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Olvera Street in the oldest part of downtown Los Angeles, California

The street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument, and referred to by Latinos as "La Placita Olvera" for a prominent local judge. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credi... More

Baltimore Memorial Stadium, 1000 East Thirty-third Street, Baltimore, ...

Public domain photograph of a document related to baseball, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

1516-1520 Larimer Street (Commercial Building), Denver, Denver County,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An east view of the meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston, now erecti...

Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1788 April, opp. p. 175. Stauffer, 3341 Published in: The American Revolution in dr... More

The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston. Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other wounded, two of them... More

Skyline Urban Renewal Area, 1622-1632 Arapahoe Street (Commercial Buil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Street scene in İzmir, Turkey]

Illus. in: Thesaurus exoticurum / Everhardo Gvernero Happelio. Hamburg : T. von Wiering ..., 1688, section 2, p. 205.

Bloomsbury, Outbuilding, 1707 Lyttleton Street, Camden, Kershaw County...

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

General Novelty Store, 1734 Lawrence Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

--Cater ... an amateur of music well known at the Queen's Arms concert...

Print shows an elderly man sitting on a bench, holding a violin, with a music stand in front of him.

Street walkers / RST ; etch'd by B. Smith., British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows a well dressed man wearing large hat, possibly George Hanger, walking at the corner of Bond Street and Piccadilly, there he meets the gaze of a fashionably dressed young woman, a prostitute(?), al... More

An east view of the new meeting house in Hollis Street, Boston / S. Hi...

Print shows a perspective view of the front and side of the Hollis Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin / engrav'd by P.R. Maverick, 65 Liberty Street.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing fur hat and spectacles, facing left, in oval tied with a ribbon at top and festooned with ivy. Published in: The American Revolution in drawi... More

The caneing in Conduit Street. Dedicated to the flag officers of the B...

Caricature showing a stout naval officer attacked by Lord Camelford, who says, "Give me satisfction, rascal! Draw your sword..." Captain Vancouver replies, "Murder! Murder! ..." The print may reflect the growin... More

Fifth avenue from 42nd street, looking north

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Welcke.

16th Street, Denver / Hawkins Denver., Colorado 19th century sterescop...

Stereograph showing men and wagon posed in front of shop "Colorado Curiosities," perhaps a taxidermist.

James McNeill Whistler - [Cutler Street, Houndsditch]

Kennedy, 292 (second state). Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the co... More

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 177...

Print shows British troops firing on a group of citizens on a street in Boston, Massachusetts, with the Royal Custom House known as "Butcher's Hall" on the right, the First Church and Town House in the backgrou... More

James McNeill Whistler - [High Street, Brussels]

Kennedy, 358 (second state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a) and Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and other information from Beall. American pr... More

A street in Seville - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Brewer, J.A.

Victoria Rooms, Queen street, Hull.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Howe, J.

James McNeill Whistler - [Hansom cab, Wimpole Street]

Kennedy, 286. Signed with butterfly on plate, in pencil, and on verso. Pencil note on verso: 1st proof, butterfly imp. Coll. marks: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a); Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342). Title and ... More

The late theatre in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Destroy'd by Fire i...

Drawn & Published by W. Birch near Bristol, 1804. Gilbert Fox Aquafortus. Dated on plate. Restrike. LC, 43546. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Theaters; Ar... More

William Russell Birch - Schuylkill Bridge, High Street, Philadelphia

Print shows view of the Schuylkill Bridge with an inset showing the bridge covered.

Schuylkill Bridge High Street Philadelphia / [drawn by W. Birch ; engr...

Print shows a view of the Schuylkill Bridge at High Street, Philadelphia, with exposed frame structure prior to being enclosed; insert at bottom center shows a view of the bridge as covered. On the left, a man ... More

Architectural drawing for a house for John Markoe, near 9th Street and...

Working drawing showing vestibule doors, moldings, and hardware as plans, elevations, sections, and details; rendering. UNIT title devised. City, building name, and client's first name from O'Gorman's Drawing t... More

[Perspective view of Broad Street in Charleston, South Carolina, with ...

Watermark: AMIES & Co; also a dove with olive branch on the right margin. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 99. (DLC/PP-1995:140.99). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith collection (Library of Congress).

[View of the city of Charleston, S.C., with a mansion, the Nathaniel R...

Includes puncture holes around edges where paper was fastened to a board. Preliminary perspective sketch on verso. Watermark: AMIES & Co; also a dove with olive branch on the left margin. Philadelphia Print Sh... More

Sellers & Pennock 231 High Street Philadelphia

Print shows an advertisement for Sellers & Pennock showing several men operating a firehose water-pumping machine. Caption continues: Patent rivet hose, fire bucket and hydraulion manufacturers. Trimmed to wit... More

[Church ("Unitarian Church"), D Street and 6th Street, Washington, D.C...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The American Institute of Architects listed the home as one of the 100 most significant buildings in the United States.... More

Puzan-Puzyrevsky house (Herzen Street No 35) (1831-33), Vologda, Russi...

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

To be exhibited in Chesnut Street, Philadelphia, below Tenth Street, f...

Broadside illustrated with 2 giraffes, gensbock and eland. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Circus; Animals; Posters.

Henry Russell / R. Street pinxt. ; R. Street lith.

Print shows Henry Russell, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, with right hand resting on piano keyboard, open sheet music in the foreground and a shipwreck on storm tossed waves in the background. Inc... More

[Main street of the town of Ōmihachiman, Japan]

Shijo school sketch showing a warehouse in the foreground with inns further down the street. Information from exhibit website: Illus. in: Shasei-jō, ca. 1840. Published in: The floating world of Ukiyo-e : sha... More

[View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

High Street, with the First Presbyterian church Philadelphia. Taken do...

Print shows a street view with the High Street marketplace on the left and the First Presbyterian Church on the right, with pedestrians on the sidewalk and service carts on the cobblestone street. Inscribed in... More

An unfinished house, in Chesnut Street Philadelphia. Built for the lat...

Print shows a street view of a large house under construction beyond two trees in the foreground; also shows pedestrians and, arriving on the left, a workman carrying a ladder. Inscribed in pencil below plate ... More

[North side of Chestnut Street, below Second Street, Philadelphia, Pen...

Attributed to William G. Mason. Signs include: Refrigerators, John Gibson, Wines and Liquors, Hotel. In frame with gold leaf around window opening. Paper label on back of frame: Chestnut Street - North side be... More

[North side of Chestnut Street, below Second Street, Philadelphia, Pen...

Attributed to William Y. McAllister. Case: plain leather double case; pressure sensitive label attached to case: 22/23. Housed in case with DAG no. 1276. Printed on paper label on back of case: William Y. McAll... More

[North side of Chestnut Street, between Second Street and Third Street...

Attributed to William Y. McAllister. Case: plain leather double case; pressure sensitive label attached to case: 22/23. Housed in case with DAG no. 1277. Printed on paper label on back of case: William Y. McAll... More

[North side of Chestnut Street, between Second Street and Third Street...

In frame with gold leaf around window opening. Paper label on back of frame: North side of Chestnut Street between 2nd & 3rd Streets. Daguerreotype view taken by Mr. Wm. G. Mason. Presented by him to John McAll... More

[No. 46 to No. 52, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Signs on buildings include: Walking Canes, McAllister, McAllister & Son, W.G. Mason Engraver, A.J. McDuffee. In frame with gold leaf around window opening. Paper label on back of frame: View of houses No. 46 to... More

[John McAllister, Jr., full-length portrait, seated in a chair, outdoo...

Written on paper label on back of case: J. McAllister jr 1843 taken by W.Y.M. on the roof of old 48. Written on paper label on the side of the case: J. McAllister by W.Y.M. Case: frame design with leaf motif in... More

Respectfully inscribed to the trustees & members of the First Methodis...

Public domain image of a historic building, 16th, 17th, 18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Southwest view of Sanderson's Franklin House, Chestnut Street, Philad...

Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 628. (DLC/PP-1993:212.34). Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "American Treasures" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2000.

David Roberts - Louis Haghe - Street scene in Cairo / David Roberts, R...

Title page. Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 3, pt. 2.

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 1...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Full page of The Illustrated London News, Christmas Supplement, 1848,...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1848. Reference copy may be in LOT 4446. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street vendors; Gt. Brit. Hist. 1848; Holiday... More

American fashions, fall & winter 1849-50, by John R. Shankland, no. 10...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, eight men, a woman, and four children standing outdoors along a dirt roadway, one man is dressed for hunting and carrying a rifle, and at bottom, six men, five chil... More

South side of Chestnut Street, looking toward 2nd Street

Photograph shows businesses along Chestnut Streets toward the intersection at 2nd Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; from left to right are "William M. Mackin, Tailor", "Job Printing", "Maas Card Job Printin... More

High-change in Bond Street, - ou- la Politesse du Grande Monde / Js. G...

Fashionably dressed pedestrians on Bond Street. In the foreground, five men crowd a woman and girl off the sidewalk as they leer at them. The women, seen from the back, are oddly dressed. In the background, thr... More

Birthplace of Allan Pinkerton, Muirhead Street and Ruglen Loan, Gorbal...

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

[Sketch showing a street scene in front of a tea house, with a barber ...

Dated 1850 and signed (illegible) in lower left corner. Reference copy in LOT 5090, no. 241. Purchase; G.V. Yudin; 1906. Forms part of: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress).

Joy's Building, including Mess. S.& A., H. Rhoades' Hat Store no. 63, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Manuscript, Painting [Paris street scene]

Library (Sansom Street), east of 5th Street

Photograph shows a view of a building labeled "Military Hall" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with carriages and coaches on the street. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library ... More

[Large group of school children, with their teacher, standing in a tow...

Purchase; Dennis A. Waters; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:149). Forms part of: Daguerrreotype collection (Library of Congress). Vender : Dennis A. Waters.

William Chestnut House, Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Independent City,...

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

Crystal palace London Regent Street

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Crystal Palace. DLC/PP-420063.

Post Office extension, elevation in courtyard facing East and elevatio...

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of a post office building, postal service, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plan and sections of vestibule on Seventh Street

Drawing. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arch Street Theatre. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photo shows an exterior view of the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (DLC/PP-1999:126). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

Brook Street, Ragged and Industrial School

London; 2 scenes of interior of trade school for juvenile delinquents. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1853 Dec. 17, p. 520. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638. This record contains unverified, old data ... More

Pennsylvania Hospital, Pine Street, Philadelphia, engraving, Library o...

Published in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, July 1854, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pennsylvania Philadelphia; Hospitals Pennsylvania;... More

View of No. 48 and 46 Chestnut Street

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

View of the Cliff Street front. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Illus. in: Jacob Abbott, The Harper Establishment; or How the story books are made. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855, p. 24. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

[Fulton Street, New York City, New York]

Street view showing commercial establishments on the left and in the center background, the United States Hotel. Blind stamp: Meade Brothers, photographers, 233 Broadway, N.Y. Purchase; Marian Carson Collection... More

Slave of Richard Townsend / W.H. Ingram's Photograph and Ferrotype Gal...

Photo shows an elderly African American man, three-quarter length portrait, wearing coat and top hat, seated, facing front, with right hand resting on the handle of a bow saw that he holds between his legs. In... More

[African American man, possibly named "Small", full length studio port...

Inscribed in ink and pencil on verso: Small. On verso: No. 13185. Purchase; Marian Carson; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:068). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress.

Sectional view of the Cliff Street building

Illus. in: Jacob Abbott, The Harper Establishment; or How the story books are made. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1855, p. 42. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:... More

Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring & summer 1855, publ...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, men, a woman, and two children standing in a large drawing room, and at bottom, men, a woman, and two children standing outdoors on a street at seaside. At bottom c... More

[General William Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua]: Street of Masaya in the ...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 2, no. 32 (1856 July 19), p. 84. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE.

The recent deep snow in Massachusetts: street in New Bedford

Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1857 Feb. 21. Reference copy may be in LOT 4382H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Signora Frezzolini, prima donna, Academy of Music, Fourteenth Street, ...

Signora Frezzolini, half-length portrait, facing left. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1857 Oct. 10, p. 297 (top).

View from the "Dead Rabbit" barricade in Bayard Street, taken at the h...

View of fight between two gangs, the "Dead Rabbits" and the "Bowery Boys" in the Sixth Ward, New York City. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 4, (1857 July 18), p. 108.

[Design drawing for woodwork for Lectern in Oak with large bird over g...

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

Clothing. J. W. Smith & Co. merchant tailors and clothers, Dock Square...

Handwritten on verso: 1858. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 63, Folder 25.

Mayor's Tiemann's race to the voting-place as the escort of United Sta...

Mayor Tiemann and soldiers running to the polls in New York City; the "voting-place" is a tavern. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 2 (1858 Nov. 13), p. 724.

McFarland, Evans & Co., 105 Market Street

Portrait of George Washington. LOT subject: Textile industry & fabrics. Title and other information transcribed from item. Copyright by J. Lea.

Profile of 8th Street between Fayette and Frederick, laid off for grad...

Covers R Street between 34th and 35th streets N.W. On verso in ink: Profile of 8th Street between Fayette & Frederick streets--1858 by order of Corporation, Geo'town D.C. From the Taggart Estate papers. Pen-and... More

[Private Vernon Mosher of Co. F, 97th New York Infantry Regiment, in u...

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:144) Purchased from: Rick Brown, May 2015. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). pp/liljpaper

Stereoscopic view of Market Street, including a view of the market hou...

Photographs show a street view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Copyright deposit; H.B. Odiorne; Dec. 3, 1859. Copyright deposit by H.B. Odiorne in 1859. No. 518.

John T. Ford / J.W. Perkins, photographer, No. 211 Baltimore Street, n...

Photograph shows theater manager John Thompson Ford, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, facing front. Forms part of: Visual materials from the John Thompson Ford papers. Accession no. PR 13 CN 2011:144, ... More

G. G. Evans's great gift book establishment, 439 Chestnut Street, Phil...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 9, no. 213 (1859 Dec. 31), p. 76.

[Dept. of Interior, part of south face on F St. north, east facade and...

Photo shows a U.S. government building at 7th and F streets, NW, in Washington, DC, while it was occupied by the Department of the Interior. Later known as the Patent Office Building. In album: Benjamin Brown F... More

[Facade of the United States Treasury Building, Washington, D.C., with...

Illus. in: Views of the Treasury Building, plate 33. Microfilm in LOT 12364.

[8 views of operations in Chickering's Pianoforte Manufactory, Tremont...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 7, no. 176 (1859 Apr. 16), p. 308. Caption card tracings: Ind.; Music Pianos; Geogr.; B.I.

Chickering's Pianoforte Manufactory - varnishing room, [Tremont Street...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 7, no. 176 (1859 Apr. 16), p. 307. Caption card tracings: Ind ; Music Pianos; Geogr.; B.I.

G. G. Evans's great gift book establishment, 439 Chestnut Street, Phil...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 9, no. 213 (1859 Dec. 31), p. 77.

His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, with Mayor Howard of Portland...

Stereograph shows the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) with Mayor Joseph Howard of Portland, Maine in a carriage in the street as a crowd watches, on October 20, 1860 in Portland, Maine. "From James Cremer's... More

A street contrast - Public domain print

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.19) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Street and Negro quarters, Retreat Plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C....

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, standing alongside dirt road lined with wooden houses.

[Eliphalet Nott, president of Union College] / C. A. M. Taber, 99 Stat...

Title devised by Library staff, based on similar photograph at the Grems-Doolittle Library Photograph Collection, Schenectady County Historical Society.

Cairo. Street view - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 138. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of ... More

Memories of the Union - execution of Nathan Hale on the site of east B...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1860 Nov. 24, p. 745. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheldon Jackson College, Sage Memorial Building, 801 Lincoln Street, S...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A street view in Portland, Me., October 20th, 1860, of the Prince of W...

Photograph shows the Prince of Wales and his entourage seated in a carriage.

[Unidentified woman, possibly a nurse, during the Civil War] / Brady's...

Notation on verso: Kent. Possibly the name of the woman in the photograph.

Street in Algeria - An old photo of a man sitting in a room

People paused in passageway with steps; birdcages on side of building, Algeria.