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Panoramic picture of Armour & Co.'s General Office, Union Stock Yards, Chicago

Panoramic picture of Armour & Co.'s General Office, Union Stock Yards,...

D76312 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: 2701 Indiana Ave., Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; April 11, 1900; DLC/PP-1900:30419.

As in a looking glass - movie film screenshot

As in a looking glass - movie film screenshot

Opens on a split stage set of two rooms with a door and wall between them. In the living or dining room on the left of the frame, an elderly, bearded man sits at a table, reading the newspaper. In the bedroom o... More

A black and white photo of a crowd of people and animals, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a crowd of people and animals, Great Depres...

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

Construction of stock water dam. Dawes County, Nebraska

Construction of stock water dam. Dawes County, Nebraska

Public domain photograph of Redwood National Park, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a pile of boxes, Louisiana. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a pile of boxes, Lou...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men sitting next to each other on a bench, Texas, during Great Depression

A group of men sitting next to each other on a bench, Texas, during Gr...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two men in suits and hats standing next to each other, Texas, during Great Depression

Two men in suits and hats standing next to each other, Texas, during G...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A crowd of people standing around each other, Texas, during Great Depression

A crowd of people standing around each other, Texas, during Great Depr...

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

, Texas, during Great Depression

, Texas, during Great Depression

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man riding a horse, Texas, during Great D...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man on a bull, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man on a bull, Texas, during Great Depres...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong alloy" aluminum rod stock as it comes from the rolling mill. This stock has been reduced to 1 3/8" in diameter

Aluminum. Reynolds Metal Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Rolled "strong...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative. There are 181 head of hogs averaging 160 pounds. There are also forty sows and 219 suckling pigs

Purebred Hampshires feeding at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Cotton stockings. Cotton is coming to have universal appeal. Shopping for cotton hose in a Hollywood store, Rita Hayworth finds that the shop girl, too, is wearing hose much the same type she plans to buy. Miss Hayworth is inspecting a diamond pattern lisle stocking personally selected for her by Hollywood's famed designer, Howard Greer, to accompany her afternoon emsemble

Cotton stockings. Cotton is coming to have universal appeal. Shopping ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Warehouse view of cord stock. Cord stock as it is received from the mill. This special twist cotton cord comes from southern mills. It differs from other tire cords in that it is woven and twisted by gear-driven machinery instead of belt-driven equipment. Slips and strains of belt-machinery are reflected in the cord and on into the finished tire, whereas in a gear-driven machine there are no slippages, therefore no weakened cords in the finished tire. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Warehouse view of cord stock. Cord stock as it is received from the mi...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pullets in poultry house. Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) co-op. Waterloo, Nebraska

Pullets in poultry house. Two Rivers Non-Stock Cooperative, a FSA (Far...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Rubber stock for the track treads of scout cars and other Army halftrac vehicles is milled in one Ohio tire plant. All rubber firmly "welded" to the steel parts is formed into one tough durable piece. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

Rubber stock for the track treads of scout cars and other Army halftra...

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

Cotton stockings. Ann Sheridan demonstrates the elasticity and sheerness of the new style of cotton hose

Cotton stockings. Ann Sheridan demonstrates the elasticity and sheerne...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Cotton stockings. Cotton is coming to have universal appeal. Shopping for cotton hose in a Hollywood store, Rita Hayworth finds that the shop girl, too, is wearing hose much the same type she plans to buy. Miss Hayworth is inspecting a diamond pattern lisle stocking personally selected for her by Hollywood's famed designer, Howard Greer, to accompany her afternoon emsemble

Cotton stockings. Cotton is coming to have universal appeal. Shopping ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two women in a bathroom. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of two women in a bathroom. Office of War Info...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A converted cash register factory now producing war goods in enormous volume must keep on hand huge stocks of packing materials. These corrugated board inserts are made from waste paper and are used for packing shell parts. National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio

A converted cash register factory now producing war goods in enormous ...

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

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large walnut slab, known as a flitch, is marked for the cutting out of sound planes for gunstocks. Light chalk marks indicate defects. Black marks are the outlines to which selected sections for "rifle furniture" will be cut. Because of knots, swirls, twisted grain and other faults, only a small percentage of the flitch can be used. Louisville, Kentucky

Conversion. Flooring to gunstocks. Stocks for Army rifles. A large wal...

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discarded stockingss go to war. Some of the 2,500,000 pairs of silk stocking turned in for salvage during the first month of the collection campaign. The material is repacked into bales for storage at government warehouses and reshipment to processing plants

Discarded stockingss go to war. Some of the 2,500,000 pairs of silk st...

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

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Trampas, New Mexico. Loose stock followed Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), and his team into the mountains, apparently for company, and spent the time munching dead oak leaves in the snow

Trampas, New Mexico. Loose stock followed Juan Lopez, the majordomo (m...

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

Calumet City, Illinois. Calumet Park stockyards, for feeding, quartering and resting stock that is in transit through Chicago

Calumet City, Illinois. Calumet Park stockyards, for feeding, quarteri...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a herd of cows. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a herd of cows. Office of War Information P...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Museum of the City of New York, 104th St. and 5th Ave., New York City. Stock Exchange, Buttonwood diorama

Museum of the City of New York, 104th St. and 5th Ave., New York City....

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor II

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor II

Item title devised. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

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

[Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform with percussion cap pistol carbine, attached stock, and cavalry saber]

[Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform with percussion cap pis...

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Agnews State Hospital, Assistant Physician's Cottage & Garage, South Side of Palm Drive, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Agnews State Hospital, Assistant Physician's Cottage & Garage, South S...

In 1998, the garage was demolished & the cottage was relocated. Significance: Building 106 is significant during the period from 1934 to 1952 as a component of the reconstruction of Agnews State Hospital in a p... More

This is not the New York Stock Exchange, it is the patronage exchange, called U.S. Senate / J.A. Wales.

This is not the New York Stock Exchange, it is the patronage exchange,...

Senators holding papers "patronage," "sold out," and "New York quotations," with T.C. Platt handcuffed to man on left, who is handing "orders of the boss" to Chester Arthur. Illus. in: Puck, v. 9, 1881 April 13... More

Rockefeller's son-in-law runs $13,000 into $218,000,000, Sec. inquiry told. Washington, D.C., Dec. 17. How he won control of a $218,000,000 investment concern by putting up $13,000 in cash and 6,500 shares of stock in an inactive insurance was told the Securities and Exchange Commision today by David Miltion, son-in- law of John D. Rockefeller. Milton is shown with David Schenker, left, Counsel for the Sec. who is conducting the investment trust inquiry

Rockefeller's son-in-law runs $13,000 into $218,000,000, Sec. inquiry ...

Two men standing next to each other in a room. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards District

Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More

Wash. D.C. "Don't Know." O.E. Wasser, A.G. & E. Controller who told the Senate lobby investigators Tuesday that they shouldn't "expect me to know everything." He was being questioned about the about the company for which he works and for which he claimed he owned no stock in. 7/30/35

Wash. D.C. "Don't Know." O.E. Wasser, A.G. & E. Controller who told th...

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

President Roosevelt greeted by workers on stock water dam near Mandan, North Dakota

President Roosevelt greeted by workers on stock water dam near Mandan,...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Deschutes River, like many of the other rivers in the arid portion of central Oregon, is at the bottom of a steep canyon. Stock trails have been built by Resettlement Administration workers to make the water available to cattle

The Deschutes River, like many of the other rivers in the arid portion...

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

An old black and white photo of two men. Farmers during Great Depression

An old black and white photo of two men. Farmers during Great Depressi...

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

Hauling water for stock near Dickinson, North Dakota

Hauling water for stock near Dickinson, North Dakota

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A man and a woman sitting on a porch Negro sharecropper and wife. Mississippi. They have no tools, stock, equipment, or garden

A man and a woman sitting on a porch Negro sharecropper and wife. Miss...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph.

Texas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Infor...

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

A group of people standing next to each other, Texas, during Great Depression

A group of people standing next to each other, Texas, during Great Dep...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a horse, possibly related to: West Texan and his horse which he is displaying in show ring at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

A black and white photo of a man standing next to a horse, possibly re...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Stock waterhole and windmill, Socorro County, New Mexico

Stock waterhole and windmill, Socorro County, New Mexico

Public domain photograph of water reservoir, lake, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Couple sitting out a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas

Couple sitting out a dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San A...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fancy riding demonstration at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Fancy riding demonstration at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Sh...

Public domain photograph of horse race, equestrian sport, jokey, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cowboys clipping a Hereford steer which will be shown in the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas

Cowboys clipping a Hereford steer which will be shown in the San Angel...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Beauty queen at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Dance during the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas

Beauty queen at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Dance during the San An...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Crowd at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Crowd at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stock piles at copper mine. Ahmeek, Michigan

Stock piles at copper mine. Ahmeek, Michigan

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

Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fresh stock rolls over towering drying racks shown here. Weighted tension bars keep the festooned sheet of new fabric taut and straight as it cools and dries. From the drying racks, the fabric travels quickly onto rolls of cloth where it is rolled onto reels small enough to handle. Firestone (General Tires), Akron, Ohio

Drying at top speed. Reeled away from the calendaring machine, the fre...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Cotton stockings. Lana Turner inspecting the ankle-flattering bracelet design embroidered on dressy, fine point lisle cotton mesh hose

Cotton stockings. Lana Turner inspecting the ankle-flattering bracelet...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Washing stockings in a cabin

Interlochen, Michigan. National music camp where 300 or more young mus...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan. Stock pile of coal and iron ore

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation. Detroit, Michigan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, industrial facility, mining industry, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Discarded stockingss go to war. Bales of discarded silk stockings averaging about 1,000 pounds ready for shipment for reprocessing into powder bags

Discarded stockingss go to war. Bales of discarded silk stockings aver...

Public domain photograph of life in the USA during the 1930s-1940s, war, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Discarded stockingss go to war. Bobbins of silk thread processed from discarded silk stockings are spun into spools prior to weaving into powder bags for use in heavy guns

Discarded stockingss go to war. Bobbins of silk thread processed from ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

A fine finish is being given this gun stock on the sanding machine. One of the multitude of processes in the manufacture of rifles for the war program

A fine finish is being given this gun stock on the sanding machine. On...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train between Emporia and Wellington, Kansas passing through the Flint Hills district of Kansas. This is a famous stock feeding area

An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train between Emporia and ...

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calumet City, Illinois. Part of the Calumet Park stockyards, run by the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad as a stock watering, feeding and resting point. The law requires that stock be watered, fed, and rested every thirty-six hours of a journey

Calumet City, Illinois. Part of the Calumet Park stockyards, run by th...

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. Esther Wheeler, book photos at 1506 Woodside Ave., Baldwin, Long Island. Stockings and clock

Mrs. Esther Wheeler, book photos at 1506 Woodside Ave., Baldwin, Long ...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office, workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. The fellow in the fedora, introduced to the audience only as "Johnny," is Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, himself an accomplished guitarist

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

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

Agnews State Hospital, Female Nurses Home, South Circle Drive between Fourth & Mesa Lanes, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA

Agnews State Hospital, Female Nurses Home, South Circle Drive between ...

Significance: Building 108 is significant during the period from 1914 to 1941 as an integral component of the reconstruction of Agnews State Hospital in a pavilion plan. The 1907 design for the hospital symbol... More

Stock Saddle. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Stock Saddle. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Miller, Alvin Made ca. 1930; many Nevada buckaroos preferred this saddle's features: one centrally placed cinch (center-fired, single-rigged) and an unswelled pommel (slick fork) with bucking rolls Make... More

Stocking the twenty-five acre lake with fish. Greenbelt, Maryland

Stocking the twenty-five acre lake with fish. Greenbelt, Maryland

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Corn loans "immediate necessity" President Roosevelt told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Corn loans of 60 cents a bushel are an "immediate necessity", Edward R. O'Neal, (center) President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told President Roosevelt at a White House conference today. The condition of farm prices is one reason for the stock market being so jittery, O'Neal told newsmen following the call. Earl Smith, (left) President oft he Illinois Agricultural Association, and Clifford H. Gregory, Editor of Wallace's Farm Journal, were also in on the Conference. 10/20/37

Corn loans "immediate necessity" President Roosevelt told. Washington,...

A black and white photo of three men in suits and hats. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, possibly related to: J.A. Johnson's oldest daughter picking cotton in cotton field, Statesville, North Carolina. He is a sharecropper, works about ten acres, receives half the cotton, must pay for half the fertilizer. Landlord furnishes stock and tools

A black and white photo of a woman in a field, possibly related to: J....

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Large stock of metal roofing is carried by the United Producers and Consumers Cooperative. Phoenix, Arizona

Large stock of metal roofing is carried by the United Producers and Co...

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

High school horse and his owner-trainer at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

High school horse and his owner-trainer at the rodeo of the San Angelo...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

High school horse and his owner-trainer at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show. San Angelo, Texas

High school horse and his owner-trainer at the rodeo of the San Angelo...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of sheep in a pen, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of sheep in a pen, Texas, during Great Depress...

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

Spectator watching the Brahma bull riding at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Spectator watching the Brahma bull riding at the rodeo of the San Ange...

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

A black and white photo of a line of horses, possibly related to: West Texan and his horse which he is displaying in show ring at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

A black and white photo of a line of horses, possibly related to: West...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of a group of people, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a group of people, Texas, during Great Depr...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man cutting a sheep's wool, possibly related to: Cowboy washing a Hereford steer which will be shown in the San Angelo Fat Stock Show the following day, San Angelo, Texas

A black and white photo of a man cutting a sheep's wool, possibly rela...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of a man and a horse, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man and a horse, Texas, during Great Depr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of armed forces, military conflict, conscription, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a crowd of people, Texas, during Great Depr...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of sheep show barn at San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Interior of sheep show barn at San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, ...

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

Working cowboy in the show barns at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas

Working cowboy in the show barns at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San...

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton stockings. There is a current trend for color in sport stockings like these in pale blue which Ann Sheridan is wearing to match her culottes. These stockings are also made in pink, green and orchid. Cotton accepts dye much more readily than does silk

Cotton stockings. There is a current trend for color in sport stocking...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton stockings. Rita Hayworth in a pink and silver lame evening dress designed by the famed Hollywood designer Howard Greer. Her evening hose are of fine crepe lisle of the same spun sugar sheen as the dress

Cotton stockings. Rita Hayworth in a pink and silver lame evening dres...

Public domain photograph of model, woman, photo, fashion advertising, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton stockings. Ilona Massey wearing bright red, knee socks, in ribbed lisle, which have been designed for active sports wear

Cotton stockings. Ilona Massey wearing bright red, knee socks, in ribb...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

A black and white photo of a man with a hammer. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man with a hammer. Office of War Informat...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Skilled workmen checking the stock clearance on a die which will be used to trim and flange fenders. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Skilled workmen checking the stock clearance on a die which will be us...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Stark County, North Dakota. Stock farm

Stark County, North Dakota. Stock farm

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man for looms, but he's one of Uncle Sam's defense workers now. Employed by a small Eastern floor waxer manufacturing firm, this worker now spends ninty-nine percent of his time working on small parts for gun mounts. Here, however, he's working on the remainder of the floor waxer stock left in the plant. Orders for the shop's peacetime products can still be filled from stock, but no new waxers are being made. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. He used to be a weaver and repair man f...

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

Columbia Products Corp., 249 McKibben St., Brooklyn, New York. Stock room

Columbia Products Corp., 249 McKibben St., Brooklyn, New York. Stock r...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American office, workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor of a store in the German section of New York, is selling a Westphalian ham to Mrs. Elizabeth Freygang. The names are German, but both are patriotic Americans, glad to be in the United States, where a storekeeper is free to keep such well-stocked racks of food. Weber has shown his support of his adopted country by posting his ceiling price list

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving the plant of the Ford Motor Company where his son is employed as an expert tool and die maker and he is foreman of the rough stock department of the Johansson gauge division. They drive twenty-five miles to and from work in their Ford car

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his son, Eric, leaving th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an automobile, 1940s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Here is a stock of billets, or solid cylindrical brass or copper castings, which have been sawed to length. These billets will be heated and put through a powerful extrusion machine, which will extrude rods, tubes or other special shapes from them. Billets are cast six inches to eight inches in diameter and usually from four to ten feet long. These are sawed to shorter lengths before they go to the extrusion machines. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Here is a stock of billets, o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. Feeding stock on the Mutz ranch

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. Feeding stock on the Mutz ra...

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

Calumet City, Illinois. Calumet Park stockyards, for feeding, quartering and resting stock that is in trainsit through Chicago

Calumet City, Illinois. Calumet Park stockyards, for feeding, quarteri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Los Cordovas, Taos County, New Mexico. Letter announcing to Blas Chavez that he has won the second prize on the quality of his stock]

[Los Cordovas, Taos County, New Mexico. Letter announcing to Blas Chav...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train passing through the Flint mills district of Kansas. This is a famous stock feeding area

An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe passenger train passing through the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Stock Saddle. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Stock Saddle. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Source: Stewart, Leslie and Marie Probably made in Wyoming ca. 1950, this typical ranch saddle displays a swelled pommel, and has leather coverings, rosettes, and iron D rings to hold the single cotton cinch; t... More

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor IV

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor IV

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor III

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor III

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor V

New York Stock Exchange. Trading floor V

Item title devised. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Live Stock Exchange, Fort Worth, Texas

Live Stock Exchange, Fort Worth, Texas

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

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of this photograph, performs with his band, "Family," at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. The fellow in the fedora, introduced to the audience only as "Johnny," is Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, himself an accomplished guitarist

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

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

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