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Group of Tartars [i.e., Tatars] at small village near Minisinsk [i.e, Minusinsk]

Group of Tartars [i.e., Tatars] at small village near Minisinsk [i.e, ...

A Tartar family posed in front of their home near Minusinsk. Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080). Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.

Fireplace in Negro hut - Public domain  drawing

Fireplace in Negro hut - Public domain drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.149) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Structures at Dam 3, Approximately 62 miles above tidewater, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Structures at Dam 3, Approximately 62 miles a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a plan, map, park, birds' eye view, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Le Kaire - tombeaux de sultans Mamelouks / Félix Teynard.

Le Kaire - tombeaux de sultans Mamelouks / Félix Teynard.

Exterior view of the tomb of the Mameluke Sultans, Cairo, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et C... More

Villa of Brule the great hostile Indian camp on River Brule near Pine Ridge, S.D / / photo. and copyright by Grabill, Deadwood, S.D.

Villa of Brule the great hostile Indian camp on River Brule near Pine ...

A Lakota tipi camp in background; horses at a White Clay Creek watering hole in foreground. Grabill's photographer's legend and caption appear in image. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms par... More

Obrazt︠s︡ mozaichnykh sti︠e︡n vnutri doma bogatago sarta. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda

Obrazt︠s︡ mozaichnykh sti︠e︡n vnutri doma bogatago sarta. V okrestnost...

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

[Home of Alexander Hamilton, Negro, Eufaula, Alabama]

[Home of Alexander Hamilton, Negro, Eufaula, Alabama]

10053B. Caption: Alexander Hamilton was the Negro who disclosed to the whites of Eufaula the riot planned by misled and ignorant Negroes. In appreciation of his loyalty the citizens gave him the house pictured... More

[Home of Alexander Hamilton, Negro, Eufaula, Alabama]

[Home of Alexander Hamilton, Negro, Eufaula, Alabama]

10053B. Caption: Alexander Hamilton was the Negro who disclosed to the whites of Eufaula the riot planned by misled and ignorant Negroes. In appreciation of his loyalty the citizens gave him the house pictured... More

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in Simi Valley, California

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...

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

Syout - constructions modernes - le divan &ca / Félix Teynard.

Syout - constructions modernes - le divan &ca / Félix Teynard.

Exterior view of contemporary Arab buildings in Asyūṭ, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie,... More

[Group of Native Americans (possibly Winnebago) wearing blankets, some standing before log fence, others sitting, canopied shelter in background]

[Group of Native Americans (possibly Winnebago) wearing blankets, some...

On verso: C.L. Hamilton. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'.  Bazar Bashi miestnost' v Kysh. Mankendie

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Bazar Bashi miestnost' v Kysh. Mankendie

Photograph shows men and boys outside a building. In the background, a mountain village. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 101.

Kokanskoe khanstvo. G. Andidzhak [sic]. Glavnyi karavan sarai stroiushchiisia

Kokanskoe khanstvo. G. Andidzhak [sic]. Glavnyi karavan sarai stroiush...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 163.

[View of unpaved street with houses along each side in Georgia]

[View of unpaved street with houses along each side in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 298. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Houses in African American community in Georgia]

[Houses in African American community in Georgia]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 332. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Eskimo cliff dweller settlement, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Eskimo cliff dweller settlement, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collectio...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Original copyright holder: Lomen Bros. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Ch... More

[African American man in front of small house]

[African American man in front of small house]

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

Supai Charlie, Native Americans

Supai Charlie, Native Americans

Havasupai man standing in front of branch wickiup. Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro cabin, Foxhill, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

Negro cabin, Foxhill, Nassau, Bahama Islds.

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

A humble but happy negro home, down south in Dixie Land, North Carolina

A humble but happy negro home, down south in Dixie Land, North Carolin...

Stone and wood house, African American family outside with two of four children sitting on a horse with plow. H29785 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

[Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexico]

[Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexic...

H71007 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1736-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 17, pl. 584.

[Domed adobe structures surrounded by an adobe wall]

[Domed adobe structures surrounded by an adobe wall]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Visitors at Jicarilla

Edward S. Curtis - Visitors at Jicarilla

Men and pack animals gathered outside Jicarilla tipi. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1259-04.

Entrance to a Druse home, Dalieh, Mt. Carmel, Palestine

Entrance to a Druse home, Dalieh, Mt. Carmel, Palestine

H67230 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from recto of item. No. 11997 (97). Copyright by George W. Griffith.

Edward S. Curtis - [Kwakiutl house-frame, Memkumlis]

Edward S. Curtis - [Kwakiutl house-frame, Memkumlis]

J150221 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3351-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 suppl., v. 10, p. 343.

Edward S. Curtis - Interior of Wichita grass-house

Edward S. Curtis - Interior of Wichita grass-house

J293347 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 19, p. 42.

A Blackfoot tepee - Public domain scan / print

A Blackfoot tepee - Public domain scan / print

Blackfoot Indian, (Bear Bull?) holding horse outside tipi. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Typical house entrance near Union Station, Washington, D.C. These old brick structures are for the most part inhabited by Negroes. Toilets of these same houses are usually outside and most unsanitary

Typical house entrance near Union Station, Washington, D.C. These old ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of old brick structures, Washington, D.C. Sections of these buildings are still inhabited. The Government Printing Office is shown in the background. This section of Washington has some of the worst housing conditions in the District and for the most part, is completely Negro.  None of these houses has inside toilets or water supply

Ruins of old brick structures, Washington, D.C. Sections of these buil...

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

Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant workers and pickers, Belle Glade, Fla.

Shacks condemned by Board of Health, formerly (?) occupied by migrant ...

Photograph shows automobiles. Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro migratory workers and one shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

Negro migratory workers and one shack, Belle Glade, Fla.

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

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Fla.

Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still ...

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

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the construction of Army chapels is shown here, one of 570 similar structures erected since last fall. All of them were built with wood trusses like these or with glued laminated wood arches, saving many tons of structural steel for more strategic purposes. New methods for timber joints have made it possible to reduce the amount of material needed for trusses and other load-bearing members

Substitute materials. Timber connectors. Use of wood in the constructi...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of ore, and other structures of the Basic Magnesium Incorporated plant in the southern Nevada desert

Las Vegas, Nevada. Peat storage buildings, silos for the storage of or...

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

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

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

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

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, California

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, Ca...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

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

View of irrigated fields and town structures near Arroyo Grande, along California Highway 1, south of Pismo Beach, California

View of irrigated fields and town structures near Arroyo Grande, along...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

Artwork at the Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manmade structures leading to Longhorn Caverns, now a state park in Burnet County in the Texas Hill Country

Manmade structures leading to Longhorn Caverns, now a state park in Bu...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The caverns were favored hideouts of both Indians and white outlaws in the days of the Old West, and a nightclub even operated there ... More

An abandoned shoestore and adjacent structures in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas

An abandoned shoestore and adjacent structures in Pecos, the seat of R...

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

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vo dvore sartskago doma. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vo dvore sartskago doma. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh S...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 158... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sartskīĭ dom. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sartskīĭ dom. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda, ...

Three men posed on porch. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian ... More

[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]

[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]

Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina. (Source: similar Brady negative: LC-B811-211 and researcher M. P. Higgins, 2018) Photographer name from negativ... More

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'.Most dzhar kopriuk v kysh. Karabulak

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'.Most dzhar kopriuk v kysh. Karabulak

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 98.

Santee Canal Structures (Area Survey), Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, SC

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 U.S., near Pine Ridge, S. Dak., Jan 16, 1891 / photo and copyright by Grabill, 1891, Deadwood, S.D.

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.

Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia

Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage, Sava...

H29775 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kachess Dam, Cutoff Channel and Crib Structures, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Kachess Dam, Cutoff Channel and Crib Structures, Kachess River, 1.5 mi...

Survey number: HAER WA-79-G Public domain photograph of excavation, bulldozer, land management, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kachess Dam, Cutoff Channel and Crib Structures, Kachess River, 1.5 miles north of Interstate 90, Easton, Kittitas County, WA

Kachess Dam, Cutoff Channel and Crib Structures, Kachess River, 1.5 mi...

Survey number: HAER WA-79-G Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sartskīĭ dom. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

Sartskīĭ dom. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

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

Main & Market Streets (Structures), Courthouse Square, Main, Market, Center, Clay & Broadway, Mount Carroll, Carroll County, IL

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

A Negro cabin. The old grist mill

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.

[Two portraits of women seated in front of hut, shaking rattles, taken during visit by Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle to Andros Island in the Bahamas]

[Two portraits of women seated in front of hut, shaking rattles, taken...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collec... More

Theodor de Bry - [The town of Pomeiock] / T.B.

Theodor de Bry - [The town of Pomeiock] / T.B.

Fortified Native village the manner of construction of the buildings and the enclosing stockade. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... ... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Piandzhikend. Chast' goroda, "Bazari Bala"

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Piandzhikend. Chast' goroda, "Bazari Bala"

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 154.

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Bazarnaia ploshchad v kysh. Ianykurganie

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. Bazarnaia ploshchad v kysh. Ianykurganie

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 155.

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Dizag [sic]. Chast' goroda "Ravatlyk"

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Dizag [sic]. Chast' goroda "Ravatlyk"

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 135.

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand i ego ulichnye tipy. Mullushka chaarsu

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand i ego ulichnye tipy. Mullushka chaar...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 147.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Kochevka tsygan (dygai dzhugi). Bliz' kyshl: Piandzhshambe-Siab

Zaravshanskii okrug. Kochevka tsygan (dygai dzhugi). Bliz' kyshl: Pian...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 76. "Dygai dzhugi" translated from Persian as "Dzhugi camp."

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Mankent. [lev] Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Piandzhikend. [prav] Miestnost' Cheshme Bashi

Syr-dar'inskaia oblast'. G. Mankent. [lev] Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Pia...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 97.

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vid medrese s vostochnoi storony

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Medrese Shir Dar. Vid medrese s vostochnoi s...

Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 2, pl. 88.

Birch-bark Indian wigwams wood engraving, Library of Congress

Birch-bark Indian wigwams wood engraving, Library of Congress

Indians in camp. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1871 Aug. 5, p. 725.

The Jewish quarters, Constantinople, Turkey - stereocsopic card

The Jewish quarters, Constantinople, Turkey - stereocsopic card

17053 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from recto of item. No. 12335. Copyright by B.W. Kilburn.

[Unpaved street with houses in Georgia]

[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. 309. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Exterior view of houses along unpaved street in Georgia]

[Exterior view of houses along 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. 306. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Houses along a dirt road in Georgia]

[Houses along a dirt road in Georgia]

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

[Exterior view of farmhouse]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

[Exterior view of farmhouse]. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 256. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

Slave quarters, the Hermitage - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Slave quarters, the Hermitage - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. P 116. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Grey Eagle and lodge, Sioux Tribe

Grey Eagle and lodge, Sioux Tribe

663 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3254. Copyright by T.W. Ingersoll. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Six people, probably Umatilla Indians, posed, standing, full-length, in front of branch structure, Castle Rock vicinity, Washington State(?)]

[Six people, probably Umatilla Indians, posed, standing, full-length, ...

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

Camp at Stony Lake Ontario Canada

Camp at Stony Lake Ontario Canada

Several tipis in open area.

Sartskīĭ dom. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda

Sartskīĭ dom. V okrestnosti︠a︡kh Samarkanda

Three men posed on porch. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sartskīĭ dom. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

Sartskīĭ dom. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public domain

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

Edward S. Curtis - Cliff perched homes--Hopi

Edward S. Curtis - Cliff perched homes--Hopi

Four Hopi women in front of pueblo buildings. H87190 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1979-06.

The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.

The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.

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

Bedouin Home, Palestine - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Bedouin Home, Palestine - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Rock and tent provide shelter for Bedouins. J151181 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-99057.

A Bedouins home in Moat [i.e., Moab]

A Bedouins home in Moat [i.e., Moab]

Broad, low tent pitched on rocky terrain, mountains in background. J177930 U.S. Copyright Office. No. U-125184.

Tanaktak House, Harbeldown Island

Tanaktak House, Harbeldown Island

Stairs leading up to wooden building, topped with Kwakiutl ceremonial art; in foreground one totem pole on the left, and one pole on right with ornamentation on bottom half.

"Guest house" where I spent the night in village of Djerid-Muminli

"Guest house" where I spent the night in village of Djerid-Muminli

Photograph showing small building with covered wagon outside in a mountainous landscape.

[Munsey Building, National Theater and other structures in the 1300 block of E Street N.W., just of Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Illuminated night scene]

[Munsey Building, National Theater and other structures in the 1300 bl...

Photo by National Photo Co. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Wash., D.C. V... More

Teepees on the Columbia, Fall River, Massachusetts

Teepees on the Columbia, Fall River, Massachusetts

Three Native American men, probably Umatilla, stand on shore of river next to tipis. J257440 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Ralph Irving Gifford. No. X140. WSUNA

Edward S. Curtis - Modern Cupeño house

Edward S. Curtis - Modern Cupeño house

J270917 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 4132. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl... More

Edward S. Curtis - Street Scene--San Juan

Edward S. Curtis - Street Scene--San Juan

Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl. v. 17, pl. 595.

Edward S. Curtis - King Island, Alaska. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Edward S. Curtis - King Island, Alaska. Book illustration from Library...

Sea-cliff dwellings on poles. J299956 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 20, p. 100.

One of the TVA's (Tennessee Valley Authority) switchyards near Memphis, Tennessee. While such installations tend to be clearcut and orderly in the nature of their layouts, the TVA also puts particular stress on the minor buildings which occur in conjuction with them, as demonstations of architectural design generally applicable to smaller structures

One of the TVA's (Tennessee Valley Authority) switchyards near Memphis...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Incidental paths, stairways, parapets, etc., are designed with as much care as major structures. The one shown here is at Wheeler Dam, Alabama, and serves to make the control building accessible to visitors. Grading and planting are unfinished

Incidental paths, stairways, parapets, etc., are designed with as much...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Huge overhead cranes are used for the placing of heavy parts in the naval ships under construction at these ways. The setting up of the scaffolding and other structures for shipbuilding is in itself a major project

Shipbuilding (Newport News). Huge overhead cranes are used for the pla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds, showing a variety of structures and at the far right of the picture, two of the eighty-four foot silos in which ore is stored for use in the production of magnesium, the lightest of all metals used in aircraft and other wartime manufacturing

Las Vegas, Nevada. A scene in the Basic Magnesium Incorporated grounds...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, industrial or commercial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ploesti, Romania. August 1, 1943. Oil storage tanks at the Columbia Aquila refinery burning after the raid of B-24 Liberator bombers of the United States Army Air Force. Some of the structures have been camouflaged

Ploesti, Romania. August 1, 1943. Oil storage tanks at the Columbia Aq...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, capital city of the United States, contains many fine structures and impressive memorials

Washington, capital city of the United States, contains many fine stru...

Children and parents on lawn of the White House for Easter Monday egg roll.

Carol M. Highsmith - Structures in Stevensville, Maryland

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

Statue in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to the builders of the structures for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition on the grounds, which produced the lion's share of buidings in the park

Statue in Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to the builders of the...

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

Old mining structures at Plumas-Eureka State Park in Plumas County, California

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, California

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-income Watts section of Los Angeles, California

Part of Watts Towers, a collection of structures and art in the low-in...

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

Summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians Graves of the Umpqua ; Winter Lodge of the Umpqua Indians B.S. & Lett ?. C. Cullen sc

Summer lodges of the Umpqua Indians Graves of the Umpqua ; Winter Lodg...

Illustrations show Umpqua Indians in front of tents in a summer camp, structures over Umpqua graves, and Umpqua men, women and children in front of a winter lodge, Oregon Territory. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's i... More

Kokanskoe khanstvo. Stroiushcheesia medrese Sultana Murat Beka v g. Kokanie

Kokanskoe khanstvo. Stroiushcheesia medrese Sultana Murat Beka v g. Ko...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the Russian Empire, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Interior of Eskimo igloo, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Interior of Eskimo igloo, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

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