monochrome photography

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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

City Hall subway station, New York

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Mrs. Phil Riley, St.Clair car - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man in a car. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Færdselsbetjent, Sven Turck Photos

Traffic officer..KB id: turck_58725..Photo: Sven Türck (1897-1954)..Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs, The Royal Library, Denmark.

Photograph of the Rear Control Car of a Dirigible, ca. 1933

Original Caption: Photograph of the Rear Control Car of a Dirigible, ca. 1933..U.S. National Archives’ HMS Record Entry ID: NWL-16051..Creator: U.S. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters... More

Sydney Harbour Bridge - 1938, Sydney, Australia

Image 25000051 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge during the Australian Sesquicentenary Celebrations in 1938, with a steamship in the foreground.

Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918

Photographer: Thomas Frederick Scales .Tanks on parade in London at the end of World War I, 1918.Dry plate glass negative .Reference No. 1/2-014078-G.Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association Collect... More

Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]

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Bathing beach beauty contest, [1920], Eliz. Roache (most beautiful sui...

A black and white photo of a woman holding a sign. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop

Local call number: JJS0283..Title: Mitzi Strother, Miss Florida 1941, posing with a seaside backdrop..Date: 1941..Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 4 x 5 in...Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Colle... More

Jean Duket, Miss Tampa, modeling a two-piece bathing suit

: 66823 ( http://66823 ) ..Local call number: C006356..Title: Jean Duket, Miss Tampa, modeling a two-piece bathing suit..Date: May 23, 1947..Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 5 x 4 in...Series Title: Depar... More

A person carrying a can of Karo syrup at Berg's Supermarket, circa 195...

Original Collection: Gifford Photographic Collection..Item Number: P 218 SG 6 Series 1 ...You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) . ..Want m... More

A black and white photo of three chimneys on top of a building. Dodge ...

Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Between Joseph Campau & Conant Avenues, Hamtramck, Wayne County, MI Significance: It served as the major manufacturing and assembly plant for the Dodge automobile and is... More

Le Caire; Jardin de l'Ezbekiye [Azbakiyah], sagoutier.

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Slavery tax receipts for State of Virginia : 1860 and 1862. For Peter ...

Public domain scan of a manuscript related to African American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Exterior of Damascus Gate from north, Jerusalem

Public domain image of Egyptian art, medieval, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description photo.

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, visitors ride in a gondola in the 'Court of Honor.' The Smithsonian coordinated all of the U.S. Government exhibits and prepared a display on it... More

Carib Indians making Baskets, Dominica

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort-De-France, Martinique - Public domain dedication image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Broadway and Hotel Victoria, New York, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of broadway, city downtown, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Young woman, full-length portrait, wearing lace dress, standing, faci...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Philadelphia. -- Ruth Malcolmson - Public domain portrait photogr...

A woman sitting on the grass with a fan. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph of Ezra Pound - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times

On the beach, Palm Beach, Fla. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

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

The Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel, 19th century photo of Palestine a...

Public domain photograph related to history of Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, U.S. Immigration Station...

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Immigrants undergoing medical examination.

Picryl description: Public domain image of Ellis Island, New York harbor, immigrants, immigration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buildings near Ellis Island pier; immigrants can be seen with trunks a...

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HOOVER, HERBERT C. - Harris & Ewing, Studio Portrait

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Navajo boy - Public domain portrait print

Indian, half length, facing front. H95205 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Fred Harvey. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Children; Photog. I... More

Women carrying baskets - Salvation Army Christmas dinner, New York

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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

A woman in a dress and hat standing on a sidewalk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washing... More

Soldatengrab im Park des Herrenhauses Pilica (Lir.2)

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Captured German guns, France, after August 1918

Allied officers, one with a bandaged head, examine lines of captured German guns. Several of the guns have been painted with a very basic camouflage. Painted on the guns are the names of the units which capture... More

5 europeere og en somalier utenfor et skur/enkel bygning i Kilimafeza,...

5 europeere og en somalier utenfor et skur/enkel bygning i Kilimafeza, Tanganyika.

Die Bilder 6,4,5, sind ein sich zusammensetzendes Panorama welches den...

Public domain photograph - Austro-Hungarian army during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Asbury Park, New Jersey, baby parade with general scene in court]

J209728 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, no. 188770. Public domain photograph, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in a scene from The Homesteader

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Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. The shepherd night watch reads the ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of sheep, lamb, farm animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Iraq. Nineveh. "The Glory of Kingdoms." A primitive wheat mill near sh...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Roxy Theatre, 49th Street, New York, N.Y. [Interior] with curtain down

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

George Washington Carver - Public domain portrait engraving

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Hattie W. Caraway] - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Ben...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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

Production. Aluminum. Stacks of aluminum plates ready for the continuo...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salvador Dali A, gelatin silver print

Portrait photograph of Salvador Dali, including objects, cats, and water caught in motion. The photo is similar to Halsman's published photo "Dali Atomicus" before retouching. J3769 U.S. Copyright Office Transf... More

[Woman seated in chair while another woman models a dress]

Image from Look photographic assignment with title: Chicago city of contrasts. Frame 20 of a contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Wise Owl Club display table. Display shows three workers wearing safet...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-5-XBD201208-00538.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Bevatron main control room with Robert Richter, Building 51. Photograp...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD9709-03469.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Bubble chamber event, subatomic particles formation. Photograph taken ...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD9909-01984.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Bubble chamber event. Electron triplet and pairs. Photograph taken Aug...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD201210-01403.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

15-inch bubble chamber event. Photograph taken March 27, 1958. Bubble ...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD201210-01476.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

15-inch bubble chamber event. Photograph taken March 27, 1958. Bubble ...

Digital Preservation File Name and Format: 434-LB-6-XBD9909-01987.TIF Photographs Documenting Scientists, Special Events, and Nuclear Research Facilities, Instruments, and Projects at the Berkeley Lab

Photograph of Andy Warhol Taking a Polaroid Picture while Sitting with...

This photograph depicts Bianca Jagger (wife of Mick Jagger), artist Andy Warhol, and Jack Ford seated on the Truman Balcony following a tour of White House for Jagger and Warhol. Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs

The Tops Motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado, which, even in 2015, is tou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Gored Clump in Saturn F Ring. NASA public domain image colelction.

Saturn's dynamic F ring contains many different types of features to keep scientists perplexed. In this image we see features ring scientists call "gores," to the right of the bright clump, and a "jet," to the ... More

Water World - NASA Saturn images

Although Enceladus and Saturn's rings are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. The small ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat and have no way to get warm, so th... More

Public domain stock image. Valentine heart carving, emotions.

A cow standing in a field next to a fence. Cow cattle livestock, anima...

A cow standing in a field near a fence / A cow standing in a field next to a fence / Animals public domain photography.

Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait photograph

Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Henry Bryan Hall - His Excellency Samuel Adams Esqr.

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The residence of Metcalf Bowler, near Newport, R.I., as standing, 1886...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated book page scan, drawings, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

To Am Meer from Canzonnetta. "Canzonetta" died Aug. 30th 1897, on vers...

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

Lynn Cochrane; Ship's cook, 1c, U.S.N.R.F.; Lost when U.S.A. C.T. Tico...

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

Meeting of NYA [National Youth Administration] girls with an instructo...

Public domain photograph of Dorothea Lange, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, widely recognized for ... More

Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama

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

Negro domestic servant, Atlanta, Georgia. May 1939.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old brown stonehouses now occupied by Negroes in Chicago, Illinois, Ap...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Members of the congregation of the "store front" Baptist Church, Chica...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Back steps of apartments in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Vue General Des Ruines, à Uxmal.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington...

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

McSorley's Ale House, 15 East 7th Street, Manhattan.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Financial district rooftops, looking southwest from One Wall Street, M...

Public domain photograph - New York, art photography, artistic, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a grocery store, General store interior. Mo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California.

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick. These bricks made on the pro...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Lettuce workers. Ca...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Thomas Jefferson.] - Henry Bryan Hall

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

Wife of tractor driver on the Aldridge Plantation. [Near Leland,] Miss...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Granville T. Woods - A black and white photo of a man with a mustache

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

[Negative photostat of] Trow map, south of 110th St.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old city plan, vintage cartography, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wright's Ferry, on the Susquehanna, Pennsylvania..

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

Jacques Cartier avec trois batiments remonte le fleuve Saint Laurent q...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, English, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Thomas Bethune (Blind Tom) - Public domain portrait engraving

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Children on the steps of a dilapidated house, Michigan?

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of St. John's Chapel from the Park

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Forsyth Park, Savannah, Ga. [View of an African-American woman with a ...

Picryl description: Public domain painting of a park, trees, picnic, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Voyage of life : old age. Art print

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

Captain John Smith - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Jersey. - A black and white photo of a pile of snow

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.

House model prepared by architectural section Region 1. New Haven, Con...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table, Miner's home. P...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Street scene [church steps] in New Orleans, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Maynardville, Tennessee - Public domain portrait print

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men, Unemployed trappers, Louisiana

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