2,752 Libraries, Photo Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Washington., D.C. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Architectural drawing for the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Fl...

Competition drawing showing library as plan. UNIT title devised. Library of Congress design competition proposal no. 11 (from Library of Congress Archives, Records of the Library of Congress, Buildings and Grou... More

[Construction in interior of the Jefferson Building, Library of Congre...

Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Congressional Library. In the gallery

Photo shows the statues in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress. In album: Congressional Library, Washington, D.C., p. 10.

View of Library of Congress, 2nd & Independence, S.E.

Forms part of: D.C. Street Survey Collection. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Library interior at Tuskegee Institute, 1906]

Title from caption card for negative. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Interior of J.P. Morgan's library

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

Library of Congress (Jefferson Building). Front of Library of Congress...

Old negative number: 2351-16. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1... More

Library of Congress (Jefferson Building). Declaration of Independence ...

Old negative number: 2249-2. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 19... More

Frank Stewart Library, Market & Hunter Streets, Stockton, San Joaquin ...

Survey number: HABS CA-1631 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"La cour de Neptune"- Fontaine par Hinton Perry

Lantern slide showing the Neptune Fountain at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques dans la ... More

Livres pour les aveugles, lantern slide

Lantern slide showing the bookstacks for the blind at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques ... More

Virginia State Library & Courthouse, Richmond, Virginia. Gates to entr...

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

George C. Thomas Memorial Library, 901 First Avenue, Fairbanks, Fairba...

Survey number: HABS AK-136 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 72001542

[Two contact sheets showing young adults and children reading and list...

Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E5-R151 & E5-R152.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model A. View in...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model E. Main fa...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Model B. Façades...

Original slide showing one of several study and presentation models. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Carol M. Highsmith - Sycamore Public Library, Sycamore, Illinois

Built in 1905. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note, and keywords ... More

The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...

Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More

Tourist Attraction - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia

Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More

George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute ...

In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More

Forest Park Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Marylan...

Opened on November 26, 1910. In April 1964, two new wings were added nearly doubling its size. The library was rededicated after the completion of another major renovation project in February 1987. Title, date,... More

Stained-glass details in the Hutzler Reading room located in Gilman Ha...

Located in Gilman Hall and designed by Douglas Thomas. Construction of Gilman Hall began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of the uni... More

Bust of William H. Welch at the William H. Welch Medical Library, the ...

Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More

Clifton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library System located on the corner...

The site was donated by Frank and Florence Novak in 1914. The branch was later erected in 1916 with funds given by Andrew Carnegie. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

Library on the Go and Read Rover, part of the mobile library serivice ...

The buses travel to senior citizens as well as children. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C.

Opened in 2010 and named after Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

Orleans Street Branch Library located on Central Avenue at Orleans Str...

Opened on August 20, 2007, it replaces the second Broadway Branch that was on the corner of Broadway and Orleans Street for 36 years. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit... More

Tenley-Friendship branch of the D.C. Public Library, 4450 Wisconsin Av...

Dedicated on October 27, 1960. It was designed by architect Clark T. Harmon, and constructed by the B.F. Rodney Company. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photog... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Germantown Library, Germantown, Maryland

Built in 2007 by architect Luk Mire Partnership. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Germantown Library, Germantown, Maryland

Built in 2007 by architect Luk Mire Partnership. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Beatley Central Library, Alexandria, Virginia

Designed by Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville in association with Michael Graves, it opened on January 31, 2000. Named for Charles E. Beatley, Jr., former Mayor of Alexandria. Title, date, subject note, and k... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Rockville Memorial Library, Rockville, Maryland

Built in 2006 by architectural firm Grimm & Parker. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints ... More

Brody Learning Commons on the Homewood Campus is part of the Johns Hop...

Title, date, subject note, 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. Gift ... More

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan L...

Opened in 1964, the library was named for the university's eighth president. The collection numbers over 2.6 million volumes. Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photogr... More

The Mason City Public library in Mason, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The New Castle Branch Library in New Castle, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Abraham Glen House, 14 Mohawk Avenue, Scotia, Schenectady County, NY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-138 Survey number: HABS NY-338 Building/structure dates: 1730 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000708

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...

Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More

Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...

Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More

Paxton Carnegie Library, 254 South Market Street, Paxton, Ford County,...

STORED ON SITE. mchr 2012 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Paxton Carnegie Library is locally significant under Criterion A and C. It is significant for educational purposes in its role in pr... More

Maria Mitchell Association, Science Library, 2 Vestal Street, Nantucke...

Significance: The Maria Mitchell Science Library came into existence in 1902 upon the founding of the association commemorating her as America's first woman astronomer. On July 15, 1920 the first permanent hom... More

Maria Mitchell Association, Science Library, 2 Vestal Street, Nantucke...

Significance: The Maria Mitchell Science Library came into existence in 1902 upon the founding of the association commemorating her as America's first woman astronomer. On July 15, 1920 the first permanent hom... More

University of South Carolina, Library, South Sumter Street, Columbia, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-11 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction

University of South Carolina, Library, South Sumter Street, Columbia, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-11 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction

University of South Carolina, Library, South Sumter Street, Columbia, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-11 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction

University of Wyoming Campus, Library, East of Ninth Street & North of...

Significance: The University of Wyoming Library, erected in 1923, is historically important for its former role as the main repository for the institution's book collection, as its primary student research faci... More

University of Wyoming Campus, Library, East of Ninth Street & North of...

Significance: The University of Wyoming Library, erected in 1923, is historically important for its former role as the main repository for the institution's book collection, as its primary student research faci... More

University of Wyoming Campus, Library, East of Ninth Street & North of...

Significance: The University of Wyoming Library, erected in 1923, is historically important for its former role as the main repository for the institution's book collection, as its primary student research faci... More

Shaker Meetinghouse (second), Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia Count...

Significance: The Mount Lebanon Meetinghouse was the main place of worship for the most important and influential of the Shaker communities. Survey number: HABS NY-3254 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial... More

Shaker Meetinghouse (second), Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia Count...

Significance: The Mount Lebanon Meetinghouse was the main place of worship for the most important and influential of the Shaker communities. Survey number: HABS NY-3254 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. As a Category 3 facility, it has been determined that Building No. 697 functioned as part of the Pearl Harbo... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Administration Building, Nimitz & Edge ...

Significance: The Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964. As a Category 3 facility, it has been determined that Building No. 697 functioned as part of the Pearl Harbo... More

Photograph of Gertrude Clarke Whittall, undated

Photograph of Gertrude Clarke Whittall, Library of Congress benefactor.

Reynold's Tavern, 4 Church Circle at Franklin Street, Annapolis, Anne ...

Significance: An eighteenth century tavern with interesting brickwork typical of Annapolis architecture. // This mid-eighteenth century building, largely preserved in its original state, is representative of An... More

Reynold's Tavern, 4 Church Circle at Franklin Street, Annapolis, Anne ...

Significance: An eighteenth century tavern with interesting brickwork typical of Annapolis architecture. // This mid-eighteenth century building, largely preserved in its original state, is representative of An... More

Reynold's Tavern, 4 Church Circle at Franklin Street, Annapolis, Anne ...

Significance: An eighteenth century tavern with interesting brickwork typical of Annapolis architecture. // This mid-eighteenth century building, largely preserved in its original state, is representative of An... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Av...

Significance: Chestnut Hill was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More

Alice Barber Stephens - [Dorothea busy in the old library]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

Free Library of Philadelphia, Germantown Branch, 5818 Germantown Avenu...

Significance: Germantown was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie'... More

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Significance: The Carnegie Free LIbrary was one of the first of 15 libraries established in towns throughout South Carolina by iron and steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie p... More

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Significance: The Carnegie Free LIbrary was one of the first of 15 libraries established in towns throughout South Carolina by iron and steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie p... More

Carnegie Free Library, 300 East South Street, Union, Union County, SC

Significance: The Carnegie Free LIbrary was one of the first of 15 libraries established in towns throughout South Carolina by iron and steel industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie p... More

Wayside Inn, Post Road & Wayside Lane, Scarsdale, Westchester County, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-83 Survey number: HABS NY-4-104 Building/structure dates: 17t1 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: after 1700 Subsequent Work Buildin... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Stre...

Significance: Completed in 1908, the Manayunk Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was the tenth of twenty-five branch libraries built through an endowment from industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew ... More

Tuckerton Library, 380 Bay Avenue, Tuckerton, Ocean County, NJ

Survey number: HABS NJ-1119 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Town Hall, State Routes 41 & 17, South Egremont, Berkshire County, MA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-39A Survey number: HABS MA-220

Brown University, Robinson Hall, Waterman & Prospect Streets, Providen...

Significance: This large brick building, built in 1878 and originally used as a library, is one of the few large examples of post-Civil War "Victorian Gothic" in Providence. Survey number: HABS RI-185 Buildin... More

Gamble House, 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, CA

Significance: The Gamble House is the most complete and best preserved example of the work of Architects Greene and Greene. Built in 1908, during the architects most refined period, it embodies the highest lev... More

Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction

Vernon, Germantown Avenue, Vernon Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS PA-7-2 Building/structure dates: 17h1 Initial Construction