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[Central Dome, interior view, looking toward the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Central Dome, interior view, looking toward the Gallery of Thirty Met...

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[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. Calibrating frequency meters

F & R Machine Works, 44-14 Astoria Blvd., Long Island City, New York. ...

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[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward the Central Dome, with the bronze statue of St. Michael in foreground, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward the Central Dome, with the b...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fields. A member of the San Antonio Gas Model Club, which does its weekly flying at Kelly Field in the city of San Antonio in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas, proudly displays his amphibian model airplane, which has a six foot (1.8 meters) wing spread. When an earlier model crashed there was nothing left but one good wing. This young model enthusiast decided to build a new plane around it. He built an amphibian and turned out a perfect flying job. The plane is made of balsa wood covered with silk and waterproofing material. Like millions of other young Americans who make model building their hobby, this young man will be called upon to put his practical experience in aeronautics to use in the air-minded post war world

America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fiel...

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Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

[Thiébaut Fréres bronze exhibit in the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Thiébaut Fréres bronze exhibit in the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris...

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[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward altar piece from the Church of St. Ouen, and Haviland exhibit, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward altar piece from the Church ...

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Miss Grace Hazen, Bu. of Standards testing radio wave meters, 5/19/25

Miss Grace Hazen, Bu. of Standards testing radio wave meters, 5/19/25

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

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

F. Morgan Taylor winning first semi-finals of 400 meters hurdles

F. Morgan Taylor winning first semi-finals of 400 meters hurdles

Olympic games at Amsterdam in 1928. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph related to Olympic games, sport, athletics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. One of the pits inside the zinc wall. From 1 to 2 sq. [i.e., square] meters in size

Locust plagues in Palestine. Methods of fighting the locust plague. On...

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America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fields.Two American boys give their giant model plane a running start at Kelly Field in the city of San Antonio in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas where members of the Gas Model Club do their weekly flying. The plane, which weighs eleven pounds, has a thirteen feet (3.9 meters) wing spread, and a wing area of twenty-four square feet (2.2 square meters) The plane will not take off by itself, but with a running start flies very successfully.When the U.S. government in 1941 called on model plane builders to turn out 800,000 scale model airplanes for use by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and civilian defense groups to train military and civilian personnel to recognize hostile and friendly aircraft, it was estimated that there were nearly three million American youths actively interested in aero-modeling. These young model builders put their experience to practical use by turning out models of fighters, scouts, fighter bombers, bombers, torpedo carriers, and commercial planes of the United Nations and of the enemy

America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fiel...

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

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Cars parked diagonally along parking meters. Omaha, Nebraska

Cars parked diagonally along parking meters. Omaha, Nebraska

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Back Run Bridge (Ruin), Approximately 2,000 feet (610 meters) upstream & south of confluence of Third Run & Back Run, Harrisville, Ritchie County, WV

Back Run Bridge (Ruin), Approximately 2,000 feet (610 meters) upstream...

Significance: The bridge abutments along Back Run are part of an impressive list of engineering structures built by the Harrisville Southern Railroad, a Ritchie County short line. They were built with the labo... More

[Thiébaut Fréres bonze exhibit in the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Thiébaut Fréres bonze exhibit in the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris ...

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Georgetown University students give German track star a noisy welcome in Washington. Students at Georgetown University where he is a guest while in Washington gave Dr. Otto Peltzer, noted German athlete, a noisy welcome when he appeared at the athletic field for his first "workout" today since landing on American soil. Dr. Peltzer has beaten such stars as Paavo Nurmi and Edvin Wide in the 1,500 meters on the tracks in Europe

Georgetown University students give German track star a noisy welcome ...

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Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Hayti, Missouri. Checking electric meters at the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) cooperative headquarters

Hayti, Missouri. Checking electric meters at the U.S. Rural Electrific...

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

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

[Interior of the Central Dome, with a view toward the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Interior of the Central Dome, with a view toward the Gallery of Thirt...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of the Central Dome, with a view toward the Gallery of Thirty Meters, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Interior of the Central Dome, with a view toward the Gallery of Thirt...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of the Central Dome, looking toward the Gallery of Thirty Meters and the entrance to the jewellers' exhibit, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Interior of the Central Dome, looking toward the Gallery of Thirty Me...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The yardstick is being applied to the measuring of radio waves by means of parallel device of galvanometer, the radio laboratory of the Bureau of Standards has succeeded in measuring very short radio waves, only ten meters in length

The yardstick is being applied to the measuring of radio waves by mean...

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Noted German track star arrives in Nation's Capital. Dr. Otto Peltzer, (center) German track star, holder of three world records and conquerer of both Paavo Nurmi and Edvin Wide at 1,500 meters, arrived in Washington today where he will be a guest of Georgetown University for a brief stay. He is shown in this photograph with Dr. Otto Kiep, (right) counselor of the German Embassy and Reverend John L. Gipprich (left) of Georgetown University

Noted German track star arrives in Nation's Capital. Dr. Otto Peltzer,...

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Noted German athlete works out at Georgetown University. Dr. Otto Peltzer, noted German track star and conqueror of Paavo Nurmi and Edvin Wide at 1,500 meters, working out for the benefit of the Georgetown University trackmen at the school today where he is a guest during his stay in the National Capital

Noted German athlete works out at Georgetown University. Dr. Otto Pelt...

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Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters North of Highway 132, Leamington, Millard County, UT

Sevier River Bridge, Spanning Sevier River approximately 300 meters No...

Significance: The Sevier River Bridge is a rare example in Utah of multi-span, wood plank stringer/multi-beam construction. It is also significant as a Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration funded... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Back Run Bridge (Ruin), Approximately 2,000 feet (610 meters) upstream & south of confluence of Third Run & Back Run, Harrisville, Ritchie County, WV

Back Run Bridge (Ruin), Approximately 2,000 feet (610 meters) upstream...

Significance: The bridge abutments along Back Run are part of an impressive list of engineering structures built by the Harrisville Southern Railroad, a Ritchie County short line. They were built with the labo... More

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A feature of the twenty-eighth National Conference on Weights and Measures which opened in Washington today was display of the many parking meters now in use throughout the country. they range from 1cent to 5cents allowing the parker 20 minutes to half an hour. 49,500 meters are now in use in 56 cities. R.E. Gould, chief of the time section of the National Bureau of Standards, is pictured examining the display, 5/31/38

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A ...

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

Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) maintenance man checking electric meters

Hayti, Missouri. U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) maint...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water I

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water I

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Gas meters, San Augustine, Texas

Gas meters, San Augustine, Texas

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Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water II

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water II

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Parking meters for the Nation's Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 14. Commissioner Melvin Hazen and William Van Duzer, putting the first nickel in the parking meters ordered by Congress for a test in Washington. Parking will be at the rate of five cents an hour, with no extensions for more nickels, 111438

Parking meters for the Nation's Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 14. Co...

A group of people standing around a parking meter, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 195... More

America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fields. This flying model plane, which has a wing span of 9 1/2 feet (2.85 meters) was the largest model to enter a recent competitive meet at Modelhaven Airport near the city of Baltimore in the eastern state of Maryland. Model building has long been a popular hobby among American youth, and boys who a few years ago were building their miniature planes in home and school workshops are now putting that experience to practical use in airplane factories or in the armed forces. When the U.S. government in 1941 called on model plane builders to turn out 800,000 scale model airplanes for use by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and civilian defense groups to train their personnel to recognize hostile and friendly aircraft, it was estimated that there were nearly three million American youths actively interested in aero-modelling

America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fiel...

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

Cars parked diagonally along parking meters. Omaha, Nebraska

Cars parked diagonally along parking meters. Omaha, Nebraska

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward the Central Dome, with bronze statue of St. Michael in foreground, Paris Exposition, 1889]

[Gallery of Thirty Meters, looking toward the Central Dome, with bronz...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A feature of the twenty-eighth National Conference on Weights and Measures which opened in Washington today was display of the many parking meters now in use throughout the country. they range from 1cent to 5cents allowing the parker 20 minutes to half an hour. 49,500 meters are now in use in 56 cities. R.E. Gould, chief of the time section of the National Bureau of Standards, is pictured examining the display, 53138

"You pay your money and make your choice" Washington, D.C., May 31. A ...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.l... More

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about 700 meters west of Largo Canyon Wash, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Hooded Fireplace Pueblito, On a northern point of Superior Mesa about ...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many pueblo tribes to flee northwestward and seek temporary refuge in the traditional homeland of the Navajo, Dinetah. Ho... More

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water II

Water current meters. Meters used to measure water II

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parking meters for the Nation's Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 14. Commissioner Melvin Hazen and William Van Duzer, putting the first nickel in the parking meters ordered by Congress for a test in Washington. Parking will be at the rate of five cents an hour, with no extensions for more nickels, 11/14/38

Parking meters for the Nation's Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 14. Co...

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

Citizens with nearby expired parking meters in Crown Point, Indiana, can rest easy because this is not a "meter man" but one of the 11 installations of life-sized trompe l'oeil painted bronze statues around town, created by John Seward Johnson II

Citizens with nearby expired parking meters in Crown Point, Indiana, c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. They are castings of living people of all ages, engaged in day-to-day activities. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith A... More