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Customhouse & Post Office, Christiansted Warf Square vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

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, Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

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

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Spooner Hall, Fourteenth Street & Jayhawk Road, Lawrence, Douglas County, KS

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 County, KS

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 County, KS

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 Streets, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

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

Absorbed in Robinson Crusoe / Robert Collinson 1871.

Absorbed in Robinson Crusoe / Robert Collinson 1871.

Print showing a young boy reading "Robinson Crusoe" while lying on a bluff overlooking the ocean. D6092 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed: R. Collinson pinxit ; Fred Stacpoole. Entered according to Act of Congr... More

Clark Howell Homes, Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library, 538 Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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

[Woodcutter and family pausing to listen to seated girl reading about Washington] / A. Castaigne.

[Woodcutter and family pausing to listen to seated girl reading about ...

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "From the old world to the new (IV. The land of promise)," Century, 47:815, (... More

Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, Independent City, Virginia

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, Virginia

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

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Chtenie piatiknizhiia

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand. Chtenie piatiknizhiia

Photograph shows a Jewish man, wearing a prayer shawl, reading the Hebrew bible. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 77.

Alice Barber Stephens - Bringing home Christmas

Alice Barber Stephens - Bringing home Christmas

"Let all the stories, especially if there are children, be happy ones & if full of wonder, so much the better." No publication information. (DLC/PP-1932:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (L... More

Dogs! Dogs! The subscriber will be at the Town Office in the Bank Building on Saturday Apr. 28th, Monday, Apr. 30th, and Tuesday, May the first, 1877, from 4 to 8 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of issuing licenses owners and keepers of dogs for t

Dogs! Dogs! The subscriber will be at the Town Office in the Bank Buil...

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 75, Folder 15.

Topographic view of the city of Reading, Pa. 1881.

Topographic view of the city of Reading, Pa. 1881.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 837 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and text. AACR2

[Patrons reading in the reading room of the University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan]

[Patrons reading in the reading room of the University of Michigan Lib...

Designed by Van Brunt and Howe, 1880-1883. Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Marian Hubbard "Daisy" Bell and Elsie May Bell with governess]

[Marian Hubbard "Daisy" Bell and Elsie May Bell with governess]

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

Find yer girl, Jenk - Drawing. Public domain image.

Find yer girl, Jenk - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Vow of Silence.

Scribner's for August mid-summer fiction number

Scribner's for August mid-summer fiction number

Poster shows a young woman seated on balcony reading Scribner's magazine. Signed: Wall. Das frühe Plakat. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1895

L'Estampe et l'affiche / J. Peskè.

L'Estampe et l'affiche / J. Peskè.

Cover illustration showing two women resting on a hillside overlooking a small cove. One woman reads a newspaper. Variant of cover illustration without side text. Promotional goal: Fr .K6 .K92 189-.

[Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C.]

[Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington,...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washi... More

Fairy tales - Drawing. Public domain image.

Fairy tales - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Buffalo, N.Y. -  Public library - children's room

Buffalo, N.Y. - Public library - children's room

Photograph shows girls and boys reading in the children's room at the public library in Buffalo, New York. Handwritten on recto: "card 125, 1 plate, total 8." Stamped on recto: "Negative by L.C. Handy." Print ... More

[Garden at 124 E. Euclid Avenue, Detroit, Mich.]

[Garden at 124 E. Euclid Avenue, Detroit, Mich.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

President in doorway of West Divide Creek ranch house - "Skip" in lap

President in doorway of West Divide Creek ranch house - "Skip" in lap

H65333 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Lambert. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Observation car on a deluxe overland limited train

Observation car on a deluxe overland limited train

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eskimo reading Saturday Evening Post in the arctic region

Eskimo reading Saturday Evening Post in the arctic region

Photograph shows an Eskimo wearing an anorak and heavy gloves sitting on a stool in an open field reading the Saturday Evening Post. j187509 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographer unknown.

The book worm and her favorite book / Will Houghton.

The book worm and her favorite book / Will Houghton.

Illustration shows a young woman sitting at a table with many books, but she is reading "Fashion Focus", a women's fashion magazine. Illus. in: Puck, v. 75, no. 1941 (1914 May 16), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puc... More

[Reproduction of painting showing Virgin Mary]

[Reproduction of painting showing Virgin Mary]

Photograph of detail from the Ghent Altarpiece, Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 1432, San Bavo Cathedral, Ghent. On slide (printed): Red outline flower design, "Set no.," "Slide No.," and "Title" (all blank). Also, re... More

A Day in the life of Mussolini - Public domain portrait print

A Day in the life of Mussolini - Public domain portrait print

Benito Mussolini, half-length portrait, seated, facing left at desk reading newspaper. JO8487 U.S. Copyright Office. Wide World Photos photograph.

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. Roosevelt, Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense: Harriet Elliott, Associate Administrator in charge of the Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration (OPA). Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Nesbitt, took the "Consumer Pledge for Total Defense" drafted by Miss Harriet Elliott. The pledge reads: "As a consumer, in the total defense of democracy, my country ready, efficient, and strong; I will buy carefully. I will take good care of the things I have. I will waste nothing"

Left to right: Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt, White House housekeeper; Mrs. R...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport Command reading the paper in his room at the United Nations service center

Washington, D.C. A lieutenant in the United States Army Air Transport ...

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

Reading, Pennsylvania. Women workers on the railroad

Reading, Pennsylvania. Women workers on the railroad

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

[Portrait of Bertice Reading] - Public domain portrait print

[Portrait of Bertice Reading] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI QQ 15. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

"Hey fellows!" Your money brings the book we need when we want it American Library Association, United War Work Campaign, Week of November 11, 1918 / / Sheridan.

"Hey fellows!" Your money brings the book we need when we want it Amer...

Poster shows a soldier holding up a book and calling out, "Hey Fellows!", with a sailor sitting on the ground at his feet, reading. The soldier seems to be issuing a general call to both his fellow servicemen t... More

Highland Junior College, Irvin Hall, Highland Junior College Campus, Highland, Doniphan County, KS

Highland Junior College, Irvin Hall, Highland Junior College Campus, H...

Significance: This Territorial brick structure has an interesting architectural treatment and was the first building of the oldest institution of higher learning in Kansas. Survey number: HABS KS-9 Building/s... More

National Park Seminary, Miller Library, 2801 Woodstock Avenue, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

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

The old mill in the Pennsylvania German settlement, Pennsylvania

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, Fayette County, PA

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

[Janey's only accomplishment was reading aloud] / A. Williamson.

[Janey's only accomplishment was reading aloud] / A. Williamson.

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Janey Peers Behind the Veil" by Inez Haynes Gilmore, Success, 14:28 (May 1911). BAR upda... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokane County, WA

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, Spokane County, WA

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, Spokane County, WA

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

Tacony, Tacony Trust Company Building, 4900 block of Longshore Avenue, Southeast corner of Longshore Avenue & Tulip Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Tacony, Tacony Trust Company Building, 4900 block of Longshore Avenue,...

Significance: The Tacony Trust Company Building is a structure both integral to the vision that Henry Disston had for his all-encompassing company town as well as Longshore Avenue's development as Tacony's main... More

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph

43307 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom & Eva. Created and "copyright 1899, Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 596. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Mrs. Roosevelt - Public domain portrait photograph

Mrs. Roosevelt - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph showing portrait of Mrs. Roosevelt seated, reading. H12540 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: 1 Copyright 1901 by J. Schloss, N.Y.

[Three young girls reading a book]

[Three young girls reading a book]

Title devised by staff. Signed with artist's monogram. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 19... More

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

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

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

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 Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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

Clark Howell Homes, Anne Wallace Branch Carnegie Library, 538 Luckie Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

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

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

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

Spiegel Grove, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, Sandusky County, OH

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, Virginia

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, Virginia

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

[Eight men around table, drinking and smoking; one is reading]

[Eight men around table, drinking and smoking; one is reading]

Illus. in: The Merry Fellow's Companion, 1797, frontis. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Eating & Drinking; Shelf.

Shichidanme, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Shichidanme, Katsushika Hokusai, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows Yuranosuke reading a long letter without noticing that Okaru, Kampei's lover, seated on a railing above, and Kudayū, one of Moronō's retainers, hiding under the veranda, surreptitiously read the let... More

Ein Neues Trauer-lied ... - Public domain book illustration

Ein Neues Trauer-lied ... - Public domain book illustration

In German, a poem, entitled "A New lament," which tells the tale of Susanna Cox (1785?-1809), who was executed for the murder of her illegitimate child.

[Officer reading a letter] - Public domain portrait drawing

[Officer reading a letter] - Public domain portrait drawing

Full length portrait of a cavalry officer. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.607) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Dog license [Blank form] 186-. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Dog license [Blank form] 186-. - Public domain broadside, Library of C...

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 73, Folder 30.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constables of the Town of Reading, Greeting. In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are hereby required to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Reading, qual

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex, ss. To either of the constab...

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 71, Folder 51.

Charles Dickens as he appears when reading / sketched by C.A. Barry.

Charles Dickens as he appears when reading / sketched by C.A. Barry.

Charles Dickens, full-length portrait, facing front, standing at lectern. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 11, no. 571 (1867 December 7), p. 777.

Mary Jane as a Sunday school scholar

Mary Jane as a Sunday school scholar

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading, 1879]

James McNeill Whistler - [Reading, 1879]

Signed on stone with butterfly. Way 13 (first state, two other figures still on the stone).

Grand pa's book of poems - Engraving, Public domain image

Grand pa's book of poems - Engraving, Public domain image

19777 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation ... More

Enfant terrible: and did they all go into the ark two by two?

Enfant terrible: and did they all go into the ark two by two?

"Shepherd, apres Phyfe." Variant title on verso: Mamma: The animals all went into the ark two by two. Young hopeful: Who went with Auntie, Mamma? Image blemish on digital file is not on actual item. (DLC/PP-19... More

Tit-bits - Print, Library of Congress collection

Tit-bits - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Amyot, Cathinca, artist. Riddle & Couchman, printe... More

Puck magazine cover - 1895 Puck Christmas / C.J. Taylor.

Puck magazine cover - 1895 Puck Christmas / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows Puck holding mistletoe over the head of a young woman who is reading a magazine or newspaper.

The city of Reading, Pennsylvania 1898.

The city of Reading, Pennsylvania 1898.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 837.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Fairy tales - Public domain  painting

Fairy tales - Public domain painting

Photograph of a painting signed "J. Shannon, 1896" at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 566. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Josephine and Mercie - Drawing. Public domain image.

Josephine and Mercie - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

[Old man looking up from book towards fireplace]

[Old man looking up from book towards fireplace]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "An Old Country House" by Richard Le Gallienne, Harper's magazine, 103:451 (Aug. 1901).

[Bookplate of Charles P. Searle], engraving, Library of Congress

[Bookplate of Charles P. Searle], engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a man sitting in a library or study reading a large book monogramed "CPS". Forms part of the Ruthven Deane Bookplate Collection. Accession box no. 11

[Elderly man and woman with magazines and playing cards]

[Elderly man and woman with magazines and playing cards]

Photograph shows an elderly couple sitting together in passenger car; man plays solitaire while woman reads magazine. Copyright 1905 by Geo. T. Nicholson. No. 5368-V.

[Woman seated near man with spectacles pointing at document]

[Woman seated near man with spectacles pointing at document]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as headpiece for: "The Recrudescence of Madame Vic" by Thomas A. Janvier, Harper'... More

#29 Recreation. Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. Witness, E. N. Clopper.  Location: Cincinnati, Ohio.

#29 Recreation. Newsboys' Protective Association, Cincinnati, Ohio. Wi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working Boys of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spare Evening Hours. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

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

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 885. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Pupil, Teachers of the Steamer Class in the Washington School.  Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Pupil, Teachers of the Steamer Class in the Washington School. Locati...

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

Messenger, City Hall Park, N.Y.  Location: New York, New York (State)

Messenger, City Hall Park, N.Y. Location: New York, New York (State)

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Miss Jessie Wilson, standing, and Miss Eleanor R. Wilson, seated, reading]

[Miss Jessie Wilson, standing, and Miss Eleanor R. Wilson, seated, rea...

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

There had passed back and forth between them certain documents --

There had passed back and forth between them certain documents --

(DLC/PP-1934:0045). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Firm" by Cameron Mackenzie, Saturday evening post, 190:10 (Oct. 6, 1917).

[Mary Roberts Rinehart, three-quarter length, seated, facing left, reading book]

[Mary Roberts Rinehart, three-quarter length, seated, facing left, rea...

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

There was a strange man with his feet on the table

There was a strange man with his feet on the table

Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Holy Roman Empire of the Bronx" by Philip Curtiss, Harper's magazine, 141:469 (Sept. 1920).

Be kind to books club Are you a member? / / Gregg.

Be kind to books club Are you a member? / / Gregg.

WPA poster shows a group of children holding a sign for the book club. Purchase; Swann Galleries; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:157.06).

PRESIDENT SIGNS POSTAL PROCLAMATION. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 31. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SIGNING A PROCLAMATION TODAY APPROVING MODIFICATION OF POSTAL SCHEDULES TO REDUCE BY ONE-AND-A HALF CENTS A POUND RATES ON BOOKS WHICH CARRY NO ADVERTISING MATTER. THE REDUCTION IS EFFECTIVE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO POSTAL ZONES. EFFECTIVE FROM NOVEMBER 1 TO JUNE 30, 1939, THE REDUCTION WAS MADE IN AN EFFORT TO STIMULATE EDUCATION THROUGH READING

PRESIDENT SIGNS POSTAL PROCLAMATION. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 31. PRES...

A group of men standing around a desk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corneille and Richelieu - Print, Library of Congress collection

Corneille and Richelieu - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Arnos, Robert, copyright claimant. Category design... More

A part of the "Chicago Great Western Limited" daily between Chicago--Dubuque--St. Paul--Minneapolis.

A part of the "Chicago Great Western Limited" daily between Chicago--D...

Photograph shows interior view of railroad lounge car filled with men reading. The men's club or buffet car.

Poster - Take along a book - Public domain lithograph

Poster - Take along a book - Public domain lithograph

Poster shows father and son reading while camping by a lake.

Arden H. Ballard House, 218 North Washington Street, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, MI

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, Washtenaw County, MI

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 Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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 Spring, Montgomery County, MD

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

Elias Baker House, Allegheny Furnace, Union Avenue & Cresent Road, Altoona, Blair County, PA

Elias Baker House, Allegheny Furnace, Union Avenue & Cresent Road, Alt...

Significance: Designed by Baltimore architect Robert Carey for Elias Baker, a prominent ironmaster who operated Allegheny Furnace, near the Baker house, and Indiana Furnace, near Armagh in Indiana County. Sur... More

Sears, Roebuck Department Store, West 906 Main Avenue, Spokane, Spokane County, WA

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

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