[Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, ...
A woman standing in front of a thatched hut. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Encampment of Piekann Indians, near Fort McKenzie on the Muscleshell s...
Print shows Piegan Indians standing and on horseback in front of large number of tipis at an encampment on the Musselshell River, Montana, with bluffs in the background, near Fort McKenzie. Signed on stone on ... More
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Kirgizskaia dorozhnaia kibitka. Dzhulani [sic...
Photograph shows men, their belongings, a camel and a horse by a kibitka, or yurt. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 92. "Dzhulani [sic.]" translat... More
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Kyshlak Sairam. Miestnost' Bazar Kopka
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 96.
Damas. Couloir dans une cour de maison juive / Bonfils.
Courtyard of a Jewish home in Damascus, Syria. No. 804. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture o... More
Caire. Tombeaux des Mameluks / Bonfils.
Tomb of the Mameluks, Cairo, Egypt. No. 50. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites... More
Ruins in ancient pueblo of San Juan, Colorado [i.e. New Mexico] / T. H...
Photograph showing a man standing in the corner of a ruin. Plate no. 21. "Descriptive legend of view no. 21" on verso. Part of geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian, e... More
Los Pueblos de Taos - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
View of Taos pueblo with Taos people and beehive ovens in foreground. Reference copy in SPECIFIC SUBJ FILE - Indians of North America Dwellings. Transfer; U.S. Copyright Office; 1878.
Santo Domingo, Templo de la luna
Exterior of Santo Domingo Catholic Church showing Spanish colonial doorway and remnant of wall of Incan temple of the moon, Cuzco, Peru.
Beirut, etc. The German Colony at Haifa / American Colony, Jerusalem.
Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Negro city tenements, Atlanta, Georgia]
Title identification information from Photography on the color line. In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 300. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are... More
[African American farms in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 239. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Exterior view of houses in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 313. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, W.I.
Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Men sitting along gulch; tented structures in background], Chugiak An...
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
An Aleut house, which is a hole in the earth covered with a framework ...
Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
Vo dvore sartskago doma. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda
Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - The river camp
Crow man with two children and woman(?) at river's edge; tipi, surrounded by trees and mountains. H66943 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1323-05.
Sioux chiefs - their war-bonnets and teepees
Seven Sioux chiefs in front of teepees. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Temporary structures in street, San Francisco, California, after the ...
Burlap and rug-covered structure in foreground bears hand written sign "Palace Hotel Grill". H77330 U.S. Copyright Office.
Edward S. Curtis - Slow Bull - Public domain scan / print
Dakota man standing outside tipi gazing upward. H104332 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2519-07.
Edward S. Curtis - Camp in the cottonwoods--Cheyenne
Tepee in a grove of trees. J150147 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. X3260-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-... More
A bend in the river, Native Americans
Tipis with river in foreground, probably in Montana. J180895 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Rodman Wanamaker.
Nihkoyak, men's house at winter camp--Nunivak
Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Structures on Old National Trail, Culvert, U.S. Route 40, Pittsburgh, ...
Survey number: HABS PA-6647 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Freezer locker plants and cooperatively owned cold storage rooms are i...
Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Migratory bean pickers at camp at Staytonville, Delaware. There are 13...
Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Fort Knox. Army cantonment construction. Lumber is unloaded at Fort Kn...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Las Vegas, Nevada. Ground being leveled at the Basic Magnesium Incorpo...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Carol M. Highsmith - Structures in Stevensville, Maryland
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
One of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in ...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
The 307-foot University of Texas Tower, which rises above the universi...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The tower is one of the most-recognized structures on the sprawling campus and in Austin. It was designed by Paul Philippe Cret. At t... More
[Corner in the home of African American teachers, New Orleans, Louisia...
Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
House, Bracketville, Seminole-Negro Settlement
Title transcribed from item. District no. 27. Picture no. 252. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Admin... More
Santee Canal Structures (Area Survey), Moncks Corner, Berkeley County,...
Survey number: HABS SC-240 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
General Miles and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian Camp in the...
Seven military men on horseback viewing a Lakota camp from a distant hillside.
"Hostile Indian camp". 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Bird's-eye view of a large Lakota camp of tipis, horses, and wagons--probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
[Houses, slave cabins?, possibly in New Berne, North Carolina]
Photograph shows African American children and houses. Title devised by Library staff based on Gladstone's notes. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV58 ; slave huts. "DD185" written in pencil on back of... More
Main & Market Streets (Structures), Courthouse Square, Main, Market, C...
1987 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Mount Carroll is the seat of Carroll County, Illinois...Like other small towns in Illinois, Mount Carroll has experienced both the benefits and vi... More
Ancient ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. In a niche 50 feet above pr...
Photograph shows Anasazi ruins, called the "White House," in present day Arizona.
A Negro cabin. The old grist mill
Five vignettes on one sheet. Part of "Life studies of the great army." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.304) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Los Angeles Aqueduct, Cascades Structures, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co...
Survey number: HAER CA-298-AH Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Exterior view of church and house on cobblestone street]
Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Native South Americans, Toldos J.D, engraving, Library of Congress
Print shows a Native South American family sitting inside a wigwam-like structure, with a kettle next to a small fire just outside the entrance, and a small dog sitting on the right. Signed on stone "J.D." at ... More
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Kyshlak Mankend. Miestnost' Chaarbaglyk
Photograph shows aerial view of a buildings in a village. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 100.
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Zapadnaia chast' g. Chimkenda, vid s tsitadel...
Photograph shows aerial view of one-story adobe thatched-roof buildings in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 95.
Scene du desert: arrivée de chameliers a un campement de tubu / Bonfil...
Encampment in the Egyptian desert showing tents & camels. Public domain photograph - historical image of Egypt, Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negro cabin near U.S. Capitol - Public domain scan / drawing
Drawing shows a cabin with many room extensions on a slight hill. An African American woman stands on a porch outside the front door. There is a study of a cabin lower left and a sketch of a man below the image... More
Sitting Bull's family / D.F. Barry., Native American woman portrait
Sitting Bull's family in front of tipi. 18218W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by D.F. Barry.
Home of Prof. Scarborough, Wilberforce, Ohio
Photograph shows exterior view of large house with many leafless trees around it; a man, possibly Prof. William S. Scarborough, and a woman stand in front. Photograph from the American Negro exhibit at the Exp... More
[Exterior view of houses on unpaved street in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 301. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Vnutri doma bogatago sarto [i.e. sarta]. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda
Picryl description: Public domain image of an ornamental print, pattern design, mannerism, baroque, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Two Apache Indian teepees in a hilly landscape in Arizona
H128672 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Fred Harvey, Kansas City. No. 7. No copyright renewal per LC Photoduplication Service.
Edward S. Curtis - A mat house, Skokomish
J182576 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3473-12. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Cur... More
Carved posts at Alert Bay, Native Americans of British Columbia
Two totem poles in front of a wood frame house in the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant Island. Totem pole depicts an eagle representing the owner's paternal crest and a grizzly bear symbolizing the maternal one.
Edward S. Curtis - A Mono home, Native Americans
Wickiup made of brushwood and blankets, burden-baskets and winnowing baskets, Sierra Nevada mountains in background. J270938 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 4151. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (L... More
Edward S. Curtis - In San Ildefonso. Book illustration from Library of...
Three Tewa Indians, two on roof of adobe building, one on ladder, San Idlefonso, New Mexico. J288482 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curti... More
Recreational structures. Development of difficult topography at the ra...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Miscellaneous design. In the course of reservoir construction the Auth...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Negro quarter-houses and people, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936
Farm Security Administration Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of an old building. Ohio during Great Depressi...
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
Darky homes - Drawing. Public domain image.
Sketch showing houses and other structures at Darby Plantation drawn while stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 2, [p. 31] Victor A... More
Historic structures in Buena Vista, Alabama
Located in Monroe County. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of... More
Mobile Medical Museum housed in the Vincent/Doan House built in 1827 a...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More
1930s exhibit view of a typical doctor's office located in the Mobile ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Two hundred years of medical history are displayed in this museum. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in... More
Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More
Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The towers were built by Italian immigrant construction worker Sabato Rodia in his spare time from 1921 to 1954. Constructed from steel pipes and rods, wr... More
Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Located at the foot of Eureka Peak (originally called Gold Mountain), the park features an indoor-outdoor museum of early gold mining equipment and relics... More
Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Located at the foot of Eureka Peak (originally called Gold Mountain), the park features an indoor-outdoor museum of early gold mining equipment and relics... More
Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More
[African American family posed on porch of house]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 357. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Fort McPherson, World War II Station Hospital, Structures, Bordered by...
Public domain photograph of a motel, camp, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'.Most dzhar kopriuk v kysh. Karabulak
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 98.
Indian pueblo, Zuni, New Mexico
Plate 17. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological... More
Slave houses on "Hermitage" plantation, Savannah, Georgia
Farm Security Administration Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Great Hostile Camp. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Bird's-eye view of a Lakota camp (several tipis and wagons in large field)--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.
Vo dvore sartskago doma. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda
Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charle...
Title and date from same photo in Carnegie Survey collection (LC-J7-SC-1387-A). Pencilled notes on verso of this photographic print include "Christ Church parish(?)" and "slave quarters(?)" Frances Benjamin Joh... More
[Christ Church parish(?), Boone Hall cabins, slave quarters(?), Charle...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Structures on Old National Trail, Toll House, U.S. Route 40, Pittsburg...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Assouan - ruines de l'ancienne enceinte Arabe, au sud-est de la ville ...
General view of ancient Arab structures at the southeast end of the town of Aswān, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Tey... More
Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Urgut. Chast' goroda prilegaiushchaia k gorie ...
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 149.
Kokanskoe khanstvo. G. Andidzhan. Dvorets syna kokanskago khana (khan ...
"Khan zade" translated from Persian as "son of the khan." Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 162.
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Russkaia slobodka v ukr. Chinazie
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 155
Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Kysh. Pskend. Kvartal magalei "Bala Pyshte"
Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 124.
Caire. Intérieur de l'église cophte Ste Serge
Bonfils. (statement of responsibility) No. 1129. No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Rest... More
Shoshoni Indians--Skin tepies [sic]
Shoshoni people around tipis. No. 2687.
View of cliff-dwelling on west side of "Montezuma's Well," Beaver Cree...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Standing walls of aboriginal ruin on southeast side of Montezuma's Wel...
No. 4. "Views in Arizona" and "Mitchell & Baer, Prescott, Arizona" on verso. Edgar A. Mearns Collection.
Inorah's house, Alaska - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows a group portrait of Native American men and children standing in front of a large tent structure; women stand to the side. Copyrighted by Dr. S. J. Call, U.S.N. No. 67578.
[Unpaved street with houses in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 310. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Houses with picket fence on unpaved road in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 242. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Row of farm buildings in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 237. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
[Houses along unpaved road in Georgia]
In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 231. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More
Benjamin a Gifford - The home guard--On the Columbia
Tipi by river. 79813 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Benjamin A. Gifford. No. 180. WSUNA
A Darky homestead - A black and white photo of an old house
Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward S. Curtis - Mishongnovi, Middle Mesa Pueblo
H22412 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 732. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
Edward S. Curtis - Hopi house builder
Hopi Indian buiding adobe house. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1134-04.