homes and haunts

Slave quarters of Jefferson Davis plantation

Photograph shows the slave quarters on Brierfield, the Jefferson Davis plantation. Title from inscription on item. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV60. "Sent home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the ... More

[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...

Signed: E.L.M. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:100 ... More

Biltmore House, south gateway, Cabinet photograph

Photograph shows an African American man standing by a half-opened entry gate at the Biltmore Estate. Copyright 1896, T.H. Lindsey. No. 24. Views of Western North Carolina. On back is a description of Biltmore... More

Interior of J.P. Morgan's library

Public domain photograph of cabinet interior, office, living or dining room, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Birth place of telephone, 109 Court St., Boston, Mass ...

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Karnak Temple de Thouthmes III [Tuthmose III], les statues d'Amenhotep...

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P.T. Barnum's residence, Bridgeport, Ct

Photograph shows the exterior of P.T. Barnum's residence, Lindencroft, Bridgeport, Conn. Card number: "No. 720". Gottheim collection code: GI 12. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and... More

A map of part of the land in the Royal Grant devised by Sir William Jo...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Mark Twain House, Hartford, Conn., Vintage Postcard by Detroit Publish...

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Site of Thoreau's Hut, Concord, Mass.

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Monticello Cirkut, gelatin silver print

J174667 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; R. W. Holsinger; October 26, 1912; DLC/PP-1912:44504.

[Julian and Waldo Story, James McNeill Whistler, Frank Miles, and Hono...

Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana. Notation on recto: For the Dogino from the artist (F.L.) 20 years after he took it, in "Jimmy's" studio, London. LC Whistler exhibition catalog, no. 146.

Drayton's negro quarters, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows soldiers and slaves in front of the slave quarters on Drayton's plantation. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.271). General info... More

President Lincoln's first home in Illinois

Photograph of drawing shows two men standing in front of a log cabin. Additional text: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by J.L. Campbell...for the Northern District of Illinois. Written on... More

Mansion for William K. and Alva Vanderbilt, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York...

Architectural drawing shows rendering of exterior façade. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of C... More

[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...

Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:100 no. 80:5786

Washington's headquarters [i.e. Morris-Jumel mansion], 160th St., New ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[William Brewster estate, Mount Carmel, Connecticut]

Man wearing robe and turban looking out over water; hills in background.

The Kitchen, Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass.

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[Exterior side view of the Wright Company factory; Dayton, Ohio]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 150. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... More

[Home of Oscar Straus, Tarrytown, New York]

J174812 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Townsend house, home of Sumner Welles, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 ...

Photograph shows the library with decorative fireplace, furniture, books, paintings, and coffered ceiling at the Townsend house, later home of Mathilde and B. Sumner Wells, now the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachuset... More

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; Hartford...

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...

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

The Vernon house, Newport, R.I., headquarters of Rochambeau.

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Philadelphia, from the great tree at Kensington, under which Penn made...

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N.W. view of the mansion of George Washington, Mount Vernon

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George Washington diary, 1762. Autograph manuscript written in the lea...

AMs written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack. Topics include farming, horse breeding, and the management of Mount Vernon. One of forty-one original George Washington diaries, and one of five diaries ... More

Home of James Monroe - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Bellvue. Mr. Dougherty's agency on the Missouri / Ch. Bodmer pinx ad ...

Illustration shows buildings, paddocks, settlers, ox cart and Indians at Bellvue, Major John Dougherty's trading post on the Missouri River. Title also in French and German. Illus. in: Voyage dans l'intérieur ... More

Map of Washington's farms at Mount Vernon

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Richard Baker Jr. house, Westcliff, Ledge Road, Newport, Rhode Island...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Handwritten on verso: "[Baker house, Newport ... CEP, 2/4/76]." Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 201... More

Marble House, William Kissam Vanderbilt house (Newport, Rhode Island)....

Original architectural drawing showing design for the fireplace and surrounding paneling in the dining room of Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island. Dates from Wikipedia. Title on item: Fireplace elevation wi... More

Sutro tunnel. Sutro tunnel and mule train. Adolph Sutro, founder of ...

Photographed and copyrighted, 1890, by Jas. H. Crockwell, Virginia City, Nevada. Composite of five reproductions of photographic prints. In album: Souvenir of the Comstock, p. 15.

Forest Hill, Rockefeller residence, Cleveland, Ohio

Title from jacket. "No. 61 G.F.C." on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036525. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mountain lodge for Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Colorado--J. B. Ben...

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

South entrance, Monticello, Charlottesville, Va.

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House just west of N.G. Wilson's house in Bendersville, Pa.

Postcard shows houses on the street in Bendersville, Pennsylvania, where Nicholas G. and Eleanora Wilson lived.

[Bedroom with fireplace, and padded chaise longue, in home of Edmund C...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph of bedroom, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903; c...

Gerrit Smith, M. C., the multi-millionaire, whose mansion in Peterboro...

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

The Clarke House [where Hancock and Adams spent the night].

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Mr. Chew's House - Public domain dedication image

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Mts. surrounding the head of Emerald Bay, showing Ben Holladay's house...

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A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, ...

View of mansion of Timothy Dexter, Newburyport, Massachusetts, with key to the statues and several lines of explanation below picture. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the... More

Birds eye view of Mt. Vernon, the home of Washington

Print shows a bird's-eye view of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, with house in upper right and tomb in lower left; Potomac River is visible in lower right. This is a variant impression with lighter col... More

Life of George Washington--The farmer / painted by Stearns ; lith. by ...

Washington standing among African-American field workers harvesting grain; Mt. Vernon in background. Reference copy in Presidential File. Reference copy in Lot 4434 B.

[Mrs. William F. (Elizabeth Underhill) Coles house, Bellevue Avenue an...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Handwritten on verso: "[Mrs. Coles, Newport ... CEP, 10/29/76]." Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 20... More

Cornelius Vanderbilt "Breakers," Newport, R.I. / Frank H. Child, photo...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Blind stamped: Copyright 1895 Frank H. Child. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:10... More

[Camping party at the Wright home, 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio]

Title based on reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

President Roosevelt's room, White House

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt's bedroom in the White House. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stratford on Avon. Historic map, Library of Congress

Bird's-eye view showing Shakespearean landmarks and other points of interest. Xerographic copy. Includes index to points of interest, ill. of Shakespeare, extensive ill. of literary and related landmarks, and c... More

[Windmill-shaped clock tower at left, and part of garage of Edmund Cog...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arnold Genthe with two women friends in Long Beach, New York

Public domain photograph related to Arnold Genthe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Carinhall, reception room]

Photograph showing a large reception room in Hermann Göring's residence Carinhall, featuring a massive desk and decorated with tapestries and works of art. Foto Ernst H. Börner. Aufnahme nr. 5544 in portfolio C... More

The boyhood home of the American writer Mark Twain was this gray house...

Photograph shows Samuel Clemens standing in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri. Portrait of America - no. 100. Well remembered U.S. writers. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. O... More

The Plains of Abraham, near Quebec.

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

No. 1 A map of the lands belonging to the estate of the late Sir Peter...

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The Battle of Germantown (Chew's House).

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Craigie, Longfellow's House, Cambridge, Mass., Vintage Postcard by Det...

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A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, ...

View of mansion of Timothy Dexter, Newburyport, Massachusetts, with key to the statues and several lines of explanation below picture. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the... More

Residence of Stafford Palmer, No. 298 Genesee Street Utica N.Y. drawn ...

Drawing shows an exterior view of the Stafford Palmer residence. (DLC/PP-2000:095). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress. Forms part of: Documentary drawing filing series (Libr... More

Thos. Livezey's mill, Wissahickon

Photograph shows mill with Livezey house, Glen Fern, alongside Wissahickon Creek in Pennsylvania. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library o... More

Blair, Francis Preston, house, Silver Spring

Title from caption card. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July.

Hawthorne's Little Red House: Hawthorne House, Lenox, Massachusetts

Mounted black and white photograph of Hawthorne House from the left side. Also visible: wooden fences, water pump, piles of firewood, trees, mountains, and a woman standing by the gate. Courtesy of Lenox Librar... More

[View of the racing stables at the Imperial Garden at Yıldız]

Photograph possibly by Abdullah Frères. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 16. No. 825. In album: Yıldız and Topkapı palaces, tombs and Selamlık procession, Istanb... More

The Longfellow House, Cambridge, Mass.

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

Residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York, N.Y.

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Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash., D.C.: Laundry

Photo shows the Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.; purchased by the Cosmos Club in 1950. Date based on similarity to photos taken by Johnston in 1910 of the nearby Anderson hous... More

[Home of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, 231 Madison Avenue, New York City]

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Miscellany, 1837-1952; Drawings, sketche...

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

Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's country home "North Room" ; "Resi...

Photograph showing room with bookcase, desk, chair, bear skin rug, and a mounted buck head.

A view of the Presidents house in the city of Washington after the con...

Print shows a view from northeast of the fire-damaged White House, a result of the War of 1812. On August 24, 1814, British general Robert Ross led his troops into Washington with strict orders to burn only pub... More

Residence of E. A. Stevens. Castle Point -- Hoboken.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mark Twain house. Connecticut. NYP Sterescope Card Collection.

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

Washington's Bedroom, Washington's Headquarters, New York

Picryl description: Public domain photo of vintage New York postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, Va. October 19th, 1781.

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Henry Bryan Hall - Patrick Henry addressing the Virginia Assembly.

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The Indian Girl's Home. A group of Indian girls and Indian police at B...

Photo shows nineteen Miniconjou men, women and children, posed between two tipis. Copyright deposit. For more information about this collection, see http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.grabill Title transcribed from ... More

A view of the mansion of the late Lord Timothy Dexter in High Street, ...

View of mansion of Timothy Dexter, Newburyport, Massachusetts, with key to the statues and several lines of explanation below picture. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the... More

Edison's home, Menlo Park, New Jersey / from a sketch by Theo. R. Davi...

Edison's complex at Menlo Park, showing house, laboratory, office and machine shop.

[Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, Pa.]

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"Belcourt," residence of O.H.P. Belmont Esq., Newport, R.I., 1891, din...

Photograph shows interior of Belcourt, designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. Typed on label on verso: "Photographs of the work of Richard Morris Hunt. Residence of O.H.P. Belmont Esq... More

Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Va.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The lake at Georgian Court, Lakewood, N.J.

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Lake at Georgian Court, Lakewood. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-13384) lists title as: Lake, Georgian Court, Lakewood, N.J. Detroit Publis... More

Orchard Knob, Grant's headquarters at battle of Missionary Ridge

Public domain photograph related to President Ulysses Grant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miss Alice Roosevelt's room - Victorian era public domain image

Photograph shows furnishings in the White House bedroom of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Unidentified man at Long Beach, New York

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Figure work

Photograph shows F. Holland Day taking pictures of a nude Theodore Thibideaux at Little Good Harbor, Maine. In album: L.G.H. records, 1912-1913, II, p. 24 (lower left). Accession box no. DLC/PP-1993:151

Literary map of Texas. - Public domain map

House of Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace; A station of the Underground Rai...

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Mts. surrounding the head of Emerald Bay, showing Ben Holladay's house...

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

The house in which Benj. Franklin was born, Milk Street House, Boston.

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Fireplace in Living Room, Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass.

Public domain photo of vintage Massachusetts postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kitchen of the John Hancock House, Lexington

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of cabinet furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Interior of Sagamore Hill with chairs before a fireplace]

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H.G. Marquand residence, Newport, R.I. / Frank H. Child, photographer,...

Photograph shows view of house designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Henry Gurdon Marquand. Typed on label on verso: "Photographs of the work of Richard Morris Hunt. Residence of H.G. Marquand Esq. Newport, R.I.... More

The sea-serpent season upon us again / F. Opper.

Print shows a "Sensation Press" reporter standing on the shore near "Gray Gables", Grover Cleveland's summer home at Cape Cod, pointing to a sea serpent labeled "3d Term Twaddle". Caption: The latest and most ... More

The Custis-Lee Mansion [i.e. Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memori...

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

Kitchen and living room, John Hancock House, Lexington, Mass.

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