Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

traffic signs and signals

public
51 media by topicpage 1 of 1
Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Traffic lights. Close-up of traffic light

Traffic lights. Close-up of traffic light

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Handle with care - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Handle with care - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting safe driving showing a traffic signal and a steering wheel. Jan. 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). More information about the WPA Posters is availabl... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

"Turn to the right" The laugh hit!

"Turn to the right" The laugh hit!

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Turn to the Right" at the Mason Theatre, 127 S. Broadway, showing a traffic sign. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Too many leaders / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Too many leaders / Gillam. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a winter scene with a soldier labeled "Democracy" standing in front of a road sign that points in four directions "Free Trade, To Tariff Reform, To Protection, [and] No Policy", between his f... More

Early automobiles - [Traffic, Detroit, Mich.]

Early automobiles - [Traffic, Detroit, Mich.]

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Crowded street, Detroit, Mich.]

[Crowded street, Detroit, Mich.]

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

St. George Street, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

St. George Street, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

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

2 1/2 kilometers from Montebourg 10-minute break.

2 1/2 kilometers from Montebourg 10-minute break.

Sketch showing sign pointing towards Montebourg, France. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 6, [p. 43] Victor A. Lundy Archive (Library of Congress).

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Has she got him at last? / Keppler.

Has she got him at last? / Keppler.

Print shows a large arm labeled "Justice" reaching down from above to grab Matthew S. Quay as he tries to make his way from the "Penitentiary" on the left to the "United States Senate" on the right. Illus. fro... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Traffic, Detroit, Mich. (before 1920)

Traffic, Detroit, Mich. (before 1920)

Title from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2700 to D420-2706. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2706. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

The alderman's alternative - to Sing Sing, or Canada? / J.A. Wales.

The alderman's alternative - to Sing Sing, or Canada? / J.A. Wales.

Illustration shows a man, possibly Jacob Sharp or one of the aldermen he bribed, holding a carpetbag labeled "Broadway Street Car Boodle", looking up at a street sign pointing in two directions, to the left "To... More

Semaphore. Street police. Washington DC in 1920s. Public domain.

Semaphore. Street police. Washington DC in 1920s. Public domain.

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

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Puck magazine cover - Edson's fix / Gillam after Gehrts.

Puck magazine cover - Edson's fix / Gillam after Gehrts.

Illustration shows Franklin Edson lying on a dirt path labeled "Road to Honest Government", hanging onto the tails of two hogs going in the opposite direction, one with the face of John Kelly, labeled "Tammany"... More

[Pittsburgh, a city experienced - various views]

[Pittsburgh, a city experienced - various views]

Two contact sheets showing a tall building in front of which is parked a motor vehicle, a bride in her wedding dress, a railroad bridge over a river and a tugboat pushing a barge, an 18th? century boarding hous... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, Bridge No. 744, Spanning Merritt Parkway at Route 59,...

Significance: This bridge is part of the Merritt Parkway, a landscaped limited-access highway designed and built in the 1930s. The parkway was regarded as a model in its day, largely because of the architectur... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Semaphore, street police. Stop/Go street sign

Semaphore, street police. Stop/Go street sign

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

[Traffic signs in English, Hebrew, Arabic and French, Jerusalem, Palestine]

[Traffic signs in English, Hebrew, Arabic and French, Jerusalem, Pales...

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Semaphore, street police. StopGo street sign

Semaphore, street police. StopGo street sign

Item title devised. The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born American photographer who worked in Washington D.C. from the 1910s to th... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Semaphore. Street police. Horydczak collection.

Semaphore. Street police. Horydczak collection.

The Theodor Horydczak Collection documents the architecture and social life of the Washington DC metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merchants' Stores and Offices, Brick Row, Commerce and Main Streets, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Merchants' Stores and Offices, Brick Row, Commerce and Main Streets, F...

Title from photographer's inventory. Photograph taken on commission from Mrs. Devore of Chatham. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-89H. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Li... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

St. George Street, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

St. George Street, St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida

Title from photographer's inventory. Street in 1937. Corresponding Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South neg. no. is LC-J7-FLA-1008. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Lib... More

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More

Merchants' Stores and Offices, Brick Row, Commerce and Main Streets, Fredericksburg, Virginia

Merchants' Stores and Offices, Brick Row, Commerce and Main Streets, F...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scoville, Butte County, ID

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Arco Naval Proving Ground, Scov...

Significance: The Arco Naval Proving Ground (NPG) was one of five specialized ordnance facilities established in the United States during World War II to support ordnance testing and research and experiments re... More