ladders

[Portable siege ladder]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare. Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re... More

Mutus liber, in quo tamen ..., engraving, Library of Congress

Angels descending Jacob's ladder blowing trumpets with sleeping Jacob below. Part of a series supposedly depicting the preparation of the alchemist's philosopher's stone. Frontispiece in: Biblioteca chemica cur... More

Firefighter standing next to a ladder carriage

Inscribed in pencil at top: track maroon, ladders white. Sketch on verso shows two figures seated together, one gesturing with right arm raised. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at ... More

Palestine--Picking olives - Frank G. Carpenter collection

People with ladders at olive trees and people picking olives off the ground. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

[Grand Canon, Arizona] - A black and white photo of a man climbing a r...

Man walking on wall of rock, 400 ft. above the mine, and hogan ladder, Humming Bird Trail, Mt. Sheep. J177331 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint copyrighted by Kolb Bros., Grand Canyon. This record contains unve... More

Schuylkill Hose, Hook & Ladder Company No. 24, 1227 Locust Street, Phi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1577 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Climbing ladder to loft in barn. Rockville, Maryland

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Removing a ladder ...

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

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

D13819 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: On top of the ladder at last, Lew Sully, the real fellow with the troupe : comedian, composer, author, and originator. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho C... More

[Mechanical device for scaling towers]

Illus. in: De re militari / Roberto Valturio. [Verona] : Joannes Nicolai de Verona, 1472. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : ... More

To be sold to the best bidder / E. T., invt. [E. Topham]., British Car...

"An auctioneer holding up his hammer in his left hand, stands in his rostrum, a box supported on four legs, and reached by a ladder (left)..." (Source: George) [V. 2. 5.] This record contains unverified data fr... More

[Interior view of the Atik Valide Sultan Camii (mosque)] / Abdullah Fr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 26. No. 496. In album: Mosques, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

Fall styles for candidates, November 1891

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

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

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Carolingian The new aspirant / Keppler., Political Cartoon

Print shows a scruffy man labeled "Russia" carrying a rope and attempting to set a ladder against a pillar labeled "Supremacy" topped with a statue of "Britannia"; at the base of the pillar is a pile of fallen ... More

Delaware pillory and whipping post

Ground level whipping post, above which is a platform for the pillory, presently occupied by two African American men; a ladder leans against the platform, a group of men loiter in the background. Attributed t... More

"Now we're up, now we're down, we can see all over town"

Five children using ladder on barrel as seesaw. H86549 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.W. Kelley. No. 7978.

Executive offices, Washington DC

Men with ladders, painters(?), working in the White House. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicken house and fruit ladders on farm of Paul Erickson. Yuba County,...

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

Glen Echo, Maryland. Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the s...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers ascending ...

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

[Position of the Second Battalion of the Fire Brigade drilling with ho...

At the training grounds at Yıldız. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 19. No. 239. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoma... More

[Position of the Second Battalion of the Fire Brigade drilling with ho...

At the training grounds at Yıldız. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 20. No. 226. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoma... More

More than she can carry / J. Keppler.

Illustration shows Whitelaw Reid placing a bundled-up package labeled "Blaine" and "Rotten Record" on top of a large pile in a basket being carried by a woman labeled "Republican Party" who is stooped under the... More

Puck's political weather forecast for Fourteenth Street and vicinity /...

Print shows the angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looking down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up "Tammany Hall" with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a building labeled "Tammany" and a group o... More

Flight of Lord Dunmore / Ogden; American Colortype Co., N.Y.

Postcard showing passengers in rowboat with British flag at the stern as they near the British man-of-war ship "Fowey". Copyright by Jamestown A. & V. Co. No. 35.

Erasty Emvich climbing a ladder to the loft of the barn he built himse...

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

Fruit pickers moving ladders to another tree, Delta County, Coloerado

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

Industrial safety. Accident prevention. This shop worker is "asking fo...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

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

Glen Echo, Maryland. Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the G...

Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Van Arsdale Dam, South Fork of Eel River, Ukiah, Mendocino County, CA

Significance: The Van Arsdale Dam is the oldest combined concrete gravity and earth filled dam in California. This specific type of dam is rare in both California and the United States. Its unusual design mak... More

Ladders at Vernall Fall - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

3551 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1213. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Pictorial aids to Sunday School blackboard excercises. The ladder and ...

Cottage, Kent, England - A black and white photo of a thatched house

Long ladder from ground to chimney. Photoprint copyrighted by Henry Troth. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Dwellings; Ladders.

A black and white photo of a man on a ladder, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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

The Fireman. No. 2, Near a fire. An unknown attachment

Print shows a fireman running down a street, carrying a ladder over his shoulder; the hooks at the top of the ladder have accidently snagged the coat of a pedestrian and he is on the verge of falling. A leaky w... More

Melencolia I / AD [monogram], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy in the sense of an artist's spiritual self-portrait. She is surrounded by many symbolic figures and objects, including a bat carrying the inscription "Melencol... More

[Ladder truck of the Columbus (Ohio?) fire department]

Fire truck being drawn by two horses. Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, full-length portrait, standing on ladder, a...

J233204 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ascending ladder at Engine Co. 8]

Public domain image of a group of people, ceremony, event, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Glen Echo, Maryland. Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the s...

Public domain photograph of swimming pool, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Explanation of fire-fighting apparatus, engraving, Library of Congress

Advertisement showing 3 firemen rescuing people from roof of buidling with an extension ladder. Woodcut copyrighted by Miekle & Carville, N.Y.C., patentees. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Fire-engines and ... More

Congressional cracksmen / J. Keppler., Political Cartoon

Print shows "Policeman Puck" and Uncle Sam investigating a robbery at the U.S. Treasury, a safe has been broken into and a barrel labeled "150,000,000 $ Surplus" is empty; there is a hole in the floor which lea... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Repairing a lock gate, S.S. Marie, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This interesting combination of gauge house and navigation lightpole w...

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

A black and white photo of an apple tree, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Ph...

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

The Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

May the country be spared this pitiful sight! / Dalrymple.

Print shows a group of Democrats, identified as "Hill, Murphy, Vest, Bland, Matthews, Morgan, Harris, Crisp, Tillman, Altgeld, Campbell, [and] Stevenson", some wear fezes, others are wearing turbans and other a... More

Edward S. Curtis - In San Ildefonso. Book illustration from Library of...

Three Tewa Indians, two on roof of adobe building, one on ladder, San Idlefonso, New Mexico. J288482 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curti... More

View of the U.S. Capitol during the fire which destroyed the studio of...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. In album: Washington, D.C., Jan. 1927 to Feb. 1930, v. 4, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company. National Photo Company Collection (Librar... More

A black and white photo of an orange tree, Colorado. Farm Security Adm...

Public domain image related to botany, botanical artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

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

The darktown hook and ladder corps: In action

Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1529.

The darktown fire brigade-hook and ladder gymnastics: Brace her up dar...

Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1513.

[Preparations for the drill of the First Battalion of the Fire Brigade...

Members appear to have grappling hooks and not ladders. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 4. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istan... More

Mammoth Cave, Edmondson, Co., Ky. - Corkscrew

An African American man and woman climbing ladders. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Caves; K... More

Edward S. Curtis - Mishongnovi, Middle Mesa Pueblo

H22412 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 732. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mt., Chattanooga, Tenn.

Postcard showing rock formation with ladder resting against it, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee. J36265 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1905 by the Rotograph Co.

Edward S. Curtis - Fiesta of San Estevan (A)--Acoma

Acoma men and women in ceremonial dress, make their way down a street beside pueblo buildings. Curtis no. 1171-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ameri... More

Edward S. Curtis - Walpi homes--Hopi

Women climbing ladder and steps of pueblo building. H104257 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1965-06. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

First mate of packet boat El Rito sitting on ladder to boat deck, Loui...

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

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on a ladder behind the ticket cou...

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

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

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

Firehouse station number four. Washington, D.C. A fireman climbing a l...

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

The Grosvenor balloon vs. the Reed ladder

No accession number. Published in: Washington post. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Trampas, New Mexico. Portal of a church built in 1700, the best-preser...

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

Calaveras big trees. House over the stump of the original big tree, di...

Photograph shows a round structure (left) and a ladder leaning against a giant tree stump (right). No. 880.

When there is a will there is a way - L.M. Melander & Bro., Chicago

Stereograph shows a man on a ladder holding onto woman who is coming out of a window. Stereo copyrighted by Melander & Bro. No. 25. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Humor; Courtship...; Shelf.

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

An old photo of a man climbing up a ladder, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.... More

Darktown hook and ladder corps-going to the front

45995, 1891 U.S. Copyright Office Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1528.

[Coffee berry pickers, Brazil] / photo by Publishers Photo Service, Ne...

Men, women, and children in field, boy on ladder. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Copyright by E.M. Newman.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Crow's nest ladder at ...

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

Moving ladders to another part of the orchard. Cherry pickers. Door Co...

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

[Position of the Second Battalion of the Fire Brigade drilling with ho...

At the training grounds at Yıldız. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 20. No. 226. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoma... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

The orange pickers, Los Angeles, California

People on ladders and boxes of oranges on ground. Photoprint copyrighted by B.W. Kilburn. No. 9981. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Farm crops Oranges; Photog. I.;... More

An "Estufa", Pueblo of Taos, N.M.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51286". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

The elopement - a hasty descent - stereocsopic card

Man and woman seated on ground after fall from ladder; old woman looking out of window. Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley. No. 6038. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tra... More

[The sky is now her limit] / Bushnell.

Cartoon shows a young woman carrying buckets on a yoke, looking up at ladder ascending up to the sky, bottom rungs labeled "Slavery," "House Drudgery," and "Shop Work." Top rungs labeled "Equal Suffrage," "Wage... More

Unidentified house, Aldie vic., Loudoun County, Virginia

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man picking peaches, Colorado. Farm Secur...

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

Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...

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

The ladder of fortune - Drawing. Public domain image.

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3639

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

D13819 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: On top of the ladder at last, Lew Sully, the real fellow with the troupe : comedian, composer, author, and originator. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho C... More

[Clarence "Grandpa" Liv and Alonzo "Teddy" Tucker behind the Wright Cy...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 159. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

Camp Edwards, Massachusetts. Swinging across fifteen feet of horizonta...

Picryl description: Public domain image - Massachusetts in the 1910s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Position of the Second Battalion of the Fire Brigade drilling with ho...

At the training grounds at Yıldız. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in French. No. 18. No. 227. In album: Fire Brigade personnel and equipment, barracks, hospitals, and factories, Istanbul, Ottoma... More

"Mother, I have looked everywhere for my pencil"

Girl with dirty face on step ladder at cupboard. H4806 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young.

"Dar now I knowed yer was breeding mischief" Thomas Worth

Print shows an African American man falling off a ladder while painting a house when a pig bumps into the ladder he is standing on. L5324 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement an... More

Empire hook & ladder company, no. 1. Instituted February 6th 1851 on s...

Print shows a fireman standing in the street at the front end of a long carrier for a hook and ladder mechanism with several ladders in decreasing lengths stacked on top. It appears that the carrier is pushed f... More

Bonneville Dam and fish ladders, Oregon

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. Workers on a ladde...

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