[Lydia reading, turned toward right]
Print shows Lydia, a young woman, facing right, seated in a chair, reading a book. Title from Beall. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Paper has watermark: Vanderley. Breeskin, 63 American prints in... More
Paola Free Library, 101 East Peoria Street, Paola, Miami County, KS
Significance: The Paola Free Library was designed by George Putnam Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who designed 13 of Kansas' 105 courthouses. The corner tower of the library is typical of Washburn's wo... More
Paola Free Library, 101 East Peoria Street, Paola, Miami County, KS
Significance: The Paola Free Library was designed by George Putnam Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who designed 13 of Kansas' 105 courthouses. The corner tower of the library is typical of Washburn's wo... More
T.J. Downs mammoth Uncle Tom's cabin
"Grand transformation scene! Wonderful tableau productions! ... stage pictures of innate realism ...." Created by "Erie Litho. & Printing Co., Erie, Pa." Featuring the Magnolia Quartette, Jubilee Shouters, Buck... More
Mr. and Mrs. Hirata at Y.M.C.A. building, Manzanar Relocation Center /...
Man and woman reading letter while standing on wooden stairs in front of YMCA building. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A351-3-M-7-A. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965... 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.
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
The reading of a will... - Public domain scan / engraving
Public domain photograph of painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Spiegel Grove, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, Sandusky County, OH
1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N634 Survey number: HABS OH-2416 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000624
Spiegel Grove, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, Sandusky County, OH
1996 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N634 Survey number: HABS OH-2416 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000624
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
Tales of wonder! / Js. Gillray, inv. & ft., British Cartoon Print
Print shows three women sitting at a round table listening intently to a fourth who reads from The Monk by M. G. Lewis, one volume of which lies beside her on the table. (Source: George) Catalogue of Political... More
Yushima shōkintei, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print
Print shows women serving tea to men in a tearoom, drinking tea, reading, and writing; view of Edo through opening in rear. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More
Fumi yomu musume, Kuniyoshi Utagawa - Ukiyo e print
Print shows a young woman, full-length, standing, facing left, reading a letter. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: vertical Oban... More
Dog law. An act concerning dogs. Approved April 6th, 1859 ... The cons...
Dog law. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 64, Folder 15.
A New England sibyl - Public domain monumental decor print
Photograph shows Judith Allen (1811-1890), aunt of the Allen sisters, seated in a chair, reading a large book. Published title. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the ... More
Topographic view of the city of Reading Pennsylvania 1881 / compiled f...
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, with the Schuylkill River in the foreground, spanned by a railroad bridge and a covered bridge; surrounded by vignettes depicting many of the ... More
A hard student - Public domain dedication image
Boy seated, with finger on text, while writing with his other hand. 17537 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1599. Copyright by The Fellows Photographic Co.
Strasburgh [sic], Shenandoah Valley, mammoth plate negative
Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Boston Sunday Hearld - ladies want it Feb. 24 / Boston Eng. Co. ; ...
Print shows a portrait of a woman, half-length, right profile, sitting, reading a newspaper, with flowers in the background. Possibly a self-portrait by artist Ethel Reed. Exhibited: "Craft and Modernity : Pro... More
[Study drawing for mural of woman reading]
Drawing shows a woman in classical garb, seated reading a large book that lies across her lap. A winged figure holding a book is above her head. This may be a study drawing for a mural in the Library of Congress.
Cabinet children: Secretary of War Weeks [seated on floor] with his gr...
National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). No. 28290. Public domain photograph - portrait, children of 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Duchess of Rutland] - Public domain portrait painting
Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The sitting-out bag used in open air schools in New York and elsewhere
Boy wearing coat with attached bag covering feet, seated at table, outside of classroom, reading, New York City. Fig. no. 30. On verso: Jessie Tarbox Beals, New York. Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs.
The story that led to the land - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...
Four girls reading book, one of them holding a cat. No. 1.
Ranch in Cherry County, Nebraska
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, readi...
J179993 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ben Franklin - Public domain portrait painting
Title from jacket. "David Martin" at top center. Photo of a painting, possibly by David Martin, 1736-1798. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. M 317, 050297. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
A Pupil in Pleasant Green School - Pocahontas Co. (See Photo No. 6.) L...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Children in West Virginia. Hine no. 5028. Number typed in upper left corner of caption card: 8. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congres... 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
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
[Man hailing seated man reading with horse race and crowd in backgroun...
Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
[Bearded man in spectacles reading a newspaper]
Title devised by staff. FBJ label no. 64. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Published... More
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.
Girl reading - Public domain dedication image
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lindenshade, Library, Furness Lane, Wallingford, Delaware County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-1245-B Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction
Smith-Canfield House, East side of State Route 7, south of intersectio...
Survey number: HABS VT-83 Building/structure dates: 1829 Initial Construction
The old mill in the Pennsylvania German settlement, Pennsylvania
Photograph shows an old mill and waterwheel. Copyright 1917 by H. Winslow Fegley, Reading, Pa. Copyright registration title: Old mill in the Pennsylvania German settlement.
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
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
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
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
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
Poster - A high born lady - Public domain lithograph
74914 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Created and "copyrighted 1898 by The U.S. Printing Co., Cin, U.S.A." No. 3547. Starring Clifford & Huth. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library ... 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
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
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
Johnstown Public Library, 304 Washington Street, Johnstown, Cambria Co...
Significance: The library owes its original existence and reconstruction to the steel industry. In 1877, the Cambria Iron Company gave the Washington Street site to the Cambria Library Association, and two year... 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
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
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
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
[Old woman reading a book] / the Misses Selby, N.Y.
Title devised by Library or Museum staff. Signed on mount. On verso of mount: The Misses Selby, 292 Fifth Avenue, Bet. 30th & 31st Sts., New York; Not to be reproduced. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms par... More
Portrait photo of [Two unidentified women reading letters]
Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
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
Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick
Title page illustration shows a young woman wearing a long dress and cloak walking outdoors and reading a book, presumably poetry. (DLC/PP-1935:0076). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More
Selections from the poetry of Robert Herrick
Title page illustration shows a young woman wearing a long dress and cloak walking outdoors and reading a book, presumably poetry. (DLC/PP-1935:0076). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of... More
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
Paola Free Library, 101 East Peoria Street, Paola, Miami County, KS
Significance: The Paola Free Library was designed by George Putnam Washburn, a prominent Kansas architect who designed 13 of Kansas' 105 courthouses. The corner tower of the library is typical of Washburn's wo... More
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
Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa. Slaves from Ne...
Photograph shows Wilson Chinn, Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs, sitting, reading books. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the ... 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
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
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
Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...
Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter... More
Assessors' notice! To the inhabitants and other persons liable to pay ...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 76, Folder 26.
C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...
D8766 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Lucretia - "Read the letter, but stop up your ears so you can't hear it." Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York... More
Fairy tales, autochrome color photo
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
South room, Green Street - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Party of six gentlemen in buffet car
Photograph shows six men either talking or reading in lounge car. Copyright 1905 by Geo. R. Lawrence Co. No. 5357-M.
Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pupil, Teachers of the Steamer Class in the Washington School. Locatio...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 944. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More
[Boy with large book and Puck and owl in woods]
Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0080). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Cold Iron" by Rudyard Kipling, Delineator, 74:196 (Sept. 1909).
Buffet library car on a deluxe overland limited train
Public domain photograph of passenger train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
W.L. Hand residence, Kearney, Nebraska
original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
10 yr. old girl tending stand at 4th and Garden Streets. On right is e...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 3236. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More
[The shoemaker spelled out the words with gentle, half-moving lips]
(DLC/PP-1933:0096). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Taste of Apples" by Jennette Lee, Ladies Home Journal, 30:11 (April 1913).
Mother, I promised to read it every day YMCA Bible study week Jan. 5th...
Poster showing a soldier reading the Bible, with a ghostly image of a woman standing over him.
Open air schools and tuberculosis
Print shows a child reading on a rooftop. Part of a set of posters for a Modern Health Crusade exhibit that were available for purchase from the National Child Welfare Association. (Source: National Tuberculos... More
September - back to work - back to school - back to BOOKS / V. Donaghu...
Poster promoting reading and library use, showing children near bookshelves. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
[Two young girls reading book] - Public domain document scan of painti...
Copyright by P.O. Vickery. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Li Hung Chang never misses the Sunday Journal
Chinese man reading the New York Journal. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 189-
Li Hung Chang never misses the Sunday Journal
Chinese man reading the New York Journal. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 189-
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
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
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
A letter from Pat in America - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...
Woman seated, reading a letter across from another woman leaning against stone wall outside of a thatch-roofed stone cottage. H19430 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12615.
May God bless her an' may sorrer never touch her!
(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning" by Peter B. Kyne, Saturday evening post, 189:16 (May 19, 1917).
Newsgirl, Park Row. Location: New York, New York (State)
Public domain photograph of a person holding a newspaper, people reading news, 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
Children at Sunday school class, Manzanar Relocation Center, Californi...
Girls reading in a Sunday school class. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-30. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Cent... More