4,257 Photography Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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

Unknown location. Wagons and camera of Sam A. Cooley, U.S. photographe...

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information abou... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burnside bridge. Southeastern view

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Antietam, Maryland. Picnic party at Antietam bridge

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Antietam, Maryland. Sherrick's house, near Burnside bridge

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The drummer soldiers of the Selamlık Ceremony units of the Fire Briga...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Istanbul, Turkey, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Photographer and subject, in Yokohama, Japan]

Print shows a woman posing for a portrait photograph, half-length, seated, facing right, next to a table with a potted plant; at the top of the image is a banner filled with text and an illustration of the phot... More

[The pool at the Imperial Summerhouse on the Kağıthane]

Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. No. 900. In album: Palaces, mosques, monuments, and other structures, Istanbul and e... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a man riding a horse, running in profile and towards the viewer. 9633 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. Illus. ... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a man pole vaulting. 9285 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge, Phila... More

Animal locomotion. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Electro-photographic investigation showing a series of consecutive images of a woman using a rake. 9496 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge. From: Animal locomotion / Eadweard Muybridge. Phil... More

[Frances Benjamin Johnston on a balcony of the State, War and Navy Bui...

Photograph shows Johnston working at her camera preparing to take a picture. This proof print includes the shadow cast by the photographer capturing the scene. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collecti... More

Jury of the Second Philadelphia Photographic Salon, 1899

Photograph shows, from left: Frances Benjamin Johnston, Clarence H. White, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, and Henry Troth. Inscribed in pencil on mount: #192. Gift; Kathleen B. White; 2003-2004; (DLC/PP-20... More

Lajinska - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Picture postcard, "Jaffa, landing place / Jaffa, Landungsplatz / Jaffa...

Public domain photo of vintage French postcard, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

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

Clemmer Ave. and Main St., Chamberlain, S. Dak.

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

An amateur photographer

Photograph shows boy with homemade "Kodack" camera pretending to photograph little girl with doll.

[Signal station in the Rockies, showing telephone installation and sig...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 11903 A. Neg. no. 2183.

[Main & Cherokee St., Jonesboro, Tenn.]

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

[Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)]

Photo shows Herman A. "Germany" Schaefer (1876-1919), one of the most entertaining characters in baseball history, trying out the other side of the camera during the Washington Senators visit to play the New Yo... More

U.S.N.A. Cantonment, Camp Lee, Virginia

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

German and Viennese photography, March, 1906 [and] Detail: Picasso--Br...

Illus. in: Camera Work, no. 48, October 1916, p. [67]. Exhibition "Arrangements" at "291." Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1864 and... More

North-East from "Y" 82, Camp Sevier, S.C.

Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Purdue University, gelatin silver print

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

Bird's eye view of Spokane from Sacred Hart [sic] Hospital

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

Picture postcard, "Sorting his wheat"

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

Prince Andrew of Greece [at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Arlington, Virgin...

A man standing next to a camera on a tripod. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Entrance terrace, Bro...

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

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Residence in Norfolk,...

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

Kodak art poster - Drawing. Public domain image.

Poster shows photo of 2 girls, one holds a Kodak camera. Date of publication supplied by Library staff. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. C35. 193- Purc... More

A black and white photo of a sailor looking through binoculars. Great ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Exhibition of housing photographs Produced by Federal Art Project, Wor...

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of photographs. Date stamped on verso: Aug 26 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

[Nantucket doorway, Massachusetts], gelatin silver print

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

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Trylon and perisphere...

The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New York City, United States in 1939-1940. The 1939-1940 World's Fair was themed "The World of Tomorrow" and featured pavilions and exhibit... More

County agent taking pictures, Parke County, Indiana

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

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Path to the pond, May...

Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Chinese garden, Palm ...

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

A man taking a picture with a camera, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photog...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Maryland photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War In...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Send your picture home. Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington, D.C.

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photography exhibition Photographs by the W.P.A. Federal Art Project.

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition of photographs at the Hotel Nassau, Long Beach, L.I., showing camera and photograph of buildings. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). ... More

A little boy standing next to a camera on a tripod. Office of War Info...

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

Lane County, Oregon. Tourist at the Dee Wright observation point

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Sighting a howitzer 75 mm gun during artillery pra...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cold Harbor, Virginia Photographer's wagon and tent

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library ... More

Jacob August Riis, 1849-1914 - Public domain portrait print

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Jacob Riis : Revealing 'How the Other Half Lives'" at the Museum of the City of New York, New York City, N.Y., Oct. 2015 -... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, May 19

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The New Education Illustrated by Edith C. Westcott with photograhs fro...

Illustrated cover showing a young woman, wearing an academic motarboard and gown, holding a diploma, and a young girl reading a book. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin John... More

Sennett girls in serpentine confetti

Photograph shows the Sennett Bathing Beauties draped with confetti. J229468 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 91-X. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Ann... More

Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, undated

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Unknown location. Wagons and camera of Sam A. Cooley, U.S. photographe...

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0868 Title from Milh... More

Angela Davis, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Poster showing head-and-shoulders portrait of Angela Davis, facing left. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

A black and white photo of people walking in the snow. Photograph albu...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

A group of children standing in front of a christmas tree. Photograph ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

A black and white photo of a group of people. Photograph album, Christ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Antietam, Maryland. Burying the dead Confederate soldiers

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

Bird's eye view of Cameron, Wis.

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

Antietam, Maryland. Bodies of dead, Louisiana Regiment

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

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Air Station, U.S. Schools of Photography, Pensacola, Escamb...

Survey number: HABS FL-257 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000595

Kenyon College, gelatin silver print

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

Journal by Mabel Hubbard Bell, from July 20, 1883 to October 6, 1884

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Sharpsburg, Md. View with Episcopal church in distance]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

The Petrino children, 290 First Ave. Peter, Mary, (baby), Katherine. E...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, child, children, infant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

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

Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Atlanta, Ga. Chevaux-de-frise on Marietta Street; photographic wagons...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to a... More

[Nine camp scenes] - Public domain scan / drawing

Title devised. Each scene is identified from left to right: The ice cart; city point; the water cart; Takeing [sic] Photographs; view from Dr. Starkes plantation; bringing goods ashore; searching for whiskey; n... More

[Gordon Parks, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information ...

Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Kabuki scene of early photography] / Yoshiiku.

Triptych shows four actors: two men on the left, a man in the center holding a book and some prints or photographs, and a woman on the right standing with a large camera behind her. Triptych matted in 3 sectio... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Public domain photograph related to Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description