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Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull

90-105, 9B, "Portraits, Hu-Hub"; "Unidentified woman; psychologist Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952); and psychologist James Burt Miner (1873-1943), taken by Marjorie Van de Water, at the American Psychological As... More

Scene at waterhole near En Café Island of La Gonave, Haiti

Scene at waterhole near En Café Island of La Gonave, Haiti

Creator: Watson Perrygo...Local number: SIA2008-2659...Summary: The photograph documents Watson Perrygo's field work with Arthur J. Poole in Haiti....Dates: 1928-1929...Collection: SIA RU 7306, Watson M. Perryg... More

left to right: Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner Shear

left to right: Theodore Leslie Shear (1880-1945) and Josephine Platner...

Subject: Shear, Theodore Leslie 1880-1945. Shear, Josephine Platner. Princeton University. Wellesley College. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1936. 27-Jul-36..Topic: Archaeology. W... More

114. Copper Island, Smithsonian Institution archives

114. Copper Island, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: View of town on coast of Ostrov Mednyy, Russia. Photograph was taken during Stejneger's field work for U.S. Bureau of Fisheries...Photographer: Leonhard Stejneger..Date: c. 1882-1916..Image ID: SIA... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese man carrying large drums on shoulder down town street

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese man carrying large drums on shoul...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Chinese. China--Description and travel..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2929]..Summary: ... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men with heavily loaded cart

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Chinese men with heavily loaded cart

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Hartung's Photo Shop..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Carriages and carts..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2936]..Summary: Stamped on verso: "... More

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Exploration in North China - An old priest in temple near Taiyuan, Shanxi

China, Miscellaneous Scenes: Exploration in North China - An old pries...

Creator: Sowerby, Arthur de Carle 1885-1954..Subject: Chong shan si (Taiyuan, Shanxi Sheng, China)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Priests. Chinese..Local number: SIA RU007263 [SIA2008-2987]..Cite as... More

Smithsonian Exhibit at the 1888 Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition

Smithsonian Exhibit at the 1888 Cincinnati, Ohio, Exposition

Description: The Smithsonian Institution Exhibit at the 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States in Cincinnati, Ohio. The sign on the long, low exhibit case in the middle of the photogra... More

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, gelatin silver print

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, gelatin silver print

Photograph showing Smithsonian Castle, Washington, D.C. Forms part of the Detroit Publishing Company Collection.

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Description: At the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. A view of the reflecting pool traversed by several bridges and several Exposition buildings. The large dome of one of the buildings is visible i... More

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Subject: Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne 1900-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Astrophysics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-1327]..Summary: Cec... More

Man working with fossil, 1900-1935.

Man working with fossil, 1900-1935.

Local number: SIA2011-1428..Summary: RU 424 Box 7 Lantern Slide Box 18. Man working with fossil, 1900-1935. Mammoths, mastadons, and other large mammals from the Late Cenozoic were collected in Idaho and on dis... More

North from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington,D.C.

North from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington,D.C.

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

USS Houston, 1938. Warship photograph collection

USS Houston, 1938. Warship photograph collection

Creator: Waldo Schmitt..Local number: SIA2011-2234..Summary: Smithsonian staff were aboard the USS Houston during the Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidential Cruise of 1938...Dates: 1938..Collection: RU 007231 Wal... More

Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

A black and white photo of a large building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the Harris... More

Old Nat. Museum - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Old Nat. Museum - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More

Skongen, Expedition's Ship, Smithsonian Institution archives

Skongen, Expedition's Ship, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Unknown..Subject: Rasmussen, Knud 1879-1933. Arctic Expedition. Skongen (Ship). Thule Expedition (5th : 1921-1924) Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24..Type: Photographic print. Landscape..Dat... More

Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Exterior of Freer Gallery I

Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Exterior of Freer Gallery I

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

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), professor, scientist

Subject: Wu, C. S (Chien-shiung) 1912-1997. Columbia University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2010-1509]..Summary: In 1963, Chien-shiung... More

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

Carolina Amor de Fournier, scientist

Description: Carolina Amor de Fournier was associated with the Mexican journal La Prensa Médica Mexicana and was editor of Hummingbirds and Orchids of Mexico (1963)...Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium:... More

President Wilson's Sheep at White House

President Wilson's Sheep at White House

Creator: Gruber, Martin A..Subject: Wilson, Woodrow 1856-1924. Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt 1872-1961. White House (Washington, D.C.)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1919. C. 1920-1924..Topic: Buildings... More

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984)

Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1...

Description: Biochemist Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) and her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984) were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for their work on how the human body metab... More

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde (b. 1937)

Barbara Kegerreis Lunde (b. 1937)

Subject: Lunde, Barbara Kegerreis b. 1937. Goddard Space Flight Center. Northwestern Bell Telephone Company..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1964..Topic: Aerospace engineering. Women engineers..Local n... More

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Hazel Gay, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Description: When she retired in 1961, Hazel Gay had served for 45 years as head librarian at the American Museum of Natural History in New York...Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer..Medium: Black ... More

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Smithsonian Institution archives

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Fermi, Enrico 1901-1954..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Physics. Nobel Prizes. Nuclear physics. Quantum physics..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0574]..Summary: Italian-born physicist... More

Photograph of birds on antenna supports for LORAN tower on Sand-Johnston Island,  1963.

Photograph of birds on antenna supports for LORAN tower on Sand-Johnst...

Creator: unknown...Local number: SIA2013-08806...Summary: Photograph was taken as part of field documentation for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, on Sand-Johnston Island [Johnston Atoll], 1963....D... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Main Street, Dayton, Tennessee.

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Main Street, Dayton, Tennessee.

Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. Robinson's Drugstore is shown on the right. June 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print.... More

R.T. Tallman of Smithsonian Institution with Babylonian Documents, 2/7/25

R.T. Tallman of Smithsonian Institution with Babylonian Documents, 2/7...

Public domain photograph of people in office, interior, the 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Mlle. Marchal, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Subject: Marchal, Mlle. College de France. American Chemical Society. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1925. C. 1925..Topic: Chemistry. Women scientist... More

Unidentified man, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925.

Unidentified man, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925.

Creator/Photographer: William Silverman..Type: Photographs..Date: 1925..Image ID: 2009-21075..Description: Taken on the Rhea County Courthouse lawn, this photo captures the informal atmosphere surrounding the t... More

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes (l) and George Washington Rappleyea (r)

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes (l) and George W...

Description: Taken the month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. June 1925..Creator/Photographer: Watson Davis..Medium: Black and white photographic print..Dimensions: 4.25 in x 3 in..Culture: Americ... More

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976)

Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977..Subject: Wrinch, Dorothy 1894-1976. University of Oxford Mathematical Institute. Johns Hopkins University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1937. 9/13/1937..Topic: Mat... More

Professor Albert B. Bibb, Smithsonian Institution archives

Professor Albert B. Bibb, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1936..Topic: Men..Standard number: SIA2011-0268 and 32372-3..Physical description: Number of Images: 1 Color: Black ... More

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

Lillian Josephine Hawes, scientist

90-105, 9A, "Portraits, Hav-Haz"; Lillian Josephine Hawes (b. 1905) graduated from Stanford University in 1928 and first served as a public health nurse in Los Angeles. This photograph was distributed when she... More

Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)

Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909)

Creator: Fuller, Wesley..Subject: Seyfert, Muriel E. Mussells 1909-. Harvard College Observatory..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1936. 3/16/1936..Topic: Astronomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA ... More

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Eleanor Plunkette Brown (b. 1887)

Description: During the 1930s, when this photograph was taken, Eleanor Plunkette Brown was National Secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Blindness; by 1944, now married, Eleanor Brown Merrill was the ... More

left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003)

left to right: Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003...

Subject: Escallon, Marion Schmidt 1912-2003, Sinclair Oil Company, Geological Survey (U.S.), University of Michigan, Texaco (Colombia), Petroleum.....Type: Black-and-white photographs.....Date: 1937, Dec-37....... More

Miss Bertha Ferguson, Smithsonian Institution archives

Miss Bertha Ferguson, Smithsonian Institution archives

Author: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) b. 1878..Type: Photographic print. Person, candid..Date: 1935..Topic: Women..Standard number: SIA2011-0905 and 32112..Physical description: Number of Images: 1; Color: Black... More

Boxes placed in Smithsonian in 1881 by telephone inventor opened for first time. Washington, D.C., Oct. Three boxes which Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and two associates placed in the secret archives of the Smithsonian Institution in 1881 and which have remained un?opened since, were formally opened today in the presence of Bell's two daughters and a group of scientists. The boxes contained among other things the original working model of the first machine ever to record on wax and reproduce the Human voice. In the photograph, left to right: Mrs. David Fairchild, daughter of the inventor; Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, another daughter; Alexander Graham Bell, great-grandson of Bell; T.H. Beard, Director or Research of the Dictaphone Co.; Dr. Charles Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and H.W. Dorsey, also of the Smithsonian. 102737

Boxes placed in Smithsonian in 1881 by telephone inventor opened for f...

A group of people standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. Gener... More

Smithsonian Institution. Exterior of Smithsonian Institution Building II

Smithsonian Institution. Exterior of Smithsonian Institution Building ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Children stand in wonder at a mural of astronauts at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Children stand in wonder at a mural of astronauts at the Smithsonian I...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

Nina Kobelt, scientist, Smithsonian Institution archives

90-105, 11, "Portraits, Ko-Koc"; Nina Kobelt (1884-1973) was the secretary of Rockefeller Institute biologists Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) and Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1894-1961) and compiled the defini... More

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

Herbert Spencer Jennings, scientist

90-105, 10, "Portraits, Herbert S. Jennings"; "Johns Hopkins University protozoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings (1868-1947) and his wife. This is most likely his first wife, artist Mary Louise Burridge Jenning... More

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and The USS Edisto (AG-89) in Antarctica

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and The USS Edisto (AG-89) in Antarctica

Author: Unknown..Subject: Operation Windmill..Type: Photographic print. Exterior..Date: 1947..Topic: Research expeditions. Scientific expeditions. Snow. Ice. Icebreakers (Ships). Ice breaking operations. Sleds.... More

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and the USS Edisto (AG-89) Breaking Ice

The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and the USS Edisto (AG-89) Breaking Ice

Author: Unknown..Subject: Operation Windmill..Type: Photographic print. Exterior. Aerial..Date: 1947..Topic: Aerial photographs. Research expeditions. Scientific expeditions. Snow. Ice. Icebreakers (Ships). Ice... More

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Jane Stafford (1899-1991), scientist

Subject: Stafford, Jane 1899-1991. Smith College. American Medical Association. Science Service. National Institutes of Health (U.S.). National Association of Science Writers. Women's National Press Club (U.S.)... More

Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Clara S. Stoltenberg (1865-1950)

Subject: Stoltenberg, Clara S. 1865-1950. Stanford University..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Anatomy. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-3857]..Summary: Clara S. Stoltenberg (1... More

Olive Swezy (b. 1878), scientist

Olive Swezy (b. 1878), scientist

Subject: Swezy, Olive b. 1878. Scripps Institution for Biological Research. University of California (1868-1952)..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Topic: Zoology. Women scientists..Local number: SIA Acc. 90-1... More

Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009), engineer

Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009), engineer

Subject: Roennau, Laurel V. University of California (1868-1952). Society of Women Engineers. Space Technology Laboratories, inc..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1961..Topic: Women engineers. Aerospace... More

"How Tall Are You Exhibit," Hall of Health, Arts & Industries Building

"How Tall Are You Exhibit," Hall of Health, Arts & Industries Building

Photographer: Unknown..Date: 1957..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 2002-10650..Summary: Several visitors at the Hall of Health at the "How Tall Are You?" exhibit showing the growth rate of children a... More

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony wit...

Description: This photo was taken in 1963, as physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) was being escorted by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden to a gala banquet following the ceremony during which she received the ... More

Youth Classes at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Youth Classes at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Photographer: Unknown..Date: 1968..Type: Photographic print..Standard number: 92-3567..Summary: Girls at a painting class at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum..: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8384 ( siris... More

Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992)

Faye Johannes Marley (1900-1992)

Subject: Marley, Faye Johannes 1900-1992. Science Service. American Red Cross. University of Missouri. University of Michigan. International Cancer Congress..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962. 7/13/... More

Jacqueline L. Schroedter -  Womens history month

Jacqueline L. Schroedter - Womens history month

Subject: Schroedter, Jacqueline L. Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. University of Arizona. Astronautical Society of the Pacific..Type: Black-and-white photographs..Date: 1962..Topic: Astronomy. Women scient... More

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

Mary Alice McWhinnie, professor, scientist

90-105, 13, "Portraits, Mac-Mc L-Z (2)"; "Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-sh... More

Valentine's Day Card Featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Orangutans, Bonnie and Azy, 1981, by Jessie Cohen, Smithsonian Institution Archives, siarchives.si.edu, Negative Number: 96-1376.

Valentine's Day Card Featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo’s Oranguta...

Instructions: Print out this template and fold it twice (once horizontally, once vertically.) If you come up with any fun captions, please share them on this related blog post: blog.photography.si.edu/2011/02/0... More

Emblem for the Division of Armed Forces History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Emblem for the Division of Armed Forces History, National Museum of Am...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

NZP Keeper Morna Holden Feeding Animals

NZP Keeper Morna Holden Feeding Animals

Author: Cohen, Jessie..Subject: National Zoological Park (U.S.)..Type: Photographic print. Animal, candid..Date: 1987..Topic: Holden, Morna. Women. Animals. Sandhill Crane. Zoos. Zoo keepers. American bison. Bu... More

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution "Castle," the museum complex's first building when it was simply called the "National Museum." Washington, D.C.

Springtime view of the Smithsonian Institution "Castle," the museum co...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoo, Washington, D.C.

A giant panda, the star attraction at the Smithsonian Institution's Na...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA.  --  This 100-pound Mundrabilla meteorite sample is being studied in Wyle Laboratory's Nondestructive Testing Laboratory at KSC.  The one-of-a-kind meteorite was found 36 years ago in Australia and is on loan to Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.  Dr. Donald Gillies, discipline scientist for materials science at MSFC's Microgravity Science and Applications Department, is the Principal Investigator.  The studies may help provide the science community and industry with fundamental knowledge for use in the design of advanced materials. KSC-02pd1512

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This 100-pound Mundrabilla meteorite s...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- This 100-pound Mundrabilla meteorite sample is being studied in Wyle Laboratory's Nondestructive Testing Laboratory at KSC. The one-of-a-kind meteorite was found 36 years ago in... More

Ancient Earth, Alien Earths Event

Ancient Earth, Alien Earths Event

Dr. Dawn Sumner, Professor of Geology, UC Davis, speaks on a panel at the “Ancient Earth, Alien Earths” Event at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC Wednesday, August 20, 2014. The event was sponsored by NASA, ... More

Edison Talking Doll mechanism - view 3

Edison Talking Doll mechanism - view 3

"Jack and Jill" ; Edison Talking Doll cylinder, brown wax ; Smithsonian Institution.

Washington from Smithsonian Institute (Institution) castle, Washington, D.C.

Washington from Smithsonian Institute (Institution) castle, Washington...

Title from jacket. Six negatives form five-part panorama with close variant of left center section. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-19291, 19286 (or 19287), 19290, 19288, ... More

The Smithsonian Institution. Completed in 1855, the Castle is a home to the Smithsonian.

The Smithsonian Institution. Completed in 1855, the Castle is a home t...

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

The Smithsonian Institution. Completed in 1855, the Castle is a home to the Smithsonian.

The Smithsonian Institution. Completed in 1855, the Castle is a home t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a public building, auditorium, hall, commons, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Acanthemblemaria atrata 4

Acanthemblemaria atrata 4

Acanthemblemaria atrata, Cocos Island (Costa Rica) Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Acanthurus chirurgus SI

Acanthurus chirurgus SI

Acanthurus chirurgus Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Achirus achirus range

Achirus achirus range

Achirus achirus range Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Achirus declivis range - Public domain map
Alopias vulpinus teeth2

Alopias vulpinus teeth2

Alopias vulpinus Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aluterus heudelotii range

Aluterus heudelotii range

Aluterus heudelotii range Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Czechoslovakia 1934 10 Ducats - coin, public domain photograph

Czechoslovakia 1934 10 Ducats - coin, public domain photograph

Czechoslovakia 1934 10 Ducats Public domain photograph of a historical coin, money, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

France 1709-A One Louis d'Or (rev)

France 1709-A One Louis d'Or (rev)

France 1709-A One Louis d'Or (rev), depicting Louis XIV of France

France 1740-A Ecu in Gold (Louis15) Essai

France 1740-A Ecu in Gold (Louis15) Essai

France, gold écu (1740-A) depicting Louis XV. An Essai or pattern coin.

Freer Gallery of Art Groundbreaking

Freer Gallery of Art Groundbreaking

The ground-breaking for the Freer Gallery of Art on September 23, 1916. A crowd of people has formed a semi-circle to observe the event. While not all of the individuals are identified, several names are listed... More

Mustelus lunulatus head2

Mustelus lunulatus head2

Mustelus lunulatus (Panama) Public domain photograph of a marine biology, fish, ichthyology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NMAH-2007-3743-000001 - A close up of a gun on a red background

NMAH-2007-3743-000001 - A close up of a gun on a red background

Model 1855 U.S. Percussion Rifle used by Frank E. Brownell at the National Museum of American History.

Pietro Montana in his studio cropped

Pietro Montana in his studio cropped

"Pietro Montana in his studio." Cropped.The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection of photographs was donated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Spatuloricaria atratoensis X-ray

Spatuloricaria atratoensis X-ray

Spatuloricaria atratoensis, X-ray Public domain photograph of animal skeleton, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Viking 7-09 - Rocket Technology

Viking 7-09 - Rocket Technology

Viking rocket #7 Public domain photograph of rocket development in the USA, early stages of space exploration, NASA, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Viking 9-01 - Rocket Technology

Viking 9-01 - Rocket Technology

Viking rocket #9 Public domain photograph of rocket development in the USA, early stages of space exploration, NASA, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Браши Бьютт3 - A grassy field with mountains in the distance

Браши Бьютт3 - A grassy field with mountains in the distance

Русский: Долина вулкана Браши Бьютт.Вдалеке виднеется гора из хребта Солдиер (Soldiers mountnais),English: In this view from Little Hot Springs Valley to the NW, Soldier Mountain is the prominent peak in the ba... More

"Victoria" Plate, mid-19th century (CH 18693387)

"Victoria" Plate, mid-19th century (CH 18693387)

Scalloped-edge plate with green transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Large central flower decorative motif printed on center of plate. Border reveals alternating wide bands filled with rows of wavy, dot... More

Botanical Plate, 1752–56 (CH 18411445)

Botanical Plate, 1752–56 (CH 18411445)

Deep well; marli with wavy rim, turned up slightly. Thick purple stem with three large greenish-yellow and two small green leaves. Flower yellowish curly petals around massed anthers. Small sprig of blue mornin... More

Bottle (England), ca. 1770 (CH 18647961)

Bottle (England), ca. 1770 (CH 18647961)

A blue and gold glass bottle with a picture of a cherub, United Kingdom, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corsica Plate, mid-19th century (CH 18693367)

Corsica Plate, mid-19th century (CH 18693367)

Scalloped-edge plate with green transfer-printed decoration on white ground. Central scene depicting Renaissance couple surrounded by classical architectural structures, columns, urns and mountainous landscape.... More

Cupids Grinding (Air), from a group called The Elements Figure Group, 1790–1796 (CH 18312523)

Cupids Grinding (Air), from a group called The Elements Figure Group, ...

Two cherubs under a tree on a mound of ricks with clinging vegetation. Standing cherub at left sharpening an Arrowpoint on a grindstone. Seated cherub holds a torch in an upraised hand.

Gypsy Pitcher, 1843 (CH 18734881) (cropped)

Gypsy Pitcher, 1843 (CH 18734881) (cropped)

Putty-colored job with relief decoration showing a family under a tent.

Jar (England), ca. 1888–97 (CH 18638833)

Jar (England), ca. 1888–97 (CH 18638833)

Two high handles rising from the shoulders. Blue Hispano-Moresque decoration with dolphins.

Jar And Lid (England), 1749–60 (CH 18640227-2), Longton Hall porcelain factory

Jar And Lid (England), 1749–60 (CH 18640227-2), Longton Hall porcelain...

Campana urn form with spreading circular foot. Raised leaf decoration with lime green and aubergine outlines. Dome shaped lid with vine shaped handle. Gords and vine on interior or base.

Jug (England), 1842 (CH 18707945)

Jug (England), 1842 (CH 18707945)

A highly decorative cream jug with detail on the body, spout and handle. The center has panels depicting figures in an outdoor scene.

Jug (England), 1849 (CH 18707935)

Jug (England), 1849 (CH 18707935)

A highly decorative white jug with detail on the body, spout and handle. The center depicts a knight riding a horse in an outdoor scene.

Jug (England), ca. 1842 (CH 18707941)

Jug (England), ca. 1842 (CH 18707941)

Blue-grey body; running stags decoration. Public domain photograph of vase-shaped vessel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Melbourne Plate, ca. 1881-1885 (CH 18669363-2)

Melbourne Plate, ca. 1881-1885 (CH 18669363-2)

Circular form, the white crackled ground with brown Japanese-inspired transfer-printed decoration, the top section showing birds in flight over a body of water, shoreline with tree and flowering plants in foreg... More

Mug (England), 18th–mid-19th century (CH 18707557)

Mug (England), 18th–mid-19th century (CH 18707557)

Shepherd scene Public domain photograph of archaeological object, ceramics vessel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peacock Tile, 1898–1907 (CH 18394159)

Peacock Tile, 1898–1907 (CH 18394159)

Square tile of reddish clay with grogg added. Bluish-white crackled glaze with peacock painted in blue.

Pitcher (England), 1800–1830 (CH 18707613-2)

Pitcher (England), 1800–1830 (CH 18707613-2)

Bulbous pitcher in yellow with pointed spout and angular and curved handle. Black border on rim and base. Depicts young man collecting wheat in circular frame. Below, inscribed: “APPLICATION”.

Rangoon Plate, ca. 1878–85 (CH 18669351)

Rangoon Plate, ca. 1878–85 (CH 18669351)

Six-sided form with circular caveto, the cream-colored ground with brown transfer-printed decoration of three birds in flight among a tree and flowers, above a geometric-patterned band and a section with flower... More

Rose Trellis Tile, 1882–88 (CH 18394175)

Rose Trellis Tile, 1882–88 (CH 18394175)

Square tile of reddish buff clay with grog added. On white crackled glaze blue border and cross bars, over which a diagonally set plant with two large yellow flowers in painted.

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