32,546 Social life Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

A touch of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman playing cards with a monkey dressed as a man, two figures in masquerade attend to them, above and in the background are a musician, a man and a woman, and a cuckold, also seated is an owl sm... More

Decoration du Bal Masqué donné par le roy ... / C.N. Cochin filius del...

Decorations at the masked ball given by King Louis XV of France in February 1745, on the occasion of the marriage of his son, the Dauphin, to Marie Therese of Spain; also visible, ballroom interior and numerous... More

Minazuki, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows a man sitting on a bench at a teahouse overlooking the Sumida River, the waitress standing before him holding a fan and teapot, is looking over her left shoulder. Title and other descriptive informa... More

Utagawa Toyoharu - Ukie shin-yoshiwara sōjimai no zu

Print shows many women gathering together, some still entertaining men, in a large open hall in the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-spo... More

[Seven men around table, eating and drinking, with one of them playing...

Public domain image of 18th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mimeguri no hanami - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three women with a male attendant carrying a parasol, and a child walking along riverbank among cherry trees.

Yuki no ashita, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan

Print shows an upper class woman standing near a well and two women, possibly servants, getting water at the well. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists... More

Ōhashi nakazu mitsumata, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women in a boat with a man at the helm near the wooden structural supports for the bridge at Mitsumata. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More

Yushima tenmangū - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows people, mostly women, children, and elderly persons, near the torii at the entrance to the Tenman Shrine in Yushima.

Ōkawabashi, Utagawa Kunisada, Japan - Ukiyo e print

Print shows two women walking with view of the Ōkawa Bridge as an insert in upper right corner. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From t... More

Sagami Enoshima iriguchi, Andō Hiroshige - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women passing through the gateway to a shrine on the bank of a river with distant view of Mount Fuji. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specia... More

Portrait photo of Evreiskie obychai. Uveselenie (bazm) Evreek

Photograph shows a group of women and children celebrating outdoors. One woman has a drum and another appears to be dancing. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, v... More

Evreikskie [sic] svadebnye obriady. Privoz nieviesty [sic] v dom zheni...

Photograph shows a group of people escorting the bride and groom (far left) to a house. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 80. "Shebi zenan" translat... More

[An elderly man, seated, smoking]

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Dec. '78. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and ... More

A sociable smoke - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows two well dressed men smoking cigars, sitting at a table, watching a small dog sitting up, puffing on a cigar. The man on the right holds a whip and may be an animal trainer; he gestures toward the d... More

[Photographer and subject, in Yokohama, Japan]

Print shows a woman posing for a portrait photograph, half-length, seated, facing right, next to a table with a potted plant; at the top of the image is a banner filled with text and an illustration of the phot... More

Sunny days / Brett Lith. Co., N.Y.

Print shows a scene on a decorative plate with a young man using an oar to launch a rowboat on a pond, with a young girl sitting at the bow. Copyright 1882 by J.L. Blamire.

White caps / Brett Lith. Co., N.Y.

Print shows a scene on a decorative plate with three young children playing on a beach and collecting seashells. Copyright 1882 by J.L. Blamire.

New York shop-girls buying Easter bonnets on Division Street / drawn b...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1890 April 5, p. 256. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The European Svengali and the trilbys of the "four hundred" - he hypno...

Print shows a wily, destitute, European noble, with papers extending from his pockets labeled "Laundry Bill, Hotel Bill, Livery Bill, [and] Tailor Bill", seeking a fortune among young American heiresses, as he ... More

Shadows on beach, Coney Island--colored girls bathing

Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young America to the rescue / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows young women and men dancing at a summer resort. Caption: Hops as they now are at our fashionable summer resorts. Illus. from Puck, v. 42, no. 1067, (1897 August 18), centerfold. Copyright 1897 by K... More

[African American men, women and children outside of church]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 274. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Puck's summer chowder / Ehrhart. (before 1920)

Illustration shows several scenes of life at various times and locations around a central image of two masked men recklessly driving an automobile down a country road, frightening every man, woman, and beast, a... More

[Gov. Roosevelt and party ready for the hunt, Meeker, Colo.]

Photograph showing Governor Theodore Roosevelt and hunting party outside the "Meeker Hotel" Colorado. H1293 U.S. Copyright Office. Title supplied from a variant photograph. Copyright by C.A. Booth, Meeker, Colo.

Two hundred, Cabinet photograph

Two young women at blackboard, one holding bowling ball and the other writing score. H20386 U.S. Copyright Office.

Edward Penfield - [Christmas at Cafe Spaander]

Three men sitting at a cafe table watching sailboats on nearby river. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "A Chri... More

Don't you see that you are making me a great deal of trouble? / from a...

Illustration for article entitled "Miss Wainwright's adventure, a mid-summer comedy of misunderstandings" by George Hibbard, shows two men and a woman in a jewelry store. Illus. in: Saturday Evening Post, v. 17... More

(1) President Roosevelt greeting the visitors - lawn party on the Whit...

H62005 U. S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

May Day festivities, Forest Glen, Md.

Young women dressed in white, holding flowered boughs, poised for a dance. H95266 U.S. Copyright Office.

On the house-boat--"The Log Cabin"

Print shows woman seated in rocking chair reading book, with woman looking over her shoulder, another woman seated with Japanese umbrella, and man standing in doorway smoking cigar. Illus. in: Camera Work, no. ... More

"Wee sma' hours" / Sadie Wendell Mitchell.

Poster shows three young women (probably college students) socializing. One is cooking using a light source for heat, directly above a sign reading "No Smoking".

Edward S. Curtis - Waiting in the forest--Cheyenne

Cheyenne man, standing in forest, is covered with white blanket except for eyes and nose, hoping to meet his girlfriend. J150298 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3256-10. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collec... More

Conserving her natural resources / Gordon Grant '10.

Illustration shows a young man and a young woman ice skating, the man tries to kiss or embrace her, but she deftly uses her muff to block his advance. Caption: Vigorous opposition to grasping monopoly. Illus. ... More

Arnold Genthe riding Chesty. Public domain artistic photography.

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Caricature, A modern tantalus / W.E. Hill., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows a man and a woman (girlfriend or wife) at a musical revue, the man is staring at a chorus girl who is temptingly standing in front of him; the man's wife or girlfriend is looking at him with ... More

This is the man who tells his wife that "woman's place is in the home"...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat and a red dress sitting at a table in a nightclub with a man who is holding her hand across the table.

Church road along the beach

Photograph shows four women walking on wooden sidewalk along tree-lined Church Road near the beach, Rye Beach, Rye, New Hampshire. J175883 U.S. Copyright Office.

Caricature, After the hug / W.E. Hill '12., public domain cartoon imag...

Illustration shows a woman wearing a large hat standing next to a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat. Caption: He You smashed two cigars in my inside pocket just then! / She That's nothing! You bent a whole pa... More

Built for speed; 1912 model / W.E. Hill 1912.

Illustration shows a beautiful young woman, fashionably dressed with large hat, standing before a group of wealthy men, looking back over her right shoulder; includes an escutcheon showing an automobile, lobste... More

Memorial day / Ehrhart., Confederate States of America.

Illustration shows two older men, a former Confederate soldier and a former Union soldier, walking arm in arm to purchase tickets for a double-header baseball game; a young boy in the foreground tips his hat, a... More

Pancho Villa, General Hugh Scott, and others at a race track, Ciudad J...

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

A live wire / Modest Stein ; painted by Modest Stein.

Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman talking on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1953 (1914 August 8), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck... More

The path of least resistance / Power O'Malley ; painted by Power O'Mal...

Illustration shows young couples embracing or dancing, and walking among a grove of trees at night. Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1957 (1914 September 5), cover. Copyright 1914 by Puck Publishing Corporation.

One of the thousand Y.M.C.A. girls in France--United War Work Campaign...

Poster showing a woman in a Y.M.C.A. uniform offering a steaming cup of coffee and books; large red triangle is behind her. Promotional goal: U.S. G2.J7. 1918. Promotional goal: U.S. F35.J7. 1918.

[Two men, seated, three-quarter length, laughing; one of them holding ...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 4900. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Where President and Mrs. Coolidge were entertained today; "Lydonia," t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picking the meat from the chicken bones is one of the big jobs in prep...

Photograph showing women preparing the Southern food staple knows as chicken perlou (or pilau) at a cookout in Florida.

Lincoln studying on the banks of the Sangamon

Abraham Lincoln, full-length portrait, seated, reading and fishing on the banks of the Sangamon River. J14765 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harry Dayton Sickles. Photograph of a painting.

Bathers at photo tent. New York (state) 19th Century Stereoscope Card.

25741Cp2s-1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 475. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The orchard, Newark, Ohio

Photograph shows Letitia Felix, Julia McCune, and Stella Howard gathering fruit in an orchard in Newark, Ohio. Title and date from online source. Signed and dated in pencil on mount: Clarence H. White 1900. Ori... 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

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

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

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

Drink Coca-Cola 5 cents - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a well dressed young woman, wearing hat, white gloves, and pearls, holding up a glass of Coca-Cola, seated at a table on which is a vase of roses, the "Drink Coca-Cola" sign, and a paper giving the ... More

Edward Penfield - [Woman and man playing tennis]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Tennis for 1902" by H.L. Galpin, Collier's weekly, April 26, 1902. p. 11.

Evreikskie [sic] svadebnye obriady. Svatovstvo (shushmin)

Photograph shows six men seated on the ground. The groom is second from left. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1 pl. 79.

[Musicians accompany two men eating, attended by three servants]

Drawing shows two older gentlemen seated at the head of a table being served by three young servants while three musicians accompany the feast in a well-furnished home with a western clock on a shelf at right a... More

Modern Sons of the Pharaohs: A Study of the Manners and Customs of the...

Because this book is tightly bound, the final letters are missing at the end of words in the inside margins on pages at the front and back of the book. (General) See especially Part II, chapters 1 and 2: "The O... More

Chaĭ-khanė. Samarkand - Public domain portrait photograph

Group of men having tea outdoors. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[President and Mrs. Harding with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beale McLean and ...

Public domain photograph related to President Warren G. Harding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Letters from a senator's wife, by Frances Parkinson Keyes

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Hotaru - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows five women and a man on a veranda extending above a pool, eating and drinking, playing music, and catching fireflies (a shamisen and an insect cage are in the foreground on the veranda).

Hotaru - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows five women and a man on a veranda extending above a pool, eating and drinking, playing music, and catching fireflies (a shamisen and an insect cage are in the foreground on the veranda).

Fort McCoy, Building T-801, Sparta, Monroe County, WI

Significance: Building 801 is of interest on a local and regional basis as a nearly unaltered example of a building type that may have been erected only at Camp McCoy the combined company storehouse, administ... More

Fort McCoy, Building T-801, Sparta, Monroe County, WI

Significance: Building 801 is of interest on a local and regional basis as a nearly unaltered example of a building type that may have been erected only at Camp McCoy the combined company storehouse, administ... More

Journal by Mabel Hubbard Bell, from July 20, 1883 to October 6, 1884

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A tour in the United States of America : containing an account of the ...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A tour in the United States of America : containing an account of the ...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A tour in the United States of America : containing an account of the ...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The jury disagrees - Public domain print

Drawing shows a fashionably dressed young woman walking past a group of six women and six men; the women all look upon her disapprovingly, while the expressions of the men show that they disagree with their wiv... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, standing up in canoe, pushing away from shore wit...

H65280-85 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edgar Degas - [Au Louvre: la peinture (Mary Cassatt)]

Print shows two women viewing paintings at the Louvre, as seen through a doorway. Delteil, 29 (20th state) Exhibited: "Pennell Legacy : Two Centuries of Printmaking" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.... More

The jolly flat boat men / painted by G.C. Bingham, esq. ; engraved by ...

Group of men on flatboat in river, playing musical instruments, relaxing, and dancing. "From the original painting, distributed by the American Art Union in 1847; published exclusively for the members of that y... More

Reitmeyer Tavern, 13840 U.S. Highway 10, Cato, Manitowoc County, WI

Significance: The tavern historically held commercial and social significance for the unincorporated community of Cato. The tavern was the first of only two licensed drinking establishments in the area. Its s... More

Schonbartbuch., 15th century, Nuremberg

Manuscript on paper. Leaves [3]-[66] numb. 132-195. Leaves [1]-[2], and [67]-[70] on different paper, in different, apparently later, handwriting. Leaves [1]-[2]: Vorred auf das Schempartbuch (rhymed). Leaves [... More

[Women kissing], Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows two women, full length, standing with arms around each other, kissing. Printed on verso of cabinet card: Miss Johnston, Sun Building, Washington, D.C. Gift and purchase; Frances Benjamin Johns... More

The Christmas dinner safe. "Done cotch him!" / drawn by W.L. Sheppard.

Afro-American man holding up rabbit toward older man climbing over fence. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1874 Jan. 3, p. 5.

[Theodore Roosevelt, standing up in canoe, pushing away from shore wit...

H65280-85 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Theodore Roosevelt and another man carrying a canoe as a third man ca...

H65274-77 Copyright Office Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kamoi Theater, Ala Malama Avenue & Kamoi Street, Kaunakakai, Maui Coun...

Significance: The Kamoi Theater is one of three buildings on the island of Molokai that were built expressly as movie theaters. Only the Kamoi, in the town of Kaunakakai, remains; the others, in the towns of M... More

La Casa de la Guerra, 11-19 East de la Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, S...

Significance: The De la Guerra house is important, both as an architectural monument and for the historical events and personages which have been associated with its long history. It is unquestionably the majo... More

La Casa de la Guerra, 11-19 East de la Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, S...

Significance: The De la Guerra house is important, both as an architectural monument and for the historical events and personages which have been associated with its long history. It is unquestionably the majo... More

Hanaarashi, Utagawa Toyokuni - Public domain drawing

Print shows on the left, two women consoling a third woman, in the center, one woman lifting another woman so she can attach a slip of paper to tree branch, and on the right, a woman standing on a bucket and ho... More

Old Beersheba Inn, Armfield Avenue, Beersheba Springs, Grundy County, ...

Significance: The Beersheba Springs Hotel was constructed in stages under a succession of owners. The present form is the result of extensive additions made by Col. John Armfield in 1855-1856. His contributio... More

Old Beersheba Inn, Armfield Avenue, Beersheba Springs, Grundy County, ...

Significance: The Beersheba Springs Hotel was constructed in stages under a succession of owners. The present form is the result of extensive additions made by Col. John Armfield in 1855-1856. His contributio... More

The stereograph as an educator - Underwood patent extension cabinet in...

Photograph shows a woman viewing stereographs in her home; she is sitting in front of a fireplace with a cabinet for stereographs on her right. H2526 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood.

Cragfont, Highway 25, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN

Significance: The largest of the native stone houses built in the Sumner County area, Cragfont was completed circa 1802. It was the home of General James Winchester, veteran of the Revolutionary War and the Wa... More

Cragfont, Highway 25, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN

Significance: The largest of the native stone houses built in the Sumner County area, Cragfont was completed circa 1802. It was the home of General James Winchester, veteran of the Revolutionary War and the Wa... More

Cragfont, Highway 25, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN

Significance: The largest of the native stone houses built in the Sumner County area, Cragfont was completed circa 1802. It was the home of General James Winchester, veteran of the Revolutionary War and the Wa... More

Cragfont, Highway 25, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN

Significance: The largest of the native stone houses built in the Sumner County area, Cragfont was completed circa 1802. It was the home of General James Winchester, veteran of the Revolutionary War and the Wa... More

Holiday Bowl, 3730 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: Constructed in 1958, and operated by Japanese businessmen, the Holiday Bowl became an ethically diverse community center to area residents. It was originally open 24 hours a day to accommodate the... More

Holiday Bowl, 3730 Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County...

Significance: Constructed in 1958, and operated by Japanese businessmen, the Holiday Bowl became an ethically diverse community center to area residents. It was originally open 24 hours a day to accommodate the... More