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Trees. Silhouette of bare trees through lens

Trees. Silhouette of bare trees through lens

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler control building. Windows on three sides and overlook terrace adjoining offer complete view of plant and surroundings. Fourth wall used for description of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program. Floor: gray-brown terrazo, divided into large squares by white metal strips. Wainscot, window sills, trim around doorway and curb at footlights brownish-red precast terrazo. Walls burlap covered, painted subdued tan. Windows aluminum. Ceiling and upper part of walls, plaster painted warm gray with warm off-white reflecting circles and cove across end (ceiling acoustic plaster). Lighting indirect. Lights in cove across end of room also throw downward, directed by lenses toward wall display and shielded by aluminum louvers. Behind curb inclined contol lens footlights and louver (aluminum) shielding air exhaust. Supply through ceiling grilles which border ceiling on two sides. Deep trim around doorway intended as shield while passing footlights. Display in gray, black and tan, keyed with general color scheme. Guard's desk of natural oak and ebomized birch, with raised ledge for visitor's registration

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler contro...

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

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. F.E. Washer of the U.S. Bureau of Standards testing the lens for the airplane cameras that are used by the Army and Navy. There are lights in the rear of the columnmeters and exposures are made on the photographic plate in front of the doctor. The lens are tested for distortion, focal length, and definition. This work must be very exacting as a small error would make an error of many miles on the maps made by the aerial cameras, 5/6/1937

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. ...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas catridges; repair kit to mend bullet in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flashlight with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr. Joseph Priestly's burning lens and air gun and Professor Walter R. Johnson's rotascope]

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr...

Attribution to Himes based on his position at Dickinson College. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection.

U.S. Supreme Court interiors. Courtroom in U.S. Supreme Court from rear with wide angle lens

U.S. Supreme Court interiors. Courtroom in U.S. Supreme Court from rea...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

St. Thomas Church, 5th Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. General interior, six-inch lens

St. Thomas Church, 5th Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. General inter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, cathedral, religious building, 17th,18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, residence in Syosset, Long Island. House and forecourt, 6" lens

Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, residence in Syosset, Long Island. House a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Clarence McK. Lewis, Skylands Farm, residence in Sterlington, New York. 12" lens view of large gable

Clarence McK. Lewis, Skylands Farm, residence in Sterlington, New York...

Public domain photograph of a hotel, inn, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, residence in Syosset, Long Island. House and forecourt 5" lens

Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, residence in Syosset, Long Island. House a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. The patient is placed in front of a flurescent screen and this screen is photographed on ordinary photographic film by means of a lens of larger aperture

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant Camblair used to work as a lens grind...

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

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952, half length, facing front, adjusting lens of large tripod camera, in front of the Arts Club, 2017 Eye Street, Washington, D.C.]

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952, half length, facing front, adju...

Date based on information in A Talent for Detail / Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock, 1974, p. 32-33. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

A family in their ruined house, Lens

A family in their ruined house, Lens

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19252. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 22...

J233240 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 10. Copyright deposit; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); May 10, 1919.

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. View of Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant, 23" lens I

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. View of Potomac Electric ...

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

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a len...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas cartridges; repair kit to mend bullet holes in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flash light with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water markers; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Front of operating room in which are arranged parallel with track, 24 cameras at a distance of 12 inches from the center of each lens, and an electro-shutter in front of each

Front of operating room in which are arranged parallel with track, 24 ...

Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and... More

The tsar has his photograph taken... lens and ear...

The tsar has his photograph taken... lens and ear...

Poster shows a photomontage consisting of an ear, a hand and a camera man. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. K753. 1983 Gift; 1987.

FCC Chairman faces lens of television camera. Washington, D.C., Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission as he faces the television camera on the Mall this afternoon. Chairman McNinch was interview by NBC announcer Gordon Hittenmark as a feature of the RCA-NBC television demonstrations now being conduction in cooperation with the National Press Club, 1-31-39

FCC Chairman faces lens of television camera. Washington, D.C., Chairm...

A group of people standing around a camera. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 22...

J233240 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 10. Copyright deposit; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); May 10, 1919.

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 22...

J233240 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address : 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 10. Copyright deposit; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.); May 10, 1919.

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases to show various stages of tuberculosis. Lens contained in an apparatus for x-ray photographs

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. A flyer's safety equipment consists of a folding crash boat folded up in a zipper bag, "Mae West" life preservers, a Very pistol, a flashlight with red lens, and a container of dye to facilitate detection in the water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Where Hell was loosed; war's indescribable desolation and unburied victims, Lens

Where Hell was loosed; war's indescribable desolation and unburied vic...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V19283. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Temporary homes in devastated Lens, long occupied by the Germans, France

Temporary homes in devastated Lens, long occupied by the Germans, Fran...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18766. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Lens, France. General view of Lens, taken from overhead railway bridge, below, laborers clearing away debris from the main road toward Lille. The entire city of Lens with a pre war population of 28,000, is in the condition shown in this picture

Lens, France. General view of Lens, taken from overhead railway bridge...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Lewis Hine. Classification: General Reconstruction. Date received: 1920. Gift; Am... More

Clarence McK. Lewis, Skylands Farm, residence in Sterlington, New York. 12" lens view of little gable

Clarence McK. Lewis, Skylands Farm, residence in Sterlington, New York...

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

Where Hell was loosed; war's indescribable desolation and unburied victims, Lens

Where Hell was loosed; war's indescribable desolation and unburied vic...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V19283. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. View of Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant, 23" lens II

Potomac Electric Power Co. Alexandria plant. View of Potomac Electric ...

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

Stratford Hall. Stratford Hall building from distance with 12-inch lens

Stratford Hall. Stratford Hall building from distance with 12-inch len...

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

Bar Harbour, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Officer checking the safety gear, which includes a rubber boat, a "Mae West" life preserver, flares, see andho, patching equipment for mending machine gun holes in the boat, a Very pistol, a flash light with red lens, and a dye bag which is broken when in the water to facilitate detection by rescue planes

Bar Harbour, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr. Joseph Priestly's burning lens and air gun and Professor Walter R. Johnson's rotascope]

[Collection of scientific equipment at Dickinson College, including Dr...

Attribution to Himes based on his position at Dickinson College. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection.

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flying equipment of a patrol flyer; rubber crash suit, "Mae West" life preserver, dye marker, flashlight with red lens, very pistol, revolver and sheath knife

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

No man's land near Lens, France

No man's land near Lens, France

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18840. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Frank Schubert polishes the station's lens once a week / World Telegram & Sun photo by Higgins.

Frank Schubert polishes the station's lens once a week / World Telegra...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Caption continues: The flashing red signal, which operates from a half hour before sunset until a half hour before sunrise, is a reference point for all traffic using the harbor. Title... More

A family in their ruined house, Lens

A family in their ruined house, Lens

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19252. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

St. Thomas Church, 5th Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. General interior, seven-inch lens

St. Thomas Church, 5th Ave. and 53rd St., New York City. General inter...

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

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Intelligence officer checking safety equipment issued to the pilot and observer of a patrol plane, including rubber boat and life jacket "Mae West," inflatable by carbon dioxide gas cartridges; repair kit to mend bullet holes in the boat; and dye container to color water for better identification; flash light with red lens for identification by night; smoke bombs; water marker; Very pistols; and rubber watertight flying suit

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Temporary homes in devastated Lens, long occupied by the Germans, France

Temporary homes in devastated Lens, long occupied by the Germans, Fran...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18766. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. F.E. Washer of the U.S. Bureau of Standards testing the lens for the airplane cameras that are used by the Army and Navy. There are lights in the rear of the columnmeters and exposures are made on the photographic plate in front of the doctor. The lens are tested for distortion, focal length, and definition. This work must be very exacting as a small error would make an error of many miles on the maps made by the aerial cameras, 561937

Testing airplanes lenses used in map making. Washington, D.C., May 6. ...

Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available a... More

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a lens grinder in an optical firm. His employer said he had the makings of a good lens grinder

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sergeant George Camblair used to work as a len...

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

Lens, France, April 11, 1919. Man and wife, living in cellar of their former home which is in complete ruins. They were in Lens for thirty months during the German occupation, and were repatriated thru Switzerland and by way of Evian, in January 1917. The wife remained in southern France some months after repatriation. Thye have now been three weeks in Lens, and plan to keep their present quarters in the cellar for an indefinite perod of time

Lens, France, April 11, 1919. Man and wife, living in cellar of their ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Lewis Hine. Date received: 1920. Classification: General reconstruction. Gift; Am... More

No man's land near Lens, France

No man's land near Lens, France

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18840. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Lens, France, April 11, 1919. Genral sic view of Lens, taken from the location shown in no. W-94

Lens, France, April 11, 1919. Genral sic view of Lens, taken from the ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Lewis Hine. Classification: General Reconstruction. Date received: 1920. Gift; Am... More