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Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

Knights of Pythias Building, 101 Valencia Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The Knights of Pythias Building is a notable and rare surviving example in San Francisco of an early 20th-century building exclusively for a fraternal organization. In a city where many upper cla... More

Knights of Pythias Building, 101 Valencia Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The Knights of Pythias Building is a notable and rare surviving example in San Francisco of an early 20th-century building exclusively for a fraternal organization. In a city where many upper cla... More

Conversation with 41 year old black male, Detroit, Michigan (Transcrip...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Georgetown University. Washington, DC 49 year old black male. Discusses childhood games, school, and work.

The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family l...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Memories of three score years and ten,

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

Presidents and pies; life in Washington 1897-1919,

Reprinted in part from the National magazine. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

As I remember; recollections of American society during the nineteenth...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Ryōgokubashi no sekisho, Harunobu Suzuki, Woodblock Print, Japan

Print shows two women on the Ryōgoku Bridge at sunset. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Fūryū edo hakkei : Modern vers... More

Hibachi o kakomu gonin no otoko, Shunsh Katsukawa

Print shows five men relaxing around a hibachi; a shamisen rests on a platform in a room to the rear, and a standing screen with various symbols is in the foreground. Title and other descriptive information com... More

Ouka no nibijin - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows two women standing beneath a blossoming cherry tree. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Hashirae Nishikie. Forms pa... More

Yatsushi Manzai - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows two women, one sitting playing a drum, the other standing.

[Demon with sword in his mouth upsets tea ceremony]

Print shows a man or demon, holding sword in his mouth, struggling with two women at a tea party beneath a tree. Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congr... More

Premiere séance de l'institut National ; le 15 Germinal, An 4eme de la...

Print shows a large group of men seated in two u-shaped rows along the sides and back of a large hall with a barrel ceiling and with statuary in alcoves set off by columns, a crowded third row of standing-room-... More

Tadzhikskie svadebnye obriady. Vstriecha zhenikhom neviesty

Photograph shows a girl (bride) and young boy on a horseback with a young man (groom) outside a house(?). An elderly man and five women in burquas stand nearby. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograf... More

New York City - first annual ball of the Skidmore Guard, a colored mil...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1872 Feb. 24, p. 380. Title transcribed from item.

"De jubilee am come"--Fourth of July, 1876 / W.H. Redding, sc. ; drawn...

Caricature showing black men dressed as soldiers parading while black women and children look on. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1876 July 15, p. 580.

Kago travelling chair - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman with parasol in a sedan chair on a street in front of the Hafuya Hotel. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a stone lantern with mountain in the background in the upper... More

Thanksgiving / C.J. Taylor. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows a vignette cartoon with young women watching a football game at center, and surrounding vignettes depicting William McKinley as Napoleon I, "New Jersey" cleaning up gambling and horse racing, an uni... More

She won't bow to the hat / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows an elderly woman wearing late 19th century clothing labeled "Fashion", gesturing toward an "Easter Bonnet" atop a maypole around which many other women have gathered; a smartly-dressed young woman l... More

The next thing in order / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a large group of well-dressed ladies gathered for the "First National Congress for the Advancement of the Interests of Boarding-House Keepers" with a woman speaking at a podium and another taking no... More

[African Americans at sheltered outdoor market or fair]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 258. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

The old colonial dames / Ehrhart., Political Cartoon

Print shows a vignette cartoon with scenes of colonial men and women working at domestic and blue collar chores and jobs, leading to a scene with upper class women, each clutching an approved "Family Tree". Il... More

Turkish residents of Nazareth playing checkers and smoking narghiles

H36038 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from recto of item. The gameboard seen here appears to be one for backgammon. Copyright by The American Stereographic Co. No. 80.

Annual baby parade, 1904, Asbury Park, N.J. /

Shows the Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J., in 1904. Includes scenes of boys (dressed as soldiers and sailors) and girls (dressed in oriental costume) marching in groups, mothers pushing decorated perambulators... More

Out in Salt Lake City / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows two Mormon elders discussing another Mormon who has been found guilty of bigamy. Caption: Elder Heaperholmes He has been tried by the church and found guilty of bigamy. / Elder Holikuss Gu... More

On Deep Red Creek - sitting around dead coyote #1

Group of hunters seated in circle around dead coyotes. H65328 U.S. Copyright Office.

[Jewish life--celebrating the Jewish New Year on the East Side of New ...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in New York, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The President, Goff and Borah in at the finish of one of the big bears

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt hunting a bear in the woods. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, seated on rocking chair, f...

H84019 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. U-95376.

Geisha girls out for an airing in rickshaws - along the Old Avenue, Na...

Copyright 1906 by H.C. White Co. No. 4057. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Back view of the Squaw dance Pine Ridge S.D. / photo made by S.D. Butc...

Photograph shows a rear view of a group of Sioux women, standing, some wearing headdresses, also shows a wagon, a tent, and a young Sioux girl. H110627 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1908 by S.D. Butcher & Son.

Miss Sarah Anderson, a Washington suffragist who advocates equal smoki...

Photograph shows Sarah Anderson sitting in a rocking chair, lighting a cigarette. Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).

Kill-Kare Kamp - Public domain portrait print

Boys and girls posed beneath camp banner. National Photo Company Collection.

The bridge crush / Gordon Grant '10.

Illustration shows an attractive woman playing billards surrounded by four dashing men offering her advice on how to approach a bridge shot. Caption: Expert advice on how to handle it. Illus. in: Puck, v. 67, ... More

Arnold Genthe seated on a bench loading a camera next to a woman frien...

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe riding Chesty. Public domain artistic photography.

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Arnold Genthe at a party, restaurant, or nightclub

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943. The Arnold Genthe collection includes a wide range of photographs. It is particularly renowned for its photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, which Genthe began shooti... More

Arnold Genthe with two women friends in Long Beach, New York

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe at the Westchester Country Club

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trampas, New Mexico. The temperature in Trampas drops way below zero i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Capote party] / Mel Finkelstein.

Truman Capote, half-length portrait, facing left, enters party holding the hand of Katharine Graham, wears a decorative mask and looking left. Credit: World Journal Tribune, Inc. Photo A. New York World-Telegra... More

Agnes Vanderburg and Kay Young on the Flathead Reservation, Northweste...

Agnes Vanderburg is a teacher of traditional skills at a heritage camp for children on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana. Here she demonstrates the pit-roasting of camas bulbs, an edible root of ... More

The matrons in hanging-sleeves: or, The enquirer into nature - a satyr...

Print shows women and children of all ages viewing exhibits at the "Wax-works" and "see a Womb, to hear fine Lectures, read on Generation, and all the Arts explain'd of Procreation ..."; in a large display case... More

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, ...

Photograph shows side of Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Additional information on caption card: For M1 and M2 use copy negative in series LC-USF331. Digital fil... 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

Curtain's up a revue in one act and three scenes for Julian Eltinge

Drink Coca-Cola 5 cents - Public domain dedication 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

Rikka o nagameru san bijin - Public domain Japanese woodblock print

Print shows three women admiring the arrangements of plants in a large pot.

[The lamp]. 19th century Japan. Public domain image.

Print shows a woman sitting in a chair, relaxing, with a large lamp on a nearby end table. Title from mount. Signed in pencil on lower right, below plate. Inscribed in pencil on bottom center: Edition de 25 epr... More

Yatsushi kuramayama, Utagawa Toyokuni - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a god or warrior appearing on a cloud before several women gathered in a wooded grove on Mount Kurama with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by N... More

Conversation with 17 year old white male, White Pine, Tennessee (Trans...

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC 17 year old white male. Talks about encountering Bigfoot; a typical day; animals; and school.

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

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

[Humorous picture showing a Chinese man, kneeling, speaking to a woman...

Signed on block by artist in lower right, includes chop. Includes extensive Japanese text. Descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Nihon ban... More

Sweetest story ever told - Public domain drawing

Illustration shows a young woman standing and playing the violin. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly, 45:8 (August 13, 1910... 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

A hint to the Hebrews - how they may make themselves independent of th...

Cartoon shows Jewish hotel and people on floating raft, with signs on beach hotels in background showing Jews are not permitted. Illus. in: Puck, 1881 May 11, p. 178.

[Exterior view of "Dr. McDougald's Drug Store" with three African Amer...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chidori no tamagawa, Utamaro ii, 1800-1820

Print shows two women, one kneeling and writing on a scroll, the other standing nearby watching her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback, rear view]

Copyright by B.M. Clinedinst, Washington, D.C. No. 6. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Lincoln's last reception / Hohenstein.. American Civil War 186...

Print shows Abraham Lincoln & Mary Todd Lincoln greeting Union generals, Cabinet members, & others at a reception. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" the Library... 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 scenic 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

Studies in expression. While an old gentleman listens to some of his ...

(DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 42:250-251 (Sept. 10, 1903). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

How d'y do?. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph for book illustration shows two women, in mid-19th century period costumes, standing in a doorway greeting each other.

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

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

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

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

Tudor Place, 1644 Thirty-first Street, Northwest, Washington, District...

Significance: An unusual, perhaps unique, execution of late Federal period architecture, designed by William Thornton, Tudor Place also possesses outstanding historical significance for its association with pro... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

Shin yoshiwara ōgiya zashiki no zu, Eizan Kikukawa

Print shows a gathering of men and women socializing and playing musical instruments in the courtyard of a yoshiwara, with the activities illuminated in the many rooms of the two-story building. Title and other... More

Knights of Pythias Building, 101 Valencia Street, San Francisco, San F...

Significance: The Knights of Pythias Building is a notable and rare surviving example in San Francisco of an early 20th-century building exclusively for a fraternal organization. In a city where many upper cla... More

Glimpses of colonial society and the life at Princeton College, 1766-1...

Picryl description: Public domain book about social life and people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family l...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

The first forty years of Washington society, portrayed by the family l...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

A Frenchman in America. Recollections of men and things.

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.