1,681 Singer, Portrait Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[ Recorder player and singer] - Public domain portrait drawing

German (artist nationality) painter and etcher (artist role) Verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/491 (inscription) Brush and grey wash drawing. (medium) Fine condition. (condition) Henning Oppermann, Buchantiquariat... More

[Jean-Baptiste Faure, French opera singer, head-and-shoulders portrait...

Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

De Luca, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950) singing into microphone. Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gr... More

Mme. Nordica, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American opera singer Lillian Nordica (1857-1914). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by... More

Braslau - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia)

Mardones, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Spanish bass opera singer Jose Mardones (1868-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bai... More

Mme. Nordica, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American opera singer Lillian Nordica (1857-1914). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by... More

Hope Hampton, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows silent film actress and producer, and later opera singer, Hope Hampton (1897-1982). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

[Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 1861-1936, bust portrait, facing left]

H74125 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf. Sources checked: OCat. Singer; née Roessler, 1861-1936.

Lusitania seen from Singer Bldg, N.Y.C. Bain

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

Johannes Sembach at piano - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows German opera singer Johannes Sembach (1881-1944), seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Johnson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Edward Patrick Johnson (1878?-1959), a Canadian tenor opera singer who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni, with with his daughter Fiorenza and phonograph. (Source: Flickr C... More

May Peterson - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph show opera singer May Esther Peterson Thompson (1880-1952) who sang for the Metropolitan Opera Company, seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963) standing next to car bending over flat tire. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain ... More

Italian opera singer Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of:... More

F.E. Bristol, Chas. Harrison - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Frederick Eliud Bristol (1839-1932), American voice teacher and Charles William Harrison (1878-1932), American tenor ballad singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provid... More

Wells, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer John Barnes Wells (1880-1935). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General inf... More

Kathleen Howard - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Canadian-born opera singer Kathleen Howard (1884-1956). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

A. Didur, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Adam Didur (1873-1946), a Polish bass opera singer, standing next to a piano with dogs. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.... More

Julia Culp, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph Julia Bertha Culp, a celebrated mezzo-soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Ba... More

Matzenauer, George Grantham Bain Collection, Portrait photo, Library o...

Photograph shows mezzo-soprano opera singer Margaret Matzenauer (Margarete Matzenauer or Margarethe Matzenaur) (1881-1963) with her daughter Adrienne Matzenauer (also known as Adrienne Fontana) (1914-2010). (So... More

Fields, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Arthur Fields (1884-1953) who was a singer and songwriter, with a Stutz automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. For... More

Helen Clark, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Helen Clark, New York-born contralto opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain ... More

Didur, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Polish bass singer Adam Didur (1874-1946). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Oscar Seagle, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows baritone singer and teacher Oscar Seagle (1877-1945). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gr... More

Birnbaum, Gordon, Bernays, Fornia, Mrs. Coppicus, Amato, Botta

Photograph shows opera singers and musicians opening the Operatic Liberty Loan Offices at Aeolian Hall, New York City on June 5, 1917. People depicted include (left to right) Harry Birnbaum, pianist Philip Gord... More

Carusos, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Park Benjamin (1893-1955), at a Police Field Day benefit at Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn, New Yor... More

Caruso, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) at a Police Field Day benefit at Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn, New York City, August 31, 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) T... More

Farrar sells bonds, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows a concert by soprano opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) which was part of the Women's War Relief Association's Liberty Theater in front of the New York Public Library at 5th Avenue and 4... More

Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Schumann-Heink & her son's family

Photograph shows German American opera singer Ernestine (Rössler) Schumann-Heink (1861-1936) with the family of her son, actor Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (1893-1958). Depicted are Ferdinand's wife, Kaethe (Kate) ... More

Mme. Ganna Walska to wed Harold F. McCormick, it is said

Mme. Walska seated, 3/4 lgth., facing left, and holding cat; with inset of Harold McCormick, head and shoulders, facing right. Photoprint copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. S-S-2043-T. This record contai... More

Laurence Harvey & Frank Sinatra doing a scene in Central Park, Harvey ...

Laurence Harvey (wet) and Frank Sinatra, full-length portrait, standing on small pier, facing each other, during filming of "The Manchurian Candidate". NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Tel... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday (Lady Day)]

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

[Portrait of Frank Sinatra and Axel Stordahl, Liederkrantz Hall, New Y...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

[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

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

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

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

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

Gogorza, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Emilio de Gogorza (1872-1949), a baritone singer. (Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham B... More

Hart, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows tenor singer Charles Hart (1884-1965). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Hempel & Schumann Heink, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer Frieda Hempel (1885-1955) with German Bohemian American Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who was a contralto opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data pr... More

Beatrice La Palme - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows Canadian opera singer Beatrice La Palme (1878-1921). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Melanie Kurt, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German soprano opera singer Melanie Kurt (1880-1941), who debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service o... More

Amato as "Cyrano", George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo probably shows Italian opera singer Pasquale Amato (1878-1942) who sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 until 1921. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Johannes Sembach, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer and tenor Johannes Sembach (1881-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

Harrold, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows musical theater and opera singer Orville Harrold (1878-1933). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gra... More

Ponselle, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) reclining on a sofa. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congres... More

Elliott Shaw, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Elliott Shaw (1887-1973) in kitchen. (Source: Flickr Commons, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Li... 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

Tetrazzini, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) with motion picture camera. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Ge... More

Martinelli, George Grantham Bain Collection

A. Fields, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Arthur Fields (1888-1953) who was a singer and songwriter. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Baker, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American singer and actress Elsie Baker (1886-1958). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Col... More

Gluck & Zimbalist, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (1889 or 1890-1985) an internationally known concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor, and director of the Curtis Institute of Music with his wife, Romanian-American... More

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