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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

Ruins of City Hall, [1906 earthquake, San Francisco, Calif.]

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

The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... More

Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...

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

Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...

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

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. At age 60, Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey, began carting bottles home from the town dump to use as inexpensive building material, initially for a wall between ... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Inside one of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Vill...

Floating homes in Richardson Bay, Sausalito, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. For more than a half-century, low-rent houseboats have inhabited Richardson Bay, just north of Sausalito. The inhabitants of 38 houseboats at Gates Co-op ... More

A portion of the mosaic sidewalk that winds through Grandma Prisbrey's...

Tile fountain on Santa Catalina Island, a rocky island off the coast o...

The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across. It is one of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and is part of Los Angeles County. It was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island ... More

Some of the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in...

A remnant of one the unusual structures at Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle V...

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

Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely...

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

Sonoma Mission, Sonoma, California

Public domain image of a medieval or Renaissance sculpture, statue, artwork, painting, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Bird's eye view of Azusa, Los Angeles Co. Cal., 1887 /

"Rare early view of the newly laid out town of Azusa. In 1887, Jonathan Slauson and a group of local developers laid out the town of Azusa. This plan was likely published by Slauson"--From the 16th-19th centuri... More

A new and finer crown for California / CH [monogram].

Illustration shows a female figure holding out a crown labeled "The New Frisco", fashioned after a city skyline; a bear sits on the ground next to her and, in the background, are 16th or 17th century sailing sh... More

[Map of California shown as an island].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

DCM 1494: Raoul Fajardo Flute Head Joint

Like DCM 1493, the head has a tapered pine wooden wedge or baffle but which is glued into a predetermined position. The head cap/cork unit does not utilize a rubber O-ring, but instead terminates with a piece o... More

DCM 0880: Anonymous Vertical Whistle Flute

Instrument type: Vertical Whistle Flute Medium: Bamboo, painted black, bone mouthpiece and bottom ferrule, white and green design.; 38.7 cm. Key Holes System: 0/6 holes plus 2 tassel holes plus 2 vent holes. M... More

DCM 0881: Anonymous Kuan (Double Reed Pipe)

Instrument type: Kuan (Double Reed Pipe) Medium: Bamboo, stained dark brown, with incised red, white, green decoration.; 21 cm. Key Holes System: 1/7 holes. Mark Maximum: No mark. Provenance: Chinatown, San Fr... More

DCM 1493: Raoul Fajardo Flute Head Joint

The combination head joint cap and cork element appears to be formed from plastic tubing not unlike the embouchure plate and maintains a seal at the lower end by means of a standard rubber O-ring. Affixed to it... More

La Purisima Mission, Lompoc, California

Mission La Purisima Concepción is one of 21 Spanish missions in California built as religious and military outposts by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823. Title, date, and keywords ... More

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

Founded by the Franciscan order on March 31, 1782, it was the ninth Spanish mission established in California. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection... More

Crucifix, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

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

Interior, Mission San Buenaventura, Ventura, California

California scenery - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Haskell & Allen.

The United States of America Panama-Pacific International Exposition S...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baldwin.

Lake Merritt, Oakland, California

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Freeman, A.M.

Our father which art in heaven. San Francisco

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brown, G.T.

Destruction of San Francisco by earthquake & fire

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kurz & Allison.

Yosemite valley. After painting by Thomas Hill

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Prang, L. & Co.

Sacramento - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Elliott.

Dance of the Indians of the Mission of St. Joseph in New California / ...

Six Native Americans with elaborate body markings and hairstyles, dancing. Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jeu des habitans de Californie - Public domain book illustration

Native women watching men play game, possibly related to gambling, at a mission near San Francisco, California.

4 Polkas - San Francisco, The Balloon, The Pleasure Train, The Storm

Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco, Historic View, 1837, San Francisco, San Francisco Count...

Public domain photograph of rural landscape, California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Veduta di Ross stabilimento Russo vicino alla Bodega

Fort Ross, Calif., a Russian fur-trading post est. 1812. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

California guard / Kellogs & Thayer ; E.B. & E.C. Kellog ; D. Needham.

Print showing men in dress uniform. Identified as associated with the Mexican War, 1846-48, in Picturing Victorian America: Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, by Nancy Finlay (2010), p. 83. No. 270.

Mouth of Night creek lith. by E. Weber & Co. Balto

Print shows a mule packtrain crossing a ridge in the mountains of the Southwest United States. Published in: Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, ... More

A view of the south fork of the American River at Coloma in El Dorado ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Approximately 36 miles northeast of Sacramento, Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall first discovered gold in California, at Su... More

Sunday morning ; Log cabin / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners in camp eating and reading; and (bottom) miners standing in front of log cabin; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter... More

[Americans convertng canoes into schooners, in the Bay of Panama]

California Gold Rush. Wood engraving in Illustrated London News, July 14, 1849. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

A prospecting party / Lith. & Pubd. by Britton & Rey, San Francisco.

Pictorial lettersheet shows progression of optimistic to disappointed prospectors. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 209 (variation) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.03

Grand patent India-rubber air line railway to California: competition ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2748

San Francisco in July 1849 from present site of S.F. Stock Exchange

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Crocker (H.S.) & Co.

Flume ; Elevating water wheel / / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, ...

Pictorial lettersheet with two images on one page shows (top) miners working next to flume; and (bottom) miners working next to river with water wheel leading to sluice; with attached blank leaf. Baird, Califo... More

Wagon "Cemetery Rides" in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Gra...

Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A.A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "O... More

San Francisco, Historic View, 1849, San Francisco, San Francisco Count...

Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Life in the gold mines, California ; / Lithographed from a photograph ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows operations at a mining camp. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 132. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.19

View of the burnt district San Francisco Snyder & Black Lith 87 Fulton...

Print shows small groups of people in the foreground and others scattered among the ruins of burned buildings around the "Portsmouth Square" section of San Francisco, California. On the left is one building ide... More

James Marshall, discoverer of gold, at Sutter's Mill

Photomechanical reproduction of the 1850(?) daguerreotype by R. H. Vance shows James Marshall standing in front of Sutter's sawmill, Coloma, California, where he discovered gold.

Mariposa City / Lith. & published by Britton & Rey, corner of Californ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of gold mining town; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 151. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.21

The mining business in four pictures : Going in to it, making somethin...

Pictorial lettersheet with four images on one page and attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 171. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.07

Een waterplaats in Neder Californie

Mexican mestizo women washing clothes and carrying water jars on their heads, by a watering hole, as man stands next to them, California. Illus. in: Advonturen, gedurende een tweejarig verblijf in Califonië en ... More

Sundry amusements in the mines ; A Sundays amusements ; A daily pleasu...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of camp activities while not mining: washing clothes, cooking, mending clothes and boots, and discovering a bear warming its paws by the fire inside a tent; attached blan... More

Mission Dolores / Lith. & publ. by Quirot & Co., corner California and...

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of mission; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 173. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.14

San Francisco, Historic View, 1850, San Francisco, San Francisco Count...

Public domain photograph of 19th century California, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[P. J. Espenscheid store, Nevada City, California]

Daguerreotype shows: P. J. Espenscheid's shoe store with an array of men in jackets with white shirts and ties, probably local merchants, standing in front of the store, a pile of litter beside the store, legib... More

Een serenade in Uppen Californie

Mexican mestizo women and men listening to man play a stringed instrument next to door of a house, California. Illus. in: Advonturen, gedurende een tweejarig verblijf in Califonië en zijne mijnen / William Redm... More

[Miners panning for gold ; entering a mine shaft ; miners with equipme...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of mining life; attached blank leaf.

City hall, San-Francisco, Cal. / Lith. & publ. by Quirot & Co., corner...

Pictorial lettersheet shows early San Francisco city hall, formerly Jenny Lind Theatre, between El Dorado Hotel and The Union; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 30. Acces... More

The sad parting between two old friends

Senators Thomas Hart Benton and Henry S. Foote are paired here in a facetious farewell scene, as Benton departs the "Shop of the Senate." In reality Benton lost his Senate seat in a January 1851 election, large... More

San Francisco, upper California / Lith., Britton & Rey.

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of city and harbor. Annotation on recto: Where my office was in S. Francisco in 1851. I have seen 2 or 3 times as many ships in harbor as here shown. Baird, California pictoria... 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

James Stuart hung by the vigilance committee on Market St. wharf on th...

Pictorial lettersheet shows man hanging from scaffolding surrounded by spectators; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 121. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.13

Stockton ; June 1st, 1852 / / Lith. & publd. by Britton & Rey, corn. M...

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of gold mining town and waterway. Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sacramento ; First frame house erected Jany. 1st, 1849, by S. Brannan ...

Pictorial lettersheet shows view of city with people and animals in the streets. Annotation on recto: April 1854. Altogether more extensive than here represented. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no.... More

Gold in California - "El Dorado," in Sacramento

Interior of crowded gambling house. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1852 June 5, p. 437. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392-J. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tr... More

19th century - Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A drawing of a man holding a gun to another man, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washingto... More

Springfield, Tuolumne County / G. H. Goddard, del., lith. Britton & Re...

Pictorial lettersheet shows town square and scattered dwellings in California Gold Rush town.

Disasters of 60 days : Wreck of Steamship Tennessee, Indian Cove, Marc...

Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of shipwrecks on one page plus two vignettes of (top) a shepherdess and a bear and (center) Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River, March 21th, 1853; with attached b... More

Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita...

Pictorial lettersheet shows rescue attempts being made on burning and sinking ship; with attached blank leaf. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 337. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.16

[Notion Company's Works, California]

Gold mine. From Gleason's Pictorial, vol. 6, 1854. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California; Gold processing; Shelf.

Honorable D.C. Broderick of Cal., Glass negative photograph, American ...

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

Honorable David C. Broderick of Cal.

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

[African American woman holding a white child]

Rinhart, no. 119. Modern handwritten note in case: Slave nanny/white child image came from an estate sale somewhere in the flat lands delta area of Arkansas. Likely from one of the following Arkansas towns: Hel... More

Mountains near the entrance of the Canada de las Uvas / Chas. Koppel ;...

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

Lynch law in California - surrender of prisoners at the county gaol [j...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1856 July 12, p. 36. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California San Francisco; California Hist. 1856; Lynching; Prisons.

Chinese settlement in the suburbs of San Francisco, California / ... F...

Humble dwellings along bay. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 June 21, p. 21.

Nicaragua - fillibusters [sic] reposing after the battle in their quar...

General William Walker's men reposing in convent of San Francisco, during entrance into Granada, in 1855. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 May 3, p. 336.

Cathedral Rock, south peak of Guadalupe Mountains, El Paso Co., Texas ...

Illus. in: Southern Pacific Railroad / A.B. Gray. Cincinnati : Wrightson & Co.'s Print., 1856, opp. p. 19.

Assassination of James King, of William, corner of Montgomery and Wash...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 July 19, p. 88.

The May Festival of the Turnverein Association, San Francisco

Pictorial lettersheet shows gymnasts performing for spectators. Baird, California pictorial letter sheets, no. 152. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2011:179.04

Old San Francisco, 1946. the Humphreys house, built 1856

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Curro, Evelyn. [Inscribed, LL image]. Check 500 field.

San Francisco MDCCCLV - Print, Library of Congress collection

Medallion portraits of Jules Beyerque and Francois-Alfred Pioche, who commissioned the print, are in the foreground. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.

San Francisco Mint operations: "Running the gold into ingots"

Line engraving by Butler. Illus. in: Hutchings' Illus. Calif. Magazine, v. 1, 1856 Oct., p. 149. Reference copy may be in LOT 4397I. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tra... More

Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., Cal. / From nature & on stone by Kuchel ...

Exchange; Amon Carter Museum; (DLC/PP-1975:230). Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Diegeños i.e. Diegueños Arthur Schoff, del. ; Lith of Sarony & Co., Ne...

Illus. issued in: Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey / made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory. Washington, D.C. : C. Wendell, 1857, v. 1, p. [107] Ass... More

Mining life in California--Chinese miners

Chinese gold miners eating and attending to their hair among tents in camp. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 1, no. 40 (1857 Oct. 3), p. 632.

[William M. Gwin, Senator from California, Thirty-fifth Congress, half...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 298. Title devised by Library staff ba... More

[Charles L. Scott, Representative from California, Thirty-fifth Congre...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 300. Each item includes subject's orig... More