Library of Congress, Adams Building. New Library of Congress entrance ...
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Old Academy of Richmond County, 540 Telfair Street, Augusta, Richmond ...
Survey number: HABS GA-229 Building/structure dates: 1802 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1857 Subsequent Work
Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street, Providence, Providence Count...
Significance: This building, which has housed the Providence Athenaeum since its completion in 1838, was designed by William Strickland. Agnes Addison Gilchrist, "William Strickland, Architect and Engineer, 17... More
[Library of Congress ("Annex Building"), Washington, D.C. Second floor...
Inscription: "Second floor plan, annex building, Library of Congress". Negative shot from ADE - UNIT 2757, no. 6 (D size); retouched to obscure some room numbers; photographic print from negative processed as A... More
[Library of Congress ("Annex Building"), Washington, D.C. Basement flo...
Inscription: "Basement floor plan, annex building, Library of Congress". Negative shot from ADE - UNIT 2757, no. 4 (D size); retouched to obscure some room numbers; photographic print from negative processed as... More
Extérieur du magasin sud, lantern slide
Lantern slide showing the northwest inner courtyard, with ornamental pool, and the south book stacks at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exp... More
Collection de livres de référence à l'usage des chercheurs
Lantern slide showing a reference book collection for researchers at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et ... More
Le livre est livré au lecteur, lantern slide
Lantern slide showing the book about Napoleon being handed to a researcher in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress. The man delivering the book is Verner Clapp and the man receiving the book is Char... More
Service de prêt pour les membres du Congrès
Lantern slide showing the circulation service for members of Congress at the Library of Congress. Slide was probably used in a lecture to accompany an exhibit prepared for the Exposition Internationale des Arts... More
Livres prèts à prendre, place sur les rayons
Lantern slide showing books books ready to be shelved at the Library of Congress, including the book about Napoleon.
University of N.C. Library, Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
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University of N.C. Old Library, Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Caro...
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Poster. A careless word...a needless sinking. Poster distributed by th...
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Dr. Henry W. Berg Room, at Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St., New ...
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Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, New...
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U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 9th and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, ...
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Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, Bro...
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Brooklyn Public Library (Ingersoll Memorial), Prospect Park Plaza, New...
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Washington, D.C. Library of Congress from Arlington Cemetery
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Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entrance...
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Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. First le...
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Lamont Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cubicle
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Traveling Libraries, Prince George's County Memorial Library
Transportation - Motor Vehicles - Traveling Libraries Public domain photograph of a car, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Canaan Public Library, New Canaan, Connecticut. Library VIII
Picryl description: Public domain image of a library, college auditorium, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Goucher College, Towson, Maryland. Library I
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Goucher College, Towson, Maryland. Catalogue department
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Goucher College, Towson, Maryland. Library interior III
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Fairleigh Dickinson College Library, Rutherford, New Jersey. Main read...
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Anglesey Mobile library - door to door service!
Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Llyfrgell symudol Sir Fôn - gwasanaeth drws i ddrws..Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: June 1, 1958..Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative.Cy... More
Pierpont Morgan Library, E. 36th St., New York City. Lettering on foye...
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Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Morgan Library, Mr. M...
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.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch, Fulton and Clinton S...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a mural painting, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch, Fulton and Clinton S...
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[New Haven Government Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Plan. Study sket...
Original slide showing study sketch by Rudolph. Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126.
Carnegie Library (Anderson County Art Center), Main Street, Anderson, ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Libraries; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Am... More
Panelists at the NCLIS Hearing on School Libraries in Cincinnati
Original Date/Caption: April2001-NCLIShearingonschoollibrariesCincinnatiOhio Digital Photographs Relating to Commission Activities and Personnel
Paulette Holahan at the NCLIS Hearing on School Libraries in Cincinnat...
Original Date/Caption: April2001-NCLIShearingonschoollibrariesCincinnatiOhio Digital Photographs Relating to Commission Activities and Personnel
Peyton Neal and Abe Abramson at the NCLIS Hearing on School Libraries ...
Original Date/Caption: April2001-NCLIShearingonschoollibrariesCincinnatiOhio Digital Photographs Relating to Commission Activities and Personnel
Towson Branch Library is a landmark building in the heart of Towson, M...
The expansive, contemporary, cement architecture, designed by Tatar & Kelly Architects, adds to its prominence. While the current building was constructed in 1974, and expanded in 1990, the Towson Library dates... More
Ceiling detail, the Maryland state seal, at the William H. Welch Medic...
Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More
George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute ...
In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More
Detail at the George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peab...
In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More
Takoma Park neighborhood branch of the D.C. Public Library System, 416...
Designed by Washington-based architectural firm Marsh & Peter and built in 1911. Construction was funded through a $40,000 contribution by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Title, date, subject note, and keywords... More
Exterior view of the William H. Welch Medical Library, the library of ...
Founded in 1929 with the merger of three libraries, namely, the library of the School of Medicine, the library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Title, d... More
The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...
Established in 1882 after a grant from philanthropist Enoch Pratt. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Co... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Handley Library, Winchester, Virginia
Judge John Handley of Scranton, Pa. left $250,000 to open this Public Library. Architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York designed the building in the Beaux-Arts style. The building opened ... More
George Peabody Library, formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute ...
In 1857 George Peabody, a Massachusetts-born philanthropist, dedicated the Peabody Institute to the citizens of Baltimore in appreciation of their ""kindness and hospitality."" The Peabody Library building, whi... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the n...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the new Operations Support Building II is officially in business. Participating in the event are (left to right) Aris Garcia, vice president of ... More
Pequot Public Library founded in 1889 in Southport, Connecticut
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More
Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda, Maryland
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Shirlington Library, 4200 Campbell Ave, Shirlington, Virginia
The library opened in 2007 and offers three times the space of Shirlington Library's last temporary home. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Ca... More
Shirlington Library, 4200 Campbell Ave, Shirlington, Virginia
The library opened in 2007 and offers three times the space of Shirlington Library's last temporary home. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Ca... More
Glenwood Branch of the Howard County Library System, Cooksville, Maryl...
Opened in 2000. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; ... More
Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road, Bethesda, Maryland
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Glenwood Branch of the Howard County Library System, Cooksville, Maryl...
Opened in 2000. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; ... More
The Enoch Pratt Free Library, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one o...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick, Maryland
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC... More
Reston Regional Library is located in the heart of Reston, Virginia
One of the busiest branches in the Fairfax County Public Library system, the library circulates more than a million items a year and has a dynamic collection of more than 215,000 volumes. Title, date, subject n... More
Westover Library/Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Rd., N.W., Washington, ...
The library opened to the public on October 30, 2009. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Print... More
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.
The central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library system. Ludwig Miles van der Rohe designed the steel, brick, and glass structure. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photogra... More
C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick, Maryland
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC... More
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw library, Washington, D.C.
Designed by the architecture firm of Davis Brody Bond Aedas. It opened August 2010. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archi... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Kingstowne Library, Alexandria, Virginia
Opened on June 24, 2000, the branch serves its vibrant, growing community from a convenient location on the lower level of the Landsdowne Centre shopping center. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided... More
Noyes Library for Young Children, Kensington, Maryland
A charming one-room library, it is Montgomery County's oldest, and is now an historic landmark surrounded by old trees and turreted Victorian homes. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photo... More
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, part of the Johns Hopkins Sheridan L...
Opened in 1964, the library was named for the university's eighth president. The collection numbers over 2.6 million volumes. Title, date, subject note, and keywords based on information provided by the photogr... More
Scenic view: Modoc County Library in Northeast California
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... More
Library building at the former Storer College in Harpers Ferry, West V...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1867 as one of the first schools of higher education in the South (Harpers Ferry was then in Virginia) open to people of al... More
View of Walsh Library building with mountain in background. Ouray, Col...
Title devised by Library staff 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 Pho... More
The Flora-Monroe Township Public Library in the Carroll County, Indian...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More
County Library in Cape May Court House, New Jersey
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More
Library at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C.
Photograph shows interior of library with students at tables and browsing shelves and librarian seated at desk. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Entrance pavilion, Library of Congress, Washington
Negatives are close variants. "X 92" on A negative; "X 92 dup" on B negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013011. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Redpath library & museum, McGill University, Montreal
One transparency and two negatives form three-part panorama. Videodisc image sequence is 1A-29417, 1A-06063, 1A-08025. "10445 (3) 12504" on both negatives; "608-4" on right negative; "WHJ" on jacket of negative... More
Library and Surgeons Hall, in Fifth Street Philadelphia.
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Masonic Temple N Y 23rd St at 6th Ave., s.e. corner.
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New York City Public Library. New York Sterecope Card.
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Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, Mass.
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of the address side of postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Rotunda and Grand Stairway (Congressional Library), Washington, D.C., ...
Washington DC 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 wh... More
Sudbury records 1638-1703, volume 1. Wayland, Mass.
At the April 1857 town meeting of Wayland, formally East Sudbury, voted to take measures to secure a copy of the ancient records of the town of Sudbury up to the year 1780, as it is the heritage of the town of ... More
Abraham Glen House, 14 Mohawk Avenue, Scotia, Schenectady County, NY
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-138 Survey number: HABS NY-338 Building/structure dates: 1730 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000708
Southern Railway Combined Depot, West side of Belton Public Square, Be...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Tobacco Warehouse, State Route 1002, Urbanna, Middlesex County, Virgin...
Significance: Built originally as a storehouse. This building is a striking survival of a colonial mercantile establishment of a succession of Scots merchants. It is undoubtedly one of the earliest extant build... More
Copley Square, Trinity Church, Art Museum, Public Library, Boston, Mas...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Wellesley Town Hall, 525 Washington Street, Wellesley, Norfolk County,...
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Marcus McGraw House, Main Street, McGraw, Cortland County, NY
Significance: The rear portion of the building is said to be one of the first eleven houses built in McGraw Village by 1813. The front or "Greek Temple" part of the house was occupied by John Lamont, whose son,... More
Storer College, Lewis Anthony Library, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jeffe...
Significance: Currently recognized by the National Park Service (NPS) as the "Lewis Anthony Building," this two-story stone building was an integral part of Storer College and its evolution as an educational in... More
Storer College, Lewis Anthony Library, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jeffe...
Significance: Currently recognized by the National Park Service (NPS) as the "Lewis Anthony Building," this two-story stone building was an integral part of Storer College and its evolution as an educational in... More
New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Library, 21 Seminary Place, New Br...
Significance: Built in 1875, this large, attractive library is a major work of the important New York architect, Detlef Lienau. Survey number: HABS NJ-722 Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction
Maria Mitchell Association, Science Library, 2 Vestal Street, Nantucke...
Significance: The Maria Mitchell Science Library came into existence in 1902 upon the founding of the association commemorating her as America's first woman astronomer. On July 15, 1920 the first permanent hom... More
[University of Pennsylvania, Main Building and Library, Philadelphia, ...
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University of South Carolina, Library, South Sumter Street, Columbia, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS SC-13-11 Building/structure dates: 1825 Initial Construction
Library of Congress, entrance stairway, Washington, D.C.
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Shaker Meetinghouse (second), Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia Count...
Significance: The Mount Lebanon Meetinghouse was the main place of worship for the most important and influential of the Shaker communities. Survey number: HABS NY-3254 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial... More
Shaker Meetinghouse (second), Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia Count...
Significance: The Mount Lebanon Meetinghouse was the main place of worship for the most important and influential of the Shaker communities. Survey number: HABS NY-3254 Building/structure dates: 1824 Initial... More
U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Recreation Building, Virgi...
Significance: It was constructed in 1936 as part of a 1930s New Deal-era campaign to improve facilities at the U.S. Veterans Hospital, Jefferson Barracks. The building continued to serve as a recreational facil... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, South Philadelphia Branch, 2407 South Br...
Significance: South Philadelphia was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew ... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Av...
Significance: Chestnut Hill was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 by the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More
Free Library of Philadelphia, Paschalville Branch, 6942 Woodlands Aven...
Significance: Paschalville was one of twenty-five branch libraries constructed between 1904 and 1930 for the Free Library of Philadelphia using a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Andrew Carneg... More
Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Loui...
Significance: Representative of the classical mode popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the museum's significance lies in its being one of the first botanical-library-museum-herbarium complexes in the country... More
Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Loui...
Significance: Representative of the classical mode popular in mid-19th century St. Louis, the museum's significance lies in its being one of the first botanical-library-museum-herbarium complexes in the country... More