624 Wild west Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Calamity Jane, General Crook's scout, no. 1

Photograph shows Martha Jane Burke, popularly known as Calamity Jane, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing fringed leather jacket and pants, holding a rifle with her right hand, with butt resti... More

Colorado. "Round up" in the corral

Title on inventory list: Round up in the corral. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51060". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hd... More

[Red Horn Bull, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Red Horn Bull, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing breastplate and warbonnet while holding a tomahawk. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service... More

J.J. Coleman presents "that odd fellow" Mr. Harry Beresford in Our new...

Caption: I may suggest the Wild West, but my dearest enemy could not accuse me of being woolly. Created and "copyright 1904 by The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 7947. Fo... More

HORSE SHOWS. WILD WEST SHOW ON HORSE SHOW GROUNDS, GIVEN BY SOLDIERS

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

A man riding a horse down a dirt road. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Neg...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Kenya Colony. Rift Valley and en route to Nairobi. In the Rift Valley....

Public domain image of a rural landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Cattlemen at stockyard, San Angelo, Texas

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

A black and white photo of a man in a cowboy hat. Office of War Inform...

Caption sheet entry, caption card, file print, etc., erroneously state that Wyola is in Wyoming; file print corrected Apr. 2000. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of... More

Cowboy training a broncho. Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Com...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Big Hole Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana. Cowhands at the barn

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

On Horse with Chinks. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Northrup, Tex Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project... More

Branding Area. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project u... More

Cistern Apparatus for Holding Water From Well

Public domain image of a romantic landscape with windmill, Netherlands, 16th-17th century artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

"The Menagerie," a Michael Scott painting of William F. "Buffalo Bill"...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum is a complex of five separate collections and a research library in Cody, Wyoming, featuring art and artifacts of the Ameri... More

Jam session in Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Luckenbach, made famous by the country song about "Waylon (Jennings), Willie (Nelson) and the Boys." Its oldest building is a combina... More

Steve Schmidt is the sheriff in town at the Enchanted Springs Ranch an...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Old West town audience-participation theme park, working cattle ra...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Two "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Wes Hughes, left, and Thorn...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A highly eclectic array of figures, from Wild West showman Buffalo Bil...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Lance Michaels, as Buffalo Bill, doffs his hat at a quite civilized Wi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Horses parade near a settlement called The Gap, on the remote Navajo N...

This American Indian territory of about 17,544,500 acres spills into southeastern Utah and northwestern New Mexico in the American Southwest. It is the largest land area retained by a Native American tribe, wit... More

Milk River Wagon Trail, Malta, Montana

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

101 Ranch, State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin, Ponca City, ...

The address has been corrected to read "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marland," rather than "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin." 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Located ... More

101 Ranch, State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin, Ponca City, ...

The address has been corrected to read "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marland," rather than "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin." 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Located ... More

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world

Circus poster showing cowboys rounding up cattle and portrait of Col. W.F. Cody on horseback. Copyright by Courier Litho. Co., Buffalo, N.Y.

At the dance. Part of the 8th U.S. Cavalry and 3rd Infantry at the gre...

Group portrait of Big Foot's (Miniconjou) band at a grass dance on the Cheyenne River, S.D.--on or near Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: John C.H... More

A Chief [standing on horseback] forbidding the passage of a [wagon] tr...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 773. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wagon trains; Indians Relations with w... More

Cattle ranch in northwest part of Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tompkin's real wild west frontier exhibition and European circus

A two-sided circus poster showing circus and wild west shows. Purchase.

Bucking broncho / motion picture

From Raff & Gammon price list: An out-of-door scene. The men and horse of this subject are from "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." 15.00. From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A cowboy riding an unruly "bronco." From Ediso... More

Geronimo - (Guiyatle) - Apache, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Geronimo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. 59172 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by F. A. Rinehart, Omaha. No. 882.

[Charging Thunder, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Charging Thunder, half-length portrait, turned right, wearing a feathered headdress. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turn... More

[Whirlwind Horse, American Indian], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Whirlwind Horse, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing a headdress. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Pho... More

[Sammy Lone Bear, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Sammy Lone Bear, half-length portrait, facing front, turned slightly right, wearing breastplate. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gi... More

N.C. Dunlap, ex-cowboy, graduate of Nebraska Agricultural School and f...

summary: Note: Dunlap is dressed to participate in an old settlers day parade. He appeared with horns on his head and the hooves up his sleeves as the only real "cow-boy" at the event. See the reminiscence pu... More

Jacob Lahm family in front of their farmhouse, near Sumner, Dawson Cou...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - At the ford, Native Americans

Three Apaches, one with a child, with horses laden with water jugs, a colt, and a dog stopped beside a stream. H36606 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 116. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. C... More

Cowboy looking for a job

Cowboy on horseback with another horse. H74640 U.S. Copyright Office. Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Bill Pruitt, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows cowboy and singer Bill Pruitt. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Co... More

[Mexican War, 1914: Villa(?) amid group of mounted rebels - looking to...

J189840 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Mutual Film Corporation. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Mexico History 1914.

Bernstein at the ranch of Frieda Lawrence, widow of the writer D.H. La...

From: Photographs Series Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of cattle grazing in a field. Great Depression...

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

Horses in the corral. Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Company....

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Moving Calf to Corral. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was a cultural documentation project undert... More

Pony Express marker next to Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. "Buffalo Bill" was William F. Cody, a late-19th-Century scout and buffalo hunter who later formed spectacular "Buffalo Bill Wild West ... More

Western Bar & Lounge, Billings, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

"The Great Lompoc Gold Rush," a "mural in a day" in Lompoc, California...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

The Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono Count...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Scene from Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show at the Cowtown Coliseum in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

(Pretend) sharpshooting at a quite civilized Wild West show, part of t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Washington, D.C. Workmen in front of the Ambulance Shop

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0732 Title fr... More

Milk River Wagon Train, Malta, Montana

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - At the ford--Apache

Four Apache men on horseback at the edge of a stream. Curtis no. 130. LC no. 35. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

[Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, C...

H82467 U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York ... More

[William Moore and family, Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska]

Photograph shows a family group standing in front of farm animals, sod house, and windmill. No. 246 inscribed on negative lower right.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Col. W.F. Cody / Alick P.F. Ritchie.

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Buffalo Bill, composed of guns, rope, heads of buffalo and horse, snowshoes, etc. Promotional goal: Gt. Brit. K73. 1890. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, ... More

Indian chiefs and U.S. officials. 1. Two Strike. 2. Crow Dog. 3. Sh...

Group of Euro-American and Lakota (Brulé, Miniconjou, and Oglala) men standing and sitting in two rows in front of tipis; men in front are holding a NY World pennant. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from i... More

Hippodrome du Trotting Club Levallois - grand match en 12 heures: S. F...

Advertising poster for a race between S. F. Cody on horseback and French cycling champion, Meyer of Dieppe, on bicycle.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World

Cowboys, soldiers and indians.

Westover, State Route 630/U.S. Route 1 vicinity (Old Town Neck), Eastv...

Significance: The significant features of this abandoned 18th-century farmhouse include and English bond brick chimney and fine interior paneling. Survey number: HABS VA-957 National Register of Historic Plac... More

Cooper, east Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Amos Two Bulls, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Amos Two Bulls, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaugh... More

[Unidentified American Indian] - Public domain portrait photograph

American Indian man, member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, seated, facing left, wearing star-shaped badge reading: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Co. Police. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the ... More

[Charging Thunder, American Indian], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Charging Thunder and wife, probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicati... More

[Flying Hawk, Sioux American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Flying Hawk, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing right. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).... More

Portrait photo of [White War Bonnet, American Indian]

White War Bonnet, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Serv... More

[Holy Frog(?) (left) and Big Turnips(?), American Indians]

Holy Frog(?) and Big Turnips (?), probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, one wearing a headdress. Title from mount of corresponding print in LOT 10136. LOT 10136 (location of c... More

[Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Joe Black Fox, half-length portrait, seated, facing left. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughte... More

[Charging Thunder, American Indian], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Charging Thunder, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front with dog. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicat... More

[Iron White Man, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Iron White Man, half-length portrait, facing front. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter ; 19... More

[Flying Hawk, American Indian] - Public domain portrait photograph

Flying Hawk, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing breastplate.

[Whirling Hawk, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Whirling Hawk, half-length portrait, turned left, wearing a breast plate and warbonnet. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina T... More

[Geronimo, Apache Chief, 1829-1909, full-length portrait, standing, fa...

Copyrighted by Collins & Green, Lawton, Oklahoma. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Is 245 OK? I left order of name as is on card.

Mexican revolution - Drawing. Public domain image.

Group of Mexican soldiers and one U.S. soldier. Postcard. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Mexico History 1911-14; Railroads; Army, U.S. 1911-14.

HORSE SHOWS. WILD WEST SHOW ON HORSE SHOW GROUNDS, GIVEN BY SOLDIERS

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

Wild west performers, 52923 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company found on negative or negative sleeve for related negative LC-F8-24435. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Pho... More

Mountaineers and farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey St.," nea...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Farmers during Great Depression: A black and white photo of a man in a...

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

Mexican field worker, father of six. Imperial Valley, Riverside County...

File print misnumbered LC-USF341-001611-B; corrected 1998. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about th... More

"Gunfight" at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, a working ranch in Boerne, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Scene from the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, specia...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Characters in a mock Old West gunfight outside the historic Irma Hotel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

101 Ranch, State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin, Ponca City, ...

The address has been corrected to read "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marland," rather than "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin." 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Located ... More

101 Ranch, State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin, Ponca City, ...

The address has been corrected to read "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marland," rather than "State Highway 156 between Ponca City & Marlin." 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Located ... More

Point Mountain region from Eggleston's, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Wild West, western, cowboys, no copyright restrictions image.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. A ...

Mexicans with lariats riding horses. No. 2617. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I. Title. II. Title: A Group of MExican Vaqueros adn Lariat Experts... .

Cowboys, roping a buffalo on the plains

Three cowboys on horses roping a buffalo. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Buffalo Bill--peaux rouges /. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Indians from North America dance and perform in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Colorado. "The round up" roping a steer

Title on inventory list: The round up, roping the steer. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "51061". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

[Charging Thunder, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Charging Thunder, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing a feathered headdress. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turn... More

Tomas Urbina and A. Iluarte - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, equestrian activity, animal husbandry, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Family in front of a sod house on a small cattle ranch on Gordon Creek...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Amos Little, Sioux American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Amos LIttle, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, turned left. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in... More

[Amos Two Bulls, American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Amos Two Bulls, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Servic... More

[Charging Thunder, Sioux & wife, American Indians]

Charging Thunder and wife, probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photo... More

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