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Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Edward S. Curtis - Quentin Roosevelt in the strawberry patch

Photograph showing Quentin Roosevelt picking strawberries at Sagamore Hill. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis.

Game over fence and food patch. Waterloo project, Michigan

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old time Negro living on cotton patch near Vicksburg, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man digging in the dirt, West Virginia. F...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal miners switching motor. Note live wires. The "Patch," Chaplin, We...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Owner's daughter topping tobacco. She has a patch of her own of about ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old screen wire on window of home. This is 12-mesh wire and permits mo...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jimmy Lee Shadd in his mother's cabbage patch at the FSA (Farm Securit...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woody Boggs in the ramp patch that he planted on the hill behind his h...

As the women cleaning ramps in the "ramp circle" on Drews Creek made clear (see ramp essay), you can start your own ramp patch from the small rootlets leftover from the cleaning process. Many domesticated ramp ... More

Ben Burnside speaking with Mary Hufford in a ramp patch located on a s...

Event: Visit with Ben Burnside. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Monroe, Building Nos. 80 & 100, Northeast corner of Ingalls & Pat...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-L National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Taro patch and cocoanut grove, Hawaiian Islands

H118675 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Count Bozenta in the vegetable patch

Garden of Helena Modjeska in California. H128085 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Wade Wineman, Chicago, Ill.

Old time Negro living on cotton patch near Vicksburg, Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A typical garden patch in Hooverville. Portland, Oregon

Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a building in the woods, West Virginia. Far...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

An old photo of a man cutting another man's hair, West Virginia. Farm ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A black and white photo of a dirt road, West Virginia. Farm Security A...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house, West Vi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Los Angeles, California. "Flying Patch," a Currtiss "Warhawk" fighter ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pumpkin patch near Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Alexander Paul Store, Main & North Streets, Patch Grove, Grant County,...

Significance: Fine example of vernacular Romanesque Revival style of architecture designed and built by Alexander Paul in 1859. Good representative of mid-19th century commercial architecture. Originally used... More

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing 3 modern (ca. 1975) c...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Coal miners switching motor. Note live wires. The "Patch," Chaplin, We...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Coal miner ready to go to work. Front of home. "The Patch," Chaplin, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Native woman of Galilee in patch of flowers

Hill farmer with armful of vegetables from his garden patch. Ross Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Alex Mumford Jr., 10 disguised as the man from uncle complete with eye...

Alex Mumford in Macy's Toy Dept. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woody Boggs' ramp patch, Pettry Bottom

Picryl description: Public domain image of a plant, botany, botanical illustration, botany, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Str. John Craig showing patch in starboard quarter

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Julia Littell (Mrs. Alex Patch)

Photograph shows Julia Littell who married Alexander M. Patch. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Petra (Wadi Musa). Es-Siyyagh Valley. Patch of aloes. Aloe vulgaris L....

Public domain image of wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Terracing and cotton patch with Appalachian Mountains in the distance....

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

, Georgia. Farm Security Administration photograph

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A Mississippi Negro family who live on a cotton patch near Vicksburg

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

A black and white photo of a farm, Georgia. Farm Security Administrati...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Coal miners' homes, company houses, with piles of slag and slate. "The...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Coal miner going to get some water down the hill from his home. "The P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Negro sharecropper farm as seen from the road on other side of the hil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Pumpkin patch near Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Pumpkin patch near Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fort Monroe, Building Nos. 80 & 100, Northeast corner of Ingalls & Pat...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-L National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Fort Monroe, Building Nos. 80 & 100, Northeast corner of Ingalls & Pat...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-L National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Fort Monroe, Building Nos. 80 & 100, Northeast corner of Ingalls & Pat...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-L National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Caricature, [Polly in the peanut patch], public domain cartoon image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a house in a field, Georgia. Farm Security ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a house, Georgia...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carpenter at work, Eatonton, Georgia. Briar Patch Project

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Game cover fence with food patch in background. Waterloo project, Mich...

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a small house, Georgia. Farm Security Admin...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Coal miners' homes. The "Patch," Chaplin, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A couple of men standing in front of a house, West Virginia. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Tim Forehand's wife Minnie, scratching Irish potatoes out of their gar...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman picking lettuce, Georgia. Farm Secu...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mountaineer's cabin with tobacco patch up Morris Fork of the Kentucky ...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assault boat Production. Building assault boats for U.S. Marine Corps....

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

From the left: Colonel Roy R. Gerfen, training inspector; Major Genera...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Kent, Maine (vicinity). Mustard is the farmer's enemy. Edward Dai...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[World War II, Corporal, 3rd Army patch]

A combat service identification badge embroidered with red, white and blue thread. Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: WWII, Corporal, 3rd Army patch. M141. Purchase... More

Woody Boggs in the ramp patch that he planted on the hill behind his h...

Public domain photograph of farm, farmer, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pumpkin patch near Litchfield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fort Monroe, Building Nos. 80 & 100, Northeast corner of Ingalls & Pat...

Survey number: HABS VA-595-L National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000912

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Fort Delaware, Sea Wall, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle C...

Significance: Fort Delaware served as the primary defense of the Delaware River from the second quarter of the 19th century until the start of World War II. The Fort played an important role during the Civil W... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Patch Street Bridge, Spanning Kohanza Brook on Patch Street, Danbury, ...

Significance: The single arch stone Patch Street Bridge was a typical example of an increasingly rare class of municipally-built structure in Connecticut, and was the best preserved and perhaps most unusual suc... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE

Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More

Early automobiles - Patch, Washington DC

Full-length portrait, standing by Brush automobile in front of Treasury Dept., Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a man plowing a field, Georgia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man standing on a porch, Georgia. Farm Se...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man on a train, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Coal miner's home, company house, the "Patch," Cassville, West Virgini...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.