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[Rosalie Henriette Bediez Laborde, full-length portrait of a woman, th...

French opera singer. Identification from woodcut in Ballou's Pictorial, June 25, 1859, page 401. Alternative identifications: Madame Sabonde (cat. 5); Villaume. Scratched on face of plate: 213; Mad. Laborde. Sc... More

Mrs. Van Zandt. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Singer (The Great Vanzini). Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox an... More

Anna Bishop. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Brady. Singer. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Portugal (Vianna) / J. Ottmann Lith. Co., N.Y.

Singer sewing machine advertisement card, distributed at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, showing two people from Portugal with Singer sewing machine. Copyright by Singer Manufacturing Co.

Homer, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows contralto opera singer Louise Dilworth Homer (1871-1947), wife of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on ... More

Werrenrath, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) seated in front of a fireplace. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title fr... More

Tamaki Miura, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Japanese opera singer Tamaki Miura (1884-1946) in kimono standing in front U.S. flag bunting. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the neg... More

Dalhart - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows singer and songwriter Vernon Dalhart (1883-1948) with his sheet music for "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Sweet Dixie Melody" which he recorded in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Martinelli, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Ba... More

De Luca, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library o... More

De Luca, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950) with a dog. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection... More

Macbeth - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bebe Daniels, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Phyllis Virginia Daniels (1901-1971), known professionally as Bebe Daniels, an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data prov... More

Forrester & Mittenthal present Florence Bindley in The street singer a...

Edward S. Curtis - The White Singer, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Navajo man, facing slightly right, wearing headband and silver squash blossom necklace. H87245 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2055-06.

[Emmy Destinn, 1878-1930, three-quarters length portrait, standing, fa...

H43767 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by A. Dupont. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: Websters; Orig. surname for this Cze... More

Hilda Wierum -- Greta Torpadie - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Greta Hervor Lisbeth Bratt (Torpadie) (1890-1982) with Hilda Wierum holding sign for the "American Polish Relief Committee, 14 E. 46th Street", New York City. (Source: Flic... More

Clara Butt & children, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows English opera singer Clara Butt (1872-1936) with her children on board a ship. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms pa... More

Scotti - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Italian baritone opera singer Antonio Scotti (1866-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

City Investing Bldg., & Singer Tower

J141262 U.S. Copyright Office. No. E453. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

Sister Beatrice Bartlett - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Caroline Gardner Bartlett (1868-1938), a soprano singer, music educator, a relief worker during World War I who served under the name of "Sister Beatrice." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Yvette Guilbert - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows French cabaret singer and actress Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Ocean liners: Geraldine Farrar - Public domain ocean liner image

Photo shows opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II heading to Europe. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, May 30, 1913) Geraldine Farrar, an American sopra... More

Elwes, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows English singer Gervase Elwes (1866-1921) (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection... More

Gordon, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Canadian opera singer Jeanne Gordon (born Ruby May Gordon) (1885-1952). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of:... More

Braslau, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1888-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Ency... More

May Peterson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph show opera singer May Esther Peterson Thompson (1880-1952) who sang for the Metropolitan Opera Company. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the... More

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer and comedian Margaret Young (1891-1969) who was born Margaret Youngblood. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms... More

Otto Goritz - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German baritone opera singer Otto Goritz (1873-1929) holding an owl. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Margaret Youngblood (1891-1969), an American singer and comedian who performed under the stage name Margaret Young. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain N... More

Young, George Grantham Bain Collection

De Luca - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

C. Whitehill - Public domain dedication image

Photograph shows American bass/baritone opera singer Clarence Whitehill (1871-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Carl Braun & family - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German bass opera singer Carl Braun (1886-1960). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Millo Picco, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows baritone opera singer Millo Picco (1875-?). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collect... More

Mme. Fremstad - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Swedish-American opera singer Anna Olivia Rundquist (stage name, Olive Fremstad) (1871-1951), seated at desk with dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Madelyn Sheppard, J.B. Wells, Mrs. L.B. Woodruff, Annelu Burns

Photograph shows Helen Smith Woodruff (188-1924) who married Lewis B. Woodruff of New York City with tenor singer and composer and opera singer John Barnes Wells (1880-1935) and others. (Source: Flickr Commons ... More

De Luca - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950) seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Elliott Shaw & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Elliott Shaw (1887-1973) with wife Abigail Schaulf Shaw (1889-1972) playing dominoes. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. F... More

Storchio, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Rosina Storchio (1872-1945), an Italian lyric opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Greta Torpadie, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Greta Hervor Lisbeth Bratt (Torpadie) (1890-1982) at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Form... More

Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer and film actress, Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Maude Fay - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows opera singer Maude Fay (1878-1964). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Shipping Board, U.S. Raymond B. Stevens, right, Vice-Chairman of Board...

A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from similar image in same group: LC-DIG-hec-11991. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harr... More

Farrar & Lou Tellegen, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) with her husband, actor and screenwriter Lou Tellegen (1881-1934). Farrar holds a dog. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title fr... More

Caruso's room on SAGA - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows the stateroom and luggage of opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) on the Swedish liner Saga, bound for South America where Caruso was to sing in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Urugua... More

Rock & White, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows William "Billy" Rock (1872-1922), a dancer and singer and actress and singer Frances White (1896-1969) in a dressing room. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the... More

Evan Williams - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Welsh tenor opera singer Harry Evan Williams (1867- 1918). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Caruso with phonograph, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) with a customized "Victrola" phonograph which was a wedding gift in 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News... More

Miller, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Marilyn Miller (Mary Ellen Reynolds) (1898-1936) who was a Broadway actress, singer and dancer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the n... More

[Antonio Scotti, 1866-1936, three-quarters length portrait, seated, fa...

J257379 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: Websters, 1866-1936 for opera singer.

[Alma Gluck, full-length portrait, standing by piano, facing slightly ...

Photograph shows Romanian-American opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1938). Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Melba, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Australian soprano opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931), who was born Helen Porter Mitchell. A photograph of her father, businessman David Mitchell (1829-1916) sits on the table. (Sourc... More

[Portrait of George M. Cohan] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 38. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Albuquerque, New Mexico. Spanish-American folk singer

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

Washington, D.C. Enlisted personnel Bolling Field after their performa...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Washington, D.C. Pete Seeger, noted folk singer entertaining at the op...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a crowded sports competition or music festival event, spectators, people, audience, concert, stadium, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner signing a pledge as good citizens World ...

Photograph shows Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner signing a pledge sponsored by New York World-Telegram & Sun. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Clara L. Kellogg - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows portrait of opera singer Clara Louise Kellogg, who first sang in New York City in 1861. Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Photograph taken at approximately the same time as ... More

Singer Sewing Machine Co., Underhill Rd., Syosset, Long Island. Exteri...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Singer Sewing Machine Co., Underhill Rd., Syosset, Long Island. Exteri...

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

[Anti-Vietnam war protest and demonstration in front of the White Hous...

Photograph shows anti-war demonstrators carrying signs, "No more...Stop the war!", "Eartha Kitt speaks for the women of America", and "Stop the draft", picketing in front of the White House. Contact sheet avai... More

Stairway at the restored Lincoln Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Built in 1922, it was the center of an African-American cultural renaissance that predated Harlem. Washington natives Duke Ellington and Pearl Bailey were joined by nationally acclaimed artists such as Ella Fit... More

Resident of Essex Mill Apartments in courtyard with her children; the ...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

Resident of Essex Mill Apartments in courtyard with her children; the ...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting scenes in Paterson's historic district.

Country singer-songwriting legend Willie Nelson, age 80 at the time of...

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

Anthony Paukner drew these images of star singer Roy Orbison, a local ...

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

Samuel "Tamehorse" Gallegos, photographed in Pueblo, Colorado, at a ga...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. His father was a Mescalero Apache; his mother, Southern Cheyenne. Mr. Gallegos has been a professional Native dancer and singer for mo... More

Elida Rumsey Fowle, Civil War nurse and singer

Printed on recto: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by M.S. Hagaman, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018... More

Mrs. Edith Wilson, Chicago, Illinois; Big Time Sara Streeter, Blues si...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-20, Mrs. Edith Wilson at her home; 2-9, Mrs. Edith Wilson (5921 Ind... More

Nat King Cole - Public domain portrait photograph

Photographs show singer Nat King Cole performing and socializing. Includes Cole performing in a nightclub; performing for patients at a Chicago hospital; visiting a church and playing piano with choir member; d... More

Wedding of Sopheap Kuth and Pen Hing at the home of Pen Hing's mother,...

Index data: WEDDING OF SOPHEAP KUTH AND PEN HING, HOME OF MRS. CHOUNN CHEN, SEPTEMBER 26, 1987 . 1, Underexposed; 2-6, Women separating fibers from gourd to be used in marriage ceremony; 7-8, Portraits of Mrs. ... More

Nat King Cole - Public domain portrait photograph

Home of Sorn Veuk, Lowell, Massachusetts; South East Asian Restaurant,...

Index data: Sorn Veuk Home, Music Recording Session, September 20, 1987. 1-2, Woodcarving of Angkor Wat, carved by Sorn Veik in refugee camp; South East Asian Restaurant, September 26, 1987. 3-4, Teenage Southe... More

Memorial Day family picnic, Chicago, Illinois; Checkerboard Lounge, 42...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-21, family picnic, Croatian American family, Memorial Day, 4827 S. ... More

Nat King Cole - Public domain portrait photograph

Wilson Langlois, Corinne Foster, Ray Paquin, Yvonne Lagasse, Mr. and M...

Index data: 1, Wilson Langlois and Corinne Foster playing at Fran Forest's cookout; 2, Back of house of Fran Forest; 3, Yard decoration at Fran Forest's home; 4, Wilson Langlois (violin), Corinne Foster (organ)... More

Progressive singer, The; or, Buds and blossoms

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Singer Tower and huge office buildings, seen from ferry in North River...

Photograph shows three men on ferry looking at boats and New York City in the distance.

[Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947]

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

[Design drawing for slender vertical stained glass window with small s...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[George M. Cohan, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Public domain image of a male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Portrait of Billie Holiday] - Public domain portrait print

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: II GG 7. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

Boy going home to lunch from Singer Mfg. Co., Said he was 15 years old...

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

[Portrait of Doris Day and Kitty Kallen, Central Park, New York, N.Y.,...

Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). Gottli... More

Singer, Comedian Danny Kaye greets his pilot, Air Force Capt Richard C...

December 30, 1961 (date) The Library of Congress provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes and makes no warranty with regard to their use for other purposes. The written permissi... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing f...

Reproduction of painting by John Singer Sargent. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior view of the central office of I.M. Singer & Co., 458 Broadway...

Print shows interior view of large room with women looking at sewing machines and several men looking at merchandise displays. Possibly engraved by Edward Keating, b. 1825 or 6. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illus... More

Vestralli, "Singer", Glass Negative, 1860s, Portrait photo, Library of...

A black and white photo of a woman in a dress. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Studio portraits of a Japanese broom vendor, a naval officer, a woman...

Captions on front of item: "A traveling vendor of brooms" (upper left); "Japanese naval officer" (upper right); "A Yokohma belle" (lower left); and "Street singer" (lower right). Captions on back of item: "72.... More

Nielsen, portrait, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows Swedish opera singer Christine Nilsson, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right. No. 1111. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

T.V. O'Connor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian baritone opera singer Giuseppe Danise (1883-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Namara and Guy Bolton - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows playwright Guy Reginald Bolton (1884-1979) and singer Marguerite Namara (1888-1974). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Fo... More

Ponselle in "William Tell" - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) in costume for the opera William Tell. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Harrold and father, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows musical theater and opera singer Orville Harrold (1878-1933) with his father, and a dog dressed in a military uniform. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bai... More

Macbeth - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eddie Cantor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Eddie Cantor (ca. 1892-1964). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Li... More

Early automobiles - Werrenrath - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows opera singer Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) with automobile and others. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Chalmers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Thomas Hardie Chalmers (1884-1966), American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

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