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Maps and History
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Do you like maps, history, and libraries? Maps and History was a popular Twitter account that highlights historic maps and photos in the public domain from digital library collections. I have moved the account to Bluesky.
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Civil liberties in war times by Max Lerner City wide forum. ([between 1936 and 1940])
By: Federal Art Project

#publicdomain #historicalphoto #vintagephotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos/item/98510239/
Amateur contest for children Final eliminations, Sept. 24, 1936. (1936.)
By: Levine, Estelle

#historicalphotos #photography #history

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos/item/97502865/
January 30, 2026 at 10:25 PM
[Private Elijah C. Summers of Co. B, 30th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and 17th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps in uniform] ([between 1862 and 1865])
By: Ingmire, F. W., 1822-1876

#libraryofcongress #americana #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/lilj/item/2022631618/
January 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
24. CULVERT WITH CONCRETE HEADWALL AND SIDEWALLS CARRYING THE LATERAL UNDER 8TH AVENUE. - Highline Canal, Sand Creek Lateral, Beginning at intersecti... (2016-04-16T00:00:00Z)

#libraryofcongress #photography #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/co0841.photos.316793p/
January 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Beecher (family group) ([between 1855 and 1865])

#vintage #photography #archives

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/brhc/item/2017897109/
January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
One of the old, architecturally iconic, English cottage-style Pure Oil gasoline stations with steep pitched roofs that once dotted the American landscape. This one, in... (2014-03-16.)

#vintagephotos #historicalphoto #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/highsm/item/2014630574/
January 30, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Cirkut view of De Soto, Missouri, Iron Mountain car shops (c1913.)
By: Milfeld, F. J.

#historicalphoto #americana #historicalphotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan/item/2007662407/
January 30, 2026 at 8:53 PM
[Exterior of old Pennsylvania Station, 6th & B Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C., as it appeared in the 1880's(?) showing street traffic in front and insert of int... ([between 1909 and 1932])

#libraryofcongress #photography #americana

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/npco/item/90710994/
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Market Square, Chattanooga, Tenn. (c1907.)
By: Detroit Publishing Co.

#publicdomain #historicalphotos #archives

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016800158/
January 30, 2026 at 8:24 PM
[Stenographers' room, Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Mich.] ([1903 Nov.])
By: Detroit Publishing Co.

#publicdomain #libraryofcongress #history

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016812067/
January 30, 2026 at 8:08 PM
[Atlantic City, N.J., the [Hotel] Rudolf] ([between 1890 and 1910])
By: Detroit Publishing Co.

#libraryofcongress #oldphotos #history

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016795448/
January 30, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Metro light-rail transit cars at a station in St. Paul, Minnesota, the capital city of the state of Minnesota. Fittingly, one's sign denotes St. Paul and the other Minnea... (2019-10-23.)

#historicalphoto #vintagephotos #archives

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/highsm/item/2020723407/
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
J.W. Johnson's Old Reliable Virginia Minstrels world's best colored show : the show that is different. ([1921?])
By: Erie Litho. & Printing Co.

#vintagephotos #americana #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/var/item/2014636997/
January 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Signal bridge, U.S.S. Montana ([between 1909 and 1920])

#historicalphoto #americana #vintagephotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/npco/item/2016821648/
January 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Küche ([between 1840 and 1870])
By: Dondorf, Bernhard, 1809-1902.

#libraryofcongress #history #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pga/item/2003666706/
January 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Calle de San Francisco, San Juan, P.R. ([between 1900 and 1906])
By: Detroit Publishing Co.

#oldphotos #vintage #archives

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016803658/
January 30, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Arrowhead Hot Springs (c1907.)
By: Pillsbury Picture Co.

#history #libraryofcongress #historicalphoto

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan/item/2007660516/
January 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The marble worker (c[between 1900 and 1920])
By: Philpot, Glyn, 1884-1937

#vintagephotos #libraryofcongress #oldphotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016817208/
January 30, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Roger Williams University--Nashville, Tenn.--Normal class ([1899])

#publicdomain #photography #vintage

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/item/00651764/
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Shacks inhabited by Negroes, along river on highway between Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia] ([1938 Sept.])
By: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990

#history #historicalphoto #photography

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017753300/
January 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
[Italian neighborhood with street market, Mulberry Street, New York] ([between 1900 and 1910])
By: Detroit Publishing Co.

#libraryofcongress #history #historicalphotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/det/item/2016817800/
January 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
The vanished meal; or, the mystery of the bankers' lunch club (1911 May 31.)
By: Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

#oldphotos #archives #historicalphotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2011648991/
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Richmond Field Hospital, 1330 Cutting Boulevard, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA (Documentation compiled after 1933)
By: Historic American Buildings Survey

#photography #libraryofcongress #history

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/ca3068/
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 PM
[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Gibbon along the balustrade. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.] (2007.)
By: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-

#historicalphoto #archives #vintagephotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/highsm/item/2011648109/
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Na ulit︠s︡i︠e︡ v Samarkandi︠e︡ ([between 1905 and 1915])

#photography #history #vintagephotos

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/item/2018680193/
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Friends of the deceased's family, an annual memorial meeting in the family cemetery. In the mountains near Jackson, Kentucky. See general caption no. 1... (1940 Aug.?)

#oldphotos #photography #americana

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/item/2017757300/
January 30, 2026 at 2:45 PM