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[View of Jerusalem from southeast, showing city walls, the Dome of the Rock, and al-Aqsa mosque]

[View of Jerusalem from southeast, showing city walls, the Dome of the...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dining room wall of new hotel Mount Washington Hotel near Mount Pleasant House, White Mountains, N.H

Dining room wall of new hotel Mount Washington Hotel near Mount Pleasa...

"675" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042665. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Steamroller on street outside walls of Jerusalem]

[Steamroller on street outside walls of Jerusalem]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Westl. Kriegsschaupl. Karte III. Die Gewässer um Groszbritannien und Irland werden als Kriegsgebiet erklärt

Westl. Kriegsschaupl. Karte III. Die Gewässer um Groszbritannien und I...

Print shows a map with a line, labeled "Kriegs - Gebiets - Grenze", drawn around of Great Britain, Scotland, and Ireland connecting them to the European coast along the English Channel, outlining the theater of... More

Walls and round tower by the water, Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida

Walls and round tower by the water, Castillo de San Marcos, St. August...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Church of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor]

[Church of the Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor]

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Nordley, 4203 Sulgrave Road, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia

Nordley, 4203 Sulgrave Road, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Related names: Mrs. Benj. Hodges Smith. William L. Bottomley, architect. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11841-44. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of t... More

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. View of generator hall, looking towards reception room end. Upper row of three large windows is overlook for reception room. Three windows beneath are those of control room (compare with K 2313). Balcony for communication and view in front of control room windows. Roof is carried by rigid steel arches which spring from crane rail level; steel purlins, exposed precast concrete slab. Windows of hall are glass brick for insulation. Translucent plastic discs suspended from standard highboy lighting units conceal view or direct reflection of filaments and reflect spill light onto ceiling, thus generally brightening the space. Floor is ceramic tile; walls, glazed structural tile up to crame rail, exposed concrete above

Chickamauga Dam and powerhouse. View of generator hall, looking toward...

The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is one of nine dams in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system, and was completed in 1940. The dam is named af... More

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-65. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of a historic place in South Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Public domain photograph of Georgia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bedroom in Mexican house in San Antonio, Texas. Notice the partitions, walls and ceilings made of cardboard

Bedroom in Mexican house in San Antonio, Texas. Notice the partitions,...

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

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charlottesville, Virginia. Serpentine garden walls behind faculty home on the campus of the University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia. Serpentine garden walls behind faculty home...

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, S li︠e︡voĭ naruzhnoĭ storony u prokhoda mertvykh. Samarkand, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, S li︠e︡voĭ naruzhnoĭ storony u prokhoda mertv...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 71.... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

St. Peter's church, near the White house. New Kent County, Va. This church suffered greatly by the war. The surrounding country was occupied by General McClennan's army ... Its walls and timbers are slund, and if now repaired, it may add another

St. Peter's church, near the White house. New Kent County, Va. This ch...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 187, Folder 46.

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "Blessed Is He That Cometh In The Name Of The Lord" showing the entry into Jerusalem with palm leaves; crenellated walls]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with text "Blessed Is He That...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions drawing image.

Column walls of sandstone, Cañon de Chelle, about 800 ft. in height.

Column walls of sandstone, Cañon de Chelle, about 800 ft. in height.

Public domain photograph of vintage stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Additional Piers and Quay Walls, S13 to S19, Northeast end of Magazine Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Additional Piers and Quay Walls, S13 to...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Miley house, El Prado, Montecito, Calif.

Miley house, El Prado, Montecito, Calif.

Title devised by cataloger. On ADE 11 - Craig, no. 3 (C size): Designed by Mrs. James Osborne, Santa Barbara, California. Other drawings attributed to Mrs. Craig based on their similarity. Gift of Mary Craig S... More

Charleston Harbor, east face of Fort Sumter, no. 631 / George Stacy.

Charleston Harbor, east face of Fort Sumter, no. 631 / George Stacy.

Stereograph shows broken girders among piles of rocks next to the exterior palmetto reinforcement wall of Fort Sumter. Card number: "No. 631." Gottheim collection code: GCW 49. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim... More

Limestone walls, Kanab Cañon. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Limestone walls, Kanab Cañon. - Public domain albumen print photogrpap...

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, VT

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, ...

Significance: The result of Frederick Billings's efforts was a network of carriage roads giving access to the estate for utilitarian purposes, as well as providing a pleasurable encounter with the landscape. T... More

[A tiled wall in the Sultanahmet Camii (mosque)] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

[A tiled wall in the Sultanahmet Camii (mosque)] / Abdullah Frères, Ph...

Also known as the Blue Mosque. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 32. No. 58. In album: Mosques, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

Mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Alterations. North east room. Third story. Elevations. Scheme A

Mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York...

Architectural drawing shows paneled walls and fireplace. Architect from A monograph of the William K. Vanderbilt house, Richard Morris Hunt, architect / by Jean Vredenburgh Van Pelt. New York City : J.V. Van P... More

Bashni i sti︠e︡na Borisogli︠e︡bskago monastyri︠a︡. Borisogli︠e︡bsk

Bashni i sti︠e︡na Borisogli︠e︡bskago monastyri︠a︡. Borisogli︠e︡bsk

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

Krak de Chevaliers. (Kala't el-Husn). Inner walls of Kalat el-Husn

Krak de Chevaliers. (Kala't el-Husn). Inner walls of Kalat el-Husn

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Granite Wall in Machine Shed Interior

Granite Wall in Machine Shed Interior

Builder: Ramasco, Antone; Zorio, Charlie Granite wall, ca. 1925 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A typical village of the Punjab plains. There is always a tank in the foreground from the mud of which the walls of the village in the background were made. These tanks produce anopheles culicifacies mosquitoes during and immediately after the monsoon. When they become dirty they do not produce anophelinae

League of Nations Malaria Investigation Committee, Punjab, India. A ty...

Public domain photograph of a lake, river, pond in the woods, forest, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Upper, Lower and Middle Farms, Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland

Upper, Lower and Middle Farms, Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Marylan...

Alternate title: Ulm. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1725. Mansion, a mill, quarters, a spring house, great barns and other buildings. The great stone chimney is a symbol of ... More

Main flood and drainage ditch of Savannah River migratory waterfowl refuge, biological survey project near Savannah, Georgia. This ditch served when area produced rice until 1895, when rice prices fell and tropical storm damaged field and walls

Main flood and drainage ditch of Savannah River migratory waterfowl re...

Public domain image of wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Alternate title: Planter's Hotel. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1736. First planned theater in America. Shortly after 1800 it became a ruin and the Planter's Hotel was built aro... More

716 Toulouse St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

716 Toulouse St., New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Alternate title: Vincent Nolte 537-41 Royal St. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1798. Purchased by Vincent Nolte, German merchant. Now used as rooming house with antique shop on g... More

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1828-1850. Cockspur Island, Savannah River. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11835-26. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of ... More

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finished off with a good grade lime plaster. This typifies the permanent character of this defense housing construction. In this operation onlt time-honored hand craftmanship can give high quality results. Teamwork and practiced efficiency however, speed up the process

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. All walls and ceilings are finish...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A storage house built aboveground, with tight, well-insulated, double walls, keeps food from freezing. This house is more expensive

A storage house built aboveground, with tight, well-insulated, double ...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trampas, New Mexico. The corner fireplace, like this one in the home of Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), is the most efficient fireplace. It burns little wood and all the heat circulates out along the walls, so that there is no "cold spot" as with English fireplaces

Trampas, New Mexico. The corner fireplace, like this one in the home o...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Bashni i sti︠e︡na Borisogli︠e︡bskago monastyri︠a︡. Borisogli︠e︡bsk, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Bashni i sti︠e︡na Borisogli︠e︡bskago monastyr...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, between Yaroslavl, Vla... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ bashni︠a︡ Troit︠s︡kago monastyri︠a︡. g. Aleksandrov, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ bashni︠a︡ Troit︠s︡kago monastyr...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, between Yaroslavl, Vla... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ bashni︠a︡ Troit︠s︡kago monastyri︠a︡. g. Aleksandrov, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ bashni︠a︡ Troit︠s︡kago monastyr...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the upper Volga River, between Yaroslavl, Vla... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pier & Quay Walls, Entrance to Dry Dock No. 2 & Repair Wharfs, east & west sides of Dry Dock No. 2 & west side of Dry Dock No. 3, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Pier & Quay Walls, Entrance to Dry Dock...

Significance: They are located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. They are integral parts of Dry Dock Nos. 2 & 3. The docks and their walls were built at the time of intense military build-up d... More

Line up America line up behind your walls

Line up America line up behind your walls

words and music by Chas. Mussman. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Sloping walls - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Sloping walls - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

No. 201. Written on back: Tantalus Creek. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson.

Jerusalem, high tower thy glorious walls, hymn 497

Jerusalem, high tower thy glorious walls, hymn 497

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Down near the walls of Sevilla - Presso il bastion di Seviglia

Down near the walls of Sevilla - Presso il bastion di Seviglia

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Stainless soldier on the walls - Public domain World War One sheet music

Stainless soldier on the walls - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

[music by] Clarence Dickinson ; [words by] Ralph Waldo Emerson. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

[St. Phillips Wall and gates at 143 Church Street, with city houses behind, Charleston, S.C.]

[St. Phillips Wall and gates at 143 Church Street, with city houses be...

Note in Collections file: Found in Charleston things. Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

Feretted walls - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Feretted walls - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

No. 66. Written on back: Kanab. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Additional Piers and Quay Walls, S13 to S19, Northeast end of Magazine Loch, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Additional Piers and Quay Walls, S13 to...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Castillo San Cristobal, Ravelin, Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, San Juan Municipio, PR

Castillo San Cristobal, Ravelin, Puerta de Tierra, San Juan, San Juan ...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

View across Black Cañon. The grand walls in perspective.

View across Black Cañon. The grand walls in perspective.

Original negative number: 122. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 2. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lie... More

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, VT

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, ...

Significance: The result of Frederick Billings's efforts was a network of carriage roads giving access to the estate for utilitarian purposes, as well as providing a pleasurable encounter with the landscape. T... More

Oakland Harbor Training Walls, Mouth of Federal Channel to Inner Harbor, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Oakland Harbor Training Walls, Mouth of Federal Channel to Inner Harbo...

Significance: The North Training Wall is one component of the Oakland Harbor Training Walls, which defined Oakland's basic harbor footprint and are the oldest surviving remnants of nineteenth-century harbor imp... More

Balbek. Colonne inclinée Bonfils

Balbek. Colonne inclinée Bonfils

Remains of a colonnade and wall of the Temple of Bacchus in Baʻlabakk, Lebanon. No. 446.

Court House, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina

Court House, Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1767. This is the second court house. First was built in 1719. Present building in original state. Is oldest in sue in NC meeting place for Masonic... More

Craddock's, Garrison vic., Baltimore County, Maryland

Craddock's, Garrison vic., Baltimore County, Maryland

Title from photographer's inventory. Craddocks is self-contained within stone walls of fine construction. Stone gate posts and the mounting block, leading to the upper terrace, much favored in the design of ear... More

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Alternate title: Planter's Hotel. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1736. First planned theater in America. Shortly after 1800 it became a ruin and the Planter's Hotel was built aro... More

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Planter's Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Alternate title: Planter's Hotel. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: 1736. First planned theater in America. Shortly after 1800 it became a ruin and the Planter's Hotel was built aro... More

Detail of bedroom in house of Emil Kimball. Morganza, Louisiana. Note walls stained by rain. No screens or glass for window. Mr. Kimball is a tenant purchase client

Detail of bedroom in house of Emil Kimball. Morganza, Louisiana. Note ...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Brick Walls, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina

Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old home with mud walls built by mulattoes now a part of the John Henry cotton plantation. It was originally the house built on the Yucca Plantation by Augustin Metoyier in 1824 and later after the big house was built it was used as a slave hospital. It was sold to J.H. Henry in 1833

Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Old home with mud walls built...

Public domain photograph of a house, cottage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Putting up the walls on a prefabricated house at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) project in Pacolet, South Carolina

Putting up the walls on a prefabricated house at the FSA (Farm Securit...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Raising the walls on sulphur vat which is being built. Sulphur is put into these vats to a height of sixty feet. As it solidifies, the sections of wall are raised

Freeport Sulphur Company, Hoskins Mound, Texas. Raising the walls on s...

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

Houses for Britain. With outside walls in place, workmen prepare to put on roof panels on model house erected by the Federal Public Housing Authority at Scott Circle, Washington, D.C. It is planned to ship 30,000 of these pre-fabricated temporary emergency family dwellings to Great Britain under lend-lease. Materials have been allotted by the War Production Board and procurement of the buildings will be undertaken by the Federal Public Housing Authority

Houses for Britain. With outside walls in place, workmen prepare to pu...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Art on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Art on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, S li︠e︡voĭ naruzhnoĭ storony u prokhoda mertvykh. Samarkand, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, S li︠e︡voĭ naruzhnoĭ storony u prokhoda mertv...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views in Central Asia, Russian Empire, LOT 10338, no. 71.... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Rock Wall, North side of Battle Creek Canyon, Shingletown, Shasta County, CA

Rock Wall, North side of Battle Creek Canyon, Shingletown, Shasta Coun...

Significance: The Pacific Power Company Rock Wall is representative of early hydroelectric development efforts along the Battle Creek drainage system of Shasta County, California. The massive native basalt cob... More

Stainless soldier on the walls - Public domain World War One sheet music

Stainless soldier on the walls - Public domain World War One sheet mus...

[music by] Clarence Dickinson ; [words by] Ralph Waldo Emerson. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Staff notation. (language)

Wheat Stack, looking up the river, walls 2000 ft

Wheat Stack, looking up the river, walls 2000 ft

No. 40. Written on back: Lodore. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west, by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson.

Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldier outside the walls of Fort Mahone

Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Confederate soldier outside the walls of Fo...

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Paul, Spiritus Gladius, showing "Saul" with sword and crenellated walls]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with St. Paul, Spiritus Gladi...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, VT

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, ...

Significance: The result of Frederick Billings's efforts was a network of carriage roads giving access to the estate for utilitarian purposes, as well as providing a pleasurable encounter with the landscape. T... More

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, VT

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Roads, Woodstock, Windsor County, ...

Significance: The result of Frederick Billings's efforts was a network of carriage roads giving access to the estate for utilitarian purposes, as well as providing a pleasurable encounter with the landscape. T... More

Mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Interior elevation

Mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York...

Architectural drawing shows interior with paneled walls, fountain, plants, and fireplace. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The ... More

Across the lake from Meredith Road, Centre Harbor, Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H

Across the lake from Meredith Road, Centre Harbor, Lake Winnipesaukee,...

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018947. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

On the walls of Concarneau. Women in native costume and a few old fishermen of the Brettan fishing village of Concarneay, taking in the salt air from the old walls which surrounds the port. Cancarneau is the home of the sardine and tuna fishing and its people make their living by the sea. It is one of the quaintest spots in Brittany, one of the most northernly provences of France which has served the most demoralizing effects of war namely invasion

On the walls of Concarneau. Women in native costume and a few old fish...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Paris Office. Data: T.T. & C. Group title: General reconstruction. Gift; American... More

3700 Greenway, Baltimore, Maryland

3700 Greenway, Baltimore, Maryland

House designed by the Palmer and Lamdin architectural firm, Baltimore Md. Annotation in original card file and negative sleeve misidentify the structure as Baltimore, Lamdin, Mr. Parker and Parker Lamdin. No pr... More

Armfield House, Jamestown vic., Guilford County, North Carolina

Armfield House, Jamestown vic., Guilford County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Betw. High Point and Greensboro. Road to Greensboro, old house, half story, fine chimney. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-41. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the ... More

140 Broad Street, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

140 Broad Street, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11840-10(A)19. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purc... More

Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Bedroom with religious pictures, etc. on mud walls of hut built and still occupied by French-mulattoes near John Henry cotton plantation. Belongs to Rocque family (see general caption)

Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Bedroom with religious pictur...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Art on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Art on the walls of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vostochnai︠a︡ sti︠e︡na Spaso-Evfimīevskago monastyri︠a︡. Suzdalʹ, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Vostochnai︠a︡ sti︠e︡na Spaso-Evfimīevskago mo...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Oka River and Suzdal, Russian Empire, LOT... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

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