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Clarence White / Doris Ulmann. - Public domain portrait print

Clarence H. White, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. Doris Ulmann was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Date, subject, and physical description data provided by donor. Publi... More

[Four small boys] - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Boy in overalls and cap] - Public domain portrait print

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Boy and girl seated in a garden, holding buckets]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1934:137).

[Small girl seated by log cabin, no. 1]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Woman in printed dress and sunbonnet]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Old woman with sewing] - Public domain portrait drawing

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; 1934 (DLC/PP-1934:137).

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32

Photograph known as "Migrant Mother." Version with thumb retouched out of the photo. Original negative is at the Library: LC-USF34-9058. Gift; of the photographer. Exhibited: "American Treasures" at the Librar... More

The orchard, Newark, Ohio

Photograph shows Letitia Felix, Julia McCune, and Stella Howard gathering fruit in an orchard in Newark, Ohio. Title and date from online source. Signed and dated in pencil on mount: Clarence H. White 1900. Ori... More

Ema Spencer - Kitten's party (child study)

Photograph showing Spencer's niece, Nanette Thompson, pouring a liquid into saucers on the floor of the family summer home at Buckeye Lake, Ohio, forming a circular pattern with the saucers. Title from inventor... More

Old man with violin, no. 1

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; 1934 (DLC/PP-1934:137).

Mathilde Weil - The song of the meadowlark / MW.

Photograph shows two young women wearing aprons and head scarfs, one with long braids holding a scythe, standing in a field. Title on item. Signed with artist's monogram. FBJ label no. 135. Formerly filed in P&... More

Portrait of Andrew Johnson / A. Gardner, photographer, 511 Seventh Str...

Photograph shows President Andrew Johnson, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, with table on the right. Includes facsimile signature, "Yours Truly, Andrew Johnson." Publication date based on copyright ... More

Atlanta, before being burnt: by order of Gen'l. Sherman, from the cupo...

Landmarks labeled under image. Source unknown. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013.

[Secretary of State William Seward and a delegation of diplomats at Tr...

Purchase; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:085) On verso: 1. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State; 2. Baron De Stoeckel, Russian Minister; 3. M. Molena, Nicaraguan Minister; 4. Lord Lyons, British Minister; 5. M. Mercier, Fren... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - An old porch

Photograph shows a boy sitting on a porch with a pump and washtub, probably in or near Doylestown, Pa. On verso: On old porch; M.F.C. Pashcall. FBJ label no. 73. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of... More

The red man, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Native American man. Signed on print, lower left corner. Media confirmed via XRF testing, Jan. 2019. Source unknown. Library of Congress prints and photographs: ... More

[Elbert Hubbard, half-length portrait, facing right] / Zaida Ben Yusuf...

Signed on mount and on verso. Inscription on mount: Frances B. Johnston, with all kind wishes from her friend Elbert Hubbard. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Fr... More

[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier.

Signed on print, lower left. Source unknown. Public domain photograph - portrait, children of 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

F. Holland Day - [Christ's resurrection from the tomb]

F. Holland Day portraying Jesus Christ coming out of the tomb. Mounts are layered top to bottom: greenish buff, grey. May be hand colored. Image content featurees: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE Men. Title and other da... More

John Brown, three quarter length portrait

Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown, with beard, facing slightly right. Reproduction of daguerreotype attributed to Martin M. Lawrence. From records in Copyright Office: 12th of Dece... More

["Chug" & boy(?) playing checkers, "Pippy" reading, and Tony watching,...

Image content features: MODEL Pippy, Tony, & James (?) Costanza & ?; PROP Books; COSTUME sailor suits; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part o... More

The fisherman's home. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows four children outside a wooden cabin. 29592 U.S. Copyright Office. Published title. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222, but was not collected by FBJ. Transferred to PH series. Copyright deposit; 18... More

F. Holland Day - [Saint Sebastian with wounded chest]

Head-and-shoulders portrait of young man, Nicholas Giancola, facing right, portraying St. Sebastian. Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial wo... More

[Woman (Ethel Reed) in nymph costume as Chloe with leopard skin, berry...

Blind stamp: lower left. On verso: "Gey"(?) pencil. Image content features: MODEL Ethel Reed; PROP Staffs; COSTUME Leopard skin, drapery; PEOPLE Women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet com... More

[Half-length portrait of bearded man wearing artist's smock and cap an...

On verso: From the studio of Addie Kilburn Robinson, Boston, Mass., U.S.A. Attributed to Fr[...]y Gercher, Addie K. Robinson's assistant. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs col... More

Mr. W.D. Howells / Zaida Ben Yusuf.

Photograph shows half-length portrait of author William Dean Howells, seated, reading, facing left. Signed on mount. FBJ label no. 17. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collec... More

A-listnin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about

Photograph shows a young girl with her hands clasped in front, staring intently forward. Photograph was an illustration for James Whitcomb Riley's poem "Little Orphant Annie" printed in Brownell's Dream childre... More

Lumber works / Charles E. Cook.

Photographs shows lumber mills in East Boston, Mass. and St. John, New Brunswick. Titles of images: top row, left to right: Drury's Cove Mill, St. John, N.B. - Kenebecasis Mill, St. John, N.B. - Grand Gay Mil... More

F. Holland Day - [Youth in African costume in throne]

Published title: An Ethiopian chief (or Menelek)? 1, African chief 2. Image content features: PROPS leopard skins, spears; COSTUME African, jewelry; PEOPLE men? boys?; NATIONALITY African. Title and other data ... More

F. Holland Day - [Youth in African costume in throne]

The National Equal Rights Convention, which met Dec. 9th, 1873, Washin...

Crowd of men, white and black, lined along street and on balcony, Metzerott Hall, 925 PA. Ave. 14601 U.S. Copyright Office Photo by W. Ogilvie. Reference copy may be in U.S. GEOG FILE Washington, D.C. Historica... More

Unveiling of the statue of George Washington by Thomas Crawford, in Ri...

Source unknown. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Downing, aged 102, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The Last Men of the Revolution. Hartford:, N. A. & R. A. Moore, ... More

Eugène Atget - Street paver - Public domain print

Men paving street, Paris, France. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 12. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of ... More

Nude youth, standing, playing pipe in the woods

Published under various titles: The Marble Faun; Nude Boy in Woods. Image content features: MODEL Sidney Sergent; PROP pipes (musical instrument); PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial works... More

[Nude youth with pipe seated on leopard skin, in nature]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: ivory, black, brown paper on cream board. Image content features: PROP pipes (musical instrument), leopard skin; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial works... More

F. Holland Day - [Girl in white robe with black collar]

Image content features: MODEL Margherita Duncan; COSTUME robes, religious attire?; PEOPLE girls. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth on leopard skin]

Published under title: Africa. On verso: "Africa" upper left; "G" upper right, pencil. Image content features: PROP leopard skin; COSTUME jewelry; PEOPLE men? boys?; NATIONALITY African? African American? Title... More

Frederick H. Evans - [Ely Cathedral: view into nave] / FHE.

Layered mount. Embossed monogram, "FHE," in lower right corner of print.

[Girl in a plaid dress seated with a book in her lap] / MW.

Title devised. Signed with artist's monogram. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; France... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Good model / Mary R. Stanbery.

Photograph shows a young woman dressed in a white gown and cap, posing while another woman (Katharine Stanbery?) paints at an easel. A man (Clarence White?) sits next to the painter. Formerly filed in P&P LOT ... More

Frederick H. Evans - [York Minster, nave to transept] / FHE.

Layered mount with embossed monogram, "FHE," in lower right. Signed and inscribed in ink on back of mount.

[Portrait of Josephine or Miss B.]

Probably collotype. Signed in pencil [?], lower left corner, "Gertrude Käsebier." This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Caption card tracings: Women. Glass negative is: LC-K2-30.

[Auguste Rodin, three-quarter length portrait]

This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Copyright deposit; Jan. 19, 1906.

F. Holland Day - [Young man in high-collared jacket]

Photograph shows an African American man wearing the Hampton Institute uniform, head-and-shoulders portrait. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Cite as: The Louise... More

[The simple life] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Signed on print, lower right. This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Source unknown.

Eugène Atget - Eclipse, 1911 / Eugène Atget.

Crowd of people looking at eclipse in Paris, France. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 4.

Frederick H. Evans - Aisle to altar, St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithf...

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Signed and inscribed in pencil on back of print. Source unknown.

[Three-quarter length portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Mrs. Ha...

Signed on mount. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Pu... More

The poem / Doris Ulmann.

Photograph showing a girl or young woman sitting outdoors reading a book. Doris Ulmann was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Date, subject, and physical description data provided by d... More

[An alley, in a city in the South, ca. 1930]

Photograph shows a narrow alley in a residential district, with sidewalk, street light, and fire hydrant. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation; 1935; (DLC/PP-1935:055).

Old woman in sunbonnet, no. 2 - Public domain scan / print

Photographic portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a large bonnet, half-length, seated, with arms folded. No. 143. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Old man holding potato] - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Purchase; 1934; (DLC/PP-1934:137).

[Negro woman standing in window]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Old man and woman barefooted, seated on door step]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; 1934 (DLC/PP-1934:137).

[Woman with dahlias] - Drawing. Public domain image.

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

[Man with beard standing in doorway]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Gift; Doris Ulmann Foundation, 1935 (DLC/PP-1935:055).

Clarence H. White (seated center), Gertrude Käsebier (seated right), a...

Photograph shows Clarence H. White, Käsebier, and students of Seguinland School of Photography, Georgetown, Maine, gathered together on a porch. Subject and physical description data provided by donor. Purchas... More

F. Holland Day - [Tony in sailor suit, reclining]

Image content features: MODEL Tony Costanza; COSTUME sailor suits; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collectio... More

[Woman (Louise Guiney) in Saint Barbara costume with laurel wreath and...

Published title: St. Barbara. Model name: Louise Guiney. On recto: Halo drawn around head, pencil. Image content features: MODEL: Louise Guiney; PROP: Laurel wreaths; COSTUME: medieval folk (?); PEOPLE: Women. ... More

[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren.

Library owns 2 impressions. Photo no. 1a is 14.9 x 10 cm. mounted on black mat, 29 x 23 cm. Photo no. 1b is 15 x 10 cm. on Rembrandt mount, 31 x 25 cm. Title devised. Signed on mount. Photo no. 1a On verso: A.C... More

View of Atlanta, Ga., October 1864, from the Female Academy

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. No. 62. Landmarks labeled on image. Exhibited: "The Civil War in America" at th... More

The readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio

Signed in pencil on mount: Clarence H. White. Media based on X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry examination, National Gallery of Art, July 25, 2007. Purchase; 1926. Exhibited: "Clarence White and His World : The ... More

Frederick H. Evans - Kelmscott Manor: in the attics

This record contains unverified data from shelflist card. Layered mount with embossed monogram, "FHE," in lower left corner of print. Signed and inscribed in pencil on front of mount, lower edge.

Hunger ist der beste Koch / MAW.

Photograph shows a little girl, wearing a cap and wooden shoes, seated on a high chair at a wooden table, eating from a bowl. Signed with artist's monogram. On verso: Hunger ist der Beste Koch, photograph by M... More

F. Holland Day - [The Gainsborough hat], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photo shows a woman (Ethel Reed), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a plumed hat. Published title: The Gainsborough Hat. Image content features: MODEL Ethel Reed; COSTUME Hats; PEOPLE Women. Ti... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude youth with laurel wreath and lyre]

Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; PROPS laurel wreath, lyre; PEOPLE boys. Orpheus series. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Cite as: The Louise Im... More

F. Holland Day - [Probably boy, close up of face] / FHD 1905.

Monogram on recto "FHD 1905" red, lower right. Image content features: PEOPLE: Girls? (Boys?); NATIONALITY: African American. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Fo... More

Landscape--an evening, Panoramic Photograph

Panoramic view of a road at evening. Also known as "Road to town." Photographer's monogram on mount, lower left margin. Signed on back of the mount, "Landscape an evening by Carle F. Semon." Source unknown.

Wash day on the plantation / R. Eickemeyer.

Photo shows African American women and children doing laundry outdoors with a large wooden wash tub and in a cauldron over an open fire. S28305 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed in ink on lower right: Washday o... More

[The heritage of motherhood] / Gertrude Käsebier.

Woman seated, outdoors, three-quarter length, facing front, with hands folded. Signed lower right and lower left corners. LC-K2-27 (negative damaged)

[Young woman in dress with striped collar and necklace, Hampton, Virgi...

Image content features: COSTUME: Jewelry; PEOPLE: women; NATIONALITY: African American. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney C... More

Feeding the calves / Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright.

Photograph shows young woman wearing a Dutch cap(?) feeding cattle by a stream and stone bridge. Published title. On verso: Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic phot... More

F. Holland Day - [Crucifixion in profile, left]

Left profile of F. Holland Day portraying the crucified Christ. Mounts are layered top to bottom: ivory, greenish buff, grey. Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day; PEOPLE men. On recto: "98" black, lower righ... More

John Brown, three quarter length portrait

[Girl with braids in white dress with bow, with hands folded, seated]

Image content features: MODEL Alice S. Lee; PEOPLE girls. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Louise... More

F. Holland Day - [Nude boy with laurel wreath, face]

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

[F.H. Day and Maynard White in sailor suits, portrait]

Image content features: MODEL F.H. Day, Maynard White; COSTUME sailor suits; PEOPLE men, boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen G... More

[Jefferson Davis, three-quarter length portrait, facing right]

Gift; Miss M. Sweedale; April 23, 1921; (DLC/PP-46294) The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of... More

A print of Winan's new Iron Steamer, taken September 29th, 1858, on th...

Copyright deposit. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

W.W. Wright, Chf. Eng. & [...] Mil. RRds.

Photograph showing William Wierman Wright (1824-1882), engineer, seated outdoors at a desk with map and drafting equipment. Wright was engineer and superintendent of Aquia Creek Railroad (1862-1863), head of th... More

Company Street, Battery D, 1st U.S. Arty., Camp Seymour, Beaufort, S. ...

Photograph shows soldiers on lawn surrounded by camp facilities. ; hand-lettered on mount. Gift of; Mrs. James DeWolf Perry; 1932; (DLC/PP-1932:0099).

Chattanooga water works, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows U.S. Army water works at Cameron Hill, Chattanooga, Tennessee Purchase; Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:117). Vender : Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.

Alexander Millener, aged 104, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph, with hands in a different position, appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The Last Men of the Revolut... More

Gen's. R.E. Lee and J.E. Johnston / D.J. Ryan, Savannah, Ga.

Photographs shows full-length portraits of Lee and Johnston seated at a table. In this print Lee holds a pen and appears to be writing on a piece of paper.Taken during Lee's farewell tour of the South, this pho... More

Julia Margaret Cameron - [Portrait of Charles Darwin]

Signed on mount: From life, registered photograph copyright Julia Margaret Cameron, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Exchange; (DLC/PP-1969:031).

Looking seaward / Myra A. Wiggins, 1889.

Photograph shows a man standing on a rock outcropping on beach while looking toward a body of water. Signed on mount. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Be... More

F. Holland Day - [Nun with hands folded, praying, seated]

Image content features: MODEL Sister Theresa or Teresa; COSTUME religious attire; PEOPLE women. Blind stamp, lower left. On mount: Gey or 69 [illeg.] pencil, upper right. Title and other data comes from a curat... More

[Young woman (Nancy Lovis (Kraft)) in Middle Eastern costume, with flo...

Pencilled on mount verso: "n" u.r.; "y"? u.r. Image content features: MODEL Nancy Lovis (Kraft); COSTUME Mediterranean/Mid-east/N. African; PEOPLE Young women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial works... More

[Woman in white drapery with wedding ring and leopard skin, seated]

Image content features: PROP leopard skin; COSTUME drapery, jewelry; PEOPLE women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collec... More

[Woman in straw hat and white blouse with umbrella, seated]

Image content features: COSTUME hats; PEOPLE women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imogen Guiney Collection. Cite as: The Louise Imoge... More

Frederick H. Evans - York Minster [Cathedral, York, England]: from nav...

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Layered mount with embossed monogram, "FHE," in lower right. Signed and inscribed in pencil, front of mount. Caption card tracings: Churches Eng; Photog.... More

Edward S. Curtis - The vanishing race--Navaho

Photograph shows Navajos on horseback riding away from photographer. Curtis no. 984. Title from illustration of same image in the book The North American Indian by E.S. Curtis. Notation in lower left corner, "C... More

[Nude youth with laurel wreath kissing herm of Pan]

Monogram: red, lower right. On recto: "19 FHD 05" lower right, red. Image content features: MODEL "Pippy" Joseph Costanza; COSTUME sculpture, laurel wreaths; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curat... More

F. Holland Day - [Woman (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl) in ...]

Image content features: MODEL Beatrice Baxter Ruyl; PROPS sculpture, herm of Pan; COSTUME leopard skin, drapery, wreaths, jewelry; PEOPLE women. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled a... More

F. Holland Day - ["Chug" in sailor suit, standing in doorway]

Mounts are layered top to bottom: cream & brown. Image content features: MODEL James Costanza as "Chug;" COSTUME sailor suit; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC i... More

[St. Sebastian in loincloth, tied to tree with rope, arrows in stomach...

Published title: Saint Sebastian. Monogram: red, lower right. On recto: Mono., date, lower right, red. Image content features: MODEL Nicholas Giancola; PEOPLE boys. Title and other data comes from a curatorial ... More

[Agnes Lee, standing, with arm around older daughter, (Agnes Lee), sea...

Layered mounts are top to bottom: cream & tan. Monogram on recto: "FHD 1909" red-orange, lower right. Image content features: MODELS Agnes Lee and Lee (older daughter); PEOPLE women, girls, families. Title and ... More

F. Holland Day - [... Lee in white dress and hat]

On verso: "?̲̲ ̲Lee" or "6" pencil. Image content features: MODEL ... Lee; PROP hats; PEOPLE girls. Title and other data comes from a curatorial worksheet compiled at LC in 1992-93. Forms part of the Louise Imo... More

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