columbia heights

Division of part of a tract of land in Washington County D.C. called "...

Cadastral survey map showing landowners' names and "Centre line of tunnel of W.A. extension." Also covers Meridian Hill, Columbia Heights, Howard University, and adjacent tracts. "March 18th 1884." Black ink, r... More

Complete scale for Robertson's keyed stop violin

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Topographical map of Washington, D.C., and vicinity. Showing the Union...

Detail from a printed map of the Potomac River region of Maryland and Virginia, and including Washington, D.C., which Sneden has annotated to show the locations of Union forts and picket lines. NOTE: Researcher... More

Hall and Elvans' subdivision of Meridian Hill, Washington County, D.C....

Cadastral map. In lower margin in large type: Lots on long time, at Hall's Real Estate Exchange, 71 La. Ave. LC copy stained, torn, missing sections along tears, laminated, halved, and mounted on cloth backing.... More

Hall and Elvans' subdivision, Meridian Hill.

Scale ca. 1:2,400. Manuscript; pen-and-ink. Cadastral map showing lots "Owned by Mr. Blaine." From the Breckinridge family papers. In upper left corner: S. C. Hill, Real Estate and Loans, Life and Fire Insuranc... More

Hall and Elvans' subdivision of Meridian Hill : [Washington D.C.].

Cadastral survey map showing residential lot lines, lot numbers, some dimensions, and some square-footage data. LC copy annotated in lead pencil, mounted on cloth backing, and rubber-stamped under title: Lots f... More

Subdivision of property in the county of Washington, D.C. /

Cadastral map of part of Columbia Heights N.W. showing some landowners' names. "March 1869." "Lots for sale by Kilbourn & Latta, real estate brokers ..." Includes text. LC copy missing small sections along edge... More

I am poor and sorrowful - Public domain American sheet music, 1875

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

[Map of Meridian Hill subdivision, Washington, D.C., showing selected ...

Scale not given. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and pencil. Cadastral map. From the Breckinridge family papers. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault DCP AACR2: 651/1; 650/2; 650/3

Plat of Columbia Heights : Hon. John Sherman, trustee /

Scale ca. 1:1,750. "Nov. 1st 1881--recorded in liber, A. R. Shepherd, folio 137." Cadastral map. From the Breckinridge family papers. "Lots for sale by A. L. Barber and Co. ... Washington, D.C." LC copy fold-li... More

Plat of Columbia Heights : Hon. John Sherman, trustee /

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Sherman's subdivision : [of part of Columbia Heights, Washington D.C.]...

Cadastral map showing houses, privies, wells, and cisterns. From the annual report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1885. At top: Diagram D. At lower left: H Ex1 pt6 1. LC copy fold-lined, trim... More

Copy of map showing proposed extension of Sixteenth Street and widenin...

Scale ca. 1:2,400. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and col. pencil. Cadastral map. From the Breckinridge family papers. Includes inset. Accompanied by statistical data sheet. (1 leaf ; 27 x 19 cm.) Available also throu... More

The vicinity of Washington, D.C. - Public domain old map

Partial cadastral map showing buildings and householders' names beyond city limits. Relief shown by contours. Also shows radial distances from White House. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 189... More

Plat compiled from official records for Thomas J. Fisher & Co., real e...

Cadastral map covering area bounded by Florida Av., 11th St., Park Rd., Mount Pleasant St., and 16th St. N.W. In large type across face of map: Thos. J. Fisher & Co., real estate, Washington D.C. LC copy 1 moun... More

Brooklyn from "Standish Arms", Columbia Heights (N.E.)

Public domain photograph of New York building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Capitol, Washington, D.C. / The Rotograph Co.

Postcard shows the east front of United States Capitol building. G 34778 U.S. Copyright Office. P. A. 223a. Copyright 1905 by The Rotograph Co.

Land in Hall and Elvan's subdivision of Meridian Hill, District of Col...

Cadastral survey map of lands to be taken for proposed Meridian Hill Park. Covers area bounded by W and Euclid streets, a line ca. 375 ft. west of 16th Street, and a line ca. 400 ft. east of 15th Street N.W. Sh... More

[Photographers shooting Cherry blossoms, Washington, D.C. 4/7/22]

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

Anne Tillery Renshaw, Washington DC

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

Dean Emma M. [N.] Gillette - in honor of whose memory - services will ...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, head and chest, Dr. Emma N. Gillette, facing slightly to the right with head turned front toward camera, wearing cap and gown. Verso: "Retu... More

Miss Ruth Astor Noyes of Washington, D.C.

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Half-length portrait of Ruth Astor Noyes, wearing dark suit and broad-brimmed decorative hat with veil.

[May I. Condon.], Washington DC

Summary: Formal portrait, full-length, May I. Condon, seated on stone bench, facing left with upper body and head turned toward camera wearing fur-trimmed coat and wide-brimmed hat. Title derived from folder heading.

Miss Emily K. Perry, Washington DC

Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lucy Burns, Vice Chairman Cong[ressional] Union, 1913

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Summary: Formal, studio portrait of Lucy Burns, cofounder of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, later National Woman's Party, seated in... More

Mrs. [Florence] Boeckel. - Public domain portrait print

Summary: Informal portrait of Florence Brewer Boeckel seated at desk, with pencil in hand, reading a typewritten document in front of her, wearing a blouse, jacket, and wide-brimmed hat with appliquéd flowers. ... More

Distributing hand bills advertising Inaugural Suffrage Parade and invi...

A group of people standing on a street. A group of people standing on a street. Public domain postcard scan.

Open air meeting at Washington, D.C., March 1913, calling upon Congres...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Open-air photograph of Elizabeth S. Rogers speaking, half-length, in profile, wearing fur coat and hat. A man in bowler hat and a woman in hat with scarf securing it to her... More

Women Representing Foreign Countries Suffragette's Parade - March 3, 1...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of women in various ethnic dress marching in a parade while crowds of people watch. Striped awnings in background and lamp post in foreground. On verso: Foreign natio... More

Arrival in Washington in March 1913 of Rosalie Jones' band of pilgrims...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession in street surrounded by large crowds of people.

Open air meeting at Washington, D.C. March 1913, calling upon Congress...

Summary: Photograph of the back of Mary Beard, standing in car, speaking to crowd on street, Interior Dept. building in background. Automobiles and trolley on street. Title transcribed from item. A duplicate im... More

[College section of the March 3, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, ...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Postcard image of women in caps and gowns in street. Banners read "Bryn Mawr" and "Wellesley."

[Women, including those representing the states of Wisconsin and Orego...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of contingents of suffragists marching with banners on street. Banners read: "Delegations From Womans Clubs", "Wisconsin," and "Oregon."

[New Jersey delegates in front of Congressional Union headquarters.]

Summary: Photograph of large group of women standing on front steps and street in front of building, National American Woman Suffrage Association office, lower level, Wilcox, Hane & Co. Real Estate office and C... More

Procession Summer 1913. Delegation Coming in from Hyattsville to prese...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of procession of cars, draped with banners, passing White House.

Mrs. Gilson Gardner marching in Procession.

Title transcribed from image. Summary: Photograph of Matilda Gardner and three other unidentified women in background marching in suffrage procession, holding a baton, wearing feathered hat, long white dress, a... More

[Crowd converging on marchers and blocking parade route during March 3...

Public domain photograph of a parade in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First C[ongressional] U[nion] H[eadquarters]

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of woman walking by National American Woman Suffrage Association building.

Liberty and her Attendants - (Suffragette's Tableau) in Front of Treas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and girls in Greek costume in suffrage tableau in front of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. Central figure is dressed in toga as Liberty. On vers... More

Suffrage open air meeting at the National Capitol demanding that Congr...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with crowds of people, bicyclist, trolleys and cars. Speakers on sidewalk platform at building at corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 15th St., Was... More

Mrs. Nina E. Allender., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Nina E. Allender, studio portrait, head and shoulders. The caption on an alternate photograph in the same folder reads: Mrs. Nina E. Allender of Washington, D.C., formerly ... More

[Women marching in national suffrage demonstration in Washington, D.C....

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of suffragists in sashes marching down the street past The Washington Post building, flanked by policemen.

Suf[frage] Group Union Station Leaving to est[ablish] campaign headqua...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of seven women standing on steps outside Union Station. Rose Winslow (left) holds rolled-up suffrage banner, with Lucy Burns (back, second from left), Doris Stev... More

[Women on horseback in suffrage parade, Washington, D.C., May 9, 1914....

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, Grand Marshal of the procession organized ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Postcard image of Juliet Rublee astride a horse with crowd of people in background.

Nation-wide demonstrations were held on May 2nd in support of Federal ...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists who took part in Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage procession of May 9, 1914, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol (those... More

Members of the Congressional Union pasting advertisements announcing t...

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States Capitol Complex, which includes the U.S. Capitol building,... More

Suffrage Procession, Wash[ington] D.C., May 9, 1914

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of men marching in parade with Socialist Party banners, central banner reads: "Democracy Industrial Political."

Miss Joy Young, of Washington, D.C. Assistant Editor of "The Suffragis...

Joy Young of New York City, formerly of Washington, D.C., was the wife of Merrill Rogers. She worked as an assistant on the staff of The Suffragist and later became an organizer for the NWP in various parts of ... More

Miss Matilda Young - Public domain portrait print

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Formal portrait, three-quarter-length, Matilda Young, facing slightly to the right with head turned slightly to the left, standing with right hand in pocket... More

Arrival Envoys from San F[rancisco]. Parade arriving at Capitol.

Title transcribed from item. A similar photograph was published in The Suffragist, vol. 3, no. 50 (December 11, 1915). Summary: Photograph of large crowd of suffragists on Capitol steps, some with banners, one ... More

[Billboard signs welcoming suffrage envoys from San Francisco to Washi...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of billboard signs on brick wall welcoming arrival of Congressional Union automobile envoys in Washington, D.C.: "Welcome to envoys of women voter... More

[Procession of 2,000 women, including groups of women voters from the ...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of marchers and women on horseback in street at intersection bordering on landscaped grounds. Several women carry flags or banners, including one ... More

[Suffrage envoy Sara Bard Field (left) and her driver, Maria Kindberg ...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of three women in coats and hats standing in front of automobile with banner reading, "We demand an Amendment to the United States Constitution En... More

Mrs. Nina E. Allender, Cartoonist, Nat[ional] Woman's P[ar]ty

Summary: Informal portrait, Nina E. Allender, full-length, seated at desk, facing left with head turned toward camera, holding a cartoon sketch in her lap. Title and information transcribed from item. Photograp... More

Abby Scott Baker. - Public domain dedication image

Summary: Informal, three-quarter-length portrait of Abby Scott Baker of Washington, D.C., sitting at a desk, facing left, and reading, with papers, books, and a typewriter nearby. Title supplied by Library of C... More

Joy Young at time of Inez Milholland memorial services at [U.S.] Capit...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Joy Young, facing forward, standing outdoors on sidewalk with banner, "Without Extinction is Liberty, Without Retrograde is ... More

[Frances Pepper (left) and Elizabeth Smith (right) working in the offi...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of two women working in the Suffragist office. Frances Pepper is seated at a typewriter; Elizabeth Smith is reaching for a shelf on a step ladder.... More

Suffrage Prisoners Leaving D.C. Prison

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of National Woman's Party members leaving a prison building. Warden Zinkham (left).

Demonstrators at White House during Wilson's second inauguration, Marc...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowds, with umbrellas, watching National Woman's Party members picket in the rain. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 59 (Mar. 10, 1917): 7, and ... More

[Grand Picket at the White House, eve of President Woodrow Wilson's se...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph on a rainy day of a woman standing on chair in slicker and rain hat speaking through a megaphone to suffragists standing with suffrage banners. On... More

Maryland Day [picketing the White House for suffrage]

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of suffragists marching in contingent with banners, picketing outside on the sidewalk in front ... More

The Suffrage Picket Riots, Aug. 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of street scene with a car, a trolley, and large crowds of people.

Bertha Moller, left, and Bertha Arnold hold party banner which was hel...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of two women in hats and coats holding up a banner, Berthe Moller (Left) and Bertha Arnold ( R), standing in front of NWP headquarters. Banner reads: "We protest... More

D.C. prison where suffrage pickets were confined.

Washington Children Distributing Flowers to C[ongressional] U[nion] Wh...

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

Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]

Title transcribed from item, with additional information derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Mary Winsor, standing outside, holding a banner that reads: "To Ask Freedom for Women is Not... More

["Silent sentinel" Alison Turnbull Hopkins at the White House on New J...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Alison Turnbull Hopkins with banner, "Mr. President How long must women wait for liberty," picketing for suffrage outside White House gate. Pho... More

Miss Grace Needham, of Washington, D.C., national organization secreta...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait of Grace Needham, in lace collar and dark jacket. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 67 (May 5, 1917): 9. Captioned: "Miss Grace Needha... More

Taking suffrage prisoners from D.C. Court House to prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of arrested National Woman's Party members being loaded into a vehicle just inside garage entrance to brick building, overseen by police and onlookers.

Mrs. Jessie Hardy MacKaye of Washington, D.C., member of National Advi...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jessie Hardy MacKaye with banner in front of Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage building. Banner reads: Forward Out of Error Leave Behind the Night Forwar... More

Minnesota Day on the picket line. In center, Miss A.H. Potter of Minne...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Five women pickets from Minnesota standing with their banners in front of NWP headquarters. Banners read: "Scandinavian Suffrage Association of Minnesota" and "Minnesota Br... More

Sailors attacking pickets, 1917, while policemen look casually on-- (T...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a large crowd of people on sidewalk and city street, including sailors, facing picketing suffragists who hold banners at gates of the White House.

Women Voters Day on the Picket line-- Feb. 14, 1917

Summary: Women pickets in suffrage procession down city sidewalk. Two hold American flags, three hold suffrage color banners, and one a banner with text (obscured). Lead woman (Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan) carrying ... More

Cell in D.C. jail. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of the interior of a prison cell, with sink, toilet, and cot.

Van bringing suffrage prisoners to D.C. prison.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of people and cars outside large stone building.

Picket banners at Cameron House Hdqters-- Lafayette Sq.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of group of suffragists wearing coats, hats, and suffrage sashes and holding banners in front of Lafayette Square headquarters, NWP. Banners read: "Mr. President... More

[Suffragists marching in rainy street during the Grand Picket, March 4...

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

[Arrest of White House pickets Catherine Flanagan of Hartford, Connect...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Catherine Flanagan (Left) and [Mrs. William Upton (Madeleine) Watson?] ( R) of the National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket with ba... More

Picketing the White House at Wilson's second inauguration, March 4, 19...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowd, with umbrellas, watching National Woman's Party picketers in the rain in front of the White House. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no.59 (Ma... More

Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of fourteen suffragists in overcoats on picket line, holding suffrage banners in front of the White House. One banner reads: "Mr. President How Long Must Women W... More

Bliss Finley, office manager of "The Suffragist," official organ of th...

Title and name and address of photographer transcribed from item. Cropped and flipped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist 5, no. 58 (Mar. 3, 1917): 10. Summary: Formal portrait, head and shoul... More

The day after the police announce that future pickets would be given l...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Alice Paul emerging from National Woman's Party headquarters holding banner, followed by Dora Lewis (with no banner). Unidentified women stand with a banner i... More

[Police arrest pickets, August 1917.]

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of crowds of people outside around a police wagon.

Mary Dubrow speaking in Washington, D.C.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Mary Dubrow, left, speaking to crowd of men, women, and children at public park, Washington, D.C. Baby in bassinette at front of audience, policemen looking on. Similar ima... More

Suffrage pickets marching around the White House-- March 4, 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women picketing with banners on sidewalk in front of White House. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 59 (Mar. 10, 1917): 8. Caption: "The Line on ... More

Picketing in all sorts of weather. N.Y. Day Picket. Jan. 26, 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of three National Woman's Party picketers from New York wearing slickers holding banners outside in the rain. One banner reads, "Mr. President What will you do f... More

Tier in D.C. prison where suffragists were confined in 1917.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of interior of prison, with cells, tables and chairs.

Rep. Jeanette Rankin of Montana, left, reading The Suffragist, Washing...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Jeanette Rankin, with hat, fur muff, and issue of The Suffragist, in storefront doorway with two unidentified women, who also hold copies of the paper.

Peaceful Picket - The great interest of people in the picket line - bu...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of crowd of people watching picketing women outside the gate of the White House, with passerbys on sidewalk (women, men, children). Photograph published in The S... More

Abandoned jail near D.C. Prison where pickets of Aug. 18 were confined...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Image of exterior of prison.

Vida Milholland [in jail cell]. National Woman Party

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Vida Milholland behind bars in a jail cell (District Jail, Washington, D.C.). Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 5 (Feb. 9,... More

Section of Working Women's Picket --Feb. 17 [18], 1917

Summary: Photograph of four members of contingent of wage-earning women pickets, walking in suffrage procession on city sidewalk. They wear coats, hats, and suffrage sashes, and carry suffrage banners. Others s... More

Catherine Flanagan, Gertrude Crocker [or Mrs. William Upton (Madeleine...

Summary: Catherine Flanagan (Left) and Gertrude Crocker [or Mrs. William Upton (Madeleine) Watson?] (Right) being placed under arrest as they picket with banners before the White House East Gate. Arresting poli... More

"Marching seven times around the walls of Jericho" Mar. 4, 1917

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of suffragists in rainy day procession outside White House. They are marching along sidewalk, some with banners, led by woman with American flag, and preceded by... More

Abby Scott Baker in prison dress, 1917

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Portrait, Abby Scott Baker, full-length, standing, facing forward, in prison dress. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 93 (Nov. 3, 1917): 7. Abb... More

[Police arresting pickets Edna Dixon and Lavinia Dock in a crowd, Augu...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of crowds and policemen surrounding National Woman's Party members picketing with banners. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 5, no. 83 (Aug.... More

Some of the picket line of Nov. 10, 1917. Left to right: Mrs. Catherin...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of nine suffrage pickets standing single file along a tall lattice fence, with suffrage banners. Left to R: Catherine Martinette, Elizabeth Kent, Mary Bartlett D... More

The first suffrage picket line leaving the National Woman's Party head...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of picket line of National Woman's Party members holding banners in front of NWP headquarters.

Alice Haines, Washington DC. National Woman Party

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Informal portrait, full-length, Alice Haines, facing forward, standing outdoors in front of building and holding a tricolor NWP banner and wearing a plaid s... More