nudity

The women and children [nude Indians] eat the intestines of the killed...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 87. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Eugen Sandow, body-builder, full-length portrait, standing, nude exce...

33304y1 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright 1893 by Napoleon Sarony" No. 9.

[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, standing facing front, wearing fi...

No. 32. Public domain photograph of bodybuilder athlete, athletics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rayon d'or, dernier mot de l'eclairage / Pal.

Poster showing a nude woman with gossamer wings reaching toward the light of a star and a Rayon d'Or light fixture. Gift; Judi Summers; (DLC/PP-1982:191).

Genthe collection - Unidentified dancer

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

[Nude young person with pan pipes and leopard skin, in nature]

Published under various titles: The Pipes of Pan; Pan Pipes(?); (young Circe?). On mount: "n" pencil upper right. Image content features: PROPS pipes (musical instruments), leopard skin; PEOPLE boys? girls? Tit... More

[Bacchante] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Erotic photography - Thisbe - Public domain portrait print

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09985. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Nude study - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Erotic photography - Woman, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

F. Walter Taylor - Japanese feeling

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0096). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Caricature, Gassman Pickaninnies, public domain cartoon image

Nude African American girl seated and holding a mandolin. Copyright by J.E. Purdy, Boston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Musical Instruments Mandolin; Negro... More

William-Adolphe Bouguereau - The bathers

Photograph of a painting. Image on videodisc possibly laterally reversed. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029445. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Nude dancer, autochrome color photo

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Gent... More

Harry Tracy (boxer) - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edward S. Curtis - The Bowman--Nootka

Rear view of nude Indian standing on rock in water and aiming arrow. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Curtis no.3359-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Cu... More

Annette Kellerman - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Annette Kellerman, an Australian swimmer and film actress who became the first major actress to do a nude scene in "Daughter of the Gods" in 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Kay Laurell - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American actress Kay Laurell (1894-1927). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

She's my baby - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Scantily clad young woman lying on her stomach with fur stole around her. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. A-752-8.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. Men and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. A maide...

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Two young women of a leading family

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Hut with native young women and chi...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More

Rio Piedras (vicinity), Puerto Rico. One of the children of a FSA (Far...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sylph-like forms in the sculptor's marble, World's Fair, St. Louis, U....

Sculpture, mostly of nude women, by various sculptors. H56853 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyrighted 1905 by C.L. Wasson"

[Study for central figure in Corrupt legislation]

Study drawing shows the allegorical central figure, nude, holding her scale in the Library of Congress mural Corrupt legislation. The mural was installed in the Jefferson Building in 1896. Gift; American Academ... More

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich - [Landscape, with six women bathing]

Marsh Collection. Public domain scan of 16th-17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Makura ehon no iichibu] - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man reclining. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Overpainted sheet from one of Utamaro's erotic books. Forms part of: Japa... More

Flora / Schumacher & Ettlinger, lith., 15 Murray St. N. York.

Tobacco label showing a partially nude woman smelling the blossoms on a flowering bush.

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a nude girl crawling. 9511J U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge, Phi... More

[Eugen Sandow, full-length nude portrait, standing by column, facing l...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Eugen Sandow, half-length portrait facing left, nude]

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Unidentified dancer, lantern slide

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Queen of the wheel - Public domain print

Photograph shows studio portrait of a partially nude young woman, dressed in white flowing material, sitting on a bicycle, holding a glass of wine. Copyright 1897 by Rose Studio.

Erotic photography - [Peggy Lee as Puck]

Photograph shows the daughter of Francis Watts Lee and Agnes Lee leaning on a tree and wearing only a belt and headband. Attributed to F. Holland Day or Francis Watts Lee. Forms part of: Francis Watts Lee coll... More

Nude study, autochrome color photo

"McC 1323 048181" on transparency. Photograph of a painting. Transparency cracked from upper left side. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048181. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Springtime - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nude warrior with helmet battling centaur]

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy with laurel wreath kissing head of Pan]

Image content features: MODEL Maynard? Pippy?; PROPS sculpture, laurel wreaths; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Gui... More

[The judgment of Paris]. Public domain reproduction.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The dance: allegro, lantern slide

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nude with folded hands - Drawing. Public domain image.

Bellows, 95. No. 18. Signed in pencil and and in ink. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore :... More

Erotic photography - Virginia Myers dancing

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Darling of the gods - Public domain portrait print

Nude woman draped with piece of sheer material, full-length, seated, facing right. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. 712-15. No copyright renewal.

High lights and shadows - Public domain portrait print

Partially nude woman, full-length, seated on stool, holding veil, hands raised, facing left. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. A-745-8. No copyright renewal.

The Clinging vine - Public domain portrait print

Nude woman, full-length, standing, facing right, holding flower vine and looking downward. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. A-746-1. No copyright renewal.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. A maide...

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. A lone traveller on a Uganda highwa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Uganda boy, close up

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Group of women with heavy neck ring...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. A maide...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. A maide...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Group of women with heavy neck ring...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Two women, showing cicatrice patter...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The matrons in hanging-sleeves: or, The enquirer into nature - a satyr...

Print shows women and children of all ages viewing exhibits at the "Wax-works" and "see a Womb, to hear fine Lectures, read on Generation, and all the Arts explain'd of Procreation ..."; in a large display case... More

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, General shots while Buddy is working on Bill McLaughlin

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

[The bathers] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth with lyre]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: grey fiber & cream. Image content features: MODEL Pucky Costanza; PROPS lyres; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Fo... More

[Nude youth by cave, with hands behind neck, and face of youth (double...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Nude debutante with horn watched by jungle animals]

Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as jacket design in: The Deb's Dictionary / Oliver H... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy in rocky landscape, arms raised]

Monogram on recto: "FHD 1906" red, lower left. Image content features: PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Colle... More

[Nude youth with laurel wreath embracing Herm of Pan]

Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Published under title: On the glade. MODEL Joseph "Pippy" Costanza? Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Collection, Library of Con... More

The brighter side of Hell. The anti-tobacco crank jumping through smok...

Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 69:914 (May 24, 1917).

Byōbu ni e o eg(k?)aku yūjo - Public domain drawing

Woman painting a screen while a reclining man watches and a woman in the background mixes paint or ink. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06... More

Two nude men: one standing, one reclining / Micarino, fec.

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 46. Graphic sampler, pp. 10-28

[Naked lady and man with side whiskers in a garden]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. Image blemish on digital file is not on actual item. Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Lib... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Thirty-six consecutive images of partially nude woman walking to a mat, sitting on the mat, then getting up, walking and sitting again. 9288 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal ... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Thirty-six consecutive images of partially nude woman walking and turning. 9093 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Philadelphia : Photogravure ... More

[Boy with long hair facing slightly left]

Drawing shows head and shoulders of a nude boy with long hair, facing slightly left. Below are two study drawings for the right hand. This is a study for Dea Fortuna resta con noi (Goddess of Fortune stay with ... More

[Nude male, Prof. B.A. McFadden, full-length portrait, standing on one...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Study for figure of Arts in the mural Peace and prosperity, no. 1]

Study drawing shows the feet, arm, legs and hips of Arts, a nude male, facing left and holding pottery. Arts faces right in the final rendering of the mural. Peace and prosperity was installed in the Jefferson ... More

Astronomy - Public domain portrait drawing

Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figure of "Astronomy," holding her calipers, for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Buil... More

Erotic photography - Genthe collection - Unidentified dancer

Title devised. Credit line: Genthe photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the Genthe photograph collection is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/l... More

Nude study for figure of Poetry

Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figure of Poetry for the painting, The arts, in the north end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid covers the drawing.

Petra. Temple of Ed-Deir, front view / American Colony, Jerusalem.

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

[Nude woman seated in tree playing a pipe]

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The bather - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jean Jacques Henner - The listening nymph

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting signed "JJ Henner" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 29257. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Erotic photography - LaParesse by Lawton Parker

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

[Nude youth with bow and arrow, arms raised as if to shoot arrow into ...

Image content features: PROPS bows and arrows; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Lou... More

Nude study, autochrome color photo

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Erotic photography - Isadora Duncan dancer

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Irene Marcellus dancing - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kay Laurell, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American actress Kay Laurell (1894-1927). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain ... More

Golden age - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from jacket. Photograph of a painting. "#3 proofed 5/21/17" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 048245. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

The writing on the screen - Public domain dedication image

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nude study: woman lying on a pillow

Printed by Bolton Brown. Bellows, 130. Signed on stone; signed in pencil by artist and printer. Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection /... More

The Clinging vine - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Nude young woman with rose vine wrapped around her. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No. A-746-15.

The Heartbreaker - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Topless woman seated behind large heart; bare legged, wearing shoes. Copyright by Exhibit Supply Co. No copyright renewals. No. 1.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Types in the native market. Women w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Group of women with heavy neck ring...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More

Florence, Alabama. Boy Scout camp. At a swimming class

Public domain photograph of boy scouts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bainbridge Naval Training Station. Induction, shower bath

Picryl description: Public domain image of erotic art, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Street scenes, Lowell, Massachusetts documentary photographs

Index data: 1-2, Building mural on Merrimack Street; 3-4, Teenage girl, may be Puerto Rican, with baby in stroller on Salem Street; 5-6, Teenage boy, may be Puerto Rican, leaning against white Oldsmobile Cutlas... More

[Three young women posing in swimsuits and wearing their swimming comp...

Picryl description: Public domain erotic or nude photograph, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth playing pipe]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: ivory & gray fiber. Image content attributes: PROPS pipes (musical instrument); PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a cataloging worksheet compiled in 1992-93. Forms p... More

[Study drawing for the figure of Agriculture in the mural Peace and pr...

Study drawing shows the allegorical figure of Agriculture, nude, kneeling facing left holding a stick for the Library of Congress mural Peace and prosperity. The mural was installed in the Jefferson Building in... More

[Adam and Eve], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.

Title from Bartsch. Signed with monogram and dated on block. State 2. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. Bartsch, 1. Meder, 1. Heller, 116. Panofsky, 108. Dodgson, 39. Tietze, 258. Strauss, 42. Exhibited: Worl... More

[Nude youth with laurel wreath embracing Herm of Pan]

Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Published under title: On the glade. MODEL Joseph "Pippy" Costanza? Cite as: The Louise Imogen Guiney Collection, Library of Con... More