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Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

Tornado - Pleasant Grove, Ala. , May 1, 2011 -- Disaster survivors are...

The original database describes this as: Title: Photograph by Adam Dubrowa taken on 05/01/2011 in Alabama Production Date: 05/01/2011 Caption: Pleasant Grove, Ala. , May 1, 2011 -- Disaster survivors are lef... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

Glass blower Susan Knecht and her associate Allison Smith create art i...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Alabama's Coastal Connection - Boardwalk at Steadman's Landing

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A historic marker at the top of the boardwalk to the beach at Steadman's Landing, part of Baldwin County Parks System reads: Established... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

Picryl description: Public domain photo of 3d object, pottery, ceramics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Anniston, Ala., September 12, 2014 -- Alabama students examine simulat...

The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2014-09-12 13:28:51 UTC Photographer Name: Benjamin Crossley Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Potter Kerry Kennedy molds mud into pots at the Kentuck Arts Center in...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Jerry Brown pottery, Hamilton, Alabama

The only known mule-powered pug mill still operating in the United States is located in northwest Alabama. Ninth-generation potter Jerry Brown and his mule, Blue, mix and grind the clay used to make his unique ... More

Cross-stitched art [i.e., needlepoint] located in sanctuary, Highlands...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14ht-15th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Stuart's Faneuil Hall portrait of Washington

A paper cut of a man with a sword and a flag, North and Central America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. This incomplete map without title covers only the east portion showing in the map entitled "Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisian... More

Plan du Fort Condé de la Mobille, marqué en rouge dans l'Etat quil est...

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Shows Mobile and Fort Condé (later renamed Fort Charlotte), Alabama. "Echelle de cent cinquante toises." Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, red, yellow). "This Fr... More

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. Prime meridian: [Paris]. "This map of the Mississippi River Valley from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Mobile includes inter... More

Carte d'une partie du cours de la riviere de la Mobille et de celle de...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Païs cedés, sheet Ist, containing the coast of Louisiana and Florida

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A plan of part of the rivers Tombecbe, Alabama, Tensa, Perdido, & Scam...

Scale ca. 1:126,720. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Cadastral map. Drawn from the original map in British archives "Col. Off. 5. Vol. 73, pp. 103-104. (Old A.W.I. 276)." Inclu... More

Virginia Colonial Safety Committee; Edmund Pendleton, et al to Thomas ...

Printed Commission as Commander of the Albemarle County, Virginia, Militia

Powder Horn, 18th century - Public domain dedication photo

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Powder Horn, 18th century - Public domain weapon drawing

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plano del Puerto de la Mobila Situado en latd. No. de 30⁰ 10ʹ m. tomad...

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the entrance to Mobile Bay, with the peninsula of "Pta. de la Mobilla" and the "Ya. Delfina." On verso: No. 188. LC... More

Plano del Pto. de la Movila situado en la latd. N. de 30⁰ 10ʹ tomado á...

Scale ca. 1:100,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Zoonen. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the entrance to Mobile Bay. Mounted on cloth backing. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower ... More

Robert Sayer - A plan of Mobile Bar, nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:95,000. "The soundings are in feet." Shows "Isle Dauphine," "Mobile Point," "Pelican Id.," and other islands. Plate no. "33." From Thomas Jefferys' The West-India atlas. 1794. LC Maps of North Ameri... More

Costa desde la Mobila asta la Bahía de Sn. Josef.

Also shows fort and settlements. Depths shown by soundings. Watermark: J. Whatman. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 824 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

Crowell & Daughin Sts., Mobile, Alabama

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Orr, J.W. & Bro.

Trouts Farm, Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related names: Mrs. George Trout. All buildings with molded brick cornices. Built by John Trout. Corresponding reference print in LOT 118... More

Wesleyan University, Florence, Alabama

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Robertson, Seibert & Shearman.

Ogee frame, 18th century - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Muse...

Public domain scan of a print featuring furniture, art, or architecture design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Read-Clayton-Townsend House, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11835-67. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, Prints... More

Ogee frame, 18th century - Public domain dedication photo

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Collins Plantation, Lake Phelps, Tyrrell County, North Carolina

Alternate title: Somerset. Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Also a grainary. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-89. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architectu... More

Tuskegee Female College, Ala. - A drawing of a building with a clock t...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Duval, (P.S.) & Co.

[Map of Mobile Bay] / - Public domain vintage map

Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink "You are hereby request to summon the ..." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Body armor, Powder Horn and Wampum Shoulder Belt

Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Trouts Farm, Roanoke, Roanoke County, Virginia

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800. Related names: Mrs. George Trout. All buildings with molded brick cornices. Built by John Trout. Corresponding reference print in LOT 118... More

Mississippi Territory and Georgia - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

The state of Mississippi and Alabama territory.

Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. "Shallus Sc." From: Samuel Lewis atlas, 1817. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map of an area of Spanish West Florida from Lake Maurepas to Pensacola...

Depths shown by soundings. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General o... More

Prospectus for publishing by subscription A map of the state of Louisi...

Maxwell Chambers house, Spencer vic., Rowan County, North Carolina

Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1800-1810. Corresponding reference print in LOT 11839-80. Credit line: Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, Library of Congress, P... More

Survey from the bay of Perdido to Mobile Point made by order of Genl. ...

Pen-and-ink. "April 1813." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan of the fortification at Mobile Point

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Indexed. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 466" on verso. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of... More

[Sketch map of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend of Tallapoosa River, 27th ...

Shows fortifications and troop positions. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth. Title provided by cataloger. "I drew this description of the battle ground & made the memorandums on my hat the morning after the battle,... More

Plan of Bend and breast works of Tohopeka, the battle of the 27th Marc...

Does not show troops or details of battle. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backed paper. Title from verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Andrew Jackson to Huntsville Alabama Citizens, May 10, 1814

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Plan shewing the attack made by a British squadron on Fort Bowyer at M...

Relief shown by hachures. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Unfinished map of a portion of land along Perdido Bay, Spanish West F...

Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West Florida, 1805-17 : the m... More

[Plat of land along the Rio de la Movila near its juncture with Bayou ...

Shows area in Mobile County, Alabama. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Place names in Spanish. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Oriented with north to the right. Watermarks: D & C Blauw and fleur-de-lis in a sh... More

Rough sketches of the Creek Country : [Alabama].

Shows unspecified Creek Indian territory in Alabama. Title from verso. Pen-and-ink. On verso in pencil at upper left: Catalogued W. Imperfect: Fold-lined, mounted on paper, mounted on cloth, edged with cloth ta... More

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their statement at Fort Strother o...

Shows Alabama and Georgia from the Tombigbee River in the west to the southern Great Smoky Mountains and the Savannah River in the east and indicating U.S. Army forts in that region. Relief shown by hachures. T... More

Map of Alabama constructed from the surveys in the General Land Office...

Scale 1:950,400; 15 miles to an in. Prime meridian: Washington and London. Includes statistical and geographical notes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A map of Mexico, Louisiana, and the Missouri Territory : including als...

Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes, ill., and tables of coordinates and other statistical data. Imperfect: Backed... More

Plano borrador de la parte de la Florida Occidental contenida entre el...

Depths shown by soundings. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Watermark: 1808 J Whatman. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pintado, Surveyor General of Spanish West ... More

Map of Alabama / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by contours and hachures. Prime meridian: Washington and London. "Entered according to Act of Congress the 29 day of Octor. 1818 by John Melish." Includes statistical and geographical notes. Availa... More

To the friends of our country. [Alabama 1824?]

Regarding Andrew Jackson's land speculation.; Jackson, Andrew.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Epheme... More

Plan & view of the city of Mobile

"Copyright secured by according to law." Includes city view and insets of 9 buildings. LC copy mounted on cloth. Annotated on verso: Goodwin and Haire Plan of Mobile, 1825. In pencil in lower left corner on ver... More

Miller Covered Bridge Construction

Miller Covered Bridge Construction Public domain photograph of military activity, World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nouvelle carte itinéraire de la France par départements et divisions m...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Alabama / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown in hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. From: A general atlas, Fielding Lucas, Baltimore, 1826. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Report of the committee appointed to examine the state bank. Jan. 8th,...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 4.

An abstract of the census of Alabama, taken in 1827.

Census; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 5.

Map of the territory of Florida, from its northern boundary to lat. 27...

Covers portions of southern states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. Bibliography. LC Trails 237 Available also through the Library of ... More

To the public ... July 30, 1829.

Statements by the citizens of Tuscaloosa regarding the defence of Seth Barton.; Campaign.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full t... More

[Campaign document.] - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Campaign.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 1, Folder 8.

Georgia, from the latest authorities

Covers the southeast United States from northern Georgia south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. Shows general locations of Native American tribes. Relief shown pictorially. In lower margin... More

Map of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama : constructed from the lates...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Alabama

"*GPO: 2004--304-337/00113. Reprint 2004." Title from panel. Includes map "Creek land cessions, 1733-1832," text, and col. ill. Map "The Creek War, 1813-14," text, and ill. (some col.) on verso. Available also ... More

Survey for a projected canal between Mobile and Pensacola Bays in Alab...

Annotated and signed on verso: Survey for a canal between Mobile and Pensacola Bays in Alabama & Florida. 1833. M. Fillmore. "Surveyed under direction of Lieut W.C. Williams 7th Infantry ; Assisted by T.F Drayt... More

Allston, Same R - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: A154

Letters Received

Balton, F S - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: B29

Letters Received

Letter from Magowan to Winsor concerning freight prospects at Mobile v...

Andrew Jackson, with the Tennessee forces, on the Hickory Grounds (Ala...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting on a horse, facing right, with military troops in the background on the lower right. Includes quotes by and about Jackson. (DLC/PP-1903:41860).

Belton, F S - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: B29

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Allston, Sam R - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: A154

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[Blank], [Blank] - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: B57

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Gratiot, C - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: G44

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Brooke, Geo M - State: Alabama - Year: 1835 - File Number: B58

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Alabama Legislature, January 2, 1836

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

A map of part of Alabama & Florida, showing the route of the proposed ...

Map of southern Alabama and part of western Florida showing roads, cities, and drainage. Scale ca. 1:800,000. At head of title: No. 1. From Letter from the Secretary of War. LC Railroad maps, 388 Description de... More

McIntosh, J S - State: Alabama - Year: 1836 - File Number: M180

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New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost

Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More

Map of Georgia & Alabama exhibiting the post offices, post roads, cana...

Detailed map showing relief by hachures, drainage, township and county boundaries, cities and towns, canals, roads, and railroads. Scale ca. 1:650,000. From his The American Atlas (London, J. Arrowsmith, 1839) ... More

Expansion & contraction. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A ludicrous contrast of two influential Democrats, the obese Alabama Representative Dixon Hall Lewis and gaunt "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair. The artist comments upon the unlikely alliance established in... More

Clar de kitchen. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Another Whig campaign satire, picturing incumbent Martin Van Buren and his Democratic advisers or "Kitchen Cabinet" routed by Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. In a domestic kitchen Harrison, dressed as a ... More

Frayssoux, E S - State: Alabama - Year: 1842 - File Number: F40

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The north coast of the Gulf of Mexico for St. Marks to Galveston

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Hawkins, S - State: Alabama - Year: 1843 - File Number: H145

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Jackson quelling the mutiny - Public domain book illustration, Library...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, on horseback, raising a rifle to take aim at mutinous soldiers. Facsimile of letter from Jackson to F.P. Blair dated Hermitage, April 9th, 1845, on verso of mount. Published in Life... More

Hosteller, S - State: Alabama - Year: 1843 - File Number: H19

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[Jeremiah Clemens, half-length portrait, facing front]

Democratic Senator from Alabama, 1849-1853. Scratched on back of plate: 151; Sen. Clemens, Indiana. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Con... More

Britt-Williams-Borders House, Greenwood Street, Gordon, Houston County...

Survey number: HABS AL-568 Building/structure dates: ca. 1845 Initial Construction

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

Capitol Park showing reconstructed architectural features of the old c...

A little-known fact is that Tuscaloosa was actually the state capitol before Montgomery from 1826 to 1846. This site uses actual bricks and stonework from the original building to outline the ground floor and p... More

Funeral obsequies of free-trade, Political Cartoon

A gloomy view of the effects of the Polk administration's Tariff of 1846. The artist echoes Whig condemnation of the measure as adverse to American trade. A funeral cortege, composed of administration supporter... More

Fantasia and variations on the Ethiopian air The rose of Alabama, op. ...

cover page only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyri... More

The Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama

Located 23 miles from Mobile and surrounded by 300-year-old oak trees, the Grand Hotel was originally built in 1847 as a two-story building with 40 rooms. The Grand has since expanded to include more than 400 g... More

Gayle, John - State: Alabama - Year: 1848 - File Number: G121

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Stained glass window, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, ...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name. Under the archite... More

State of Alabama - National Parks Gallery

Name: Alabama Level: 40-ft. Donor: State of Alabama Dates: 1850/1850 Original material: marble Dimensions: 2' x 4' Sculptor/Carver: J.M.N.B. Nix & Co. Wetumpka, Ala. [MR] Original inscription: Alabama. A Union ... More