alexandria, virginia

Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher at 30 Year Clean Water Program for A...

Deputy Administrator Linda Fisher at 30 Year Clean Water Program for Alexandria, VA

A plan of Alexandria, now Belhaven. - Public domain map

Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink. Cadastral map showing lots and lot nos. Includes indexed list of "Proprietors names." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Panel from the Ballroom at Gadsby's Tavern, Alexandria, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

James Adam - Creamer, 18th century

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Plan of the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia, 1798 /

Relief shown by hachures. Authorship attributed to George Gilpin in P.L. Phillips' A list of maps of America. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 97 Stephenson. Cartograp... More

An address to the voters for electors of President and Vice-President ...

Imprint 3.; Political campaign. 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 182, Folder 30.

Constitution of the Washington Society. Instituted the 28th of January...

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 181, Folder 3.

Dalton-Herbert Houses, 201 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, Independe...

Survey number: HABS VA-934 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000928

Valuable lots of ground for sale, contiguous to the town of Alexandria...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 181, Folder 12. Copy... More

Washington and Georgetown from the Alexandria Road

Public domain photo of landscape art painting, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

An act concerning the bank of Alexandria ... February 15, 1811.

Imprint 1.; On verso : 12 00 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 183, Folder 8.

Washington and Georgetown from the Alexandria Road

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Plan of the city of Washington and territory of Columbia / engraved by...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. of the Capitols at Richmond and Washington. LC copy fold-lined and taped. DCP

Map of part of the Potomac River, from the head of tide water to Alexa...

Chart of the head of navigation of the Potomac River shewing the route...

Nautical chart of the Potomac estuary within the District of Columbia. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Stephenson. Cartography of no... More

Chart of the head of navigation of the Potomac River shewing the route...

Nautical chart with extensive annotations in col. and lead pencils to show proposed railroad routes connecting central Washington and Alexandria (Va.). Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and sou... More

Map of the Potomac & Anacostia rivers between Washington D.C. & Alexan...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Copied from the tracining [sic] of original and sent to Com'd'r J.A. Dahlgren U.S.N., M.S. Smith, Cap't of Top'l Eng'rs Asst. C.S. in charge of Office, Coas... More

Plan of the town of Alexandria, D.C. with the environs : exhibiting th...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours. Copy annotated in ink: Presented to Edw. B. Stelle, July 1853. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Stephenson. Cartography of northern Virginia, pl. 3... More

Your note for dolls. will be due at the Bank of the Old Dominion, Alex...

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To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia....

Trimmed to 26.5 x 53.5 cm. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 188,... More

Alexandria on the Potomac, Washington in the distance

Sketch shows ships docked on the waterfront of Alexandria, Virginia, with Washington's Capitol dome rising in the distance. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853... More

Map and profile of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road with its Warren...

Printed topographic strip map with manuscript annotations to show the geologic structure along the route of the railroad. The Alexandria and the Chesapeake and Ohio canals and stage stable for horses used on th... More

Important to travelers going South from Washington. Richmond, Frederic...

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 186, Folder 45a.

Alexandria from "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia"

This image has been taken from scan 000049 from volume 01 of "Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the ... More

Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. Published in: Civil War... More

Nr. Alexandria, Virginia - Public domain scenic drawing

Title inscribed lower right. Formerly Waud no. C-31. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.958) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Queen Street warehouse, Alexandria, Virginia]

Copyright by S. McMullin, Philadelphia, Pa. Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia (Civil War time)

Address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Public domain photograph of electric wires, power line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ft. Scott [and] Towards Alexandria

Two scenes. Title inscribed below images. Formerly Waud no. B-96. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.860) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The National Cemetery, at Alexandria. Virginia

No. 160. Public domain photograph - grave, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Song of the convalescent camp near Alexandria, Va. Air.-Root hog or di...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Dave, messenger, Alexandria, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia (where George Washington atten...

Public domain portrait photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Detailed map of part of Virginia from Alexandria to the Potomac River...

Relief shown by form lines. Shows parts of Arlington and Fairfax counties, part of the defenses of Washington, roads, railroads, towns, vegetation, houses, fences, names of residents, and drainage. "211, L. She... More

Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)

Freedman's Barracks, Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

Photograph shows a group of freedmen and women standing in front of the barracks. No. B350. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Eastern view of round house and depot, Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Photograph shows a locomotive moving away from the roundhouse at the Orange & Alexandria railroad yard in Alexandria, Virginia. Telegraph wire insulators on utility pole in foreground. No. 104.

Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B608. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Soldiers' Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows Soldiers' Cemetery which was founded in 1862 and may have been one of the first Civil War cemeteries. No. 187. Published in: Russell's Civil War photographs : 116 historic prints / by Andrew J... More

Ulic (John A.B.) Dahlgren's Naval Battery. Road to Fairfax County, nea...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plan e : [map showing two blockhouses between "Turn Pike Road" and "br...

Shows defenses of Washington situated between Little River Turnpike (Duke Street) and the Telegraph Road bridge crossing Cameron Run. Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Includes pr... More

Building stockade, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows a group of African American men digging a trench in front of the stockade. No. B524. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 91". Original neg. is at National Archive. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Ward in Hospital. Convalescent Camp, Alexandria Virginia

Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)

Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B542. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. (Price, Birch & Co. dealers in slaves...

Address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridge and block house on Orange and Alexandria R.R. near Bull Run, Vi...

No. 4795. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Bird's-eye view of Sickel Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Ru...

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Egbert Guy Fowx (American, born 1821) Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bull Run. Orange and Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Union Mills, Virginia Orange and Alexandria R.R. (Andrew J. Russel)

No. B1319. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

View of the Long Bridge over the Potomac; Alexandria Road On Virginia ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical book on American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and George...

Photograph showing a railroad bridge across the Potomac River. Three men are seated at right: S. Seymour, chief engineer, C.B. Morse, constructing engineer, S.S. Post & Co., contractors. Exhibited: "East of th... More

[Map of part of Fairfax County, Virginia, south of the city of Alexand...

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

View on Bull Run, crossing of Orange and Alexandria railroad

No. B161. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Alexandria, Virginia. Soldiers rest, American Civil War Glass Negative...

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26th New York Infantry at Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, Virginia

Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)

[Troops in formation at Camp of the 44th New York Infantry near Alexan...

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, w... More

Plan of the redoubt and rifle pits ensilading [sic] the Leesburg and F...

Includes main roads, buildings used for the hospital, chapel, stables, theater, and headquarters encampment of Brigadier General John Sedgwick.

Headquarters of convalescent camp, near Alexandria, Virginia

No. B1174. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

U.S. Military Railroad Bridge, Bull Run, Virginia Orange and Alexandri...

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Camp of the 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, Virginia

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, w... More

Alexandria, Virginia. The Marshall house, American Civil War Glass Neg...

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Practice Chapel Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia

Photograph shows five men seated on the lawn in front of the chapel. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Series: Mathew Brady ... More

Sketch of the seat of war in Alexandria & Fairfax Cos., by V. P. Corbe...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 522 Gives the location and names of Union regiments, entrenchments, houses, names of residents, railroads, roads, and drainage, "Arlington Heights," "Alexandria Hei... More

Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 1290. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 7, pg. 233". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

View on Pope's Head, near burnt bridge, Orange & Alexandria Railroad

Photograph showing two locomotives pulling into the Union Mills Station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in Clifton, Virginia. Two soldiers stand guard on the bank at right. No. 229. Title from another ve... More

Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B1143. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

Battery Rodgers - An old black and white photo of two men standing nex...

Hand written on verso: 15 inch Rodman smooth bore Battery Rodgers, near Alexandria. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 5, p. 88. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Confederate Trestle Work on Alexandria Railroad

Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830–1902) The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

View on Bull Run, crossing of Orange and Alexandria railroad

No. B136. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Bull Run. Orange and Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills

Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Military Railroad Construction Corps repairing Orange and Alexand...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a train station, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Soldier's Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

No. 4451. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Government coal wharf, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows two men on the shore of the Potomac River facing the wharf. No. 123.

Capt. Smith, 2nd N.Y. Artillery, Ft. Ward

Title inscribed vertically upper right, and lower left. Inscribed above one soldier: to the left. Inscribed above image: [Har?] of Scrigment?] Formerly Waud no. C-79. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1... More

Provost Marshal--and police of Alexandria searching and examining a pr...

Title inscribed under image. Inscribed: all portraits got rubbed while riding. Published in: New York Illustrated News, July 22 1861, p. 188. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.55) Forms part of: Morgan ... More

Quartermaster's corrall (i.e. corral), near Alexandria, Virginia

No. 1291. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Quartermaster's Wharf, Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B440. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Fort Ellsworth, Arlington Line, overlooking Alexandria, Virginia,

Fort Ellsworth, located on top of the hill in the background, was constructed following the Federal occupation of Virginia in May 1861. General John G. Barnard describes Fort Ellsworth as such: “This work is w... More

Private F. E. Brownell, 11th New York Infantry, "Ellsworth's Avenger"

No. 1494. Mounted with two other photographs with general caption: Marshall House, Alex., Va., & Col. Ellsworth. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Battery Rodgers, Potomac River, near Alexandria

No. B469. Hand written on verso: 15 inch Rodman. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 5, p. 87. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)

The great 10,000 mile wall China

No. 15348. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Virginia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Assassination of Ellsworth, at Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861. Air-Cali...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Soldiers' Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia, American Civil War Glass Neg...

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Camp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, Virginia

Photograph shows an aerial view of Alexandria looking East with King Street on the left. No. B172. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U.S. Military Railroad Bridge, Bull Run, Virginia Orange and Alexandri...

No. B1177. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites ... More

[Two sketches: fort opposite Alexandria, 1861; opposite Ft. Scott on P...

Title devised from inscription above and below image. Formerly Waud no. C-12. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.939) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Proclamation! Headquarters, Alexandria, Va., May 26, 1861. Special ord...

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 187, Folder 9.

Fort Ellsworth, Alexandria, Virginia during American Civil War

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Embankment near Union Mills Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad (And...

Photograph showing two men sitting on and close by a fallen tree over Pope's Head Creek in Clifton, Virginia near a destroyed railroad bridge on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. No. 127. Inscribed on item: T... More

Bird's eye view of machine shops, with east yard of Orange & Alexandri...

Photograph shows a railroad yard of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph taken from the top of the roundhouse. No. 293.

Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, Virginia. American Civil War 1861-1...

Photograph shows a group of soldiers in front of a building on the grounds of the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Building stockade, Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)

Hand written on mount: image printed in reverse. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg w... More

New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and George...

Photograph showing construction on a trestle railroad bridge across the Potomac River. Caption continues: S. Seymour, chief engineer, C.B. Morse, constructing engineer, S.S. Post & Co., contractors.

Levee at Alexandria, La. - A black and white photo of a train yard

No. 3120. Hand written on verso: "Identifications (sic) available at Naval Historical Foundation". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Map showing positions of Union and Rebel forces Septr 1861.

Depicts the area between Lewinsville, in Fairfax County, and Georgetown in the north, and Alexandria in the south. The location of the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad is also indicated.

"Jewels" found at Alexandria, by the Federal Army; consisting of chain...

Picture shows shackles, leg irons and handcuffs. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 11; leg and arm slave shackles. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.231)

Sailors on Russian frigate "Osliaba," harbor of Alexandria, Virginia (...

Photograph showing Russian sailors standing on the deck of their ship. No. 210. Inscribed on item: [Gen. Haupt & wife attended a reception given by the admiral].

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Exterior, African American woman standing in foreground. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Stereo, The War for the Union. Photographic History (no. 2300). LC-B811-2300 (half). This record contains ... More