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A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A vintage locomotive plow and water tower at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow and water tower at Rail Road Park, an unusua...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

A vintage locomotive plow at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and reso...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Vintage Coca-Cola sign in Cedarville, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More

Vintage Texaco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Vintage Texaco gas station sign along a road in East Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Vintage Mobil pegasus (flying horse) gas station insigia along a road in East Texas

Vintage Mobil pegasus (flying horse) gas station insigia along a road ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, rounds a high San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, navigates a San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, crosses an alpine bridge in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, rounds a high San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Gauge Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A vintage downtown barber shop, part of the Ackley Heritage Center that also includes an old-time soda fountain and prairie houses and farm buildings on the outskirts of town in Ackley, Iowa

A vintage downtown barber shop, part of the Ackley Heritage Center tha...

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

Vintage farm wagon at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

Vintage farm wagon at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S. Route 66 in Williams, Arizona

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S...

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

Vintage truck at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site of dozens of movies, commercial shoots and the like in the remote desert north of Benson in Cochise County, Arizona. The town was built piece by piece and with donations of vintage artifacts beginning in 1972 by Jay Gammons, a onetime security man at a movie studio in Tucson, northwest of here

Vintage truck at Gammons Gulch, a recreated Old West town and the site...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Classic advertising sign for Frontier brand gasoline, part of the vintage decor of the Choice Auto and Truck Sales dealership in Payson, Arizona

Classic advertising sign for Frontier brand gasoline, part of the vint...

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

Whimsical souvenir shop along historic U.S. Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona

Whimsical souvenir shop along historic U.S. Route 66 in Seligman, Ariz...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stretch of the onetime "Mother Road" two-lane highway from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, still exists north of ... More

Fredericksburg, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A. Gardner.

Fredericksburg, Virginia / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan; positive by A....

Row of cannons with men positioned to load each cannon before the next round of bombardment. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [... More

Private Augustus Kolb of Co. L, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, in uniform with sword Rees & Brother, photographic artists, corner 8th & Main Sts., Richmond, Virginia

Private Augustus Kolb of Co. L, 4th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, in...

Photograph shows identified soldier. Tax stamp on verso. Related discharge certificate processed as LOT 14043-3, no. 46. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Vintage Arms and Accouterments, C... More

Congressional Library, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building, Washington DC

Congressional Library, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson building,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Krasnoyarsk - residence and offices of the Governor, gymnasium, or public school, in distance

Krasnoyarsk - residence and offices of the Governor, gymnasium, or pub...

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1897, p. 808. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

[Portrait of Hugh Laing, in Greek Evzone(?) costume]

[Portrait of Hugh Laing, in Greek Evzone(?) costume]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XX Q 33. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Tunis - an old water-wheel in the suburbs of Tunis

Tunis - an old water-wheel in the suburbs of Tunis

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 180. Similar to lantern slide W7-51. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of... More

[Hugh Brady, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing three-quarters left, in military uniform]

[Hugh Brady, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing three-quarters left, ...

U.S. Army General. Scratched on back of plate: 241. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center]

[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, w...

Identified as a daguerreotype by Solomon Carvalho of a Plains Indian village in Kansas Territory taken during the Frïemont Expedition in 1853, probably copied by the Mathew Brady studio. This identification was... More

Hotel Victoria, corner Newbury and Dartmouth Sts., Boston, Massachusetts.

Hotel Victoria, corner Newbury and Dartmouth Sts., Boston, Massachuset...

H38067 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; November 13, 1903; DLC/PP-1903:41972. On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, reproduction forbidden".

[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face]

[Unidentified man with moustache, half-length portrait, full face]

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... More

Group of Confederate prisoners at Fairfax court-house / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positive by A. Gardner.

Group of Confederate prisoners at Fairfax court-house / negative by T....

Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 34. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scott... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson Dam Road (Route 133), Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, AL

Wilson Dam & Hydroelectric Plant, Spanning Tennessee River at Wilson D...

Significance: In 1918, by the directive of the U.S. War Department, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on Wilson Dam, a large hydroelectric project that was to supply power to U.S. Nitrate Plant No.... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Case: back only - diamond motif. Barboza number: 6019.030. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Label adhered to cover glass: D5. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms ... More

Signal tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Antietam / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan ; positive by A. Gardner.

Signal tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Ant...

Photograph showing soldiers at the Elk Mountain Signal Station. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 22. Another... More

A "crack" with the blacksmith / Allen.

A "crack" with the blacksmith / Allen.

Photograph shows two children talking(?) to a blacksmith standing in the doorway of his forge. Signed on mount: Allen. On verso of mount: Illustration; F.S. & M.E. Allen, Deerfield, Mass. FBJ label no. 3. For ... More

Delhi - Jumma Musjid, or Great Mosque - front view

Delhi - Jumma Musjid, or Great Mosque - front view

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 938. Similar to lantern slide W7-518. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part o... More

Goldi shaman priest and assistant - photo by William Henry Jackson

Goldi shaman priest and assistant - photo by William Henry Jackson

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1897, p. 809. Similar to lantern slide W7-1149. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part ... More

Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince George's County, MD

Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince Georg...

Significance: Hyattsville Hardware is an intact turn-of-the-century hardware store with original interior features such as a pressed-tin ceiling, shelving, cases and bins. It is also of interest as one of few ... More

Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince George's County, MD

Hyattsville Hardware, 5121 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, Prince Georg...

Significance: Hyattsville Hardware is an intact turn-of-the-century hardware store with original interior features such as a pressed-tin ceiling, shelving, cases and bins. It is also of interest as one of few ... More

[Unidentified man, about 70 years of age, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, wearing spectacles]

[Unidentified man, about 70 years of age, half-length portrait, three-...

Identification of Simson based on similar photograph in Baynard, Samuel Harrison. History of the Supreme council, 330, Ancient accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry, Northern masonic jurisdiction of the United ... More

[Postcard with two portraits of Lincoln and family.]

[Postcard with two portraits of Lincoln and family.]

Mr. Chas. T. White with compliments of Allen H. Wright, San Diego, Cal.

[Postcard with two portraits of Lincoln and family.]

[Postcard with two portraits of Lincoln and family.]

Mr. Chas. T. White with compliments of Allen H. Wright, San Diego, Cal.

[Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face]

[Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face]

Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Soc... More

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow R...

This documentation also includes the 345-kilovolt transformers and the Terry Turbine Building (HAER CT-185-E). Significance: The Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant was one of the earliest commercial scale nuclear ... More

[Occupational portrait of a carpenter, three-quarter length, seated, facing front, holding hammer and nail, on a chair at his side are a saw, box plane, and measuring device]

[Occupational portrait of a carpenter, three-quarter length, seated, f...

Photographer unidentified. Case: central floral motif surrounded by lillies and leaves. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.14). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the left]

[Alexander Barrow, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the ...

Whig Senator from Louisiana, 1841-1846. Written on back of plate: Barrow, La. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Ma... More

[Jacob Collamer, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left]

[Jacob Collamer, half-length portrait, three-quarters to left]

Whig Congressman from Vermont, 1843-1849; U.S. Postmaster General, 1849-1850; Republican Senator, 1855-1865. Identification from engraving by A.H. Ritchie, Daguerd. by Brady, N.Y., engraved for the American Rev... More

The Mall, Central Park,  Panoramic Photograph

The Mall, Central Park, Panoramic Photograph

H17593 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Falk; May 12, 1902; DLC/PP-1902:41614. Copyright claimant's address: Waldorf-Astoria, N.Y. No. 4.

St. Clair Tunnel, Port Huron Pump House, Southwest of west portal, Port Huron, St. Clair County, MI

St. Clair Tunnel, Port Huron Pump House, Southwest of west portal, Por...

Significance: This pump house has served as a critical component of the drainage system built to prevent surface runoff from the 11.50-acre watershed created by the open-cut approach to the Port Huron (west) po... More

[James M. Priest, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk]

[James M. Priest, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at ...

Vice President of Liberia under Daniel Bashiel Warner, 1864-1867; third president of Liberia, 1867. Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Written on back of plate: James M. Priest, Senator from Sinoe... More

Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts.,  Panoramic Photograph

Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts., Panoramic Photograph

H37452 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; October 30, 1903; DLC/PP-1903:41961. On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, reproduction forbidden".

[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

[David Dudley Field, half-length portrait, three-quarters to right]

Lawyer. Identification from reproduction of photograph of Field as an older man in The Green Bag, February, 1891. Scratched on face of plate: 241; D. Dudley Field. Scratched on back of plate: 84; David Dudley ... More

Panorama of Iriquois [i.e. Iroquois] Theater after the fire, Dec. 31, 1903

Panorama of Iriquois [i.e. Iroquois] Theater after the fire, Dec. 31, ...

H42858 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Henry Albert Ericson February 29, 1904. No. 23. Exhibit loan 4105-L #130.9. Old call number: PAN US GEOG - Maryland, no. 17

[Unidentified girl and boy]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[Unidentified girl and boy]. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Case: Rinhart 32. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.007. Hallmark: Rinhart 29. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wearing glasses, seated at desk]

[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wear...

Photographer unidentified. Was part of LOT 8554. Written on back of plate: John Hanson, Senator from Bassa Co. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Lib... More

Vosnesenskaya, near Irkutsk - churches - photo by William Henry Jackson

Vosnesenskaya, near Irkutsk - churches - photo by William Henry Jackso...

Similar to lantern slide W7-1240. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transport... More

Agra - gateway to garden court of the Taj Mahal

Agra - gateway to garden court of the Taj Mahal

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895, p. 986. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1... More

Pedro, Captain of one of the Coyetero Apache bands, Arizona, in his Washington costume.

Pedro, Captain of one of the Coyetero Apache bands, Arizona, in his Wa...

Original negative number: 57. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Junc't., Commonwealth Ave. and Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Junc't., Commonwealth Ave. and Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

H37361 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; October 27, 1903. On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, reproduction forbidden".

3816 East Main Street (Commercial Building), College Park, Fulton County, GA

3816 East Main Street (Commercial Building), College Park, Fulton Coun...

Significance: Bits & Pieces Antiques at 3816 East Main Street is one of a group of five buildings in College Park which contains three of the city's oldest commercial structures. This building shares common wal... More

New York City, 1908,  Panoramic Photograph

New York City, 1908, Panoramic Photograph

H116069 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. P. Hall & Son; September 23, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43361. No. 6082.

[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice "Pett" Barbour]

[Unidentified children, possibly Linus and Mary Alice "Pett" Barbour]

No case, only velvet pad remains. No electronic surrogate available. Transfer; Manuscript Division (Lucian Barbour Papers); 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:087). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)... More

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Postcard shows a line of men with bows drawn. To the left a man beats a drum and another raises a sword. In the center of the photo a man dressed in dark clothing holds a case. Caption continues: These are all... More

Matt Henson (of Peary's crew) in Arctic costume on deck of the "Roosevelt" on arrival at Sidney, Nova Scotia

Matt Henson (of Peary's crew) in Arctic costume on deck of the "Roosev...

Matthew Henson, full-length portrait, standing, leaning on snowshoes and reaching toward dog. H85717 U.S. Copyright Office.

Powell County Courthouse, Washington & Court Streets, Stanton, Powell County, KY

Powell County Courthouse, Washington & Court Streets, Stanton, Powell ...

Significance: The Powell County Courthouse, built around 1890, was designed by Frank P. Milborn, one of the South's most prolific nineteenth century architects. It is constructed in a provincial Classical Revi... More

One panoramic photograph showing Hanover Inn at right of picture and the Dartmouth College campus near centre of picture

One panoramic photograph showing Hanover Inn at right of picture and t...

Crowds gathered along street watching horses and carriages riding toward campus. May be Homecoming or Founders' Day activities. H52335 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; October 29, 1... More

[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right]

[John Francis, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the right]

Physician; editor of the American Medical and Philosophical Register; first president of the New York Academy of Medicine; historian and author. Scratched on face of plate: 138. Scratched on back of plate: 262.... More

Wonsan - panoramic view of city and harbor (rt. half)

Wonsan - panoramic view of city and harbor (rt. half)

Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1897 July 24, p. 729. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry... More

[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, seated, with arm over back of chair, hand to cheek, with full beard, wearing jacket with elaborate trimming]

[Unidentified man, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to th...

Scratched on back of plate: 245; 254. Corners trimmed. Alternative identification: Charles Francis Hall, 1821-1871, arctic explorer. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerr... More

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.,  Panoramic Photograph

Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts., Panoramic Photograph

H32481 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; October 30, 1903; DLC/PP-1903:41961. On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, reproduction forbidden".

[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing front, with two bags held at his sides by a harness, neck brace visible between legs]

[Occupational portrait of a peddler, full-length, standing, facing fro...

Case: plain leather, push button. Stamped on mat: Myers. Purchase/exchange; Gary Vroegindewey; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:380R.11). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Rufus Porte... More

[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Henry Clay, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Republican Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1810-1811; Congressman, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 1823-1825; U.S. Secretary of State, 1825-1829; Whig Senator, 1831-1842, 1849-1852; Democratic Republican candidate for ... More

[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right]

[C.C. Clay, half-length portrait, head slightly to the right]

Lawyer; Democratic Congressman from Alabama (Senator, 1853-1861); Confederate Senate, 1861-1863 Identification from woodcut by A.F. after Brady in Harper's Weekly, February 25, 1860, page 116. Scratched on back... More

W. Mitchell McAllister - Daguerreotype, Public domain

W. Mitchell McAllister - Daguerreotype, Public domain

Case: scroll design. Attributed to William Young McAllister. Etched on plate: W. Mitchell McAllister, Ap. 3, 1844. Note attached to case: Mitchell when a baby, 1843. Hallmark: Rinhart 21, except with 30 instead... More

Roosevelt, the great American of to-day in roughing costume ready for the trail - West Divide, Colorado

Roosevelt, the great American of to-day in roughing costume ready for ...

President Roosevelt on horseback with fist raised, mountains in background. H61407 U.S. Copyright Office No. 9932. Copyright 1905 by H.C. White Co.

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Case: Rinhart 131 variant. Hallmark: partially cut off. Appears to be Rinhart 29. Stamped on brass mat: F. Grice. Barboza number: 6019.051. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part of: Dag... More

[Man reading letter to old lady and man across a table]

[Man reading letter to old lady and man across a table]

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to right, with spectacles]

[George Perkins Marsh, half-length portrait, head three-quarters to ri...

Scholar; Whig Congressman from Vermont, 1843-1849; U.S. Minister to Turkey and Italy. Identification from painting by George P.A. Healy in possession of Dartmouth College. Scratched on back of plate: 101. Hallm... More

[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to left]

[George Edmund Badger, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to ...

Whig Senator from North Carolina, 1846-1855; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1841. Hallmark: 40M. Scratched on back of plate: 107. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype... More

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

[Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Label on cover glass: Mullatto (sic) 50 Photographer attribution based on John Craig's reference to an identified daguerreotype stamped "Barnes, N.Y." Case: oval motif with scrolls. Barboza number: 6019.003. S... More

New York skyline. Cityscape photograph,  Panoramic Photograph

New York skyline. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

H110083 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill; May 2, 1908. Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. H-29.

[James Skivring Smith, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, seated at desk]

[James Skivring Smith, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters v...

Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Arrived in Liberia in 1833. Secretary of State of Liberia, 1856-1860. Senator, Grand Bassa County, 1868-1869. Vice president under Edward Roye, 1870-1871. Superinte... More

No, she cannot be dirty - Public domain book illustration

No, she cannot be dirty - Public domain book illustration

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1935:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Water Babies / Charles Kingsley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, p. 36. Exhibit l... More

Kodak - A black and white photo of a woman holding a camera

Kodak - A black and white photo of a woman holding a camera

Photograph shows a woman seated with camera, in roundel. H116457 U.S. Copyright Office. Signed in the negative. Copyright by Annie W. Brigman. Also known as: "The spirit of photography." Copyright deposit; 190... More

Alice Barber Stephens - [Group of children in my garden at Rose Valley]

Alice Barber Stephens - [Group of children in my garden at Rose Valley...

Title and date from mat. Not published. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

The Curb Market, Broad St.,  Panoramic Photograph

The Curb Market, Broad St., Panoramic Photograph

H17592 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Falk; May 12, 1902. Copyright claimant's address: Waldorf-Astoria, New York. No. 2a.

The McKinley national memorial statue was modeled from this photograph The official post card for sale here.

The McKinley national memorial statue was modeled from this photograph...

Broadside advertising the sale of postcards showing reproduction of Frances Benjamin Johnston's 1901 photograph of "President McKinley delivering his last address, Buffalo, September 5, 1901." Frances Benjamin ... More

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

J129816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); July 29, 1909. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. B.

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

J129816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); July 29, 1909. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. B.

More mysterious strangers - Drawing. Public domain image.

More mysterious strangers - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, 1928.

[Nathaniel Ruggles Childs and Albert Childs, half-length portrait, facing front]

[Nathaniel Ruggles Childs and Albert Childs, half-length portrait, fac...

Hallmark: Plumbe's patent, Oct. 22, 1842. Matted in wooden frame. Written on back of frame: H.C. Nov. 25, 1842. Nathaniel Ruggles & Albert Childs. Purchase; 1970; (DLC/PP-1970:279). Forms part of: Daguerreotype... More

[Young woman (Nancy Lovis (Kraft)) in Middle Eastern costume and jeweled headband, with hand to forehead, seated]

[Young woman (Nancy Lovis (Kraft)) in Middle Eastern costume and jewel...

Blind stamp: lower left. On verso of mount: "Gy" pencil upper right. Image content features: MODEL Nancy Lovis (Kraft); COSTUME Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/N. African, jewelry; PEOPLE young women. Title and o... More

[Unidentified man, about 50 years of age, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, slightly to the right, seated]

[Unidentified man, about 50 years of age, half-length portrait, nearly...

Scratched on back of plate: #25?; 39 [cancelled] Alternative identification: Hon. Joseph Lane, 1801-1881. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library ... More

Delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party of the United States of America, held at Chicago, Illinois, May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, 1904

Delegates to the First National Convention of the Socialist Party of t...

Photograph shows a group portrait of Socialist Party delegates with a key to people depicted printed on the mount. H48530 U.S. Copyright Office. "Copyright 1904 by Geo. D. Evans". Copyright deposit; 1904.

[Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiving first aid and Chinese men running with sails (as from Chinese junks) on their backs and carrying rifles]

[Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiving first...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nisshinsensō shōraku gakai : Comics of the ... More

[William L. Dayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

[William L. Dayton, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left]

Whig Senator from New Jersey, 1842-1851. Scratched on back of plate: 108; Dayton, William L. Identification from engraving by J.C. Buttre. Hallmark: [asterisk] Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:461... More

[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait, standing in front of painted backdrop]

[Unidentified man, three-quarters length portrait, standing in front o...

Case: ornamental circle theme. Same sitter as in DAG no. 1380. Barboza number: 6019.020. Stamped on brass mat: Ball & Thomas, 120 W 4th St. Cin. O. Purchase; Anthony Barboza; 1999; (DLC/PP-1999:022). Forms part... More

[Alfred Francis Russell, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk]

[Alfred Francis Russell, three-quarter length portrait, full face, sea...

Russell was born in Kentucky and moved to Liberia in 1833. Vice President of Liberia from 1878 to 1883. Became President in 1883. Photographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: A.F. Russell, Senator fro... More

[Henry, George and Stephen Childs, half-length portrait, facing front]

[Henry, George and Stephen Childs, half-length portrait, facing front]

Hallmark: Plumbe's patent, Oct. 22, 1842. Matted in wooden frame. Written on back of frame: H.C. Nov. 25, 1842. Stephen, Henry & George Childs in order from the left - Henry - George - Stephen. Purchase; 1970; ... More

Southeast Minneapolis. Cityscape photograph,  Panoramic Photograph

Southeast Minneapolis. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

H9979 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Crandall & Fletcher; October 15, 1901; DLC/PP-1901:41475. Stamped on verso: "Crandall & Fletcher, 323 W. Superior St., Duluth, Minn."

[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left]

[Henry Inman, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left]

Artist (painter). Identification from engraving in C. Edwards Lester, The artists of America: a series of biographical sketches..., 1846, p. 33. Scratched on back of plate: 51; 440. Facing the light / H. Pfiste... More

1902 M, New York skyline,  Panoramic Photograph

1902 M, New York skyline, Panoramic Photograph

H24822 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill; December 6, 1902; DLC/PP-1902:41733. Copyright claimant's address: New York City. Buildings spliced into image at left, noted with an arrow, ent... More

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA

Keane Wonder Mine, Park Route 4 (Daylight Pass Cutoff), Death Valley J...

Significance: After fifty years of tenacious but comparatively unprofitable gold mining activities in Death Valley, the Keane Wonder strike in 1904 became the heart of Death Valley's most prosperous two decades... More

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