us presidents

President James K. Polk, residence in Columbia, Tennessee. Stair hall ...

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Attorney General Robert Kennedy testifying before a Senate subcommitt...

Public domain photograph related to JFK, John Kennedy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval ...

Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin L... More

Lyndon Baines Johnson signing Civil Rights Bill, April 11, 1968

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Reference copy in PRES FILE - Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.

Who killed JFK? [Washington, D. C., Citizens Commission of Inquiry, 19...

District of Columbia 1973.; 1. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, Pres. U. S., 1917-1963--Assassination.; I. Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as f... More

[President Gerald Ford being photographed while appearing at the House...

Contact sheet folder caption: President Ford appears before House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on pardoning of former Pres. Nixon. TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet ... More

[President Gerald Ford preparing for a press conference at the White H...

Contact sheet folder caption: President Ford Conference. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[President Gerald Ford talks with reporters, including Helen Thomas, a...

Contact sheet folder caption: President Ford Mini Press Conference. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

[White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney with another member of the ...

Contact sheet folder caption: President Ford Mini Press Conference. MST. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.

16-side round barn built in 1792 by George Washington on his Mount Ver...

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

Renovation of the Willard Hotel, the "Hotel of Presidents" on Pennsylv...

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 of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Franklin Delano Roosevel...

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

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, Charlottesville, Virginia

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

Reading Room at the Library of Congress's historic Thomas Jefferson Bu...

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

Panel at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, 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

Photographer Carol M. Highsmith poses with former President Gerald For...

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

Restoration work on the "Hotel of Presidents," The Willard, Washington...

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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

Cuploa on George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion, Mount Vernon, Virg...

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

[President Richard Nixon, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, s...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1992-581 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1992-581, frame 34. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

[President Bill Clinton, head-and-shoulders portrait, speaking into a ...

Date from caption information for contact sheet ROLL CALL-1993-763 or corresponding negative sleeve. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: ROLL CALL-1993-763, frame 24. Contact sheet or negative slee... More

Exterior, Herbert C. Hoover Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, Was...

Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of ... More

[Memorial Hall. Quotation from James Madison, beginning "The safety an...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Great Hall. View of grand staircase and bronze statue of female figur...

More information about the Highsmith Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.highsm Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln and his horse at the Lincoln Summer H...

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Part of a wrap around dining room mural at Mount Vernon, a near (but l...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On January 1, 1938, legendary oilman H.L. Hunt moved his family into the neoclassical Georgian home, built in 1930. Specimen live oak... More

Grounds and buildings at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Sprin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. While the area was part of Virginia prior to 1861, the town was incorporated as Bath. The area contains mineral water springs that wer... More

[Zachary Taylor Wellington house, Huntington, West Virginia]

Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

John Tyler - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fenderich. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Martin Van Buren, President of the United States / from life & on ston...

Print shows Martin Van Buren, half-length portrait, facing front; includes facsimile signature. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Li... More

[Major General Ulysses S. Grant]. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Print shows Major General Ulysses S. Grant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing uniform. Accompanied by copyright notice adhered to verso: Warranted oil colors. Entered according to act of Congr... More

Creel Cabin, Hodgenville, Larue County, KY

Survey number: HABS KY-96 Building/structure dates: 1815 Initial Construction

Great Republican Harrison and Morton, campaign ball, 1888

Photograph shows man, possibly D. E. Brockett, leaning against gigantic campaign ball that was rolled for Benjamin Harrison. The phrase "get the ball rolling" comes from a campaign publicity activity that began... More

[Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt with children and dog, some seated, o...

H98756 U.S. Copyright Office Published in: Presidential Pets / Niall Kelly (1992), p. 48, top.

Benjamin Harrison House, 1230 North Delaware Street, Indianapolis, Mar...

Significance: The house is the large, Italianate Victorian home of a successful Indianapolis lawyer and politician who became the twenty-third President of the United States. Survey number: HABS IN-53 Buildin... More

Portrait photo of President Roosevelt at Evanston

"Photograph by R. Y. Young." Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Woodrow Wilson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Pach Bros...

J175998 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS TN-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work Buildin... More

Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS TN-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work Buildin... More

Andrew Johnson House, 217 South Main Street, Greeneville, Greene Count...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS TN-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1865 Subsequent Work Buildin... More

Log cabin anecdotes. Illustrated incidents in the life of Gen. William...

A Whig campaign broadside, with text describing a series of 12 incidents in the life of William Henry Harrison, illustrated with wood-engravings. The incidents are (counterclockwise from upper left): "Harrison'... More

[Grover Cleveland, his son and dog posed on driveway, with house in ba...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Published in: Presidential Pets / Niall Kelly (1992), p. 42. Caption card tracings: Pres.; Family groups; Geog.; Ph.

Major-General Zachary Taylor--President of the United States / from an...

Zachary Taylor, full-length portrait, standing beside horse, facing front. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

Berkeley, State Route 5 vicinity, Charles City, Charles City, Virginia

Significance: Berkeley began as a settlement known as Berkeley-Hundred, patented in 1618. The property was purchased in 1722 by Benjamin Harrison IV, for whom the present house is believed to have been complete... More

"Sing brothers, sing" - Drawing. Public domain image.

Presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt and a sobbing President William Howard Taft singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower left: Bradley. Bequest and g... More

[Theodore Roosevelt, in profile, addressing a crowd]

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The Presidents of the United States

Vignettes of head and shoulders portraits of the first twenty-five presidents of the United States; Capitol at Washington; and views of Yosemite Valley, Grand Falls, on Yellowstone River, Niagara Falls, Indepen... More

President Lincoln's funeral march composed by E. Mack.

Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More

Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More

Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More

Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More

Adams Mansion, 135 Adams Street, Quincy, Norfolk County, MA

2 Unnumbered cover drawing sheets. Significance: It shows the difference in size demanded by people of moderate wealth in 1731 and 1800. It shows an attempt in 1797 to fit the additions with the original 1731 ... More

President Roosevelt, members of the Notification Committee, and guests...

President Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, with other men standing outside Sagamore Hill draped with American flags. H48634 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Inauguration of President Hoover, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1929

Transfer; White House; July 9, 1929. Panoramic photo by DeSouza Bros., 467 Pa. Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. Portraits at left and right by Harris & Ewing.

[President Roosevelt and his detectives at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, ...

Copyright by H. Morris. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Abraham Lincoln - Hannibal Hamlin. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Political campaign button for 1860 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln on one side and bust portrait of Hannibal Hamlin on the other side; metal casing with thread fastener. (PR 17 C... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

George Washington Surveying Office, 712 King's Highway, Falmouth, Staf...

Survey number: HABS VA-90 Public domain photograph of architectural diagram, building plan, section, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"One strike!" / Hamilton ; Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. Co., New York.

Speaker Reed bowling over Martin of Texas, who was engaged in a filibuster, objectors Holman, Spinola, and Breckinridge, and obstructionists Crisp, R.Q. Mills, and Amos J. Cummings, while McKinley, Dana, and re... More

[Postcard with two portraits of Lincoln and family.]

Mr. Chas. T. White with compliments of Allen H. Wright, San Diego, Cal.

[Honorable William H. Taft] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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A view of the Presidents house in the city of Washington after the con...

Print shows a view from northeast of the fire-damaged White House, a result of the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, British general Robert Ross led his troops into Washington with strict orders to burn only pub... More

[Envelopes with political illustrations.]. American Civil War 1861-186...

In order of appearance: Secession Wagon; Jeff Davis-My wagon is kind of caving in. I am afraid Uncle Abe will catch me before I get far with these goods. President Abraham Lincoln. Vice-President. Hannibal Haml... More

James Knox Polk to Andrew Jackson, August 7, 1838

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing fro...

JA44120 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Building Erected for the reception of the body of the President at Cle...

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically left margin: House where the first subscription to the "Boston Liberator" was got up. Inscribed above image: I have made the flags drooping it was raining hard ... More

[Ulysses S. Grant, full-length portrait, facing left, standing alongsi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Actor dressed as George Washington posing with a young lady on Pennsyl...

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

Mrs. J.K. Polk / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Mrs. James Knox Polk, half-length portrait, facing front. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3470. Lithograph after daguerreotype by John ... More

Willie Lincoln, third son of President Lincoln. Died February 20, 1862...

Photo shows Willie Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, holding hat in left hand. From a photograph taken by Mathew Brady in Washington, D.C. shortly before the death of Willie Linco... More

Dorchester Heights Monument, Thomas Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: The Dorchester Heights Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service. The monument commemorates the fortification of the Heights which forced the evacuation of th... More

Dorchester Heights Monument, Thomas Park, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: The Dorchester Heights Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park, National Park Service. The monument commemorates the fortification of the Heights which forced the evacuation of th... More

General Grant's Cavalry escort, City Point, Virginia, March, 1865

Portrait shows five buglers standing at left. No. 445. Alternate title and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Cent... More

Eisenhower Farm One, Bank Barn, Emmitsburg Road (U.S. 15), Eisenhower ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-283 Survey number: HABS PA-5372-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000017

[Ulysses S. Grant of General Staff Regular Army Infantry Regiment; dri...

Case: (front) Berg, no. 1-165; (back) Berg, no. 3-587. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "T... More

[Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, full-length, standing, facing slightly ...

D21373 U.S. Copyright Office. Original filed in PR 12 PRES FILE - Roosevelt, Theodore Sculpture.

President Roosevelt after inauguration leaving the Capitol to head the...

H58395 U.S. Copyright Office No. 7554. Copyright 1905 by Underwood & Underwood.

Col. John C. Fremont, Republican candidate for the President of the Un...

Proof for a large woodcut banner or poster for Republican presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Fremont, a distinguished soldier and explorer, is mounted on a rearing horse in a mountain setting. Dressed in b... More

[Theodore Roosevelt and Cardinal James Gibbons in a friendly exchange]

J251151-251152 U.S. Copyright Office "Taken Sept. 29, 1918" text on back of mount. Copyright 1921 by C. O. Knobeloch.

James Milliken and President Taylor escort President Roosevelt between...

H33551 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2592. Copyright by C. L. Wasson.

Taft & Roosevelt driving to Capitol, Mar. 4, 1909

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Away from the cares of state - President Roosevelt ready to enter Yell...

Photograph showing Roosevelt and Yellowstone's superintendent, Major John Pitcher, on horseback, with railroad cars in background.

Ulysses S. Grant Cottage, 995 Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, Monmouth Coun...

Public domain photograph related to President Ulysses Grant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ulysses S. Grant Cottage, 995 Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, Monmouth Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Theodore Roosevelt, half-length portrait, seated, facing left]

H84935 U.S. Copyright Office. On recto: Copyright 1906 Clinedinst, Wash. D.C.

An elephant on his hands / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows President Taft as a ringmaster watching two men labeled "Radical Republican" and "Conservative Republican" who are fighting as they get in a tattered "G.O.P." elephant costume. Caption: Ring... More

Woodrow Wilson's Nobel Peace Prize Medal

Public domain scan of the book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A. Lincoln - Johnson. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Political campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln, facing left (Anthony Berger photo Feb. 9, 1864), on one side and head-and-shoulders portrait of Andrew Johnson,... More

Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States

Picryl description: Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Woodrow Wilson the whole world's proud of you

by Chas. T. Keating. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Our nation's choice--General James Abram Garfield, Republican candidat...

Campaign poster showing head-and-shoulders portraits of James Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, with text and patriotic images including an American eagle and men gathered around flag.