946 Skyscraper Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

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[City skyscrapers] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. Note on verso: Illustration for "Mid-Air Dining Clubs" by Cleveland Moffett, Century, 62:643 (Sept. 1901) ; not published. (DLC/PP-1932:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illu... More

South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Park Row Building] - Irving Underhill

H43752 U.S. Copyright Office. Probably copyrighted by Irving Underhill, N.Y. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dime Savings Bank building, Detroit, Mich.

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

Woolworth Bldg. - Irving Underhill

Woolworth Building under construction, New York City, Feb. 2, 1912. J166804 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed & Copyright by Irving Underhill.

Lewisohn Bldg., 119 W. 40 St. - Irving Underhill Co. photo

JA45907 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 11506. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.

Balcony and windows of the first skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orl...

Public domain photograph of window, architectural element, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York City views, c.1930s. New York in 1920s. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York city views. Central Park West, with lake reflections II

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rockefeller Center. RCA Building, from 50th St. on cathedral grounds

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

Rockefeller Center. RCA Building, from 515 Madison Ave.

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

A grey afternoon in New York City looking north from University Place

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York. Looking north on Herald Square

Picryl description: Public domain image of bustling city downtown streets, commercial buildings, 20th-century, the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain image of Chicago cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Americana Hotel. Daylight, from Lindy's roof

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

New York City, Warren K. Leffler photo

Title and date from log book. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 11344, frame 29. Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

World Trade Center, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Detail of modern office building exterior

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Photograph taken during the 1980s. Title, date, subject... More

Williams Tower, (formerly the Transco Tower) a skyscraper located in t...

Designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, in association with Houston-based Morris Architects and erected in 1983. The tower is among Houston's most visible buildings. Digital image produced by Car... More

Headquarters building of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, ...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, or WSSC, t... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s

Aerial view of high-rise buildings, New York, New York

The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisc...

Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original ... More

Aerial view of skyline, with a focus on Willis Tower, long known as Se...

Aerial view of Ellis Island with New York City World Trade Center in t...

Aerial view of the World Trade Center, New York, New York

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency not held by the Library. Photograph taken about two months before the 9/11/2001 tragedy. Title, date, subject note, and k... More

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...

Aerial was taken a couple of months before the 9/11 tragedy. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital im... More

Chrysler Building detail, New York, New York

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

The building, Alabama's tallest, is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Ala... More

The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, located at 451 Seventh Street, ...

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

View from the Top of the Mark Restaurant at the Mark Hopkins Intercont...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Dusk shot of the Houston, Texas, skyline

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

Jersey City, New Jersey - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building located in the Government Cen...

Designed by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative with Samuel Glaserit. Built in 1963-1966. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from... More

A portion of New York City's High Line, a 1.45-mile-long elevated line...

High Line was created on the abandoned New York Central Railroad West Side Line in Manhattan. Led by the landscape architecture firm of James Corner Field Operations, the spur was redesigned as a "living system... More

West St. Bdg. - Irving Underhill

View of West Street Building, with men working at street level on street railroad(?) tracks, and horse drawn carts of construction equipment, New York City. H93389 U.S. Copyright Office. No. B11644. Copyright b... More

Price Tower, 510 South Dewey Avenue, Bartlesville, Washington County, ...

Significance: From National Historic Landmarks Form: Built as a headquarters and rented commercial space and apartments for the H.C. Price Company, the Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two comple... More

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

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

Lockwood-Coghlin Buildings, 119 & 121-123 Saint Clair Street, Toledo, ...

Significance: The Lockwood/Coghlin Buildings are significant as expressions of the work of prominent Toledo architect Norval Bacan, who was responsible for hundreds of designs in the late 19th and early 20th ce... More

Union Square, New York - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, Northern Lighter Than Air Ship Hanga...

Survey number: HABS CA-2707-A Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn - Irving Underhill

JA46013 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.C. No. C 13435.

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Wheaton & Anthony Building (Second), 75 Westminster Street, Providence...

Significance: Built in 1872, the Second Wheaton and Anthony Building was designed by the locally prominent architectural firm of Stone and Carpenter in the Second Empire style. One of the earliest cast iron fa... More

Photographs of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and James L. Watso...

Images show exterior and interior views of U.S. federal building and Court of International Trade in New York, New York. Details include the courtroom, lobby, plaza, and mosaics. Arrangement: Arranged by phot... More

Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...

Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More

Chicago River Bascule Bridges, Spanning Chicago River & its north & so...

Significance: The development of the Chicago trunnion bascule bridge occurred during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Despite the controversy over patent infringement Joseph E. Strauss charg... More

Chicago River Bascule Bridges, Spanning Chicago River & its north & so...

[New York, N.Y., Trinity churchyard and the skyscrapers]

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

Flat Iron i.e. Flatiron Building, New York

Detroit Publishing Co. no. P 87. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Fuller Building (The Flatiron) - Irving Underhill

View of the Flatiron Building, showing pedestrians, carriages, trolley and mounted policeman on street. H65872 U.S. Copyright Office. No. D-308. Copyright by Irving Underhill, New York.

New York skyscrapers from Jersey City

J141268 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill; May 12, 1910. Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. H-38.

Woolworth bldg. - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Tow...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Haviland Bldg., 11 E. 36th St. - Irving Underhill Co. photo

J177068 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 9106. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.

Adams Express Bldg. B'way & Exchange Pl.

J191929 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y. No. C 10009.

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Empire State Building, New York City. [View from], to Chrysler Bldg. a...

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

New York city views. Times Square from Continental Building

Public domain photograph of broadway, city downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A rainy evening in New York City looking west toward Hudson River from...

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

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a city, Arthur Rothstein - New York City

Public domain image of New york city cityscape, free to use, no copyri...

Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fellheimer & Wagner, 155 E. 42nd St., New York City. Copy of drawing

Picryl description: Public domain image of a modernist architecture building, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York City views. "New look of Park Avenue," horizontal

Public domain photograph of New York City, Broadway, downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Model. Long view]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Americana Hotel. Night view, from Lindy's roof

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

Americana Hotel. Exterior, in flat light

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

Downtown Chicago, Illinois - Color photograph, Kodachrome film transpa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carol M. Highsmith - Architectural detail, Boston, Massachusetts

Aerial view of New York City, with a focus on the Twin Towers of the W...

[The Concourse, Beach Road, Singapore. Office tower. Perspective]

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. This photo was taken about one month before the towers ... More

Aerial view of New York City, with Twin Towers of the World Trade Cent...

Building detail, National Archives, St. Louis, Missouri

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title and date provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More

RSA Battle House Tower, Mobile, Alabama

The RSA Battle House Tower is Alabama's tallest building and is owned by the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA). Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F.... More

Sculptor David Adickes's "Virtuoso," a 36-foot-tall cellist statue, co...

Public domain photograph of cellist, musician, cello, string music instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market (left) and Post Streets, looking west, San Francisco

Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 601. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.

American Surety Bldg., 100 B'way

J08623 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y. No. C 20534.

John Ryan interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-27

John Ryan discusses his background, his entrance into the ironworkers trade, important sites he has worked on in Chicago, unions, strikes, the labor-management situation in Chicago, jokes and ritual. The audio ... More

Palmetto Building, 1400 Main Street at Washington Street, Columbia, Ri...

Significance: At 215 feet tall, the Palmetto Building was the tallest building in Columbia, South Carolina, at the time of construction. It is an excellent example of an early 20th century skyscraper sheathed i... More

Sky scrapers overshadowing Trinity Church, New York

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

Manhattan Bridge, Spanning East River at Flatbush Avenue, between New ...

Significance: This single span suspension bridge contains one of the longest suspension spans in the U.S., and had the largest carrying capacity in the country when it was built. It is unusual in that it was d... More

Richfield Oil Building, 555 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, Los Ange...

Significance: An excellent example of the "Modern Style" of the 1920s, a short-lived heroic style with roots in late Art Nouveau and German Expressionism with emphasis on masses rather than volumes. A more dire... More

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

First Skyscraper, 638 Royal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-13 Survey number: HABS LA-21 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction

Vermont Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: Vermont Avenue has developed along the lines of L'Enfant's 1791 plan of the city. Although he probably planned for it to continue beyond the historic city boundary, Vermont Avenue ends at Florida ... More

Johnson Wax Corporation Building, 1525 Howe Street, Racine, Racine Cou...

Significance: Corporate complex, noted example of Wright's commercial design. Survey number: HABS WI-284

St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Bouleva...

Significance: The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is a stunning example of innovative public architecture from the American Depression Era. Commissioned in 1930, and completed in 1931 by Hola... More