Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Soldier's cemetery. Grave of Sgt. Frank L. S...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sakura cherry - Public domain portrait drawing
Drawing shows branch with leaves and cherry blossoms. Public domain photograph of 19th-century woodblock print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Water Works Park - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rustic bridge, Chautauqua - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, woods, trees, arbor, outdoors, romantic landscape, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Lake Skaneateles, N.Y., shady beach
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Peking. Summerpalace, Marblebridge. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.
Title in General-Photochrom-Katalog, 30. Ausgabe 1911. Photoglob-Abteilung der Vereinigten Kunstanstalten, A.G. Zürich München, 1911: "China-Chine. Peking. Summerpalace. Marblebridge". Print no. "18804. P.Z." ... More
[Linderhof Castle, Upper Bavaria, Germany] view, photochrome print pos...
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "17168". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.
Bicycling, Central Park, N.Y.. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...
2 women on bicycles. Public domain image of bicyclist, bicycle, cyclist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Detroit. Belle Isle, Forest Drive view, photochrome print postcard.
Title on inventory list: Belle Isle, Forest Drive. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-3761) lists title as: Belle Isle [Park], Forest Drive. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "A-16". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Col... More
Detroit. Western boulevard view, photochrome print postcard.
Title on inventory list: Western boulevard. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-3754) lists title as: Western Boulevard. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "A-10". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More informa... More
[Children swinging in a playground or park]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Rustic bridge in Lester Park, Duluth, Minn.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Library Park, Soldiers' Monument & Pub[lic] Lib[rary], Pasadena, Cal.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Detroit Boat Club, a card party, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic park, open terrace, world heritage landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Floral clock, Water [Works] Park, Detroit, Mich.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Casino from the lily pond, Belle Isle Park, Detroit
In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51234. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
[Summit Park, Oriskany, near Utica, N.Y.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Pavilion, Belle Isle Park bathing beach, Detroit,Mich.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Floral clock and tower, Water Works Park, Detroit
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Held at Ellis Island--undesirable emigrants to be taken back by steams...
Three women on bench. Halftone reproduction of photograph in Quarantine sketches, a pamphlet published as advertising by the Maltine Co.
Flower vender [i.e. vendor] making a sale, [Union Square Park], New Yo...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prokudin Gorskii: [Flowering bushes]. Color separation negative
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Bit of the bay, Charlevoix, Mich.
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
El Paso, Texas, showing Oregon St., the park and the Hotel Orndorff
Photograph shows bird's-eye view of San Jacinto Plaza with the Hotel Orndorff, Crawford Theatre, Hotel Angelus, and Hotel St. Regis opposite. Library's copy has been cut into 3 sections and mounted on 1 sheet ... More
National League Park, Chicago, Giants vs. Cubs, Aug. 30, 1908
H115468 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; September 2, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43550. Copyright claimant's address: 274 Wabash Ave., Chicago.
Docks at Arnolds Park - Public domain historical image
Postcard shows busy shoreline of Arnolds Park on West Lake Okoboji with pier on the right, various sizes of boats at piers and being used. Souvenir shops and buildings in the background with people engaged in a... More
[Tea Kettle Butte, Pyramid Park, North Dakota, on the Northern Pacific...
Public domain photograph of North Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Wright brothers at the International Aviation Tournament, Belmont...
Photoprint copyrighted by Cole & Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and data transcribed from item.
Park Row Newsies. Location: New York, New York (State)
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
N.Y.C. auto wrecked in Central Park
Public domain photograph - park, sign, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Vassar College, gelatin silver print, Panoramic Photograph
J174546 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Thompson Photo Co.; October 22, 1912; DLC/PP-1912:44516. Photographer's address: 314 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. No. 487.
"Big Room," Grove Park Inn, Asheville, N.C.
Large room filled with wicker chairs; includes stone columns and hanging light fixture. J184368 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Herbert W. Pelton, Asheville, N.C. No. 79.
Grand Central Depot, Park Ave. and 42nd St., New York City
Bird's-eye view. Photoprint copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No. C10202. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
Outside Shibe Park, 10/9/14 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Potomac Park golf links - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
On one of the hottest days recorded in the National Capital both women...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Traffic, 14th & Thomas Circle [Washington, D.C]
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scouts present president with buffalo horn as birthday gift. President...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Japanese cherry blossoms. View from across Tidal Basin III
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Floral Hall, City Park, Conneaut Avenue, Bowling Green, Wood County, O...
STORED ON SITE. mchr 2012 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: Constructed in 1884, Floral Hall was originally designated as a flower and agricultural produce display hall located on the then, Wood C... More
Virginia photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Florida photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Inf...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Guests of Sarasota trailer park playing Chinese checkers. Sarasota, Fl...
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Hanging up the washing, Sarasota trailer park. Sarasota, Florida
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Washington, D.C. Cascade and reflecting pool looking north from the su...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
International Workers Day May 1st rally, 1PM, Dolores Park
Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah
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
Belles at Cypress Gardens theme park, Winter Haven, Florida
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The park closed in 2008. Billed as Florida's first comm... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe be... More
Frederick C. Robie House in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illin...
Designed and built between 1908 and 1910 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It is renowned as the greatest example of his Prairie style, the first architectural style that was uniquely American. Digital image pro... More
Hyde Street Pier, an exhibit at San Francisco Maritime National Histor...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Here, ferries once connected US Highway 101 with the Re... More
Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...
Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Gates, a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 mile... More
Philip Johnson's Glass House and pool, New Canaan, Connecticut
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, pond, water reflection, romantic landscape, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Falls of the Big Sioux River in Falls Park, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Texas Star, the 212-foot Ferris wheel that supplies a bird's-eye view ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Ferris wheel is the largest in North America (as of 2014). Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. ... More
The Japanese Tea Garden, located inside Golden Gate Park, San Francisc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Originally created as a "Japanese Village" exhibit for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. When the fair closed, Japanese landscape ar... More
Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More
Spring Park, Tuscumbia, Alabama
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, pond, water reflection, romantic landscape, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Palm trees on along the coast in Santa Barbara, California
Palm trees on along the coast in Santa Barbara, California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's ... More
Buena Vista Park, San Francisco, California
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
Creatures of all sorts and dimensions appear at Bobz World, a kid-orie...
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
"Sheriff" Steve Schmidt, a rancher, costumed presenter, and owner of O...
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 mountain biker tests a rugged path amid the rock formations in Palo ...
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
The "Blueprints" steel sculpture in Addison Circle, an urban park in A...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The sculpture consists of 25 poles and five art panels. It weighs 410,000 pounds and required 650 gallons of custom "Sharpie blue" pa... More
Bronze statue of Jesus washing the disciple Peter's feet in Witness Pa...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tower was a gift to the city from businessman Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, whose family runs the Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the largest chick... More
The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West V...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Japanese garden at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasional...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japan... More
The "King of beasts," a lion in the "zoo", Central Park, New York
Stereograph showing both young children and adults at the Central Park zoo standing in front and looking at a lion in its cage. H41405 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by William H. Rau. On verso: American... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C. - stereocsopic card
Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Man seated on bench and woman with umbrella standing on path. Stereo by E.... More
Silver King Mining Company, Ore Loading Station, Park Avenue, Park Cit...
Significance: One problem encountered by the Silver King Mining Company was the transportation of its ore over the rough terrain between the mine and the railhead in Park City. The solution was a 7,000' long ae... More
Centennial Fountain, Philadelphia Park, Pa. 1876
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Maypole dance, Central Park, New York
Public domain image of carnival, parade, celebration, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Fall River Road, Between Estes Park & Fall River Pass, Estes Park, Lar...
Significance: Fall River Road was the first road to cross the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountain National Park. It provided a connection from Estes Park over Fall River Pass descending to the towns of Es... More
Skidoo Mine, Park Route 38 (Skidoo Road), Death Valley Junction, Inyo ...
Significance: The Skidoo Mine is associated with the operations of the Skidoo Mine Company, Death Valley's most successful gold mine. Although the mill shows structural deterioration, the mill is otherwise a we... More
Tower Grove Park, Sailboat Pond, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint Louis, Ind...
Significance: This is one of the principal water features of Tower Grove Park and is a well-preserved example of the Romantic landscape design favored by British and American architects in the 19th century. The... More
Town of Ocean Grove, East terminus of State Route 33, south of Asbury ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Tower Grove Park, West Gate House & Gate, 4255 Arsenal Street, Saint L...
Significance: The only examples of the Gothic Revival style in the park. The structures are well-preserved examples of the picturesque design favored by British and American landscape architects in the 19th cen... More
Shoomac Park, Ridge Avenue & Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, Philadel...
Significance: This house is associated with one of the earliest grist mills in Pennsylvania. It was located on nearby Wissahickon Creek. The mill site also enters into General Washington's plan of attack on Ger... More
Vulcan Statue & Park, Atop Red Mountain off Vulcan Road, Birmingham, J...
Significance: The Vulcan statue is significant as an unusual American colossus created from local material, under technological constraints, to promote regional industry. The Vulcan statue was cast from Birmin... More
Edward W. McCready House, 231 North Euclid Street, Oak Park, Cook Coun...
Significance: This large, single-family dwelling is a simple, well-executed example of the work done by Prairie School architects, Spencer and Powers. It was built in the early 1900's in suburban Oak Park. Unp... More
Vanderbilt Mansion, Blacksmith Shop, Hyde Park, Dutchess County, NY
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Peavey Park Plaza, 1111 Nicolet Mall, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN
Significance: The plaza is significant for its association with the series of post-WWII urban renewal projects that begun in the late 1950s and continued into the 1970s in downtown Minneapolis. The plaza is a d... More
Colonel William Oliver Anderson House, Civil War Battle of Lexington S...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey number: HABS MO-224 Building/structure dates: 1853 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
Silver King Mining Company, Mineshaft & Main Hoist, Woodside Gulch, Pa...
Significance: The Silver King Mining Company became one of the major producers in the Park City district of Utah and attained a brief reputation as the richest silver mine in the known world. One of the smalle... More
Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...
Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More
Getty Tomb, North Clark Street & West Irving Park Road, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: One of Louis Sullivan's most delicate and decorative designs, the Getty Tomb is one of three mausoleum structures created by the firm of Adler and Sullivan between 1889 and 1892. Unprocessed Fiel... More
Balboa Park, California Tower, Balboa Park, El Prado Area, San Diego, ...
Significance: One of the most outstanding examples of Spanish Baroque reproduction in North America. The Tower was designed in the Spanish Chereguesque style to express the Spanish heritage of California by Be... More
Derby Day, March 7th, 1931, Hialeah Park, Fla., Saratoga of the south,...
J 1182 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Wm. J. Fallon; March 12, 1931. Copyright claimant's address: P.O. Box 1096, Miami, Fla.
Mine Hill School, New Almaden Quicksilver Mine County Park, New Almade...
Significance: Begun in the 1860s this redwood structure was the first school built to accommodate the children of workers at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine and was used as such until 1910. It was the largest... More
National Zoological Park, Bird House, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Wash...
Significance: Although part of the National Zoological Park's early collection, birds lacked a permanent, and proper, habitat for many years. There was no one place for visitors to view the various species; exh... More
Old City Jail, Arrow Rock State Park, Arrow Rock, Saline County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-232 Building/structure dates: 1871 Initial Construction
Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davi...
Edison's complex at Menlo Park, showing house, laboratory, office and machine shop.
William Abernathy Cummings, Cummings Park, Custer County, Nebraska.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scene in Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The Latone Basin, II, Versailles, France]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6916". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More
[Rotten Row and Hyde Park Corner, London, England]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10277". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More
[The Dingle, Colwyn Bay, Wales] view, photochrome print postcard.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "11292". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More