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Sevilla. Alcazar. Fondo interior del Salon de Embajadores / J. Laurent...

Interior view of the Hall of Ambassadors, Alcázar, Seville, Spain. In album: Spain, opposite p. 47. No. 1389.

[Interior view of Austrian Embassy, Washington, D.C.]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Congressional Library]. Representative special reading room

Photo shows the interior of the newly built Library of Congress. In album: Congressional Library, Washington, D.C., p. 22.

[Interior view of room showing chandelier, decorative arch, fireplace,...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 286. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Salon of American Embassy, St. Petersburg

23107 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7116. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Hearst, Frances Benjamin Johnston collecti...

Ornate interior, Washington, D.C., home. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Formerly in LOT 2958. Caption card tracin... More

Ambassador Hill's reception room, Hotel Adlon, Berlin

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

WHITE HOUSE. RED ROOM - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a living room, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active dates of Harr... More

[Library at Mount Vernon], National Photo Company, Washington DC

National Photo Company Collection. No. 8282. Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Green Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

Parlor. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Interiors.

Mr. Butterworth's apartment. Living room, long shot

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

White House interiors. Blue Room in White House

Titles 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 the 19... More

Library of Congress (Adams Building). Thomas Jefferson Reading Room, L...

Old negative number: 2351-49. 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 1... More

Brandon, Surry vic., Prince George County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1730. Related names: Rob't, W. Daniel. Built by Nathaniel Harrison 2nd and for two centuries the home of the Harrison family. The central block... More

Redlands, Carter's Bridge, Albemarle County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1798. Related names: Sally Randolph Carter. Built by Robert Carter. Shows influence of Thos. Jefferson. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-... More

[Winter garden room, Reichs Chancellery, Berlin, Germany]

Photographed by Atelier Troost. In porfolio: Interior views of the Chancellery.

H.T. Lindeberg, residence in Locust Valley, Long Island. Library firep...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Gateway, 375 Broadway Street, Newark, Essex C...

Survey number: HABS NJ-761-A Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Piaget-van Ravenswaay Collection, Jefferson City, Cole County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-1800 Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ampthill, (moved to 211 Ampthill Road, Richmond, Virginia), Richmond, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-111 Survey number: HABS VA-159

Edwin Forrest House, 436 West Twenty-second Street, New York, New York...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25, FN-36, FN-37 Survey number: HABS NY-4-14 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction

Grafton Tyler Double House, 1314 Thirtieth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This double mansarded residence is an example of a particularly formal treatment of a mid-Victorian dwelling. It is conceived sculpturally with the heavy hood molds, cornice and mansard carried a... More

Dr. E. W. Daugette House, 601 North Pelham Road, Jacksonville, Calhoun...

Survey number: HABS AL-415 Building/structure dates: 1838 Initial Construction

Holland Land Office, West Main Street, Batavia, Genesee County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-6038 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000521

Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washingto...

Significance: This spacious and elegant dwelling, along with a similar house at the southeast corner of 30th and Q Streets, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is representative of Down... More

[Trophy room at Sagamore Hill, summer home of President Theodore Roose...

J144631 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 93687a. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

King House, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-15-31 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000458

Joseph Reynolds House, 956 Hope Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI

Significance: The historical significance of the Joseph Reynolds House is due to the tradition that the Marquis de Lafayette stayed in the building during the Revolutionary War years. Architecturally, it is not... More

Christian Heurich Mansion, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue Northwest, Washin...

Significance: Elaborate example of the Romanesque Revival Style, the house was built for Christian Heurich, German immigrant, brewery owner and philanthropist. Important for its retention of original material,... More

[The interior view of the Sultan Beyazıt Public Library] / Abdullah Fr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. In album: Schools, libraries, student and teacher portraits, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hami... More

Alexander Ramsey House, 265 South Exchange Street, Saint Paul, Ramsey ...

Significance: The Alexander Ramsey "Mansion House" is an excellent example of the large private residence being built in St. Paul during the latter half of the 19th century, and is a symbol of the rapid economi... More

Masonic Temple, Broad Street (State Road 28), Camden, Wilcox County, A...

Survey number: HABS AL-131 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Townsend house, home of Sumner Welles, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Date based on similarity to photos taken by Johnston in 1910 of the nearby Anderson house. Formerly in LOT 2427.

Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock House, North Main Street, Uxbridge, Worcest...

Significance: Lieutenant Simeon Wheelock's house stands as an example of vernacular architecture; it is also one of Uxbridge's most well preserved eighteenth-century structures. Survey number: HABS MA-412

Norris-Cadwalader House, 240 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Philad...

Survey number: HABS PA-1352 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atwater-Ciampolini House, 321 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, New Haven Cou...

Significance: One of the few remaining examples in New Haven of the "shingle style" house of the 1890's. One of the forerunners of modern American domestic architecture. Survey number: HABS CT-282 Building/... More

David Davis Mansion, Monroe & Davis Streets, Bloomington, McLean Count...

Significance: Built by Judge David Davis, an associate of Abraham Lincoln in law and politics for more than twenty years, member of the United States Supreme Court (1862-1877), and U.S. Senator (1877-1883). Un... More

Edward E. Ayer House, 2 East Banks Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Significance: The house was designed in 1885 by Burnham and Root for Edward Everett Ayer, a wealthy Chicago supplier of railroad ties and collector of Indian lore. The medieval character of the house is typical... More

Octagon House, 1799 (1741) New York Avenue, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Location of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Excellent and innovative example of Federal style domestic architecture. Served as Executive Mansion fo... More

Mohonk Mountain House, Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, Ulster County, N...

Survey number: HABS NY-5700 Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pullman House, 1119-1125 Sixteenth Street Northwest, Washington, Distr...

Significance: Excellent example of the Beaux Arts influence. Originally built as a residence for Mrs. George Pullman, wife of the sleeping car magnate, the house was sold in 1913 to Russia. The building remai... More

Glenmore, U.S. Route 11 East vicinity, Jefferson City, Jefferson Count...

Survey number: HABS TN-48 Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Montpelier, 13480 South Montpelier Road, Montpelier Station, Orange Co...

Significance: Montpelier is situated on land granted by patent in 1723 to Ambrose Madison and his brother-in-law Thomas Chew. The patent was divided in 1732 at the death of Ambrose. The Madison family progeny... More

John Thomson Mason House, 3425 Prospect Street, Northwest, Washington,...

Significance: The grey and stately ruin which crowns the highest ridge of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island was once the hoe of General John Mason. Built in the last decade of the eighteenth century, this bui... More

Queen Emma's Summer Palace, 2913 Pali Highway, Honolulu, Honolulu Coun...

Significance: Although no definite date of construction has been established, it appears that this house was built in the late 1840's by John G. Lewis, Hawaiian born son of a ship captain. It was purchased fro... More

Francis M. Dimond House, 617 Hope Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI

Significance: The Dimond House was designed by Russell Warren, a prominent Rhode Island architect, for former Governor Francis M. Dimond in 1838. This residence represents the culmination of the Greek Revival s... More

Hellen-Croom House, 1001 Augusta Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL

Survey number: HABS AL-808 Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgetown University, Healy Building, Thirty-seventh & O Streets, Nor...

Significance: Healy Building is the most prominent structure on the University campus and a picturesque landmark for all Georgetown. Its construction marked the evolution of the school toward true University s... More

George H. Corliss House, 45 Prospect Street, Providence, Providence Co...

Significance: This is a large brick house, the home of George H. Corliss, a prominent Providence industrialist. Survey number: HABS RI-229 Building/structure dates: 1873-1883 Initial Construction

Edward Dexter House, 72 Waterman Street (moved from George Street), Pr...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-15 Survey number: HABS RI-15 Building/structure dates: 1798 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1860 Subsequent Work National Registe... More

Henry Foxhall House, 3123 Dumbarton Street, Northwest, Washington, Dis...

Significance: The Henry Foxhall (McKenny) House's primary significance is as an outstanding example of the late Federal period architecture in transition to early classical revival style. The gardens were desi... More

Mark Twain House, 351 Farmington Avenue (corrected from original addre...

Sometimes architecturally referred to as "Mississippi Steamboat" style. Significance: Completed in 1874, the Mark Twain house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and Alfred H. Thorp for noted American autho... More

Ringgold-Carroll House, 1801 F Street Northwest, Washington, District ...

Survey number: HABS DC-391 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

John Muir House, Alhambra Boulevard, Martinez, Contra Costa County, CA

See also HALS CA-132 for additional documentation. Significance: The house was built in 1882 by Dr. John Theophile Strentzel, outstanding early horticulturist and physician. John Muir, who married Strentzel's ... More

Sotterly, State Route 245 & Vista Road Vicinity, Hollywood, St. Mary's...

Survey number: HABS MD-181 Building/structure dates: after. 1717- before. 1727 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1750 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work Building... More

J.W. Hardy Estate, Columbus, Lowndes County, MS

Survey number: HABS MS-93 Building/structure dates: 1850 Initial Construction

Courtview, 505 North Court Street, University of North Alabama Campus,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27, FN-28 Survey number: HABS AL-329 Building/structure dates: ca. 1855 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000415

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Westover was patented in 1637 and was purchased by William Byrd I in 1688. The present 18th century complex was erected for William Byrd II, the noted colonial leader, planter, diarist, and founde... More

Westover, State Route 633, Westover, Charles City, Virginia

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More

Governor Henry Lippitt House, 199 Hope Street, Providence, Providence ...

Significance: This large, elaborately decorated house, was built for Henry Lippett, governor of Rhode Island in 1874-1875. Survey number: HABS RI-239 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction Build... More

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, Northwest, Washington, District of Col...

Significance: Good example of late Georgian 5-part mansion. Early 19th century remodeling attributed to noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N66... More

Harry S. Truman House, 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Jackso...

Photograph #67 was not received. Significance: Home of President Harry S. Truman Survey number: HABS MO-1175 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78001650

[Interior of Sagamore Hill with elephant tusks, antlers and bison head...

Image in vol. 3, p. 48, bottom. Forms part of: Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt.

[Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CLARK, A - Public domain portrait photograph

FIELD, MARSHALL, MRS. HOME, INTERIOR

Mrs. Wilson Compton - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

"Alice sit by the fire" The Village Store in Greenwich Village.

Photograph shows shop manager Alice Palmer next to fireplace surrounded by shelves containing a variety of objects. J221318 U.S. Copyright Office. Accession box no. PR 03 Interiors, Box 20 X/F

Chatham, Fredericksburg vic., Stafford County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Photo taken on commission from Mrs. Devore to record the restoration of her estate near Fredericksburg, Va. Documenting the structures at Chatham led Johnston to undertake t... More

The Quarters, Miss Doggett's House, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-89A. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase... More

The Waldorf-Astoria--Basildon Room

J14159 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of hotel lobby, fre... More

John N. Conyngham, Hayfield Farm, residence in Lehman Township, Pennsy...

Library decorated by Mrs. Conyngham. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. William E. Clow, Jr., residence in Lake Forest, Illinois. Living ...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Furnishings grouped around the library fireplace, Reichs Chancellery,...

Photographed by Atelier Troost. In porfolio: Interior views of the Chancellery.

Interior of the Lamb home in Union Point. Mr. Harold Lamb is the owner...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Electronic surrogate made from item with the same number in the LC-USF34 series. Transfer; United States... More

Dr. A.C. Barnes, Barnes Foundation. Museum view II

Item title devised.

Aspendale, Route 300 (Downs Chapel), Kenton, Kent County, DE

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS DE-143 Building/structure dates: 1773 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000170

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Henry M. Flagler Mansion, Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, Palm Beach County...

Significance: The Mansion called "Whitehall" was designed for a wedding present to Mary Lily Kenan of North Carolina by her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the most important men in the early developmen... More

In the library, home of President Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay...

William Allen White Cabins, Main Cabin, Bear Lake Road, Estes Park, La...

Significance: This cabin is typical of structures built by turn-of-the-century settlers. It is also important due to its association with William Allen White, a noted writer, Pulitzer prize winner, and advisor ... More

William Wrigley House, Terrace Drive, Santa Catalina Island, Avalon, L...

Significance: This large, unpretentious house was built on a spectacular natural site by the famous businessman, William Wrigley, Jr. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-178 Survey n... More

Samuel T. Hauser House, 720 Madison Avenue, Helena, Lewis and Clark Co...

Significance: Samuel T. Hauser went up the Missouri River in 1862, to the head of navigation, Ft. Benton, Montana, intending to cross from there to the gold fields in Idaho. Strikes at Gold Creek and Bannack i... More

King House, Virginia City, Storey County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-15-31 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000458

Stuyvesant Apartments, 142 East Eighteenth Street, New York, New York ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-43, FN-49, FN-55 Survey number: HABS NY-435 Building/structure dates: 1870 Initial Construction

Convent of the Visitation, Section A, Spring Hill Avenue, Mobile, Mobi...

Survey number: HABS AL-73-B National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 91000844 The Visitation is a scene in the New Testament that depicts the meeting between Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her cousi... More

Rockford, Rock Ford Road (West Lampeter Township), Lancaster, Lancaste...

Significance: Built from 1793 to 1794, Rock Ford served as the country residence of General Edward Hand until his death in 1802, and it was occupied by his family until 1807. During the Revolutionary Warm Edwar... More

Joers-Ketchum Rowhouse, 6108 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe, San Dieg...

Significance: The Joers-Ketchum Rowhouse was one of the first structures built during the second phase of development in Rancho Santa Fe's Civic Center, when individual landowners, not the Santa Fe Land Improve... More

Watertown Arsenal, Building No. 111, Arsenal Street, Watertown, Middle...

Significance: Building 111, the Commanding Officer's Quarters at the Watertown Arsenal, is significant as an excellent and highly intact example of elaborate Italianate style architecture, and as one of the mos... More

Daniel E. Huger House, 34 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston Count...

Survey number: HABS SC-525 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old U.S. Appraisers Stores, Gay & Lombard Streets, Baltimore, Independ...

Survey number: HABS MD-3 Building/structure dates: 1839 Building/structure dates: 1933 Demolished

Rehoboth, Chappaqua, Westchester County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-4124 Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgar Allan Poe House, 530 North Seventh Street (rear), Philadelphia, ...

Survey number: HABS PA-1735 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000689

Terry Homestead, 54 Middle Street, Bristol, Hartford County, CT

Significance: The Terry Homestead has historical significance as the home of several generations of a family that made major contributions to the industrial development of Bristol. It also has architectural si... More