[Portrait of an African American man, seated]
Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The bicycle - the great dress reformer of the nineteenth century! / Eh...
Print shows a man and a woman wearing knickers and bloomers, standing with a bicycle between them, shaking hands; to the right and left are examples of nineteenth century fashion. Illus. from Puck, v. 37, no. ... More
Group of Newsboys on Frankfort Street near World Building. Witness, Fr...
Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 33-A. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the ... More
On right hand is Richard Fitzgerald, 53 Montgomery St., works in twist...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
11 women and a little girl lined up for bathing beauty contest
Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Clothing & Dress. National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative no.: LC-F8-8993 [deterio... More
In the Alexandria glass factories, negroes work side by side with the ...
Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Glass factories. Hine no. 2270. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
[Five Civil War soldiers gathered on dirt porch outside home. African ...
Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More
Oliver Scott's Big Minstrel Carnival
41296 U.S. Copyright Office "Russell-Morgan Print." Caption: Stoke Moore's rag time ball : the most novel & expensive act ever presented by a minstrel company : a wealth of beautiful scenery, gorgeous costumes ... More
Noon hour at Delta Cotton Mills, Mc Comb, Miss. The tiny spinner pushi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale
Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... More
Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.
Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More
Charles R. Woods, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Richardson I., American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.
A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sojourner Truth, NAWSA suffrage scrapbooks
Quotation: "If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women all togedder ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up agin."
Alexander Hamilton - Public domain portrait engraving
Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Minnesota State Fair: balloon vendor]
Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie - Public domain portrait print
Andrew Carnegie standing alongside his seated wife, full-length portrait. No. H-1902. Copyright by Frederic Bulkeley Hyde.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GROUPS AT HEADQUARTERS
Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Debutantes group, 9/29/23 - A black and white photo of a group of wome...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Women's Democratic Nat'l club at Wilson's tomb, 3/7/25
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Richard M. Tobin, residence in Syosset, New York. Bedroom, to win...
Public domain photograph of bedroom or living room, interior decor, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Unidentified group photo] - Public domain portrait photograph
Forms part of a group of images which are copies of black-and-white photos in the collection of Marie O'Neill, who lives in Totowa, NJ.
The New York times (New-York N.Y.), August 19, 1917
Daily, Apr. 21, 1861- Vol. 6, no. 1868 (Sept. 14, 1857)- Suspended Dec. 12-28, 1958; Dec. 20, 1962-Mar. 1963; Sept. 17-Oct. 10, 1965; and Aug. 10-Nov. 5, 1978. Also issued in a continuously updated online versi... More
Angelus Domini, an anthology in art and verse in relation to the Bless...
Also available in digital form.
Romeo & Juliet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 192...
K9451 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Poster advertising Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. Signed: J.L. Lith. Forms ... More
Charles Batties. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Photograph shows an African American man, Charles Batties(?), full-length portrait standing, facing front, wearing sailor uniform. Title from inscription below photograph. Gladstone's inventory number: CDV115. ... More
General Robert E. Lee, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 565. Horan item no. 302; item no. 216. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, ... More
[Meat market, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal]
Public domain image - related to Portuguese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Mabel Hubbard Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Bartol, Alexander Melv...
Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the Alexander Graham Bell Family (Library of Congress).
[Band members standing in gazebo with girls]
Public domain photograph of Hungary, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bob Manchester's Cracker Jacks everything new.
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[African American school children and teacher, studying leaves out of ...
No. 351. In album: "7th Division." Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
One of the young workers in Indian Head Mills. Going to work at noon-h...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A menace to Society. The Padgett family. The entire family including t...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of group of smiling women and two children standing with banners on sidewalk. Banner on left: "We demand an amendment to the United States Constit... More
Convention of former slaves, Wash., D.C.
Two elderly African American women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo shows, left to right, Elizabeth Berkeley and Sadie Thompson (based on identification provided in ima... More
Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washing...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeanette Rankin, with hat, fur muff, and issue of The Suffragist, in storefront doorway with two unidentified women, who also hold copies of the paper.
Dr. Don Juan I. Jiminez, Constitutional President of the Dominican Rep...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Personnel. Used in: Exclusive for Mrs. Fiske Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red ... More
Where Women Wear the Pants. Native women of Montenegro wearing the Bag...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC. Paris Office. Group title: Types, Montenegro. On caption card: 12848. Gift; ... More
Hikers, 11/24/20 - A black and white photo of three baseball players
Public domain photograph of military activity, parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Hunters holding ducks] - A group of men standing next to each other
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mickey Travers, Rene leVox, and Edourd Mascart & others, 51925
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from related negative LC-F8-35703. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the Nationa... More
Lady claims one seventh of property of U.S. Post office--posts her par...
A woman holding a sign in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Will's wedding at cathedral. Group of 3 officers--Capt. Bruce, Ca...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Aaron Copland with Samuel Barber and Gian-Carlo Menotti, Bernardsville...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
An Old Southern Home, San Francisco Plantation, Louisiana
No. 33777. Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Full-length portrait of an unidentified Civil War soldier] / J.P. Bal...
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV52. "GE786" and "1123" and "CDV418" written on back of the mount. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.50)
[Wu-Ting-Fang, Chinese minister, in Washington, D.C.]
Photo shows Wu Tingfang, Chinese diplomat, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, holding a fan in right hand, and with left hand resting on the arm of a chair; table with vase and flowers on the... More
Mrs. Ridgley Brown, American Civil War.
Photograph shows Mrs. Ridgley (or Ridgely?) Brown, possibly the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Ridgely Brown of Co. K, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Co. A, 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, holding 11-star Confe... More
The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly wo...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862 July 12, p. 448. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in cartoons 1862; CW, 1861-1865 C... More
Women delegates to the 1886 convention of the Knights of Labor
Photograph shows group portrait of eight women and a baby; Miss Mary Anderson, seated, hand on baby's head, and Miss Laura Graddick, standing, second from right.
Miracle of the loaves and fishes
Title devised by cataloger. "42" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 30898. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
The pigtail has got to go / Dalrymple.
Print shows a female figure labeled "Civilization" pulling the pigtail labeled "Worn Out Traditions" of a man labeled "China"; she is holding a pair of scissors labeled "19th Century Progress" and is about to c... More
From State Department S. over Executive Grounds, Monument and Potomac ...
H34060 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood. On mount: Works and Studios, Washington, D.C., Arlington, N.J., Littleton, N.H.
Education and School Children - The Sunday kindergarten and nursery
NYC? Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Sunday school.
[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, ...
Illus. in: Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller / Elizabeth Smith Miller. New York : Geneva, 1897-1911, section 16, no. 9, p. 47. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collectio... More
WOMAN SUFFRAGE. ADVERTISING PARADE
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Negroes jitterbugging in a juke joint on Saturday afternoon. Clarksdal...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Kansas City, Missouri. Freight rate men at the freight depot. The sche...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
President Roosevelt & cabinet - Public domain portrait print
Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt with members of his cabinet seated and standing around a table; depicted are Lyman J. Gage, Philander C. Knox, John D. Long, John Hay, James Wilson, Elihu Root, E... More
[Kitty's first tee]. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as: "Kitty's at the first tee" in Life and Character / W. T. Smedley.... More
Family scene, group portrait with adults, child, and a dog, in a parlo...
(DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
The rival queens or a political heat for Rege & Grege, British Cartoon...
An encounter between two stout ladies, Mrs. Fitzherbert and Mrs. Schwellenberg, each with a second: the Prince of Wales, his hands on his lady's waist, and Pitt holding out a lemon to the furious German woman, ... More
R.S. Ewell, C.S.A, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is avai... More
Ruins of bridge, across Potomac River at Shepherdstown
Photograph shows a man in the foreground overlooking the ruins of the bridge at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. No. 5077. Mounted with five other photographs. Photograph is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Col.... More
The avant couriers of the coming man--Scene in Sampson's Shoe Manufact...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1870 July 9. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Boulevard toward Los Banos Del Mar, Santa Barbara, Cal.
Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 071705. No original negative. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Ca... More
Mrs. F.T. Frelinghuysen - A group of people standing around each other
A group of people standing around each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Looking north from a housetop and over Tangier to the Kasaba (Citadel)...
H110127 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16313. Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bow River Valley from Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Canada
No. 1007. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910, full-length portrait, standing, f...
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.
Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919.
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party watchfire demonstrators standing with banners and fire in urn in front of White House. One banner reads, "President Wilson is deceiving... More
WOMAN SUFFRAGE. SUFFRAGETTES AT CAPITOL
Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Farmers group, 1/7/24 - A group of men standing in front of a building
A group of men standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
W.T. Galliher presents Coolidge with inaugural medallion, 6/19/25
A group of men standing in front of a white house. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War In...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mary Church Terrell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing fro...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Come to town to see the sights - A group of men standing next to a fou...
Stereograph showing two children with man, holding an open umbrella sitting on the fountain's edge; an African American man standing nearby; Capitol in background. Entered according to act of Congress in the ye... More
[Portrait of Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory, officer of the ...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Unidentified African American sailor in Union uniform sitting with ar...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hoyt's A black sheep - A black sheep advertisement with a man standing...
Z51585 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Sheriff, you let my trunk alone! Created and "copyright 1894 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cinti, New-York." Hoyt & McKee, proprietors. No. 6161. Forms part of: Theatrical p... More
[Civil War contraband]. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Photograph shows a portrait of a full-length portrait of an African American man facing front. Title from inscription on back of the mount. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV100; contraband. Purchase; ... More
J.C. Davis, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.
A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. "Ready! All ready your hon...
Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry speaking to gunners aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie.
[Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe] / Howell, 867 & 869 B'...
Notation on verso: "Mrs. H.B. Stowe." Label on verso: "From E.B. Fay, dealer in photographs, 100 Nassau St." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: Heritage Aucti... More
The genuine Murray & Lanman Florida water
Print shows an advertisement for "Murray & Lanman Florida Water" showing a man and a woman standing in a park where the woman gestures toward a water fountain, with tropical plants and trees in the background. ... More
Frances Wright / J. Gorbitz ; J.C. Buttre.
Frances Wright, half-length portrait, seated, facing front with left elbow resting on table. Illus. from: History of woman suffrage / Elizabeth Cady Stanton. New York : Fowler & Wells, 1881-1922, v. 1, frontispiece.
A Chinese Christian pastor and family - a class supremely hated by the...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a 19th-century fashion, China or Chinese-inspired design, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Farrar - ["Reine Fiamein"] - An old photo of a woman in a fancy dress
Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano singer and silent film actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1882. She began her career in Europe. Metropolitan Opera in... More
The rescuers came too late - in the swamp after the flood, Kansas City...
2 men in rowboat, along railroad tracks; dead woman in tree. Stereo copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. 5052. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Floods; Death.
[William Howard Taft, three-quarter-length portrait, seated facing lef...
Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Photomechanical print of Leaders of the SuffrageParade; Mrs. Sarah McP...
Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Wash. Cricket Club, July 4, 1913
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Miss Helen Scott Hay (center) and two assistants, Red Cross nurses, la...
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group Title: Nurses, Personnel. On caption card: For photo see Br. R.C. Data: H.E. 24126. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American Na... More
[National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the...
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of six National Woman's Party members gathered around and watching Alice Paul stitching ratification flag. Mabel Vernon (seated far left), Alice P... More
Baltimore, Maryland. Funeral of a merchant seaman. Firing the military...
Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Ericcson, designer of the USS Monitor Charles D. Fredricks & Co.,...
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, October 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square
Photograph shows portrait of identified veteran who had served as assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War and was the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. Notat... More