natural history

Cascade du Rio de Vinagre, près du volcan de Puracé / dessiné par Koch...

Illustration showing a waterfall on the Vinagre River near the Puracé volcano in Colombia. Illus. in: Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Alexander von Humboldt. Paris : F. S... More

[Humboldt statue, West Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Phaeodaria. - Rohrstrahlinge. Book illustration from Library of Congre...

Illustration shows microorganisms. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln... More

Fucoideae. - Brauntange. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows algae. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, allgemei... More

Ascidiae. - Seescheiden. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration showing a variety of sea squirts. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschrei... More

World's Fair, Elgin National Watch Co. Observatory, horizontal

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Packing flour, Pillsbury mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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A black and white photo of a dinosaur skeleton. Great Depression FFSA ...

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

Grant County, Oregon. Chrome ore prospectors

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The 1907 Lyman Hall of Natural History at Syracuse University in Syrac...

Originally occupied by the Departments of Biology, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Psychology and Geography, the buiding, named for Mary and Jessie Lyman, deceased daughters of university trustee John Lyman, was part... More

If imagination is a key component of childhood, it can run wild in you...

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

Older's museum, circus & menagerie

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Driveway near Field Museum of Natural History, Jackson Park, Chicago, ...

Possibly by Hans Behm. Negatives are close variants. Negative A cracked upper right. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070171. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Pig roast at home of Felix Luna, Chapel St., Lowell, Massachusetts

Index data: Numbers refer to sequence of images, not to frame numbers. PIG ROAST, HOME OF FELIX LUNA. Roasting pig over coals, Felix Luna's blurred head in foreground. 2-7, Felix Luna testing roasted pig with s... More

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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[New National Museum of Natural History, Gallery, & Smithsonian Instit...

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Effects of shells upon the enemies rifle pits at the crossing over the...

Shelling of 2nd Florida confederate regiment following Franklin's crossing. Signed lower left: Alfred R. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 27, 1863, p. 409 with the title "Ef... More

Alexandria National Cemetery, 209 East Shamrock Street, Pineville, Rap...

Survey number: HALS LA-4 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97000767

Mark Catesby - [Flamingo against bare tree and tropical waterfront]

Illus. in: The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands / Mark Catesby. London, 1731-1743. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1... More

Chute du Tequendama / dessiné d'après une esquisse de Mr. de Humboldt ...

Illustration showing a waterfall on the Bogotá River in the Tequendama Province, Colombia. Illus. in: Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique / Alexander von Humboldt. Paris : F. S... More

[Title page of On the origin of species]

Title page in: On the origin of species / Charles Robert Darwin. London : John Murray, 1859. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 113.

Discomedusae. - Scheibenquallen. Book illustration from Library of Con...

Illustration showing six views of jellyfish. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibe... More

Discomedusae. - Scheibenquallen. Book illustration from Library of Con...

Illustration shows jellyfishes. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, al... More

Decapoda. - Behnfukkreble. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows crabs. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit besc... More

Thuroidea. - Gurkensterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration showing a variety of sea cucumbers. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschr... More

Actiniae. - Seeanemonen. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration showing a variety of sea anemones. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illust... More

The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those...

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

Grant County, Oregon. Chrome ore prospectors

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Exhibit hall at the Field Museum of Natural History in Grant Park, Chi...

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"The Essence of Rex," a 13-foot-tall bronze dinosaur statue, erected i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Sculptor: Chris Navarro. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congre... More

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, a spiny ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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Caroli Clerck, Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsal. membr., Icones insectorum rari...

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Partridge shooting - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two hunting dogs in a wooded area pointing at a partridge that has taken flight, diverting their attention from another partridge in the underbrush behind a rock. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raiso... More

Adam naming the creatures/Adam Llamo los Animales

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0045.

Alice Barber Stephens - Sketches from cat life

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Annual convention, American Ornithologists' Union held at the American...

Gift; Ruthven Deane; January 22, 1934; DLC/PP-1934:340002. Photographer's address: 216 W. 104 St., N.Y.C. Photo forms part of Ruthven Deane Collection. Sitters are numbered on image. Key to names of sitters may... More

Annual convention, American Ornithologists' Union held at the American...

Gift; Ruthven Deane; January 22, 1934; DLC/PP-1934:340002. Photographer's address: 216 W. 104 St., N.Y.C. Photo forms part of Ruthven Deane Collection. Sitters are numbered on image. Key to names of sitters may... More

A letter from Mr, John Clayton rector of Crofton at Wakefield in Yorks...

On verso of t.p.: Forces Collection of historical papers. Reprinted from the "Miscellanea curiosa" edited by Edmund Halley, 1705-07, v.3. Originally published in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Soci... More

Balboa Park, House of Hospitality, 1549 El Prado, San Diego, San Diego...

Significance: The House of Hospitality is one of the "character defining" structures of the Central Mesa area of Balboa Park, a National Historic Landmark District. The building was originally constructed in 1... More

Commercial and geographical relation of New York to Europe and Asia, w...

Composite of seven illustrations showing: Aspinwall, New Granada, Central America; Honolulu, Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; Panama, New Granada, Central America; snow shed on the Central Pacific Railroad; map of the... More

Cystoidea. - Beutelsterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows marine animals. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln... More

Chaetopoda. - Borstenwürmer. Book illustration from Library of Congres...

Illustration showing a variety of chaetopoda or spined marine worms. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrati... More

Tineida. - Motten. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows moths. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit besc... More

Bryozoa. - Moostiere. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows aquatic invertebrates. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibende... More

Peromedusae. - Talchenquallen. Book illustration from Library of Congr...

Illustration shows jellyfishes in the phyllum Cnidaria. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit... More

Museum of Natural History - Public domain natural history illustration

Bird's-eye view of the Museum of Natural History, New York City. J178592 U.S. Copyright Office. No. B19489. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.

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Mike Hawkins making handcrafted powder horns with custom scrimshaw

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Sand sculptures, Matunuck Beach, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, Beach with samples of sand sculpture, Del Bonis is sculptor

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the American Philosophical ...

Imprint 2.; Hessian fly.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Reverse Folder Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Colle... More

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

Skelet shirokorogago oleni︠a︡ v muzei︠e︡ g. Ekaterinburga

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Julia Margaret Cameron - [Portrait of Charles Darwin]

Signed on mount: From life, registered photograph copyright Julia Margaret Cameron, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1969:031).

American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y.

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

Diatomea. - Schachtellinge. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows algae. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, allgemei... More

Florideae. - Rotalgen. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows red algae. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit ... More

Hold fast, everybody!. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Mammoth (Germany) kicking free from Soviet Union while allies "England," "France," and United States (Uncle Sam) hold on.

Norman Ross of the division of Paleontology, National Museum, preparin...

Fossil found in Montana. No. 5955. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Chas. H. Gilmore, Curator, Smithsonian Institution, 7/18/24

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

Woman posing with the Tucson Ring meteorite at the Smithsonian Museum ...

A black and white photo of a woman holding an object, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title based on information provided by the Flickr Commons project, 2015; and the Smithsonian Institution Ar... More

Four exterior door panels at the National Academy of Sciences, Washing...

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Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Attractions. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Sand sculpture of Christ on the cross, Matuneck Beach, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, Del Bonis assists the children in revising their sculpture. (2-4 showing legs, ankle and knee positions; 5-10, changing the loin cloth; 11-16, depressing the rib cage; 17-18, adjusting facial ... More

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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Buffaloes at rest - Print, Library of Congress collection

Copyright by Louis Kurz, Chicago, Ill. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Baron Alexander von Humboldt, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 27, upper right. On recto: Cruces y Campa 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, No. 4, México.

5th annual tour, B.A. Bamber's Dime Show travels, art, history, astron...

Program includes: pt. 1, The planetarium ; pt. 2, Natural scenery ; pt. 3, The ill-fated ship ; pt. 4, The highland lover's courtship for marriage ; pt. 5, Statuary ; pt. 6, Miscellaneous. Forms part of: Theatr... More

Polycyttaria. - Vereins-Strahlinge. Book illustration from Library of ...

Illustration shows microorganisms. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text,... More

Asteridea. - Seesterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows starfishes in the phyllum Echinodermata Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln ... More

Crinoidea. - Palmensterne. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows marine animals. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text,... More

Discomedusae. - Schweibenquallen. Book illustration from Library of Co...

Illustration showing four different types of jellyfish. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit... More

C.W. Gilmore with fossil turtle, Smithsonian, 9/4/25

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Tel Aviv Zoo. [Man with hyena] - Public domain natural history illustr...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of men in front of a dinosaur skele...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prospector taking a sample of dirt from creek bed which contains scatt...

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New York, New York. The War Emergency Board of the fur industry formed...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Reconstruction of the Main Hall of Union Station into the National Vi...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Capitol Hill Area-New Buildings and Construction, TOH, 12/20/74." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR ... More

Mary Tomlin working at "tube winding" on first floor.

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 16, documenting scenes at the Joseph Teshon, Inc., jacquard-weaving mill, 196-200 21st Avenue, Paterson.

Foster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant in Rio Vista, California

Located west of Lodi, the restaurant displays one of the most extensive collections of animal "trophy heads" in America. Bill Foster, a big-game hunter opened the restaurant in 1931. Title, date, and keywords p... More

Sylva sylvarvm, or, A naturall historie in ten centvries

Added t.p. illustrated, dated 1629. Printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392. STC (2nd ed.) 1170 Gibson, R. Bacon, 172 ESTC S106925 With: Bacon, Francis. New Atlantis. [London, 1629]. Issued toge... More

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

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New voyage to Carolina: containing the exact description and natural h...

Reissued with new title: The history of Carolina ... London, W. Taylor, [etc] 1714. Signatures: A-Z⁴ . Aa-Ll⁴. ESTC T133233 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC rwp 2019-06-05... More

Skeleton Room, National Museum, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition display of animal skeletons in glass cases and hanging from ceiling. 1563 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co.

Copepoda. - Ruderkrebse. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration showing a variety of copopod crustaceans. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit ... More

Hexacoralla. - Sechsstrahlige Sternkorallen. Book illustration from Li...

Illustration shows corals. Lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln mit beschreibendem Text, allgeme... More

Spyroidea. - Nükchenstrahlinge. Book illustration from Library of Cong...

Illustration shows microorganisms. Photomechanical print of lithograph by Adolf Giltsch after sketch by Ernst Haeckel. Illus. in: Kunstformen der Natur. Von Prof. Dr. Ernst Haeckel. Hundert Illustrationstafeln... More

Chas. W. Gilman & Norman H. Boss

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Noted member of Natural History Museum staff. Washington, D.C., April ...

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

A black and white photo of a dinosaur skeleton. Great Depression FFSA ...

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[Man with animal skeleton] - Public domain natural history illustratio...

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Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

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

Punch and Judy (6 Photographs) - Public domain natural history illustr...

Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records-Photographic Negatives File. The Photographic Negatives File is a collection of approximately 9,000 negatives, mainly from the New York, NY units, document... More

A history of the state of Ohio : natural and civil

Picryl description: Public domain natural history illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Have a date with us Free to you and your friends, motion pictures, con...

Poster announcing opportunity for the public to attend free programs, such as movies, concerts, exhibits, and tours, at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79 St., New York City, showi... More