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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

Gilbert Stuart - John Adams, second president of the United States

Title from another impression. From another impression "From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston." Publication information from the American Antiquarian Society. Inscribed in... 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

Cheyenne Indian Chief, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War t...

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

Bear chase in Norway - Public domain drawing

Humorous drawing shows a bear chasing a sportsman who fires his rifle into the air as the bear chews the tails of his coat. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife. Inscribed ab... More

The morning prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4567

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

[Seated black man wearing four button sack, laborer, ring]

Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rice's Extravaganza Combination, American vaudeville and popular enter...

I7292 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Miss Lizzie Webster. Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyright 1878 by H.A. Thomas, N.Y." Signed: Thomas. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collecti... More

Effie Johns, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Indian Group. Chief Ouray & Chipeta (Ute Tribe)

A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Photo size 14 x 11 in. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

One of the finest. Chewing and smoking tobacco. D. Buchner & Co., New ...

Poster for D. Buchner & Co. tobacco products, showing a fireman shaking hands with a policeman, and premium cards depicting showgirls in costumes suggesting various sports and recreations. Caption: All cards pa... More

A Canadian Fisherman - A man holding a fish on a beach

Chinese children, lantern slide, Qingdao China

Public domain photograph of Chinese art, 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."

L'Estampe et l'affiche / J. Peskè.

Cover illustration showing two women resting on a hillside overlooking a small cove. One woman reads a newspaper. Variant of cover illustration without side text. Promotional goal: Fr .K6 .K92 189-.

Greek Orthodox priests from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

The Crane Players, Jennie Elmore as "Claribel" in The boy from Boston

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blanche Walsh, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 1920

Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 2779. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Rosedale] - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alexander Hamilton - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain image of an engraving, male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Easton and MacLennan, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Francis Maclennan (1873-1935) with his wife, opera singer Florence Easton (1882-1955), on board a ship. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms pa... More

Morris Gest - Public domain portrait photograph

A man in a suit and hat standing on a deck. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lady Kinnoul - Public domain portrait print

A black and white photo of a woman with a fur collar. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva Watson Schutze - [Girl sitting with legs folded, reading a book] /...

Title devised by staff. Signed with photographer's monogram. FBJ label no. 121. Prior to 1901 photographer known as Eva Lawrence Watson. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnsto... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Minnesota State Fair: balloon vendor]

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

M. Ooi, President, Osaka Chamber of Commerce, Osaka

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peggy Mathews [i.e. Matthews] - Public domain portrait print

A black and white photo of a woman wearing a hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. Jackson Gouraud - Public domain portrait

Photo shows American heiress Aimee Crocker (1863-1941) whose third husband was musical author Jackson Gouraud. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Susan B. Anthony - Public domain portrait print

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A little angel] - A black and white photo of a young angel

Photo by Fitz W. Guerin. #19. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children.

Gruppa studentov. Samarkand - Public domain portrait print

Five men seated in courtyard of a mosque. Public domain photograph of 19th-century fashion design, dress catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Grace Harper (Looked 10 years old). Works in Lydia Mills, Clinton, S.C...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 372. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National ... More

Police Chaplains - Blum - Stires - Genns. N.Y.

Photo shows police chaplains including Rabbi Abraham Blum, New York City's first Jewish police chaplain and Ernest M. Stires. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Louise Homer and Baby Helen - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows opera singer Louise Beatty Homer (1871-1947) with her daughter Helen Joy Homer (1915-1946) who later was a medical relief worker in China. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data... More

Farrar as "Carmen" - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), an American soprano opera singer and film actress. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano singer and silent film actress of ... More

Emelio Zapata - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Emiliano Zapata Salazar (1879-1919), leader of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

[Daisy Harriman addresses a Democratic rally in Union Square, New York...

Photo shows a banner for the Woman's National Wilson and Marshall Organization. The New York Times states that Mrs. Jaffray Borden (Daisy) Harriman was the founder and chairman. They were active at least throug... More

Votes for women - Drawing. Public domain image.

Postcard showing girl holding up finger to boy and poem: For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say. No. 6342.

Elizabeth Glendower Evans. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Informal portrait, half-length, Elizabeth Glendower Evans, turned to the right with face in three-quarter profile, arms bent at elbows resting on waist, wearing wide-brimmed feathered hat. Title transc... More

Table boy carrying out drinks from a Montgomery drug store. Location:...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. John Jacob Astor - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows the former Madeleine Talmage Force (1893-1940) who married John Jacob Astor (1864-1912). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Czarewitch - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Alexei Nikolaevich (1904-1918), the heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Esther Ross - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Esther Ross, (later Esther Hogan), who christened the USS Arizona on June 19, 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Italian opera singer Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of:... More

Mrs. Harry [Anna] Lowenburg, Chairman State of Pennsylvania, Board of ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Anna Lowenburg, facing forward, seated in chair, holding book in right hand in lap, leaning left arm to jaw, in hat. A similar photo... More

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. GROUPS AT HEADQUARTERS

Public domain historic photograph of Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Myrtle Lind. A young woman posed with a Graflex camera on a beach]

J233786 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Evans, Los Angeles, California. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Beach scenes; Cameras; P.I.; Shelf.

Central High School. School children at Central High VII

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marshal Foch & Amb. Jusserand, 10/29/21

A black and white photo of two men in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, 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

Edward S. Curtis - Gathering Seeds--Coast Pomo

Cecilia Joaquin, Pomo woman, full-length portrait, standing, using seed beater to gather seeds into a burden basket. J268433 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3997. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (L... More

Anna Spafford baby home, Jerusalem

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, 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

Notable visitors and approx. chronological events since 1930. H.R.H. P...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

ASHER, FLORENCE. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A black and white photo of a woman sitting on a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Wedding] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kitchen scene in Spanish-American home near Taos, New Mexico, Taos Cou...

Title and other information from caption card. Woman in image identified as Ofelia Sandoval by her daughter, Ofelia Sandoval Rinaldi; Mar. 5, 1998. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas P... More

A black and white photo of a man in a straw hat, Great Depression. FSA...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New FCC Commissioner takes oath. Washington, D.C., April 13. Frederick...

A man in a suit and tie talking to a woman in a dress, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc.... More

Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inc...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, 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.

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.

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

Caguas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Farmer's family

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. A childrens' rhythm b...

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.

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, noted country day school for ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Marian Anderson mural dedicated. Marian Anderson, noted contralto, at...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a uniform, military personnel, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wartime food demonstration. Winners of the butterless, sugarless cake ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. ...

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman to brighten drab rail travel / World Telegram & Sun photograph b...

Mrs. Dorothy Draper, half-length portrait, standing behind chair, facing front.

Sneak preview at Astor - Manchurian Candidate / World Telegram & Sun p...

Photograph shows Anne Bancroft at a sneak preview of the Manchurian Candidate at the Astor Theatre, New York. NYWT&S staff photograph. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Teleg... More

1920s-vintage advertising flier for the Bassett's Ice Cream stand in t...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage Pennsylvania postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[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.

James Hoban, Esqr., late U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia / ...

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. From a daguerreotype by William J. Corcoran. Copyright by William J. Corcoran.

John Calvin - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sartain, John.

The sacred heart of Jesus - Public domain portrait engraving

Jesus Christ, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, holding image of his heart.

Naval Academy Midshipman Frederick Byron Hull in uniform Cartes de vis...

Photograph shows identified class of 1869 student at Naval Academy when it was located at Newport, Rhode Island, from 1861 to 1865. Notation on recto: "Yours truly, Byron." Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP... More

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

Native Ground: Myrtle, Play III Act I Scenes 1 & 2

Venice Theatre (venue) Public domain scan of 1930s theatrical costume design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a New Deal program created... More

Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated ...

Sojourner Truth (1795-1883) was originally a Dutch-speaking slave in Hurley, New York (Ulster County) who became one of the nineteenth century's most eloquent voices for the causes of anti-slavery and women's r... More

Eddie Gerspacher's sheep wagon - Montana folklife collection

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

D.P. Sanford. A houseful of children,. Public domain book.

Also available in digital form.

A houseful of children, - Public domain book scan / drawing

Also available in digital form.

Talks to children about Jesus - Public domain book scan / drawing

Also available in digital form.

Angelus Domini, an anthology in art and verse in relation to the Bless...

Also available in digital form.

My favorite - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print showing a young girl standing with a sheep. E1552 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright number taken from b&w copy. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874 by H. Schile in the Office of the Libr... More

Bushō no zu - miniature, medieval manuscript

Prints show paper samples of one before and two after illustrations; the before print shows a warrior wearing brightly colored garments, and the two after prints show this warrior and another warrior blending i... More

[Students, private school Hadikatül-Maarif] / Abdullah Frères, photogr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Two unidentified portraits of girl and boy in locket]

Case: Metal locket with two soldiers firing a cannon. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljwoch

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

Young worker in Merchants Mill. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts /...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jim Crow - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows African American man in tattered clothes walking or dancing as a couple of animals dressed as humans stroll alongside a river with a steamboat and sailboat. Mounted with another print of Jim Crow s... 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

Chapman Sisters, violets of the stage

A833 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Ella, Blanche. Copyrighted 1870 by Ferd. Mayer & Sons Mammoth Lith. Print, New York. Created by "Ferd. Mayer & Sons' Mammoth Lith. Print, 96 & 98 Fulton St., New York." Signe... More

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