vintage fashion

Pauline Markham Actress, "Ixion" original British Blonde

No. 118. Public domain photograph of 19th-century fashion design, dress catalog, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Half-length portrait of an African American woman wearing a hat and h...

Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.116) Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV85; Civilians II.

Mrs. Ridgley Brown, American Civil War.

Photograph shows Mrs. Ridgley (or Ridgely?) Brown, possibly the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Ridgely Brown of Co. K, 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment, and Co. A, 1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion, holding 11-star Confe... More

The ladies of New Orleans before Gen. Butler's Proclamation [2 ugly wo...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862 July 12, p. 448. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women in cartoons 1862; CW, 1861-1865 C... More

Steele, Honorable William R. Wyoming Territory

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

Unidentified child and dog - Public domain portrait print

Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp note: Batch 54.

Unidentified child. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by Library. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp note: Batch 54.

The rose of beauty - Public domain portrait engraving

13878 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. Lubrecht, Charles, co... More

The child's first prayer - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Cong...

J353 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Armstrong & Co.

Lillie Langtry, 1853-1929. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...

Half lgth., facing left. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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.

Poster - Little Lord Fauntleroy - Public domain lithograph

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

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 latest style, William Henry Jackson photograph

Title from jacket. "W.H. Jackson, 8/92" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Poster - Eugénie Buffet - Ambassadeurs - Public domain lithograph

Poster showing French chanteuse Eugénie Buffet dressed as a Parisian working girl with her hands in her pockets on a snowy street. Poster advertizes her performance at Ambassadeurs.

Lippincott's for October - American Art Poster

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. D41. 1894

De Wolf Hopper in Wang by J. Cheever Goodwin & Woolson Morse ; managem...

Created by "The Gillin Print Co., N.Y." No. 3827. Gift; Maxine Williams; 1973. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

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

Marcella Sembrich, 1858-1935 - Public domain portrait print

full length, standing, facing left, holding fan; as Rosina Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[George Gershwin, 1898-1937, half-length portrait, standing, facing le...

Photo by Bain News Service. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Videodisc frame 3A-42852; BI; Shelf.

[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

[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

[Three dancing women in red costumes and feathers]

33247 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright 1899 Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y." No. 590. Title devised. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Miss Wilda Bennett as "Conscience" and Miss Alexandra Carlisle as "Eve...

An old photo of a woman sitting next to another woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Mabel P. Lee - Public domain portrait photograph

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

John Clark Jr. & Co's, spool cotton, on black spools, best six-cord wh...

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Clark (John, Jr.) & Co., advertiser. Russell, Thos... More

Adm. von Tirpitz - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[Mme. Nordica] - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows American opera singer Lillian Nordica (1857-1914). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

M. Gest - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Jane Winton - 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

Miss May Schneider - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Harry Lehr - Public domain portrait photograph

An old photo of a man in a hat and coat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Thurston - Public domain photograph

An old photo of a woman feeding chickens. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Belle Archer in Jess of the Bar Z

D16863 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: The arrival of Jess at the ranch. Created and "copyright, 1900, by the U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print., Cincinnati & New York." Direction, Fred E. Wright. No. 4695... More

Sylvia Tell [ballet] - Public domain portrait print

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

Jaritza - "Kuhrrigen" - 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

Bobby Jones & wife - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Early automobiles - Roosevelt in car

A group of men standing on top of a truck. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Graynella Packer wireless operator

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

C. Stanislavski [i.e., Konstantin Stanislavsky, director of the Moscow...

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

Mrs. J.H. Kidder - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Profile portrait of an unidentified woman, facing left

Gift; of William Watts Lee and Family; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:052.457). Forms part of the Francis Watts Lee collection (Library of Congress). Accession box no. Container 6 (A size)

Grand Duchess Anastasia, George Grantham Bain Collection

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantha... More

[Miss Thomson, head-and-shoulders portrait]

Public domain image, 18th-century female portrait, aristocracy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Edith Deacon, with other ladies, holding bouquet

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

Lady Hamar Greenwood - Public domain portrait painting

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

Madge Bellamy (model) - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photograph - 1900s actress, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Charles Park, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, about 1902]...

Maud Wood Park Collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1980:192, container 1, folder 5.

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.

The green door - Public domain portrait painting

Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress)

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.

ALLISON, W.B. SENATOR - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

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

McLEAN, EDWARD B., MRS - Public domain photograph, glass negative

A woman sitting in a chair with a feather on her head, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Date span based on active ... More

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.

Carmen Melis, Mishkin Photo / Mishkin Photo

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

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.

[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

Juanita Prewett, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Juanita Prewett. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library o... More

Mme. J.J. Jusserand - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Elise Richards Jusserand, born in Paris, France to American parents, who became the wife of Jean Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States during World War I. (Source: Flickr Comm... More

Maria Barrientos, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Maria Barrientos (1883-1946), a Spanish soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gra... More

General J. O'Ryan - Blum - Stirez - Genns

Photo shows Rabbi Abraham Blum, New York City's first Jewish police chaplain, police chaplain Ernest M. Stires and General John Francis O'Ryan (1874-1961). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008, 2012).

[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

Herbert E. French in Ford [...] traffic cop, Wash., D.C.

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

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.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. ADVERTISING PARADE

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

[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Foley (right?) and an unidentified woman (left), both carrying pocketbooks and wearing fur-trimmed hats and fur stoles, standing outsi... More

CONFEDERATE MONUMENT. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY. MRS. DAISY McLAURIN...

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

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. FIRST GROUP IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGN: ROSE WINSLOW, LUCY ...

Public domain photograph of official photograph, building on the background, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Enfants adoptes, famille Andree, Madeleine, Suzanne, Juliette

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Adopted children. Date (year) based of date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about... More

Premier Orlando, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860-1952), who represented Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, with two unidentified men. (Source: Flickr Commons, May 2016) Title from ... More

E.O. Sykes - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Eugene Octave Sykes (1876-1945)who served as Mississippi Supreme Court judge. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Dorothy Sebastian, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows stage and film actress Dorothy Sebastian (family name Sabiston) (1903-1957). (Source: Flickr Commmons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Negative ... More

Lord R. Cecil - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Lord Robert Cecil (1864-1958), who served as British Minister of War Trade and was an advocate of the League of Nations. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

WOMAN SUFFRAGE. OLDEST SUFFRAGETTE

A woman standing in front of a curtain. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cigarette time. An ARC worker distributing cigarettes and tobacco to w...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Commission to France. Group title: Hospital, France. On caption card: 2858. D... More

Little girl in curved chair - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: R.C. Comm. to France. Group title: Adopted children, France. On caption card: 175... More

[Wedding] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photo of a couple, love, engagement, wedding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Nadia Boulanger and her class, Paris, 1923

from left to right: Eyvind Hesselberg; unidentified; Robert Delaney; unidentified; Nadia Boulanger; Aaron Copland; Mario Braggiotti; Melville Smith; unidentified; Armand Marquint. [note for editor: Copland/Perl... More

Almas Temple Fashion Review Beauties, 11/11/24

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

Abigail Powers Fillmore [inaugural dress from First Ladies Collection]...

Tel Aviv. Jetty celebration, May 19, '37. Jewish sailors at the jetty

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

HEARNE, DIANA. PORTRAIT - Public domain photograph, glass negative

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

Glen Echo amusement park. Bathing girls at Glen Echo IX

Picryl description: Public domain image of a picnic in the park, outdoor activity, leisure time, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Residents of Dover in the new post office. Delaware

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

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.

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.

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, Tennessee. Farm Securi...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A man in a cowboy hat playing a guitar. Pie Town, New Mexico. Farm Sec...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jacksonville, Florida. Fighting French enlisted man with an engine at ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Students at the Woodrow Wilson High School are examin...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Food in England. The British Women's Land Army swings into action. Sho...

Picryl description: Public domain image of working farmers, agriculture, farm, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kansas City, Missouri. Freight rate men at the freight depot. The sche...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Philippine Woman's Club, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Miss "Nina" Z...

Public domain photograph of quilt, needlework, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Doris Julian, and her son, Stephen Van Ophuijsen]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: III QQ 17. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities... More

Helena Rubinstein, 655 5th Ave. Facial II

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Just married - Print, Library of Congress collection

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3586

Valley Forge: Mary Philipse. Brown hooded cloak, pink dress, black bu...

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 in 1935 as part of the ... More