4,875 Postcards Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

4,875 media by topic ∙ page 1 of 49

[Civil War envelope showing flag]

Addressed to Miss Lide[?] Houskins, Clayton, Ad[am]s Co., Ill.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127) pp/liljmem

Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1867 Galeries des Beaux-Arts. Section...

Stereograph shows sculpture and paintings on display at the 1867 world's fair in Paris. Part of caption also in English.

[View of the Eiffel Tower and exposition buildings on the Champ de Mar...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Mundell & Co's solar tip shoes Made only by John Mundell & Co. Ph...

Print shows man with beaming sun face tipping his hat to a group of children.

[General view, Lourdes, Pyrenees, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890...

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Petit Trianon, Versailles, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9832". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Theatre Place, Montpelier, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9458". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[La Place d'Armes, Calais, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8088". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[The lighthouse, Dunkirk, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"American beauties" - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on... More

[Portrush. County Antrim, Ireland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12074". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More

[Vendramin Palace, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6735". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[The Pantheon, Paris, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1162". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Tubingen, Wurtemburg, Germany] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1809". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Le phare, Cannes, Riviera]. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Title derived from image caption. Print no. "1062". Forms part of: Views of the French and Italian Riviera in the Photochrom print collection.

[Old Town Hall, Munich, Bavaria, Germany]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "16425". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

[Il Posillipo, Naples, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1828". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[High Street, Dumfries, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13059". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[Sands, Ramsgate, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10236". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[St. Enoch's Station, Glasgow, Scotland] view, photochrome print postc...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13155". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

Bologna view, photochrome print postcard.. Photochrom print, 1880-1890...

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Italy. Bologna. General View." Print no. "18200. P.Z." Purchase; Detroit Publishing Company; 19... More

[Entrance to harbor, Havre, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8025". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Anice Terhune, three quarter length portrait

Postcard showing Anice Terhune, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly right.

[Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-...

Print no. "[1040]". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection.

Burghof in der Wartburg view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Germany. Thuringia. Wartburg. Castle Yard." Print no. "1676. P.Z." Purchase; Detroit Publishing... More

[The casino, Vichy, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "16977". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Fran... More

[Corniche Road, I, Marseilles, France] view, photochrome print postcar...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "6059". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[The cathedral and castle from the bridge, Durham, England]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cathedral, east front, Wells, England] view, photochrome print postca...

Image shows the Gothic-style Wells Cathedral, part of the Church of England, in Wells, Somerset, England. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign sectio... More

Obshīĭ vidʺ. Moskvaʹ-Kremlʺ Vue générale. Moscou-Kremlin.

Print shows the Moscow Kremlin with the Moskva River in the foreground. Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marshall Winokur; 2011; (DLC/P... More

Provo Falls, Utah view, photochrome print postcard.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51289". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

The Biloxi light, Biloxi, Miss. view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list:The Biloxi light. Similar image (LC-D4-13538). Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53792". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More informatio... More

[Cuba and the U.S. sugar trust profits]

Cartoon shows a man "Cuba" lying on the ground tied with ropes "Platt Amendment" and "Dutch Standard [paragraph] 209." The head of the American Sugar Refining Company Henry Osborne Havemeyer, surrounded by bags... More

Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn. Similar image (LC-D4-16946). Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54102". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More... More

Miss Julia Marlowe of New York, the well known actress, is one of the ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of actress Julia Marlowe, hair loose, facing camera. Research indicates uncropped version of this photograph was published as a postcard by the ... More

Waste shell piles, oyster house, Baltimore, Md., U.S.A.

Stereo copyrighted and published by the Keystone View Co. No. 6888. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ind. Shellfish; Wharves; Boats; Ph. Ind.; African... More

Forty Second Street, looking west, N.Y. City

Print shows people walking on sidewalks, a trolley on the street with buildings on one side and a park on the other side, and a skyscraper in the distance.

[Burying the Russians killed in the desperate fighting on 203 Metre Hi...

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

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Postcard shows the buildings surrounding the Harvard College Commons with man in coat and hat standing on a walkway on the left.

Entrance to Tartar City -- the great southern gate after its destructi...

H74202 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5206. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old fireplace, pots and kettles, Deerfield, Massachusetts., museum

Postcard shows early American cooking utensils and dishes displayed at a museum.

Millville Mfg. Co., Millville, N. J.

Court square, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Postcard shows Rockingham County courthouse and surrounding buildings in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Dr. Joseph, cheif [i.e. chief] medecine [i.e. medicine] man of the Swi...

Photograph shows portrait of elderly Swinomish traditional healer. H97244 U.S. Copyright Office. "No. 2."

Brown, Philadelphia, N.L. - Public domain portrait print

Postcard showing a portrait of Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown of the Chicago Cubs. Portrait is incorrectly labelled as [Buster] Brown, Philadelphia, N. L. Portrait is surrounded by a decorative border with two... More

Public Library. El Paso, Texas postcard

Photograph shows view of Carnegie library in El Paso, Texas. Printed on recto: International Book & Stationery Co. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 037 c6

Edward H. Mitchell - A carload of mammoth navel oranges from Californi...

Postcard showing boy standing on an orchard rail car marked "S.P. 79265" flanked by two larger-than-life size navel oranges. 21525 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1882. Copyrighted by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, 1909.

If the umbrella could only talk

Postcard showing man and woman sitting on the ground, behind an umbrella. H1288711 U.S. Copyright Office. On back: Serie No. 50.

Oklahoma dugout Vintage postcard

Seven people, dugout, horse-drawn wagon and cow. H122721 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Dedrick. No. 34.

Paris. Eiffel Tower - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A group of men standing next to a train, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. ... More

Soldiers standing on top of railroad cars, of S.P.deM. train, during t...

Gen. Hugh L. Scott coll. Postcard. Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Venustiano Carranza, Pres. Mexico, 1859-1920, head and shoulders portr...

Postcard photo. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

The town of Lucy le Bocage, showing in the center over the house tops,...

Photographer's address: 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 194. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

Picture postcard, "A Spanish Jew of Jerusalem"

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

The Antelope dance--Hopi Indian dancers / Photo and c1920 Bostell.

J246061 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 86.

Postcard and candy shop selling souvenirs and praline to tourists. New...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s, United States, cars, streets, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

House where Kane & I got the roast chicken & cognac

Sketch showing house with clothesline and farm tools in front, probably in Manche, France.

Bird's-eye-view of the celebrated wall at Peking, China

In China's curiously beautiful capital - east over Marble Bridge towar...

View of the public market, Shanghai, China

F38018 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 162. Copy 2 has darker coloring. Gift; W. Sumner Appleton, Harvard College Library ; 1928 Aug. 1. (Copy 2)

The Main building, Wellesley College view, photochrome print postcard.

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53693. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Russko-I︠A︡ponskai︠a︡ voĭna, 1904-1905 g

Each plate has captions and legend: S.M. Prokudin-Gorskīĭ S[ankt] P[eter]B[urg]. Date of publication surmised from latest caption date, Oct. 1905, plate 285. Individual portraits of Russian officers, plates 289... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Votes for Women. First prize in Vineland [New Jersey] parade

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Postcard image of women and girls wearing suffrage sashes riding on a "Votes for Women" float pulled on street by horses, American flag on the back of the float. Postcard a... More

Paris. Panorama / E. Baldus. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Panoramic view of Paris, looking toward Ile de la Cité from the Louvre. In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 1. No. 52.

[Crowd of people walking under the base of Eiffel Tower, view toward t...

Originals in PR 12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mossy cascade, Pike County, Penna, California, 19th century sterescope...

Penciled on front of mount: 457. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (Philadelphia), date, number (5), and negative (tannin). Amateur Phot... More

The October snow storm - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Penned on front of mount: 571. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (No. 2 Wall Street, New York), date (exposed Oct. 15, 1862, developed N... More

Votes for Women postcard. National Woman Party

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of the address side of postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[World War I Infantry soldiers, standing in front of photographers bac...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of the address side of postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Eiffel Tower and exposition buildings on the Champ de Mars as seen fr...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eiffel Tower and Fountain Coutan, 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

[Loch Lomond from Tarbet, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13067". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "1670". Forms part of: Views of Germany in the Photochrom print collection.

Genève. Le Théâtre view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Switzerland. Geneva, town. The Theatre." (Annotated in pencil in catalog). Print no. "1200. P.Z... More

Bremen. Dom view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Germany. Bremen. The Cathedral." Print no. "6679. P.Z." Neue Börse (New Exchange) shown on the ... More

Amritsar. Golden Temple view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "India. Amritstar. Golden Temple". Print no. "20062. P.Z." Purchase; Marc Walter; 2015; (DLC/PP-... More

[Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris, France]. Photochrom print, 1880-...

Print no. "1045". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in France in the Photochrom print collection.

[Auld Brig O'Doon, Ayr, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13089". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[The cross, Kilmarnock, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13134". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[Berry Pomeroy Castle, Dartmouth, England] view, photochrome print pos...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10530". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[General view, Inveraray, Scotland] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "13125". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[The town, Capri Island, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1832". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Cathedral and Notre Dame de Fourviere, Lyons, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8720". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

[Queen's College Bridge, Cambridge, England] view, photochrome print p...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10038." More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[The Doges' Palace, Venice, Italy] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8202". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More

[Villa Belsa, Biarritz, Pyrenees, France] view, photochrome print post...

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "9543". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Château de Chambord view, photochrome print postcard.

Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "France. Blois. Chambords Castle." Print no. "6839. P.Z." Purchase; Detroit Publishing Company; ... More

Hong Kong--Central market - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Mee Fong Studio. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). No. 153.

[The Hôpital Spring, Vichy, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "16984". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Fran... More

[Notre Dame, Dijon, France] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8049". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Rocky Mountain "Canaries", Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publishing Co.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51019". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

[Cobblestone street in Riga, Latvia]

Forms part of: Winokur-Munblit Collection of the Russian Empire Postcards (Library of Congress). Purchase; Marshall Winokur; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:208). Accession box no. PR 13 CN 2011:208 c4 Real Photo Postcds p... More

Petoskey Harbor, Michigan view, photochrome print postcard.

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53633. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Opium trader, Hong Kong harbor, greatest opium port in the world, Chin...

Small boat in congested harbor, with large ships in background. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tartar City, north from wall near Chien-men gate - Coal Mountain and F...

H2166 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pi... More