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Mug Shot Photograph of Clarence Howard, Leavenworth inmate

This item is the prison photograph, also known as the "mug shot," of Leavenworth inmate Clarence Howard, register number 27743. The photograph is divided into two parts. One side captures the inmate's right pro... More

William J Robinson. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

This mug shot comes from a police identification book believed to be.from the 1930s. It was originally found in a junk shop by a member of.the public and subsequently donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums..... More

Prepared beef, ready for the barbecue pits - Los Angeles Sheriff's bar...

Photograph shows seven men posing with a pile of wrapped beef. Photographed as part of the "America eats" project for the Federal Writers' Project. Southern California Writers Project.

[Man at airplane door] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

War declared on gar - A group of men standing next to a truck with fis...

3 men with 12 gar. J15601 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Jameson's Studio, El Dorado, Ark. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

William Roberts, an original Anzac, and his family evicted from their ...

Format: Photograph. .Notes: Find more detailed information about this photograph: 42879 (42879 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( ) ..From the collection of the State Librar... More

[Two men and a girl posed standing in foreground, possibly from the vi...

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photo taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Forms part of: Lomax collect... More

Portrait photo of [Wallace Quarterman, Frederica, Georgia]

Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Walla... More

Portrait photo of Zach Delancey, Belle Glade, Fla.

Photos taken during Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle recording expedition to Georgia, Florida, and the Bahamas. Handwritten on back: "Zach Delancey; Belle Glade, Fla., June 1935". Forms part of: Lomax collection of photo... More

The six plane factories of the Douglas Aircraft Company have been term...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scene in Smithland, Kentucky, man, woman, and child

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

[Man standing, facing right, Eatonville, Fla., taken during the Lomax,...

Photograph probably shows Preston Staggers. Staggers' wife, Rebecca Brown, was the aunt of blues singer Gabriel Brown of Eatonville. (Source: researcher V. Owens-Wright) Title devised by Library staff based on ... More

[Man standing, half-length portrait, facing forward, Eatonville, Fla.]

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

A couple of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FSA phot...

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

Palestine disturbances 1936. Nail picking on a Jerusalem Street, citiz...

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

[Man with animal skeleton] - Public domain natural history illustratio...

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

A man sitting on a bench reading a book, New Hamshire. Farm Security O...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men working on forms for concrete wall for spillway. Martin Company de...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a construction site, wooden frame, timber, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main street of Hagerstown on Saturday afternoon, Maryland

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

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmers on street corner. Odessa, Texas

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men sitting on bench, Williston, North Dakota

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

Main and Court Streets, Circleville, Ohio (see general caption)

Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street scene, Somerset, Ohio. Great Depression public domain photograp...

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

A black and white photo of a man in a hat, Louisiana. Farmers during G...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man wearing a hat, Great Depression. FSA/...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Man in front of the drugstore. Dover, Delaware

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

A couple of men standing next to each other, West Virginia. Farm Secur...

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

Unemployed miners on corner of main street, Herrin, Illinois

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

Men standing around outside general store, Wendell, Wake County, North...

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

Man drinking malted milk at stand in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City...

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

[Man displaying front page of Philadelphia Record newspaper from Septe...

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican barber, San Antonio, Texas

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

A black and white photo of a man and a woman at a bar, Texas, during G...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Getting gas, migrant family en route to California at small town near ...

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing around a truck, Tennessee. Farm Security Ad...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of people, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Family at annual meeting of cooperative, Southeast Missouri Farms

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

Man on park bench, Gateway District, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

A couple of men standing next to a car, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General town meeting place: the park. Lakeland, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General town meeting place: the park. Lakeland, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Negro tenants and neighbors eating dinner after the white men have...

A man sitting on top of a pile of bags, Texas, during Great Depression

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man reading a newspaper, Great Depression...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

14 men seated around a table -- Camp Council Meeting, February 1939

a) F.S.A. camp for migratory agricultural workers, Visalia, California. Meeting of the camp council. February 1939. (typed and attached)

Group of men talking while sitting and leaning on railing, Muskogee, O...

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

One of the men who helped with corn shucking at the Fred Wilkins place...

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

Men hanging around crossroads store, Greene County, Georgia

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

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

Selectman of town voting by ballot on liquor question at town meeting....

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kitchen of Earl Fruit Company ranch. Kern County, California

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Doc Reed; John A. Lomax, Sr.; and Richard Amerson at the home of Mrs....

Title and date devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. No print found. Forms part of: Lomax photographs depicting folk musicians in the Lomax Collection.

Great Depression: A couple of people walking down a sidewalk. Farm Sec...

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 people walking down a street, Great Depress...

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

Group of migratory agricultural workers at grading station at Belcross...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men going home from work at the steel mill in Midland, Pennsylvania

Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L.M. Schulstad, traveling salesman for hardware company, with his daug...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men sitting next to each other, Great Depression. FSA/OWI ...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937). The photographs of the Farm Se... More

A couple of men sitting at a table in a library, Great Depression. FSA...

Townspeople at town meeting. Woodstock, Vermont

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Townspeople at town meeting. Woodstock, Vermont

Public domain photograph of meeting, discussion, group of people, political event, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmers trading mules and horses on "Jockey Street" in Campton, Kentuc...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A black and white photo of men shoveling snow. Ohio during Great Depre...

Public domain photograph related to World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The evening program after the Barrel Rolling Contest consisted of danc...

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

French Canadian potato picker working on one of the farms of the Woodm...

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

Yanceyville (vicinity), N.C. An outdoor picnic being held during the n...

Photograph shows African American men and women gathered around a long picnic table. Corresponding negative no. LC-USF33-31140-M3. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress). LOT 1513.

Race meeting (horse & camel). Beersheba. A camel race in full stride, ...

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

Street leading into the main business center of Woonsocket, Rhode Isla...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

About twelve single men, migrant fruit workers, live in this old barn ...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Group of men] Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem

Photo probably shows Italian prisoners detraining at Wady Sarar, Dec. 21, 1940. (Source: Similar Matson negatives: LC-M33-11851 through LC-M33-11856 and LC-M33-11857-X)

Escambia Farms, Florida. The Escambia farm cooperative having its week...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

New York, New York. Czechoslovakian Jew encountered at Astor Place abo...

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

Butte, Montana. Committee meeting of the miners' union

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Air raid wardens' meeting in zone nine, Southwest are...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adams County, North Dakota. County agent addressing farmers Food for V...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portsmouth, Ohio. Doctors of the medical service committee under civil...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Auxiliary police at a weekly meeting

A group of men sitting next to each other. Office of War Information P...

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Langston Hughes' "Don't you want to be fre...

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXXIII M 30. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebriti... More

Roy Takeno and staff meeting / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Roy Takeno addresses four members of his staff while seated at a desk in front of an open newspaper. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-11. Gift; Ansel ... More

Bert K. Miura, clothing designer / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print, where the surname was misnoted as "Namura." Correct spelling based on other photos of Mr. Miura by Adams. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-4-M-42. Gift; A... More

[Portrait of Earl Jones, in Don't You Want to be Free?]

Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XXX M 28. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities,... More

Portrait photo of Wayman Williams, gelatin silver print

420221. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

Negro day laborer moving from one man's farm to another to get work. H...

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

Man resting on sack of grain near barbed wire, New Roads, Louisiana

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

James Smith, ex-slave, Ft. Worth

420224. District no. 27. Picture no. 422. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More

[Bill Tatnall, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, playing guit...

"Skid Row." Howard Street, San Francisco, California. The hock shop

Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Campbell Davis, ex-slave, Karnack

420215. District no. 27. Picture no. 597. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More

Mug Shot Photograph of Luther Bearskin, Leavenworth inmate

The first item is the prison photograph, also known as the "mug shot," of Leavenworth inmate Luther Bearskin register number 7581. The photograph is divided into two parts. One side captures the inmate's right ... More

Photograph of John George Schmidt

Inmate File of John George Schmidt Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photograph of Joseph Vento - U.S. National Archives Public Domain phot...

Inmate File of Joseph Vento Public domain image of a criminal, arrest mugshot, conviction, prisoner, crime, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photographof James Holt - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photogr...

This item is a single photograph taken of James Holt in civilian clothes. It is a frontal view from the middle of the chest to the top of the head. Inmate File of James Holt

[Man working at a pottery wheel]

This record contains unverified data from caption card. Purchase; 1934 (DLC/PP-1934:137).

Michael Laverly, Criminal, Mugshot photo, England

Dick Albert. Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

This mug shot comes from a police identification book believed to be from the 1930s. It was originally found in a junk shop by a member of the public and subsequently donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums. ... More