[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
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
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...
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 city. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Pl...
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
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
Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Departmen...
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
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
Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, 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
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 the Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt's 225-room Frenc...
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
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
Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...
The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Leon Batchelder, Dayton C. Miller Collection
Inscription: Recto: l. r.: (photographer's logo, impressed into mount) Notman's / Boston / Cambridge; Verso: u. r.: (in pencil) 090; u. c.: (in ink) Leon Batchelder Provenance: Source not known. Condition: Phot... More
Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel...
Date: 1938; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More
[Great Hall. Bust of George Washington. Library of Congress Thomas Jef...
Exhibit caption: "The bronze bust of George Washington is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)." (Source: MyLOC.gov Great Hall exhibit, 2008) Forms part of the Library of Con... More
A 1949 photograph of Katherine Dunham, Doris Duke, and Porfirico Rubir...
B132 55/12/6 N3-1783 Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (Copyright Notice)
Genl. Washington, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform, in oval medallion. Inscribed in pencil on verso: John Keyse Sherwin after John Trumbull. Inscribed in... More
Attaque de Brimstomhill dessiné par le Paon peintre de S. a S. Mgr. le...
Print shows the siege and preparations for an assault on a British fort on Brimstone Hill on St. Kitts by the French, as soldiers and native troops move mortars and cannons into position; includes description. ... More
A view of the new market from the corner of Shippen & Second-streets P...
Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 February, opp. p. 53. Fielding, 1569 Published in: The American Revolution in ... More
John Adams C. Tiebout sct - Public domain portrait engraving
Print shows John Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in oval. Stamped on verso: Print Division Library of Congress Sept. 12, 1903. Stauffer, 3161 (variation) (DLC/PP-41941.6) Forms part ... More
Unidentified man, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : National Portrait ... More
Robert Hazlehurst, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 211 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More
The Folly, Icehouse, Folly Creek, Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia
Significance: The date of erection of this ice house is not known, but it is probably approximately contemporary with the main house which was built in sections between about 1759 and about 1800. It is a circu... More
Dorsey House, 8 East Third Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE
Survey number: HABS DE-109 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Livingston House, State Route 9E, Livingston Township, Hudson, Columbi...
Survey number: HABS NY-3158 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Sandy Point Plantation, Sound Shore Road, Edenton, Chowan County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-54 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Perry House, State Route 1300, New Hope, Perquimans County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-133 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
The Folly, Dovecote, Folly Creek, Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia
Significance: The date of erection of this dovecot is not known, but it is probably somewhat later than the main house which was built in stages between about 1759 and about 1800. It is a simple, wood structur... More
Log House, Host Road vicinity (North Heidelberg Township), Bernville, ...
Survey number: HABS PA-255 Building/structure dates: after. 1800- before. 1900 Initial Construction
Duncan House, 107 Front Street, Beaufort, Carteret County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-28 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Skinner House, State Route 1301, Hertford, Perquimans County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-55 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
William Miller House, Fairfield, Adams County, PA
Survey number: HABS PA-350 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
William Smith House, 1905 North Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle ...
Survey number: HABS DE-30 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
William Henry Harrison, 9th Pres. of United States, head-and-shoulders...
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 447 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More
Pierre Françoise DuBourg, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 34 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nationa... More
Thomas House, 229 Front Street, Beaufort, Carteret County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-87 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
White Pillar, West side of State Route 7, South Shaftsbury, Bennington...
Survey number: HABS VT-82 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800- ca. 1825 Initial Construction
Thomas L. Halsey House, 140 Prospect Street, Providence, Providence Co...
Significance: This is an example of a large, early-nineteenth century brick house. Survey number: HABS RI-233 Building/structure dates: ca. 1801 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1825 Subsequent Work
Ellerson's Mill. Battle-field of Mechanicsville, Virginia
Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 920. Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jean Marie Soulier, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 329 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More
Karl Kreith, ca. 1746-1803 - Public domain portrait engraving
Inscription: Recto: (printed at bottom of paper mount) Karl Kreith; Verso: u. r.: (in pencil) 293; center: (in blue pencil) Kreith / 1st Artiste; center: (in ink) H. M. FitzGibbon / 19 Earlsport Ter / Dubl[in] ... More
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Replacing a more modest structure that dated back to 1803, it was built in 1836 on land donated by George Washington's brother, Charle... More
Soissons, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile
Title devised by Library staff, other information from Miles. Trimmed to image. Dexter, 313 Published in: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical profile portrait in America / Ellen G. Miles. Washington, D.C. : Nation... More
Franz Anton Hoffmeister, 1754-1812, Dayton C. Miller Collection
Inscription: Verso: u. r.: (in pencil) 260; center: (in brown ink) Hoffmeister; l. c.: (in brown ink) FitzGibbon / Dublin Provenance: Capt. H. Macaulay FitzGibbon, The Bungalow, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland... More
"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural ...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photo... More
General Jackson, hero of New Orleans aquatinted by W. Strickland
Print shows Andrew Jackson, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform and hat, with clouds, cannons and ribbon that states "Defeated 8000 British at New Orleans 1815". Stauffer, 3048 (DLC/PP-... More
The blessing of new taxes!!! / Marks fect., British Cartoon Print
John Bull, holding a pipe and a frothing tankard, is beset by the Regent and Ministers. Sidmouth furtively takes the pipe from his hand, looking over John's head at the Regent who extends his hand to seize the ... More
Sudler's Conclusion, Meat House & Barn, Route 361 vicinity, northwest ...
Survey number: HABS MD-865-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1800- ca. 1830 Initial Construction
Arnest, Dauphin & Diamond Drives & 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Philadel...
Significance: Apparently erected around 1810 as a Philadelphia businessman's rural retreat, Arnest is one of the later and more modest villas purchased by the City of Philadelphia during the mid-19th century fo... More
[Former President Martin Van Buren, half-length portrait, facing right...
LC-BH824-5239. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Paul Taffanel, 1844-1908, Dayton C. Miller Collection
Inscription: Recto: top center: (printed on mount in brown) BARY; l. l.: (printed on mount in brown) Bary; l. r.: (printed on mount in brown) Anc.ne Photographie Benque / 33, Rue Boissy d'Anglas; Verso: u. r.: ... More
[Charles James Napier, three-quarter length portrait, facing right]
Alternative identifications: G.F. (or Q.F.) Yung (cat. 5); Hunt. Identified by Owen Blevins (12/2012) based on a similar image in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London). Transfer; U.S. War Col... More
Payne House, Portage Des Sioux, St. Charles County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-168 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction
Ben Ruskaup Shed, U.S. 50 West, Drake, Gasconade County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1415-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Britt-Williams-Borders House, Greenwood Street, Gordon, Houston County...
Survey number: HABS AL-568 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Frame House, First Street, Hermann, Gasconade County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-101 Survey number: HABS MO-1420 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
House, Lexington, Lafayette County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1508 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Harrell House, 207 Wynne Street, Murfreesboro, Hertford County, NC
Survey number: HABS NC-11 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
Brick House, Dover, Lafayette County, MO
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-117 Survey number: HABS MO-1495 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction
[Andrew Jackson, half length portrait, seated, facing left]
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mount Moriah Church, Fayette, Howard County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-1487 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction
Soloman Baker House, Shelton Avenue, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA
Significance: The house that Soloman Baker erected about mid-century and occupied for a decade represents a large residence with late-Federal characteristics overshadowed by Victorian elements that were added l... More
McKibben House, Overland, St. Louis County, MO
Survey number: HABS MO-133 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction
Why don't you take it? [Copy 2.]
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edwin Forrest, actor, half-length studio portrait, facing right; he is...
Inscribed in pencil on mount: Portrait of Edwin Forrest. Image is a copy of a daguerreotype held by the Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. (Source: researcher M. Higgins, 2018) (... More
[George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Maj. Theodore Winthrop, killed at Bulls Bluff
Maj. Theodore Winthrop, bust portrait, facing left. Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct. In album: Cartes de visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and others, p. 23, right.
Letitia Tyler Semple, daughter of President John Tyler
Photograph showing Letitia Semple, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, leaning on rail. Photo of portrait.
[Lieutenant Colonel Karl Friedrich Heinrich von Trebra, Union officer ...
Sitter identified by Michael Peake. Date based on Trebra's emigration from Germany in 1854 and death in 1863. Subject is wearing a German military uniform. In: Adolph Metzner photograph album ..., no. 16. Colo... More
Unidentified soldier in New York Infantry uniform with shako hat
Case: Berg, no. 3-160. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Libra... More
George Washington and the spy Harvey Birch / designed by T.H. Matteson...
Washington (seated at far left with book) and Birch (holding cloth draped over arms) with members of the Wharton family seated or standing around a table, in a scene from The Spy by James Fennimore Cooper. Two ... More
[San Francisco, 1851, from Rincon Hill]
J141156 U.S. Copyright Office Reproduction of daguerreotypes likely taken prior to April 22, 1851. Date based on the presence of the steamer "C.M. Weber," which was in San Francisco for repairs. Sections missin... More
Unveiling of the statue of George Washington by Thomas Crawford, in Ri...
Source unknown. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Grave of Aaron Burr - A black and white photo of a man in a cemetery
Photograph shows Aaron Burr's tombstone, with a man sitting nearby, in the Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey. Inscribed or printed on photo on upper right corner: 3. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: M... More
General Jefferson Davis, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Ci...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in ink: Davis. Annotation from negative, glass side: illegible. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congres... More
General Wesley Merritt, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H... More
General R.K.? Scott, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General R.K.? Scott, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General Henry S. Briggs, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Ci...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Briggs. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase;... More
General Howe, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War per...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General H.H. Heath, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil W...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Genl. H.H. Heath. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More
General Rufus Ingalls, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civi...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Ingalls. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divi... More
General W.B. Hazen, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil W...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General Willis A. Gorman, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American C...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. 1st Colonel of 1st Minn. Inf. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox ... More
General Ricketts, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Rickettes. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Di... More
Maj. General T.C. Devin ?, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Sen. Daniel M. Frost W 5. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs D... More
General R.K.? Scott, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side: R.K. Scott 50v. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More
General Ricketts, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H... More
General J.A. Mower, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil W...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve for LC-BH82-122 B. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. ... More
General Fitz John Porter, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American C...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H... More
Col. Brown, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War perio...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General Weitzel, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
General William H. Emory, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American C...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Emroy. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; ... More
General George Custer, U.S.A, American Civil War Glass Negative.
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More
U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1840 to 1855
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is ... More
General E.W. Rice, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil Wa...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Colonel of 19th Iowa Regt. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and... More
General Carr, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War per...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Genl. Carr, In pencil: Carr. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints ... More
General J.H. Van Allen, U.S.A. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civ...
Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More