Latest thing in flasks. Mlle. Rhea, dainty dancer who is now in the ci...
Mlle. Rhea seated with flask in garter on leg. National Photo Company Collection.
[Explorer, with Indian, on raft, in the Amazon Jungle, South America]
Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Datto Piang (with cane) and some of his officials - Frank G. Carpenter...
Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Little Negro tea pickers singing pickaninny songs for President Roosev...
Stereograph showing Roosevelt surrounded by children. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Louise Cromwell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, ...
J155558 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Gustav Borgen studio, female portrait, 1910s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Noon hour at Massachusetts Mill, Lindale, Ga. During the days followin...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Going to School. About 14-16 years. Watson School - Flint Village. Lo...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Kenep[?] at at Ain Farah - Public domain portrait
Photograph shows Eric Matson (center front), Johh Whiting(?) (left, wearing Arab headdress), and two other men, seated in woods at Ain Farah (Ain Fara, West Bank). Cameras on tripods in background. In album: A... More
Members and activities of the American Colony (Jerusalem)
Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Includes photographs of American Colony leader Anna Spafford and her ... More
[Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glas...
J243092 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...
Copyright Alex. Washn. Lodge #22, A.F.& A.M., Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Theodore Roosevelt as assemblyman in 1884
Photograph showing a young Theodore Roosevelt, three-quarter length portrait, seated.
[Thomas Paine] - Public domain portrait engraving
Painting shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine, bust portrait, facing left. Photographic reproduction of a ca. 1876 painting by Auguste Milliére, after an engraving by William Sharp, after a 1792 painting ... More
Unidentified Civil War veteran wearing United Confederate Veterans Jos...
Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: The Veteran's Attic, Kingston, Tennessee, April 2018. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/lilj... More
[Young woman, full-length portrait, wearing lace dress, standing, faci...
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
May Hosiery Mills. The boy is Harvey Curtis, 12 years old, turns stock...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Portrait photo of A beautiful camera fiend tempter
Woman in bathing suit lying on beach. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Allan Ryan & Wilbur Wright - Public domain portrait print
Allan Ryan and Wilbur Wright, full-length, standing, facing each other. J154596 U.S. Copyright Office. The Wright brothers sold Ryan their U.S. rights in 1909. Copyright by George G. Bain.
Would these cotton-mill boys stand a test for physical fitness? Work i...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
William LeRoy Parker of USS Rosedale in uniform in front of painted ba...
Photograph shows identified African American sailor who sailed on wooden paddle-wheel river steamship commissioned as USS Rosedale in the Delaware River area. Notation on verso: "W.L. Parker, S.S. Rosedale." M... More
[Back view of fashion models in swim suits, two kneeling wearing swim ...
Toni Frissell Collection (Library of Congress). Published in Harper's bazaar, January 1950. Original negative: LC-F9-01-4911-019-05. Image published in: Toni Frissell: Photographs, 1933-1967. New York, New Yor... More
Johnson family portrait - Public domain portrait
Inscription on back of print: Love, Paul, Muriel[?], & Arly[?] Johnson. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
Old City Hall, birth-place of independent government in America (1774)...
H29799 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century fashion design, dress catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The "King of beasts," a lion in the "zoo", Central Park, New York
Stereograph showing both young children and adults at the Central Park zoo standing in front and looking at a lion in its cage. H41405 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1904 by William H. Rau. On verso: American... More
6-year old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "A...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Shaw Cotton Mills. An accident case. Alfred Padgett a doffer says he i...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Contraband camp - Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Washington DC sterescope c...
Stereograph shows tent camp occupied by escaped slaves. No. 379. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).
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.
[Woman wearing corset, brushing her hair, half-length portrait, standi...
Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Battle in the Woods, full-length portrait, seated, facing slightly ri...
Indian child in bone breast plate. No. 222. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
Vice President Fairbanks and Secretary of War Taft, at the President's...
Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks, and Secretary of War Taft, at White House lawn party. H62007 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Indian vanity - Public domain print
Portrait of Indian man standing, wearing feather headdress and fringed and beaded clothing. H75432 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Karl E. Moon & Co.
[Aurelia H. Reinhardt, half-length portrait, wearing fur-trimmed coat ...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Olive Fremstad, half-length portrait, facing left]
No. 996. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[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
Whole family rolling cigarette cases, the mother was licking the paper...
Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-century cigarette card, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Cigarette cards are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and... More
7 year old oyster shucker. Speaks no English. Father and mother earn a...
Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Members and activities of the American Colony (Jerusalem)
Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Includes photographs of American Colony leader Anna Spafford and her ... More
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
[Stephen A. Douglas, full-length portrait, facing front]
Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Young child in baby carriage] - Victorian era public domain image
Photograph shows young child dressed in white and covered with white fur blanket sitting in baby carriage on sidewalk.
Mark Twain - Public domain portrait photograph
Portrait photograph of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more popularly known as Mark Twain, seated, reading a newspaper. H15360 U.S. Copyright Office. Blind stamp: Copyright 1902 by C. E. Bolles, Brooklyn, New York.
Theodore Roosevelt and party at the Old Mission of the Franciscan Fat...
Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oregon's Indian Madonna - Public domain portrait photograph
Indian woman holding baby. H63813 U.S. Copyright Office. From Benjamin A. Gifford, The Dalles, Oregon. No. 322. WSUNA
[George Washington Carver, full-length portrait, standing in field, pr...
Booker T. Washington Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J694-520
#37. (See also #36 & #38.) Harry McShane. Cincinnati. See account of a...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Advertisement for Seneca Duo camera]
Photograph shows young girl posed with camera and releasing the shutter. Copyright 1909 by Rochester Photo Press, Rochester, N. Y. No. 167.
Vid starinnago kosti︠u︡ma szadi. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡
In album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire, LOT 10332-A, no. 74. Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gener... More
[Mack Sennett girl in bathing suit holding up oar]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, gymnast, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Youngsters making bands, cotton mill, North Pownal, Vt. Clarence Noel,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Chinese school children] - Frank G. Carpenter collection
Photographs show groups of school children. Hand-written captions read: [top and bottom left] Peking school girls; [right] Peking school boy. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
[Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, full-length portrait, standing,...
J236925 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - portrait of an officer in military uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Youthful radio expert - Public domain print
John Iringle, fourteen years old, with well equipped radio outfit, which he constructed, Chicago, Ill. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood. No. CH 12329.
Prehistoric man. 3.--The Neanderthal man, member of the hunting race i...
Stereograph shows exhibit with sculpted model labelled Homo Primigenius. J271927 U.S. Copyright Office. California Missions and the State of California. No. 219.
Unidentified young man with cigarette, head-and-shoulders portrait, fa...
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
Rosa Parks, half-length portrait, facing slightly right
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
Rosa Parks, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front
Photo date stamp on back: "Mar 80" [i.e., March 1980]. Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
A camp of aborigines in North Queensland, Australia
Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia. No. 24268. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jim Henson, full-length portrait, seated, surrounded by his Muppets
Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Forms part of the news from the Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images fro... More
Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain portrait
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More
A group of berry pickers from Philadelphia on Giles Farm, Seaford Del....
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Demetra Jones. Father, G.G. Jones, R. 3, Sonora, Ky. 11-year old farm ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Edwin Booth. Hamlet "To be or not to be, that is the question" / / Gur...
Photograph shows Edwin Booth in the character of Hamlet. Public domain photograph of theatrical production, cabaret, musical, performance, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drop wire boy, Granite Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Le...
Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
On the beach - Public domain print
Photograph shows portrait of young woman wearing turn-of-the-century bathing suit, posed holding unidentifiable product. Copyrighted 1901 by Eddowes Bros. N.Y.
Tourists in palanquins going around the wall of Canton. China
No. 152. Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Palestine, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Apache squaws basket work - Public domain scan /
Her-Loo-A-Lah, Apache woman, posed with willow jugs and woven wash basins. H123796 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. No. 16.
Lawyer Belva Lockwood, full-length portrait standing next to Dr. Mary ...
J164980 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on verso of mount. On verso: Dr. Belva A. Lockwood and Dr. Mary Walker. No. 1.
Ellen Terry, at the age of sixteen / Julia Margaret Cameron.
Print shows Ellen Terry, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, leaning against wall, holding necklace. Photomechanical print made from a photograph taken in 1864 probably at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Engla... More
[Myrtle Reeves, Lillian Langston, and Edith Roberts posed on rock in w...
J231681 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Evans Studio. No. K-28.
[Lillian Gish, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing pi...
George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - actress, 1920s female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Italo Balbo, Italy's Minister of Aviation
Italo Balbo, half-length portrait, standing, facing left. Bain News Service photograph. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
A television transmitter
With woman seated in front. JO 7145 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by the Keystone View Company. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracing... More
Harlem / World Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsica.
Photograph shows a group of Puerto Ricans, at Newark airport, who just arrived by plane from Puerto Rico waiting to be transported to New York. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. F... More
[Four Miss America candidates: Jacque Baker (Miss Iowa), Linda(?) Mead...
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). NYWT&S staff photograph by Al Ravenna.
[Constance B. Motley, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]
Photograph by Fred Palumbo. NYWTS staff photo. Newspaper clipping on verso: Mrs. Constance Baker Motley, sometimes known as "Madame President." Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Phot... More
Rosa Parks, Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Columbia College, Chica...
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress).
Commodore J.L. Worden - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows a bust portrait of John Lorimer Worden, a United States naval officer who was in command of the Monitor between 1862 and 1863. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Number 4634. F... More
Lyndhurst - a happy Christmas at "Woody Crest," December, 1905
Five boys in costumes, with toys, in front of Christmas tree, Lyndhurst school, Tarrytown, N.Y. No. U-88426.
Learning of German retreat from her district French woman returns to f...
Photograph shows an elderly French woman, full-length portrait, facing left, seated on the stone rubble of what once was her home in the Somme region of France; also shows a large fireplace in the background. ... More
Christmas day in the morning - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...
Three children gathered around Christmas tree with toys. 13812 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Geo. Barker. On verso: A.T. Worden poem, "The Gooseville Christmas-tree."
[Whistler seated with Mortimer Menpes standing. Whistler wears the muc...
LC Whistler exhibition catalog: #232. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.