social studies class

School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a fest...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Map of the United States, Canada, Mexico, West Indies and Central Amer...

Includes State seals and portraits of Presidents. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle holding American flag in talons with...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop American flag and "American Con...

Addressed to Miss Marslin Blanchard, Keeseville, Essex County, N.Y.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

[Civil War envelope showing eagle and American flags atop an arch list...

Addressed to Rev. C. L. Ehrenfeld, Altoona, Pa.; postmarked Johnstown, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photogr... More

Abolishing Slavery. Joint resolution of the thirty eight Congress of t...

Includes list of Congressmen voting aye. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, half-length portrait, facing...

Photo of Lincoln made from a negative taken in Springfield, Illinois, by Alexander Hesler on June 3, 1860. One of several poses from that day. "Wrote Lincoln's law partner, William H. Herndon, 'There is the pec... More

A correct map of the United States of America showing the Atchison, To...

Map of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stations, and the railroad network with the main line emphasized. Advertisements at top of map. 21572 U.S. Copyright Office Scale... More

Equal Franchise Society Legislative Series; extract from a letter from...

Equal Franchise Society reproduces extract from famous Abigail Adams letter of March 31, 1776 in which she warns John to "Remember the Ladies" or they may rebel.

Sacajawea [sic] Monument in City Park, Portland, Oregon. Statue by Ali...

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DISTRICT PUBLIC SCHOOLS. FIRST COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION AT P...

A large group of people sitting in front of an american flag. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Shall we be more tender with our dollars than with the lives of our s...

Poster showing a soldier with a flag and a sailor with a sign, "We depend on you." No. 4.

[George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, in un...

Copyright by C.M.A. Reproduction of painting by Charles Willson Peale. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restriction... More

Francis Scott Key. Portrait of Francis Scott Key

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Emblems and seals. Seal of the President of the United States

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[Right to left: Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fra...

Public domain photograph related to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wakefield, Virginia, George Washington's birthplace. View of Wakefield...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians ...

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Pledge to the nation. "I pledge allegiance to the United States of Ame...

Carol M. Highsmith - The Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Fire station and firemen in 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

U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.

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

North America. Historic map, Library of Congress

"802582 (R02067) 6-98." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A fanciful map of Texas, depicted on a downtown wall in Pecos, the sea...

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

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Jo...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1177.

Colossal hand and torch "Liberty", Pennsylvania, 19th century stereosc...

Photograph shows the torch and part of the arm of the Statue of Liberty, on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Information booth at base of arm and two persons seen at railing below flam... More

[Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book]

Half-length portrait of Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, posed, holding baseball bat. Illus. in: Jackie Robinson. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, c1951, v. 1, no. 5, back cover.

The Star Spangled Banner - Public domain painting

Francis Scott Key standing on boat, with right arm stretched out toward the United States flag flying over Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. K62984 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Percy E. Moran.

Jean Boisseau - America noviter delineata / Historic map, Library of C...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85

North America, and the West Indies; a new map, wherein the British Emp...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes, "Extract of the treaties of peace, proclamations &c. relative to America & the West Indies," "A particular map of Baffin... More

Obituary notice. Died at Quincy, the 28th October, 1818, Mrs. Abigail ...

On verso: Transfer. Shaw Papers. Manuscript Div. 8 June 1951. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... More

General map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the f...

Map of the United States of America.

Insets. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

General map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the f...

"Entered in Sta. Hall, London - & according to act of Congress in the year 1857 by H.D. Rogers, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts." Publishers advertisements on cover panels pasted on ... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and Company H cap with bayonete...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emancipation Proclamation / del., lith. and print. by L. Lipman, Milwa...

Print shows at center the text of the Emancipation Proclamation with vignettes surrounding it; on the left are scenes related to slavery and on the right are scenes showing the benefits attained through freedom... More

The assassination of President Lincoln. At Ford's Theatre, Washington,...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Liberty Bell [resting upon dais ringed with liberty caps and fasces to...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 13, (1869 July 10), p.437. Ref. copy in 4412LF. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Liberty Bell; Eagles; Geogr.

[Bank note vignettes showing explorers including Christopher Columbus(...

In album: Engravings of the American Banknote Company ... p. 86. Public domain photograph of electric industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War veteran John Wilson and Sarah Bowman Wilson]

Photograph shows Captain John Wilson of Co. C, 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (Union), who was known for being the first Union soldier to plant his regiment's battle flag on the summit of Lookout Mountain durin... More

Mayflower - A black and white photo of a large boat

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

[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, seated on steps, faci...

Reference copy (modern print) in BIOG FILE - Carver, George Washington. Forms part of: Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-159

[Abraham Lincoln, last portrait sitting in Springfield, Illinois, befo...

Illus. in: The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Hill Meserve. New York, Privately printed, 1911, p. 59. Ostendorf, no. 43 Meserve, no. 35 Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Ll... More

Buy United States government war savings stamps Your money back with i...

Poster showing a variety of people lined up at a window tended by Uncle Sam, beneath a sign "W.S.S. for sale here"; a little girl waves the American flag in the foreground. No. S-11. LC-USZ62-9459 damaged; digi... More

Remember your first thrill of American liberty Your duty - Buy United ...

Poster showing immigrants on a ship's deck, sailing past the Statue of Liberty. No. 9.

[Eleanor Roosevelt with grandchildren Buzzie and Sistie Dall]

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Capitol paintings. George Washington with British soldiers at Yor...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth, holding umbrella, in auto...

Acme Newpictures, Inc. photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Benjamin Franklin bust at the French Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Franklin was the ambassador to France prior to the Amer... More

U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.

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

U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.

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

Restorers at work on Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virgi...

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

Stainless-steel trooper on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memoria...

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 and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Some of the 19 stainless-steel soldiers, created by Frank Gaylord, on ...

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 and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

Stainless-steel troopers on "patrol" at the Korean War Veterans Memori...

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 and keywords provided by the photographer. Beginn... More

[William Clark, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile]

Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 477 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More

President Lincoln and family, Portrait Print

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Walter, A.B.

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene ... More

A black and white photo of two men. Office of War Information Photogra...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with shield and American flag and...

Picryl description: Public domain image of postal stamp, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Abraham Lincoln and his son Thad

Abraham Lincoln and his son Thad looking at album. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil War envelope showing flag design with message "The Union and th...

Addressed to Mr. Jacob Guyer[?], No. 9 Maiden Lane, N.Y. City; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation on recto: Care D. Colton. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of America 1492

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1176.

Entrance to Cottage of John & Abigail Adams

Doorway. 22964Cp2s-2 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Quincy Historical Society, owner. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Q-; Photog. Index; Pre... More

The Old Kitchen in Cottage of John & Abigail Adams

Two rocking chairs by fireplace with cooking pots. 22966Cp2s-1 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by Quincy Historical Society, owner. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption c... More

[Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Susanna Morin Swing [holding banner, "Democracy Should Begin at H...

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Suzanne Morin Swing posing with banner, "Democracy Should Begin At Home." Photograph publish... More

Force School, Pilgrim Day group, 1920

A group of people standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, 1884-1962, bust portrait, facing right]

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Each year, Philadelphia's big Columbus Day festival assembles at the s...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Note the outlines of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. ... More

Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol all in a ro...

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

Equestrian statue of George Washington on Eakins Oval before the Phila...

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

Plimoth Plantation is a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts

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 original settlement of the Plymouth Colony establis... More

North and South America. - Public domain map

"802532 (R02283) 11-96." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Dress shop in downtown Brownsville, Texas

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

The landing of the Pilgrims, on Plymouth Rock, Dec. 11th 1620 / lith. ...

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Landing of Christopher Columbus in America, at San Salvador, October 1...

A2984 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Leonhardt.

Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec. 1620

Print shows a Native man, hiding on the left, watching the Pilgrims around a campfire with small cauldron; a man with hatchet is gathering firewood and more Pilgrims are coming ashore from the Mayflower, in a w... More

The Star Spangled Banner - A painting of a man standing on top of a bo...

Francis Scott Key standing on boat, with right arm stretched out toward the United States flag flying over Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. K62984 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Percy E. Moran.

Veduta del porto de Malamocco ai lidi di Venezia / F. Tironi pinxit ; ...

Print showing harbor scene in Venice. Caption continues: Fortezza S. Pietro, eretta circa l'anno 1650.

Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three ...

Outline map of the continental United States showing drainage, state boundaries, major cities, forts, finished and proposed railroads. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Relief shown by hachur... More

Military map of the United States & territories showing the location o...

[Abraham Lincoln, presidential candidate, head-and-shoulders portrait,...

Photo shows Lincoln in a print made from a negative taken by Alexander Hesler, Springfield, Illinois, June 3, 1860. Lincoln said of this portrait: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever... More

[Francis Scott Key] - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain photo of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN FLAG - Public domain portrait photograph

A group of women posing for a picture with an american flag. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[National Monument to the Forefathers, Plymouth, Massachusetts.]

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LIBERTY LOANS. LIBERTY BELL, REPLICA; 3RD LOAN DRIVE

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ER [i.e., Eleanor Roosevelt] with 2 women. Big hats

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New York, New York students pledging allegiance to the flag in public ...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort McHenry, the place where Francis Scott Key observed that the "fla...

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

Alabama Veterans Memorial Park is a 21-acre park located on a wooded h...

The complex includes an Education Center, a historical timeline walkway, and a temple engraved with the 11,000 names of Alabamians lost to war in the 20th Century. Each pedestal features detailed artworks. Titl... More

Close up of sculpture located in César Chávez Plaza is a park in downt...

The Plaza was laid out by settler John Sutter and named in honor of Chávez, the Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Cre... More

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More

Star spangled banner Transcribed for the piano by Ch. Voss / / J. Quee...

Sheet music for the "Star Spangled Banner" with illustrated cover showing a Union soldier holding the American flag at a military encampment with tents, a cannon, and rifles in the background. Marian S. Carson ... More

The Star spangled banner : national song / Stackpole, sc.

Music cover illustrated with U.S. flag. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

The assassination of President Lincoln: at Ford's Theatre, Washington,...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0314. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Lincoln, Abraham.

Landing of Columbus... in America, 1492

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y. 1869." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robertson, Wm. C.

Thanksgiving scene in ye old Plymouth colony / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a Thanksgiving Day celebration at Plymouth Colony with a "Hot Dog" vendor in the foreground, a "Pink Firewater" booth on the upper left, where the Natives have congregated, and a large group ... More

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description