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[Reproduction of print showing Nymphs before Jupiter]

[Reproduction of print showing Nymphs before Jupiter]

Johnston No.: 235. Photograph of a woodblock from Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499. On slide (printed): Red outline flower design, "Set no.," "Slide No.," and "Title" (all blank). Also... More

Covered Bridge, Frederick County, Maryland

Covered Bridge, Frederick County, Maryland

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s bridge, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tulip, Tulipa ; Woodruff, Asperula arvensis ; Horned poppy, Roemeria ; Small poppy, Papaver / G.S.W.

Tulip, Tulipa ; Woodruff, Asperula arvensis ; Horned poppy, Roemeria ;...

Watercolor drawing showing tulip, blue woodruff and poppy plants from the Holy Land area (Israel and Palestine). On verso: March 1931. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Libra... More

Mrs. Caudill setting out cabbage plants in her garden, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mrs. Caudill setting out cabbage plants in her garden, Pie Town, New M...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Machining operation on the hold-down clamp for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. Machining operation on the hold-down clamp ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Russian Empire, photographic print

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, Rus...

Photographic survey of the Caucasus and Black Sea area. Includes scenic views of rivers, mountains, valleys, waterfalls, and mineral springs. Many images document a variety of flora (fruits, vegetables, trees, ... More

[Wisteria vine with leaves and blossoms] / Megata.

[Wisteria vine with leaves and blossoms] / Megata.

From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Reproduction of print showing Goose tree]

[Reproduction of print showing Goose tree]

Photograph of a woodcut in John Gerard, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, London, 1597 On slide (handwritten): "Goose plant, Des, in Gerardm Her." Also, red seal sticker. On slide (printed): Red outl... More

Nursery school children taking care of plants in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Nursery school children taking care of plants in the USSR (Union of So...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a crew of three men, makes the rows, fertilizes and plants potatoes in one operation. Kern County, California

Large-scale, mechanized farming. The potato planter, operated by a cre...

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

Sketches of Louisville and its environs : including, among a great variety of miscellaneous matter, a Florula louisvillensis or, a catalogue of nearly 400 genera and 600 species of plants that grow in the vicinity of the town, exhibiting their generic, specific, and vulgar English names ; to which is added an appendix, containing an accurate account of the earthquakes experienced here from the 16th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted principally from the papers of the late J. Brookes. Esq.

Sketches of Louisville and its environs : including, among a great var...

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Conservatory, Botanical Gardens. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

Conservatory, Botanical Gardens. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th c...

E. Totherick, photo. Gift of Detroit Public Library. Public domain scan of drawing, 19th century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flower drawing - Kiku - chrysanthemum / Megata.

Flower drawing - Kiku - chrysanthemum / Megata.

Drawing shows the leaves and blossoms of a kiku (chrysanthemum). From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Libra... More

Shimotsuke - May-June - Public domain scenic drawing

Shimotsuke - May-June - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows the pink clusters of blossoms of the shimotsuke (possibly the Japanese meadowsweet, spiraea japonica) on stem with leaves. Japanese text appears in upper right corner. From "Flowers" series. Gift... More

Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, "Second picking." The tobacco plants are often much taller than the children, and the air close and humid, especially when they are on the ground. Photo. Location: Cromwell, Connecticut / L.W. Hine.

Tobacco pickers on Goodrich Farm, "Second picking." The tobacco plants...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, tenant farmer, with armful of tobacco plants. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, tenant farmer, with armful of tobacco p...

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

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight, of Norwegian ancestry. His father has a small farm in South Dakota. He left the farm in 1936 and has been working in Minneapolis since then. He is now working in a small machine shop turning out tools and dies for war plants in the area

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bernard L. Lukin, twenty-eight, of Norwegian a...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants. Her daughter, Nan (right) nineteen, who works as a chemical operator at the Niacet Chemical Company is the youngest of eleven children and the only one unmarried. They are washing the supper dishes

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for girls ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of cooking, kitchen, food preparation, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of his castor bean plants, which is one of his 4-H projects for the year. Last year he only raised one-quarter of an acre, but this year, two and one-half acres, and he hopes to get from 1500 to 2000 puonds of beans to the acre

Valley Station, Kentucky. John E. Kalmey, age eighteen, hoeing some of...

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

Wild mustard plants bring color to the otherwise dormant vines of California's Napa Valley in wintertime

Wild mustard plants bring color to the otherwise dormant vines of Cali...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Plank walkway in Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Plank walkway in Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service ar...

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 Ph... More

[Red peppers with plant growing in the background]

[Red peppers with plant growing in the background]

Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Branch of a shrub with needle-like foliage and small pink blossoms

Branch of a shrub with needle-like foliage and small pink blossoms

Inscribed in pencil below drawing: Erica. Inscribed in pencil on lower left: Table Mountain. Date inscribed in pencil on lower left. (DLC/PP-1998:151.38) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Libra... More

[Lotus plants in various stages of development], Yasukuni Tachibana

[Lotus plants in various stages of development], Yasukuni Tachibana

Title devised by Library staff, other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Ehon noyamagusa : Illustrated book of mountain grasses. Format:... More

Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: spanner slotting fuse on head end of fuse bodies at Gray & Davis Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Women working in ordnance plants in World War I: spanner slotting fuse...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arms & armament; Women War Work; WWI US; WWI Industry; Shelf.

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more steel. These highly skilled machinists are doing their part to expand and maintain America's steel production capacity. Heavy castings that will form the backbone of steel mill equipment are being machined in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. Aetna. Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. Tanks! Ships! Guns! They all take steel and more...

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.

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hundreds of young Negro women who have been given jobs in war production plants in recent months. She is shown undersizing bushing in the aircraft factory of a large Eastern navy yard

Manpower. Negro navy yard workers. Anna C. Marchand is one of the hund...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West Coast's huge aircraft plants. These two are working on an electrical control panel

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together at one of the West...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Desert plants in West Texas - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

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

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes, volume 1

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States ...

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U.S. Bureau of Mines, Helium Plants, Exell Helium Plant, Highway 287N, Masterson, Moore County, TX

U.S. Bureau of Mines, Helium Plants, Exell Helium Plant, Highway 287N,...

Significance: The advances in helium technology developed at the Amarillo plant were implemented at Exell, the U.S. Bureau of Mines' principal helium producer from 1945 to 1998. Exell was the last of the govern... More

Yellow Scotch roses AC. Nowell - Public domain botanical illustration

Yellow Scotch roses AC. Nowell - Public domain botanical illustration

Print shows rose stems with several yellow blossoms, leaves, and thorns. Signed on stone on lower left. Printed on label on verso: No. 928. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Printed on bot... More

Prokudin Gorskii: V oranzherei︠e︡. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: V oranzherei︠e︡. Color separation negative

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

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. R. B. Santona and L. C. Ross work together in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Dolores Aldrich is employed in the Long Beach Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Sisal plants after cutting

Plantations in Kenya Colony. Sisal plants after cutting

Public domain reproduction of still life painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Milwaukee freight yards and industrial plants overshadowed by residential district. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee freight yards and industrial plants overshadowed by resident...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Copper. Flotation machines at one of the copper concentrators of the Utah Copper Company. Its plants at Magna and Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes

Production. Copper. Flotation machines at one of the copper concentrat...

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.

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turning roll that will soon be installed in one of our steel mills to increase the production of steel plate and sheet to supply the tanks, ships and gun parts that are required under our expanded war program. A scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania

Steel mill equipment. A worker inspects the dimensions of a huge turni...

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De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-tolerance machine work? Ask A.E. Kenyon, pictured above as he operates a machine turning out war material for the De Land, Florida pool. He's been a toolmaker since 1895 in some of the biggest plants in the country. He retired to Florida and came back into industry to help out in the war. There are a dozen men like him in the plants of the De Land pool

De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Can southern workers do close-toleran...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Office of War Information...

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

Poisonous mushrooms ; Irritating poisons / By G. Spratt, surgeon, fellow of the Medico-Botanical Society of London, and one of the editors of the Flora medica ; Lithographed by G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St[ree]t, Strand.

Poisonous mushrooms ; Irritating poisons / By G. Spratt, surgeon, fell...

Illustration shows poisonous mushrooms, including Glutinous Agaric, Bulbous Agaric, Deadly Agaric, and Hy Amanita; and plants classified as irrigating poisons, including Meadow Saffron, Bear's Foot, Black Helle... More

Biwa loquat / Megata. - Public domain scenic drawing

Biwa loquat / Megata. - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows branch with leaves and loquats on tree. From "Flowers" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT. 'JESSIE WILSON' CHRYSANTHEMUM

AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT. 'JESSIE WILSON' CHRYSANTHEMUM

A black and white photo of a flower, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General inf... More

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These men are thinning and weeding cantaloupe plants. Wages thirty cents an hour. These young plants are "capped" with wax paper spread over a wire wicket to protect against cold and to accelerate growth. Imperial Valley, California

Mexican gang of migratory laborers under a Japanese field boss. These ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potatoes. She walks down the row and places the young plants in the holes her father has dug with a hoe. They will return down the row, water the plants with a bucket, then cover the roots with earth. Her father hopes to send her to school. Note pine woods and light colored soil. Near Olive Hill, North Carolina

Thirteen year old daughter of Negro sharecropper planting sweet potato...

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

Negro sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is much older than attached frame cabin on left. Both have halfstones. Note dog run and flowering plants in tin can and tubs. This is typical of Negro dwellings. Log build visible. Through the back door is the corncrib. Near Olive Hill, North Carolina

Negro sharecropper house on dirt. Dirt log cabin on right is much olde...

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Manzanar, Calif., June 1942 - Ichiro Okumura, 22, from Venice, Calif., thinning young plants in a 2-acre field of white radishes...

Manzanar, Calif., June 1942 - Ichiro Okumura, 22, from Venice, Calif.,...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Photograph from U.S. War Relocation Authority. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress). Caption car... More

Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI to manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, banks, liquor stores, taprooms, hotels, bars, beauty parlors, barber shops, war plants, American Legion posts, railways, bus and airline terminals, and government agencies. The original is 26 inches by 13 3/4 inches and is printed in red and black on white. Copies may be obtained from the Bureau of Public Inquiry, Office of War Information, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Office of War Information poster (OWI). Poster distributed by the OWI ...

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Frances Benjamin Johnston - Milkweed

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Milkweed

Written on verso: M.F.C. Paschall; Mrs. Alfred Paschall, Doylestown Pa. FBJ label no. 72. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Franc... More

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes, volume 2

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States ...

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Narcotic poisons / G.E. Madeley, lithog., Wellington St[ree]t, Strand.

Narcotic poisons / G.E. Madeley, lithog., Wellington St[ree]t, Strand.

Illustration shows plants classified as narcotic poisons, including Deadly Nightshade, Birthwort, White Poppy, Woody Nightshare, Tobacco, Thorn Apple, Water Hemlock, Foxglove, Strong Scented Lettuce, Hemlock, H... More

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

Mathews & Bulger presenting rag time opera, By the sad sea waves

45218 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Excuse us for dropping in. Created and "copyright 1898 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." Direction of Dunne & Ryley. N.Y. no. 8164. Forms part of: Theatri... More

Conservatory on Belle Isle Park, interior, Detroit, Mich

Conservatory on Belle Isle Park, interior, Detroit, Mich

"G 3147" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034044. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Fukengō - Public domain botanical illustration

Fukengō - Public domain botanical illustration

Watercolor of fugenzō or fukenzō (Fugen's elephant)cherry blossoms. Title from exhibit text. Transfer; Asian Division; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:130).

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Curtis Edwards works in the El Segundo plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

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

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail i...

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

A black and white photo of three boys in a field, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of three boys in a field, North Carolina. Farm...

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

Suggested bulletin board for use in plants in connection with production drive

Suggested bulletin board for use in plants in connection with producti...

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

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more womanpower in airplane plants and airports, Mrs. Majorie Landa has enlisted as a member of the repair crew of the Washington National Airport. Daughter of the late Congressman Frank Mandell of Wyoming, Mrs. Landa is shown making repairs on the engine nacelle of a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 transport plane. Following her second year at Sweetbriar College, she spent two months at a vocational training school in preparation for her present work

Women airport workers. Acutely aware of our country's need for more wo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for girls who work in war plants, sewing

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan, who runs a boardinghouse for g...

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

Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a U.S. Park Service area set aside to protect plants and wildlife in the swampy Big Thicket, a heavily forested corner of Southeast Texas

Meadow in the Polk County portion of Big Thicket National Preserve, a ...

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 Ph... More

Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire

Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, Russian Empire

Photographic survey of the Ural Mountains industrial area circumscribed by Perm, Ufa, Cheliabinsk, and Verkhoture. Images document industrial facilities including mines (gold, copper, iron, and clay), factories... More

Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich.

Conservatory on Belle Isle [Park], interior, Detroit, Mich.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Fairy: Dear me, I must get some new curtains right away!

Miss Fairy: Dear me, I must get some new curtains right away!

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: St. Nicholas, 34:48 (Nov. 1906).

[Reproduction of print showing Plantago plant]

[Reproduction of print showing Plantago plant]

Photograph of a (left) woodcut, from Gart der Gesundheit, 1485; (right) woodcut, from Leonard Fuchs, De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542 On slide: Blind embossed stamp: "Frances B. Johnston, New York." Possibly p... More

Mrs. Coolidge plants a tree, 2/28/29

Mrs. Coolidge plants a tree, 2/28/29

A group of people standing around a tree. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Syrian thistle, Notobasis syriaca cass. / G .S. Whiting.

Syrian thistle, Notobasis syriaca cass. / G .S. Whiting.

Watercolor drawing showing a thistle plant from the Holy Land area (Israel and Palestine). Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 20... More

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. A sack of seed from selected guayule plants. This selected seed will be used for experimental work in seed propagation to raise shrubs for maximum production

Salinas, California. Intercontinental Rubber Producers. A sack of seed...

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Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, women of a large West Coast aircraft factory are speeding the installation of electrical units controlling the engine. In this, as in many other U.S. plants, women are gradually replacing or augmenting men on assembly lines, doing important and highly critical work and doing it well

Women aircraft workers. Perched high on the wing of a giant bomber, wo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Donnie Martin hunts for bugs on the tomato plants in his mother's garden at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community. Yuba City, California

Donnie Martin hunts for bugs on the tomato plants in his mother's gard...

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Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Two girls, working in a field of medicinal(?) plants, stopping to get a drink of water

Detroit (vicinity), Michigan. Two girls, working in a field of medicin...

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

[Laborers clearing rice plants from a field outside Shanghai, China]

[Laborers clearing rice plants from a field outside Shanghai, China]

Digital file provided by donor. Gift; Jean E. Norwood; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:207).

Keinen kachōgafu natsu no bu - Public domain drawing

Keinen kachōgafu natsu no bu - Public domain drawing

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

[Trees and shrubs. Olive branches with olives]

[Trees and shrubs. Olive branches with olives]

Public domain image related to botany, botanical artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prokudin Gorskii: [Rastenii︠a︡]. Color separation negative

Prokudin Gorskii: [Rastenii︠a︡]. Color separation negative

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War Production Board (WPB) poster. Cablegram poster distributed by the WPB to war plants. The original is 22 inches by 17 inches and is printed in red, blue and black on white. Copies may be obtained from war production drive headquarters, WPB, Washington, D.C.

War Production Board (WPB) poster. Cablegram poster distributed by the...

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

Labor Day poster. Labor Day poster distributed to war plants and labor organizations. The original is twenty-eight and one-half inches by forty inches and is printed in full color. It was designed by the Office of War Information (OWI) from a photograph especially arranged by Anton Bruehl, well-known photographer. Copies may be obtained by writing the Distribution Section, Office of War Information

Labor Day poster. Labor Day poster distributed to war plants and labor...

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

Pullman Standard Company Plant, 401 North Twenty-fourth Street, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL

Pullman Standard Company Plant, 401 North Twenty-fourth Street, Bessem...

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

Irondale Iron & Steel Plant, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Irondale Iron & Steel Plant, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, WA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. F.W. Patterson engaged in scientific research for over 20 years, comparing studies of fungus diseases of plants, the scientific infrastructure of the organisims inducing disease and economic as[.] means of eradication

Mrs. F.W. Patterson engaged in scientific research for over 20 years, ...

A woman sitting at a desk in front of a microscope. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plants. Window and window ledge with plant

Plants. Window and window ledge with plant

Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been termed an industrial melting pot, since men and women of fifty-eight national origins work side by side in pushing Americas's plane output. S. O. Porter, Douglas director of personnel, recently declared that Negros are doing an outstanding job in all plants. Lucille Little works in the El Segundo Plant of the Douglas Aircraft Company

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Americans will always fight for liberty. Poster distributed by Office of War Information to hotels, schools, war plants, libraries, terminals, recreational halls, office buildings. The original comes in three sizes: 40 inches x 56 inches, 28 inches x 40 inches and 22 inches x 26 inches and is printed in full color against a dark background. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, OWI, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Americans will always fight for liberty. Poster distributed by Office ...

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Little boy with tobacco plants during the planting season near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Little boy with tobacco plants during the planting season near Chapel ...

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Victory Gardens--for family and country. Victory Gardeners should learn the importance of cultivating around plants, such as these young cabbages, at regular intervals. Soil should be loosened to a depth of two or three inches so that plants may obtain maximum food

Victory Gardens--for family and country. Victory Gardeners should lear...

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Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes, volume 2

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States ...

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Fukujusō tosa nikki shiori, Hokkei Totoya

Fukujusō tosa nikki shiori, Hokkei Totoya

Print shows diary and potted plant. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Shikishi Nishikie Surimono. Forms part of: Japanese prints and d... More

Dendrœca Pennsylvanica, Chestnut-sided warbler

Dendrœca Pennsylvanica, Chestnut-sided warbler

Nest and eggs of an Ohio bird. Reference copy also available in LOT 4707. Illus. in: Jones, Howard / Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio, 1886, plate LVII.

[Reproduction of print showing Scorpion plant]

[Reproduction of print showing Scorpion plant]

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Kwan-gan - Public domain botanical illustration

Kwan-gan - Public domain botanical illustration

Watercolor of kwan-zan (barrier mountain) cherry blossoms. Transfer; Asian Division; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:130).

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the high-pressure synthesis of gases are being made continuously in the TVA laboratories in the Muscle Shoals area. The plants served by these laboratories make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the manufacture of high explosive shells, elemental phosphorus for incendiary bombs and shells, phosphoric acid and highly concentrated phosphatic fertilizers

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Studies in the...

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Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from six to ten girls working in war plants. She is the mother of eleven children, loves people, and feels that this is the best way to contribute to the war effort. Girls pay eight dollars a week, including meals; her daughter Nan pays twelve dollars

Niagara Falls, New York. Mrs. Hannegan runs a boardinghouse for from s...

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Fraser magnolia bloom (Magnolia fraseri) also known as "mountain magnolia"

Fraser magnolia bloom (Magnolia fraseri) also known as "mountain magno...

Event: Scenes around Coal River. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the upper Volga River, from its source in the Valdai Hills to Kalyazin, Russian Empire, photographic print

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy: Views along the upper Volga River, from its s...

Photographic survey of the upper Volga River region. Many views of religious facilities, including monasteries, cathedrals, churches, and chapels. Includes images of religious articles and items in the Tver Mus... More

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Theodore Roosevelt Island, Potomac River, Washington, District of Colu...

See also HABS DC-28 for additional documentation, includes drawings, photographs, and written data. See also HAER VA-87, includes written data. Significance: Theodore Roosevelt Island's primary significance res... More

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions plants. India produces more than fifty different kinds of arms and ammunition of the most up-to-date type. Alltogether seventy-five percent of her requirements of war supplies is made in India

India in the war. A worker in one of India's fast expanding munitions ...

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[Blue blossoms on stalk with leaves]

[Blue blossoms on stalk with leaves]

Drawing shows stalk with blue blossoms and leaves of a plant that looks similar to the Common Asian Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris asiatica), commonly known as utsugo gusa. Japanese text appears in upper right co... More

[People working among tobacco plants, Rhodesia] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

[People working among tobacco plants, Rhodesia] - Frank G. Carpenter c...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman standing among century plants in southeastern Arizona]

[Woman standing among century plants in southeastern Arizona]

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