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[Milliner and her daughter] - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows woman and girl seated at table with bonnets and a doll. Krainik, no. 67 Gift/Purchase; William B. Becker; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:103). Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Li... More

Working the monoliths, Washington, D.C.

Photo shows construction at U.S. Capitol, including "S. Wing" and "Centre Building." The workmen include African Americans. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs", p. 41. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v.... More

Cotton field, Retreat Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. / Photograph...

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field.

[Physician and educator Mary Putnam Jacobi as a young woman]

Photograph showing Mary Putnam Jacobi in a full-length studio portrait, facing slightly left, hand resting on chair. Forms part of: Portraits of Herbert Putnam's family ... from the Herbert Putnam Papers.

[Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men standing on ra...

No. 49 (handwritten) and 2548 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Headquarters Fifth Army Corps, Harrison's Landing, James River, Virgin...

Nine soldiers and an African American cook posed in front of tent. Sitters identified on mount include: Major Kirkland, Col. Locke, Major Montieth, Dr. McMillan, Gen. Porter, Capt. McQuade, Col. Norton, Col. Ma... More

[Woman with cart of flowers on cobblestone street, probably in Europe]

Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:122). 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 ... More

General Rawlin's horse taken at Cold Harbor, Virginia

Photograph incorrectly captioned as being taken at Cold Harbor, Virginia, which is not located near a significant river (Source: Tim Ford, November 2018). If the rest of the caption is correct, the boy is seate... More

Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. ... More

Zaravshanskii okrug. G. Samarkand i ego ulichnye tipy. Podenshchik (ki...

Photograph shows a man sitting astride a horse. "Kirakesh" translated from Persian as "day laborer." Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 2, pl. 147.

Kijin zu, Utagawa Hiroshige - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a court official, full-length, facing slightly left, wearing court dress. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: part o... More

2nd Res. 1st New R. Div. & Division office, Major Temple's

Photograph shows several men, possibly a survey crew, standing in front of two-story wooden building. In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virgini... More

George Napper's boat & crew at dinner at Gwins landing

Photograph shows a boat crew eating on keelboat anchored next to landing, West Virginia. In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virginia, to Hunting... More

The ore bank at Elizabeth Furnace

Photograph shows several men working on hillside at the ore bank at Elizabeth Furnace in Virginia. In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunton, Virginia, ... More

East portal of great bend tunnel, 6880 feet long

Photograph shows the construction site at the east portal of the Great Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia. In Jedediah Hotchkiss photograph album of views along railroad lines and rivers from near Staunto... More

Capt. Ed. Armstrong (Col'd) & crew of batteau Tam O'Shanter on beach o...

Photograph shows a boat crew of African American men sitting on, and in front of, a fallen tree near the New River, West Virginia. Inscribed on recto: Capt's P.O. Lovely Mt. Central Depot. In Jedediah Hotchkis... More

[Group of women standing in a semi-circle, formally dressed, holding b...

Massachusetts adopted a 10 hour day for women in May 1874. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Housed in envelope marked: Women's Committee, 1873. Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. C... More

In the field - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows occupational portrait of taxidermist Martha A. Maxwell with dead animal and rifle. G12030 U.S. Copyright Office. On verso: Mrs. M.A. Maxwell, Boulder, Colorado.

[Two women riding in a rickshaw]

Photograph shows two women with a large parasol riding in a rickshaw pulled by a man with a second man walking nearby, possibly to relieve the first man. Exterior view of building with tiled roof in the backgro... More

[A man, possibly a government official, holding a fan, seated, facing ...

No. 802. Illegible blind stamp across upper right corner. Illus. in: Views & costumes of Japan by Stillfried & Andersen. Yokohama : Stillfried & Andersen, [ca. 1877, p. 15] In 1877 Stillfried & Andersen purcha... More

Lisbonne - le port retour de la peche / L.L.

Photographs shows fishing boats in port with fishermen and female fishmongers(?), on sand near the boats. No. 210.

[Man pushing wheelbarrow, loaded with firewood, Russia] - Frank G. Car...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Meat market, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal]

Public domain image - related to Portuguese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Know-nothingism in Brooklyn [cartoon showing Brooklyn Board of Alderme...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 51 (1881 Jan. 15), p. 340.

Representing "John Christiansen" doing his first brakeing [sic] on his...

Native man plowing with two horses, and three other men, North Dakota(?). J250783 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Burton Laurence Brigham, New Salem, North Dakota. Photo from New Salem Art Studio. No. 1133.

Starting pontoon, 335' x 61' x 10' C. Bayliss photo, Sydney

Photograph shows constructing pontoon for use in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 5. Album documents the role of the C... More

Men working with pulley system to move iron beams used for Hawkesbury ...

In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 43. Album documents the role of the Chicago firm Ryland & Morse in constructing the ironwork for the bridge. Forms part of: Engineering Societies Library C... More

Woman with cart of flowers on cobblestone street, probably in Europe

Printed on recto: E. L. Wilson's Views of Europe and the Orient.

Men atop pontoon to be used in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridg...

In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 9a. Album documents the role of the Chicago firm Ryland & Morse in constructing the ironwork for the bridge. Forms part of: Engineering Societies Library C... More

Burmese women only are allowed to hunt for rubies that may escape from...

Photograph shows view of ruby mine with structure in the background and women, in the foreground, searching in pools and ditches for rubies that have spilled out of the washing pans. In album: p. 63, no. 73.

Pontoon C. Bayliss photo, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Photograph shows men with steam engine or boiler and pontoon to be used in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 6. Album d... More

Completed pontoon, New South Wales

Photograph shows men atop pontoon to be used in erecting Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia; two women watch in foreground. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 9. Alb... More

Visit of Lord Brassey, Dangar Island C. Bayliss photo, Sydney

Photograph shows group of men on dock with steamboat at the end, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 4. Album documents the role of the Chicago f... More

Erection gang - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows group portrait of the men who worked on the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 15. Album documents the role of t... More

Interior of a Burmese house, weaving

Photograph shows the interior of a Burmese house set up for weaving; a group portrait of a woman sitting at a loom, a woman standing in front of the loom, and a man and a young girl standing to the left of the ... More

Men on barge with ironwork structure for the Hawkesbury River Railway ...

In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 19. Album documents the role of the Chicago firm Ryland & Morse in constructing the ironwork for the bridge. Forms part of: Engineering Societies Library C... More

The boys C. Bayliss photo, Sydney

Photograph shows group portrait of workers on Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia, posed on pontoon. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 32. Album documents the role o... More

Workers posed on span of Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wa...

In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 23. Album documents the role of the Chicago firm Ryland & Morse in constructing the ironwork for the bridge. Forms part of: Engineering Societies Library C... More

Osier peeling, Norfolk / P.H. Emerson.

Three women peeling osier, Norfolk, England. Illus. in: Pictures of East Anglian life .. / by P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.). London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888, plate XIV. ... More

Hawkesbury River quarry for piers, New South Wales

Photograph shows men posed with tools in rock quarry for the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 19a. Album documents the role of ... More

Span no. 6 lacking, New South Wales

Photograph shows Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge, New South Wales, Australia, with one span not yet installed. In album: E.K. Morse. Hawkesbury Bridge, N.S.W., page 34. Album documents the role of the Chicago ... More

[Women operating machinery at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Wa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress) Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Afro-Americans with wagons at flood site, some digging, Johnstown, Pe...

Barton Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Japanese woman painting screen]

Photograph shows a young Japanese woman employed as a screen painter. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict birds in flight and a mountain in the upper right and a blossoming tree branch resting on supports i... More

[Porter with shoulder pole, full-length studio portrait, standing, fac...

Photograph shows a studio portrait of a man with a shoulder pole carrying large boxes. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict flowers in the upper right and a waterfront scene in the lower left. No. 1088. Ill... More

Man peddling vegetables, Tokyo, Japan - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows a man, full-length portrait, standing in profile, wearing a conical hat and a straw shoulder cape, with a shoulder pole laden with multiple containers of vegetables and other items suspended from bo... More

Bureau Engraving & Printing no. 32

Photograph shows an interior view of a large room with an African American man and another man standing at a long table on which are stacks of printed certificates and other papers. Inscribed in ink on front: ... More

[Panning for gold, Puerto Rico] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picking cotton, depicting Mount Fuji

Photograph shows several people of all ages sitting on mats in a courtyard separating cotton from the plant. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a flower in a vase in the upper right and a ship undersail wi... More

[Porters carrying trunks on their back on a street in La Paz, Bolivia]

Kago travelling chair - Public domain scan / drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman with parasol in a sedan chair on a street in front of the Hafuya Hotel. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a stone lantern with mountain in the background in the upper... More

View of Uyeno, Tokio - Public domain portrait drawing

Photograph shows a man with a rickshaw on a walkway beneath blossoming cherry trees in Ueno Park in Tokyo. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a cat in the upper right and mice in the lower left. No. A235.... More

Ricksha boys, Durban, South Africa - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows four young men sitting at the front of rickshaws, facing front, three are wearing horned headdresses and the fourth is wearing a floral headdress. Title from caption card and item. LOT subdivision s... More

[Snake charmers, India] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photo shows three men, one man squatting before a cobra in a pot, holding the snake with his right hand and making a fist with his left in front of the snake's head, the second man is standing with a large snak... More

Bean-cake seller - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows a woman purchasing bean cakes from a peddler wearing straw outer garments and hat, and kneeling between two large containers, with shoulder pole leaning against one of the containers. Watercolo... More

An embroiderer - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows a male manager overseeing five young women embroidering parasols. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict a waterfront scene in the upper right and a woman carrying a basket in the lower left. ... More

Chair and cago - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows men carrying a woman in a sedan chair and a woman in a palanquin (or kago) on a street in front of a building. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict birds in the upper right and a seated woma... More

Umbrella maker - Public domain drawing

Photograph shows a man and a young boy making parasols. Watercolor drawings on the mount depict flowers in the upper right and a kimono drying on a wooden frame in the lower left. No. B1097. Illus. in album: J... More

[White House kitchen], Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Javanese(?) woman sitting in room working with textiles at exhibit fe...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The mince meat department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S....

Woman and men weighing and packing mince meat at table. 2364y1 U.S. Copyright Office. Title also in Spanish.

Workers taking mucilaged sheets of postage stamps from the drying box ...

Title devised by Library staff from information on item. Source: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, "Uncle Sam as a Stamp-Maker," Harper's Round Table, Vol. XVI, no. 815, June 11, 1895, p. 604. Forms part of: Frances ... More

Woman with heavy load strapped to her back

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Darjeeling - woman with back pack

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

[Women perforating sheets of stamps in the Stamp Division at the Burea...

Photograph shows a group of women perforating stamps. Power is provided by steam driven belts. The women wear paper hats to protect them from airborn dust. No. 8192. Title devised by Library and BEP staff. For... More

Young woman street vendor holding measuring scales

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Darjeeling - woman with back pack

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Shoe factory, Lynn, Massachusetts. - Public domain print

Photograph shows a young woman, three-quarter length portrait, standing, pasting the sole lining in children's shoes at a shoe factory in Lynn, Massachusetts. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Forms part ... More

[Workers in the postage stamp gumming and drying room in the Stamp Div...

Photograph shows men and women in the gumming and drying room. Power is provided by steam driven belts. No. 81376. Title devised by Library and BEP staff. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (L... More

A Virginian oyster shucker - 19th century Virginia.

Black man standing in front of pile of oyster shells. 23277B U.S. Copyright Office. No. 695.

Cotton. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows African American men and boy cotton pickers in field. Taken 9/15/97, M. Z. L. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga. Myrtis Morgan Fuller.

Punching single bars for U.S. battleship Illinois

African American men operating a metal punching machine at a ship building plant. Copyright by Rusk and Shaw, Newport News, Va.

Cotton picking scene. No. 390. 19th century, Library of Congress colle...

Photograph shows African American woman and two men picking and hauling cotton in large field. Copyright 1898 by Russell Bros. Anniston, Ala.

[Three women and one man hoeing in field]

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 247. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[African Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T. C. William...

Title from caption card, with correction from T.B. to T.C. Williams. Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for the "American Negro Exhibit" at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Exposition univer... More

[E.J. Crane, watchmaker and jewelry store with man working in window a...

Displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

"In de lan' o' cotton". 19th century, Library of Congress collection

African Americans picking cotton. Copyright by F.L. Howe. Title transcribed from item.

Box making in the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco factory, Richmond, Vir...

Displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

[African American women and men posed by machinery, Lexington Laundry,...

Displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Only Negro store of its kind in the U.S., at 2933 State St., Chicago, ...

Photo shows three men standing at the entrance to the business establishment of "Chas. F. Gardner Electrician and Locksmith" at 2933 State Street, Chicago, Illinois. Title from caption card. Images collected by... More

[African American man standing on platform or loading dock with large ...

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 235. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in ... More

[Mr. Dodson, jeweller in Knoxville, Tenn.]

Photo shows Mr. Dodson, half-length, standing, facing slightly left, behind a display of watches, examining a pocket watch. Title from caption card. Images collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and Thomas J. Calloway for... More

Shine Sah? - Public domain portrait print

African American boy holding out shoe shine box. 51958 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by V.G. Schreck, Savannah, Georgia.

[Composing room of the Planet newspaper, Richmond, Virginia]

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

Laborers in the stone quarries, Jamaica

Frances Benjamin Johnston - Newport News dry docks

Three men working in blacksmith shop. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 81153.

Chola cook - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Practice school teachers at Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Twelve African-American men and women posed outside. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ise de happiest little coon in de cotton field

Boy picking cotton in cotton field. D8285 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. No. 961.

Government clerks Have received appointment as clerks in Civil Service...

Portraits of 15 unidentified African American men who work for the U.S. Government. Chart prepared for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 to show the economic ... More

Women and children in cotton field

Photograph shows African American women and children cotton pickers at work.

[Woman typist]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows woman seated at desk using stenograph. Public domain photograph - studio female portrait, 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Seven women working in Roycroft shop, E. Aurora, N.Y.]

No. 81445. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Bell Telephone office at Hamburg, N. Y.

Photograph shows an interior view of telephone office with four workers; two women operators work at switchboard. Copyright by John Van Epps, Hamburg, N. Y.

[Newsboy looking at coins in his hand, half-length portrait]

Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Brownyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 147.

Government clerks Have received appointment as clerks in Civil Service...

Portraits of 13 unidentified African American men and 2 unidentified African American women who work for the U.S. Government. Chart prepared for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris Exposition... More

Bells for sale Clothing market. - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Photographs show (top) display area for large bells hanging from cross members at outdoor market; (bottom) several men, some carrying pants, and a boy carrying products for the market. Forms part of: Frank and... More

Panama--Spraying oil on breeding places of mosquitoes - Frank G. Carpe...

A man with a cannister of oil on his back spraying liquid onto grass. Copyright by Publishers Photo Service.

[African Americans resting and shooting dice at edge of cotton field]

D18909 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by the Alfred S. Campbell Art Co., Elizabeth, N.J.

China's laboring class - a band of coolies under the Japanese awaiting...

H438 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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