public libraries

The Astor Library. New York City sterescopic card, 19th century.

On mount: American Scenery. New York City. No. 331. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

[Exterior of Field Memorial Library, Conway, Massachusetts]

V42036 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior, Stack House-Providence Public Library / L. Bodwell.

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

[Adult reading room, Carnegie library of Homestead, Munhall, Pennyslva...

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

[Stickler Memorial Library, Orange, New Jersey]

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[Book wing, Case Memorial Library, now The Seymour Library, Auburn, N....

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

Public library building, Blue Island, Illinois. First floor plan

Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Carnegie Library, Pittsfield, Maine]

[Interior of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland] / Holmes I...

Accession box no. PR 06 CN 375 c3 (A size) Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The public library in Hampton, Iowa. Dedicated in 1906, it was one of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

The Morgan County Public Library in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

A portion of the modernist Silver Spring Library in downtown Silver Sp...

The public library opened in 2015 and covers 63,000 square feet, four times more than the library it replaced. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. High... More

[Women's reading room, Carnegie Library and Music Hall, Alleghany City...

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

[Exterior view of public library in Paso Robles, California]

H113265 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo. by Aesop? Accession number on back: 43535.

New York City public library reading room

J155930-37 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a city hall, public building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gaston County Bookmobile, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-36. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Public Library, 5 Aviles Street, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Flor...

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The public library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town built the structure as a market house in 1800. In 1845 the International Order of Odd Fellows added the second story in excha... More

Public Library in Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland. Contained within today's City of Greenbelt is the historic planned community now known locally as "Old Greenbelt" and designated as the Greenbelt Histori... More

The main public library, a remodeled 1978 building in downtown Portlan...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

The Taylor County Public Library in Grafton, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Montrose Public Library in Montrose, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Statue of "Mr. Pickwick", Eleazer Pickwick, a character from Charles D...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

[Scoville Institute, now Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, Illinois] ...

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

A. K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands, Cal.

Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51259". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

[Los Angeles Public Library at Los Angeles City Hall]

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

[Indianapolis Public Library. South elevation]

Photograph of architectural drawing shows library as elevation. No. 21373. Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Park County Courthouse in Fairplay, Colorado, is (as of 2015) the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Flora-Monroe Township Public Library in the Carroll County, Indian...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

A large globe of the earth at the Allen County Public Library in Fort ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

[Library of Congress ("Congressional Library Building"), Washington, D...

Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor's Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

[Book room, Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Massachusetts.]

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

First floor plan - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Photograph shows drawing of the first floor plan for Scoville Institute, Oak Park, Illinois. Designed by Patton and Fisher, 1886-1887.

[Alcoves and gallery in the book room, Brookline Public Library, Brook...

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

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

[Indianapolis Public Library] - Public domain architectural plan drawi...

Photograph of architectural drawing shows library as plan. No. 21372. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public library, Fairbanks Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Johnson. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

The Elkins-Randolph County Public Library in Elkins, West Virginia

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

The Mason County Library in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Alcove containing books on art, showing cabinets for storing photograp...

Photograph shows photographs in storage cabinets and books on shelves at the public library in Brookline, Massachusetts. Handwritten on recto: "card 91, Brookline Mass. Pub. Lib., 3, 8x10 plates." Stamped on r... More

[Carnegie library of Homestead, Munhall, Pennyslvania]

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

Carnegie Library, San Jose, Cal. William Binder, architect / / John Pa...

Print shows exterior of library. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Detroit Public Library competition Front elevation.

Photograph of competition drawing shows library as elevation. Public domain photograph of a palace, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Detroit Public Library competition Second floor plan.

Photograph of competition drawing shows library as plan. Public domain photograph of French architecture design drawing, building plan, Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland] / Leopold.

Photograph signed "Leopold." Probably by Harry B. Leopold, commercial and news photographer for the Baltimore Sun. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 375 c3 (A size)

"The story of Richmond Hill," mural located in the Richmond Hill Branc...

Photograph shows a 160 square foot mural depicting slightly caricatured figures. The left and lighter side of the mural celebrates the bucolic pleasures of Queens, with citizens making merry (couples dancing in... More

The Muncie Public Library building in Muncie, Indiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It is a "Carnegie Library," built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2... More

The Mason City Public library in Mason, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The New Castle Branch Library in New Castle, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

The Marion County, West Virginia, Public Library in Fairmont

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

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, November 23, ...

[Hoyt Public Library, East Saginaw, Michigan]

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

[Main floor plan of the Bill Memorial Library, Groton, Connecticut]

Public domain scan of architectural plan, map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carnegie Library, Fort Worth, Texas,

Photograph shows floor plan for Carnegie Library, Fort Worth, Texas. Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Case Memorial Library, now The Seymour Library, Auburn, New York]

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

East Liberty Branch Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh

Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Carnegie Library, Columbus, Ohio]

Photograph shows architectural rendering of the building, with handwritten notes. Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public library -- Lincoln City Library

Print showing exterior view of the front of the Lincoln City public library in Lincoln, Nebraska. A171977 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Views of Lincoln : In and about the Capital City of Nebraska. Portlan... More

[Braddock Carnegie Free Library addition, Braddock, Pennsylvania]

Original library designed by William Halsey Wood, 1887-1889. Addition designed by Longfellow, Alden and Harlow, 1893

Blackstone Library Branford, Conn.

Photograph shows exterior of James Blackstone Memorial Library. Library designed by Solon Spencer Beman. Photograph clipped from unidentified publication. Illus. in: Scrapbook HS M2 in the AIA/AAF Collection, ... More

Carnegie Library, Coshocton, Ohio / C. E. Dykema, del.

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

[Circulation desk, Carnegie Library, St. Joseph, Missouri]

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[Carnegie public library, Fort Worth, Texas] / photo by Charlie L. Sch...

Photo shows a public library that received a Carnegie grant for $50,000 in 1899. The first building, which included an art gallery, opened in 1901 and stood near the city hall until it was razed in 1937.

Public Library. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main public library building - Detroit

Photograph shows view of Carnegie library in Detroit, Michigan. Includes advertisement for Berry Brothers, varnishes and paint specialties. Library designed by Cass Gilbert. Accession box no. PR 06 CN 037 c2

The Cabell County Public Library in downtown Huntington, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Louis Bennett Library in the historic Jonathan M. Bennett House in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Freedmen and teachers in front of the Beaufort Library

Stereoview showing a large group of African American children in front of the historic College of Beaufort building which served as a public library and high school. The Caucasian women in the background are th... More

[A. K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands, California]

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

Ground floor plan, Pawtucket Public Library building

Photograph shows first floor plan for the Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library

Washington St. staircase. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows staircase at the Central Library, Chicago Public Library. Handwritten on recto: "card 58, Chicago, Ill., Pub. Lib., 4, 8x10 plates." Stamped on recto: "Negative by L.C. Handy." Print from copy... More

Buffalo, N.Y. - Public library - children's room

Photograph shows girls and boys reading in the children's room at the public library in Buffalo, New York. Handwritten on recto: "card 125, 1 plate, total 8." Stamped on recto: "Negative by L.C. Handy." Print ... More

[Deborah Cook Sayles Public Library, Pawtucket, Rhode Island]

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

First floor plan Historic map, Library of Congress

Photograph shows architectural drawing of first floor plan for Marshalltown, Iowa, Carnegie Library. Designed by Patton and Miller, 1895-1903.

[Interior of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland] / Holmes I...

Accession box no. PR 06 CN 375 c3 (A size) Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Regional Public Library (1953-63), Cheliabinsk, Russia

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

Lyme Public Library, Lyme, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Pleasants County Public Library in St. Marys, West Virginia

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

[Imperial Public Library, St. Petersburg, Russia]

Photograph shows several levels of book shelves and hanging framed pictures, mostly portraits, at the Imperial Public Library, now National Library of Russia. Handwritten on mount verso: "Bibliotheque Impérial... More

Delivery room - bulletin board. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Photograph shows bulletin boards at the Central Library, Chicago Public Library.

[Carnegie library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

Photograph shows a reading room filled with children and young adults in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie library. Creating the first fully developed children's department in 1899 is one of the historic ... More

[Carnegie Library, Leavenworth, Kansas]

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

[Carnegie library, Bayonne, N.J.]

Photograph shows architectural rendering of Carnegie Library, Bayonne, N.J. Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Free Library of Philadelphia] - Public domain architectural drawing

Photograph of presentation drawing shows library as perspective projection. Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Paden City, West Virginia, Public Library

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Library of Congress ("Congressional Library Building"), Washington, D...

Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor's Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2012-2013.

[New London Public Library, New London, Connecticut]

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

Elevation of public library, Fall River, Massachusetts. / Cram, Wentwo...

Caption on drawing: Proposed public library, Fall River, Massachusetts. Print from The Architectural Review, vol. IV, no. 1, plate I. Forms part of: [U.S. Treasury Department Office of the Supervising Architec... More

First and second floor plans of public library, Fall River, Massachuse...

Caption on drawing: Proposed public library, Fall River, Massachusetts. Print from The Architectural Review, vol. IV, no. 1, plate IV. Forms part of: [U.S. Treasury Department Office of the Supervising Archite... More

Field Memorial Library, Conway, Massachusetts.

Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public Library, Davenport, Iowa

Photograph shows plan of main floor. Public domain photograph of building plan, architecture design drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Free Public Library, Connellsville, PA.

Photograph shows plan of main floor. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Floor plan for Carnegie Library, St. Joseph, Missouri]

Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carnegie Library, Coshocton, Ohio

Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[New York Public Library as seen from building across intersection of ...

J204925 U.S. Copyright Office. No. A44961. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Maryland] / Holmes I...

Accession box no. PR 06 CN 375 c3 (A size) Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gaston County Bookmobile, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina

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

Gaston County Bookmobile, Gastonia, Gaston County, North Carolina

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

The 1892, classical-style granite Pawtucket Public Library, formerly k...

Designed by Ralph Adams Cram, the building was a gift to the city from Pawtucket's first mayor, Frederic Clark Sayles, in memory of his recently deceased wife. It is connected to a "newer" (1897), completely di... More

The Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library in Clarksburg, West Virginia

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