More Library of Congress photos
Photographs from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division that are not part of one of the named collections above.
Why they are free to use: Each photo's page says why it is public domain: most were published before 1931 or are US government works. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
1,744 photos in the index, by decade:
The 1860s
All 125 Library of Congress photos from the 1860s

David Dixon Porter - Mathew Brady's National Photographic Art Gallery
1860–1865

Portrait of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, officer of the Federal Army (between 1860 and 1865)
1860

Ambrose Burnside2
1860–1865

Thomas Hicks - Leopold Grozelier - Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln 1860 - cropped to lithographic plate
1860 · print

Abraham Lincoln, bust portrait, facing left; first photo to show his beard
1860

Abraham Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait. Copy of photo by Joseph Hill
1860

Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government.
1860–1865

Hon. Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809 / photographed by Brady.
1860
The 1900s
The 1910s
All 219 Library of Congress photos from the 1910s

Noon hour. These boys are all working in the Illinois Glass Co
1910-05-17

Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear #2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old. Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, Cannon, Del.,May 28th 1910, before school closed. See photos #1582, and 1586 and labels. This is the fourth week
1910-09-28

Rose Biodo
1910-09-28

Arnao family, 831 Catherine St., Rear # 2. Whole family works. Jo. Is 3 years old, Boy is 6 years old, Girl is 9 years old. We found this family, children and all working on Hichens farm, Cannon, Del, May 28th 1910, before school closed. See photos #1582, and #1586 and labels. This is the fourth wee
1910-09-28

Two women in automobile, with two men standing alongside, another automobile across river, biplane above, and ruins of water mill on right / H.C. Ireland
1910

Edward S. Curtis, Wishham bride, Oregon, 1910
1910

Kalispel girl by Edward S. Curtis, ca. 1910
1910

A Young Yakama
1910
The 1920s
All 141 Library of Congress photos from the 1920s

Gentry Bros. Circus poster featuring Miss Louise Hilton, 1920-22
1920–1922 · poster

Gentry Bros. circus Miss Louise Hilton, the greatest rider the world has ever known / / National Ptg & Eng. Co., Chicago, New York & St. Louis.
1920 · poster

Trinity Church, New York City
1920

Baron de Meyer, Portrait of a woman, 1920-1930
1920–1930

Clarence Hudson White by Ulmann
c. 1920

Morning Gossip NOLA
1920–1926

Grand Central Station, N.Y.
1920

Barbara Stanwyck, Ziegfeld girl, by Alfred Cheney Johnston, ca. 1924
1920–1930
The 1930s
All 920 Library of Congress photos from the 1930s

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 009
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 017
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 085
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 005
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 035
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 084
1930

Edward S. Curtis Collection People 011
1930

Ray Lyman Wilbur with first spike from Boulder Dam cph.3b21644
1930
The 1940s
All 161 Library of Congress photos from the 1940s

14th Illinois cattle feeders meeting, WPA poster, 1940
1940 · poster

14th Illinois cattle feeders meeting
1940 · poster

100 water colors by easel artists of the New York City WPA Art Project
1940 · poster

51st annual exhibition - American painting and sculpture
1940 · poster

44th annual exhibition by artists of Chicago and vicinity--The Art Institute of Chicago
1940 · poster

National art week, November 25th - December 1st
1940 · poster

Art classes for children
1940 · poster

Art week, Nov. 25 - Dec. 1, 1940
1940 · poster
The 2010s
All 17 Library of Congress photos from the 2010s

Massaponax Church, Va. "Council of War": Gen. Ulysses S. Grant examining map held by Gen. George G. Meade during the Civil War
2011 · map

Edward S. Curtis Collection — Gathering Seeds--Coast Pomo
2011-12-13

Edward S. Curtis Collection — The wokas season--Klamath
2011-12-13

Edward S. Curtis Collection Under the palms – Cahuillai
2011-11-14

Edward S. Curtis Collection Modern houses at Palm Springs - Cahuilla
2011-11-14

Palm Cañon - Home in the Mesquite – Chemehuevi
2011-11-14

Edward S. Curtis Collection — A Cahuilla child
2011-11-15

Edward S. Curtis Collection — Basketry of the Mission Indians
2011-12-13
Looking for something specific?
Search by describing the photo, or add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for photos for each part of your script.
Add to Claude for freeOther collections
- Bain News Service
- National Photo Company
- Harris & Ewing
- Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Detroit Publishing Company
- U.S. News & World Report
- Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information
- U.S. National Archives
- Wikimedia Commons
- NASA Johnson Space Center
- NASA Kennedy Space Center
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA Headquarters
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- NASA Glenn Research Center
- NASA Ames Research Center
- NASA Langley Research Center
- NASA Michoud Assembly Facility
- NASA Stennis Space Center