The Japanese Embassy in New York--scenes and incidents
Photo shows crowd gathered in New York City for the arrival of Japan's first diplomatic mission to the United States on June 16, 1860, with cannons in foreground preparing to fire a salute.
The Astor Library. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.
On mount: American Scenery. New York City. No. 331. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Reverend John G. Imartis Church at Greenwich, N.Y. in 1896 photograph ...
Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Crew handling sail on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's Cup
Photograph shows gaff cutter designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, for the 1903 America's Cup. H34634 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10.
Interior of S. Patrick Cathedral. New York City sterescopic card, 19th...
H109314 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Edition de Luxe. Patented April 14, 1903. No. 29-c.
Crime - N.Y. Police, Rogues' Gallery--July 1909
Two men looking at photos. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Grave of Capt. James Lawrence, Trinity Churchyard, New York, U.S.A
J135697 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1909 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Edition de Luxe. Patented April 14, 1903. No. 13612.
Cross section of Penn. Tube under Hudson River showing concrete floor ...
Stereograph showing men standing behind concrete flooring in subway tunnel. J185915 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. U-155020. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.... More
Meeting at Coffee House, New York. Front row - L-R Mrs. Wm Colt, N.Y.,...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Advisory Council leaving the Peg Woffington Coffee House in New York City. Left to right (front row): Elizabeth Colt, E... More
City Hall Park and the municipal building from Broadway, New York City
J03273 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 32359.
History of civic services in the city of New York Police No. 1 : The r...
Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing citizens patrolling the town, a person hanging from the waist from a gallows, and a person in the stocks, in 1658; the fortified "... More
[Gathered behind desk and microphone celebrating radio station WNYC's ...
NYWT&S staff photograph. Title devised by Library Staff. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[Delegates wearing Jimmy Carter smile masks at the Democratic National...
Contact sheet folder caption: Democratic Convention in N.Y.C. ... Jimmy Carter masks .... WKL. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
[Raising an enormous photograph of Walter Mondale at the Democratic Na...
Contact sheet folder caption: Democratic Convention in N.Y.C. ... general views - convention floor.... WKL. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
[Rescue worker reaching into a New York Police car covered with debris...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[New York City fire fighters amid debris following September 11th terr...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Beauties of the Harlem River High Bridge, from the New York side
No. 1482. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, New York, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Herald Square, junction of Broadway and Sixth Ave., N. showing elevate...
H89775 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. U78529. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J., Washington, D.C. No. 5317.
A Lollipop Party. Wounded doughboys and Red Cross nurses watching para...
J236816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 19156.
[Night view of lower New York City from the Metropolitan Tower]
J245600 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Street map, New York City / - Public domain map
Includes index and inset of lower Manhattan. Index and Metropolitan map of New York City on verso, with inset of Eastern Long Island. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
[Brooklyn Bridge] - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
47083B2 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. P. Hall & Son; August 18, 1896. On front: "Copyright 1896 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, general photographers, No. 157 Fulton St., New York. Title derived from cop... More
Art gallery, New York Metropolitan Fair
Photograph shows framed artwork hung on a wall in the Picture Gallery at the Metropolitan Fair in New York. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1... More
New York et Brooklyn--Vue prise au dessus de la batterie / dessiné par...
Bird's-eye view of New York and Brooklyn from the Battery. Title also in Spanish.
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Progress of reform!!! No. 1 - Political cartoon, public domain image
A scene in New York, outside the gates of City Hall Park. Two well-dressed men with top hats overturn the table of two apple-women. One of the men (from all appearances a Loco Foco radical Democrat) shouts at t... More
Artilleryist group - Mathew Brady seated on left
Photograph shows group portrait of artists who participated in the art exhibition at the Metropolitan Fair in New York City, 1864, held to support the United States Sanitary Commission, "for the relief of the s... More
Post Office. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.
On mount: American Scenery. New York City. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Bird's eye view of New York and environs.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 594.6 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1
Parlor, Music room, Library G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y
Stereograph showing the interior of three rooms in succession through open doors. Blind stamped: G.G. Rockwood, 839 B'Way, N.Y. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.
Interior of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
H9935 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1899 by C. L. Wasson. No. 242-c.
Miss Eleanor Brannan (granddaughter of Cha[rle]s. A. Dana, former edit...
Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal studio portrait of Eleanor Doddridge Brannan, seated, wearing a hat, pearl necklace, pendant on a chain, gloves, and a long dres... More
New York Stock Exchange--Broad St. near Wall St. from Steps of the U. ...
J225877 U.S. Copyright Office Copyrighted by Keystone View Company. No. 16776.
Crew lying on high side to balance the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 ...
Photograph shows gaff cutter designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, for the 1903 America's Cup. The ship in front of Reliance is Columbia. ... More
The two leading college presidents--Eliot of Harvard and Hadley of Yal...
Stereograph showing college presidents, Charles Eliot and Arthur Hadley, walking in graduation procession with other professors; spectators watching from landing. H30232 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by... More
Bowling Green and the new Custom House, New York
J135686 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1909 by H.C. White Co. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Edition de Luxe. Patented April 14, 1903. No. 13601.
Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10
Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More
New York from tower of Brooklyn Bridge
Photograph shows bird's-eye view of New York City with people and trolleys crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground. Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. No. 1730-7. George Grantham Bain Collection (Librar... More
City of New York / sketched and drawn on stone by C. Parsons.
Bird's-eye view of New York City with Battery Park in the foreground and Brooklyn Heights in the lower right corner. Copyright by N. Currier, New York. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More
[Interior showing a dining table set with silver and crystal]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
New York, / print by G. Schlegel, 97 William St. N.Y.
Bird's-eye view of New York with Battery Park in the foreground and the Brooklyn Bridge on the right.
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...
Scale ca. 1:6,300. Dedicated "To the Honble. Thos. Gage ... " Relief shown by hachures. Includes text, index to points of interest, and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the pr... More
New York from Brooklyn - Public domain book illustration, Library of C...
Bird's-eye view with Brooklyn Bridge on right. Copyright by Irving Underhill. No. D-420.
O.K. - Political cartoon, public domain image
A postelection Whig satire, "Respectfully dedicated to the members of the Eighth Ward Tippecanoe Club and inscribed to their Patriotic Chairman Charles H. Delavan, Esqr." The artist shows a crowd of Whigs assem... More
A bird's eye view of the city of New York View of Galveston, Texas.
Illustration showing a bird's eye view of New York City looking toward Battery Park (?) and a view of Galveston from the bay, boats and ships in foreground. Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 2, no. 20 (1852 M... More
The city of New York.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Too many cooks spoil the broth" / F. Opper.
Illustration shows three cooks, one holding a large spoon labeled "Assembly Committee" and gesturing to the others to stop; the second is holding a bowl labeled "Special Grand Jury" from which he drops a handfu... More
Broadway showing Astor House, New York, U.S.A
44369 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright, 1892, by Strohmeyer & Wyman. On mount: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Liverpool; New York; Chicago; Toronto; Ottawa, Kas; El Paso, Tex.
The dandy Fifth / motion picture
"Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd Street, with Grant's tomb and decorated residences in the background. This entire series of pictures [of the Dewey land pa... More
"Columbia" winning the Cup /. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...
"The decisive moment in the great International Yacht Races is shown in this picture. Against a background of well defined clouds, the Light Boat is seen marking the finishing line in this great aquatic struggl... More
A holiday in New York--Excursion steamers going up the harbor
H39819 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: The "Perfec" Stereograph. (Trade Mark.). Patented April 14, 1903. No. 18.
Wonders of our great metropolis, sky-scrapers and Great Bridge from Br...
View of Brooklyn Bridge and New York skyline. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Erecting the 23-story steel skeleton for new Times Bldg. - from 42nd S...
Public domain photograph of New York, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The tiger's prey / photo. by Underwood & Underwood ; E.
Illustration shows a tiger labeled "Tammany" standing on the edge of a bluff overlooking New York City on the opposite side of a river, at night. Reproduction of a photograph by Underwood & Underwood upon whic... More
Columbia University Library, New York City. Snead Standard Stack in on...
Illus. in: Library planning, bookstacks and shelving, with contributions from the architects' and librarians' points of view. Illustrated. / Snead & Co. Iron Works. Jersey City, N.J. : The Snead & Company Iro... More
[New York City, including the Lower East Side, from Manhattan Bridge]
J222067 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Detroit Publishing Co. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain image... More
[New York City skyline from Brooklyn Harbor, ships docked in foregroun...
New York City. Diagonal view of large ships docked at Brooklyn Harbor, fog partially obscuring Manhattan buildings beyond. Wuerth annotated this group with 5/49. Wuerth, L.A. List of original drawings and pain... More
[Three New York City fire fighters in front of burning building follow...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bridge, N.Y.. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.
Stereograph showing a man and woman in the foreground and High Bridge in the background, from the east side. On verso: High Bridge or Croton Aqueduct Bridge, at 175th Street and 10th Avenue built in 1842.
Imposing the Cardinal's berretta - upon his grace Archbishop McCloskey...
Print shows Archbishop John McCloskey becoming the first American Roman Catholic Cardinal. 5455Y U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Rese... More
Jack Greenberg oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in N...
Jack Greenberg remembers attending Columbia University Law School, working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and arguing the Brown v. Board of Education case. He discusses working on many other ci... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10
Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More
Political caricature. No. 4, The miscegenation ball
Although slightly different in format, this appears to be the fourth in the Bromley series of anti-Republican satires. As in no. 2 of the series, "Miscegenation or the Millenium of Abolitionism" (no. 1864-39), ... More
Political caricature. No. 4, The miscegenation ball
Although slightly different in format, this appears to be the fourth in the Bromley series of anti-Republican satires. As in no. 2 of the series, "Miscegenation or the Millenium of Abolitionism" (no. 1864-39), ... More
Grand birds eye view of the Great East River suspension bridge Connect...
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the East River,with ships on the river and traffic on the bridge; also shows, from left, the "Brooklyn Tower, Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, Atlantic Ocean... More
Lincoln Monument, Union Square, Decoration Day, 1876
Stereograph showing a crowd gathered in front of a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Union Square Park which has been decorated for Memorial Day. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Part of the ser... More
New York / print by G. Schlegel, 97 William St. N.Y.
Bird's-eye view of New York showing the waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, with Battery Park and Governors Island in the foreground.
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
New York, / print by G. Schlegel, 97 William St. N.Y.
Bird's-eye view of New York with Battery Park in the foreground and the Brooklyn Bridge on the right.
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Triumphal procession of the eagle and other birds, at the April electi...
A parade of jubilant New York City Whigs, led by successful mayoral candidate Aaron Clark (at right, with walking stick). Clark, who defeated Tammany candidate John J. Morgan in the Spring election, walks arm-i... More
Harmony in the wigwam! Democracy of the right brand-y
A comic scene ridiculing the Tammany Democrats of New York City. Tammany headquarters, known as the "Wigwam," here erupts in a drunken fracas over the Democratic platform for the presidential race of 1852. The ... More
The New Herald Printing Building, New York
43828-aap2s U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1895 by B. W. Kilburn. No. 10233.
From Empire Building (N), past Trinity Church Steeple, up Broadway, sh...
H17896 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1902 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H., Washington, D.C. No. 3? or No.13?
Crew handling rigging on the yacht Reliance, winner of 1903 America's ...
Photograph shows gaff cutter designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, for the 1903 America's Cup. H34643 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19.
Bird's-eye view of the famous Madison Square Garden and City of New Yo...
H99846 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright 1907 by C. L. Wasson. No. 21607.
[Ray Keating, New York Yankees pitcher, facing front, standing, holdin...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a baseball paly, player, baseball field, athlete, 1920s, 20th century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Fola LaFollette] going to annual meeting [of] C[ongressional] U[nion]...
Summary: Outdoor photograph of Fola La Follette (right) walking on city sidewalk with two unidentified women (left and rear, mostly obscured), all wearing coats and hats. Curbside trees, distant buildings, and ... More
Mrs. Mary Beard of New York is a member of the Executive Committee of ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[View of New York City from two miles in the air]
Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
History of civic services in the city of New York Water supply No. 1 :...
Poster for Federal Art Project series on the history of civic services, showing water being drawn from a well outside a fort in "New Amsterdam" in 1658. Date stamped on verso: Work Projects Administration Poste... More