[Pavilion Perusson, exhibit of bricks, enamels, terre-cotta and cerami...
Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Reversed a...
"On February 28, 1857, Alexander Hesler took the famous photograph of Lincoln in Chicago. About seven months earlier, so the story went, Lincoln had posed for William H. Masters of Princeton, Illinois. No photo... More
[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of ...
Title devised by library staff. Date of photograph based on years photographer Harvey B. Lindsley was active and Tubman's clothing. (Source: researcher A. Cohn, 2016) Original photo not found in LOT since at le... More
Sec. of War Simon Cameron, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]
Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 20 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[Two women looking upwards with expressions of shock and horror, durin...
September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Helen Keller, no. 8 portrait photograph, facing right
Photograph showing Helen Keller, half-length portrait, facing right, seated with hand on braille book in her lap as she smells a rose in a vase. H52235 U.S. Copyright Office. "No. 8." On verso: "...man, Chels... More
Miss Anita Phipps, 11/24/23 - Public domain dedication image
A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Prince Palden Gyumed and Princess Hope Leezum seated on white scarves...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, f...
Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-072. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikk... More
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of England - champions in "pairs" skating at Davo...
A couple of people that are standing in the snow. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL
Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lynching - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Radiant-looking Grace Kelly waves good-bye to New York from the ocean ...
Title from note on verso. United Press photograph. No. NXP 1103145. Note on verso: The lone cameraman getting another angle on the departure is United Press staff photographer Joe Schuppe, who is accompanying t... More
"Editha", portrait, cyanotype - Public domain portrait
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bathing beach beauty contest, [1920], Eliz. Roache (most beautiful sui...
A black and white photo of a woman holding a sign. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Parrum - Ute man, half-length portrait, facing front, holding feather...
66435 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph by Rose and Hopkins, Denver, Colorado. No. 167.
On the beach, Palm Beach, Fla. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Double exposure "spirit" photograph of girl standing, holding flowers...
H62881 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Harry Houdini performs the great milk can escape]
Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist, born in Budapest in 1874. ... More
[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company F infantry forage c...
Case: Leather scroll motif. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion
American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Prof. Ernst Haeckel of Jena, bacteriologist; Germany or Austria
Photo by Ray Stannard Baker. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; Eating and drinking; PI; Street vendors; Markets; Austria Misc; Germany Misc.
Edward S. Curtis - [Atsina Indian on horse pulling travois]
H118632 U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1930, vol. 5, p. 140. Curtis no. 2960-08.
Seance at von Erhardt's - Table in the air
Photo shows seance held at the studio of Baron von Erhardt in Rome, Italy in 1909. (Source: New York Times, Nov. 21, 1909)
[Young woman kissing baby in bassinet]
J170734 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 531. Copyright by Stadler. No copyright renewal per LC Photoduplication Service.
Babe Ruth, 1919 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Eleanor Roosevelt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
J38008 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Muhammad Ali, bust portrait] / World Journal Tribune photo by Ira Ros...
NYWT&S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Rosa Parks, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia College, Chica...
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
[Five women holding hands and walking together in a row, sky in backgr...
Published in Vogue magazine, August, 1935. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell ; introduction by George Plimpton ; foreword by Si... More
[Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston]
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Irving Trust Bldg., 1 Wall St. - Irving Underhill Co. photo
JO8624 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 20599. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C.
View of Lower Manhattan from the Manhattan Bridge, September 11, 2001
September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain image of New York City buildings, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jaffa - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Trans-Jordan types. Bedouin and wife. (Of the Bdul tribe of Petra)
Public domain photograph of bedouin, arab, Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. E.C. Wilson (Elsie Tilford)
A black and white photo of a woman wearing a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps, faci...
Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, George Washington. Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-159
[Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, three-quarter length portrait, standin...
Photo copyrighted by Pach. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
[USS Cyclops during construction, 1910]
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with President Jimmy Carter ...
Contact sheet folder caption: Margaret Thatcher & Pres. Carter at White House. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
"Horses on the Beach," a horseback-riding operation on Padre Island, T...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
A group of people standing around a car in a factory. Dodge Brothers M...
Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Charles Dickens - Public domain portrait print
Bust. Photoprint by J. Gurney & Son. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Portrait Photograph: Oscar Wilde, Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
A black and white photo of a man in a cape, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.... More
Queen of the wheel - Public domain print
Photograph shows studio portrait of a partially nude young woman, dressed in white flowing material, sitting on a bicycle, holding a glass of wine. Copyright 1897 by Rose Studio.
[African American children with a few adults in a pavilion]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 282. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Palestine - Jerusalem. General Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem - Fra...
Military procession entering Jerusalem through Jaffa Gate. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.
Gov[ernor] Emmett D. Boyle of Nevada signing resolution for ratificati...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of suffragists watching the governor of Nevada sign resolution for ratification in his office.
[Franklin D. Roosevelt, three quarters length portrait, seated on porc...
J10137 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres. I.; Shelf.
First Lady attends convention session of C.A.R. Mrs. Herbert Hoover wa...
A group of people standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Photograph (framed) of Iwo Jima taken by the crew of the U.S.S. Spear...
Image has vertical and horizontal markings that may have been from photographing through a scope. Gift; Captain C. C. Cole; March 26, 1954. Exhibited: "War/Photography : Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Af... More
Headquarters building of the Chinati Foundation, or La Fundacion China...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...
Copyright Alex. Washn. Lodge #22, A.F.& A.M., Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Central Dome, Paris Exposition, 1889]
Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...
Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More
[Samuel F.B. Morse, half-length portrait, posing with left hand on a t...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Abraham Lincoln, seated in chair, full portrait]
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Winston Churchill - Public domain photograph, glass negative
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Children of Czar of Russia - Public domain photograph, glass negative
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Young woman, full-length portrait, wearing lace dress, standing, faci...
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
C & P TELEPHONE CO. MAN ON PHONE
A black and white photo of a man in a suit talking on a telephone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Navajo boy - Public domain portrait print
Indian, half length, facing front. H95205 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Fred Harvey. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Children; Photog. I... More
[Portrait of Josephine Baker, Paris]
Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: IV HH 10. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More
[Unidentified African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and ...
Photograph showing soldier in uniform, wife in dress and hat, and two daughters wearing matching coats and hats. In May 1863, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton issued General Order No. 143 creating the Bureau... More
[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...
Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Unidentified man, about 60 years of age, in Masonic regalia, three-qu...
Written on back of plate: 501(X). Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.
Hiram R. Revels of Miss., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negativ...
African American legislator. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[President Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
Copy negative was made from a photograph in a private collection. Ostendorf, no. 77 Meserve, 59 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p.... More
[Christmas tree in the Wright home, 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio]
Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 153. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More
Oregon's Indian Madonna - Public domain portrait photograph
Indian woman holding baby. H63813 U.S. Copyright Office. From Benjamin A. Gifford, The Dalles, Oregon. No. 322. WSUNA
COCKRELL, A.E., MISS - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait
A woman sitting in a chair wearing a large hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, standing in field, pr...
Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-520
[Group of survivors of the Titanic disaster aboard the Carpathia after...
J169604 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary MacLane, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photograph shows author Mary MacLane (1881-1929) in a still from her silent movie "Men Who Have Made Love to Me." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the ... More
[Sigmund Freud with colleagues at the Congress at the Hague]
Photograph shows Freud seated (center), Ernest Jones (second from left), Sándor Ferenczi (second from right), and standing (center) Karl Abraham; several unidentified men appear either seated or standing.
[Poster winners, Am. R.R. Assn., 5/10/24]
A group of men standing next to each other holding posters. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Malcolm X waits at Martin Luther King press conference, head-and-shou...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 11695, frame 5.
Victor Hugo - Public domain portrait print
Victor Hugo, half-length portrait, facing front. Image appears to be a 19th century photoprint mounted on a 20th century postcard.
Indian Group. Chief Ouray & Chipeta (Ute Tribe)
A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Eugen Sandow, full-length portrait, lying, facing left, wearing fig(?...
Copyright by B.J. Falk, N.Y. Public domain photograph of bodybuilder athlete, athletics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portrait of a woman] - Public domain portrait print
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Mark Twain", Head and Shoulders Portrait
Photograph shows Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), head and shoulders portrait, facing right. Copyright by A.F. Bradley, N.Y. (DLC/PP-43240). Photo NOS 8/21/2013
Kentucky coal miner, Jenkins, Kentucky
Public domain photograph - historical image of Kentucky, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prostitutes "roping" at window. Peoria, Illinois
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Living Room, Boggio Household. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collec...
In main residence Occupants: Boggio, Joe and Geraldine Public domain photograph of bedroom, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project wa... More
Miner panning gold, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Man in blackface as minstrel - Public domain portrait print
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
[Man swinging golf club in the Washington, D.C., area(?)]
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Suffrage open air meeting at the National Capitol demanding that Congr...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with crowds of people, bicyclist, trolleys and cars. Speakers on sidewalk platform at building at corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St., Was... More
Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. "While shepherds watched their floc...
Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Portrait of Duke Ellington, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948]
Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More
[Portrait of James Baldwin] - Public domain portrait print
Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XV NN 5. Also available on microfilm. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait... More
[Yebichai, the beggar, Tonenili-Navajo Indian, dressed in spruce branc...
Curtis no. 1055-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Illusion of the American Frontier" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2015-Feb. 2016.