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Andrew Jackson, president of the United States / painted by W.J. Hubar...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap.

Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... More

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...

Copyright Alex. Washn. Lodge #22, A.F.& A.M., Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

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

Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

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

Gillender Building, New York City. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites The Gillender Building was a skyscraper located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was completed in 1896 and was one of the first steel-framed high-rise buildings in the city. The building wa... More

City Hall subway station, New York

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

St. Paul Building, New York City

Historic Sites The St. Paul Building is a skyscraper located in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It was completed in 1898. The building is located at the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets and was designed in... More

Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger...

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

Mrs. Phil Riley, St.Clair car - Public domain portrait photograph

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

Carefully trained women inspectors check and inspect cargo transport i...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., p...

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

Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops, Topeka, Kansas

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gus Worke, a farmer who came from Germany 40 years ago, Southington, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fa...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C & NW RR; locomotives in the roundhouse at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Marine Sgt. at New Orleans, La.

Public domain image of a military portrait, uniform, armed forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Truck trailers line up at a freight house to load and unload goods fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

School children, half of Polish and half of Italian descent, at a fest...

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Taft Parade, Admiral Coghlan in auto, New York

A group of men riding on the back of a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[High school route boys. Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsb...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

First call I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always...

Recruiting poster showing Uncle Sam. Public domain scan of World War One propaganda poster, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]

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Ford Motor Co. Marine Car at Dist. Bldg., 9/14/26

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Irving Trust Bldg., 1 Wall St. - Irving Underhill Co. photo

JO8624 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 20599. Copyright by Irving Underhill, Inc., N.Y.C.

Ford Motor Co., new medical center parking lot

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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

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Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

CHIEF EXECUTIVE RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 10. ...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, f...

Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-072. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikk... More

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Comp...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

A black and white photo of a factory. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company...

A black and white photo of a city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...

Hauling Rocks, Pipestone national monument

Once large chunks of quartzite are taken out, they must be broken into smaller pieces and used to build a retaining wall.

Tumacacori national historical park - Mission storeroom

Mission storeroom, pots Public domain photograph of ceramic museum object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tonto national monument - Original roof

Original Roof at the Lower Cliff Dwelling

Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Depart...

Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More

Relics displayed at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... More

Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Departmen...

National parks: Basket - public domain image

Many baskets were tightly woven. some were used for cooking and swelled when filled with water, making them water tight. Others were used for storing seeds, nuts, and dried meat.

National parks: IMG_4596 - public domain image

Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National parks: Pantry - public domain image

European-style provisions such as tea and grain were more secure when stored on the second floor.

Hot Springs national park - HOSP_108_CaddoIncisedBowl-a_UnknownDate, H...

bowl; neck & lip are not flared, incised design; hole inside body– Caddo

Tumacacori national historical park - Mission storeroom

Mission storeroom, pots Public domain photo of museum object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Laffon Pettry, Drews Creek, slicing potatoes at the Ramp Supper

Event: Pine Knob Ramp Supper on Drews Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Timucuan - National parks: Kettle - public domain image

& back side support. Each incorporates rectangular cylindrical & ball shapes. Fabric is tapestry with cream background & large pink & gold flowers attached with cream braid and metal upholstery tacks. Reportedl... More

abandoned stove, Cumberland gap national historical park

stove found in the Lige Gibbons cabin

Tourist Attraction - July 1, 2008

July 1, 2008 Public domain photograph of canyonlands, canyon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mississippian Culture Displays - National Parks Gallery

Display of Mississippian pottery in the back of the museum

Tuzigoot National Monument - Pottery - Large olla pots

Women employed by the New Deal era project which excavated Tuzigoot cleaned and reconstructed these large pots.

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church interior

Interior of mission church nave Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist Attraction - Hall of Records 14

A view from the rear of the Hall of Records chamber

Ocmulgee mounds - Pottery Display

Pottery display of Mississippian and Lamar Culture

Uncovered artifacts turned into art at Boone Hall Plantation and Garde...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Boone Hall Plantation is one of America's oldest working plantations, continually growing crops for more than 320 years. Its large Col... More

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Display at Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, South ...

Tumacacori national historical park - Mission storeroom

Mission storeroom Public domain photograph of ceramic museum object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

El Rancho de las Golondrinas, La Cienega, New Mexico

El Rancho de las Golondrinas was a historic paraje (stopping place) along El Camino Real. “The ranch of the swallows” dates from the early 1700s, and is now being used as a living history museum. Historic build... More

Tuzigoot National Monument - LHHTA Youth Tour the Museum

LHHTA Youth tour the Tuzigoot Museum

Powder Magazine, Fort Scott national historic site

The powder magazine is the only structure at Fort Scott lined with brick, for the simple reason that brick is resistant to fire. Brick can withstand temperatures up to 1300 degrees without being compromised. C... More

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sacristy

Mission church sacristy Public domain photograph of a chamber, vaults, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

Mission church sanctuary Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National parks: HOSP_121_CaddoCrackedBowl_UnknownDate - public domain ...

bowl cracked across bottom & into one side, natural finish, design incised, uneven, rough in design - Caddo

Tourist Attraction - HFCA 1607_Visitors_142.jpg

Man smashing grain. Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist Attraction - Hall of Records 8

Red paint instructions for rock removal

Melhok ki (ocotillo house), O'odham dwelling

Melhok ki (ocotillo house), O'odham dwelling with hanging gourds and grinding stones

Timucuan - National parks: Kettle - public domain image

Very large iron kettle, used to process sugar cane or indigo. On display at Kingsley Plantation since the Florida Park Service managed the site.

Tourist Attraction - Lonely Dell Ranch

Tools along the side of the Polygamist Era Cabin The Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Landscape is a physical reminder of the settlement and expansion history of the Mormon Church in this region. It is also sig... More

National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathed...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathed...

Titles devised. Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mongollon cliff dwellings, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, 201...

For thousands of years, groups of nomadic peoples used the caves of the Gila River as temporary shelter. In the late 1200s, people of the Mongollan culture decided that it would be a good place to call home. Th... More

Mongollon cliff dwellings, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, 201...

Images in basement hallway of Second Bank

Public domain image related to 13th-14th-century architecture, medieval castle, cathedral, historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

Public domain image related to 13th-14th-century architecture, medieval castle, cathedral, historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

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Tourist Attraction - Front of church

The façade of the church was painted with bright colors. Today, in the doorway and under the cornice below the window, some of the original color is still visible. The half circle of the espadaña, or pediment, ... More

Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More

Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 36". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More

Fireplace at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Revival villa on th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place, world heritage building, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Photograph of a Italian Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child

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

Fireplace at the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...

Interior hall and doorway at Kensington Manor, an 1855 Renaissance Rev...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. The house had at one time fallen into such disrepair th... More

Painting copies for Robinson. Copy of a Renaissance painting I

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Italian Renaissance court, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Painting copies for Robinson. Copy of a Renaissance painting II

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Cast-Iron Stew Pot. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

ca. 1940 Source: Pedroli, Pete Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Proje... More

[Britannia attacked by her enemies]

Print shows Britannia and the British lion being attacked from the left by a Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, and from the right by a Native woman representing America. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive ... More

Pro bono publico - the public cluster in terrorem / WD., British Carto...

Print shows a grapevine twisted about a gibbet from which hangs a pendulous bunch of grapes with the faces of various British ministers, the most prominent being that of Charles James Fox, with Lord North sligh... More

Albrecht Durer - [St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... More

Titiani Vercellii pictoris celeberrimi ac famosissimi vera effigies

Titian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Bartsch, 154 (2nd state). LeBlanc, 244. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the Uni... More

An east view of the meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston, now erecti...

Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 April, opp. p. 175. Stauffer, 3341 Published in: The American Revolution in dr... More

Nelson House, Jefferson national expansion memorial

Nelson House Public domain image of 16th-17th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view of St. John's, upon the River Sorell, in Canada, with the redou...

Print shows a view looking across the Richelieu River at St. John, a cluster of buildings and fortifications used by the British. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of lette... More

A view of houses in the city of Albany

Public domain image of a historic building, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Johann Martin Will - Die wage der mache ... La balance de la puissance...

Print shows Justice holding a scale on which Britannia outweighs a Spaniard, a Frenchman, America (represented by a Native wearing a feathered headdress), and a Dutchman. Includes legend corresponding to number... More

Painting "Pocahontas Saving the Life of Capitain John Smith" at Court ...

Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 13' 11 1/2". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit l... More

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