racing

Darktown opera-the serenade: "Come lub come de moon am in de sky"

Caricature issued as part of the "Darktown comics" series. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1537.

Champion pacer direct, by director: Record 2:06

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1061.

Primrose & West's Big Minstrels

Includes portraits of Primrose & West in center of poster. B252643 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Our colossal double company. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati=New York." No. ... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

Meetings of British, Arab, and Bedouin officials in Amman, Jordan, Apr...

Photographs show meetings between Arab, Bedouin, and British officials around April 17-27, 1921, at Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein's camp at Amman, Jordan. During these meetings British High Commissioner Herbert Sam... More

As the heathen see us -- a meeting of the Chinese foreign missions soc...

Illustration shows a meeting in a Chinese mission where a collection is being taken up, "Contributions received here to save the foreign devils", with 5 vignettes showing how the United States is viewed by the ... More

Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the...

Attributed by Sabin, in his Dictionary, to D. G. Croty, George Wakeman, and E. C. Howell. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, Missile Launch Area, Within Ex...

Significance: The Missile Launch Area comprised the Spartan (facilities 501-530) and Sprint (facilities 541-556) Launch Stations, allowing for both long- and short-range defense against every Intercontinental B... More

Longacres, Clubhouse & Additions, 1621 Southwest Sixteenth Street, Ren...

Survey number: HABS WA-201-2 Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Nespilim man, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Nespelim man, facing front. LC no. 15. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wa... More

Summer meeting at Long Branch, N.Y. Start.

Print showing a horse race in progress, with the officials kiosk on the left and the grandstand in the background. Possibly Monmouth Park, Long Branch, New Jersey.

Summer meeting at Long Branch, N.Y. Start.

Print showing a horse race in progress, with the officials kiosk on the left and the grandstand in the background. Possibly Monmouth Park, Long Branch, New Jersey.

The celebrated trotting horse Judge Fullerton, as he appeared, driven ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1001

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight, 10 mile radius around Exit 127...

Significance: Ellsworth Air Force Base, Delta Flight (Minuteman II ICBM) is an important icon of the American participation in the arms race and the Cold War. When the Soviet Union began to expand its boundarie... More

Running the "machine" - Print, Library of Congress collection

A scathing attack on the ineptness and military ineffectualness of the Lincoln administration. The cartoon derives its title from an indiscreet letter written by secretary of war Edwin McMasters Stanton to past... More

Trotting mare Belle Hamlin, record 2:12 3/4

Artist: Scott Leighton. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6670

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Test Area North, Scoville, Butt...

Significance: Test Area North (TAN) was a site of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) Project of the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. Its Cold War mission was to develop a turbojet bomber prop... More

A typical group of Patagonians under their sheepskin tent - a race of ...

H60913 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

Diary in photos, vol. III, 1938

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from January 4th to June 26th, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and... More

The futurity race at Sheepshead Bay: Sept. 03, 1888, value $50,000 won...

Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2392

Al G. Field Minstrels - Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900,...

Caption: A night in Paris during the Exposition : the gorgeous scenic spectacle. Created and "copyright 1900 Courier Company, Litho. Dep't., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2866. Forms part of: Minstrel poster collection (L... More

St. Patrick's Day in the army--The mule race / EF.

"Mar. 17 St. Patrick's Day at the Army of the Potomac Sports of the Irish Brigade, Genl. Meagher The mule race" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.47) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More

St. Patrick's Day in the army--The mule race / EF.

"Mar. 17 St. Patrick's Day at the Army of the Potomac Sports of the Irish Brigade, Genl. Meagher The mule race" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.47) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More

St. Patrick's Day in the army--The mule race / EF.

"Mar. 17 St. Patrick's Day at the Army of the Potomac Sports of the Irish Brigade, Genl. Meagher The mule race" on mat. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.47) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More

The horse in motion, illus. by Muybridge. "Sallie Gardner," owned by L...

Electro-photograph by Muybridge. Exhibited: "Helios : Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April - July 2010.

Hyde & Behman's Minstrels, American vaudeville and popular entertainme...

Includes small vignette in upper left corner of riverboat explosion. P13530 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Away down south. Created by "A. Windisch, Lith., 121 South 5th Ave., N.Y." Forms part of: Minstrel post... More

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (Engl...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2843

The champion trotting stallion Smuggler owned by H.S. Russell, Milton ...

F858 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1088

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee (formerly of Primrose & West).

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

N.Y.Y.C. fleet at Pollock Rip - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Hialeah Park Race Track, East Fourth Avenue, Hialeah, Miami-Dade Count...

Significance: Hialeah Park is an historically significant recreation complex which both reflects and has contributed to the development of the City of Hialeah and the popularization of south Florida as a winter... More

Stone Row (Houses), 25-55 Race Street, Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, PA

Significance: Built by Asa Packer in 1848 along a street which was built over a covered mill race. Survey number: HABS PA-5458 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

46066 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Carroll Johnson the artistic Canadian. Created and "copyrighted 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin., U.S.A." No. 4010. Forms part of: Minstrel poste... More

Longacres, 1621 Southwest Sixteenth Street, Renton, King County, WA

Significance: Longacres was the premier thoroughbred race track of the Pacific Northwest from its opening meet in 1933, until its final season of live racing in 1992. For nearly sixty years, Longacres was owne... More

Longacres, 1621 Southwest Sixteenth Street, Renton, King County, WA

Significance: Longacres was the premier thoroughbred race track of the Pacific Northwest from its opening meet in 1933, until its final season of live racing in 1992. For nearly sixty years, Longacres was owne... More

Belair, Stables, Belair Drive at East end of Tulip Grove Drive, Bowie,...

Significance: This U-shaped, sandstone stable was built in 1907 for James T. Woodward, then owner of Belair Mansion (ca. 1745). The elaborate stable building reflects Belair's long and distinguished associatio... More

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

Consists of portraits of Carroll Johnson, one as himself and one in blackface. 39288 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Carroll Johnson the artistic Canadian. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Litho. Co... More

[Group of Native Americans, three standing, one seated on the ground, ...

In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A great field in a grand rush - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

Nineteen jockeys horse racing. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2830

MacDill Air Force Base, Base Theater, 2420 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa,...

Significance: The Base Theater, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, is an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character. The build... More

Bedouins in Jordan and other locations

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Bedouins in Jordan and other locations

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Bedouins in Jordan and other locations

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Bedouins in Jordan and other locations

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

Bedouins in Jordan and other locations

Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Pho... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay Sout...

See HABS FL-384-A through FL-384-AY for additional information. Significance: The period of significance of MacDill Air Force Base is 1939 to 1945. The Base, along with seven other installations, was planned t... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Bounded by City of Tampa North, Tampa Bay Sout...

See HABS FL-384-A through FL-384-AY for additional information. Significance: The period of significance of MacDill Air Force Base is 1939 to 1945. The Base, along with seven other installations, was planned t... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Belair, Tulip Grove Drive, Belair-at-Bowie, Bowie, Prince George's Cou...

Significance: Initially completed ca. 1746, Belair is an outstanding example of Georgian architecture. It was also home to two Maryland governors and symbolizes more than 250 years of thoroughbred horse racing.... More

Race Street Friends Meeting House, Race Street west of Fifteenth Stree...

Significance: Although constructed almost thirty years after the ca. 1827 separation, the Race Street Friends Meeting House is a tangible reminder of the controversy caused by differing interpretations of Quake... More

Ginger blue, a popular Negro melody, composed & sung by Mr. R.W. Pelha...

Music cover showing boy dancing in dilapidated room, with kettle in fireplace.

The Riots at New York--the rioters burning and sacking the colored orp...

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

The great November contest. Patriotism: versus Bummerism

The strongly racist character of the Democratic presidential campaign of 1868 is displayed full-blown in this elaborate attack on Reconstruction and Republican support of Negro rights. Horses with the heads of ... More

Puck magazine cover - Unwelcome passengers / J.A. Wales.

Print shows a coach labeled "Rural Democracy" filled with "Rural Regulars" carrying their farm tools, racing "To the State Convention", driven by Samuel J. Tilden, with John Kelly representing "Tammany Hall" an... More

The anti-Chinese wall--The American wall goes up as the Chinese origin...

A cartoon showing laborers, among whom are Irishmen, an African American, a Civil War veteran, Italian, Frenchman, and a Jew, building a wall against the Chinese. Congressional mortar is used to mount blocks of... More

Darktown fire brigade. The foreman on parade: "De gals all mire me so ...

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Horse race. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows spectators on left of track watching horses racing. Im. of Am., no. 276.

Gracie [and] Volunteer foul - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Katrina - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lasca - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Valkyrie [II and] Vigilant, the start

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shamrock [and] Columbia, before start

Public domain photograph of a ship harbor, sailing boats, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee

Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Nez Percé man

Full-length portrait of a Nez Percé man, facing front. 71461 U.S. Copyright Office. LC no. 20. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Playmates. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

African American and white boys in circle around another boy. 9401 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.D. Cress.

William H. West's Big minstrel jubilee a majestic enterprise.

48674 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: William H. West, the progressive minstrel, sole proprietor, the richest and costliest minstrel organization in existence. Created and "copyright 1899 by The Strobridge Lith.... More

Father Knick--will this do? - Drawing. Public domain image.

Father Knickerbocker with babies in arms addressing Theodore Roosevelt. "Race suicide a crime" and "126,000 new New Yorkers" on papers on floor. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Ca... More

[Big Man, half-length portrait, facing front holding decorated shield]

No. 1779. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fourth St., east from Race St., Cincinnati, Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

On motor speedway - at grand stand

Idler and Hildegarde, America's Cup races

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shamrock II and Columbia maneuvering for the start

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Columbia and Shamrock / F. A. Walter, 62 Schirmerhorn St., Brooklyn, N...

Photograph shows racing yachts Columbia and Shamrock during the America's Cup Race. H9272 U.S. Copyright Office. Blind stamp on photo: Copyrighted 1901 by F.A. Walter, Brooklyn, N. Y. No. 173.