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

vintage fashion, history

public
233 media by topicpage 1 of 3
[Portrait of an African American man, seated]

[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! / Ehrhart.

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, Fred McMurrry. Location: New York, New York (State) Photo by Lewis W. Hine

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 twisting room of Eclipse Mills, No. Adams. On left hand, Joseph Adams, 107 Front St., works in twisting room of Eclipse Mills,.  Location: North Adams, Massachusetts.

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 dog

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

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 white workers. Also in Richmond. These are some of those working in the Alexandria (Virginia) Glass Factory. Location: Alexandria, Virginia

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 American youth seated near them]

[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

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 pushing into the doorway tried to avoid me.  Location: McComb, Mississippi.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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]

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

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

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 women

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

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 windows

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

[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

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 Blessed Virgin Mary
Romeo & Juliet, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

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.

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.

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]

[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 Melville Bell, Eliza Grace Symonds, and Mary True with children, Daisy Bell, Gypsy Grossman, and Elsie Bell at the Hubbard home in Manchester, Massachusetts.]

[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]

[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.

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 doors]

[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-hour.  Location: Cordova, Alabama.

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 the mother totally illiterate. No one could read or write. The mother does mill work some. Alice, 17 years has steady job. Makes from $5 to $6 a week. Alfred, 13 years now, worked here when he was 12, and in other mills before that. Makes $4 a week. Recently crippled by getting his hand caught in the cogs of a spinning machine. Richard just reached 11. Been working here 1 year; began when he was 10. Makes $2.40 a week. "The work runs him down too." William, 6 years old, nearly blind. Lizzie, 5 years old. Home in utter neglect; filthy and bare. When investigator called the mother had been gone about an hour, leaving a roomer's 3 months old baby in the cradle before an open fire on the hearth, and only two children 5 and 6 years old - one nearly blind, playing around. She came back and fed them a lot of cheap candy. What will Society reap from its neglect of this family? Shaw Cotton Mills.  Location: South Weldon, North Carolina.

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 to Washington to present a petition to Congress Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted containing more than 500,000 signatures.]

[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.

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, Washington, ca. 1917-1918

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 Republic. President of the Red Cross

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 Baggy Turkish trousers so common in the Balkans. Although they have on a semi Moslem costume, these women are christians which accounts for the lack of a veil. Both the women of old Turkey, and those of Albania, Montenegro, and Bosnia, formerly dominated by the ussulmen sic, are partial to black satin pantaloons, according to American Red Cross workers who are distributing relief among the needy throughout the Near East

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

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

[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

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 part. Washington, D.C., July 22. Mrs. Samuel A. Wimsatt who says that one seventh of the property upon which a postoffice was built at Rockville, MD., near here, is still hers because it was not legally bought from her. This morning she appeared at the scene upon which a dedication was scheduled and began posting 'No Trespassing' signs upon the part of the land which she claims. She threatened to have any trespassers locked up. Part of the ceremonies was to be a tour of inspection of the building, and when the time came, no arrests were made, although Mrs. Wimsatt began writing names upon the back of a 'No Trespassing' sign and threatens action Monday morning against visitors to the building. On the sidewalk behind her is her sister, Mrs. Claude Tschiffely who aided her in posting the signs, 7/22/39

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, Capt. Rose, & ?

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, N. J., 1945

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

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. Ball, 30 W. 4th St.

[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.]

[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.

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 women spitting in face of Union officer]; After ... Proclamation [Officer tipping hat to 2 attractive women. Cartoon concerning Benjamin Butler's so-called "Woman Order," as military governor of New Orleans, to prevent local women from insulting U.S. soldiers. Issued May 15, 1862]

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

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

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.

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 River, Washington, U. S. A

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

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, probably at her home in Auburn, New York]

[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

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. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta

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 schedules on their desks list freight rates to various points in the United States

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

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

[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 parlor J.W. Casilear ; Rice & Buttre

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 Print

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.

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

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 Manufactory at North Adams, Massachusetts.--Teaching the Chinese the use of the pegging machine

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.

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

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), Morocco

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

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, facing right, wearing cap and gown, with 5 other people at the wedding of Clara Clemens

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.

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

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

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

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 Information

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 Information

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 front

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 fountain

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 Confederate States Government]

[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 arm resting on table]

[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 on top of a box

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.

[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.

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 honor" / J.R. Chapin ; W. Ridgway.

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'way.

[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

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 / 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 fanatical "Boxers", Canton, China

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

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, Mo., May 1903

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 left, on telephone] / copyright by Harris & Ewing.

[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 McPike, Alberta Hill, Inez Milholland

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

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, landing in Philippopolis, Bulgaria. Before the entrance of the United States in the war they did public health work among the residents and refugees in this city at the request of the former Queen of Bulgaria. Miss Hay established and administered a school of nursing in Sofia, whose work has been carried on by her former pupils

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 NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state's ratification of the 19th Amendment]

[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 salute

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., "Specialité," 587 Broadway, New York

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

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

Previous

of 3

Next