Bathing Machines, Scheveningen (LOC)

Some cool photo library images:

Bathing Machines, Scheveningen (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Bathing Machines, Scheveningen

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13396

Call Number: LC-B2- 2738-14

N.Y. schools opening (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

N.Y. schools opening

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
N.Y.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14193

Call Number: LC-B2- 2821-4

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Irene Bracker, mother of two children, employed at the roundhouse as a wiper, Clinton, Iowa

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Women--Employment
Railroad employees
United States--Iowa--Clinton

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-13 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34800

Call Number: LC-USW36-635

Auto polo (LOC)

Some cool photo library images:

Auto polo (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Auto polo

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11113

Call Number: LC-B2- 2473-9

[Gas pump with clothesline, barn and horse-drawn wagon in background] (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
[Gas pump with clothesline, barn and horse-drawn wagon in background]

[between 1941 and 1942]

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Farms
Gasoline pumps
United States

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection ph in Lot 11671-29 is missing (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34447

Call Number: LC-USF35-536

Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico? (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Lunch of a sugar worker on a plantation, vicinity of Puerto Rico?

1942 Jan.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Food
Agricultural laborers
Sugar plantations
United States--Puerto Rico

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-25 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34026

Call Number: LC-USF35-433

Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

A few nice photo library images I found:

Lincoln, Nebraska (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer.

Lincoln, Nebraska

1942

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photograph shows Park and billboard: Lincoln has gone 40 Days without a Traffic Fatality, help us add another day.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Parks
United States--Nebraska--Lincoln

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection Lot 11671-28 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34286

Call Number: LC-USF35-638

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill.

1942 Dec.

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad locomotives
Shipping
Fuel
United States--Illinois--Chicago

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-1 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34645

Call Number: LC-USW36-551

Grain elevators near Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe trip (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Grain elevators near Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe trip

1943 March

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Grain elevators
United States--Texas--Amarillo

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-6 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34719

Call Number: LC-USW36-703

Nice Photo Library photos

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Studying heaven

Image by SPIngram
The Jubilee Library situated in the wonderful city of Brighton is a modern, contemporary open-plan building housing a huge selection of reading material. I was on the ground floor looking up when I took this, and thought it looked like a spaceship :)

Press
L (Large) - F ( Fav)

Aurelia Phelan, Dorothy Lazarus, Helen Smith, and Millie Lytle (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Aurelia Phelan, Dorothy Lazarus, Helen Smith, and Millie Lytle

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10932

Call Number: LC-B2- 2455-6

Expanding access to internet and technology in Mexico

A few nice photo library images I found:

Expanding access to internet and technology in Mexico

Image by Gates Foundation
The internet provides the opportunity for people to improve their lives. Local student Pilar utilizes the new computer system at the Maria C. Bancalari Public Library. The organization Conaculta supports nationwide access to the internet and technology for Mexico's public libraries. (Mexico, 2006)

Join the conversation on our Community Page.

view of the National Library of Sweden

Image by Kungliga biblioteket
The library is situated in the park Humlegården in central Stockholm. Photo by Istvan Borbas/National Library of Sweden

Nice Photo Library photos

Some cool photo library images:

free internet

Image by striatic
free internet at the toronto reference library.

they had the right mouse button removed from all of the computers, which i thought was kind of lame.

Louis S. Reingold - bather (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Louis S. Reingold - bather

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15146

Call Number: LC-B2- 2951-9

Library of Congress Exhibit Now Open In Second Life

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Library of Congress Exhibit Now Open In Second Life

Image by John "Pathfinder" Lester
"The Library 2.0 has been working with the Library of Congress on a Declaration of Independence display that was officially announced and which opened yesterday on Info Island in Second Life. The exhibit includes dioramas, streamed audio, text in the form of larger-than-life documents and SL notecards, information kiosks and even period furniture."

Read about it here, and visit it here.

Walking among larger-than-life photo scans of the documents, listening to them being read aloud, browsing the text, and sitting in the period furniture...there's something special about the immersiveness of this exhibit.

Library of Congress Exhibit Now Open In Second Life

Image by John "Pathfinder" Lester
"The Library 2.0 has been working with the Library of Congress on a Declaration of Independence display that was officially announced and which opened yesterday on Info Island in Second Life. The exhibit includes dioramas, streamed audio, text in the form of larger-than-life documents and SL notecards, information kiosks and even period furniture."

Read about it here, and visit it here.

Walking among larger-than-life photo scans of the documents, listening to them being read aloud, browsing the text, and sitting in the period furniture...there's something special about the immersiveness of this exhibit.

One of the cuts through the mountains, near Cajon, Calif., Cajon Pass, Calif. (LOC)

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One of the cuts through the mountains, near Cajon, Calif., Cajon Pass, Calif. (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

One of the cuts through the mountains, near Cajon, Calif., Cajon Pass, Calif.

1943 March

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroads
Passes (Landforms)
Mountains
Cajon Pass (Calif.)
San Bernardino Mountains (Calif.)
United States--California--Cajon

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-9 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34759

Call Number: LC-USW36-698

"20th Century" limited in Hudson River (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

"20th Century" limited in Hudson River

1912 March 13 (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows cars of the 20th Century Limited, an express passenger train of the New York Central Railroad, which derailed on March 13, 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10222

Call Number: LC-B2- 2376-3

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

C. & N.W. R.R., Mrs. Elibia Siematter, working as a sweeper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Women--Employment
Railroad construction & maintenance
Railroad employees
United States--Iowa--Clinton

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-13 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34803

Call Number: LC-USW36-638

Cool Photo Library images

A few nice photo library images I found:

Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill. (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Freight Depot of the U.S. Army consolidating station, Chicago, Ill.

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad stations
Automobiles
Shipping
United States--Illinois--Chicago

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-13 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34797

Call Number: LC-USW36-632

[Marty Berghammer, Cincinnati NL (baseball)] (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Marty Berghammer, Cincinnati NL (baseball)]

[1913]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Berghammer, Cinci.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12629

Call Number: LC-B2- 2649-6

C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., general view of part of the yard, Bensenville, Ill. (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

C. M. St. P. & P. R.R., general view of part of the yard, Bensenville, Ill.

1943 May

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad freight cars
Railroad shops & yards
United States--Illinois--Bensenville

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-14 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34810

Call Number: LC-USW36-613

British Peace delegates (LOC)

A few nice photo library images I found:

British Peace delegates (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

British Peace delegates

[1913 May]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows British members of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary Committee which met in New York City in May, 1913. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12815

Call Number: LC-B2- 2671-1

Library Client

Image by Blue Mountains Library
Mark Archer gets around on his buggy and visits Springwood Library regularly. Here he is in full street regalia.

Format: Colour photo, digital
Rights Info: Attribution, Noncommercial, Creative Commons
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/library/
Part of: Image Library
Photo Credit : John Merriman