Nicola Tesla - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man with a mustache. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
In Kensington Gardens, London, England. England in 19th century.
People seated outdoors at tables, woman feeding dog. Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co., no. 11326). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog... More
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.
Portrait photograph of Hawkins, E, C.M.Bell Studio
Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date from photographer's logbook. Notation on neg. sleeve: 6 st. 8. Gift; American... More
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
Mary Ashton Livermore, 1820-1905
3/4 length, seated, facing right. H15801 U.S. Copyright Office Photo copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, Boston. (4-B). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; ... More
"With this ring I thee wed" - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...
Wedding scene with members of wedding party in foreground; groom placing ring on bride's hand. Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 5514. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption... More
Miss Whitlock, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Head and shoulders of woman, with flowers in hair, holding flowers. Photo copyrighted by Burr McIntosh Studio. No. 1. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Phot... More
Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, guest of Indianapolis, I...
Stereograph shows Prince Pu Lun riding inside a car. H58635 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Monroe George.
Cupid's triumph - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
Child dressed as Cupid with ribbon around couple in wedding dress. H63540 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright deposit, 1905.
Society maid, no. 2 - Public domain portrait painting
G20120 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barrick, J., artist.... More
[William Dean Howells, 1837-1920, full-length portrait, standing, faci...
H34575 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by T.E. Mort? No. 8322. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.
The favorite - Print, Library of Congress collection
G20425 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Barrick, J., artist.... More
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.
Mrs. Bourke Cockran on woman suffrage
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings, periodicals, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Women strikers selling newspapers for a living. New York shirt waist w...
Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.
Mrs. Harry K. Thaw - Public domain portrait photograph
Photo shows the former Evelyn Nesbit (1883-1967) wife of Harry K. Thaw. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham B... More
TITANIC disaster. Senate Investigating Committee questioning individua...
J. Bruce Ismay at end of table, being questioned. J169603 U.S. Copyright Office. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracin... More
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.
McLENNAN, MRS. R.M. SUFRAGETTE - Public domain portrait photograph
An old photo of a woman standing in front of a brick building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Florence MacBeth - Public domain portrait print
Photo shows Florence MacBeth (1891-1966), American operatic soprano and organizer of the Los Angeles Opera Guild. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
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
Mme. Ober, George Grantham Bain Collection
Photo shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971) in a kitchen. Arndt-Ober performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) ... More
Mizzi Hajos in dancing costume - Public domain print
A black and white photo of a woman in a costume. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pan Amer. Financial Conference, May 25, 1915
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More
Achetez le timbre antituberculeux
A nurse watching children playing outdoors. Translation of title: Buy the tuberculosis stamp. Signed: Vilá. Promotional goal: Fr. G32. 1917. Item is no. 215 in a printed checklist available in the Library of C... More
Gabrielle Gills - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Photograph shows French soprano singer Gabrielle Gills whose first appearance in New York City was on January 28, 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
[Myrtle Reeves, Lillian Langston, and Edith Roberts posed on rock in w...
J231681 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Evans Studio. No. K-28.
HENDERSON, CHARLES BELKNAP. SENATOR FROM NEVADA, 1918-1921. RIGHT, WIT...
A couple of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gen... More
Lambert, Robb R - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Caption from caption list: Robert R. Lambert who has for 12 years been ... More
When Tennessee the 36th state ratified, Aug 18, 1920, Alice Paul, Nati...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul standing over ratification banner hanging from the balcony of the National Woman's Party headquarters, with members watching outside the building b... More
Peoples Drug Store crowds [...]
Public domain photograph of crowd, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Léon Bakst's color design for a Courtier in The Sleeping Princess, 192...
Public domain scan of a print featuring furniture, art, or architecture design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of The entertainer, gelatin silver print
Postcard showing full-length portrait of a woman, standing, facing front, wearing hat and short skirt. J253158 U.S. Copyright Office. On photo: "Mushet." On photo: "c Butler Cafe Revue, Seattle."
[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
Harding at Lincoln Memorial, 12/18/22
Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dr. Sawyer - Public domain portrait photograph
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Doris Stevens, right, talking to Sra. Gonzales at Pan-American Confere...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of two women sitting outside on stone bench under palm trees.
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).
Washington Tuberculosis - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
A black and white photo of a man and a woman, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date based on date of negatives in same range. G... More
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
Young family, penniless, hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99 in California....
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Working men at Greenbelt, Maryland
Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Amusing baby with toys - Public domain photograph
A woman holding a baby in a crib. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mrs. Shotbang with her four children she delivered herself. Husband br...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Itinerant preacher broadcasting to his audience by means of public add...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Only living survivors of Washington's Canal Project see it made a nati...
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Wives] of Congressmen in speaking class have commencement and awardin...
A black and white photo of two women shaking hands. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sen. Radcliffe views disputed property unscathed. Washington, D.C., Ju...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Water supply for nine company cabins at fruit packing plant, Berrien C...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Mrs. Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, tenant farmer, with armful of tobacco p...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mr. Bert Brown, dairy farmer and FSA (Farm Security Administration) cl...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Negro church service in Heard County, Georgia
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.
Chicago, Illinois. Good Sheperd Community Center. Two of the actors wi...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Bridesmaid? wearing cape, member of wedding party for the Dawkins And...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
A tiny celestial goes on the scale. One of the most interesting of the...
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Atlantic Div. Data: RC Courier, Apr. 15/22. Classification: Home Hygiene. Gift; A... 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
The New York times (New-York N.Y.), February 4, 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
Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her, by Rosetta Douglass S...
A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who lived in th... More
The novels of Jane Austen - Public domain book scan / drawing
Also available in digital form.
The modern dances, how to dance them
by Caroline Walker; complete instructions for learning the tango, or one step, the Castle walk, the walking Boston, the hesitation waltz, the dream waltz, the Argentine tango. (statement of responsibility) Avai... More
Mother Goose - by Eulalie Osgood Grover
Illustrated lining-papers in colors. Also available in digital form.
D.P. Sanford. A houseful of children,. Public domain book.
Also available in digital form.
The story of Jack, a tale of the north; and other fascinating dog stor...
Also available in digital form.
Program Officiel des Ballets et Opéras Russes de Serge de Diaghilew (T...
Contains list of season's repertory and list of season's artists; set designs for Le Renard and Mavra; costume design for Le Renard, Aurora's Wedding, and Mavra; photographs of Bronislava Nijinska, Igor Stravin... More
Hotel Victoria, corner Newbury and Dartmouth Sts., Boston, Massachuset...
H38067 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. Chickering & Co.; November 13, 1903; DLC/PP-1903:41972. On front: "Copyright by E. Chickering & Co., 1903, reproduction forbidden".
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."
[F. Clarke, Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. "F. Clark"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[ Brahms Variations] - Public domain document scan of drawing
[Sketch of three dancers. Costume design for Brahms Variations. This is a two-sided drawing with an unfinished rendering on the back.] (Content) 1944 (date)
[Portrait of Gertrude Stein, with dog Pepe, Biliguin]
Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXI F 3. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More
[Raymer, Sacramento Team, baseball card portrait]
Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.
[Unidentified African American woman]. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Case: Leather oval geometric. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Fa... More
[Portrait of Diego Rivera and Frida (Kahlo) Rivera]
Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVI 2. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a ... More
[Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston]
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Whistler seated with Mortimer Menpes standing. Whistler wears the muc...
LC Whistler exhibition catalog: #232. Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.