rocks, library of congress

Théodore Rousseau - [Landscape with rocks]

Inscriptions: Lower right estate stamp: TH.R (Lugt 2436); Verso: "Th.R (6) in graphite; LC stamp and "8.86.848.60" Bradley Collection, no. LC B 1509. Title, attribution, date, subject, and physical description... More

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia, Butler's signal tower at...

No. B258. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Fortifications on Bermuda Hundred's Line near Point of Rocks, Virginia

No. B662. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Rock & bamboo in garden - Public domain drawing

Drawing shows bamboo and rocks. Public domain scan of 19th-century botanical illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The true inwardness of the Tilden boom - the democratic tribes clamor ...

Illustration shows Samuel J. Tilden as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his forehead, standing with his back to a mountainside where some rocks look like barrels labeled with "$", and a sign that stat... More

[Man posed on rocks, nude, playing pipe (Pan)]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - erotic, erotism, naked, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hanging rocks, south branch of the Potomac

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mammoth Cave, Edmondson Co., Ky: Standing rocks

African American man alongside. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Caves; Ky. M- C-; Shelf.

Cordova Alaska - Child's Glacier - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man and boy standing on a rock, near a glacier. Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Lighthouse The Nubble, York, Maine view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: The Nubble, York. Similiar image (LC-D4-13961). Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54021". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More informat... More

The President, Goff and Borah "sizing up" one of the dead bears after ...

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt and party hunting a bear in the woods. H62198 U.S. Copyright Office.

A portion of Deadwood, S.D., showing white rocks

J166717 or J166725 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by W.B. Perkins, Lead, South Dakota.

Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. A natural sheep-cote. Protective ro...

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Stumps and rocks on farms shown here being removed by Picric acid

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Water scenes, Great Falls, Virginia. View of rocks at Great Falls I

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rocks and stream along the Million Dollar Highway, Ouray County, Color...

Photograph shows U.S. 550. Public domain photograph of a cave, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George Hutton, Jr. examines fetish used in Indian cermonies. He has a ...

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

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The New England coast, lined with great mas...

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

Korean Conflict. Men of the 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 35t...

Photo by the Signal Corps, U.S. Army. No. SC 365622.

Chain of Rocks bridge, Route 66, St. Louis, Missouri

The bridge is for walking only and is one mile long. Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift... More

This is obviously not the stereotypical sun-parched summer day in Deat...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The dirt road to Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Service...

The rocks are remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region about 27 million years ago, producing volcanic material that eventually eroded into the natural rock formations seen at the monument. ... More

Rock formations at Chiricahua National Monument, a National Park Servi...

The rocks are remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region about 27 million years ago, producing volcanic material that eventually eroded into the natural rock formations seen at the monument. ... More

The Famous Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco, Calif.

Young girls and women climbing on rocks. H99173 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Standard Scenic Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index;... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Posli︠e︡dovatelʹnyĭ khod shlifovki kamennago ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, R... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Posli︠e︡dovatelʹnyĭ khod shlifovki kamennago ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in the Ural Mountains, survey of industrial area, R... More

Water washed Caves of the Fairies, Point of Rocks (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 14. Part of series: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.

McKee's Rocks Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Chartiers Avenue (State R...

Significance: The bridge is an outstanding example of a long-span metal through arch bridge constructed by Allegheny County as part of an intensive bridge-building campaign during the late 1920s and early 1930s... More

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Stream spanned by wood...

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

Laborers and rocks, near opening of Summit Tunnel

Photograph shows Chinese railroad workers. No. 119. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Sites Homestead, Monongahela National Forest (Tract 390) East of Route...

Significance: The Sites Homestead architecturally reveals the evolution of a mid-nineteenth century, one-room log structure, encased and expanded upon by a frame addition, into a two-story, frame vernacular res... More

Sites Homestead, Monongahela National Forest (Tract 390) East of Route...

Significance: The Sites Homestead architecturally reveals the evolution of a mid-nineteenth century, one-room log structure, encased and expanded upon by a frame addition, into a two-story, frame vernacular res... More

[Bermuda Hundred, Virginia Federal earthworks on left of the line, nea...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Point of Rocks Station, Near State Route 28...

Significance: The elaborate architecture of the Point of Rocks Railroad Station testifies to the significance of the railroad as the dominant institution in post- Civil War America, especially in small towns. ... More

Merritt Parkway, East Rocks Road Bridge, Spanning Merritt Parkway, Nor...

Significance: The bridges of the Merritt Parkway were predominately inspired by the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles of the 1930s. Experimental forming techniques were employed to create the ornam... More

[F. Holland Day in cape with shepherd's crook next to rocks]

Photograph shows Day possibly dressed as a shepherd, pilgrim, or monk holding staff and looking at large jagged rocks.

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

Volcanic rocks, Grass Valley. - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

Original negative number: 25. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Signal tower at Point of Rocks, Appomattox River, Virginia

No. B678. Mounted with 1 other photograph with the same caption. Record for corresponding negative for this image gives location as Bermuda Hundred, Va. Hand written on mount: "Bermuda Hundred". Gift; Col. God... More

[Union troops on rocks climbing to the summit of Lookout Mountain] / J...

Photograph shows soldiers led by Captain John Wilson reenacting climb to plant 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment battle flag on the summit of Lookout Mountain (Source: Will Stapp, January 2016). Photographed by Ro... More

Cliff House and Seal Rocks, General View

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 406. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco-Cliff House, Seal Rocks, Ocean Beach. This record cont... More

Among the Rocks - View from the shore, at Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe

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

Pot Holes worn in the rocks, on Yuba River, near Cisco

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Witches Rocks, Utah / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing rock formations. Plate 19 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C.; 187-?].

[South Stack Rocks, Holyhead, Wales] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905. Print no. "10582". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at... More

[Cromford, the Black Rocks, Derbyshire, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10462". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[The Valley of Rocks, Lynton and Lynmouth, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10168". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

The Rocks, Poagshole, Dansville, N.Y.

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

Around the Dead Sea. "Pillar of Salt" at Jebel Usdum

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

McKee's Rocks, Allegheny County Pennsylvania, 1901

A444 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fowler, T.M.

[Rocks in Petra?]. Glass transparencies. Public domain photograph.

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

The rock struck by Moses, Mt. Sinai

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

[Ernest Thompson Seton, with three Blackfeet Indians, demonstrating ho...

J220944 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Haynes, St. Paul. Public domain image of people at the picnic, outdoors,, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1917-1918, reference prints from negatives. Stream flowing over rocks,...

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

Water scenes, Great Falls, Virginia. View of rocks at Great Falls II

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting in front of a cabinet. Pie To...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Beirut, pigeon rocks - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gold prospector shoveling dirt and rocks into wheel barrow. He will ru...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. New England coast, lined with great masses ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Using a window screen, Dave Bailey strains water in search of hellgram...

Scenic views in the mountains of Northern California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

A highlight of the "Texas" outdoor musical drama, staged in the Pionee...

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

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of Rocks, S...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the very few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Holladay, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and deve... More

Granite Rocks, Cottonwood Cñ., Utah / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

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

[Washington, D.C. Georgetown ferry-boat carrying wagons, and Aqueduct ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain pho... More

St. Mary's Roman Catholic School, Northwest corner of Church Avenue & ...

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

McKee's Rocks Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Chartiers Avenue (State R...

Significance: The bridge is an outstanding example of a long-span metal through arch bridge constructed by Allegheny County as part of an intensive bridge-building campaign during the late 1920s and early 1930s... More

McKee's Rocks Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Chartiers Avenue (State R...

Significance: The bridge is an outstanding example of a long-span metal through arch bridge constructed by Allegheny County as part of an intensive bridge-building campaign during the late 1920s and early 1930s... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Catoctin Creek Aqueduct, 51.5 miles above tid...

Survey number: HABS MD-753 Public domain photograph of a bridge, arch over water, river, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hieroglyphic rocks, on the Yuba River, near Crystal Lake

Petroglyphs cover large area of rock formation. The Library owns 2 copies, one with printed label number "102" and one with "103." LOT 11477, no. 51 No. 102. LOT 11477, no. 52 No. 103. Part of series: Central ... More

[Cathedral Rocks, with lake and trees in foreground, Yosemite Valley, ...

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

High Rocks Lookout Tower Guard House, Cherokee, Swain County, NC

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sites Homestead, Monongahela National Forest (Tract 390) East of Route...

Significance: The Sites Homestead architecturally reveals the evolution of a mid-nineteenth century, one-room log structure, encased and expanded upon by a frame addition, into a two-story, frame vernacular res... More

Eagle Rocks, no. 2 (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 343. Part of series: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha. No. 9. Echo City series continued.

Point of Rocks, Virginia (vicinity). Swamp on Appomattox River

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Little Missouri Butte. Largest of the 3 buttes, 4 miles from Devil's T...

Little Missouri Butte; trees and field in foreground. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Point of Rocks Station, Near State Route 28...

Significance: The elaborate architecture of the Point of Rocks Railroad Station testifies to the significance of the railroad as the dominant institution in post- Civil War America, especially in small towns. ... More

Point of Rocks, Virginia (vicinity). Signal tower

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Lockhouse at Lock 28, 48.9 miles above tidewa...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-88 Survey number: HABS MD-750

Gorge of the Ammonoosuc, White Mountains

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gorge of the Ammonoosuc, White Mountains

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Point of Rocks Stage Station, Stable, Rock Springs vicinity, Point of ...

Significance: The Point of Rocks Stage Station is one of the few remains of the celebrated Overland Stage Route. Operated by Ben Hollday, the Overland Stage Company contributed to the settlement and developmen... More

The Rocks, Eutaw Springs, Orangeburg County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-58 Building/structure dates: ca. 1805 Initial Construction

Rocks could not save him at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Jul...

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eroded rocks monument park. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

Part of series: Views in Colorado Territory, 1870. 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... More

Two obstacles that must be removed before Uncle Sam can drive on / Dal...

Print shows President McKinley standing on the roadside near a large rock labeled "Unsetteld Tariff Question", as Vice President Hobart and members of McKinley's cabinet attempt to clear the roadway by removing... More

Jaffa (Joppa) and environs. Boat going through the rocks

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jaffa (Joppa) and environs. Boat passing the rocks

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Anvil Rock, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Column Rocks from below, Ausable Chasm, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of mountain view, valley, mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Seals clmbing the rocks, Seal Rocks, Santa Catalina Island, off Califo...

No. 15094. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gebirge von Edom bei dem Dorfe Elğī Im Vordergrund Kalksteininformatio...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a dry desert landscape, sand, sky, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Reference prints, 1919-1920, numbers 2133-2377. Shoreline of river or ...

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

[Rocks and coast near Beirut?]. American colony in Jerusalem public do...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Prisoners breaking up rocks at a prison camp or road construction sit...

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and the Bahamas.

Construction of Jaffa pier. Lighters on the Jaffa coast inside the so ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jacob Stierwalt House, Concord vic., Cabarrus County, North Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Rocks, Eutaw Springs vic., Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hex, symbolizing person's spirit, thrown in the road for devil to be d...

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 012 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

[The 1939 Point of Rocks Bridge over the Potomac River, Point of Rocks...

Digital image produced by Library of Congress. Title from similar image: LC-HS503-4360. Date provided by photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and... More