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Duomo di Milano. Dettagli, Italy

Roof of the Milan Cathedral. Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Flat Iron Building, New York, N.Y.]

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Singer Bldg. [Building] under construction, New York, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Singer Building, N.W. corner of Broadway and Liberty St., New York Ci...

Halftone repro. of drawing copyrighted by Moses King. Illus. in: King's Views of New York, [fourth page after index]. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P In... More

View in New York City showing its highest building, Park Row Building ...

City Hall Park, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Photograph of photographic print marked "American Studio, N.Y. no. 42." No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Victory Arch, New York City - A black and white photo of a city street

J234458 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Night lights of Manhattan], New York City

New York City. Night view past tug on river to series of dots forming the night lights of Manhattan, outline of buildings barely visible against dark background.

[First National Bank Building, Cadillac Square, Detroit, Mich.]

Public domain photograph of bank building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woolworth tower, New York City

J259244 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Fort Worth Club Building and city from roof of Texas Hotel, Texas

J281474 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 26576. Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indians from trading post talk over Chicago's skyline - also where the...

Princess O-Me-Me, a Chippewa; Sun Road, A Pueblo; and Chief Whirling Thuncer, a Winnebago, looking over Chicago's skyline from the roof of the Hotel Sherman. Probably by Underwood & Underwood. Gift from Underwo... More

Terminal Tower. Exterior of Terminal Tower

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mid-town Manhattan, looking northeast toward Chrysler Building] / Wil...

JO 8949 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 70. Public domain photograph of the city, skyscraper buildings, cityscape, downtown, urban environment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Pub... More

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Railing roof of River...

In album: Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography, p. 42. Print from negative 17488.

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City. Empire State Building from 41st St. and 5th Ave.

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City. Empire State Building I

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Downtown Louisville, Kentucky, with Ohio River in background

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Skyline, midtown Manhattan, New York City

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

[Aerial view of New York City] / World Telegram & Sun photo by F. Palu...

Photograph showing view of New York City skyscrapers and buildings as seen looking south on Manhattan. NYWT&S staff photograph. Note on verso: "Scene taken from RCA Bldg. today showing view that tourist seen lo... More

Lapidus, Kornblath, Harle and Liebman. Wris Building, model IV

Picryl description: Public domain image of a modernist architecture building, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model showing approach to ...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Empire State Building, New York, New York

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

[New Municipal Building, New York City]

J176060 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a city hall, public building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Singer and Woolworth Bldgs. from 120 B'way

J220025 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York. C11537.

Chrysler Building, New York City

J0 6886 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eddowes Co. Inc., NYC; no copyright renewal "PKW 2-28-78" This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; New York New... More

Rockefeller Center. RCA Building from 515 Madison Ave

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market Street, San Francisco, before the earthquake of 1906, Californi...

H80351 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.S. Smith. No. 1526. Public domain image of San Francisco buildings, city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Panorama of Madison Square, New York, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blenheim Hotel, Ohio Avenue & Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Atlantic Count...

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

Alcoa Forging Division, Mesta 50,000-Ton Closed Die Forging Press, 160...

Public domain photograph of industrial building, landscape, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

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

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions im... More

Sky scrapers overshadowing Trinity Church, New York

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

Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...

Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More

[Metropolis] / Klebrand., Movie Poster

Poster for Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis" shows the character Maria in Rotwang's transformation machine. Exchange ; Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[Trinity Church and graveyard, viewed from rear]

J211970 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Studio, N.Y. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Empire State Building, 34th St. & 5th Ave.

JO8771 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc, NYC. No. C 20611.

[View from Joseph Cassidy's window, lower New York]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: I M 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: American scenes, a LOT which in turn fo... More

City of Paris Dry Goods Company, Geary & Stockton Streets, San Francis...

Significance: The building was one of the earliest examples in San Francisco of a large commercial structure designed in the Beaux-Arts style, using steel framing and masonry wall infill for its basic structure... More

Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...

Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More

St. Paul and Park Row buildings, New York, two tallest buildings in th...

"722-2" on negative. Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29541. "722-1" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013102. Gift; State Historical Society of Col... More

Electric tower, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York.

Tower lit up at night. No. 516. Public domain photograph of German city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From Empire Building (N.) past Trinity Church Steeple, up Broadway, sh...

City Investing Bldg., & Singer Tower

J141262 U.S. Copyright Office. No. E453. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

Columbus Circle, New York City: [Looking South]

Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C9536. No copyright renewals. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.

The Cathedral of St. Gudule, Brussels, Belgium

P.E.C. [i.e., Palestine Electric Corporation] Rutenberg plant

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mayor Walker of New York confers with Secretary Mellon and other membe...

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

New York City views. Vista under elevated railroad

Sleeve missing for this item. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rockefeller Center. RCA Building, from 50th St. on cathedral grounds

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of Civic Center from Goodyear blimp, Aug. 26, 1933

J14007 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain photogrpah of a Capitol building, ar...

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

Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska. General view from northeast...

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

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of rows of wine bottles. Great Depression FFSA...

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

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grain elevators. Saint Paul, Minnesota

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

A black and white photo of a train station. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Production. B-17 heavy bomber. Sections of framework for a B-17F (Flyi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

A black and white photo of people in a building, Chicago, Illinois. Un...

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

Amarillo, Texas. View over the city

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

Washington, D.C. First test blackout from roof of Printcraft building

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

Chicago, Illinois. General view of part of the South Water Street Illi...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s train station, train car, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, New Jersey. Group from public servic...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graphic Arts Center (project), New York City. Multi-use building compl...

Architectural drawing shows section of multi-use building complex including industrial space for printers and lithographers, offices, apartments, an elementary school, recreational facilities, and parking. For... More

Tishman building, 666 5th Ave., New York City. Night view of building,...

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Painted glass located in the lobby of the Empire State Building, New Y...

Skyline, New Orleans, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of city skyline, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This is art of a sort, but not exactly either private or public. It wa...

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

Athens, Greece: The small metropolis, a church built of ancient fragme...

Park Row looking south [toward Old City Hall], New York City

Photograph shows Park Row, New York City, with City Hall Post Office and Courthouse, and the Woolworth Building. A45159 U.S. Copyright Office. Date from copyright office stamp on item. 75-309. Caption card tra... More

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Republic Building, 209 South State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Significance: The Republic Building was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird and Roche and built in 1905 by the Wells Bros. Company, General Contractors...Henry Strong, the original owner, and his son... More

Equitable Trust Co. Bldg. and Hotel Biltmore

J248345 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. No. B 38106.

[The Heart of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania] - Public domain image. Dry pla...

Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Bldg., 51 Chambers St.

JA44412 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York. No. C 8492.

Brooklyn Bridge, Spanning East River between Park Row, Manhattan and S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Luna Park at night

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, 1906: The Call Building in a maelst...

Stereo copyrighted by C.L. Wasson. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca. SF Bldgs.; Photog. I.; Ca. SF Earthquake; Shelf.

Woolworth bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woolworth Building at night, New York City

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trinity, U.S. Realty Bldgs., etc.

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbus Circle and Central Park, looking south

Bird's-eye view, New York City. Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C9537. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.

Koppers Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exterior view of Koppers B...

Item title devised. 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 1910s to th... More

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York city views. Times Square from Continental Building

Public domain photograph of broadway, city downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view, Washington, D.C. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

A black and white photo of a large building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris... More