The Library of Congress

  • 44,201 photos
  • 506M views
  • Member since 2008
  • Last upload was
    3 days ago
  • 🇺🇸
Yes. We really are THE Library of Congress. We invited your tags and comments and you responded. Wow, did you respond! Thank You. The identifying information is appreciated--many of our old photos came to us with very little description.

When were these photos taken?

2025-06-21T02:32:19.002959 image/svg+xml Matplotlib v3.10.3, https://matplotlib.org/ 1825 2023 10K

Where were these photos taken?

<1% of these photos are geotagged.

These links will take you to Flickr.com. For now.

Photos of interest

These photos have had lots of views, comments, and favourites.

Recent uploads

The last upload was 3 days ago.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

European Quarter, Calcutta, India (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Mrs. Vandyke Brown standing in boat yard, holding dauschund [i.e. dachshund] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • PM Clark said:
    Strange craft she is standing on, some sort of odd wartime ironclad?
  • swanq said:
    There is a disk with writing on it at the near side of the floating structure. In the hi-res image, I can make out "Wild Duck" (including the quotation marks). I haven't figured out the rest of the writing.
  • PM Clark said:
    My google search claimed: 'During the Civil War, "wild duck" was a term used for a type of underwater weapon, specifically torpedoes, that were designed to be launched from small, fast boats to target enemy ships. These torpedoes were often constructed from repurposed materials like barrels and were intended to be detonated upon impact with a target.' I will have to look for more information now!

Socialists meeting in Union Square, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Berkman speaks at Socialist meeting in Union Square, New York (LOC)

No comments. Yet.

Do you know anything about what’s in these photos?

🇺🇸 Other members from USA