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Arsenal yard, Washington, D.C., from roof of model arsenal (Andrew J. ...

Photograph showing an aerial view of the Washington Arsenal yard. No. 274.

[Signal tower on roof of house]

Signed lower right: ARW. Title devised. Inscribed lower right: Oct 1863. Formerly Waud no. C-164. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1091) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Family in front of a sod house with a frame roof.

original size: 8x 5 1/2 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Northern views. Remarkable remains of the synagogue at Capernaum. Larg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ruins, historic place, landmark, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[INDIAN HEAD, MD. NAVY PROVING GROUND. RESIDENCE OF GEORGE SWANN, DAMA...

A black and white photo of a house with a broken window. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Irwin Union Bank & Trust Company, Columbus, Indiana, 1950-57. Roof det...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Capitol power plant. Roof repairs of U.S. Capitol power plant V

The original U.S. Capitol building, known as the "Old Capitol," was a small brick building that was completed in 1800. It served as the Capitol building until the current building was completed in the 1850s. Th... More

Egyptian Hotels, Ltd, Cairo. Sunset on the Nile from the Semiramis Hot...

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U.S. Capitol power plant. Roof repairs of U.S. Capitol power plant VI

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Powhatan Hotel. Roof garden of Powhatan Hotel, day

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic park, open terrace, world heritage landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Col. Clifford and committee to determine cause of mysterious fire whic...

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

Dodge Hotel. Roof garden of Dodge Hotel II

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National Gallery of Art. Roof of National Gallery of Art for Internati...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Airplane over Jerusalem & military force at Damascus Gate seen from ro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crowds on the roof of the Greek convent. Holy Fire celebration [Church...

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

Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias. Roof of new wing, hospital balcony.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street market, food vendors, downtown shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Resettlement Administrator R.G. Tugwell examines foundations of houses...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cistern and roof of house on Shelby recreational demonstration project...

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

A black and white photo of a pile of wood. Great Depression FSA photog...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Construction of roof of Elmer Thompson's shack. Sheridan County, Monta...

Public domain photograph of 1930s working-class Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a city at night, Tennessee. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Red Hook Project, Brooklyn, New York. Distant view from Sapolin roof I

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Porch on Negro share tenant cabin. A double one. Note the churn, lante...

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A black and white photo of a window, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogr...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A black and white photo of a city, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograp...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Loyalty meeting in Hebron. Tea being served after the meeting on the s...

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

Spanish-American boy on top of house. He is building a new roof. Amali...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy, child of a migrant worker, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Civilian protection. Fire watchers from points of vantage on roof tops...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Wooden motor torpedo boats f...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. A Powers Agency model on the roof of third Naval d...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sunray, Texas. Carbon black plant. Gas is burned in 350 of these long ...

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

Production. Motor torpedo boats (wooden). Planking a new seventy-eight...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leslie Apartments, Forest Hills, Long Island. Roof detail I

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

New York, New York. Children playing on the roof of the Lighthouse, an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Children playing on the roof of the Lighthouse, an...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey. View of 42 from roof of 34 ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of an industrial building, factory or warehouse, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Portrait of Guy Lombardo and Don Rodney, Starlight Roof, Waldorf-Asto...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 206 (gottlieb assignment) 206 (assign... More

International Nickel Co. at the Pentagon. Long stretch of gutter in co...

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International Nickel Co. at Customs House in Baltimore. View above roo...

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International Nickel Co. at Customs House in Baltimore. View above roo...

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Americana Hotel. Daylight, from Lindy's roof

Public domain photograph of a tall building, skyscraper, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adobe House (Typical Roof Construction), Ranchos de Taos, Taos County,...

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[Top of Rumtek Monastery's roof, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). ... More

Roof System of Cabin - A close up of a wooden shelf on a wall

Roof solar panels. Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courtho...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M... More

Architectural details at the Mississippi River Commission building, Vi...

Built in 1894 by Architect William Freret. The style is Gothic Revival. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the p... More

Cowboys Stadium, a domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington,...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Dallas architectural firm HKS, Inc, the stadium serves as the home field of the National Football League's ... More

John Mesnik's family and hay stacker in Opportunity, a fieldstone farm...

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

Raymond Green and log house, Ocilla, Georgia

See field notes: 205 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bill Senecal's stacking operation - Montana folklife collection

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Holy Ghost Roman Catholic Church, Waiakoa, Maui County, HI

Survey number: HABS HI-45 Public domain photograph of a Roman Catholic church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sully, 3601 Sully Road, Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia

The address was updated from 3601 Sully Road, Chantilly vicinity, to 3650 Historic Sully Way, Chantilly. (November 2016) Significance: Aside from preeminent historical associations, "Sully" is a notable plantat... More

Blenheim Hotel, Ohio Avenue & Boardwalk, Atlantic City, Atlantic Count...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an architectural element, dome, cathedral, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

812 F Street Northwest (Commercial Building), (previously recorded as ...

Significance: A post Civil War building illustrating the early commercial development of F Street. Survey number: HABS DC-213 Building/structure dates: ca. 1875 Initial Construction Building/structure dates:... More

Free Library of Philadelphia, Richmond Branch, 2987 Almond Street, Phi...

Significance: Richmond was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carnegie's ... More

Fort Niagara, French Castle, Fort Niagara State Park, Youngstown, Niag...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a castle, view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Agnews State Hospital, Assembly Hall, Intersection of Palm Drive & Sou...

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Yakima National Guard Armory, 202 South Third Street, Yakima, Yakima C...

Significance: The Yakima National Guard Armory is historically significant as the first permanent home of the Washington National Guard in Yakima. The Yakima Armory was also a great bon to the cultural, social... More

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Significance: Sunday River Bridge is a very well executed speciment of the bridge truss designed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. This truss became the dominant style in covered br... More

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Lo...

Significance: As the Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach plant, the facility made a significant contribution to the development of the aviation industry in southern California. It was constructed as a critical... More

Washington Fire Engine Company No. 5, 7 North Lawrence Street, Mobile,...

Significance: This building is one of the unusual buildings of Mobile. Although originally built for a synagogue, it served as a fire station. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 S... More

White Deer Lake Camp, Beaver Cabin, Cyrus H. McCormick Experimental Fo...

Significance: Although the exact date of construction is unknown, this building appears complete in photos dated circa 1907, suggesting a construction date of 1904-1907. In 1930, alterations to the interior we... More

Republic Building, 209 South State Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Significance: The Republic Building was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird and Roche and built in 1905 by the Wells Bros. Company, General Contractors...Henry Strong, the original owner, and his son... More

Oriana Bridge, Spanning Salt Fork of Brazos Rivrer at Old County Route...

Significance: An increasingly rare example of the once-common camelback truss, the Oriana Bridge is locally significant as an all-weather link in an early road connecting Stonewall County with Jayton, the princ... More

First Presbyterian Church, Seventh Street & College Avenue, Racine, Ra...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS WI-28-8 Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction

Drift Creek Bridge, Spanning Drift Creek on Drift Creek County Road, L...

Survey number: HAER OR-110 Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 2001 Subsequent Work

Zook Barn, King Road (East Whiteland Township), Glenloch, Chester Coun...

Significance: This "Switzer Barn" is a typical 18th century Pennsylvania barn type. Survey number: HABS PA-1218 Building/structure dates: after. 1700- before. 1798 Initial Construction

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Three-Story Double House, Hip-on-Gable Roo...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-AC Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arlington, Virginia. FSA (Farm Security Administration) trailer camp p...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Russell Lowell Elementary School, 4501 Crittenden Drive, Louisvi...

Significance: The James Russell Lowell Elementary School is architecturally significant as an excellent example of both the vernacular, institutional architecture of the period (1916) and of the Art Deco style ... More

Fort Leavenworth, Building No. 7, 620 Scott Avenue, Leavenworth, Leave...

Significance: Building #7 is significant as the only example of the picturesque Cottage, popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing and A.J. Davis in the 1840's and 1850's, at Fort Leavenworth. The residence was th... More

Burden Iron Works, Office Building, Polk Street, Troy, Rensselaer Coun...

Significance: Only significant surviving structure of the Burden Company. Survey number: HAER NY-7-D Building/structure dates: 1881-1882 Initial Construction

Thomas Law House, 1252 Sixth Street Southwest, Washington, District of...

Significance: Leased in 1796 by Thomas Law, who lost a fortune made in India speculating on Washington real estate, and his bride Eliza Parke Custis Law, granddaughter of Martha Washington. Served as a hotel i... More

Fort Brown, Commissary & Guard House, May Street & Gorgas Drive vicini...

Significance: Building 88 was constructed around 1903 as a commissary. After the Battle of Matamoros in June 1913 the building was used to hold Mexican insurgents as prisoners. It has a long history of adaptive... More

Edgewater, Station Road, Barrytown, Dutchess County, NY

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

1621 Thames Street (House), Fell's Point, Baltimore, Independent City,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28, FN-29 Survey number: HABS MD-22 Building/structure dates: 1763-1798

Crested Peak, from railroad. Roof of snow gallery

No. 253. Part of series: Central Pacific Railroad, California. Scenes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

La Pietra, Poni Moi Road, Diamond Head, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Significance: An imposing Mediterranean Revival mansion built by a prosperous and influential descendant of an early missionary family: Walter F. Dillingham. For more than four decades a great social center of... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Bake House, Along southernmost acces...

Significance: Like most Army buildings of this period, the Bake House at Fort Rodman was built according to a standardized plan, in this case Plan No. 49-L. It is atypical, however, in that it is of frame cons... More

Joseph Falkenburg House, 922 Delsea Drive (State Route 47), South Denn...

Significance: A fine Georgian/Federal house, unusual in the area for its brick construction and detailed woodwork. Survey number: HABS NJ-756

Robert Brewton House, 71 Church Street, Charleston, Charleston County,...

Significance: Earliest existing example of Charleston "single house." Survey number: HABS SC-370 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000700

Dairy House, York County Poor Farm (U.S. Route 17), Grafton, York Coun...

Survey number: HABS VA-84 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Air Station, Aircraft Repair Shop, Pensacola, Escambia Coun...

Significance: Building 104, Seaplane Erecting Shop, a tall open building with ventilating "butterfly" monitor roof, was built in 1918, and located on the old Navy Yard attached to Building 44, previously conver... More

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Three-Story Double House, Parapeted Gable ...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-AD Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Breakers, Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: Modeled on the north Italian Villas of Genoa and Turin, "The Breakers" was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The last of the great Vanderbilt houses he designed, it was erected between 1893 and 18... More

Keasbey & Mattison Company, Three-Story Double House, Gable Front Roof...

Survey number: HABS PA-6048-X Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chanute Air Force Base, Hangar No. 2, Junction of Curtiss Street & Sen...

Significance: Hangar 2 is one of four hangars that dominate the landscape within the Chanute AFB Historic District. All four hangars were built in response to the massive mobilization required by World War II a... More

Advance Base Depot, Davisville, Building A-130, Northeast section of A...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Evander P. Walker Store, Main Street, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, P...

Significance: This is the only gable-front, three-bay commercial building in Alexandria that dates from the mid-19th century, although it was constructed after the canal-boom period and north of Hartlog Street.... More

Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve ye...

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

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ironwork. Roofs of bookstacks. ...

Sheet no. 387. Public domain photograph of architecture design drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Heyward, Jr. House, Shed, 87 Church Street, Charleston, Charles...

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

Naval Magazine Lualualei, Headquarters Branch, Ammo Rework-Overhaul Bu...

Significance: The building serves as an excellent intact example of military construction from the 1930s, and is significant as part of the initial base construction. Survey number: HABS HI-253

Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...

Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Open Concourse & Concourse Roof Extensi...

Written data includes photocopies of photographs. Significance: This architecturally and historically significant railroad station symbolizes the importance of railroads to the development of the region. The op... More

Casa Tierra, 15231 Quito Road, Saratoga, Santa Clara County, CA

Significance: This adobe structure was built in 1941 by Maude Meagher and Carolyn Smiley as the publishing house residence for World Youth, an international children's magazine. The two women, with the help of... More

W. I. Greenleaf House, Pelham Road, Jacksonville, Calhoun County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-417 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction

Rock Island Arsenal, Building No. 138, Second Avenue between South Ave...

Significance: After taking command of Rock Island Arsenal in 1865, General Thomas Jefferson Rodman devised a master plan for the installation calling for the construction of ten large manufacturing shops, five ... More

John H. Houghton House, 307 West Twelfth Street, Austin, Travis County...

Significance: The John H. Houghton House was one of the larger, more elegant residences built in the late nineteenth century in the Capitol area. Its original owner, John H. Houghton, a prominent Austin busines... More