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Mess house, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Mess house, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

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

Waiting for hours in line to view the remains of the late President

Waiting for hours in line to view the remains of the late President

Line of people waiting outside U.S. Capitol to see the remains of the late Warren G. Harding, in the rotunda of the Capitol. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 25529.

New Year reception at the White House. Photo shows thousands of citizens waiting to be received

New Year reception at the White House. Photo shows thousands of citize...

National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 1, p. 2, no. 41786.

View in Denver. "Waiting while the 'Healer' is at lunch"

View in Denver. "Waiting while the 'Healer' is at lunch"

63880aa U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5. Copyright by W.A. White, Raton, New Mexico.

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.  Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location:...

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

Army Training School for Chaplains and approved chaplain candidates, Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., "Lining up for Mess"

Army Training School for Chaplains and approved chaplain candidates, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line I

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line I

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

Line waiting admission to the White House today

Line waiting admission to the White House today

Distant view of the White House during the New Years Reception of Jan. 2, 1922, with line of people under the bare trees. In album: Washington, D.C., 2 January 1922 to 31 January 1922, v. 1, Herbert E. French, ... More

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20--The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration

San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942--Residents, of Japanese ancestry, app...

No. A-515. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowds outside of Unity funeral home / World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez.

Crowds outside of Unity funeral home / World Telegram & Sun photo by O...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

"The first vote" / AW ; drawn by A.R. Waud.

"The first vote" / AW ; drawn by A.R. Waud.

Illustration shows a queue of African American men, the first, dressed as a laborer, casting his vote, the second is dressed as a businessman, the third is wearing a Union army uniform, and the fourth appears t... More

Photo showing a portion of the line waiting admission to the White House today

Photo showing a portion of the line waiting admission to the White Hou...

View of the Old Executive Office Building during the New Years Reception of Jan. 2, 1922, with line of people extending around corner of Pennsylvania Ave. and 17th St. waiting to enter the White House. Caption ... More

Palestine events. The 1929 riots, August 23 to 31. Lines of Jews at the Jerusalem G.P.O. Standing in queues waiting to telegraph

Palestine events. The 1929 riots, August 23 to 31. Lines of Jews at th...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

[Men and women with luggage waiting in line]

[Men and women with luggage waiting in line]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece for: "In Quarantine" by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Collier's weekly, 3... More

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

The age of brass: Or the triumphs of woman's rights

Print shows women lining up at a ballot box. A man, on the far right, is holding a baby at the end of the line. Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1869, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's office of the Di... More

[Photography] / H.G. Webber del.

[Photography] / H.G. Webber del.

Print showing a large steam powered camera that takes and develops photographs instantly. A long queue climbs steps on the right, stands before the camera, then receives a print before descending the steps on the left.

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line III

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line III

Item title devised. Logbook annotation: miners coal on strike. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who wor... More

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mess line, noon, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Mess line, noon, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph b...

People of all ages wait in a line in front of a building at midday. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-22. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: ... More

Another proposed war tax / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Another proposed war tax / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Print shows on the upper left a line of men at a pay window labeled "Notice Bachelors' Tax. Taxes must be paid on or before 1st of fiscal year under penalty of fine. Males under 21 year[s] exemp[t]"; they are p... More

Coal wagons waiting in line 6 blocks long to get coal at one of the largest coal yards in Chicago ...

Coal wagons waiting in line 6 blocks long to get coal at one of the la...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph of train depot, warehouse, railroad works, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location: ...

Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 2769. Hine no. 2770. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prin... More

The matinee line is a study in democracy

The matinee line is a study in democracy

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Majestic Movies" by Harrison Rhodes, Harper's magazine, 138:183 (Jan. 1919).

Mess line, noon, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Mess line, noon, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph b...

People of all ages wait in a line in front of a building at midday. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-22. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: ... More

View in Denver. "Birds-eye view of the line waiting for the touch of the 'Healer'

View in Denver. "Birds-eye view of the line waiting for the touch of t...

63882aa U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7. Copyright by W.A. White, Raton, New Mexico.

Hiring place for women, St. Petersburg

Hiring place for women, St. Petersburg

Crowd of women waiting in line outside building, Leningrad. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Baseball fans, including women, waiting in line for ball grounds to open]

[Baseball fans, including women, waiting in line for ball grounds to o...

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

Visitors waiting to see the president

Visitors waiting to see the president

In album: Warren G. Harding, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, v. 1, p. 12, no. 12880. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Original glass negative may be available:... More

Post office, San Francisco, California / H.F. Cox del. ; lith. of William Endicott & Co., N. York.

Post office, San Francisco, California / H.F. Cox del. ; lith. of Will...

Print shows long lines at each of four entrances to the post office at Pike and Clay streets in San Francisco, California; a comment on postal service, impatience, and human nature.

Post office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Post office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Date based on information from G. Christenson (March 2005). Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Hu... More

China - Revolution - 20th cent--Citizens of Hankau [sic] taking refuge at the time of outrage of revolutionists

China - Revolution - 20th cent--Citizens of Hankau [sic] taking refuge...

Line of people carrying bundles. Bain News Service photograph. No. 3. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - The brush-gatherers--Arikara

Edward S. Curtis - The brush-gatherers--Arikara

Group of Arikara women in single file carrying bundles of sticks. H118563 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2864-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ame... More

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line II

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Theodore Maurisset - Prodige de la chimie / Maurisset, del. et sculp., 1839.

Theodore Maurisset - Prodige de la chimie / Maurisset, del. et sculp.,...

French cartoon shows a long line of people, with more arriving by stagecoach and railroad, at a medicine show where a quack with a lion's head, the "Prodige de la chimie," is marketing his hair tonic "De pommad... More

La daguerreotypomanie / Maurisset., Tissandier Collection, France

La daguerreotypomanie / Maurisset., Tissandier Collection, France

French cartoon about the rush to try photography after Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre revealed his process in 1839. Print shows long lines of people waiting to be photographed and others eager to support the craz... More

[Line of Apache men, women, and children outside agency building on issue day, San Carlos, Arizona]

[Line of Apache men, women, and children outside agency building on is...

Copyright by K.T. Dodge. Title devised by library staff. (Source: North American Indians in early photography by P. Fleming and J. Luskey, 1986)

Pay line at the Homestead works, showing some of the steel corporation's stockholding employees

Pay line at the Homestead works, showing some of the steel corporation...

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

Getting cool / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Getting cool / L.M. Glackens. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with a man, on an extremely hot day in New York City, deciding to go to Coney Island to cool off, first he has to ride on a stuffy streetcar through Brooklyn, then he stand... More

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line III

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line III

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of coal miners, workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line I

Striking miners drawing rations, West Virginia. Miners ration line I

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Waiting in line for tickets for the opening game of the World Series. Picture snapped at 10 P.M. tonight October 3rd, twenty four hours before the tickets will be placed on sale

Waiting in line for tickets for the opening game of the World Series. ...

Men sleeping in chairs. National Photo Company Collection. No. 32449. Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lines of people at the offices of the Baltimore City Welfare Office, Maryland]

[Lines of people at the offices of the Baltimore City Welfare Office, ...

Contact sheet folder caption: "State unemployment offices, and woman applying for food stamps at Baltimore City Welfare Office, TOH, 1/28/75." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact s... More

[Man directing line of cars at a gas station]

[Man directing line of cars at a gas station]

Contact sheet folder caption: "Gas lines crowded stations, closed station, TOH, 6/15/79." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - ... More

Troop D 5th U.S. Cavalry lining up for dinner, Mayaguaz [sic], P.R.

Troop D 5th U.S. Cavalry lining up for dinner, Mayaguaz [sic], P.R.

34627 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn. No. 13291. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Success in war - depends on co-operation and good feeling between the captains and privates in our volunteer, wage-paid American industrial army now stationed at - Fort Factory

Success in war - depends on co-operation and good feeling between the ...

Poster showing lines of men and women entering a factory. Issued by the National Industrial Conservation Movement, 30 Church Street, New York City. Copies supplied on request. No. F-4.

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near West Gate - Tientsin, China

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near W...

Boxer Rebellion. H7968 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Box... More

[Crowd waiting in line outside of White House for New Year reception]

[Crowd waiting in line outside of White House for New Year reception]

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

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.]  Location: [Fall River, Massachusetts].

[Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M.] Locatio...

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

Visitors waiting in line to shake hands with the President

Visitors waiting in line to shake hands with the President

Crowd outside the White House, waiting to shake hands with Warren G. Harding. National Photo Company Collection. LC-F81-12881 (poor condition)

Public receiving days at the White House have proven very popular as evidenced by this line about the executive offices during the public reception today

Public receiving days at the White House have proven very popular as e...

In album: Washington, D.C., 1 April 1922 to 29 April 1922, v. 4, Herbert E. French, National Photo Company, p. 21, no. 19501. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Original gla... More

First line at Anchorage Post Office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

First line at Anchorage Post Office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

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

World War veterans leaving the Battery in a drizzling rain this morning for dollar-a-day jobs at government's reforestation camp at Fort Slocum / by World-Telegram staff photographer.

World War veterans leaving the Battery in a drizzling rain this mornin...

Veterans, many in suits, some with suitcases, line up to board bus. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts

Long line of boys and men at Vaudeville Show. Saturday P.M. Location: ...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 2769. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Where the Big Bostonian would be extremely useful--as "bouncer"-in-waiting at the White House

Where the Big Bostonian would be extremely useful--as "bouncer"-in-wai...

Man seated at desk possibly Grover Cleveland; "Old Jacksonian, C.O.D. Patriot" on bag; "Jenkins" on papers in coat pocket. Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1932:0029). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Li... More

Awaiting turn at naturalization office, New York

Awaiting turn at naturalization office, New York

Men standing in line in corridor of naturalization office in New York City. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

The matinee line is a study in democracy

The matinee line is a study in democracy

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Majestic Movies" by Harrison Rhodes, Harper's magazine, 138:183 (Jan. 1919).

First line at Anchorage Post Office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

First line at Anchorage Post Office, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mess house, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

Mess house, Chugiak Anchorage Alaska

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Oslo, Norway. The food queues in Oslo are constantly growing. It is a usual sight to see people queuing outside the shops as early as 5 o'clock in the morning. In spite of the adverse weather conditions people are standing hour after hour hoping to get a small share of unrationed goods, which are often sold out almost as soon as the shops open