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Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-51 G Launch

(June 17, 1985) On June 17, 1985, Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-51 G mission launched on a Comsat deployment mission. It deployed three communication satellites. The mission lasted a little over seven days. ..I... More

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sacristy

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

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

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

Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard

Caitllin Meadows, a member of a science party aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, sifts through a sediment sample while underway in the Arctic, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Meadows was picking through the sample, w... More

A Soldier of 1ST Company, 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army searches a house...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM Base: Fob Summerall State: Salah Ad Din Country: Iraq (IRQ) Scene Major Command Shown: A1-187 Scene Camera Op... More

Syrian Democratic Forces uncover hundreds of explosive

Syrian Democratic Forces uncover hundreds of explosive remnants of war during back clearance efforts across northeast Syria, May 2, 2019. The Global Coalition and its partners will continue addressing the threa... More

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church interior

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

Long Island, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2012 -- These gas tanks are ready for dispo...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC Photographer Name: Eliud Echevarria City/State: Long Island, NY Keywords: Hazard ^ Hurricane ^ FEMA ^ floods ^ sandy ^ New Yor... More

Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

Mission church sanctuary Public domain photograph related to middle ages, medieval art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

金 傳楊邦基 聘金圖 巻|A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin

Public domain photo of Asian art painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Christ's Mission to the Apostles from BL YT 31, f. 227v

Miniature of Christ with his Apostles, sending them out with a mission to preach his word, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. Image taken from f. 227v of Breviari d'Amor (Catalan prose version). ... More

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

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

Christ appears on the Mount of Olives to two apostles, who kneel amids...

Public domain scan of a medieval manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Tourist Attraction - Tumacácori mission church sanctuary

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

Saint Giles with Christ Triumphant over Satan and the Mission of the A...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 15th-16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nebuchadnezzar's ambassadors return with their mission unaccomplished

Public domain scan of a medieval manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

A Diplomatic Mission to the Jin

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th century, 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.

Daniel Hopfer - Christ Testifying his Mission

Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536 Augsburg) Public domain scan of German 16th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Philippe Galle - Jonas fuit la mission de Dieu

Pays-Bas Public domain scan of Dutch 17th-century print, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A mapp of the travels and voyages of the apostles in their mission and...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes scenes of apostles at bottom of sheet. Attributed to Richard Blome. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Available also throu... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Sanctuary details at the Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanis...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna (also Missio...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by Franciscan friars, the mission was originally meant to be a base for converting the Hasinai Indians. In 1731 it relocated ... More

Mission Nuestra Señora Mission de los Dolores de los Ais, San Augustin...

First established in January of 1717, this mission was abandoned in 1719 with the advent of hostilities between Spain and France. When the mission was reestablished in August 1722, Father Antonio Margil de Jesú... More

Exposed Frescos c. 1750s - Fresco, public domain photogrpaph

A portion of original frescos dating to the 1750s has been left exposed to contrast with the modern preservation work.

Remnants of a fresco showing Jesus on the Cross at Mission Nuestra Sen...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This stone church was dedicated in 1755 and appears much as it did over two centuries ago. It stands as the oldest unrestored stone c... 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

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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

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

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

Elevation and Plan of Parish of Great Bentley near Colchester, Mission...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mission church of San Xavier Del Bac

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

Charles Pinckney, May 20, 1802. Accounts, Spanish Mission.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Ein Tanz der Indianer in der Mission von St. José in Neu-Californien

Illustration shows a group of Native Americans with their bodies painted and wearing feathers in their hair, dancing in a clearing. Illus. in: Bemerkungen auf einer reise um die welt in den jahren 1803 bis 180... More

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

map from "Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in th...

This image has been taken from scan 000293 from volume 02 of "Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an account of a subsequent mission to that country in... More

map from "Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in th...

This image has been taken from scan 000491 from volume 02 of "Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an account of a subsequent mission to that country in... More

map from "Greenland: being extracts from a journal kept in that countr...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "Greenland: being extracts from a journal kept in that country in ... 1770 to 1778. ... to which is prefixed, an introduction containing some accounts of the mann... More

Mission Ridge Scene of Sherman's Attack

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902) 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 whites and ... More

Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902) 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 whites and ... More

Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902) 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 whites and ... More

map from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistic...

This image has been taken from scan 000012 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

map from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistic...

This image has been taken from scan 000480 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

map from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistic...

This image has been taken from scan 000364 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

piazza from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statis...

This image has been taken from scan 000341 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

The Crest of Mission Ridge - Early photography, Public domain image

George N. Barnard (American, 1819–1902) 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 whites and ... More

map from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistic...

This image has been taken from scan 000238 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

Bangkok from "The Mission to Siam, and Hué the capital of Cochin Chin...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "The Mission to Siam, and Hué the capital of Cochin China, in the years 1821, 2. From the Journal of G. F. [Edited] with a memoir of the author, by Sir T. S. Raf... More

map from "A journal of a mission to the Indians of the British Provinc...

This image has been taken from scan 000005 from "A journal of a mission to the Indians of the British Provinces, of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks, on the Ouse, or Grand River, Upper Canada". T... More

map from "Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, an...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from volume 02 of "Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, and residence in Peking in ... 1820-21. With corrections and notes by J. von Klaproth. Ill... More

Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía

This National Historic Landmark dates from April 6, 1722, when the Marqués de Aguayo laid out the plan for construction of fortifications at the La Salle settlement site in southern Victoria County. The presidi... More

A minister extraordinary taking passage & bound on a foreign mission t...

The second of two prints surrounding the scandalous trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery for the brutal murder of factory girl Sarah Maria Cornell. (See "A Very Bad Man," no. 1833-13). Contrary to Weite... More

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000078 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

Danse de sauvages de la mission de St. José.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, related to travels, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000147 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000097 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000384 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

engraver:name=L. from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's...

This image has been taken from scan 000550 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

engraver:name=J. Netherclift from "An Account of the Transactions of H...

This image has been taken from scan 000789 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000064 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

kitten from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission t...

This image has been taken from scan 000295 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

artist:name=Miss Sewell from "An Account of the Transactions of His Ma...

This image has been taken from scan 000496 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

artist:name=Sir James Sutherland from "An Account of the Transactions ...

This image has been taken from scan 000124 from "An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of Persia, in the years 1807-11 ... To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. [Wi... More

A nighttime view of the Alamo Chapel located at #1 Alamo Plaza, San An...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Antonio State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, CIV Release Status: Released to ... More

A view of the Alamo Chapel located at #1 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio, Tex...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: San Antonio State: Texas (TX) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, CIV Release Status: Released to ... More

Henry Spalding's Mission Site - Public Domain image, National Parks Ga...

In the summer of 1838, Henry Spalding and his wife moved their mission complex from Lapwai Creek to its present location, below the visitor center for Nez Perce National Historical Park. In 1974, archaeologists... More

harbor from "A narrative of the Greek Mission; or Sixteen Years in Mal...

This image has been taken from scan 000011 from "A narrative of the Greek Mission; or Sixteen Years in Malta and Greece, including tours in the Peloponnesus, the Ægean, and the Ionian Isles; with Remarks on the... More

US Embassy in Paris - Embassy Mission Residence - 1992

The original finding aid described this item as: Format: Slide Architect: L. Visconti, 1842 Property Number: X 5005 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

US Embassy in Paris - Embassy Mission Residence - 1992

The original finding aid described this item as: Format: Slide Architect: L. Visconti, 1842 Property Number: X 5005 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

US Embassy in Paris - Embassy Mission Residence - 1992

The original finding aid described this item as: Format: Slide Architect: L. Visconti, 1842 Property Number: X 5005 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

US Embassy in Paris - Embassy Mission Residence - 1992

The original finding aid described this item as: Format: Slide Architect: L. Visconti, 1842 Property Number: X 5005 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings

map from "Narrative of a Mission to India, and the countries bordering...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Narrative of a Mission to India, and the countries bordering on the Persian Gulf, by way of the Red Sea. [Translated from the French.]". The title and subject te... More

The French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of Fran...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Vase with Cover - Public domain dedication museum photo

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.

Boys and girls read this! Every Sunday, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,...

Y. M. C. A. Mission school. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 209, Folder 10.

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

map from "[The Doomed City; or, the Last days of Durocina. A tale of t...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "[The Doomed City; or, the Last days of Durocina. A tale of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain, and the mission of Augustine.]". The title and subject terms of t... More

map from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qu...

This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qui les ont enveloppées jusqu'à ce jour, suivies d'une dissertation particulière sur les actes et la... More

map from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qu...

This image has been taken from scan 000259 from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qui les ont enveloppées jusqu'à ce jour, suivies d'une dissertation particulière sur les actes et la... More

map from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qu...

This image has been taken from scan 000257 from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qui les ont enveloppées jusqu'à ce jour, suivies d'une dissertation particulière sur les actes et la... More

split from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs ...

This image has been taken from scan 000255 from "Origines Dijonnaises dégagées des fables et des erreurs qui les ont enveloppées jusqu'à ce jour, suivies d'une dissertation particulière sur les actes et la... More

Episcopal Mission, near Cape Palmas (Mt Vaughan)

Liberia.

[French naval expedition to the Indo-Chinese archipelago: Catholic mis...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 April 26, p. 341.

Cour du palais de la mission francaise a Teheran en 1848

Lithograph drawn from nature & lith. by Jules Laurens. Illus. in: Voyage en tùrquie... (Paris 1859) by Xavier Hommaire de Hell, plate 61. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... More

Roman Catholic mission near Fort Colville, 1860

Photograph shows a wooden building of a Roman Catholic mission near Fort Colville, Washington. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861, leaf 21]. Unprocessed in PR 13 C... More

map from "The Mission to Kandahar, with appendices ... With supplement...

This image has been taken from scan 000034 from "The Mission to Kandahar, with appendices ... With supplementary report of the expedition into Upper Meeránzye and Kourrum in 1856". The title and subject terms ... More

Map from "Private Diary of travels, personal services, and public even...

This image has been taken from scan 000180 from volume 02 of "Private Diary of travels, personal services, and public events, during mission and employment with the European armies in the campaigns of 1812, 181... More

Kisherer? - the Roman Catholic mission on the left bank of the Kootena...

Photograph shows a log building at the Roman Catholic mission near the Kootenai River in Idaho. , supplemented by annotated inventory. In album: [British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859... More

Relics shown in a tent erected in Franklin School House hall, Washingt...

Handwritten on verso: 1862. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 69, Folder 54.

Map of Mission [sic] Ridge showing the position attacked by the forces...

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S169 Finished pen and ink manuscript. Oval-shaped map of the battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, showing roads, railroads, vegetation, drainage, houses, fences, and relief by hac... More

The Mission of the Apostles (from the "Illustrated London News")

William Luson Thomas (British, London 1830–1900 Chertsey, Surrey)

William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln, [January 31, 1865] (Seward's mi...

View from Pine Street, towards Mission Bay, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 162. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Churches and Synagogues. This record contains unverifi... More