703 Metropolis, Library of congress Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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[Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

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

Bowling Green offices, New York

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

Flatiron Building [under construction], New York City

Photoprint copyrighted by Charles L. Ritzmann, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Church tower, commercial buildings and waterfront, probably Detroit]

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

Night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.

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

[Bowling Green, New York City], New York City

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bowling place, sports, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Singer Bldg. 1908 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[Madison Theatre, office building, David Whitney Building, and street ...

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

[Buhl building and Detroit cityscape]

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

[Broadway south from Astor Building, New York City] / American Studio,...

J212962 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, view of skyline

Photograph shows the skyline of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with river in the foreground. J220276 U.S. Copyright Office. Date from copyright office stamp on the back. Copyright 1916 J. J. Bauman.

[Bird's-eye view of New York Bay and Brooklyn from 12 B'way, New York ...

J225514 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Irving Underhill. No. C11534. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

Woolworth Building and Park Row, New York City

Photograph shows the Woolworth Building and Park Row in Manhattan. J277105 U.S. Copyright Office. B45821.

Water Tower, Chicago and Michigan Aves., Chicago

No. 32513. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, 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

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

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

Rockefeller Center, New York City. RCA Building, floodlighted from St....

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

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

Abandoned factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

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

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

Jones and Laughlin Steel Company. Beehive coke ovens. Aliquippa, Penns...

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

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

Public domain image of Chicago cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Church of Christ Scientist, 8601 35th Ave., Jackson Heights. Rot...

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

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...

Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More

Broad Street and Philadelphia's new sky-scrapers, south from the City ...

H74925 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1906, by E. W. Kelley. No. 1178.

Chicago gets world apparel mart Walter W. Ahlschlager, Inc., Chicago, ...

Reproduction of architectural drawing of the apparel mart designed by Walter Ahlschlager, Inc., for Chicago, Illinois. Presentation rendering signed Clas (A.R. Clas). Title from agency caption on verso. Date f... More

Heart of New York, N.Y - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10241, 10240, 10239, 10238. Right negative cracked upper right. City Court Building in foreground in frames 10241, 10240; City Hall Park in... More

Johnny's Tavern; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schwarz, Chicago, Illinois

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 2-7, interior of Johnny's Tavern; 8-11, Nancy Buckalew; 12-14, Nancy ... More

Portland, Oregon - the metropolis of the Pacific Northwest / C.L. Smit...

Print showing bird's-eye view of Portland, Oregon. 13216 U.S. Copyright Office. 1888, population with suburbs, 60,000. Supplement to "The West Shore," Portland, Oregon. Copyrighted 1888.

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

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Kansas City City Hall, 414 East Twelfth Street, Kansas City, Jackson C...

Significance: The City Hall is the tallest and most obvious of a three building construction program passed in 1931 by the people of Kansas City. The overall bond program was labeled the "Ten-Year-Plan," and of... More

View of the city of Washington, the metropolis of the United States of...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Potomac River and the city of Washington, D.C., with ships on the river, an eagle perched on a tree on the left, and the U.S. Capitol building at right-center in the distanc... More

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

Market Street National Bank Building, 1-21 Juniper Street, Philadelphi...

Survey number: HABS PA-1517 Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Chicago River Bascule Bridges, Spanning Chicago River & its north & so...

Significance: The development of the Chicago trunnion bascule bridge occurred during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Despite the controversy over patent infringement Joseph E. Strauss charg... More

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.]

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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

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.

[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

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

[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...

[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

From Met. Bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Park Row Building, New York - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

Singer building tower, illuminated, N.Y.C., 1909

Photo by A. Loeffler. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The Heart of Detroit - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Am. Ex. Nat. Bank, Singer Building and Clearing House

J178596 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No. C 9175.

Banking Center, San Francisco, Calif.

Bird's-eye view. Photoprint copyrighted by R.J. Waters & Co. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Banks and...

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

New York City views. Vista under elevated railroad

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rockefeller Center & St. Patrick's Cath.

Photograph shows St. Patrick's Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, and other New York City buildings. J13792 U.S. Copyright Office.

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. Tudor City, above tenement house wash lines

Public domain photograph of apartment building, architectural plan, architecture, 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

A black and white photo of a city street, Tennessee. Farm Security Adm...

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

Rockefeller Center. From 444 Madison Ave., general

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