Among the oil barrels where fire started, showing defective life prese...
Stereograph shows oil barrels and the burnt remains of lifeboats and life preservers at the harbor. H49054 U.S. Copyright Office No. 8401. Copyright by H.C. White Co. Copyright entry: Aug. 12, 1904, Class H; XX... More
Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
![[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4ODAvMDEvMDEvdGhlLWxpZmVzYXZpbmctZXhlcmNpc2VzLWF0LXJpdmEtMS02NDAuanBn/40/33/webp "[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]")
[The lifesaving exercises at Riva]
Men wearing life preservers next to boat in drydock. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. Lifesaving station. Title translated from album caption. No. 23. No. 79. In alb... More
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.
Lincoln- "I'm sorry to have to drop you, Sambo, but this concern won't...
Print shows Abraham Lincoln, in a life preserver labeled "Union", on a storm tossed sea, pushing away an African American man who had been clinging to him; next to them floats a hat with papers labeled "Fremont... More
Putting life preservers on "CITY OF MACON"
Photograph shows the ship "City of Macon", probably being prepared to help move the Second Army Division from Texas City to Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 ... More
Coast Guard - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![Miss Rosa D. Stone at Pan-Amer. bldg. holding a piece of Guayacan wood, 30'' in diameter which weighs 23 oz. while the Balsa wood with 402 sq. inches of surface weighs the same. Balsa is a recent importation from Latin Amer. and is used as substitute for cork. Already popular not only as filler for life-preservers but as stopper for the modern flask [Washington, D.C.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MjMvMDEvMDEvbWlzcy1yb3NhLWQtc3RvbmUtYXQtcGFuLWFtZXItYmxkZy1ob2xkaW5nLWEtcGllY2Utb2YtZ3VheWFjYW4td29vZC0zMC1pbi1kaWFtZXRlci0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/55/webp "Miss Rosa D. Stone at Pan-Amer. bldg. holding a piece of Guayacan wood, 30'' in diameter which weighs 23 oz. while the Balsa wood with 402 sq. inches of surface weighs the same. Balsa is a recent importation from Latin Amer. and is used as substitute for cork. Already popular not only as filler for life-preservers but as stopper for the modern flask [Washington, D.C.]")
Miss Rosa D. Stone at Pan-Amer. bldg. holding a piece of Guayacan wood...
A black and white photo of a woman standing on a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a man handing something to another man - FS...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Coast Guard - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More
Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a power dam, cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Help refused / Zimmerman. - coin, public domain photograph
Illustration shows a woman labeled "Business Interests" drowning in a pond of silver coins labeled "85 cents"; she is wearing waterwings labeled "Patent Air-Bladder" and "Life Preserver", also "Makeshift Silver... More
One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for ou...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Putting life preservers on "CITY OF MACON"
Photograph shows the ship "City of Macon", probably being prepared to help move the Second Army Division from Texas City to Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 ... More
Tennessee Valley Authority power and conservation. Fort Loudoun Dam co...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Only and exclusive photo of the Vestris as it went down
From slug on back of photo: "Photo shows an excellent view of the ill-fated Vestris as it listed, while passengers are hurriedly donning life preservers as they leave the vessel." The photo was taken by Fred Ha... More
A black and white photo of two men shaking hands. Office of War Inform...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A group of men leaning over...
Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 5. Publi... More
A black and white photo of a man working on a machine. Office of War I...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel: A group of men leaning over...
Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room. In album: First rural rehabilitation colonists, Northern Minnesota to Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Sailed from San Francisco, May 1st, 1935; p. 5. Publi... More
One of the essential materials in the making of life preservers for ou...
Actual size of negative is B (approximately 5 x 7 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More
A group of men standing around a table - FSA / Office of War Informati...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
And in the meantime-- / Kep. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows Uncle Sam imploring a man labeled "ISCC", sitting on a railroad bridge, to throw a life preserver labeled "Permission to Raise Freight Rates" to a man labeled "The Railroads" drowning in a ri... More