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The sylvic gas light B. Franklin Coston, patentee, Washington City, D.C. / / A. De Vaudricourt del. ; C.B. Graham's Lithy. D.C.

The sylvic gas light B. Franklin Coston, patentee, Washington City, D....

Print showing a gas light generator for use in "Hotels, Light Houses, Steam Boats, Cottages, Factories, Churches" with vignettes of buildings, boats, and gas lights.

Light ship - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Light ship - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[House Members Room. Light of Poetry (red) panel in the Spectrum of Light ceiling mural by Carl Gutherz that represents civilization. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[House Members Room. Light of Poetry (red) panel in the Spectrum of Li...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

City Light & Power, 1950 North Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN

City Light & Power, 1950 North Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Allen Count...

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: For approximately 50 years, from 1929-1978, the City Light and Power Works building, designed by Froehlich & Emery Engineering Company, served as the chief po... More

Utah Power & Light Company, Stairs Hydroelectric Station, Holladay, Salt Lake County, UT

Utah Power & Light Company, Stairs Hydroelectric Station, Holladay, Sa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Io resto fra le lagrime - Lead us to the light

Io resto fra le lagrime - Lead us to the light

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)

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, VA

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Baptism of Christ with dove, angel, rays of light, and John the Baptist holding shell for St. Thomas of Canterbury Church in Smithtown, New York]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Baptism of Christ wit...

Public domain photograph of stained glass design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Captain David Thompson of Caldwell Minute Men (later Caldwell LIght Infantry); Company D, 1st Infantry Regiment 4th Division Missouri State Guard; and Company H, 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment; holding sword]

[Captain David Thompson of Caldwell Minute Men (later Caldwell LIght I...

Photo shows identified soldier. Case: Berg, no. 3-157. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: ... More

Palmer Park, light house - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Palmer Park, light house - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Portrait of football team in light jerseys

Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Portrait of football team in light je...

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

River House, 52nd St. and E. River, New York City. Parapet, 27th floor, against light

River House, 52nd St. and E. River, New York City. Parapet, 27th floor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic park, open terrace, world heritage landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. People on a rainy night at 13th Street and F Street, N.W. waiting for the "Don't walk" neon traffic light to signal "Walk"

Washington, D.C. People on a rainy night at 13th Street and F Street, ...

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

Chicago, Illinois. One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at night. The light streaks are caused by lantern of men going in and out of the yard office

Chicago, Illinois. One of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern Ra...

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

Somewhere in Iran. American assembly plant for light bombers where warplanes are given a final check before delivery to Russia

Somewhere in Iran. American assembly plant for light bombers where war...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Light and shadows in a room of the home of the Belgian ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C.

Light and shadows in a room of the home of the Belgian ambassador to t...

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, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

An early, classic design McDonald's "golden arches" outlet in Columbus, Ohio

An early, classic design McDonald's "golden arches" outlet in Columbus...

Title, date 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. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with highly abstracted Holy Eucharist including dove, light, cross, chalice, grain, grapes]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with highly abstracted Holy E...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a stained glass design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Baker Island Light, Lightkeeper's House, Just east of Cranberry Isles, at entrance to Frenchman Bay, Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME

Baker Island Light, Lightkeeper's House, Just east of Cranberry Isles,...

Significance: The first Baker Island Lighthouse began operation in 1828 with William Gilley as lightkeeper. With the election of a Whig president in 1848, Gilley was replaced, and by 1855 the light and the keep... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, VA

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, VA

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

Outer Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, La Pointe, Ashland County, WI

Outer Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, La Pointe,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N46 Survey number: HABS WI-318-A

Keep the beacon light a burning bright beside the little service star

Keep the beacon light a burning bright beside the little service star

words by Daniel F. Lawlor ; music by J. B. Robbins. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Manuscript in ink. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical... More

Seguin Island Light Station, Summit of Seguin Island, south of mouth of Kennebec River, Popham Beach, Sagadahoc County, ME
Gas light galop - Public domain American sheet music, 1873

Gas light galop - Public domain American sheet music, 1873

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)

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Two unidentified soldiers of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, later assigned to Co. A, 46th Virginia Infantry Regiment, in uniform]

[Two unidentified soldiers of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, later...

Case: Berg, no. 1-39. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj Purchased from: Anne Arundel House, Linthicum Heig... More

Edward S. Curtis - Sun and clouds / Curtis., Alaska

Edward S. Curtis - Sun and clouds / Curtis., Alaska

View across large body of water, taken on the Harriman Alaska expedition. Copyright by E.H. Harriman. Curtis no. X423. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published as photogravure in: Harriman Alaska Expedition. New ... More

White Island Light, Isles of Shoals, N.H.

White Island Light, Isles of Shoals, N.H.

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: White Island Light, Isles of Shoals. Similar image (LC-D4-13923). Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53849". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collect... More

Light St., looking north, Baltimore, Md.

Light St., looking north, Baltimore, Md.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger service of Texas. Edgar Barnes is one of the smallest in front row. The messengers and their contact with the Red Light districts, in most of the large cities of Texas, is one of the worst phases of child labor in the state.  Location: San Antonio, Texas.

A few of the San Antonio messengers. See Hine report on messenger serv...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospector blowing on pan of fine dirt which contains particles of gold in order to blow the dirt away and leave the heavy gold. In this dry panning the pan is rotated until the dirt is on one side and then with a decisive toss it is thrown into the air, the light dirt being then blown away by the wind and the heavy gold being caught again in the pan. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Prospector blowing on pan of fine dirt which contains particles of gol...

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

Prospector panning gold. The light objects are probably not gold as it is very unusual to find pieces this large in this section. They are probably mica (fools gold) or mercury which is used to attract the gold. Pinos Altos, New Mexico

Prospector panning gold. The light objects are probably not gold as it...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. War housing trailers. The trailer door is the last major assembly to be fitted to a war housing trailer at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The worker in the background is installing clearance light fittings. The vehicle is now ready for the final paint job

Production. War housing trailers. The trailer door is the last major a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber, called the Boston by the British, is used by both the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force. It was designed as an attack bomber for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations. Because of the speed and performance abilities of this plane, the British have converted a number for use as night fighters. Some have also been used for reconnissance work. Armament details vary according to use, light and heavy guns being mounted in varying combinations

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hawthorn Power Plant, Kansas City Light and Power, Kansas City, Missouri. Coal transfer tower

Hawthorn Power Plant, Kansas City Light and Power, Kansas City, Missou...

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

[Muni light rail transit car at Embarcadero, with Bay Bridge in background. San Francisco, California]

[Muni light rail transit car at Embarcadero, with Bay Bridge in backgr...

Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable... More

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Concord Gas Light Company, Gasholder House, South Main Street, Concord...

Significance: In service from 1888-1952, is the last structure of its kind in the U.S. still containing its original gasholder. Similar structures were a common feature in the urban areas of New England and upp... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Baltimore Trust Company Building, 10 Light Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore Trust Company Building, 10 Light Street, Baltimore, Independ...

Significance: Baltimore's only "setback" skyscraper, the Baltimore Trust Building is a fine example of the Art Deco commercial style in America. The interior features mosaics by Hildreth Meiere, who designed ma... More

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; been messenger for 6 years. Late Sunday night, October 4th, I talked with him, still on duty, until 10 P.M. "You bet I know every crooked house in town. Went to school with one of those girls when she was straight. He[r] mother died and she went bad. Some young girls were there too. I go out to Red Light some with messages and packages, and if I want to, I bust right in and sit down." Hard face.  Location: Montgomery, Alabama.

Willie Cheatham, Western Union messenger #1. Says he is 16 years now; ...

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

Great Captain Island Light, Great Captain Island, Greenwich, Fairfield County, CT

Great Captain Island Light, Great Captain Island, Greenwich, Fairfield...

Significance: Great Captain Island Lighthouse is significant as an example of lighthouse construction techniques of the period immediately following the Civil War. Among its distinctive characteristics are sta... More

A levee at night - electric light illumination. Sketches on the levee, New Orleans / by J. O. Davidson .

A levee at night - electric light illumination. Sketches on the levee,...

Illustration showing the New Orleans riverfront at night, crowded with people and steamboats, and showing electric lighting. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 27, no. 1367 (1883 March 3), p. 133.

[Summit Park, Oriskany, near Utica, N.Y.]

[Summit Park, Oriskany, near Utica, N.Y.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mother and child--Sunlight - Public domain portrait print

Mother and child--Sunlight - Public domain portrait print

Print shows small child raising hand to woman seated on grass. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 14, April 1906, plate IX. Copyright by Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art... More

World's Fair. Westinghouse forecourt and Singing Tower of Light

World's Fair. Westinghouse forecourt and Singing Tower of Light

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The New York World's Fair was a large international exp... More

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber, called the Boston by the British, is used by both the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force. It was designed as an attack bomber for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations. Because of the speed and performance abilities of this plane, the British have converted a number for use as night fighters. Some have also been used for reconnissance work. Armament details vary according to use, light and heavy guns being mounted in varying combinations

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Evening light on Jerusalem taken fr[om] S. near the Residency

Evening light on Jerusalem taken fr[om] S. near the Residency

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Experienced assembly line workers of both sexes contribute to the production of A-20 attack bombers in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Long Beach, California. The A-20 is used by the American Air Force and the Royal Air Force (RAF) for hedge hopping and strafing operations against ground troops and installations--also for reconnaissance work and night fighting. It is armed with light and heavy caliber guns

Production. A-20 attack bombers. Experienced assembly line workers of ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. When this fine American soldier, just finishing a hardening up course at Fort Benning, Georgia, gives you the red light, remember he's an expert at stopping traffic

Fort Benning infantry. Slow down, Adolph. The road ahead is blocked. W...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a soldier, armed forces, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. This light tank, used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for the armored forces, is helping to turn out fighters who will give the Axis some new ideas of what trouble really is

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. This light tank, used at Fort Knox, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for training and hardening crews for our armored forces, are graduating tough, competent "tankers" who will soon be giving the Axis some pointers on modern warfare

Fort Knox, Kentucky. Light tanks. The light tanks used at Fort Knox, K...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armored military vehicle, tank, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light, Rockland, Maine

Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light, Rockland, Maine

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Rockland Harbor Breakwater Light sits at the south end ... More

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health C...

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1998, oil on canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figure on newel post holding a torch of electric light, with bust of George Washington at left. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health Care Financing Administration Building, Woodlawn, Maryland

Painting "The Healing Light" located in interior lobby of the Health C...

Artist: Daniel Galvez, 1998, oil on canvas. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Ph... More

[Second floor, Southwest Pavilion. Light fixture in the Pavilion of the Discoverers. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second floor, Southwest Pavilion. Light fixture in the Pavilion of th...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Baltimore, Maryland. Light street

Baltimore, Maryland. Light street

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Isla de Mona Light, Mona Island, Cabo Rojo, Cabo Rojo Municipio, PR

Significance: Mona Island Light is the only existing lighthouse for which two entirely different plans were drawn between 1885-1886. The first plan called for a 2nd class light, 22 miles range light beam, 3 ke... More

Bell Rock light house during a storm from the North East / drawn by J.M. W. Turner, R.A.; engraved by J. Horsburgh.

Bell Rock light house during a storm from the North East / drawn by J....

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

New York - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

New York - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

People walking up street (Wall Street) in strong sunlight and building in background with large recesses. Reproduction of photo by Paul Strand, 1915. Illus. in: Camera work, no. 48, October 1916, plate I. Pau... More

Apartments. Exterior of three-story light brick apartment building

Apartments. Exterior of three-story light brick apartment building

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Clouds. Light clouds over highway and phone poles II

Clouds. Light clouds over highway and phone poles II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demountable method makes use of the stressed skin principle of plywood engineering. In consequnce, the house slices become very much lighter and can be towed on a light undercarriage behind a small truck or ordinary passenger car

Demountable employee housing. The most recent development of the demou...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Light House, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

Light House, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera "The gondoliers" Cast of 100 : Handel Wadsworth director.

Federal Music presents Gilbert & Sullivan's light opera "The gondolier...

Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart of the Army's A-24 (Dauntless) with the differences that adapt it to Navy requirements. This Douglas plane is equipped with slotted wing flaps to decrease air speed and obtain greater bombing accuracy. It is more maneuverable than the German Stuka and is capable of carrying heavier bomb loads

Aircraft. Naval. The Navy's SBD light dive bomber is the counterpart o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Los Angeles, California. Newsboy's stand and traffic signal light

Los Angeles, California. Newsboy's stand and traffic signal light

Public domain photograph - California, United States, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American wings over Africa. A B-25 medium bomber (foreground) is escorted by a group of A-20 light bombers serving as fighter ships over the North African desert. Their objective was an advance Axis headquarters

American wings over Africa. A B-25 medium bomber (foreground) is escor...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an Australian armored unit's camp somewhere in Australia. The corporal in the foreground keeps contact between the tank crews and the men at the targets

Australia in the war. Testing the light guns on American tanks at an A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jericho and Dead Sea area and River Jordan. Qumran: Close-up section of Dead Sea scroll from "The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness"

Jericho and Dead Sea area and River Jordan. Qumran: Close-up section o...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Jordan, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Urban Light sculpture by Chris Burden at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California

Urban Light sculpture by Chris Burden at the Los Angeles County Museum...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder Hole Pond, Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, Chatham, Barnstable County, MA

Monomoy Point Light Station, Approximately 3500 feet Northeast Powder ...

Significance: Originally built in response to Federal period growth in coastal traffic, the Monomoy Point Light Station is now significant as an early example of cast-iron light construction for a secondary, fi... More

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Christ knocks at door, with lantern and crown of thorns, after William Holman Hunt's "The Light of the World," 1851-3, Keble College, Oxford for Herrick Chapel, Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing Christ knocks at door...

Public domain image of a religious scene, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Christian Art, Bible, New Testament, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Boon Island Light Tower, Cape Neddick, York County, ME

Boon Island Light Tower, Cape Neddick, York County, ME

Significance: Site has been in continuous use as light station since 1812. Tower is typical mid 19th century lighthouse structure of a kind rapidly becoming obsolete. Survey number: HABS ME-122 Building/stru... More

Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, East northeast of Tenants Harbor, Spruce Head, Knox County, ME

Whitehead Light Station, Whitehead Island, East northeast of Tenants H...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Sand Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, Bayfield, Bayfield County, WI

Sand Island Light Station, Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, Bayfield, B...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N44 Survey number: HABS WI-313-A

[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

[Major John C. Pelham of Alburtis Light Artillery and 1st Co. Stuart Horse Virginia Light Artillery Battery in uniform]

[Major John C. Pelham of Alburtis Light Artillery and 1st Co. Stuart H...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Handwritten name on recto bottom. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) More information about this collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj P... More

[Civil War envelope showing American flag and shield surrounded by stars and rays of light]

[Civil War envelope showing American flag and shield surrounded by sta...

Shape behind shield may possibly be a pelican. Addressed to Mr. Wm. R. Akerley, Andez [i.e. Andes], Del. County, State of N.Y.; postmarked Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:1... More

Terrible collision between the steamboats Stonington and Narragansett: at 11.30 p.m., of Friday, June 11th, 1880, off Cornfield Light, Long Island Sound

Terrible collision between the steamboats Stonington and Narragansett:...

Print shows people in lifeboats and people jumping from blazing steamboats. 7163 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6461

Light blue vase, autochrome color photo

Light blue vase, autochrome color photo

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Light consumes coal - Save light, save coal United States Fuel Administration / / Coles Phillips ; Wards & Deutsch Litho. Co. Chicago.

Light consumes coal - Save light, save coal United States Fuel Adminis...

Poster showing a light bulb in suspended socket with pull-chain. No. 8.

GIRL SCOUTS GROUP WITH LADIES. MRS. CHARLES S. HAMLIN, LEFT REAR, WITH DRAPED BLACK CROWN ON LIGHT BRIMMED HAT

GIRL SCOUTS GROUP WITH LADIES. MRS. CHARLES S. HAMLIN, LEFT REAR, WITH...

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Cana island Light Station, Oil House, Cana Island Road, Baileys Harbor, Door County, WI

Cana island Light Station, Oil House, Cana Island Road, Baileys Harbor...

Survey number: HABS WI-376-B Public domain photograph - historical image of Wisconsin, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of the Fitz John Coach Company, shows a fifteen-passenger war workers' coach that his company made from a standard five-passenger light sedan with the use of only 300 additional pounds of steel. The six-foot central section was made largely of wood and other non-critical materials

Transportation. War workers' coach. Francis W. Feeney, president of th...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Houston, Texas. People crossing a downtown street with the green light

Houston, Texas. People crossing a downtown street with the green light

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nightclub strip on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

Nightclub strip on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Californi...

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

White Island Light and dwelling

White Island Light and dwelling

House, lighthouse, and other buildings. No. 156. Copyright by H.G. Peabody, Boston.

[Design drawing for stained glass window ray of light tondo in blues and oranges for St. Gertrude Church in Bayville, New York]

[Design drawing for stained glass window ray of light tondo in blues a...

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

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicinity, Petersburg, Petersburg, VA

Petersburg Gas Light Company, Gasholder, Bank & Madison Streets vicini...

Significance: A rare survivor of a once popular means of storing gas. The Petersburg Gasholder is distinguished by its cast iron frame which incorporates many Tuscan order columns. / This Gas Holder, one of ab... More

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