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[Girl in a plaid dress seated with a book in her lap] / MW.

[Girl in a plaid dress seated with a book in her lap] / MW.

Title devised. Signed with artist's monogram. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; France... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, holding book in lap]

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing lef...

H20449 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. Copyright 1902 by Geo Prince. Similar image in LOT 11921 (LC-USZ62-92800).

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress with open book in lap and hand to face, seated]

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress with open book in lap and hand...

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

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

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

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

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

W. Mitchell McAllister in his nurses lap

W. Mitchell McAllister in his nurses lap

Plain leather grain frame. Written on back: W. Mitchel [i.e., Mitchell] McAllister in his nurse's lap. Taken by his father W.Y. McAllister in the yard of his house Sansom St. above 8th. Mar. 25, 1844. Etched on... More

[Unidentified woman, about 40 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, body to right, facing front, seated in upholstered chair, hands in lap]

[Unidentified woman, about 40 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on face of plate: 141. Scratched on back of plate: 98; 190. Corners trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produ... More

[Girl dressed in a pierrot costume with a small black dog on her lap]

[Girl dressed in a pierrot costume with a small black dog on her lap]

Photographer unidentified; possibly by Cox. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

Portrait photographs. Woman seated on grass with child in lap

Portrait photographs. Woman seated on grass with child in lap

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Child on lap of mother reading the newspaper. Nissen shack near Dickens, Iowa

Child on lap of mother reading the newspaper. Nissen shack near Dicken...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to mass media, press, newspaper, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wife of sharecropper, with baby in her lap, at sewing machine. Family will work under tenant purchase program. Near Caruthersville, Missouri

Wife of sharecropper, with baby in her lap, at sewing machine. Family ...

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

[Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant's uniform with small child on lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant's uniform with small chi...

Case: Leather geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljwoch pp/liljunion

[Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant's uniform with small child on lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Union first sergeant's uniform with small chi...

Case: Leather geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljwoch pp/liljunion

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform in front of painted backdrop showing view from porch; unidentified woman with small child on her lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform in front of painted backd...

Uniform may possibly have North Carolina buttons. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljconfed pp/liljwoch

Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on dock.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty...

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

A close lap on the run in - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

A close lap on the run in - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1297.

[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, nearly profile to the left, seated in chair by table, hands in lap, wearing cap and light gloves]

[Unidentified woman, about 65 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on back of plate: 215. One corner trimmed. Hallmark: Rinhart 2. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew... More

[Officer of the 57th Regiment sitting with a sword across his lap at opening to his tent, another officer sitting outside the tent, and a servant stands with a horse in the background]

[Officer of the 57th Regiment sitting with a sword across his lap at o...

Title devised by library staff. "249" and "283" written in pencil on verso. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944.

New York City - the third contest for the long-distance pedestrian championship for the world at Gilmore's Gardens, March 10th-15th [4 illustrations]:  Ennis...shakes hands with Rowell; Charles Rowell [head and shoulders]; Rowell running a lap...; and view of the track on Saturday afternoon with Rowell, Ennis and Harriman walking together]

New York City - the third contest for the long-distance pedestrian cha...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 48, no. 1226 (1879 Mar. 29), p. 49 (front page).

[Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly right, with hands folded on her lap]

[Young African American woman, three-quarter length portrait, facing s...

Attribution to Askew from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 1, no. 66. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surr... More

[Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe]

[Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several child...

Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Photograp... More

Mrs. E.S. Allard seated with Pomeranian dog ("Tiptoes") on lap

Mrs. E.S. Allard seated with Pomeranian dog ("Tiptoes") on lap

A woman sitting in a chair holding a dog. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress with open book in lap and hands to face, seated]

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress with open book in lap and hand...

Published title: Portrait Lady seated. Image content features: MODEL Beatrice Baxter Ruyl; PROPS Books; PEOPLE Women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part... More

[George Foster Peabody, half-length portrait, sitting, facing front, with hands on lap]

[George Foster Peabody, half-length portrait, sitting, facing front, w...

H91350 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Pach, N.Y. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pearl White, 1889-1938, full length, seated behind steering wheel of an auto, with a pig on her lap, facing slightly right; in farm clothes]

[Pearl White, 1889-1938, full length, seated behind steering wheel of ...

J218248 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by White Studio. No copyright renewal. No. 1. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals Pigs; Humor; Photog. Index; BI; Shelf.

No midget lap-sitting for Speaker Bankhead. Washington, D.C., April 30. "Lap-sitting is out" Speaker Bankhead today as he greeted a troupe of circus midgets from his home state of Alabama [at the] Capitol. An enterprising photographer sought to repeat the J.P. Morgan act of a few years ago (?) the noted financier placed on the midgets on [his] lap at a Senate hearing. But it was no go today as the Speaker was concerned, 4/30/37

No midget lap-sitting for Speaker Bankhead. Washington, D.C., April 30...

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

Crystal Pettry and Stacy Edmunds assist in a baby shower game which requires the blindfolded participant to scoop cotton balls from a bowl in her lap onto a plate on her head

Crystal Pettry and Stacy Edmunds assist in a baby shower game which re...

Event: Baby Shower for Dena Williams' Daughter. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crystal Pettry and Stacy Edmunds assist in a baby shower game which requires the blindfolded participant to scoop cotton balls from a bowl in her lap onto a plate on her head

Crystal Pettry and Stacy Edmunds assist in a baby shower game which re...

Event: Baby Shower for Dena Williams' Daughter. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, hands in lap]

[Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, half-length portrait, three-...

Identification from DAG 431A which was identified from a woodcut engraving from an ambrotype by Brady in Harper's Weekly, June 6, 1857, p. 357. Scratched on face of plate: 64. Scratched on back of plate: 80. Tr... More

[Woman holding child on her lap, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas]

[Woman holding child on her lap, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "unkno... More

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

[Old woman in an armchair, with an open book in her lap] / MW.

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

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding a young child in his lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding a young child in his la...

Case: Leather geometric. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: The Civil War: A visual history. Bath, U.K. : Parragon, 2011, p. 165. Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photog... More

[Two portraits on cartes de visite: Martha Freud, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, holding hat on her lap, and half-length, standing, facing front with her sister, Minna Bernays, three-quarter length, seated, facing right, holding hat on her lap]

[Two portraits on cartes de visite: Martha Freud, three-quarter length...

Illus. in album, pp. 8-9. (DLC/PP1985:621.60) Forms part of: Sigmund Freud Collection (Library of Congress).

Indian puppies  - man holding 3 puppies on his lap

Indian puppies - man holding 3 puppies on his lap

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

[Young fair haired girl seated with hands in her lap] / Huggins, ..., E. 39th St., N.Y.

[Young fair haired girl seated with hands in her lap] / Huggins, ..., ...

Title devised by staff. Text of Huggins' business card on verso. Signed on item. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Published... More

W.J. Bryan holding two grandchildren on his lap

W.J. Bryan holding two grandchildren on his lap

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

[James Whitcomb Riley, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, with dog upon his lap, waving goodbye, on sidewalk in front of porch] / LCN.

[James Whitcomb Riley, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, wit...

J217873 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A train of carnallite on the first lap of its journey to the European market

Dead Sea Album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd. A train of carn...

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

[ Young Dena Kaye sitting on Sylvia Fine's lap]

[ Young Dena Kaye sitting on Sylvia Fine's lap]

Box marked: DKA_VSBOX7 Folder marked: SFK Dena (General) The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for oth... More

4:00 P.M. Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Vencique, 309 E. 110th St., working with baby asleep in lap. Her sister, Tessie Amendola, 15 years old, works all the time. Some days she says she makes over $1.00 a day. At times only $2.00 a week. Been working at it three years. One of them was making lace for a contractor, Marchina, 207 E. 109th St., top floor (in an old dwelling). The other was making lace for factory, P. Cappellino, 401 E. 116th St. Husband is plasterer and "works some."  Location: New York, New York (State)

4:00 P.M. Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Venci...

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

[Two portraits on cartes de visite: Martha Freud, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, holding hat on her lap, and half-length, standing, facing front with her sister, Minna Bernays, three-quarter length, seated, facing right, holding hat on her lap]

[Two portraits on cartes de visite: Martha Freud, three-quarter length...

Illus. in album, pp. 8-9. (DLC/PP1985:621.60) Forms part of: Sigmund Freud Collection (Library of Congress).

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated, hands in lap]

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on back of plate: 42. Possibly the same woman who is depicted in the lower right corner of DAG no. 253 (Source: Owen Blevins 4/2017). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part ... More

Woman wearing a blue dress with a white fur wrap holding Buzzer the cat on her lap

Woman wearing a blue dress with a white fur wrap holding Buzzer the ca...

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly right with right hand in lap]

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing s...

H112033 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Waldon Fawcett. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christmas trees and decorations. Santa Claus seated with toys on lap I
[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

Title devised. Inscribed lower center: Lincoln. Partial unidentified sketch on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.18) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

Title devised. Inscribed lower center: Lincoln. Partial unidentified sketch on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.18) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor]

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, se...

Photograph shows Horace Greeley, journalist, publisher of the New York Tribune.

President in doorway of West Divide Creek ranch house - "Skip" in lap

President in doorway of West Divide Creek ranch house - "Skip" in lap

H65333 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Lambert. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, sitting, holding a horse whip across his lap]

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, sitting, holding a...

Copyright 1908 by P. A. de Lazzlo. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Champ Clark seated, paper on lap

Champ Clark seated, paper on lap

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

[African American woman seated, hands in lap]

[African American woman seated, hands in lap]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Aged; African American women; Master photog.; Shelf. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1934:137).

[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

[Lincoln resting in chair, top hat in lap]

Title devised. Inscribed lower center: Lincoln. Partial unidentified sketch on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.18) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Young woman seated by a window with flowers in her lap] / Mary A. Bartlett.

[Young woman seated by a window with flowers in her lap] / Mary A. Bar...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor]

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, se...

Photograph shows Horace Greeley, journalist, publisher of the New York Tribune.

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated in chair, wearing tall hat, folded newspaper in lap, carpet on floor]

[Horace Greeley, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, se...

Photograph shows Horace Greeley, journalist, publisher of the New York Tribune.

Grand Duchess Cyril with daughter Princess Marie on her lap, Prof. Uhlenhuth / Prof. Uhlenhuth

Grand Duchess Cyril with daughter Princess Marie on her lap, Prof. Uhl...

Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hazel MacKaye, seated with an open copy of her brother Percy MacKaye's play, Sanctuary: A Bird Masque, on her lap

Hazel MacKaye, seated with an open copy of her brother Percy MacKaye's...

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

[ Dr. Samuel Fine holds Sylvia Fine (baby) on his lap while sitting in a chair, Bessie Fine stands next to them]

[ Dr. Samuel Fine holds Sylvia Fine (baby) on his lap while sitting in...

From box: DKA_VSBOX_2-E Family/Publicity (General)

Baltimore, Maryland. Sargeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Army duty, posing for family portrait with his mother and father beside him and his nephew on his lap

Baltimore, Maryland. Sargeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from Ar...

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

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated, hands in lap]

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on back of plate: 42. Possibly the same woman who is depicted in the lower right corner of DAG no. 253 (Source: Owen Blevins 4/2017). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part ... More

[Captain William A. Hill of Company D, 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, with book on lap]

[Captain William A. Hill of Company D, 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, ...

Photo shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; decorative diamond motif surrounded by scrolls design. Title on spine of book appears to be Literary history of the Bible. Written on object: Taken at Culpeper 18... More

[Agnes Lee, standing, with arm around older daughter, (Agnes Lee), seated, reading newspaper(?) on lap]

[Agnes Lee, standing, with arm around older daughter, (Agnes Lee), sea...

Layered mounts are top to bottom: cream & tan. Monogram on recto: "FHD 1909" red-orange, lower right. Image content features: MODELS Agnes Lee and Lee (older daughter); PEOPLE women, girls, families. Title and ... More

[Patricia Neal leaning on lap of Roald Dahl]

[Patricia Neal leaning on lap of Roald Dahl]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII LL 5. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

A close lap on the run in - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

A close lap on the run in - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1297.

[Lawyer: now, sir, remember you are under oath, and must tell me the exact truth, this young lady, at the moment you describe, was sitting on your lap?]

[Lawyer: now, sir, remember you are under oath, and must tell me the e...

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 59:1209 (June 13, 1912).

[Lawyer: now, sir, remember you are under oath, and must tell me the exact truth, this young lady, at the moment you describe, was sitting on your lap?]

[Lawyer: now, sir, remember you are under oath, and must tell me the e...

Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 59:1209 (June 13, 1912).

[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, facing front, hands folded in lap]

[Rufus Blakeman, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, fa...

Doctor and president of Fairfield County Medical Association, Greenfield, Connecticut. Identification from reproduction of photograph in New England Medical Monthly, May 1892, opposite page 374. Scratched on fa... More

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated in chair beside small table with tablecloth, wearing bonnet and black lace gloves; hands in lap, one elbow on table on which there is a folded fan]

[Unidentified woman, about 20 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on face of plate: 167. Scratched on back of plate: 48. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with fork, knife, plate, and cup sitting on the floor and preparing to eat a slice of the apple on his lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with fork, knife, plate, and cu...

Case: Rinhart, no. 141. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Published in: Military images. Henryville, P... More

[Alexander Mitchell Palmer, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, reading to girl seated on his lap]

[Alexander Mitchell Palmer, half-length portrait, seated, facing right...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christmas trees and decorations. Santa Claus seated with toys on lap II
A woman holding a baby in her arms, Iowa. Farm Security Administration photograph

A woman holding a baby in her arms, Iowa. Farm Security Administration...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph related to mass media, press, newspaper, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[ Bessie Fine holds Sylvia Fine (baby) on her lap while sitting in a chair]
Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. The boom full of logs is pulled free from the shore on the first lap of its trip down Mooselookmeguntic Lake

Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. T...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Porto Rico. A native seamstress [with small sewing machine on lap]

Porto Rico. A native seamstress [with small sewing machine on lap]

Stereo published by M.H. Zahner (Griffith & Griffith). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sewing machines.

4:00 P.M. Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Vencique, 309 E. 110th St., working with baby asleep in lap. Her sister, Tessie Amendola, 15 years old, works all the time. Some days she says she makes over $1.00 a day. At times only $2.00 a week. Been working at it three years. One of them was making lace for a contractor, Marchina, 207 E. 109th St., top floor (in an old dwelling). The other was making lace for factory, P. Cappellino, 401 E. 116th St. Husband is plasterer and "works some."  Location: New York, New York (State)

4:00 P.M. Making lace collars at home (usually in kitchen). Mrs. Venci...

Picryl description: Public domain image - 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform in front of painted backdrop showing view from porch; unidentified woman with small child on her lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform in front of painted backd...

Uniform may possibly have North Carolina buttons. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljconfed pp/liljwoch

Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on dock.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Mrs. Mary Rena, 46 Laight St., 3d floor front, picking nuts with dirty...

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

[Patricia Neal leaning on lap of Roald Dahl]

[Patricia Neal leaning on lap of Roald Dahl]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XIII LL 5. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

[Comical scene showing maid sitting on man's lap kissing him as his wife watches]

[Comical scene showing maid sitting on man's lap kissing him as his wi...

H100074 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Stereoscopic Co. No. A-66788.

[Cardinal Richelieu, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with three kittens on his lap] / photo, T.W. Ingersoll, St. Paul.

[Cardinal Richelieu, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with ...

H114825 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll, St. Paul. Reproduction of a painting by T.(?) Robert Henry.

[Down he tumbled, in a great fright directly into Petronella's lap!]

[Down he tumbled, in a great fright directly into Petronella's lap!]

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Pippa and Petronella" by Elizabeth Talbot Luke, St. Nicholas, 38:738 (June 1911).

[African American man, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, right hand holding cane, left hand on lap]

[African American man, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing f...

Illus. in: Roll, Jordan, Roll / Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann. New York : Robert O. Ballou, 1933, [p. 15].

[Mr. Znamenski, half-length portrait, facing left, holding stuffed head of a wolf in his lap]

[Mr. Znamenski, half-length portrait, facing left, holding stuffed hea...

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[James Gordon Bennett, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated, hands folded in lap, seated beside a small table with tablecloth on which rests a tall hat]

[James Gordon Bennett, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters t...

Editor of the New York Herald. Scratched on face of plate: 84. Scratched on back of plate: 188; 271 [canceled] Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Identification from engraving by Jourdan in United States Democratic Review, N... More

[James Gordon Bennett, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the left, seated, hands folded in lap, seated beside a small table with tablecloth on which rests a tall hat]

[James Gordon Bennett, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters t...

Editor of the New York Herald. Scratched on face of plate: 84. Scratched on back of plate: 188; 271 [canceled] Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Identification from engraving by Jourdan in United States Democratic Review, N... More

He himself, would sit by the old Dutch housewives with a purring grimalkin on his lap

He himself, would sit by the old Dutch housewives with a purring grima...

"D1050" Verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "More than Conquerors: The Sunny Master of 'Sunnyside'" by Ariadne Gilbert, St. Nicholas, ... More

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

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)

W. Mitchell McAllister in his nurses lap

W. Mitchell McAllister in his nurses lap

Plain leather grain frame. Written on back: W. Mitchel [i.e., Mitchell] McAllister in his nurse's lap. Taken by his father W.Y. McAllister in the yard of his house Sansom St. above 8th. Mar. 25, 1844. Etched on... More

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress, with open book in lap, and hand to face, seated]

[Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), in dress, with open book in lap, and ha...

Published title: Portrait Lady seated. RPS, 3506 Image content features: MODEL Beatrice Baxter Ruyl; PROPS: books; PEOPLE women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93.... More

Evelyn, a little native maid [seated in kitchen with basket on her lap]

Evelyn, a little native maid [seated in kitchen with basket on her lap...

J134378 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Jessie Tarbox Beals, N.Y.C. No. 6. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Maids; Kitchens.

The Tale of a Wedded Life, in Ten Scenes, by Cassius M. Collidge [couple in domestic scenes]: Scene II - Betrothed [woman on man's lap]
Theodor Horydczak and family. Fritzie Horydczak holding Norma on lap

Theodor Horydczak and family. Fritzie Horydczak holding Norma on lap

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

[ Young Dena Kaye sitting on Sylvia Fine's lap]

[ Young Dena Kaye sitting on Sylvia Fine's lap]

Box marked: DKA_VSBOX7 Folder marked: SFK Dena (General)

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

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)

Eating crow on a wager: De last lap

Eating crow on a wager: De last lap

Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1801

Portrait paintings. Seated woman with child on lap

Portrait paintings. Seated woman with child on lap

Picryl description: Public domain photo of portrait art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

Take me, mother, in thy lap - Public domain American sheet music, 1871

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)

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding a young child in his lap]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform holding a young child in his la...

Case: Leather geometric. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: The Civil War: A visual history. Bath, U.K. : Parragon, 2011, p. 165. Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photog... More

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