1,304 Reading Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Haha to ko, print by Sukenobu Nishikawa

Print shows a mother and her son with an open book; the boy is resting on top of the book, preventing his mother from reading it. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... More

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading by lamplight]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table. Exhibit caption (2014): With deft handling of line and light, painter/printmaker James McNeill Whistler created this s... More

[Figure wrapped in blanket sitting on a barrel and reading]

Title devised. Formerly Waud no. B-161. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.925) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Fairy Story imp. New Eng. Lith. Co. Boston

Print shows two girls, possibly sisters, reading a fairy tale together. Copyrighted 1869 by Chas. A. Barry. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869 by Chas. A. Barry, in the Clerk's Office of th... More

Reading letters from home at the banker's

(DLC/PP-1932:0051). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Americans Abroad," Harper's weekly, 34:200 (Mar. 15, 1890).

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left, reading bo...

Helen Nanny Burroughs Collection (Library of Congress) Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The last chapter. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Young woman, with long hair, wearing nightgown, seated on bed, reading. Copyright by A.S. Jackson, Tacoma, Wash.

[Crowd of people seated around table watching man read document]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Middlemarch / George Eliot, 1899.

An interlude, autochrome color photo

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man sitting outside shed reading paper]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Green Isle" by Kate Douglas Wiggin, Scribner's, 41:3 (Jan. 1907).

On the house-boat--"The Log Cabin"

Print shows woman seated in rocking chair reading book, with woman looking over her shoulder, another woman seated with Japanese umbrella, and man standing in doorway smoking cigar. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. ... More

Working Boys of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spare Evening...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Early years, with images of family, self portraits, landscapes and arc...

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

Summer reading for men / painted by T.V. Kelly.

Illustration shows a beautiful young woman resting her head on her hands, with long red hair draped over her arms, facing front, against a backdrop of peacock-like feathers. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no. 1950 (1... More

Poster - Le Cercle National du Soldat - Public domain lithograph

Two soldiers at a table, one is seated and reading a paper. Translation of title: The national soldier's club. Signed: Chavannaz. Woodward & Lothrop, donor. Promotional goal: Fr. G2. J2. 1916/17. Item is no. 9... More

If only he had been born in the days when Rome was beginning to decay!

Gift; Ernest Fuhr estate; (DLC/PP-1934:0111). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Pink Sheep" by Hugh MacNair Kahler, Saturday evening post, 193:92 (Dec. 4, 1920).

Books for the holiday - Drawing. Public domain image.

Poster shows a ship's captain and young boy reading books in a dragon shaped boat being tossed about by the wind and the waves. Signed: Edw. A. Wilson. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of... More

Lincoln studying on the banks of the Sangamon

Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated, reading and fishing on the banks of the Sangamon River. J14765 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harry Dayton Sickles. Photograph of a painting.

October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read!.

Poster for the WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy reading a book, surrounded by a bat, ghost, witch, and other images of Halloween. Date stamped on verso: Aug 30 1940. Work Projects Administration Pos... More

Kathryn M. Miller, first woman to be employed as a laborer at the Read...

Title and other information from print in lot. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Two contact sheets showing young adults and children reading and list...

Illus. in album: A city experienced: Pittsburgh, Pa., a photographic interpretation / W. Eugene Smith, v. 2, E5-R151 & E5-R152.

[Senator Tim Wirth, half-length portrait, seated on couch reading an i...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1991-439, or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1991-439, frame 21. Contact sheet or negative sle... More

Arden H. Ballard House, 218 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Washte...

Significance: The Ladies Literary Club house is a surviving example of a 1840s Greek Revival house, with massive entry columns. The organization has owned the property since 1913 and was honored with a historic... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

Fanciful portrait of the person referred to so often in print as "Gent...

(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 79:6 (Feb. 16, 1922); cf. CAI - Frost, no. 68 (A size).

Town Hall, Main & Twenty-third Streets, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Arundel tinted spectacles. [Reading, Pa.] c1873.

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

[Black children] / Steele, '07.

"Hyeah are naid an' is doing?" under boy at top left. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Sketches for: "The Entrance of Ezekie... More

Disgusted with life, she retired to the society of books

Signed with artist's monogram. (DLC/PP-1937:0027). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The A.O.I.B.R." by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, Harper's young people, 10:... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Fumi yomu onna to nozoku wakashū

Seated woman reading a scroll as a young man emerges from behind a screen to read over her shoulder. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. F... More

Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans / Chas. Paxso...

Photograph shows a group portrait of freed slaves from New Orleans, Wilson Chinn, Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs reading. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackab... More

Customhouse & Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christi...

Significance: Christiansted, as the chief port of St. Croix, was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries; it exported large quantities of sugar, rum, and molasses. This building, which was t... More

Customhouse & Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christi...

Significance: Christiansted, as the chief port of St. Croix, was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries; it exported large quantities of sugar, rum, and molasses. This building, which was t... More

First Methodist Episcopal Church, East side of Fourth Avenue, Niobrara...

Significance: The Methodist Episcopal Church was built circa 1880 in the original waterfront town of Niobrara. In 1881-82, the church, along with many other structures, was moved to a "new" townsite after the ... More

[Ben Franklin] - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain reproduction of art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woman and children reading] / Gertrude Käsebier.

Signed on print, lower left. Source unknown. Public domain photograph - portrait, children of 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Debutante reading with cat and owl:] ahh, abash, accouchment, ape, ac...

Includes Eve and snake with apple, woman smoking, stork with infant, ape, acorn, and oak tree. Part of title devised by cataloger. Preparatory drawings for title page, alphabet illustrations; later versions pub... More

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Group of newsboys on a stoop at 4th & Market Sts. "Take our mugs, mist...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Spooner Hall, Fourteenth Street & Jayhawk Road, Lawrence, Douglas Coun...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Spooner Hall was financed by William B. Spooner, a Boston merchant, with a bequest of $91,000. In 1893, "Van Brunt & Howe Architects" of Kansas City we... More

Knights of Pythias Hall, West side B Street, between Union & Sutton St...

See also HABS NV-15-20 for related documentation. Significance: The picturesque Miners' Union and Knights of Pythias Halls are two of the few unaltered false-fronted buildings remaining in Virginia City. "Neva... More

Ross Memorial Library Building, Main Street between Sixth & Seventh Av...

Significance: Excellent example of Carnegiesque influence in civic architecture of the period. Small stone building with flat roof and pedimented portico. The roof edge is balustraded and the pediment features ... More

Ross Memorial Library Building, Main Street between Sixth & Seventh Av...

Significance: Excellent example of Carnegiesque influence in civic architecture of the period. Small stone building with flat roof and pedimented portico. The roof edge is balustraded and the pediment features ... More

William A. Todd House, 330 East Lancaster Avenue, Downingtown, Chester...

Survey number: HABS PA-169 Building/structure dates: 1800 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1817 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work

Clark Howell Homes, Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library, 538 Luckie S...

Significance: The Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library was the first branch library in Atlanta. Built in 1908, and named after the first librarian of the Carnegie Library System of Atlanta (predecessor to the F... More

Interview and multiple reading samples, Michigan (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Northern Michigan University. Marquette, MI There are 14 audio recordings related to this transcription. They are identified in the Related Digital It... More

[Portrait of Bertice Reading] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XII QQ 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

Hanafuji eijo, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Hanafuji Eijo, facing left, sitting, reading. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Saishikizuri Kyoka Ehon. Part of a... More

[A woman seated, facing front, reading a scroll spread out in front of...

Attributed to a group of drawings, formerly bound, referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms ... More

James McNeill Whistler - [The slipper]

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading in bed with single slipper on the floor. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchin... More

[Reading by lamplight]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Print shows Whistler's half-sister, Deborah Delano Haden, née Whistler, reading at a table.

Dottie and Lottie. Why Dottie, I thought you'd be all ready for church...

Preparatory sketches for "Dottie and Lottie." Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

She used to read to me when I was at work

(DLC/PP-1932:0051). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Register," Harper's magazine, 68:78 (Dec. 1883).

A woman sitting in a chair reading a book [Nursing student wearing a s...

Untitled photo in album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 219. Title and photographer attribution based on research by D. Willis in Small nation of people... More

[Elderly man, seated in front of fireplace, with clock above, reading]...

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

The golden age - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The golden age - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Photograph of a painting signed A.B. Wenzell, 1901. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042668. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Alicia lowered her book and surveyed me intently

Public domain reproduction of portrait print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lady reading in berth [with the] curtains up

Photograph shows a woman reading in bed in pullman car berth with curtains up.

[Girl in armchair reading "Ritual" book and initial H]

Sketches of reading girl at left. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Fraternity Idea Among College Women" by Edith Rickert, Century, 85... More

[Honorable William Ewart Gladstone] - Public domain portrait painting

A man sitting in a chair reading a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Zeitung der 10. Armee / A. Saulweber.

Poster shows a soldier sitting reading the newspaper. Text: Newspaper of the 10th Army. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

[Portrait of George R. Agassiz, professor of zoology at Harvard Univer...

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

Why not books? - American Art Poster

Poster shows an illustration of a young woman, wearing a red coat and hat and sitting in a green chair, reading a list of names for gifts she has to buy. Signed: Ethel C. Taylor. Forms part of the Artist poste... More

Little Miss Muffet ... reading a picture book ... / Gregg.

Poster promoting reading among children, showing Miss Muffet sharing her picture book with a spider. Date stamped on verso: Mar 27 1940. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Pos... More

Funny side up - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting reading, showing a boy's smiling face and an open book. Date stamped on verso: Sep 7 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of the WPA / Christopher... More

Scribner's fiction number, August Maxfield Parrish 1897

Poster showing a nude woman, or nymph, in a forest reading.

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver ...

Significance: The Miller Library was constructed to house the rare book library and archives of Jahu DeWitt Miller, a friend of the Cassedys who was a Chautauqua circuit speaker and a part-time NPS lecturer. T... More

The readers (Letitia Felix and Ada Follett), Newark, Ohio

Signed in pencil on mount: Clarence H. White. Media based on X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry examination, National Gallery of Art, July 25, 2007. Purchase; 1926. Exhibited: "Clarence White and His World : The ... More

Roosevelt reading in front of his tent in hunting camp

J140256 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Newsgirl, Park Row. Location: New York, New York (State)

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

Town Hall, Main & Twenty-third Streets, Bellevue, Sarpy County, NE

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Kenneth was the bookish one / Elizabeth Shippen Green.

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, seated, reading] - Waldon F...

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokan...

Significance: The property is architecturally significant as a well-preserved large-scale department store building. The Art Deco building represents the top-of-the-line store in the Sears, Roebuck and Company... More

Customhouse & Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christi...

Significance: Christiansted, as the chief port of St. Croix, was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries; it exported large quantities of sugar, rum, and molasses. This building, which was t... More

Customhouse & Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christi...

Significance: Christiansted, as the chief port of St. Croix, was an important trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries; it exported large quantities of sugar, rum, and molasses. This building, which was t... More

News from the front / EF. - Public domain portrait drawing

"Rappahannock Station, Va." on item. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.111) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Carnegie Library, 402 East Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Significance: This Second Renaissance Revival structure was the scene of numerous historic events: the inauguration of both the last of the territorial governors and the first Governor of Statehood Oklahoma. T... More

Spooner Hall, Fourteenth Street & Jayhawk Road, Lawrence, Douglas Coun...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Spooner Hall was financed by William B. Spooner, a Boston merchant, with a bequest of $91,000. In 1893, "Van Brunt & Howe Architects" of Kansas City we... More

Ross Memorial Library Building, Main Street between Sixth & Seventh Av...

Significance: Excellent example of Carnegiesque influence in civic architecture of the period. Small stone building with flat roof and pedimented portico. The roof edge is balustraded and the pediment features ... More

Las Vegas City Hall, 626 Sixth Street, Las Vegas, San Miguel County, N...

Significance: Constructed between 1892 and 1896, this handsome stone building served first as town hall and fire department for the newly (1888) incorporated Town of East Las Vegas. Between 1893 and 1904 it add... More

Reading the news--off duty / EF.

"Rappanhannock Station" on item. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.92) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U. S. Post Office, North Carson Street, Carson City, Carson City, NV

Significance: The former United States Post Office is an imposing late nineteenth century building on an entire block in the heart of the city. It is the first Federal Building in the State of Nevada, and has ... More

Adams Mansion, Stone Library, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County...

Significance: The Stone Library was built by Charles Francis Adams in 1870. In the will of John Quincy Adams (Article 16, Dated: Jan. 18, 1847), he suggested a fireproof building where his books, manuscripts, &... More

Adams Mansion, Stone Library, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County...

Significance: The Stone Library was built by Charles Francis Adams in 1870. In the will of John Quincy Adams (Article 16, Dated: Jan. 18, 1847), he suggested a fireproof building where his books, manuscripts, &... More

Adams Mansion, Stone Library, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County...

Significance: The Stone Library was built by Charles Francis Adams in 1870. In the will of John Quincy Adams (Article 16, Dated: Jan. 18, 1847), he suggested a fireproof building where his books, manuscripts, &... More

Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Vir...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-120 Survey number: HABS VA-185 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

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