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[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Two Dollars 1928 banknote, public domain photograph

Banknotes of United States Notes, also known as the Legal Tender Notes were printed in the years 1862-1971. Their second unofficial name was "green" (green back).

Photographs of President Richard Nixon Greeting the Apollo 11 Astronau...

Original caption: NASA/APOLLO. ABOARD THE USS HORNET - President Richard M. Nixon appears to be holding the Presidential Seal which is attached to the door of the Mobile Quarantine Facility during his greeting... More

President Richard Nixon Wearing a Traditional Lei Garland during a Sto...

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Untitled (Native American in buffalo headdress)

Artist: Richard Throssel.Artist Bio: American, 1882 - 1933.Creation Date: c. 1910.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Graham and Susan Nash.Accession Number: 2003.003.053

Ellis Island Immigrant Portraits

Hine, Lewis Wickes .Arbeidere portrettert under oppføringen av Empire State Building. New York. .NMFF.003710

Ford Motor Co., new medical center parking lot

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C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundho...

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Puerto Rico 1939, Gov. Leahy - Photo: Robert Yarnall Richie

Title: Puerto Rico 1939, Gov. Leahy..Alternative Title: [Governor William D. Leahy, Puerto Rico]. .Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie ..Date: 1939..Place: Isla Grande, Puerto Rico..Physical Description: 1 tra... More

Ida Fieldman March 1945, World War II photo

Ida was a 2nd Lt. Army Nurse stationed in US. She took care of the men from overseas...Collection of The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford..We're happy for you to share this digital image within th... More

[Master Bedroom, Theodore Newton Law Residence]

Title: [Master Bedroom, Theodore Newton Law Residence]..Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall, 1908-1984..Date: October 30, 1965..Place: Houston, Texas..Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection..Physical ... More

Visit of First Lady Michelle Obama to HUD headquarters

Photographer: Rick Vargas, David Valdez--HUD Photo Creation Date: 2/4/2009 Visit of First Lady Michelle Obama to HUD headquarters

Glen Echo Park - National Parks Gallery

The pottery studio at Glen Echo Park Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Navy conservation specialist Vanessa Shoblock works with Jackson Kuran...

FALLBROOK, Calif. (Sep. 29, 2012) Navy conservation specialist Vanessa Shoblock works with Jackson Kuran and Tyler Russell to build a bat box during National Public Lands Day at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach... More

A dollar bill sitting on top of a globe. Dollar money globe, business ...

Tourism: A dollar bill on top of a globe. A money bill wrapped around a globe. Public domain stock photo. A dollar bill on top of a globe. A money bill wrapped around a globe. Public domain stock photo.

Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the ...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783." Includes historic notes. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of ... More

A plan of the city of Savannah : with a drawing of the part of the cit...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Select buildings shown pictorially. Annotations in pencil. Minor tears around edges of sheet repaired by conservatio... More

Maryland. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Relief shown pictorially. LC copy annotated in pencil. From the author's United States gazetteer, 1795. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AA... More

Descripcion geographica de la parte que los españoles poseen actualmen...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. "Es copia conforme con el original existente en este Archivo General de Indias. Est 86-C[?] 5-L[?] 24. Sevilla y mayo 16 de 1914." LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8... More

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester with the sev...

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Facsimile. Title in margin: Plan of attack on Fort Mifflin, 1777. From the original in possession of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Insets: A plan of Fort Mifflin on Mud Island with ... More

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting ...

Scale ca. 1:33,200. Hand colored. Shows soundings and disposition of ships, etc. Includes "A sketch of Fort Island" and "Profile and plan of the sunk frames or chevaux de frise which formed the stackadoes in th... More

Plan of U.S. military prison, Elmira, N.Y.

A general and particular plan of the island of Castle William near Bos...

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Scale ca. 1:41,500. Relief shown by hachures. Appears in William Faden's Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution. 1845. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1564 Available also through the Library of Co... More

A new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and...

Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Hand colored. LC copy annotated in pen-and-ink. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Shows military bounty lands. Includes historical and des... More

Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:1,320,000. Facsimile. Tenth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. "Captain John Smith's map of Virginia 1607." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

Study from Life: Nude Male - Public domain portrait drawing

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The Dermott or tin case map of Washington 1797-8.

Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings. Depths shown by soundings. "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Office, Washington, May 4, 1888." Facsimile. Original version: [1798?]. Includes text h... More

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territo...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Creased, soiled, small tears along edges of sheet. Acquisitions control no. 99-83

Map of Georgetown : act of May 15, 1751.

Cadastral map showing lot numbers. Covers area bounded by 33rd, Prospect, Thomas Jefferson streets N.W., and the Potomac waterfront. Below title: Survey & plat completed February 27, 1752; 69 lots sold on March... More

The State of Pennsylvania from the latest surveys.

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

[Great Hall. Bust of George Washington. Library of Congress Thomas Jef...

Exhibit caption: "The bronze bust of George Washington is a copy of a work by the French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828)." (Source: MyLOC.gov Great Hall exhibit, 2008) Forms part of the Library of Con... More

Philadelphia Assembly Room - National Parks Gallery

The Assembly Room of the Pennsylvania State House served as the meeting place of the Pennsylvania Assembly for over sixty years until the State Capital moved away from Philadelphia in 1799. In 1776, the Contine... More

Major Greene, B.A. - Public domain museum object photo

A portrait of a man in a suit and tie, North America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Map of American camp in New Jersey and surrounding countryside

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A map of that part of Pensylvania now the principle [sic] seat of war ...

Scale 1:63,360; an in. to a mile. Relief shown pictorially. "Between the two lines that cross Philadelphia was the first plan of that city." LC copy has annotation "17" in upper right corner. Includes notes on ... More

Sketch of the Heights of Kingsbridge 1777, with the proposed redoubts ...

Scale ca. 1:7,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Oriented with north to the left LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1165 Available also through ... More

Draft of roads in New Jersey. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Shows roads of Camden and Gloucester counties, New Jersey. Described in Samuel S. Smith's The fight for the Delaware, under the title ... More

Georges Louis le Rouge - Caroline méridionale et partie de la Georgie,

Scale ca. 1:325,000. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored. Shows internal boundary lines. Inset: Cours de la rivière d'Hudson avec la comunication avec le Canada par le Lac Champlain jusqu'au Fort Chambly par... More

Theatre de la guerre en Amerique. Seat of war in America.

Scale ca. 1:1,600,000. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Covers the area from the Chesapeake Bay to Boston. Shows states, some counties, towns and cities, manors, forts, and some roads. "Supplement au... More

A map of the provinces of New-York and New-Yersey, with a part of Penn...

Position of the army on the 8th Octbr. 1777.

Scale ca. 1:7,200. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows British and German troop positions. Includes key to the military units. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1179 Avail... More

Plan der landung der Gebrüdere Howe, bey dem ausfluss des Elk Strom ....

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

An accurate plan of the country between New York and Philadelphia : wi...

Shows positions of British (red) and American (blue) forces along the major highways between New York City and Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. At foot of title: Extracted from the Gazette of Tuesday, Fe... More

[Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Title from engraved map published by William Faden, 1780. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-... More

Carte detaillée des possessions Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentriona...

Print shows a cartouche on a map with man leaning on a cannon against a backdrop of flags and banners. Illus. in: Carte detaillée des possessions angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, construite d'après le... More

Carte du théatre de la guerre entre les Anglais et les Américains:

Scale ca. 1:1,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows area from Quebec to Cape May and from Oswego to Kennebec Bay. Date changed by hand to 1778. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 728 Availabl... More

A Sketch of the Battle of German. Tn., 4th. October 1777, where the re...

Scale ca. 1:16,200. Relief shown by shading. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Differs from other copies by oval cartouche. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789 1345 Stamped on verso: Montresor. Available ... More

In Congress, July 4, 1776 : the unanimous declaration of the thirteen ...

American Revolution, Massachusetts Militia - State Constitutional Conv...

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American Revolution, Massachusetts Militia - State Constitutional Conv...

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The Province of New Jersey, divided into East and West, commonly calle...

Scale ca. 1:430,000. Hand colored. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Relief shown by hachures. Cartographic source note in English and French. Shows county boundaries an... More

A topographical map of Hudsons River, with the channels depth of water...

Scale 1:253,440; 4 miles to 1 in. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. From the publisher's The North American atlas. 1777. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1069 Available also... More

Battle of Brandywine, in which the rebels were defeated, September the...

Scale ca. 1:15,200. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in ink above legend to change "Reference" to the attack made by the left under the command of Lt. Genl. Earl Cornw... More

A map of the inhabited part of Canada from the French surveys : with t...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

From Battle of Brandywine. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. Manuscript, pencil on tracing paper. Handwriting of title differs from that on rest of map. Alternate title from P. L. Phillips' Maps of America [Sketch of the battle of Brandywine. By V. Wange... More

A plan of the east part of Long Island Sound from remarks made on boar...

Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated: By Lieutt. Knatchbull, Recd. 31 Jany. 1778. Includes directions for navigatio... More

Port Royal in South Carolina : taken from surveys deposited at the Pla...

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "VII." "45." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1534 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Derrotero hecho por Antonia Vélez y Escalante, misionero para mejor co...

Covers sections of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Carta della Nuova Inghilterra, Nuova Iork, e Pensilvania

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Georges Louis le Rouge - Nouvelle carte de la Province de Quebec ...

Cartouche showing a mountain landscape in Québec. Illus. in: Atlas ameriquain septentrional. Paris : 1778 [i.e., 1792]. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 gr... More

[The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:32,400. Title from the author's The course of Delaware River ... 1778. Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor. Shows soundings, disposition of ships, etc. Names "Fort Mifflin" and "F... More

A plan of the Forts Montgomery & Clinton as taken by His Majesty's for...

Scale ca. 1:18,000 (not ca. 1:6,000 as depicted by bar scale). Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Pictorial map. Includes index entitled "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1189 Available... More

Progress of the army from their landing till taking possession of Phil...

Scale ca. 1:350,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Shows camps and battles between Elkton, Md., Valley Forge, and Philadelphia. LC Maps of North America, 1750-... More

[Map of defenses of New York Island from Fort Washington to Fort Indep...

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Battle of Brandywine, 11th Septr. 1777, in which the rebels were defea...

Scale ca. 1:14,000. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Includes "References." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1334 Available also through the Library of Congr... More

Sketch of the Heights of Kingsbridge, with the proposed redouts coulou...

Scale ca. 1:7,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Shows proposed British redoubts, "rebel redout," and "Fort Indepe... More

British camp at Trudruffrin from [sic] with the attack made by Major G...

Scale ca. 1:31,680. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Title annotated in pencil to read: British camp at Trudruffrin from the date with the attack made by Major General Grey agai... More

Province de New-York en 4 feuilles, - Public domain map

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:20,000. Hand colored. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes descriptive index. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 700

Plan of Amelia Island in East Florida, north point of Amelia Island ly...

Public domain scan of vintage 18th-century map, old atlas, navigation, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Baye de la Delaware avec les ports, sondes, dangers, bancs, &c. depuis...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia,

Scale ca. 1:43,000. Has watermark. Shows roads and the names of landholders in rural areas. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1319 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. I... More

Grundriss des nördlichen Theils der Neujorks Insel nebst den am 16. N...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Red Banke. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications of Fort Mercer, N.J. currently located in Red ... More

[Map ornament - Mars watches Fame unfurl a detailed map of New York an...

Illus. in: Carte de l'Amérique Septle. pour servir à l'intelligence de la guerre entre les Anglois et les insurgents / M le Chr. de Beaurain. Paris : 1777, detail. Published in: The American Revolution in draw... More

A map of Philadelphia and parts adjacent, /

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Carte du théatre de la guerre entre les Anglais et les Américains: Dre...

Scale ca. 1:1,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Covers the area from Quebec to Cape May, N.J., and from the Kennebec River to Lake Ontario. Shows boundaries, states, some counties, towns and citi... More

A map of Philadelphia and parts adjacent

Public domain scan of a 17th-18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A plan of the city of Philadelphia. - Public domain map

Scale not given. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Indexed. Appears in The Philadelphia almanack for the year 1778. 1777. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1316 Available also through the Library o... More

Carte de l'Amérique Septle. pour servir à l'intelligence de la guerr...

Scale ca. 1:7,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC copy imperfect: Trimmed at border line with imprint cut off, both lower corners wanting. LC copy annotated: This map was made by French engineer... More

[Operations of the British army, from the 25th August to 26th Sept. 17...

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Title from Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps. Alternate title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 699: Map showing the march of the British upon Philadelphia. Man... More

A Map of Ticonderoga with the old and new lines and batteries,

Scale ca. 1:2,300. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1175 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Plan and sections of the redoubt at Billingsfort and plan of the rebel...

Scale ca. 1:2,450. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by shading. "F." Includes 3 col. cross sections. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1276 Available also through the Libra... More

Battle of Brandywine, 11 Septr. 1777.

Scale ca. 1:13,000. Title in pencil. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Unfinished. Relief shown by shading. In upper margin: No. 8. On verso: Montrésor. Illegible title on verso. LC Maps of... More

Carolina septentrionale et meridionale en 4 feuilles, traduite de l'An...

Scale ca. 1:560,000. Alternate title: An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, s... More

[Part of a map of the Hudson Highlands showing Forts Clinton and Montg...

Scale ca. 1:70,000 (not "1 English mile to a foot"). Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Has watermarks. Northern of two or more sheets. Incorrect scale note in pencil.... More

Henry Benbridge - Portrait of a Gentleman

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

A map of the provinces of New-York and New Jersey : with a part of Pen...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

American Revolution, Massachusetts Militia - State Constitutional Conv...

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Plan du camp retranchè à Wilmington pour y couvrir notre hospital apre...

New York, with the entrance of the North and East rivers

Print shows distant view of New York City at the confluence of the North and East rivers. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... More

[Views from offshore of the New England coastline and islands at the e...

Prints show distant views of Castle Island and Governor's Island in Boston Harbor, hills along the southeast coast of Maine, and the entrance to Boston Harbor. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for th... More

[Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Title from engraved copy published by William Faden, 1780. (Faden 68). Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1180 Available also through the... More

A new and correct map of North America with the West India Islands : d...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania an...

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Insets: A chart of the mouth of Hudsons River, from Sandy Hook to New York.--Plan of Amboy with its environs from an actual s... More

Carolina septentrionale et meridionale en 4 feuilles, traduite de l'An...

Scale ca. 1:560,000. Alternate title: An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontiers, shewing in a distinct manner all the mountains, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, s... More

Georges Louis le Rouge - Virginie, Maryland en 2 feuilles par Fry et J...

Scale ca. 1:660,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Planche 2e." Shows Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the southern portions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Appears in the author's Atlas amériquain ... More

Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebel works raised against ...

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plan of the operations of General Washington, against the Kings troops...

Scale ca. 1:113,000. Hand colored. LC copy trimmed to border. Relief shown by hachures. Shows area from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New Jersey, with routes of British and American forces. Includes tables... More