911: President George W. Bush in President's Emergency Operations Cent...
Original Caption: Mrs. Laura Bush listens Tuesday, September 11, 2001, as President George W. Bush discusses the terrorist attacks with White House staff in the President's Emergency Operations Center. Also pic... More
[Warren G. Harding, half-length portrait, seated in vehicle, facing ri...
National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph related to President Warren G. Harding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Unknown Solider, Washington, D.C.
The Unknown Soldier being taken to Arlington National Cemetery Public domain photograph of funeral procession, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oldsmobile Sales Co., Scottish Rite
Public domain photograph of large public building, square, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
CHIEF EXECUTIVE RETURNS FROM WARM SPRINGS. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 10. ...
A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Washington, D. C. , May 29, 2009 -- President Obama at FEMA headquarte...
The original database describes this as: Title: President Obama visits FEMA headquarters Production Date: 05/29/2009 Caption: Washington, D. C. , May 29, 2009 -- President Obama at FEMA headquarters at a mee... More
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
[Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C.
Photographer: HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 8/21/2009 [Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C
Chief Engineer of the Marine Corps Jeannette Evans-Morgis
Chief Engineer of the Marine Corps Jeannette Evans-Morgis (center) and Mark Jackson, assistant portfolio manager–Engineering for Network and Infrastructure, demonstrate the FitLight Trainer April 6, at Marine C... More
Virginia - Germaine L. Curry - Public Domain image, National Parks Gal...
Virginia egg designed by Germaine L. Curry
Disability Mentoring Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
A student from the Maryland School For the Blind explores an object while learning about Meteorites, Asteroids and Comets during NASA's Disability Mentoring Day, Thursday, April 7, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in... More
[Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C.
Photographer: HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 8/21/2009 [Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C
In a ceremony today at the Italian Embassy, in Washington,
In a ceremony today at the Italian Embassy, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, returned looted antiquities to the people of Italy. The objects were seized by U.S. Immigration and Cus... More
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
Glen Echo Park - National Parks Gallery
Pottery at Glen Echo Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Depart...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Departmen...
Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More
A statue of a woman with her hair pulled back. Capitoline Venus in in ...
Antonine copy of a late Hellenistic variant of Praxiteles' Cnidian Venus (4th century BC). A statue of a woman with her hair pulled back
Lotus lantern making and face paint
Kids making lotus lanterns at the arts and crafts table along with lotus flower face paint
[Water Runoff 2] 412-DSP-2-Runoff_216.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Combined sewer pipes, Rock Creek, Washington, DC. USEPA photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2014-09-1... More
Glen Echo Park - National Parks Gallery
Glass blowing is an activity visitors can participate in at Glen Echo Park
Balustrade Restoration on Arlington Memorial Bridge
In December 2018, a contractor finished removing some of the most visible and monumental pieces of the bridge from one side. The contractor carefully removed, packed and transported the bridge's granite balustr... More
Glen Echo Park - National Parks Gallery
Pottery at Glen Echo Park Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Glen Echo Park - National Parks Gallery
A man molds a piece of clay in the pottery studio at Glen Echo Park
Disability Mentoring Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
A student from the Maryland School For the Blind asks a question while learning about Meteorites, Asteroids and Comets during NASA's Disability Mentoring Day, Thursday, April 7, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in Wa... More
Disability Mentoring Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
Students from the Maryland School for the Blind learn about astronauts during NASA's Disability Mentoring Day, Thursday, April 7, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in Washignton. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
[Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C.
Photographer: HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 8/21/2009 [Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C
Artifacts in the museum collection, National Park Service, Ford's Thea...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Minnesota - Julie Reeve - National Parks Gallery
Minnesota egg designed by Julie Reeve
[Water Runoff 2] 412-DSP-2-Runoff_180_1.jpg
The original digital file had the following descriptive metadata embedded in its header: Description: Combined sewer pipes, Rock Creek, Washington, DC. USEPA photo by Eric Vance Date Picture Taken: 2014-09-1... More
[Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C.
Photographer: HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 8/21/2009 [Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated five illegally smuggled ancient artifacts to the government of Egypt, including a mummy hand from the 8th century BCE, at a ceremony Thursday at the Eg... More
Nevada - Phyllis Mignard - National Parks Gallery
Nevada egg designed by Phyllis Mignard
Macro-invertebrate inventory at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Macro-invertebrate inventory at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Disability Mentoring Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
A student from the Maryland School For the Blind explores a braille map during NASA's Disability Mentoring Day, Thursday, April 7, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in Washignton. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
Disability Mentoring Day. NASA public domain image colelction.
Students from the Maryland School for the Blind participate in Disability Mentoring Day, Thursday, April 7, 2011, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
[Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C.
Photographer: HUD Staff Photo Creation Date: 8/21/2009 [Activities at the Bread for the City] Food Bank, Washington, D.C
National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathed...
Titles devised. Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathed...
Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More
[Librarian's Room. Detail of mural. Library of Congress Thomas Jeffers...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2010; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Mural depicting baseball by Frederic C. Martin. Library of Congress T...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2011; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Manuscript Book mural in Evolution of the Book series, John W. Alexan...
Photo of one part of a six-part mural on the history of the book; after conservation of the mural. Depicts a monk illustrating a manuscript, with two monks in background. Mural marked at bottom left: Copyright ... More
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument in DC Public domain photograph of sculpture, statue, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Oil painting "Magna Charta" located in stairway of Great Hall, Departm...
Public domain reproduction of artwork, 15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
[North Reading Room, west wall. Mural by Ezra Winter illustrating the ...
According to the inscription, this mural on the west wall shows (left to right): "The Miller, in the lead, piping the band out of Southwark; the Host of Tabard Inn; the Knight, followed by his son, the young Sq... More
[North Reading Room, east wall. Detail of mural by Ezra Winter illustr...
Photograph shows left half of the mural on the east wall. According to the inscription the figures are (left to right): "The Merchant, with his Flemish beaver hat and forked beard; the Friar; the Monk; the Fran... More
Sculpture "Alaska snowshoe mail carrier," by Chaim Gross at the Ariel ...
Date: 1936; dimensions: 4' 1" x 1'7" x 1'; material: aluminum. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photograph... More
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...
Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Senate Members Room. Detail of cherub carving on mantel. Library of C...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modifie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Painting copies for Robinson. Copy of a Renaissance painting I
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...
Public domain image of palace, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Sec...
Photographer: Sammy Mayo, Jr.--HUD Photo Creation Date: 3/17/2011 Press conference, Renaissance Street Hotel, Washington, D.C., with Secretary Shuan Donovan [among the participants]
Painting copies for Robinson. Copy of a Renaissance painting II
Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cast-Iron Stew Pot. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection
ca. 1940 Source: Pedroli, Pete Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington DC, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Proje... More
District of Columbia - Scott Brooks
District of Columbia egg designed by Scott Brooks
Indiana - Susan J. Swanson - Public Domain image, National Parks Galle...
Indiana egg designed by Susan J. Swanson
[The visitation], Albrecht Durer, German, Nuremberg.
Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... More
[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustra...
Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[Second Floor Corridor. Printers' marks+columns. View of mural between...
Gift; Carol M. Highsmith 2007; (DLC/PP-2002:038) Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
[View of the White House, Washington, D.C.]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[South side of White House, Washington, D.C.]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
New Jersey - Arlene Newman - Public Domain image, National Parks Galle...
New Jersey egg designed by Arlene Newman
Closter Reckum, the city of Luyck [Liège]
A black and white drawing of a village, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. a... More
Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...
The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
Roelant Roghman - Oosterwijk Castle from a distance
Oosterwijk Castle plays a secondary role in this landscape. The emphasis lies entirely on the strong perspectival rendering of the road, verge, ditch, and pasture. The broadly brushed passages in wash contrast ... More