Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate s...
Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and p... More
![[Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. Library. Study for fireplace and overmantel] / ELM April 17, 1893.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjkvYmlsdG1vcmUtYXNoZXZpbGxlLW5vcnRoLWNhcm9saW5hLWxpYnJhcnktc3R1ZHktZm9yLWZpcmVwbGFjZS1hbmQtb3Zlcm1hbnRlbC01MWVlZDQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "[Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. Library. Study for fireplace and overmantel] / ELM April 17, 1893.")
[Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina. Library. Study for fireplace and...
At conservation, removed from album HW V1 B2 p.63. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress... More
Asheville, N.C.. Cityscape photograph
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Some of smaller "hands" on the night shift waiting for the whistle to ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 436. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
A spinner in Clyde Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Location: Newton, North ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Young women (spooler) Kelser Mfg. Co., Salisbury, N.C. Location: Sali...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less
Boy working in Calvine Mfg. Co. Charlotte, N.C. Been there 2 years. L...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Hendersonville, N.C.. Cityscape photograph
J16277[...] U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. W. Pelton; August 9, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44228. Copyright claimant's address: Asheville, N.C.
Group showing some of the youngest workers taken in the Scotland Neck ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Camp Glenn, N.C., 1916
J217504 U.S. Copyright Office No. 4. Landmarks labeled on image. Copyright deposit; Wootten-Moulton; July 14, 1916; DLC/PP-1916:45168.
Bellamy House, Southport, Brunswick County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-316
Carter Farms, Barns, State Route 1100, Gatesville, Gates County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-33
William Morris Log Cabin, Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1790. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-75. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and... More
Ways and Means Committee ready to act on pension bill. Rep. Robert L. ...
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Rehabilitation client. Smithfield, North Carolina
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
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Movie theatre in Hillsboro, North...
Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More
Traveller's Rest, Louisburg vic., Franklin County, North Carolina
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![[Hillsboro] street, Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MzkvMDEvMDEvaGlsbHNib3JvLXN0cmVldC1veGZvcmQtZ3JhbnZpbGxlLWNvdW50eS1ub3J0aC1jYXJvbGluYS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/29/webp "[Hillsboro] street, Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina")
[Hillsboro] street, Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Story-and-a-half weatherboard house. Note chinaberry tree, common for ...
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Negroes waiting to go to work at one o'clock in warehouse and tobacco ...
Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Little boy with tobacco plants during the planting season near Chapel ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negro woman planting tobacco. In her right hand a tobacco plant and in...
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More
Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Negatives
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
FSA (Farm Security Administration) home supervisor Miss Harton helping...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Airborne artillery cooperating with parach...
Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Chatham, residence in Elkin, North Carolina. Living ...
Public domain photograph of living room, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Colonel's Catch sign, High Point, North Carolina
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More
Waterfall 2, Gorilla Country Golf, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2010 (DLC/PP-2010:191). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More
Exterior. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, Asheville, North Carol...
Built as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in 1929, the building is currently occupied by the U.S. Courthouse and other government agencies, including Social Security Administration, the U.S. Forestry Commiss... More
An old Woolworth's "five and dime" store that is a legendary site mark...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On February 1, 1960, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took seats at the Woolworth l... More
An old Woolworth's "five and dime" store that is a legendary site mark...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On February 1, 1960, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took seats at the Woolworth l... More
Civil War envelope folded from wallpaper to William H. Branch
Addressed to Wm. H. Branch Esqr., Tallahassee, Florida; postmarked Warrenton, N.C.; bears 10 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Patricia A. Kaufman, Lincoln, Delaware, June 2018... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Macon Ea...
Significance: The Smilax is a Cosmos class inland construction tender. Survey number: HAER NC-52
Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moments glimpse of the ou...
Photo shows girl identified as Lalar Blanton (Source: Joe Manning, 2014, http://eightsteeples.com/blanton1.html).
Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he i...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
![[Private W.T. Harbison of Company B, 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjEvMDEvMDEvcHJpdmF0ZS13dC1oYXJiaXNvbi1vZi1jb21wYW55LWItMTF0aC1ub3J0aC1jYXJvbGluYS1pbmZhbnRyeS1yZWdpbWVudC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/45/webp "[Private W.T. Harbison of Company B, 11th North Carolina Infantry Regiment]")
[Private W.T. Harbison of Company B, 11th North Carolina Infantry Regi...
Photo shows identified soldier in Confederate uniform.
Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of Ne...
Signatures: [A]² B-D²; horizontal chain lines. Followed by the letter of transmittal to the states: In Congress, November 17, 1777; recommendations to the legislatures relating to taxes etc.: In Congress, Novem... More
![Sketch showing route of the Burnside expedition [to Roanoke Island, N.C., February 6, 1862]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDgvc2tldGNoLXNob3dpbmctcm91dGUtb2YtdGhlLWJ1cm5zaWRlLWV4cGVkaXRpb24tdG8tcm9hbm9rZS1pc2xhbmQtbmMtZmVicnVhcnktNWYzZjU3LTEwMjQuanBn/40/82/webp "Sketch showing route of the Burnside expedition [to Roanoke Island, N.C., February 6, 1862]")
Sketch showing route of the Burnside expedition [to Roanoke Island, N....
Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 317.12 From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in two volumes. Suppleme... More
Aunt Letty, New Bern, N.C.
Photograph shows a woman on dirt road carrying baskets of vegetables on each arm and one on her head. Forms part of the Wittemann Collection.
Guests at Vanderbilt-Cecil wedding at Biltmore, N.C. S.H. Strong, left...
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Zeb Atkinson with chickens, Penderlea Farms, North Carolina
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Prospect Hill, Airlie vic., Halifax County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cupola House, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Soco Gap Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDkvc29jby1nYXAtc3F1YXJlLWRhbmNlLXRlYW0tZGFuY2luZy1hdC10aGUtbW91bnRhaW4tbXVzaWMtZmVzdGl2YWwtYXNoZXZpbGxlLWM2MmQ1NS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "[Soco Gap Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina]")
[Soco Gap Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival, As...
Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during the Asheville Mountain Music Festival. Handwritten on back: "Soco Gap Team." Forms part of: Lomax co... More
Gas station with trucker's quarters, Enfield, North Carolina
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Home of Indian family (mixed breed) not yet resettled on Pembroke Farm...
Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Veteran North Carolina Solon reaches 76th milestone. Washington, D.C.,...
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pn... More
Tobacco sharecropper tells about his prospects. Person County, North C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Miss Nettie Lloyd, pellagra victim, by their old well house. Orange Co...
Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
At the "hopper" end of the grader at Camden, North Carolina station
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
Florida migrants preparing their truck for a trip from Belcross, North...
Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide tem...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A used car lot adjacent to a trailer settlement of workers from Fort B...
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
![[First grade class of African American and white school children seated on the floor, Albemarle Road Elementary School, Charlotte, North Carolina]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDkvZmlyc3QtZ3JhZGUtY2xhc3Mtb2YtYWZyaWNhbi1hbWVyaWNhbi1hbmQtd2hpdGUtc2Nob29sLWNoaWxkcmVuLXNlYXRlZC1vbi10aGUtMDIyMjRkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/26/webp "[First grade class of African American and white school children seated on the floor, Albemarle Road Elementary School, Charlotte, North Carolina]")
[First grade class of African American and white school children seate...
Contact sheet folder caption: "School busing story - Charlotte, N.C., 5-9: 1st grade class, Albemarle Road Elementary School, WKL, 2/21/73." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact she... More
Cape Fear River, North Carolina nautical chart
Scale 1:30,000. Facsimile. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. "American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976." "Plate no. 1161." "BiC-31." Includes sailing information a... More
Abandoned gas station in rural North Carolina
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
Century Station Federal Building and Postal Station located in Raleigh...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Flatbed truck loaded with pumpkins for sale in the early fall season a...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More
Women of the congregation of Wheeley's Church on steps with brooms and...
Annotation on original negative jacket: DL. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Colle... More
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Smilax, U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Macon Ea...
Significance: The Smilax is a Cosmos class inland construction tender. Survey number: HAER NC-52
Oakland, Cape Fear River & Route 21, Elizabethtown, Bladen County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-135
Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, N.C. Doffer and spooler. Location: Newto...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Church of St. John-in-the-Wilderness, U.S. Route 25, Flat Rock, Hender...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS NC-12-A-1 Building/structure dates: 1834 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
Join or Die. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Benjamin Franklin's warning to the British colonies in America "join or die" exhorting them to unite against the French and the Natives, shows a segmented snake, "S.C., N.C., V., M., P., N.J., N.Y., [and] N.E."... More
Barbour Boat Works, Tryon Palace Drive, New Bern, Craven County, NC
Significance: The Barbour Boat Works produced a variety of wooden water craft for recreational use from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Intermittently, the shipyard constructed larger vessels for military a... More
Maxwell Chambers house, Spencer vic., Rowan County, North Carolina
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800-1810. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-80. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, P... More
![Map of Roanoke Island. [February 8, 1862].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjIvMDEvMDEvbWFwLW9mLXJvYW5va2UtaXNsYW5kLWZlYnJ1YXJ5LTgtMTg2Mi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/53/webp "Map of Roanoke Island. [February 8, 1862].")
![[Map of Bertie County, North Carolina] : no. 2.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjMvMDEvMDEvbWFwLW9mLWJlcnRpZS1jb3VudHktbm9ydGgtY2Fyb2xpbmEtbm8tMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/25/webp "[Map of Bertie County, North Carolina] : no. 2.")
[Map of Bertie County, North Carolina] : no. 2.
"Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map... More
One of spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. (N.C.) She was 51 inches hi...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 463. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
Some of smaller "hands" on the night shift waiting for the whistle to ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The doffers in Whitnel (N.C.) Mfg. Co. Location: Whitnel, North Caroli...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 438. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More
![[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTgvdGhyZWUtcXVhcnRlci1sZWZ0LXJlYXItdmlldy1vZi1nbGlkZXItaW4tZmxpZ2h0LWF0LWtpdHR5LWhhd2stbm9ydGgtY2Fyb2xpbmEtZDc3YWU3LTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]")
[Three-quarter left rear view of glider in flight at Kitty Hawk, North...
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 115 Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LO... More
Milking time at the American Red Cross hospital farm at Salisbury, Eng...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Commission to England. Group title: Hospital. Farm U.S. England. Data: Bette... More
Negro houses, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of a village, town, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Liberty Point, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina
Title from photographer's inventory. Late 18th C. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-26. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisi... More
Abandoned colonial mansion. Fuquay Springs. North Carolina
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More
William Morris Log Cabin, Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Neo-classic house, Murfreesboro, Henderson County, North Carolina
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bellair Plantation, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina
Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
James Coor House, New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1770. L shaped, 2 1/2 story wood, verandas. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-25. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of ... More
Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina
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
Blackbeard House, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina
Public domain photograph of a historic place in North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Getting the ground ready for spring planting, North Carolina
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