo; Fields Ward with guitar]

[Members of the Bog Trotters Band seated playing or holding instrument...

Handwritten on back: "These people in 1940, January, put on under my direction for the American School of the Air, CBS, a programme on "Square Dances" which won the Columbia, Ohio, prize of the best music educa... More

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 altos et 2 violoncelles par P. Tschaikowsky, Op. 70

Souvenir de Florence : Sextuor por instruments à cordes, 2 violons, 2 ...

"A la société de Musîque de Chambre à St. Petersburg" (source note)

Photo of Surveying compass - Public domain dedication

Photo of Surveying compass - Public domain dedication

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.

Le concert L'essentielle est d'accorder nos instruments pour que l'harmonie produise son effet.

Le concert L'essentielle est d'accorder nos instruments pour que l'har...

Print shows three men playing musical instruments; they represent the clergy, the aristocracy, and the third estate. Trimmed within plate. de Vinck, 2050/2051 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection... More

String quartet. Portrait of quartet with instruments II

String quartet. Portrait of quartet with instruments II

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Instruments in wheel house of El Rito, barometer, thermometer, and fog horn, Louisiana

Instruments in wheel house of El Rito, barometer, thermometer, and fog...

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

Getting ready to aim at what you hit. Careful adjustment of the aiming circle for sighting the target. These precision instruments, as well as ammunition, are made at a large arsenal

Getting ready to aim at what you hit. Careful adjustment of the aiming...

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

Kiowa, Kansas. At Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually travelling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect

Kiowa, Kansas. At Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail detector car. The...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of the government-sponsored industrial training program at New York University. Most of the students are women. Testing the hardness of an internal dovetail with a shore scleroscope

New York, New York. Class in the use of precision instruments, part of...

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

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Medical field service training school. Contents of the kit carried by a medical officer: surgical kit and instruments, iodine swabs, sterilizer, pill boxes, hypodermic case, diagnosis tags, adhesive tape, hypodermic needles, medicinal vials, tourniquet, safety pins, and gauze bandages

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Medical field service training school. Content...

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Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month or so marches up Main Street to give drills and a concert. Players must buy their own instruments and costumes and pay for their own lessons. Lessons are given during school hours

Charlotte Court House, Virginia. Central High School band every month ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a military parade, 20th-century armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

The design and construction of magnetostriction transducers

Title on half-title page: Summary technical report of the National Defense Research Committee. "Manuscript and illustrations for this volume were prepared for publication by the Summary Reports Group of the Col... More

[Folk musical instruments including homemade horns, homemade drum, and washboard]

[Folk musical instruments including homemade horns, homemade drum, and...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the... More

[Various surgical instruments and apparatuses] / Jones sculp.

[Various surgical instruments and apparatuses] / Jones sculp.

Plate CCCCXCI. Public domain scan of 18th-century scientific book, illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing eagle holding American flags above naval instruments]

[Civil War envelope showing eagle holding American flags above naval i...

Addressed to Mr. U.P. James, no. 167 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio; postmarked Union City, Ind., Jan. 13; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Marconi operator aboard ship "Grosserkorfurst", at his instruments

Marconi operator aboard ship "Grosserkorfurst", at his instruments

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Frances Densmore, expert in Indian music, who has been added to the staff of the Nat'l Museum at Wash., she was formerly connected with the Amer. Bureau of Ethnology, the Smithsonian. She is now in charge of the unique collection of musical instruments gathered from all lands and located in the Museum. Here shows with 2 of the oldest musical instruments of the Indians, an old violin and a horn made from elephant tusk

Miss Frances Densmore, expert in Indian music, who has been added to t...

A woman sitting at a table working on a basket. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. De la Flute. Joueur de plusieurs instrumens. (Monsieur De la Flute. Player of several instruments.)

Mr. De la Flute. Joueur de plusieurs instrumens. (Monsieur De la Flute...

French (artist nationality) engraver and painter (artist role) Recto: bottom center: Mr. De la Flute. / Joueur de plusiers instrumens. ; encased in mylar, glued to the mat, is a fragment, possibly removed from ... More

[Men at airplane with instruments]

[Men at airplane with instruments]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Airplane instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

[Airplane instruments?] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

New finish for Capitol press gallery. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. Newspapermen will hardly recognize the house press gallery when they resume "covering" the Hill the next session. Taking advantage of the silent typewriters and telegraphic instruments workmen are busy re-plastering and painting the gallery from top to bottom, 9/28/37

New finish for Capitol press gallery. Washington, D.C., Sept. 28. News...

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Women in industry. Tool  production. Pioneers of the production line, these two young workers are among the first women ever to operate a centerless grinder, a machine requiring both the knowledge of precision measuring instruments, and considerable experience and skill in setting up. In this Midwest drill and tool plant, manned almost exclusively by women, centerless grinders have been efficiently operated by women for more than a year, and company production figures have continued to soar. Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, Illinois

Women in industry. Tool production. Pioneers of the production line, ...

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

Neck chamers for the artillery. A battery commander telescope expert checking its azimuth circle. Fine instruments are as necessary a part of production at the Army, in which this equipment is produced, as big guns

Neck chamers for the artillery. A battery commander telescope expert c...

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

Carol M. Highsmith - Nautical navigation instruments

Carol M. Highsmith - Nautical navigation instruments

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

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical Instruments)

Autels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altars, Tripods and Musical...

after etchings by Pierre-Philippe Choffard, draughtsman and engraver, 1730-1809, based on drawings by Pierre Adrien Pâris, painter, architect, draughtsman, decorator, and engraver, 1745-1819, originally publish... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, studies, Instrument study, coding Sheets #1, Ind. Instruments and ensembles, East Eurasia, folder 2 of 3

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Performance style, studies, Instru...

Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts studies collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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