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Immigrants undergoing medical examination.

Picryl description: Public domain image of Ellis Island, New York harbor, immigrants, immigration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buildings near Ellis Island pier; immigrants can be seen with trunks a...

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George Washington Carver - Public domain portrait engraving

Picryl description: Public domain image of a great depression era, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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Henry Bryan Hall - His Excellency Samuel Adams Esqr.

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Street scene [church steps] in New Orleans, Louisiana

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington...

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Wright's Ferry, on the Susquehanna, Pennsylvania..

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Voyage of life : old age. Art print

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A couple of kids standing in front of a movie theater, [Movie theater]...

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Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Ben...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama

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

McSorley's Ale House, 15 East 7th Street, Manhattan.

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.

A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a table, Miner's home. P...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of children, kids, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Omar, West Virginia - A black and white photo of people walking down a...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Moisture test for soil, Dept. of Agriculture Experimental Farm. Prince...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

My southern home: or, The South and its people

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Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charles Lucas and Iris Hall in a scene from The Homesteader

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[Negative photostat of] Trow map, south of 110th St.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old city plan, vintage cartography, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Captain John Smith - Public domain portrait engraving

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A black and white photo of a woman in a cotton field, Picking cotton, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a farmer, 1930s great depression, dust bowl era, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men working in a field, Threshing wheat...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Fall, Niagara, from Goat Island. Winter Scene.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort-De-France, Martinique - Public domain dedication image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in New York City, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Back steps of apartments in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Vue General Des Ruines, à Uxmal.

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Wife of tractor driver on the Aldridge Plantation. [Near Leland,] Miss...

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Granville T. Woods - A black and white photo of a man with a mustache

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

Thomas Bethune (Blind Tom) - Public domain portrait engraving

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Children on the steps of a dilapidated house, Michigan?

Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Vicksburg Negroes and shop fronts. Mississippi

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Exterior of Damascus Gate from north, Jerusalem

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To Am Meer from Canzonnetta. "Canzonetta" died Aug. 30th 1897, on vers...

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Meeting of NYA [National Youth Administration] girls with an instructo...

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Financial district rooftops, looking southwest from One Wall Street, M...

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A group of people standing outside of a store, Along main street, Lanc...

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Saturday afternoon in London, Ohio, "the main street"

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dying Tecumseh, U.S. Capitol. New York Sterecope Card.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of wooden sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, U.S. Immigration Station...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Ellis Island, New York harbor, immigrants, immigration, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Le Caire; Jardin de l'Ezbekiye [Azbakiyah], sagoutier.

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The Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel, 19th century photo of Palestine a...

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A black and white photo of a grocery store, General store interior. Mo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of men working in a field, Lettuce workers. Ca...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jacques Cartier avec trois batiments remonte le fleuve Saint Laurent q...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, English, free to use, no copyright restrictions

View of St. John's Chapel from the Park

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

A black and white photo of two men, Unemployed trappers, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Omar, West Virginia - Public domain portrait print

Public domain photograph of Great Depression era, artistic, art photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sign advertising county fair, central Ohio

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Plaster workshop : men working on models, including a Corinthian capi...

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Carib Indians making Baskets, Dominica

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old brown stonehouses now occupied by Negroes in Chicago, Illinois, Ap...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Thomas Jefferson.] - Henry Bryan Hall

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Forsyth Park, Savannah, Ga. [View of an African-American woman with a ...

Picryl description: Public domain painting of a park, trees, picnic, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House model prepared by architectural section Region 1. New Haven, Con...

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A black and white photo of a church with a steeple, Country church, Mo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Opera House [interior]. New York Sterecope Card.

Public domain scan of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Slavery tax receipts for State of Virginia : 1860 and 1862. For Peter ...

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New Jersey. - A black and white photo of a pile of snow

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of people standing in front of a church, Linworth, Ohio. Peopl...

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Independence Hall, where Declaration of Independence was made in 1776....

Philadelphia 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... More

MITTAGESSEN [held by] NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN [at] "SS ""FRIEDRICH ...

Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, U.S. Immigration Station...

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Lynn Cochrane; Ship's cook, 1c, U.S.N.R.F.; Lost when U.S.A. C.T. Tico...

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

Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway depot, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro domestic servant, Atlanta, Georgia. May 1939.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Members of the congregation of the "store front" Baptist Church, Chica...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The residence of Metcalf Bowler, near Newport, R.I., as standing, 1886...

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Mexican family. Brawley County, Imperial Valley, California.

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maynardville, Tennessee - Public domain portrait print

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A couple of boys sitting next to each other, Puppeteers, Red House, We...

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[Cat atop pillow on a tree stump.]

New York 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 ass... More

Immigrants seated on long benches, Main Hall, U.S. Immigration Station...

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“Mobile anti-aircraft searchlights…”

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Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait photograph

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Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick. These bricks made on the pro...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Building a Skyscraper, Placing Steel Beams, Metropolitan Tower, New Yo...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.