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Kiseru o motsu onna

Print shows a woman holding a pipe (kiseru).

Jules Martin Cambon, 1845-1935

3/4 lgth., standing, facng left. French ambassador in formal diplomatic uniform with sword.

Gen. and Mrs. J. B. Ricketts

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Mme. Clara M. Brinkerhoff, Glass negative photograph, American Civil W...

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Brig. Gen. Jacob Sharp, Col. 156th N.Y. Inf

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... More

[Group of Bedouin women huddled together, two standing, others seated]...

Title devised by library staff. On verso: Asia. Natives. Palestine. Hourani? Bedouins.

Sec. of War Simon Cameron, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negati...

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Col. John B. Wyman, 13th Ill. Inf., U.S.A

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.cwp Forms par... More

Brig. Gen. G.M. Love, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.cwp Forms par... More

Journalist and abolitionist Horace Greeley wearing hat

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, Iowa, January 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (L... More

Laird's bloom of youth, for perserving the complexion & skin or liquid...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Laird, James, copyright... More

Dream of Santa Claus

Photograph shows Santa Claus with a basket of presents on his back watching two children sleeping. Publisher attribution based on provenance. Gottheim collection code: GG 49. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim C... More

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Va., 1861 i.e.1862

No. B785. Date based on 22nd NY history. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Araby. Mulla-Abubekr

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 28.

[Gustavus Vasa Fox, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right...

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

[Lotta Crabtree, half-length portrait, facing left, leaning on table, ...

Photo copyrighted by J. Gurney & Son. Public domain photograph - 19th-century female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Unidentified woman. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at http://hdl... More

Unidentified man. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at http://hdl... More

My playmate - Print, Library of Congress collection

4532 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2... More

Lizzie Evans, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

P8899 U.S. Copyright Office "R.H. Eichner & Co. copyright 1884." Created by "R.H. Eichner & Co. Lith., Baltimore, MD." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing in her gard...

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[Young woman draped in diaphanous material,facing front, half-length p...

Title devised by staff. Signed on item. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948.

David Higgins, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

"Newman Photo, N.Y." Created by "The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & N.Y." No. 9153. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Hennessy Leroyles big dramatic production, Linked by law

Z62745 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Col. Jelleby Jordan : his great original creation. Created and "copyright 1894, The Gribler Bank Note Company, Chicago, U.S.A." No. 850. Forms part of: Theatrical poster co... More

Their nightmare / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows David B. Hill and Charles F. Crisp lying awake in a bed, suffering the nightmare of a spirit dragon labeled "Third Term". Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 969, (1895 October 2), cover. Copyright 1895 b... More

[Beatrice and Harry Houdini, full-length portrait, seated, facing fron...

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Using Poe respirator on still-born child

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Portrait of Mrs. Duveneck

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Viterbo, Camorrists taken to court

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Geo. J. Karb

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Mrs. Ava W. Astor

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Suffragette meeting in gymnasium, London

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Renee Adoree in Goldwyn Pics

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C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D8767 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: It is dangerous to leave that blast over night. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 3805. Forms part of... More

Cleo De Merode

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Vivienne Osborne

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De Luca, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian American baritone opera singer Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Kathleen Howard as "Carmen"

Photograph shows Canadian-born opera singer Kathleen Howard (1884-1956). Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. ... More

Mme. Gadski & daughter, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) with her daughter. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data pr... More

Mrs. Arthur L. Bliss

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A. Reiss, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German tenor opera singer Albert Reiss (1870-1940) who performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collectio... More

Marion Davies

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Marion Davies - American actress and film producer active during the silent and early sound film eras of the... More

Charlotte Schultz

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Lillian Russell

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Armenian girl in Arab dress

Emily Stevens

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Virg. Valli

Martha Headman

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Chas. H. Yale's everlasting Devil's auction

G xxc 3213 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1902 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cin. & N.Y." No. 6020. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Grain market of Haifa, Palestine

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CLARK, GAYLORD, MRS.

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Temple, Texas, the town which "commanded" the President's train to sto...

Stereograph showing children and adults running down and around railroad tracks, some waving. H59489 Copyright Office.

Summer girl - Print, Library of Congress collection

G10754 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005... More

Society maid, no. 1

G20119 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005... More

Consumptives dining on ferryboat, which is used as a tuberculosis camp

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

No. 28 - The Kodak Girl

Pretty girl posed with camera. H 123005 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Glamour; Photographers.

[President Abraham Lincoln, portrait, seated and facing front]

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5:00 A.M. Sunday, May 8th, 1910. Starting out from McIntyre's Branch 1...

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Launch of S.S. Calcite (str. 188)

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Man carrying load of caps made at home to factory, 9-11 University Pla...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 2863. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

Mlle. Gaby Deslys(?)

Man in tuxedo and woman in wedding gown dancing. J179669 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by White Studio. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ... More

Just between friends / J. Held ; painted by Jack Held.

Illustration shows two young women talking on a beach. Caption: "Julian has saved my life nine times this year." / "So that is what he meant when he called you a cat!" Illus. in: Puck, v. 76, no. 1956 (1914 Au... More

Lire dans L'Evenement. Coeurs virils . . . par Gabriel Mauriére

A nurse making an appeal to a wounded French soldier. In the background is Rheims Cathedral burning. Attributed to Castrez? Translation of title: Read in L'Evenement. 'Strong hearts . . .' by Gabriel Mauriére. ... More

[Muriel Lynch].

Summary: Dual studio portrait, Muriel Lynch (right) and younger (unidentified) woman (left) seated together, in gowns, cloud background. Photographic studio stamped on item. Title derived by Library of Congress... More

Warburg [wedding] bridesmaids

J211094 U.S. Copyright Office.

Lemon boy. Market. Location: Boston, Massachusetts Lewis W. Hine

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 4684. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More

Edith, a French doll dressed by Rosa Bare, of Renvez, France, who want...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Hdq. Group title: Junior Red Cross, France. Gift; American National Red Cross... More

Shepherd scenes. Shepherd boy playing to his sheep. The typical reed-p...

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[Harding with group of Native Americans at White House], 11/16/21

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Albert Einstein with wife Elsa; State, War, and Navy building in backg...

Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec Temp. note: Batch seven.

Girl in machine (before 1920)

Young woman at steering wheel of automobile. J251065 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F.C. Quimby.

Nat. Medical Club of Phila., 10/25/22

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[Clergy at White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Eqyptian group, 101822

Title and date from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is a... More

Miss Evelyn Wadsworth, 5/15/23

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Counting Mayfield ballot, 2/20/24

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Reuben T. Durrett in his library

Dr. Eleanor Hunt. Dr. Hunt measuring boy's height

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Untitled photo, related to: Negro family and friends at one of the pre...

Title and other information from related negative LC-USF34-043742-D. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Transfer; United States. Office o... More

Children of unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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Washington, D.C. Postage stamp coiling machine at the United States Bu...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Farm girl leaning on wagon, near Morganza, Louisiana

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Number 13 proves lucky for New Mexico senator. Washington, D.C., July ...

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The vintage season Zikh'ron Ya'aqov, July 24, 1939. Dumping grapes int...

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Indian (mixed breed) family near Pembroke Farms, North Carolina

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Violet Davenport and Almary Kelly canning squash during a canning demo...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Water supply for nine company cab...

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

[ Ernie Williams (Danny Kaye) and Lady Margaret (Dana Wynter) in separ...

A scene from the Dena-Capri film "On the Double." (General)

["The Three Terpsichoreans" (Dave Harvey, Danny Kaye and Kathleen You...

Unknown photographer. (General) Box marked: DKA_VSBOX7 Folder marked: Terpsichoreans (General) Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restr... More

Marbles is a favorite game on South Side of Chicago, Illinois

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Abandoned copper mining town of Baltic, Michigan

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Civilian defense uniforms. Hospital assistant. White stripe on red. In...

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Jacksonville, Florida. Fighting French at the United States Naval air ...

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Greenbelt, Maryland. Church members singing a hymn

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John Kennedy - Print, Library of Congress collection

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Bachrach, Fabian, copyr... More

Longfellow, portrait print, portrait print

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Mensing & Stecher.

A Christmas carol

Illustrated end-papers. Also available in digital form.

Minstrel Show: Interlocutor. Black tailcoat and trousers. White waistc...

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Nicolaes Maes - Portrait of the Duchesse de Mazarin

Title from jacket. Negatives are variants. "090194" and "G 260" on negative. Photograph of a picture of a painting by Maes. Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 090226, 090227. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Church banquet held at the 69 Club, 117th and Halstead, Chicago, Illin...

Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1 - 9, at the church banquet held at the 69 Club, 117th and Halstead,... More