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Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Motor Car Company. Operating hydraulic press for inspection of main and connecting rod bearings

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard Moto...

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New York, New York. Charlotte Rohr operating the Braille press at the Lighthouse, an institution for the blind, at 111 East Fifty-ninth Street

New York, New York. Charlotte Rohr operating the Braille press at the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bon Ton Press, 225 Varick St., New York City. Two chairs

Bon Ton Press, 225 Varick St., New York City. Two chairs

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chair, furniture design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Drill press

Burson & Marstellar at Fishman's, New Preston, Connecticut. Drill pres...

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

Wool press. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Wool press. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

To compact wool into bales after it was shorn from the sheep; no longer in use The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undertaken by the American Folklife Center at the Librar... More

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. View of mural between printers' marks of Harper and Brothers and The Riverside Press in North Corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+Columns. View of mural between...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Set-up for press and convention parties at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4, 2008, CNN Building next to the Xcel Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

Set-up for press and convention parties at the Republican National Con...

Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083-1)... More

Club house press looking south, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889

Club house press looking south, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889

17835U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Epistolae.Parma [Eponymous press] 18 Jan.

Epistolae.Parma [Eponymous press] 18 Jan.

Public domain image of medieval art, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alcoa Forging Division, Mesta 50,000-Ton Closed Die Forging Press, 1600 Harvard Avenue, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Alcoa Forging Division, Mesta 50,000-Ton Closed Die Forging Press, 160...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The bunch of grapes / On stone by Wild ; from Childs & Inman Press.

The bunch of grapes / On stone by Wild ; from Childs & Inman Press.

Print shows a woman stretched out under a tree with two children in her lap. One child holds a bunch of grapes. Exhibited: "Art into Enterprise : The American Views of John Caspar Wild" at the Missouri Histor... More

Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Riverside Press, First Av., N.Y. City. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. Location: New York, New York (State)

Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Rive...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Riverside Press, First Av., N.Y. City. L.W. Hine, Feb. 1917. Location: New York, New York (State)

Horace Lindfors, 14 year old printers helper, sizing up leads for Rive...

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.

Flowers Farm Cotton Press, State Route 1826, Morven, Anson County, NC

Flowers Farm Cotton Press, State Route 1826, Morven, Anson County, NC

Significance: The farm of John Flowers, located in the Cairo Community near Morven, was one of the largest in Anson County. Flowers at one time owned over forty slaves and nearly three thousand acres. He cult... More

Norfleet Plantation, Cotton Press, Albermarle Street (moved from Norfleet Plantation), Tarboro, Edgecombe County, NC

Norfleet Plantation, Cotton Press, Albermarle Street (moved from Norfl...

Survey number: HABS NC-60 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1860 Subsequent Work

New Orleans from the lower cotton press 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith, del. ; drawn on stone by D.W. Moody.

New Orleans from the lower cotton press 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith, del....

Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River,...

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 134 & 135). Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation... More

Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Latta, Dillon County, SC

Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Lat...

Significance: Significant in the field of rural industry as the only known remaining cotton press of this era in South Carolina; the primary machine which pressed and baled ginned cotton. Survey number: HAER S... More

[ Press release from the office of Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) - Gold Medal for Danny Kaye, August 25, 1961]

[ Press release from the office of Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) - ...

The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners... More

[Collection of 17 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.]

[Collection of 17 poetry broadsides from the Laboratory Press of the C...

Page Order: Pieces 13 and 15 are Leaflets.; On verso of Pieces 4 and 6: Gift, Publishers, June 19, 1929. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... More

The Capitol--Washington, D. C.--West front from the City Hall / T.D. ; sketched and drawn by T. Doughty ; from Childs & Inman's Lith Press.

The Capitol--Washington, D. C.--West front from the City Hall / T.D. ;...

Grain(?) field and houses in foreground and the Capitol in background.

Every public question with an eye only to the public good / Th. Nast.

Every public question with an eye only to the public good / Th. Nast.

Political cartoon showing Justice saying to members of the press, "Let him that has not betrayed the trust of the people, and is without sin, cast the first stone," as she points to men under sign reading "disg... More

DeSoto Press Shop, 9400 McGraw Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

DeSoto Press Shop, 9400 McGraw Avenue, Detroit, Wayne County, MI

Survey number: HAER MI-357 Public domain photograph of a car, history of automobile design, car model, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The wine press] / Ferdinand (?) André.

[The wine press] / Ferdinand (?) André.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Andre.

The death of the Revd. John Wesley A.M. / A. Biggerman del. ; MaGee's Lith Press, 49 So. Third St.

The death of the Revd. John Wesley A.M. / A. Biggerman del. ; MaGee's ...

Print showing deathbed scene of Reverend John Wesley. Those attending Wesley are, from l. to right, Miss Sarah Wesley, a medical assistant, Rev. J. Bradford, Rev. P. Dickinson, Mrs. Charles Wesley, Rev. T. Rank... More

New York Press. - Public domain portrait print

New York Press. - Public domain portrait print

Some clipped from newspapers. Principal subject matter: The election campaign of 1864.

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Printing press room, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

[Printing press room, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Press, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.]

[Press, Richmond & Backus Co., Detroit, Mich.]

Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB OFFICERS - Public domain portrait photograph

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB OFFICERS - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Old wine press, John Bartram Park (Bartram's Gardens), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

[Old wine press, John Bartram Park (Bartram's Gardens), Philadelphia, ...

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

PRESS CORRESPONDENTS. WITH HOWARD BANKS OF NAVY DEPT.

PRESS CORRESPONDENTS. WITH HOWARD BANKS OF NAVY DEPT.

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Belgian & Allies Aid League. Will you help these sufferers from the war to start a new home. Help is better than sympathy / Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., del et lith ; printed by the Avenue Press Ltd., Bouverie Street, London, E.C. England.

Belgian & Allies Aid League. Will you help these sufferers from the wa...

Poster showing Belgian refugees. Public domain reproduction of World War One war bonds advertisement propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enlisted for duration of the war. Help the national egg collection for the wounded / R.G. Praill ; Avenue Press, London W.C.

Enlisted for duration of the war. Help the national egg collection for...

Poster showing a chicken wearing a red leg band and a sash decorated with a crown.

Come along - learn something, see something in the U.S. Navy Ample shore leave for inland sights / / painted by James H. Daugherty ; Press Navy Recruiting Bureau N.Y.

Come along - learn something, see something in the U.S. Navy Ample sho...

Poster showing two sailors as tourists in South America, riding and feeding bananas to a llama.

National Press Building. Lobby on 5th floor of National Press Building II

National Press Building. Lobby on 5th floor of National Press Building...

Public domain photograph of hall, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nat'l Press Club Legion May Day at Marine barracks

Nat'l Press Club Legion May Day at Marine barracks

Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol Press Inc.

National Capitol Press Inc. View of large presses of National Capitol ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rufus H. Darby Printing Co., E St. Press in new building

Rufus H. Darby Printing Co., E St. Press in new building

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.

Solon loses on "Kimono" in spelling bee with newspaperman. Congressman Robert [...] of Massachusetts gets a practical demonstration of how we spell and wear kimono from one of his fair constituents, Miss Phylis Jensen of Auburndale, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts member tripped up on this word in the recent spelling bee conducted by the National Press Club in Washington. With them is Ray Tucker, (center) who stayed on his feet the longest and won the spelling championship of the nation

Solon loses on "Kimono" in spelling bee with newspaperman. Congressman...

A man and woman sitting at a table with a fan. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Capitol Press Inc. Webb press of National Capitol Press Inc.

National Capitol Press Inc. Webb press of National Capitol Press Inc.

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.

MRS. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT RED CROSS CONVENTION. MRS. ROOSEVELT, FIRST LADY OF THE LAND, AS SHE GAVE DELEGATES TO THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS A LESSON IN 'HOW TO BE A PRESS AGENT.' SHE TOLD THE DELEGATES, WHO DISCUSSED WAYS AND MEANS OF GETTING PRACTICALLY EVERY ELIGIBLE PERSON TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZATION, THAT THEY SHOULD SHOW TO THE PUBLIC OF VARIOUS SECTIONS 'CONCRETE HUMAN EXAMPLES' OF THE WORK THE ORGANIZATION DOES

MRS. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS AT RED CROSS CONVENTION. MRS. ROOSEVELT, FIRST L...

A woman standing in front of a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jerusalem. Scene from press bureau in David bldg. [i.e., building] with evening light on Moab

Jerusalem. Scene from press bureau in David bldg. [i.e., building] wit...

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

A special meeting. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, and Sen. Homer T. Bone (left to right seated) members of the Senate Munitions Committee, called a special meeting today to discuss the possibility of a Senate investigation of Ethiopian oil concessions. They are shown here as they talked to the members of the press, 9/3/35

A special meeting. Sen. Gerald P. Nye, and Sen. Homer T. Bone (left to...

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

Blasts New Deal, Washington, D.C., August 7. Photo shows one of the chief speakers of the old Huey Long movement as he addressed the members of the press at the pre club in Washington. He blasted the "New Deal" in no uncertain terms. Photo shows the Reverend Gerald L.K. Smith in action front of the news

Blasts New Deal, Washington, D.C., August 7. Photo shows one of the ch...

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

"It's a spending race," Washington, D.C. September 10. In a speech before the National Press Club John Hamilton, Landon's campaign manager, declared his conviction that Landon is going to win. Photo shows left to right: John Hamilton and George Simpson, President of the National Press Club

"It's a spending race," Washington, D.C. September 10. In a speech bef...

A man in a suit standing next to a cat on a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Madame Secretary meets the press. Washington, D.C., April 21. Secretary of Labor Perkins answers the questions of newspapermen following the meeting of labor and industrial leaders at the Labor Department, 4/21/1937

Madame Secretary meets the press. Washington, D.C., April 21. Secretar...

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

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 21. Howard Hughes, speaking at the National Press Club today, before hundreds of government officials and representatives of foreign governments. Hughes today envisioned a future in aviation when giant flying boats, almost as large as modern ocean liners, will fly the Atlantic under conditions in which the element of luck will play no part, speaking at the luncheon in his honor, he described in detail the type of flying craft and equipment he believes the future will see but which is now nothing more than an aeronautical engineers dream, 7/21/38

Howard Hughes speaking before the Press Club. Washington, D.C., July 2...

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

At meeting of newspaper editors. Washington, D.C., April 21. William Allen White, (left) Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, and Franklyn Waltman, new publicity chief of the G.O.P., exchange pleasantries as the attend the opening session of the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors which got under way at the National Press Club, 4/21/38

At meeting of newspaper editors. Washington, D.C., April 21. William A...

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

Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania

Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, P...

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

First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postmaster General James. A. Farley points to the first batch of the new baseball stamps as they come off the press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. The stamp is being issued and will be first placed on sale at Cooperstown, N.Y., where it is said the first game was played. Alvin Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is shown with the Postmaster General

First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postma...

A black and white photo of two men in suits, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More

LEADING FIGURES AT TONIGHT'S JAMBOREE FOR PROMINENT WOMEN BY NEWSPAPERWOMEN. WASHINGTON, D.C. MARCH 9. THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB HAD ITS ANNUAL STUNT PARTY AND DINNER FOR THE WIVES OF PROMINENT NATIONAL FIGURES AND FOR WOMEN PROMINENT IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. THE AFFAIR IS FEATURED BY A SKIT WHICH POKES FUN AT THE DOINGS OF WOMEN IN THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SPOTLIGHT HERE, AND THIS TIME LAYS PARTICULAR EMPHASIS UPON THE FUTURE FIRST LADY. L TO R: ROSA PONSELLE, WHO SANG FOR THE GROUP; MRS. THOMAS E. DEWEY; MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; RUBY BLACK, PRESIDENT OF THE CLUB; AND GRACIE ALLEN WHO IS, SHE SAYS OVER THE AIR, RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

LEADING FIGURES AT TONIGHT'S JAMBOREE FOR PROMINENT WOMEN BY NEWSPAPER...

A group of women standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Natl. Press Bld. newstand - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Natl. Press Bld. newstand - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The second issue of the "Childersburg Press." Childersburg, Alabama

The second issue of the "Childersburg Press." Childersburg, Alabama

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

A Vermonter who was working at the old cider press exhibit at Tunbridge, Vermont

A Vermonter who was working at the old cider press exhibit at Tunbridg...

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

Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buying a new staking machine, engineers of a Midwestern company converted an old standard arbor press into an air-operated machine, pictured above, which stakes screws in a twenty- millimeter shell booster. The results of the air-powered machine were a definite saving of time and elimination of fatigue which resulted from the operation of manually operated press. The young lady operating the machine was an operator of a machine for making loose-leaf notebook binders before she became employed on war work

Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buy...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Drill press operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Drill press operator at the Allison Motors plant

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.

Bags full of crushed olives are put into hydraulic press for oil extraction. Lindsay, California

Bags full of crushed olives are put into hydraulic press for oil extra...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. New tooling and a large drill have fitted this press for the drilling of screw machine parts needed in new machine tools for war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbette...

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

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for combat planes and boats. A huge hydraulic press operating at high temperature and a pressure of 250 pounds per square inch attaches glue-surfaced veneer sheets to lumber-core panels to make high-grade plywood for Army and Navy uses. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Making plywood panels for ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Automobile plant. New Alemite fitting is added to a toggle arm bearing of a big 90T96 Cleveland press before the machine is reassembled in another building of an important automobile factory. The building that formerly housed the press is entirely cleared for the manufacture of an entirely different war product. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. New Alemite fitting is added to a toggle...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from all government agencies to 240 Negro papers each week, Ted Poston, editor of the OWI's Negro desk in Washington, selects picture sequences of special interest to the Negro press. He is shown working with photographer Roger Smith and assistant William Clark, and Harriette Easterlin

Office of War Information news bureau. Besides supplying war news from...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information (OWI) news bureau. Selecting material for the trade press is Phil Stitt's job. Shown here consulting with Special Services Chief Sutherland Denlinger, Stitt arranges conferences with Washington agency chiefs for trade press editors; sees that they don't get trade news they're not interested in--thus saving editors' time, taxpayers' money

Office of War Information (OWI) news bureau. Selecting material for th...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of th...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the ge...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Squeezing the red end of the bar between the jaws of a giant press containing dies of different sizes

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. she...

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

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, being interviewed by the press after his return from England and the battlefronts of Europe. Left to right: John Corson, Deputy Director in charge of Finance and Administration, and Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Washington, D.C. Herbert H. Lehman, Director General of the United Nat...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bon Ton Press, 225 Varick St., New York City. One chair

Bon Ton Press, 225 Varick St., New York City. One chair

Public domain photograph of New York City interiors, 1940s, 1950s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joe Kachler using a jig to drill holes in a small shaft while it is mounted on the drill press.

Joe Kachler using a jig to drill holes in a small shaft while it is mo...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 6, 1994.

Fresco painting "Press Interviewing Celebrity on Deck of the Queen Mary" located in rotunda, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, New York

Fresco painting "Press Interviewing Celebrity on Deck of the Queen Mar...

Artist: Reginald Marsh, 1937. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in t... More

America's tribute to Britain / fgc ; The Marchbanks Press, New York.

America's tribute to Britain / fgc ; The Marchbanks Press, New York.

Poster showing an eagle placing a victory wreath on a lion's head.

The encouragers of the art of printing. [New Haven, Printed at the Gehenna Press in Northampton Massachusetts for ... Yale University, 1966].

The encouragers of the art of printing. [New Haven, Printed at the Geh...

Cover title. "The portrait of Franklin was printed at the Meriden Gravuro Company in Meriden Connecticut. The news item was printed originally in the Independent Gazetteer of Philadelphia for January 21, 1786."... More

The Printing press, John W. Alexander, N.A., Library of Congress, Washington, [D.C.]

The Printing press, John W. Alexander, N.A., Library of Congress, Wash...

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

Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P.S. Duval & Co's steam lith. press, Philada.

Metropolitan M.E. Church, Washington, D.C. / on stone by L. Crépon ; P...

Church with people, 2 men on horseback, and horse-drawn carriage in front, Washington, D.C. Copyright by Dr. Wm. M. D. Ryan.

Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Latta, Dillon County, SC

Cotton Press, Near Routes 917 & 38, moved from Berry's Crossroads, Lat...

Significance: Significant in the field of rural industry as the only known remaining cotton press of this era in South Carolina; the primary machine which pressed and baled ginned cotton. Survey number: HAER S... More

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, 19th century industry, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revol...

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[Printing press of Joducus Badius with three workers in shop]

[Printing press of Joducus Badius with three workers in shop]

Illus. in: Epistolae / Gullaume Bude. Parisiis : Venudantur in officina I. Baddii, 1520. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 12.

Anti-slavery fair! The Abington anti-slavery fair will commence on Monday evening, Nov. 9th, at Union Hall, North Abington ... Abington, Nov. 6, 1857. Abington. Standard Press, Vaughan's Building, Centre Avenue.

Anti-slavery fair! The Abington anti-slavery fair will commence on Mon...

Anti-slavery fair. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 62, Folder 35.

[The powder press with a roller at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studio of the Imperial School of Engineering.

[The powder press with a roller at the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / t...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 28. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions

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[Miscellaneous fixtures, equipment, and finishes ("furniture") and alterations to the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 53 - desks, tables, rolling cases, press]

[Miscellaneous fixtures, equipment, and finishes ("furniture") and alt...

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Evolution of the book, east corridor. The printing press / J.W. Alexander, artist.

Evolution of the book, east corridor. The printing press / J.W. Alexan...

Photo of mural in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building depicting a man working press and Gutenberg and another man examining proof. Copyright 1896 by John W. Alexander. Copyright 1897 by Curtis & Cameron.

Heads new Radio Correspondents Association. Washington, D.C., May 12. Fulton R. Lewis, Jr., was today elected president of the newly formed Radio Correspondents Association composed of radio news reporters, commentators, and correspondents. It was through the efforts of Lewis, a former Washington political writer, that radio news commentators recently gained the same recognition as accorded newspapermen by the White House, Senate, and House press galleries

Heads new Radio Correspondents Association. Washington, D.C., May 12. ...

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Excavations on the grounds of the Assumptionists [Jerusalem]. Old oil press

Excavations on the grounds of the Assumptionists [Jerusalem]. Old oil ...

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The mention of Mr. Tagg's name in the social column attracts some gentlemen of the press : Mr. Tagg gracefully submits to an interview

The mention of Mr. Tagg's name in the social column attracts some gent...

(DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Snob's Progress, II," Life, 42:628-629 (Dec. 17, 1903).

CONSOLIDATED PRESS ASSOCIATION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

CONSOLIDATED PRESS ASSOCIATION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

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Philippine Press Bureau - Public domain portrait print

Philippine Press Bureau - Public domain portrait print

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German Army press bureau in the East

German Army press bureau in the East

Photograph shows German soldiers at a large table in a press office during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Britain's strong arm, and yours, will carry us through. Enlist now / Printed by The Clerkenwell Press, Ltd., 76 & 78 Clerkenwell Rd., London, E.C.

Britain's strong arm, and yours, will carry us through. Enlist now / P...

Poster is text only. Wt. 9488 30M. 12/14. Poster no. 28.

DAWSON, THOMAS F. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPRESENTATIVE AT SENATE

DAWSON, THOMAS F. ASSOCIATED PRESS REPRESENTATIVE AT SENATE

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Which? Have you a reason, or only an excuse, for not enlisting now! / printed by the Abbey Press, 32 & 34 Gt. Peter St., Westminster, S.W.

Which? Have you a reason, or only an excuse, for not enlisting now! / ...

Poster is text only. Poster no. 128. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

There are three types of men. Those who hear the call and obey, those who delay, and - the others. To which do you belong? / printed by the Abbey Press, 32 & 34 Great Peter Street, Westminster, S.W.

There are three types of men. Those who hear the call and obey, those ...

Poster is text only. Poster no. 103. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed. Officers of the National Woman's Party in active charge of preparations for the convention of their members which will decide the future of the organization, to meet in Washington, February 15-19, 1921, left to right: Miss Mabel Vernon, of Wilmington, Del., chairman of convention delegates; Mrs. Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, chairman of the suffrage memorial committee; Alice Paul, national chairman of the Party; Mrs. Florence Brewer Boeckel of Washington, D.C., press chairman; Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., political chairman; Miss Anita Pollitzer, program chairman.

Organizing the First Convention of Women Voters Since Suffrage Passed....

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Six National Woman's Party members gathered around a desk at National Woman's Party headquarters. Left to right: Mabel Vernon, Dora Lewis, Alice Paul (seated), Florence Bre... More

Battles a place for radio in press galleries of House and Senate. Washington, D.C., June 26. Fulton Lewis, Jr.--spelled with a small j-- who took up a challenge a few months ago to find a place for radio reporters in the press galleries of the Capitol. After being told that radio would never find a place there, he persuaded Rep. Dempsey of N.M. to sponsor a resolution to create galleries for radio press. The House and Senate Rules Committee soon passed the resolutions, and now radio has its own galleries in the two chambers

Battles a place for radio in press galleries of House and Senate. Wash...

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MacDonald at press banquet, 10/9/29

MacDonald at press banquet, 10/9/29

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Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man working at printing press V

Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man working at pri...

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Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man working at printing press III

Printing shops in Washington for Stanford Paper Co. Man working at pri...

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National Capitol Press Inc. Small presses of National Capitol Press Inc.

National Capitol Press Inc. Small presses of National Capitol Press In...

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National Capitol Press Inc. Small color presses of National Capitol Press Inc. I

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