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Men squatting on sidewalk  - two playing stringed instruments in foreground

Men squatting on sidewalk - two playing stringed instruments in foreg...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Print shows a man playing a bagpipe, behind him lies a lion on a chain which is draped over his right arm, his left foot rests on a gameboard, at the far end of which is a peg with string attached, the string r... More

Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

Additional information on caption card: Use copy negative in LC-USF331 for this image. Original negative number: 6139-M1. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War In... More

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

Little music in New York, A - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Little music in New York, A - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Toyonobu Ishikawa - Onoe kikugorō [to] nakamura kiyosaburō

Print shows actors Onoe Kikugorō and Nakamura Kiyosaburō, wearing geta, portraying street musicians. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. A... More

[Exterior view of fish market with several people, shoppers and merchant(?), holding fish, also a porter with large bundle on his back, and a woman playing a shamisen]

[Exterior view of fish market with several people, shoppers and mercha...

No. 1996. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 20] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purchased Felice Beato's stock of photographs, some ma... More

Portrait photo of Street musicians, gelatin silver print

Portrait photo of Street musicians, gelatin silver print

Photograph shows a man with organ on cart, and a girl. In portfolio: 20 photographs by Eugène Atget, 1856-1927. New York : Berenice Abbott, 1956, no. 16. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known fo... More

David Meinert, who plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison

David Meinert, who plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

Street musicians on Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

Street musicians on Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los A...

The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

Public domain photograph of musician playing music, musical instrument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

David Meinert plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison

David Meinert plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin Sta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Bad for business / J.S. Pughe. Joseph Pulitzer

Bad for business / J.S. Pughe. Joseph Pulitzer

Print shows a band of street musicians comprised of yellow journalism newspaper editors/publishers; two men are playing "The War Wave" on horns labeled "Daily Sensation" (Joseph Pulitzer) and "Morning Exciter" ... More

My art is not appreciated in America

My art is not appreciated in America

"Calamity" on trombone. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Herald, March 6, 1915, p. 5.

New York, New York. Street musicians in Harlem

New York, New York. Street musicians in Harlem

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orle...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moronobu utsushi torioi zu - Public domain  drawing

Moronobu utsushi torioi zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows two female street musicians wearing kimonos, geta, and large hats, and playing shamisens. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

No rest for the wicked / J.S. Pughe.

No rest for the wicked / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows a man beating a large drum labeled "Salvation Army" and a woman playing the cymbals in a street in the middle of the night, disturbing the sleep of everyone in the neighborhood. Illus. from Puck, v... More

Street musicians, Guanajuato, Mex. - stereocsopic card

Street musicians, Guanajuato, Mex. - stereocsopic card

Two men playing guitar and harp(?). H79698 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10,084.

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

A street musician performs outside the Rainbow Clothing Store in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City's Queens borough, one of five such county-like political jurisdictions in the sprawling city

A street musician performs outside the Rainbow Clothing Store in the F...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Little music in New York, A - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Little music in New York, A - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

"Detroit Photographic Co." on negative. Listed in Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013583. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

A played-out tenor - from star to street-singer / F. Opper.

A played-out tenor - from star to street-singer / F. Opper.

Illustration shows Roscoe Conkling as a street musician singing in the street outside the "Washington Senatorial Opera-House", with him is a small dog labeled "Howard Carroll" who is holding a hat into which Pu... More

A couple of men standing next to a parking meter, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

A couple of men standing next to a parking meter, Tennessee. Farm Secu...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

Young street musicians on Jackson Square in French Quarter of New Orle...

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

The serenaders motion picture  - movie film screenshot

The serenaders motion picture - movie film screenshot

Opens on a stage set of a two-story brick building. Two street serenaders in rather shabby clothes stand outside the building, one playing a trombone and the other what appears to be a clarinet. A young woman a... More

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, Tennessee. Farm Security Administration photograph

An old black and white photo of two men and a woman, Tennessee. Farm S...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

Indian street musician and child, at Hong Kong, China

Indian street musician and child, at Hong Kong, China

D15672 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl ... More

Street musicians in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland

Street musicians in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:005) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Caro... More

Shecky and Herb, a street musician-dog pair in Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza. We're not certain, but we'd guess that Herb is the dog

Shecky and Herb, a street musician-dog pair in Breckenridge, Colorado'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

A black and white photo of two men and a woman, possibly related to: Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

A black and white photo of two men and a woman, possibly related to: S...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

A couple of men standing next to each other, possibly related to: Stre...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Negative has a hole punch made by FSA st... More

Marchand de tabac ; L'aveugle chanteur ; Marchande de pandelos / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierry Frères, succrs. de Engelmann.

Marchand de tabac ; L'aveugle chanteur ; Marchande de pandelos / J.B. ...

Illustrations showing men in chains (possibly fugitives or slaves) outside a tobacco shop; blind street singer; woman vendor selling food to men. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 18... More

New York, New York. Street musicians in Harlem

New York, New York. Street musicians in Harlem

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

[Group of street musicians and actors in front of a building with reed or bamboo blinds]

[Group of street musicians and actors in front of a building with reed...

Inscribed in pencil on mount: "Itinerant with monkey" street performers. No. 605. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 23] In 1877 Stil... More

Street musician on a popular pedestrian mall in Burlington, Vermont

Street musician on a popular pedestrian mall in Burlington, Vermont

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Street musician in the Burlington Marketplace, a blocks-long pedestrians-only shopping and entertainment street in downtown Burlington, Vermont

Street musician in the Burlington Marketplace, a blocks-long pedestria...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Ludwig Richter - Der Dorfgeiger E. Kretzschmar sc

Ludwig Richter - Der Dorfgeiger E. Kretzschmar sc

Print shows a family with several children listening to a village fiddler playing in the street, possibly at the gate to their home. Illus. from: Sächsischer Volkskalender für das Jahr 1845 / Heransgegeben von... More

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles, on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana

A street band has no competition, from other musicians or automobiles,...

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 street is blocked off from traffic during much of t... More

Shecky and Herb, a street musician-dog pair in Breckenridge, Colorado's Blue River Plaza. We're not certain, but we'd guess that Herb is the dog

Shecky and Herb, a street musician-dog pair in Breckenridge, Colorado'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

David Meinert, who plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison

David Meinert, who plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

[Street musician]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

[Street musician]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows a young woman, full-length, standing, facing left, playing a shamisen and singing. This is a detail of a photograph taken by Felice Beato showing three street musicians. Inscribed in pencil on... More

[Izzy, for God's sake, cried the man nearest him]

[Izzy, for God's sake, cried the man nearest him]

Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1934:0068). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "They Also Serve" by Marjorie Benton Cooke, Metropolitan magazine, 48:11 (Sept. 1918).

They went back to the old habit of singing in saloons for bread and beer

They went back to the old habit of singing in saloons for bread and be...

Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

David Meinert plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison

David Meinert plays the trumpet for tips across from the Wisconsin Sta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More