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Theodor de Bry - Their manner of fishing in Virginia

Native men and women in a canoe fishing while others in the background stand in the river and spear fish. Illus. in: A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the natu... More

Theodor de Bry - [How they catch fish]

Native men and women in a dugout canoe fishing while others in the background stand in the river and spear fish. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden ... More

Theodor de Bry - [How they cook their fish] / T.B.

Native men cooking fish on a wooden frame over a fire. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... / Erstlich in engelländischer Sprach besch... More

[Killing alligators]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Natives attack and kill alligators by ramming a pole down it's throat, turning it over, beating it with clubs, and shooting it with arrows. Illus. in: Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gall... More

[Florida Indians, disguised under deerskins, hunting deer]

Native men wearing deerskins while hunting deer. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A method of hunting deer in the Northeast]

Natives using devices for making noise to drive deer and other game towards a fenced area. Illus. in: Les voyages dv sievr de Champlain Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine [...] / Samuel... More

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

[Bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with two vignettes of Nativ...

Similar view of Boston incorporating lower left vignette of Native hunting was engraved by J. Turner and published in the American Magazine, 1745 August, title page.

[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town ...

Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Boston : Printed and sold by Roge... More

Bushū senju, depicting Mount Fuji - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the weir at Senju in the province of Musa with two people fishing and a man leading a horse carrying rice seedlings for planting in the distant rice paddies; Mount Fuji in the background. Source for... More

Hunting the buffaloe drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithogr...

Print shows a Native on horseback, shooting an arrow into a bison; in the background, other Natives on horseback are chasing bison. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle, in the... More

Scene on the river Sutledge, near Pauk-Puttun in the Punjaub

Illustration shows Punjabi people working on the banks of the Sutlej River near Pakpattan, Pakistan: cooking; carrying water; running a sakia, or Persian wheel, to irrigate fields; and operating a boat. Lithogr... More

[Print speciman of American Indian man on horseback killing bison] / A...

Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate & lithographic printer, [p. 7]

[Bird's-eye view of a Native American deer hunt in New France (Canada)...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, opp. p. 52.

Indian sugar camp / Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. Army ; John C. McRae.

Native sugar camp and sap collecting from maple trees. Illus. in: The American aboriginal portfolio / Mary H. Eastman ; illustrated by S. Eastman, U.S. Army. Philada. : Lippincott, Gambo & Co., 1853, Pl. 9. Pub... More

Eskimo relics found at Cape Band

Photograph showing Inuit implements, probably for hunting or fishing, found during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 83.

Upernivik [i.e. Upernavik], Greenland, July, 1881 / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing village during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. Public domain photograph - historical image of Canada, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eskimo relics found in the vicinity of Conger / G.W. Rice photo.

Photograph showing implements, probably for hunting or fishing, found during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. No. 129.

[Harvest at San Juan, New Mexico] / PM.

Kepple, no. 74. White, no. 11. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a road and a picture of a mountain The Pathway of the ...

Photographs show pyramids and untitled scene of Mexican people working at a river. Titles from items. Photographed in 1883 or 1884 during the time that Jackson traveled to Mexico on a commission from the Mexica... More

Toilers of the plains / drawn by F.H. [i.e., H.F.] Farny.

Print shows Native women gathering wood on the Plains. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 28, no. 1435 (1884 June 21), p. 393. Signed on block: Farny.

Return from the hunt - Public domain engraving

19920 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Darley, F.O.C., artis... More

Filipinos planting rice, Philippine Islands - Frank G. Carpenter colle...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Shooting fish on the Amazon, Brazil] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Photo by the Booth Steamship Co., Ltd.

[Bushū senju], Katsushika Hokusai - Ukiyo e print

"[T]hen upon one knee, uprising, Hiawatha aimed an arrow"

A scene from "The song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow showing Hiawatha on one knee aiming an arrow at a deer in the wilderness. Illus. in: The song of Hiawatha / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bosto... More

Edward S. Curtis - Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis.

Two native Alaskan people in boat. 61316 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X225a.

Eskimo hunters cutting up a walrus, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collec...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

John Alvin Anderson - On the alert

Rear view of Sioux Indian carrying rifle in front of pony. D20483 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.A. Anderson.

Eskimos hunting walrus, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Dobbs. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Indians fishing in the rapids, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

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

Trout ripples - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Indians fishing in the rapids, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29537. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013076. Gift; State Historical Society of Co... More

Trout ripples - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Negative broken upper right. Photograph of painting signed "E.I. Couse." Detroit Publishing Co. no. M460. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Doomed. Public domain reproduction., portrait of american indian man

Native American man on horseback spearing buffalo.

Along the river at St. Pierre - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

H19192 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mohave woman carrying water on her head and holding child]

H34037 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 140. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 Suppl., v. 2, plate 58.

A load of fuel--Zuni, New Mexico Boys Ranch

Zuni man beside burro laden with firewood. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Siam exhibit at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri

Photograph shows display of hunting and fishing equipment from Thailand. Contact print from original negative. Corresponding negative processed as LC-J696-21. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collectio... More

Siam exhibit at the World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri

Photograph shows display of hunting and fishing equipment from Thailand. Notations on recto: "World's Fair - Siam" and "21." Corresponding negative processed as LC-J696-21. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin John... More

Quaint, straw-thatched houses of a Moro village, Philippine section of...

H51137 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - At the old well of Acoma

Photo shows an Acoma girl, seated on rock, watching as another girl fills a pottery vessel with water from a pool. H53280 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1165. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Lib... More

Edward S. Curtis - The fruit gatherers

Two Tewa girls picking fruit with basket, bowls on the ground. H70993 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1720-05.

Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public dom...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Russian Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sartskīi︠a︡ poli︠a︡. Samarkand - Color separation negative, public dom...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - From the threshing floor - San Juan

Photograph shows Tewa Indian girl with basket on her head at San Juan Pueblo, now Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico, on large format glass transparency used to make photogravure published in Curtis' The North American ... More

Hopi Indians - Edward S. Curtis - Winnowing wheat

Tewa woman winnowing wheat in front of pueblo building. H71041 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1778-05..

Edward S. Curtis - Washing wheat--San Juan

Two San Juan Indians dipping baskets of wheat into an acequia, or irrigation ditch, to dissolve dirt and to float away debris from the wheat kernels. Curtis no. 1762-05. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collect... More

Acoma water carriers, New Mexico Boys Ranch

Four Acoma Indians gather to collect water. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - A morning chat--Acoma

Four Acoma women with pottery vessels gathered at watering hole. Curtis no. 1189-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis.... More

Acoma roadway, New Mexico Boys Ranch

Group of Acoma women, carrying pottery vessels, descending between rock formations.

Edward S. Curtis - [The mountain sheep hunter--Sioux]

Man standing holding a rifle and a bow. H66975 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. X1457-05. Copyright under title "The Sentinel." Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Acoma water girls

Five Acoma girls, with pottery vessels balanced on their heads, walking on a rocky hillside. Curtis no. 1164. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American I... More

Edward S. Curtis - The cornfield

Apache woman hoeing rows of corn with an infant in a cradleboard with large visor on her back. H87124 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1890-06. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Siwash Indian fishing for salmon - pushing down the net, Fraser River,...

No. 9557. H74855 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - A Navaho farm

Patches of corn in garden between canyon walls. H87229 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2038-06. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Ainu fishermen on their primitive boats, Yezo, Japan

H80484 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.C. White Co. No. 4012.

Edward S. Curtis - Hopi water girls

Five Hopi girls getting water in jugs. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2008-06.

Edward S. Curtis - Cornfields of Cañon del Muerto

Navajo Indian cornfield, cliffs in background. H104274 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. X2043-06. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edw... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Apache Reaper [gathering wheat]

Apache woman harvesting wheat with a hand sickle. H87117 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1883-06. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / E... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Apache reaper [gathering wheat]

1867--The evolution of the West in four decades--1907 / J.L. Loveday.

Indians spearing buffaloes. G14398 U.S. Copyright Office.

Edward S. Curtis - [Gathering saguaro fruit]

Two Pina women harvesting saguaro cactus fruit, Arizona, one seated on ground at base of tall cactus, the other standing with basket tray on head. H101348 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Lib... More

Hopi matron at well / Frederick I. Monsen ... New York.

H103826 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - [Maricopa women gathering fruit from Saguaro cacti]

Three Maricopa women with baskets on their heads, standing by Saguaro cacti. H99646 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. X2206-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

[Gathering hanamh - Papago woman picking cactus fruit with wooden stic...

H99558 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2298-07. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 2, pl. 49.

Edward S. Curtis - [Saguaro fruit gatherers--Maricopa]

Three women, two of them with baskets on their heads, standing by cactus plant, Arizona. H99648 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2209-07. Published in: The North American Indian / ... More

Edward S. Curtis - [Gathering hasen--Qahatika]. Book illustration from...

Woman using long pole to harvest cactus fruit, Arizona. H99559 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2337-07. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.... More

Eskimos Refreshments, Alaska

Photograph shows an Eskimo woman sitting outside a tent, breastfeeding a baby.

[Pima woman, with burden basket on back, walking away from camera, Pim...

H99533 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2229-07. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, Suppl., v. 2, pl. 43.

Edward S. Curtis - Qahatika women resting in Harvest Field--Qahatika

Three Qahatika women sitting on ground with kiho carriers and pot nearby, saguaro cacti and mountains in background. H102117 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress) Curtis no. 2... More

Edward S. Curtis - Papago cleaning wheat (Winnowing wheat)

H99622 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2297-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Maricopa Woman Mealing. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Photograph shows a maricopa woman kneeling, grinding meal. Date from Curtis number. Curtis no. 2197-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian... More

Edward S. Curtis - The saguaro harvest--Pima

Two Pima women harvesting "hasen", the sweet, pear-sized fruit from the giant Saguaro cactus, which may be eaten fresh or dried, could also be used to make syrup or wine. H101346 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis ... More

[Hasen harvest [B]--Qahatika. Three women walking through desert, two...

Public domain photograph of cactus plant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eskimos Refreshments, Alaska

Photograph shows an Eskimo woman sitting outside a tent, breastfeeding a baby. H103295 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Lillie N. Gordon, Seward, Alaska.

Hiawatha. As he bore the red deer homeward

Reenactment of Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, showing boy, Hiawatha(?), dragging deer. Possibly photographed by F.E. Moore, Middletown, Ohio. No. 19.

[Indians hunting bison on horses covered with bisonskins]

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Edward S. Curtis - Winter hunter[s]--Apsaroke

Two Apsaroke men on horseback riding down a snow-covered hillside. H118537 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2629-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Am... More

Edward S. Curtis - Buffalo berry gatherers--Mandan

H118550 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2831-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curt... More

Indians hunting bison on horses covered with bisonskins

Title devised by cataloger. Photo of a painting signed "Frederic Remington, 1908" and "copyright 1908 by P.F. Col[lier?]" "McC 621" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090473. Gift; State Historical Society... More

Tee-am-Mah, gelatin silver print

Photograph showing young men roping a cow. H1188750 U.S. Copyright Office.

Pine Ridge Indians drying meat / photo made by S.D. Butcher & Son, Kea...

Photograph shows a Sioux woman standing between two frames on which meat is being dried, near tents on the far left.

Shop-no gun Indian sugar camp - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shop-no gun Indian sugar camp - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Photograph of a photographic print labeled "Henry Stevens." "X 144" and "19628" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Edward S. Curtis - Drying Piahe--Yakima

Woman kneeling on ground, blanket spread out and covered with roots. J139654 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3044-09. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Root Digger--Yakima

Woman in long polka dot dress, cloth around head, basket tied at waist, bending over in field, holding pointed stick. J139729 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3043-09. Published in... More

A Hopi cornfield, "The man with the hoe"

Public domain photograph related to Native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - The fish carrier--Wisham (i.e. Wishram)

A Tlakuit Indian standing on rock at waters edge, wearing ankle length dress and large bag on her back, strap supported on crown of her head. J139658 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3029-09. Forms part of: E... More

[The king of the seas in the hands of the Makahs, Neah Bay(?), Washing...

J151803 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Hopi cornfield, "The man with the hoe"

"Detroit Publishin[g Co.]" Copyright deposit no. J148213. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 015280. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Inuit killing salmon with spears, Canada] - Frank G. Carpenter collec...

Photo by Canadian Geological Survey. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Alaska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Gathering abalones--Nakoaktok

Kwakiutl woman gathering abalones, Washington. J150192 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3348-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edwa... More

Edward S. Curtis - The fisherman--Wishham (i.e., Wishram)

Tlakluit Indian, standing on rock, fishing with dip net. J139659 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3030-09. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Ind... More

[Makah Indian whalers landing whales at Neah Bay, Washington]

J151801 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19211. Public domain photograph of a small watercraft, canoe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - The piyake gatherer

Woman in long dress and bandana stooped over collecting piyake (roots) with hand scythe, leather basket at waist, trees in background. J139720 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3042-09. Forms part of: Edward S.... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Bowman--Nootka

Rear view of nude Indian standing on rock in water and aiming arrow. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Curtis no.3359-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Cu... More

Edward S. Curtis - Kutenai duck hunter

Kootenai man seated in bow of canoe nestled in sparse rushes. J139688 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3192-10. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Americ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Gathering seaweed--Clayoquot

Two Clayoquot Indians with baskets at body of water. J150193 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress) Curtis no. 3333-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curt... More

Edward S. Curtis - Wishham (i.e., Wishram) fishing platform

Tlakluit man, standing at the end of frame platform, holding fishing net containing fish caught in a natural rock weir below. J139773 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3013-09. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis C... More

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