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"Hurrah! The country is saved again!" / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam and Columbia dancing in a line with figures representing "Cuba, Porto Rico, Labor, Capital, Farmer, Philippines, [and] Hawaii" at the entrance to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, vi... More

Dorothy Sebastian, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows stage and film actress Dorothy Sebastian (family name Sabiston) (1903-1957). (Source: Flickr Commmons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms par... More

Two hundred, Cabinet photograph

Two young women at blackboard, one holding bowling ball and the other writing score. H20386 U.S. Copyright Office.

For her children's sake by Theo. Kremer : the companion play to The fa...

Caption: You scoundrel, I'll kill you! Created and "copyright 1903 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." Management, Sullivan, Harris & Woods. No. 6508. Forms part of: Theatr... More

Forrester & Mittenthal present Florence Bindley in The street singer a...

Puck Easter / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a young woman playing a lute as a group of rabbit cavaliers dance around her. Two monks whisper to each other at the entrance to a monastery. Illus. in: Puck, v. 55, no. 1413 (1904 March 30)... More

Weber & Rush present Charles Ross & Mabel Fenton in Weber & Fields big...

Created and "copyrighted 1904 by The J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

John Philip Sousa, jr., John Philip Sousa, III, Sousa

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sousa in front of the Steel Pier

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

NATIONAL SCHOOL FINE & APPLIED ARTS, Portrait photo, Library of Congre...

A black and white photo of a group of women. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sousa on horse - the march king John Philip Sousa

Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

DIANA GROUP - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

A black and white photo of a group of women. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Professor John Esputa's music class, Sousa standing, back row on left

Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Louis and Lena - gramophone disc, record label

Descriptive scene, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Valentine - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white drawing of a group of women dancing, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection: Congressional Union. Date ... More

Crowd at Sousa Band Concert, Willow Grove Park

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

Edward S. Curtis - The White Singer, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Navajo man, facing slightly right, wearing headband and silver squash blossom necklace. H87245 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2055-06.

Barnum & Bailey - I'll meet you at the circus

Triangular circus poster on board showing a woman in a clown costume waving. All corners missing.

Carmencita - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title and date from Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Videodisc image laterally reversed. Photograph of a painting signed "William M. Chase" at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 029954.... More

The runaways the elaborate musical comedy from New York Casino.

G xxc 19934 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1908 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cin. & N.Y." No. 11684. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[House maid ironing a lace doily with GE electric iron]

H120386 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by General Electric Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Electricity 1908; Ads Household appliances...; Househo... More

Converts' rally, Evangelistic Committee of New York City, Carnegie Hal...

H116497 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; October 5, 1908. Copyright claimant's address: New York, Chicago, Washington. No. 1340.

Lillian and her friends using the General Electric water heater

Woman at dresser heating a cup of water. Photoprint copyrighted by General Electric Co. No. 6. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women; Electricity.

[Emmy Destinn, 1878-1930, three-quarters length portrait, standing, fa...

H43767 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by A. Dupont. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: Websters; Orig. surname for this Cze... More

Opening of the opera season - drilling the merry villagers / L.M. Glac...

Illustration shows President William H. Taft directing male and female dancers on a stage in a production of "Princess Prosperity", a script for which he is holding in his right hand. The male dancers hold empt... More

Hilda Wierum -- Greta Torpadie - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Greta Hervor Lisbeth Bratt (Torpadie) (1890-1982) with Hilda Wierum holding sign for the "American Polish Relief Committee, 14 E. 46th Street", New York City. (Source: Flic... More

Marguerite Gale - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows actress Marguerite Gale (1885-1948). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

President's Box, Belasco Theater

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

Clara Butt & children, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows English opera singer Clara Butt (1872-1936) with her children on board a ship. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms pa... More

Scotti - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Italian baritone opera singer Antonio Scotti (1866-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

[Charles Bryant, actor] - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pauline Chase, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American actress Pauline Chase (1885-1962). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Uncle Sam's Follies - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

City Investing Bldg., & Singer Tower

J141262 U.S. Copyright Office. No. E453. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

Sister Beatrice Bartlett - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Caroline Gardner Bartlett (1868-1938), a soprano singer, music educator, a relief worker during World War I who served under the name of "Sister Beatrice." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Ballet: Anna Duncan dancing, lantern slide

Picryl description: Public domain image related to dance, dancing, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

This is the man who tells his wife that "woman's place is in the home"...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat and a red dress sitting at a table in a nightclub with a man who is holding her hand across the table.

Wilson's suggestion for a cartoon / Ireland.

Photograph of a cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt holding a club marked "legalized monopoly" for a baton as he leads a hallelujah "trust" chorus of rotund corporate men choir singing "Control us again." Publi... More

Willis Sweatnam - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Willis P. Sweatnam (1854-1930), minstrel comedian and actor. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009).

Lady C. Stewart Richardson - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows dancer Lady Constance Steward Richardson, who came to New York in June, 1913 to perform at Hammerstein's Rooftop Garden. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Mrs. Margaret Howe - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows actress Margaret Vale Howe, a participant in the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., March 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Yvette Guilbert - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows French cabaret singer and actress Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Lord Paget - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Lord Victor William Paget (1889-1952) who married the American actress Olive May in early 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Ocean liners: Geraldine Farrar - Public domain ocean liner image

Photo shows opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II heading to Europe. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, May 30, 1913) Geraldine Farrar, an American sopra... More

Genthe collection - Marion Morgan dancers

Title devised. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. ID: LC-G39-0821-O-001 (vd# 2326)

The first nowell - gramophone disc, record label

Mixed vocal quartet, unaccompanied Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Romance - gramophone disc, record label

Instrumental trio Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elwes, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows English singer Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection... More

Gordon, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Canadian opera singer Jeanne Gordon (born Ruby May Gordon) (1885-1952). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of:... More

Braslau, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1888-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Ency... More

Opera, Columbia University - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hello, Frisco - gramophone disc, record label

Band Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

May Peterson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph show opera singer May Esther Peterson Thompson (1880-1952) who sang for the Metropolitan Opera Company. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the... More

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer and comedian Margaret Young (1891-1969) who was born Margaret Youngblood. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms... More

Otto Goritz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German baritone opera singer Otto Goritz (1873-1929) holding an owl. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

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)

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Margaret Youngblood (1891-1969), an American singer and comedian who performed under the stage name Margaret Young. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain N... More

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

Petrova, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows British American actress Olga Petrova (1884-1977), who was also a screenwriter and playwright. She was born Muriel Harding. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by th... More

De Luca - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

C. Whitehill - Public domain dedication image

Photograph shows American bass/baritone opera singer Clarence Whitehill (1871-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Carl Braun & family - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German bass opera singer Carl Braun (1886-1960). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Granville Barker - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows English stage director, critic and playwright Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Millo Picco, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows baritone opera singer Millo Picco (1875-?). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collect... More

Cosmo Hamilton - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Cosmo Hamilton (1870-1942), English playwright and novelist who was born Henry Charles Hamilton Gibbs. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Mme. Fremstad - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Swedish-American opera singer Anna Olivia Rundquist (stage name, Olive Fremstad) (1871-1951), seated at desk with dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Madelyn Sheppard, J.B. Wells, Mrs. L.B. Woodruff, Annelu Burns

Photograph shows Helen Smith Woodruff (188-1924) who married Lewis B. Woodruff of New York City with tenor singer and composer and opera singer John Barnes Wells (1880-1935) and others. (Source: Flickr Commons ... More

Kay Laurell - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

De Luca - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950) seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

More men and still more men required. Public meetings to further recru...

Public domain scan of performing arts poster, printed advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elliott Shaw & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Elliott Shaw (1887-1973) with wife Abigail Schaulf Shaw (1889-1972) playing dominoes. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. F... More

Storchio, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Rosina Storchio (1872-1945), an Italian lyric opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Greta Torpadie, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Greta Hervor Lisbeth Bratt (Torpadie) (1890-1982) at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Form... More

Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer and film actress, Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

The Canadian guns during World War I

Public domain image related to music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maude Fay - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows opera singer Maude Fay (1878-1964). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

I love you best of all - gramophone disc, record label

Tenor vocal solo, with flute and orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yaaka hula hickey dula - gramophone disc, record label

Band Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile!

Public domain image related to music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rudolph De Cordova & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows British writer and actor Rudolph de Cordova (1860-1941), who was born in Jamaica, with his wife writer Alicia Ramsey (1864-1933); and possibly her son Guy Haylett Walker Ramsey. (Source: Flickr... More

K. Schindler & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German composer and conductor Kurt Schindler at a piano with his wife, actress wife Russian actress Vera Androuchevitch (d. 1919). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provide... More

Shipping Board, U.S. Raymond B. Stevens, right, Vice-Chairman of Board...

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from similar image in same group: LC-DIG-hec-11991. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harr... More

Farrar & Lou Tellegen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). Farrar holds a dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title fr... More

Te amo con toda el alma - gramophone disc, record label

Male vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Caruso's room on SAGA - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the stateroom and luggage of opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) on the Swedish liner Saga, bound for South America where Caruso was to sing in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Urugua... More

Rock & White, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows William "Billy" Rock (1872-1922), a dancer and singer and actress and singer Frances White (1896-1969) in a dressing room. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the... More

Genthe collection - Bessie Ricardo dancing

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

Ensueños - gramophone disc, record label

Baritone vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Evan Williams - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Welsh tenor opera singer Harry Evan Williams (1867- 1918). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

When he's all dolled up he's the best dressed rube in town

Male vocal solo, with orchestra Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ständige Kunst Ausstellung des Feldgrauen Künstler-Bundes ...

Poster shows the monogram for the Feldgrauen Künstler-Bundes, a large "F" in the shape of a sword, with "K" and "B" on either side. Text announces the permanent art exhibit of the Armed Forces Art Association, ... More

Nepoti & Chicago Opera Chorus - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Pietro Nepoti who served as chorus master for the Chicago Opera Company's New York season in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on th... More

We're going to get the Kaiser - Public domain World War One sheet musi...

For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Caruso with phonograph, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) with a customized "Victrola" phonograph which was a wedding gift in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Larrimore, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph probably shows actress Francine Larrimore (1898-1975). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Co... More

Irving Fine conducting, Tanglewood, 1962

Box/Folder: 8, folder 3 In English. (language)

Byron, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows actor Arthur Byron (1872-1943) seated in a small car with license plate "N.J. - 1921 66019". (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the nega... More

Marion Davies, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows film actress Marion Davies (1897-1961). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection ... More