Bain News Service photos
George Grantham Bain's New York agency was one of the first news photo services in the United States. Its photographers covered the people and events in the papers: politicians and suffragists, baseball players and stage stars, parades, disasters and the First World War. The Library of Congress holds its glass negatives and prints.
Why they are free to use: The Library of Congress knows of no restrictions on publishing the Bain photographs. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
20,067 photos in the index, by decade:
- 1840s (13)
- 1850s (35)
- 1860s (73)
- 1870s (99)
- 1880s (76)
- 1890s (135)
- 1900s (4,459)
- 1910s (13,524)
- 1920s (1,630)
- 1930s (23)
The 1840s
All 13 Bain News Service photos from the 1840s

Bishop T.B. Neeley, Methodist Bishop of S. America *Thomas Benjamin Neely (1841-1925)
1841

Francois Felix Faure, 1841-1899
1841

Luigi Luzzatti 2
1841

Nicholas I, King of Montenegro, 1841-1921, head and shoulders portrait, facing left
1841

Richard Croker, 1841-1922, full-length, standing, facing right, with others behind him
1841

S.B. Elkins, portrait bust
1841

Dos Passos, John Randolph, 1844-1917, head-and-shoulders portrait
1844

Albert Estopinal, 1845-1919, head and shoulders portrait, facing front. Cong. from Louisiana
1845
The 1850s
All 35 Bain News Service photos from the 1850s

Kate Claxton
1850

Henry E. Huntington
1850

Dr. J.W. Butler, Bishop for Mexico, cameo portrait *John Wesley Butler (1851-1918)
1851

Arthur Burrage Farwell, 1852-1936 Director Illinois Vigilance Association (president, 1910-1914), Hyde Park Protective Association (chairman finance committee or secretary), Illinois Anti-Saloon League
1852

Daniel DeLeon, 1852-1914
1852

Lord Tennyson
1852

Maurice F. Egan, 1852-1924
1852

Viviani & Joffre
1852
The 1860s
The 1870s
All 99 Bain News Service photos from the 1870s

B.H. Snell
1870

Dr. A. Clark-Lourey Andrew Clark Lowry, president Martin Iron & Steel Co
1870

Frank McManamy
1870

Hilaire Belloc, 1870-, bust portrait, profile
1870

King George V of the United Kingdom as a boy, 1870
1870–1911

Governor Martin H. Glynn
1871

Guglielmo Ferrero
1871

Kaiser, age 12, seated, C. Brasch, Berlin / C. Brasch
1871
The 1880s
All 76 Bain News Service photos from the 1880s

Alexander Johnston Cassatt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right
1880

Beatrice Child Villiers
1880

Belmore Browne, 1880-1954, bust portrait, facing left
1880

Henry Billings Brown, half-length portrait, facing left
1880

Henry Pratt Fairchild
1880

Julia Culp (1880-1970) portrait
1880

Lionel Edward Gresley Carden circa 1880
c. 1880

Negro homes at Thomasville, Ga.
1880–1930
The 1890s
All 135 Bain News Service photos from the 1890s

Dowager Queen of Holland
c. 1890

Abdulhamit II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918
1890

Alexander Johnston Cassatt, half-length portrait, facing right / Davis & Sanford, New York
1890

Alice Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front
1890

Anita Delgado Briones
1890

August Bebel 3
1890–1910

August Bebel, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, in oval
1890

Beniamino Gigli 1
1890
The 1900s
All 4,459 Bain News Service photos from the 1900s

Albert Einstein & wife
1900

Brookins and Coffyn flying
1900

Balloon destroyers" Glidden tour
1900

Black Maria" with kidnappers
1900

Brittania" Football Team, Germany
1900

Dago" Frank dodging a camera
1900

Florida", U.S.N. battleship
1900

Ferro" Capt. Larsen *Motorboat used by Klaus Larsen of Cleveland, went through Niagara Whirpool Free Press Prairie Farmer Wed, Oct 05, 1910 ·Page 10
1900
The 1910s
All 13,524 Bain News Service photos from the 1910s

Japanese arriving in Honolulu, three quarters are ex-soldiers
1910

Bachelor's Baby" after a spill
1910

Deperdussin" monoplane
1910

Chuting" mail -- Grand Central
1910

Hattie" the elephant and Bill Snyder
1910

Meiji Maru" ashore after typhoon in Japan
1910

MINAS GERAES" coaling
1910

L'Amore Medico" -- Pini Corsi and Bori
1910
The 1920s
All 1,630 Bain News Service photos from the 1920s

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks arriving at Southampton, exclusive photograph by the "Walturdaw" Co. Ltd. June 21-20"
1920

Spring", H. Nakagawa
1920–1925

Tosca" played by Gigli
1920–1925

53 Jewish orphans at Lwow
1920–1925

4 young ladies on a roof
1920

(Ted Jourdan, Chicago AL (baseball))
1920

Adelaide T. Lambert (1907–1996) in swimsuit circa 1920
1920

Adm. Sir R. Tyrwhitt
c. 1920
The 1930s
All 23 Bain News Service photos from the 1930s

Admiral Baron Dewa and S Kobayashi
1930

Carl Laemmle Sr.-Jr. & Rosabelle
c. 1930

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett
c. 1930

Elizabeth Hughes Gossett (cut)
c. 1930

Elizabeth Hughes, half-length portrait, facing front
1930

In exile Irina and Felix
1930

Prof. John Erskine, author; & family
1930–1940

Vladimir Horowitz 3b00629
1930
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