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Free to Use and Reuse: Joy & Sorrow

This set highlights two opposite emotions--joy and sorrow. This collection highlights images from the Library of Congress that shows both. Unless otherwise noted, the images are from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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Anacostia, D.C. Frederick Douglass housing project. Boys playing leap frog near the project. Photo by Gordon Parks, 1942.

Children's rhymes and games, Blue Ridge Elementary School, Ararat, Virginia. Photo by Patrick Mullen, 1978. (American Folklife Center)

Civil war, sorrow: young girl in mourning ribbons. Photo, 1860s.

Man sitting with his head in his hands, New York City. Photo by Angelo Rizzuto, 1958.

"Victory Day." World War I Sheet music cover for song by A.L. Gardy and Philip Haims, 1919. (Music Division)

2012 Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2012.

Most of the fans wear crimson and white with the name of the football team on their garments at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2010.

High school locker room gloom. Photo by Walter Albertin, 1950.

National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2018.

When Tennessee, the 36th state, ratified suffrage on August 18, 1920, Alice Paul, chair of the National Woman's Party, unfurled the ratification banner at their headquarters in Washington, DC. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1920.

Toni Frissell's daughter Sidney as "The Wind" in A Child's Garden of Verses, Southampton, Long Island, New York. Photo by Toni Frissell, 1944.

"A Child of Sorrow." Cover of book by Zoilo Galang, 1921. (General Collections)

Cuban dancers on stilts dance around Old Havana, Cuba. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2010.

Childersburg, Alabama. Cousa Court Defense Housing Project. Laughing girl. Photo by John Collier, 1942.

Willis Cooper laughing and drinking coffee in the kitchen of his farmhouse near Radcliffe, Iowa. Photo by Jim Hansen, 1957.

"--Because Somebody Talked!" World War II poster by Wesley Heyman, 1943.

Jean Hunter crying at a mock coronation at the Madison Square Boys Club, New York City. Photo by Fred Palumbo, 1953.

Child seated on crate, holding box of Pearline washing compound, and crying. 1898.

Square dance at Wyoming Dude Ranch. Photo by Toni Frissell, 1955.

Two men, seated and laughing, probably in the Washington, DC, area. Photo by National Photo Co., around 1920.

Family gathering in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 1995.

"Death of President Lincoln: At Washington, D.C. April 15th 1865. The Nation's Martyr." Print by Currier & Ives, 1865.

Stones River National Cemetery, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2021.

Childersburg, Alabama. Cousa Court Defense Housing Project. Laughing boy. Photo by John Collier, 1942.

Playground Safety. Meme by U.S. Product Safety Commission, 2017. (General Collections)

Black children playing outdoors with a toy go-cart. Photo by Harris & Ewing, around 1920.

"Crying because he didn't get a fine new suit made out of American Red Cross pajamas. Rumanian children, many of whom have been outfitted with new clothes made of ARC blankets & pajamas." Photo by Red Cross, 1919.

Wedding with bride on stairs throwing bouquet to bridesmaids below. Photo by Robert H. McNeill, around 1950.

"Oceanside High School Masque Society will present 4 one act plays ..." Theater poster by WPA Federal Arts Project, 1939.

"Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator." Advertising print by Endicott, 1863.

"On vengeance bent, the wrathful lover started, while Fannie hid her face quite broken-hearted." Photo by Keystone View Col, 1906.

One of the very sick men in Laennec Barracks, a temporary tuberculosis hospital in Paris. Photo by American Red Cross, 1914-1920.

"The Last Request." Print by J.C. Wild after Charles Fenderich, 1844.

Raven. Engraving by R. Havell after drawing by John J. Audubon, 1827-1838. (Rare Book Division)

"The Pet Dove." Print by Charles Miller, 1872.

Public schools athletic club, Photo by Bain News Service, 1910-1915.

Guanica, Puerto Rico (vicinity). At a Three Kings' eve party in a tenant farmer's home in the sugar country. Photo by Jack Delano, 1942.

President Theodore Roosevelt laughing. Photo, 1919.

"The light has gone out of my life." Theodore Roosevelt personal diary entry, February 14, 1884. (Manuscript Division)

Barber shop located in Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2006.

Georgiana Farr Sibley, Life: "Great Ladies." Photo by Toni Frissell, 1968,