halftone photomechanical prints

General view of Covent Garden looking north, circa 1720, from an engra...

Illus. in: The Architectural review, v. 16, no. 245, April, 1917. London : [s.n.], 1917, plate 1.

City Hall, School Street - Boston pictorial archive

Court house: School St. Built 1810-1812, razed before 1862 Courtesy of Boston Public Library

T.R. Peale, U.S. ship Vincennes, Decr. 14th 1841 / Chas. W. Peale, pin...

Photograph shows Titian Ramsay Peale, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing uniform. Halftone print after oil painting by Charles Willson Peale, 1819, when Titian was part of a scientific expeditio... More

State Street, Boston, about 1842

Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Woodrow Wilson's mother - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Woodrow Wilson's mother holding a cased photograph. Original photograph probably taken in the late 1840s or early 1850s. Print is one of two on a sheet.

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.

Boston, Massachusetts. Interior of Old Hollis St. Church

Picryl description: Public domain image of a religious building interior, church, cathedral, hall, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Franklin Street, archway to Summer Street on the right. 1855

Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

A Klondike camp. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

A miner's home at Cape Nome, Alaska.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Up Eldorado from Grand Forks, Klondike.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

Steamer loading cotton, Mobile, Alabama. NYPL Sterescope Card Collecti...

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

Working No. 4 Bonanza, Klondike. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A miner's home at Cape Nome, Alaska.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

A Klondike camp. 19th Century Alaska Sterescope Card.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

View down from Front St., Dawson City, Alaska.

Alaska stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assem... More

A look into the future Coming events cast their shadows before

Halftone photomechanical reproduction of a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and two African men beside a dead rhinoceros. From stereograph, copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. On verso of PRES FILE - Roos... More

Liberty Hall, corner of William St. and Purchase St., New Bedford, MA

Half-tone of Liberty Hall, corner of William St. and Purchase St., New Bedford, MA. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Friends Meeting House, Spring St., New Bedford, MA

Halftone image of Friends Meeting House, Spring St., New Bedford, MA; caption beneath. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Howland Grinnell mansion, County St., New Bedford, MA

Half-tone of Howland Grinnell mansion, County St., New Bedford, MA. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Whaleman's statue on Library Square, New Bedford, MA

New Bedford, Massachusetts, half-tone photograph circa 1930 of the Whaleman's statue on Library Square, at the main New Bedford Free Public Library. Bela Pratt was the sculptor. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Pub... More

North Andover, Ashdale Farm, "The Willows"

The Willows. View of large willow tree on lawn. Courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center

Postcard of Monticello - Early photography, Public domain image

Postcard of Monticello. Courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center

Whaleman statue by Bela Pratt - Early photography, Public domain image

Whaleman statue by Bela Pratt, New Bedford Free Public Library, Pleasant St., New Bedford, MA. Caption below image: Whaleman's Statue on Library Square. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

"The Land Approach" - Early photography, Public domain image

The Land Approach. View of garden walkway and steps leading to brick entrance, spire and domed building with cupola in distance. Unidentified location. Courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations, Archives & Research Center

The Milan Cathedral, Milan, Italy

Milan, Italy, a half-tone photograph circa 1920 of The Milan Cathedral. The caption gives many details of the construction. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Whaleman's statue on Library Square, New Bedford, MA

New Bedford, Massachusetts, half-tone photograph circa 1930 of the Whaleman's statue on Library Square, at the main New Bedford Free Public Library. Bela Pratt was the sculptor. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Pub... More

Whaleman's statue on Library Square, New Bedford, MA

New Bedford, Massachusetts, half-tone photograph circa 1930 of the Whaleman's statue on Library Square, at the main New Bedford Free Public Library, showing two unknown school girls. Bela Pratt was the sculptor... More

A look into the future Coming events cast their shadows before.

Halftone photomechanical reproduction of a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and two African men beside a dead rhinoceros.

Apponagansett Friends Meeting House, Dartmouth, MA

Dartmouth, Massachusetts, photograph circa 1899 of the Apponagansett Friends Meeting House built in 1791 on Russells Mills Road. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

First Baptist Church, William St., New Bedford, MA

Halftone image of First Baptist Church, William St., New Bedford, MA, caption beneath. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

First Christian Church or North Christian Church (The White Church), N...

Halftone image of First Christian Church or North Christian Church (The White Church), Middle St. and Purchase St., New Bedford, MA photographed before its demolition in 1923. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Hotel Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada

Quebec, Canada, half-tone photograph circa 1935 of the famous hotel Chateau Frontenac. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

"The Cypress Walk" - Early photography, Public domain image

The Cypress Walk. Formal garden with tall cypress trees, potted plants and bent wood arbor. Statue of Pan playing pipes on left, carved stone fruit baskets on pedestals marking garden path. Unidentified locatio... More

House at Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, MA

Half-tone image. House at Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, MA. Courtesy of New Bedford Free Public Library

Boston Elevated Railway, Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, two half-tone photographs circa 1912 of the Boston Elevated Railway. The top photograph is of the new subway station at Harvard Square, and the bottom photograph is of the almost compl... More

South Dartmouth, New Bedford Massachusetts

South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a half-tone photograph circa 1930 of the Dumpling Rock Lighthouse off of Round Hill. The lighthouse was destroyed during the 1938 hurricane. Note: the label on the photograph inc... More

The leisurely pursuit. American Civil War photograph by Mathew Brady.

Wagons and tents of General Mead's Army at the Potomac River, Berlin, Maryland, eighteen days after the Battle of Gettysburg. K25630 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: "Brady photo."

Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1865 / Cosmos Pictures Co.

41670570 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by A.A. Hopkins. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Heinrich Schliemann, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

Group portrait (left to right) of composers Bob Cole, James Weldon Joh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boston Fire, Nov. 10, 1872. Liberty Square, Water Street, cor. Kilby S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Clermont on the Hudson River, 1810

[Bird's-eye view of the market on Place de la Cebada, Madrid, designed...

Illus. in: Works in iron, bridge and roof structures by Ewing Matheson ... with examples of structures made and erected by And[rew] Handyside & Co., Derby and London. London ; New York : E. & F. N. Spon, 1877, p. 252.

Pietro Angelo Secchi, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Pietro Angelo Secchi, Jesuit priest and astronomer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing clerical robes.

The Inauguration of President McKinley. Chief Justice Fuller administe...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1897 March 13, p. 241.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing in garden, ...

Halftone reproduction of photograph by Gertrude Käsebier. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Professor Elias Loomis - Public domain portrait print

Print shows Elias Loomis, bust portrait, facing slightly right. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Van Dyck, Prinz Ruprecht von der Pfalz--Wien, Hofmuseum

Prince Rupert, full-length portrait, facing front, dog at his side. No. 1474. Reproduction of painting done 1631-1632.

Somerville, Massachusetts - Prospect Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts

Public domain photograph of tower, column, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bedouins du desert Syrien Beduins of Syria.

Two Bedouin men, one standing, the other seated, holding a rifle.

Arch of Titus, Rome - Public domain architecture drawing

From Cosmos Pictures Co., New York. No. 2602. Public domain photograph of 19th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Robert College on the Bosphorus, Constantinople

Caption continues: "Maker of Modern Bulgaria" and heavy creditor of Turkey and the other Balkan States (page 19).

Dr. Bishop / From a photograph by J. Moffat.

Dr. John Bishop, half-length portrait, facing left. Illus. in: The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop) ... / by Anna M. Stoddart. London : John Murray, 1907, oppos. p. 118. Reference copy also available in BIOG FILE.

Imperial Opera house, Ringe-Strasse, Vienna

Exterior view of Austria's Ringe-Strasse opera house with busy street scene in foreground.

Hendricks Club, Boston's famous democratic organization

Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Central Parade, Blackpool - Victorian era public domain image

Aerial view of street and crowds with bridge and river in background, Blackpool, England.

The banner in the grand procession

Illus. in: Souvenir, presented by Department of New York, to Department of California, Grand Army of the Republic, at National Encampment, San Francisco, Cal., August 1886, p. 47. Copyright by Grand Army Publishing Co.

The souvenir banner. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of ornamental engraving print, decor, decorated panel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winchester Post 197, Brooklyn, present and past officers

Head-and-shoulders portraits of twelve G.A.R. officers. Illus. in: Souvenir, presented by Department of New York, to Department of California, Grand Army of the Republic, at National Encampment, San Francisco, ... More

Panorama of Lincoln, Neb. - Public domain book illustration

Print showing panoramic view of Lincoln, Nebraska. 3346 U.S. Copyright Office. Illus. in: Lincoln the Capital City of Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb : Kelley & Phileo, c1887. Copyright, 1887, by A. Wittemann, 58 & 60 ... More

Jan Matzeliger portrait collection

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

J.-F. Champollion Le Jeune (1790-1832)

Half-length portrait, facing right. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clara Barton - from portrait taken in Civil War and authorized by her ...

Clara Barton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. By courtesy of the Commonwealth Press, Worcester, Mass.

Jean Sibelius, three quarter length portrait

Jean Sibelius, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. In : Portrait photographs and engravings of musical personalities. Illus. from: Die Musik, 1902-1903, supplement.

Bunschoten--Over de onderdeur / Foto.

Woman standing at Dutch door with baby and boy. Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cheap clothing - The slaves of the "sweaters" / drawn by W.A. Rogers.

Woman and two children in street carrying heavy loads of clothing for tenement homework, New York City. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, April 26, 1890, p. 333.

George Washington - Public domain engraving

George Washington, full-length portrait, with right arm extended holding sword, on horseback. Reproduction of painting: "Washington receiving a salute on the field of Trenton"(?).

Walt Whitman in old age - Public domain monumental decor drawing

Plaster bust of Walt Whitman by S.H. Morse. Feinberg-Whitman Collection (Library of Congress) Saunders, 301 LC-X12-5 (glass).

American Indian chiefs. Spotted Tail

Trade card, advertising Red Man chewing tobacco, showing half-length portrait of Spotted Tail. No. 14.

Coleridge / from a painting by Washington Allston in the possession of...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, half-length portrait, facing slightly right. Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The delivery room / Boston Photogravure Co.

Print shows the Woburn (Mass.) Public Library delivery room. Illus. in: New England Magazine, an illustrated monthly, new series vol. 1, no. 6. Boston : New England Magazine Company, Feb.1890, p. 620.

Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Kravchinskīĭ / photo Mandelkern.

Print shows Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Kravchinskīĭ (Stepniak), Russian revolutionary, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Advertisements printed in Russian on verso. Forms part of: George Kennan pape... More

John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902 - Public domain portrait print

John Wesley Powell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Illus. from Smithsonian Report, 1902, plate I.

Mattapan Square, Boston Massachusetts

Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[European explorers arriving in the new world] / W.H. Lippincott.

Print shows an explorer, in a tropical locality, holding a flag and sword, pointing to a wooden cross and a carved pillar, claiming new lands in the name of king and Christianity; Native Americans stand among t... More

Boston national bloomer girl's base ball club, L.J. Galbreath, origina...

Post card showing nine members of the Boston National Bloomer Girls Base Ball Club, wearing baseball uniforms, posed with L.J. Galbreath in the center. Gift; Harry L. Katz; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:039). DCRM(G) exa... More

City Cross, Winchester - Victorian era public domain image

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

Flume House and boathouse, Old Beach Street, Sharon MA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, woods, trees, arbor, outdoors, romantic landscape, 17th-18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, half-length portrait, facing right]

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

Dartford High Street - Victorian era public domain image

Street scene showing shops and taverns. Public domain photograph - historical image of England, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National single taxes, January 1899; [Portraits of] James H. Barry; Wi...

Public domain scan of a composite page, portraits, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Oystering on the Chesapeake. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1890 Jan 11, p. 20. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C.B. Comstock, Head and Shoulders Portrait

C.B. Comstock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt / Cosmos Pictures Co., New York.

No. 3085. Public domain photograph of Ghiza pyramids, Egypt archaeology, ancient Egypt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. No. 936. Reproduction of 1845 painting by E. Magnus.

Clara Barton. A war time photograph by Brady

Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Photographic print of halftone reproduction of photograph.

National single taxes, January 1899; Thomas G. Shearman; Henry George.

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

[Charles Govín, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]

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

[Bayard Taylor, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Francis J. Child, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Francis J. Child, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

National single taxes, February, 1899; Richard McGhee, M.P.; Edward Mc...

Public domain scan of artwork related to technological or industrial history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Types of Ceylon women / from photos supplied by the Ceylon Planters' T...

Three-quarter length portrait of a young Cingalese woman, standing, facing front, and three-quarter length portrait of a young Tamil woman, standing, facing front. Two illustrations in: Frank Leslie's illustrat... More

[William Merritt Chase, full-length portrait, standing, facing front] ...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1891 May 2, p. 328.

Honorable John W. Clark, after whom Lake Clark is named

John W. Clark, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1891 Oct. 31, p. 208.

Frederic Remington - The opening of the fight at Wounded Knee

Seventh Cavalry in battle with Indians. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1891 Jan. 24, p. 65.

[Advertisement label for Chase & Sanborn's coffee and tea, showing two...

24581 X U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of food and beverage advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description