This Hopi Rattlesnake, whose habitat is normally deserts and grassland...
Opened in 1962, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately owned, nonprofit zoo in the United States. The zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the family that owned a famous appliance company. It display... More
Stalwart stupidity / F. Graetz., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows Puck, holding his lithographic pen, and the Independent Party figure, holding an axe labeled "November Election", standing inside a cabin next to the head of Roscoe Conkling that has been cut... More
Ô qu'el d'Estain - A drawing of a lion with a bird on it's back
Print shows in a medallion, within an oblong frame, a cock, a lion, and a rattlesnake attacking a leopard - this scene labeled "Tu la voulu"; outside the circle, in the four corners of the oblong frame, are the... More
The American rattlesnake presenting Monsieur his ally a dish of frogs,...
Print shows a rattlesnake, representing America, presenting a basket of frogs to a Frenchman. Includes a short verse advising Britons to drive a wedge between the Americans and the French during the peace negot... More
T-Shirt: "Ginsengers Beware." Graphic depicts ginseng plant with rat...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetw...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
A cowboy snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Florida - Diamond rattlesnake - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...
The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
A literal pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" i...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Literally a pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup"...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
An expert cowboy snake-handler holds (at a distance) an unhappy, 20-po...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Holl...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Interior of Buck Horn restaurant, showing some fine specimens of horns...
Copyright 1909, by Keystone View Co. No. 16583. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
A literal pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" i...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Rattlesnakes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
A snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in Sweetw...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
An expert snake-handler extracts venom from a snake in the "milking pi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Scene on the Susquehannah [sic.] See the Foresters a poem
Print shows Alexander Wilson and two companions walking along a trail in a heavily wooded area near the Susquehanna River where they encounter a large rattlesnake blocking their way, one man raises a rifle to s... More
Rattlesnakes - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
Literally a pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup"...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Coiled rattlesnake in brush outside San Marcos, Texas
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
A literal pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" i...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
"Miss Snake Charmer," Hannah Smith, a cowboy snake-handler Terry "Holl...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Our rattlesnake flag. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Print shows a flag with a rattlesnake wrapped around two upright sticks forming a dollar sign. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 12, no. 306 (1861 September 28), p. 320.
Back to the plains at the U.S. Capitol--Hopi Indians from Arizona with...
National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 39921. The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capit... More
Coal river. Denny Christian, Dry Creek. Southern West Virginia.
Event: Interview with Carol and Denny Christian. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama
Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes have been rattling since the dawn of time, but they have been a main attraction in Opp, Alabama, for the past 48 years. Mr. J.P. Jones was the mastermind behind this small-town,... More
Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas,...
number of pages: 4 p. summary: Mattie wrote the entire letter, but signed with both Uriah's initials and her own.
A cowboy snake-handler at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup" in...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Rattlesnakes - Public domain portrait photograph
An old photo of a young girl holding a bottle. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Rattlesnake emporium in the town of Fort Davis, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More
Rattlesnakes sign, Route 66, near McLean, Texas
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
A rattlesnake, this one in captivity, unlike the thousands in the surr...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More
"Medicine men" with squirming rattlesnakes, odd homes of the Cliff Dwe...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
This Hopi Rattlesnake, whose habitat is normally deserts and grassland...
Opened in 1962, the Phoenix Zoo is the largest privately owned, nonprofit zoo in the United States. The zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, a member of the family that owned a famous appliance company. It display... More
Ô qu'el d'Estain - A black and white drawing of a lion and a bird
Print shows in a medallion, within an oblong frame, a cock, a lion, and a rattlesnake attacking a leopard - this scene labeled "Tu la voulu"; outside the circle, in the four corners of the oblong frame, are the... More
Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas,...
number of pages: 4 p. summary: Mattie wrote the entire letter, but signed with both Uriah's initials and her own.
An expert cowboy snake-handler holds (at a distance) an unhappy, 20-po...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas,...
number of pages: 4 p. summary: Mattie wrote the entire letter, but signed with both Uriah's initials and her own.
A skilled snake-skinner demonstrates his craft to a young visitor at t...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Since 1958, the event, sponsored and run by the Sweetwater Jaycees, has been held annually in March at the Nolan County Coliseum. The... More
Literally a pit of vipers at the "World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup"...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Medicine men" with squirming rattlesnakes, odd homes of the Cliff Dwe...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Letter from Mattie V. Oblinger to George W. Thomas, Grizzie B. Thomas,...
number of pages: 4 p. summary: Mattie wrote the entire letter, but signed with both Uriah's initials and her own.