36,551 Woman Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

Bathing beach beauty contest, [1920], Eliz. Roache (most beautiful sui...

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

Antonio da Trento - Fortitude, 16th century

Allegorical print showing a seated woman holding onto a column. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print... More

A touch of the times, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman playing cards with a monkey dressed as a man, two figures in masquerade attend to them, above and in the background are a musician, a man and a woman, and a cuckold, also seated is an owl sm... More

[Portrait of a woman] - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows a woman, princess or empress, full-length portrait, facing front. Gift; Crosby Stuart Noyes; 1906. Forms part of: Crosby Stuart Noyes collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Japanese pri... More

Alice - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a seated woman wearing a gown and shawl facing slightly left. Inscribed on verso: original drawing by Attoe in [?] for Dickens book.

[Title page of The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, il...

/ E Tisdale, del.; W.H. Bassett fc. Engraving by W.H. Bassett after drawing by E. Tisdale. Illus. in: The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - PATRIOTISM 1820. This re... More

[Woman, possibly a courtesan, sitting next to a flowerpot, facing left...

Attributed to a group of drawings referred to as the "Hokusai School sketchbook." Many of the drawings have a small tab of similar paper attached at a later date and numbered in pencil. Forms part of: Japanese... More

[Unidentified woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Mrs. Miller, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, f...

Possibly maternal grandmother of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 133. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Libra... More

[Fantasy transformation of a bird into a flowerpot, into a woman, into...

Illus. in: Grandville, J. J. Un autre monde, transformations, visions, ..., 1844. Paris : H. Fournier, 1844, p. 243. Reference copy in LOT 4624.

[Unidentified woman, half-length portrait, facing slightly right]

Scratched on back of plate: 301. Hallmark: Rinhart 31a. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

[Phoebe Cary, head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman, three-quarters t...

Poet. Alternative identification: Carpenter (cat. 5). Identification from engraving in LC P&P Biographical File. Scratched on face of plate: 238; Miss Cary. Scratched on back of plate: 287. Transfer; U.S. War C... More

[Rosalie Henriette Bediez Laborde, full-length portrait of a woman, th...

French opera singer. Identification from woodcut in Ballou's Pictorial, June 25, 1859, page 401. Alternative identifications: Madame Sabonde (cat. 5); Villaume. Scratched on face of plate: 213; Mad. Laborde. Sc... More

[Unidentified woman, about 40 years of age, three-quarter length portr...

Scratched on face of plate: 141. Scratched on back of plate: 98; 190. Corners trimmed. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Produ... More

Mrs. Van Zandt. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Singer (The Great Vanzini). Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox an... More

Belle Boyd. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Confederate Spy. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. E... More

Miss A.J. Evans. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Miss A.J. Evans. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and... More

Mrs. J.E. Rea. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress? Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

Miss Chesney. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

Miss Julia Meyer. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Actress. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1... More

Madame La Grange, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

Public domain photo of portrait art print, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Mrs. Rose Greenhow, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time...

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

Mrs. George B. McClellan, Glass negative photograph, American Civil Wa...

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

Mrs. J.J. Crittenden, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War ti...

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

Pauline Cushman, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

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

Miss Sallie Holman, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time...

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

Mrs. Chanfrau, Glass negative photograph, American Civil War time.

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

Honorable Hiram R. Revels of Miss. - Public domain portrait photograph

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

[Unidentified woman, possibly a nurse, during the Civil War]

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Types Algériens. Fileuse de laine / ND.

Woman, full-length portrait, seated on ground, facing right, spinning wool, Algeria. No. T. 249.

[Full-length portrait of a young woman]

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

[Unidentified woman, possibly a nurse, during the Civil War] / Bell & ...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Rhoda Palmer, seated, reading Woman's Journal, Photograph

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Unidentified woman] / Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, 912-914 Chestnut Str...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and unidentified woman]

Case: Berg, no. 3-209. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph f... More

[Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, social reformer, head-and-shoulders portrai...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Furansujin no shōzō - Public domain dedication image

Japanese print shows a French woman seated before a mirror applying makeup; a man stands in a doorway on the right. Signature: Yoshikazu ga. Seal date: Cock 2. Annotations, stamps, etc. on verso of print: 103;... More

Manning, Honorable Vannoy Hartrog of Miss. Colonel of 3rd Arkansas Inf...

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

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River from Georgetown, D.C. to Analostan...

Photograph shows a group of civilians crossing a pontoon bridge from Georgetown to Analostan Island (i.e. Roosevelt Island). A group of men seated in a carriage in the foreground while a woman stands at the sh... More

[Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant (Julia Dent Grant), head-and-shoulders portrait...

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

Odezhda Kirgizok Golovnoi ubor "seukara [sic]

Photograph shows a portrait of a Kyrgyz woman, seated. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 2.

Kawarazaki gonjūrō [to] ichikawa kohanji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows actors Kawarazaki Gonjūrō and Ichikawa Kohanji portraying the roles of a man seated on a bench, possibly in a tearoom, and a woman looking at him through an opening behind the bench. Title and other... More

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, 1867-1944

Head and shoulders, facing slightly left. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf.

The modern Cornelia, a veritable rum 'un

Woman labeled "universal suffrage" seated on ballot box, African American man labeled "Negro suffrage", and woman labeled "female suffrage" holding club labeled "sorosis." Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated ... More

Portrait of Julia Bullard Nelson, teacher and women's rights activist

Publisher statement taken from imprint on back of mount. Inscription on back: Yours truly Julia B. Nelson. "M. E. Green" handwritten on back. Purchase; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:179). Forms part of the William Henry ... More

[Fidelia Taylor, bust portrait, facing slightly right] / Bell's Photo....

Printed on mount: Bell's Photo. Art Gallery 425th 7th St., Washington, D.C. Forms part of: 19th century portraits, ... from the Clara Barton Papers.

[Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

"1850" is written on the photo mount, but other sources date this image to later in her life.

Rosa Mendez - Public domain portrait print

Rosa Mendez, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, lower left. On verso: Andres Martinez y C[S... More

Charlotte Maria Bump Kelley - Public domain portrait

Photograph shows half-length portrait of Charlotte Kelley. Case: Rinhart, no. 148. Identification of sitter from family members and Linda M. Welch, historian and genealogist. Transfer; LC Manuscript Divison; 2... More

[Portrait of African American girl, seated]

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representativ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a jury, political committee, politics, and government, no copyright restrictions.

[French political leaders, and revolutionaries who took part in the Pa...

22 cartes-de-visite photoprints and album cover, "Library of Congress from the U...S...Legation, Paris, France" in 2 albums. V. 1, p. 46. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... More

Ladden. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on span of years of C.M. Bell Collection. Negative number assigned by L... More

Unidentified woman. 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 51.

Fuller, Miss. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on span of years for C.M. Bell collection of glass negatives. Gift; Ame... More

Unidentified woman. 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 52.

Briarly, Mrs. F.K. C.M. Bell Studio, Washington DC

Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. Date based on probable date range for negative numbers preceding LC-B5-35838. Gift... More

Unidentified woman. 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 52.

Unidentified woman. 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 52.

Unidentified woman. 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 52.

Mrs. L. Sullivan [i.e. O'Sullivan] Cartes de visite

Photograph shows portrait of Laura Virginia Pywell O'Sullivan, wife of Timothy O'Sullivan. Purchase; E. Marshall Pywell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:124). Was AP 900.

Unidentified woman. 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 52.

[Marjorie (Jacobi) McAneny, three-quarter length portrait, standing, f...

In G.P. Putnam family album, [p. 12]. (Album in Box 1). Written under photo: Marjorie Jacobi.

The same old story told again - L.M. Melander & Bro., Chicago

Stereograph shows a woman patiently seated by ornamental fireplace on which rests clock showing late hour, her feet propped on pillow, guitar resting by her side; behind her, man enters holding shoes in one han... More

Portrait photo of Sartoris, Mrs. Algernon (Nellie Grant)

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: Nellie Grant Sartoris, 1534, 1443, 310. Date based on date of another photograph probably from the same sitting... More

[Woman with pottery at market, probably Mexico]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, 1793-1880, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing...

Engraving by J.C. Buttre after Broadbent & Philips from History of woman suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1:369). Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1881 or 1889. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Hawaii album, p. 47, portrait of a woman

Photograph shows a head-and-shoulders portrait of a Hawaiian woman, possibly Queen Emma. In album: [Hawaii album], p. 47. Forms part of: [Hawaii album] Accession box no. DLC/PR 13 CN 1978:158, container 1

[Photographer and subject, in Yokohama, Japan]

Print shows a woman posing for a portrait photograph, half-length, seated, facing right, next to a table with a potted plant; at the top of the image is a banner filled with text and an illustration of the phot... More

"Queen of the laundry" Jas. S. Kirk & Co. soap makers Chicago

Advertisement for Jas. S. Kirk & Company's "Queen of the Laundry" soap showing a woman with a laundry basket standing before the "queen" seated on a throne fashioned from inverted wash tubs and washboards.

[Bear dressed as a woman] - Public domain drawing

Drawing of a bear wearing a bonnet, apron, and a ring through her nose that's attached to a rope. She carries a basket and an umbrella. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower right: GZ. Title ... More

P. Schoenhofen Brewing Co., Chicago, Ill., edelweiss

11302 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. Schoenhofen, P., adve... More

American stars, 25 different albums packed in Honest long cut smoking ...

8533 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. Duke (W.) Sons & Co., ... More

Roma, la giustizia (Penni) stanze di Raffaele / Anderson.

Photograph of section of a fresco painting by Giovan Francesco Penni showing a woman, "Justice", seated, holding scales in her left hand and her right hand on the neck of an ostrich, in "The Raphael Stanze", Ro... More

Native market of the Kavirondo tribe - woman in foreground wears tasse...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Tanganyika. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mrs. Fanny Holmes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Copyright by M.B. Johnston Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman placing seaweed, which is an important item of the Japanese diet...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, half-length portrait, standing, facing fro...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Kling boy, India - Public domain portrait print

Studio picture of small, almost nude, boy posed standing full lgth. in front of large rock.

[Young woman sitting on the floor at the feet of a man on a sofa]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Biddy serves the potatoes "undressed" - stereocsopic card

Two people seated at table and woman serving dish of potatoes. 33498V U.S. Copyright Office.

Brazilian Legation - Mendonca residence - Mme. Medonca seated in her b...

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man and woman standing beside a round table; two women seated at righ...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Portrait of Maggie Oblinger as a young woman.

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Woman with arms outstretched looking up staircase with shadowy figure...

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[African American woman, half-length portrait, facing left, reading bo...

Helen Nanny Burroughs Collection (Library of Congress) Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alice (Pike) Barney, 1857-1931 - Public domain portrait print

Half length portrait, facing right. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 626. Caption card tracings: BI; Ph. Ind.; Shelf.

[Elizabeth Cochrane "Nellie Bly", head-and-shoulders portrait]

U6318 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyrighted by H.J. Myers, New York.

Portrait photograph of Hughes, Miss Isabel, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Vaughn, Miss, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Truby, Florence, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Edwards, Mrs. F.H, 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 mul. Gift; American G... More

Portrait photograph of Eaton, Mrs. W.W, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Evans, Miss Nina & friend - Public domain portrait print

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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Hoskinson, Mrs. T.J, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Mrs. Moore, 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. Copy of unidentified man. Notation on neg. sleev... More

Portrait photograph of James, Mrs. C.H, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Kingsley, G.P., Mrs, 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. Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. Temp ... More

Portrait photograph of Underhill, Mrs. J.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. Gift; American Genet... More

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