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Army essay contest, 5420 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Date from caption list. Caption from caption list: Winners in the Army Essay Writing Contest who are being entertained in Washington at the expense of the War Dept. Prizes are to be awarded on May 5th. Today th... More

Advertising displays at livestock hall, Ames, Iowa

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Civil liberties in war times by Max Lerner City wide forum.

Poster for a lecture by Max Lerner at Roosevelt High, Des Moines, Iowa, showing an armored guantlet clenched in a fist. Date stamped on verso: Jan 22 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Librar... More

Refrigerating machine in cooperative creamery, Ruthven, Iowa

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

Attention boys and girls - $250.00 in prizes - miniature home building...

Poster is text only. Date stamped on verso: May 3 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Feeder cattle on Plager farm. Grundy County, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Lois Slinker teaching the only pupil in the second grade in one-room s...

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

Iowa Senator plays swan song. Washington, D.C., April 14. Perhaps not ...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hereford cattle. Grundy County, Iowa. Fred Coulter farm

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

Emptying corn-cribs in order to shell corn. Passmore farm, Polk County...

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

Farmers examine new corn picker at Iowa State Fair. Des Moines, Iowa

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

A sick child sleeping in trailer home of his father near Sebastian, Te...

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

Arthur Rothstein - Closed bank. Haverhill, Iowa

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

Planting corn with four-row tractor, Jasper County, Iowa

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

County agent helping farmer adjust plow. Jasper County, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Calibrating the corn planter, Jasper County, Iowa

Snowstorm, Marengo, Iowa. Great Depression public domain photograph.

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

Illinois Central Railroad station. Dubuque, Iowa

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gravedigger. Woodbine, Iowa - safety film negatives, Library of Congre...

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

Hereford steers in feedlot on Tom Reed farm. They are fattened and rea...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. These three WAACs are shown with their g...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Postgraduate students studying physiology of the muscle. The experimen...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dean Folkmann operates the family tractor on his and his wife, Julie's...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. As of 2016, the farm has been in the family for 162 years. At any time, approximately 50 million hogs are being raised in the state wi... More

The marble and granite Grand Staircase in the Iowa State Capitol in De...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The two lighted statues at the foot of the of the staircase were originally gaslit. These statues were commissioned for the Illinois C... More

Brucemore, 2160 Linden Drive, Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA

Significance: Brucemore is a 26-acre estate located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The property is centered around a 21-room mansion built in 1884-1886 for Mrs. Caroline Sinclair, widow of meat-packing entrepreneur Th... More

Iowa State University, Farm House, Knoll Road Vicinity, Ames, Story Co...

Significance: The Farm House and its outbuildings were the first structures to be built on the college campus. Although considerably remodeled shortly after the turn of the century, the house is essentially th... More

MacArthur Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River on Highway 34 between IA ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Kager Mays, African American soldier, half-length portrait, facing fr...

Photograph shows Corporal Kager Mays of Kentucky, who enlisted in 1864 in the 108th United States Colored Infantry and died of fever in 1865. (Source: Tim Talbott, 2013)

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Seed Company Warehouse, 169...

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

Map of Wapello County, Iowa / - Public domain old map

Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 206 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance chart and business directories. Ancillary maps: Agency City -- Ashland ... More

Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 13.

Tent City, Camp Dodge, Iowa

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Farmers in gallery of livestock sales hall, Ames, Iowa

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

Corner of dormitory, homeless men's bureau, Sioux City, Iowa

Public domain photograph of a room, home interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Backyard of shack in "Shantytown," Spencer, Iowa

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

Street scene. Ames, Iowa - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cart, carriage, wagon, chariot, 18th-19th century design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Teaching only pupil in the second grade in one-room schoolhouse. Grund...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bud Kimberley loads the manure spreader. Jasper County, Iowa

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

Popcorn stand. Grundy Center, Iowa

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

Harvesting sweet corn. Ryken farm, Hardin County, Iowa

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

Baling papers and cardboard boxes salvaged from the city dump. Dubuque...

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

Men waiting in line outside the city mission--the first twenty-five wi...

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

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) office, Grundy County, Io...

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

Home in river bottom shacktown. Dubuque, Iowa

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

County agent and farmer examining amount of gas in tank, Grundy County...

Public domain scan of oil tank, gas tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. WAACS on parade ground going through the...

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

Burlington, Iowa. Acres unit, FSA (Farm Security Administration) trail...

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

Ced-Rel Motel sign, Route 30, near Atkins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Motel signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photo... More

Statue of the American explorers Meriwether Lewis (in hat) and William...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Tidy Benton County, Iowa, farm - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture in the foreground gives a clue as to the kind of livestock raised here. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmi... More

The new "Chicago Great Western Limited" daily between Chicago--Dubuque...

Photograph shows interior view of railroad dining car filled with passengers dining. Color reproduction of photo from a flash-light photograph of the dining car.

Kansas map. Atlas of Plymouth County, Iowa : containing maps of townsh...

Copyright: G.W. Anderson. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 1304 On cover: "The world remapped," "history of the new nations." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Incl... More

John Morrell & Company Meat Packing Plant, Building 27B, 316 South Iow...

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

Holt & Son Grocery Store, 313 High Avenue West, Oskaloosa, Mahaska Cou...

Significance: Brick load-bearing walls, 20' x 120', hoodmolds over second-floor windows, denticulated cornice between first and second floors. Large open room on first floor. One large apartment on second flo... More

Palemon Lacey's century calendar ... Wapello, Iowa, Republican print. ...

Calendar. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 19, Folder 43a. Copy scanned: 1

Wilson, Hon. James Falconer of Iowa, Delegate to Democratic Nat. Conve...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: 126;; scratched into emulsion: 4930, Hon. J.F. Wilson, 35 [crossed out], 499 [crossed out], 126 [crossed out], ... More

1889 perspective map of the city of Burlington, Ia.

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Mississippi River steamboat, Muscatine, Iowa

Photograph shows the Quincy steamboat on the Mississippi River; three people in canoe watch steamboat.

Banquet table in the big sewer, Waterloo, Iowa

Photograph by J.P. King, Waterloo, Ia.

Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Corking ink bottles

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corner of living room of Rustan b...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Estherville, Iowa. Homer Sharer and family He has rented farms in the ...

Corresponding negative no. LC-USF34-10094-D. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1155.

One of L.H. Nissen's children in rocking chair. Nissen shack near Dick...

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

Shed on an abandoned farm in Little Sioux township, Woodbury County, I...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meal time at the homeless men's bureau (for unatttached men). Sioux Ci...

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

Fred Wilfang owns a thoroughbred bull which two other farmers use unde...

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

County agent and farmer. Grundy Center, Iowa

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

Mechanical corn picker. Grundy County, Iowa

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

Parking ground at Iowa State Fair. Des Moines, Iowa

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

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

Young boy receiving pail of soup in kitchen of city mission. Dubuque, ...

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

Young boys waiting in kitchen of city mission for soup which is given ...

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

Eighty-year-old corn farmer plowing with horses. Harrison County, Iowa

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

Wife of homesteader working in dining room of her new adobe house. The...

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

Don Jackson, a senior, delivering a news broadcast at the Iowa State C...

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

Fort Madison. Coal and sand chutes in the railway yard

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

This sculpture by artist Keith Haring in Des Moines, Iowa's, Pappajohn...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa

Sep 1885. 10 Sheet(s). Iowa fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. T... More

Fifth edition of Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis' sic mammoth kaleid...

From the collections of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Container number: Greene's Opera House Programmes. 1902 03. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Performed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday, December 10, 1902

Hospital for the Insane, Main Building, West Main Street Vicinity, Che...

Significance: This hospital was the last of the four state mental hospitals to be built in Iowa and the only one where the main building, a connected complex in echelon plan, was fully completed before the hosp... More

Brucemore, 2160 Linden Drive, Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA

Significance: Brucemore is a 26-acre estate located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The property is centered around a 21-room mansion built in 1884-1886 for Mrs. Caroline Sinclair, widow of meat-packing entrepreneur Th... More

Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depres...

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

[Private Hiram M. Kersey, 44th Iowa Infantry regiment, standing on rug...

Photo shows identified soldier in Union uniform. Case: Berg, no. 4-22G variant. Identification of soldier from newspaper clipping found behind photograph. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). More i... More

MacArthur Bridge, Spanning Mississippi River on Highway 34 between IA ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Commercial & Industrial Buildings, Dubuque Seed Company Warehouse, 169...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Banquet table in the big 12 foot sewer in Waterloo, Iowa

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

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

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

Miner-farmer, inhabitant of one of the Granger Homesteads

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

Children of Earl Pauley, playing with dolls in tumbleweed, near Smithl...

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

Congressional monopoly committee holds initial meeting. Washington, D....

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More

Shooting marbles, Woodbine, Iowa

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

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conrad, Iowa. Great Depression public domain photograph.

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

County agent and farmer examining map which shows location of REA (Rur...

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

Country church. Monona County, Iowa

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

Little girl, resident of Woodbine, Iowa

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

Contour planting and listing. Monona County, Iowa

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

Victorian house. Dubuque, Iowa - Victorian era public domain image

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

The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

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

Fourteen-year-old high school student Vernon Lubben, from Manchester, ...

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