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

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[ 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

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

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

Jolson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Al Jolson (1886-1950), an American singer, film actor and comedian. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

Peterson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows May Esther Peterson Thompson, a soprano singer for the Metropolitan Opera. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part o... More

Gogorza, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Emilio de Gorgorza (1872-1949), an American baritone singer. He released a recording of "La Paloma" in 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service ... 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

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from simi... 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

Farrar, 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 sells bonds, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

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.,...

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

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

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

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

Werrenrath, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) seated in front of a fireplace. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part ... More

Rice, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano singer Gladys Rice (1890-1983) in a kitchen. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bai... More

Elsie Baker, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American singer and actress Elsie Baker (1883-1971). She is also depicted in the panoramic photograph on the wall behind her, which shows the St. Paul Symphony Orchestra on tour in the spring o... More

Early automobiles - Gadski - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) in automobile. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

L. Tetrazzini, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) at piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from related negative: LC-B2-5... More

Alda, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Frances Alda (1879-1952), who was born in New Zealand and was raised in Australia. From 1908 to 1929 she sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and recorded for Victor... More

Shaw, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Elliott Shaw. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congre... More

Reschiglian - Martinelli - Dua, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows (left to right) Italian baritone opera singer Vincenzo Reschiglian (1874?-1955), Italian tenor opera singer Giovanni Martinelli (1885?-1969) and Belgian tenor opera singer Octave Dua (1882-1952... More

Ill'w'th Illingsworth, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Nelson Illingsworth. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of ... More

Whitehill sp?, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Clarence Eugene Whitehill (1971-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain... More

Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

Scotney, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Evelyn Scotney (1896-1967). (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

Scotney, George Grantham Bain Collection

Schaaf, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Myrtle Schaaf, a mezzo-soprano opera singer who sang at the Metropolitan Opera from 1921 to 1923. (Souce: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Servic... More

Macbeth, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966) giving candy to children gathered around her, possibly in New York City or New Jersey. Concession stand in background is selling Atlantic City salt water ta... More

Yvette Guilbert - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Yvette Guilbert - Public domain portrait print

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

Yvette Guilbert, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows French cabaret singer and actress Yvette Guilbert (1865-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from similar Bain negati... More

The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones the greatest singer of her ...

Poster shows Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, known as Black Patti, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, with many medals pinned to her dress. Created by "Metropolitan Print, N.Y." No. 1405. Forms part ... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday] - Public domain portrait print

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

[Portrait of Billie Holiday (Lady Day)]

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

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 35. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. ...

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

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XI E 39. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, ... More

[Portrait of Frank Sinatra, Liederkrantz Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. 194...

[Emma Gillingham Bostwick, half-length portrait of a woman, three-quar...

Concert singer. Scratched on face of plate: 237; E.G. Bostwick. Scratched on back of plate: 83. Identification from lithograph in Odell's Annals of the New York stage, v. 6, pl. 78. Hallmark: Rinhart 9. Transf... More

Geistinger, Head and Shoulders Portrait Cartes de visite

Photograph shows Austrian actress/singer Marie Geistinger, head-and-shoulders portrait, in costume, facing left. No. 1395. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Gadski, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain... More

Gluck, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Romanian-American opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1938) with two children. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Libra... More

Kathleen Howard, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Canadian-born opera singer Kathleen Howard (1884-1956). Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the... More

McCormack "Tosca", George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Irish American tenor singer John McCormack (1884-1945). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. On negative: "May Mina Moore." Photograph taken by May and Mina Moore.... More

V. Lazzari and wife - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows opera singer Carolina Lazzari (1891-1946) and her husband V. Lazari. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Raymonde Delaunois, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Raymonde Delaunois (1885-1984), a Belgian mezzo-soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Ge... More

Mme. Ober, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971). Arndt-Ober performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from d... More

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