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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of photographs and prints are copyright-free, yours to use anyway you like. This set of winter photos offers a window in the worlds of lost arts of ice harvesting, snowshoe-making and finally, the society set of snowbirds in Palm Beach, Florida, in the 1950s.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Native Americans, Photos, Prints and Photographs Division
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"The Exhibit of American Negroes" was a display of hundreds of photographs, charts and graphs detailing the lives of Black Americans at the 1900 Paris Exposition, or world's fair. It was put together by W.E.B. Du Bois, Thomas Calloway and Daniel A.P. Murray, three major activists and educators of the era (Murray worked for the Library). Here, we look at three photographs of women that Du Bois selected for the exhibition.
Posted in: African American History, Exhibitions, Free to Use and Reuse, Library Work and Employees, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
After Orville Wright's death in 1948, his estate donated a vast collection of his papers to the Library, including more than 300 glass plate and nitrate negatives of photographs taken (mostly) by the brothers between 1897 and 1928; images that provide an important and fascinating record of their home lives and of their attempts to fly. His "success house," Hawthorn Hill, is in many of these photos and is today a museum.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, LCM, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month, which makes it an excellent time to check in on the Library's collection of Free to Use and Reuse images, this time from a set devoted to Hispanic life and culture. We look at two photos of two young Mexican women who came to work in the U.S. One is of a mural devoted to the legendary actress Delores del Río, the first Latina to become a Hollywood icon. The second is Dorothea Lange's unforgettable Depression-era image of the daughter of a Mexican field laborer in rural Arizona.
Posted in: Farm Security Administration Photographs, Free to Use and Reuse, Hispanic American History, Hispanic and Latino, Performing Arts, Photos
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Free to Use and Reuse sets of curated prints and photographs include subjects such as travel, autumn and Halloween, weddings, movie palaces and dozens more. This set of athletes in action include baseball icon Jackie Robinson, early race car driver Joan Newton Cuneo and women hurdlers.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Free to Use and Reuse copyright-free prints and photographs are among the most popular items in the Library's vast collections. Here, we explore free photos of aircraft -- a futuristic plane from 1910, barnstorming wing walker Lillian Boyer and a romantic Pan American poster advertising flights to the Caribbean.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse
Posted by: Neely Tucker
As college football bowl games give way to the NFL playoffs this time of year, the specter of Red Grange — the Galloping Ghost — who starred for the University of Illinois in the mid-1920s and brought respectability to the sketchy professional sport, lives on in photographs from the Library’s collections.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, LCM
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's collection of art from the "golden age of travel posters" are copyright-free and can be downloaded and used for any purpose you like.
Posted in: Farm Security Administration Photographs, Free to Use and Reuse
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Feb. 2021 set of Free to Use and Reuse Photographs in the Library's collections highlights African American Women Changemakers. We highlight the careers of Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
Posted in: African American History, Civil Rights, Congress Blogs, Free to Use and Reuse, Photos, Women's History