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[Illustration of ballistics showing cannon with Tartaglia's gun quadra...

Woodcut illus. and text in: La nuoa scientia / Niccolo Tartaglia. [Stampata in Venetia per N. de Bascarini, 1550] Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Sir William Johnson, Major General of the English forces in America / ...

Print shows three-quarter length portrait of Sir William Johnson, with his arm resting on a cannon muzzle and holding a baton.

Prise de l'isle de la Grenade / dessiné par le Paon peintre de S.A.S. ...

Print shows the victorious French troops in the British battery on Grenada. Includes description below title. Illus. in: Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'in... More

[Artillery wagons, caissons, travelling forges. ca. 1850; various illu...

Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, v. 2, 1851, plate 38. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artillery; Shelf.

Highland Brigade camp, looking south / W. Simpson del. ; T. Picken lit...

Print shows an artillery battery with Capn. Mansfield, Major Shadwell, Lieut. Col. Stirling, Major Gordon, and Sir Colin Campbell standing near the cannons, with the camp of the Highland Brigade, showing huts a... More

A hot night in the batteries / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows action in a British artillery battery with cannons firing and being loaded, and men bringing in supplies. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majest... More

Sentinel of the Zouaves, before Sevastopol / W. Simpson del.

Print shows a soldier standing guard at a French battery with snow-covered cannons and Zouaves carrying bundles of wood to a camp in the background.

Commissariat difficulties - the road from Balaklava to Sevastopol, at ...

Print shows wagons and a cannon mired in mud, broken wagons, and dead or dying horses and oxen on the roadside, at Kadikoi, on the road to Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by perm... More

A quiet night in the batteries - a sketch in the Greenhill battery (Ma...

Print shows men and cannons in a British artillery battery, at night. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. Lon... More

Sebastopol from the sea - sketched from the deck of H.M.S. Sidon / W. ...

Print shows sailors and cannons on deck of the H.M.S. Sidon, with a distant view of the forts and other buildings in Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gra... More

A quiet day in the diamond battery - portrait of a Lancaster 68 pounde...

Print shows a large Lancaster cannon in a British artillery battery. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simpson. First series. Lond... More

X-X Brand--Petersburg, Virginia / C.A. Butler del.

Tobacco label, illustrated with cannon with banner, cannonballs, and bag labeled "Capt. Bragg, a little more grape" on fort in foreground; tents in background. Copyright by DuBois Vandervoort. No. 89.

Molly Pitcher [i.e. Molly McCauley loading cannon at Battle of Monmout...

Engraving by J.C. Armytage after Chappel, c1859, published in Robert Tomes, "Battles of America by Sea and Land...," NY, Virtue & Co., 1861, vol.2, opp. p. 120. This record contains unverified, old data from ca... More

A soldier's wife at Fort Niagara / engd. by T. Walker.

Print shows a woman lifting cannon balls in an artillery bunker during a battle at Fort Niagara in New York, during the War of 1812. Entered according to act of Congress, AD 1860, by John Emmins, in the clerk'... More

[Union soldiers stand around a mounted cannon at a fort]

Title devised by library staff. 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 mi... More

[Ship deck with sailors and cannons]

Photograph possibly by George H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tid... More

Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,...

Print shows Confederate soldiers firing cannons from an artillery battery, bombarding Fort Sumter in the distance.

Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C., 1861

Photograph showing Confederate soldiers around a cannon. No. 4389. Mounted with four other photographs. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 9, p. 49 (top)". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Gallant charge of United States cavalry. Gallant charge of Lieutenant ...

Print shows a Union cavalry charge with men on horseback, mostly carrying swords, charging past Confederate cannons at Fairfax Courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia. 365 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act... More

[Mounted guns and ammunition around the perimeter of a fort, and tents...

No. B621. Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The Swamp Angel Battery from drawing

Photograph of drawing shows soldiers and Parrott cannon named Swamp Angel inside battery designed by Colonel Edward Wellman Serrell of 1st New York Engineers Regiment for Morris Island, South Carolina. A group ... More

A squad of Capt. Smith's battery - Lieut. Woods in command

Photograph shows soldiers, probably Battery A Company, 1st Light Artillery (Illinois), standing next to a cannon, Camp Smith or Fort Prentiss, Cairo, Illinois. Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul. Purchas... More

1st Conn. Artilleryillery, Ft. Richardson, Arlington Heights, 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

Hancock's headquarters 1861 - Public domain weapon drawing

Photograph shows a caisson and cannon in the foreground with a military camp and house that served as the headquarters of a person named Hancock, probably General Winfield Scott Hancock, probably at Camp Griffi... More

First Conn. Artillery, Ft. Richardson, Arlington Heights, Virginia

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Rear view of a cannon with a soldier sitting adjacent to it facing fo...

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

Fort Brady [i.e. Fort Carroll] (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows mounted guns and ammunition around the perimeter of a fort, possibly interior of Fort Carrol in Giesboro, Washington, D.C. instead of Fort Brady. No. 587. Corrected title from published source... More

Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, S.C. Fort Sumter in distance

Photograph shows two mounted guns at the parapet inside Fort Johnson. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. III, p. 173". Similar view in LC-B811-3471. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Sling for heavy artillery. Drewry's Bluff, Virginia]

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-B811-1152.

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform standing with Napoleon cannon i...

Case: Leather; scroll design. Uncertain if Union or Confederate. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2011; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Pub... More

View at Fort Prentiss (The old distillary at the Point)

Photograph shows a Union battery at Fort Prentiss (renamed Fort Defiance), with guns facing the Ohio River, Cairo, Illinois. Title from pencil inscription on item. Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul. Purc... More

[The gun "Jeff Davis," identified as a Rodman smooth bore gun in Port ...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 196. Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior view of Fort Brady, James River, Virginia, near Dutch Gap Can...

Union soldiers by two large cannons positioned behind fortifications. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. B689.

Battery on Morris Island, gun that fired over 1200 shots into Fort Sum...

Photograph shows the interior of Fort Putnam with a cannon in the foreground with soldiers in the background. No. 4971. Similar view: LC-B811-3520. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Vie... More

Confederate Artillery captured at Missouri (i.e. Missionary) Ridge hea...

No. 8123. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 69". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Three soldiers posing by a mounted cannon with a wall of sandbags beh...

Confederate fortifications at Gloucester Point, Virginia, opposite Yor...

2 men with cannon in foregrd.; ships on water in backgrd.

South-Western angle and face of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, S.C....

Soldiers with cannons. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dark artillery, or, How to make the contrabands useful

Cartoon showing Afro-American men with cannons on their backs at Civil War battle scene. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 Oct. 26, p. 368, top.

Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...

8 men at sand-bagged cannon emplacement; man in mid-ground seated on wreckage of cannon. Civil War Collection. No. 2367. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts...; ... More

[Union soldiers and three mounted cannons inside a fort]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Battery at Annapolis, Md. - A black and white photo of a bunch of boat...

Photograph shows four mounted cannons. Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Johnson, Charleston Harbor, S.C. Fort Sumter in the distance

Photograph shows mounted guns with view of Fort Sumter in the background. No. B1194. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

300 pdr. [i.e. pounder] Parrot Rifle, Fort Chatfield, Morris Isand

Photograph shows a group of soldiers by the 300 pound Parrot rifled cannon with the name "Col. Brayton" inscribed on it in battery Chatfield on Morris Island. No. 4308. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, ... More

Richmond, Virginia (vicinity). Major (JM) Robertson's Battery of Horse...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pivot guns crew, U.S. Steamer Pocahontas

Photograph shows sailors posed on the ship near the pivot gun. Title inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.269).

Battery - 1st N.Y. Artillery Battalion near Fair Oaks, June 1862

Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Battery No. 1, near Yorktown, Virginia / negative by Wood & Gibson ; p...

Photograph showing the cannons used by the Union army in a battery near the York River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866... More

[Richmond, Virginia, vicinity. 1st New York Pettit's Battery, Artiller...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Battery B, 2d U.S. Artillery near Fair Oaks, Virginia, June, 1862

No. 439. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c... More

Secesh Gun, Fort Welles [i.e., Wells], Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows a cannon at Fort Wells, two Union soldiers appear to the left and right of the gun. Title is inscribed in ink on the bottom of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; Wi... More

[Lieutenant Samuel K. Thompson of Co. C, 54th U.S. Colored Troops Infa...

Photograph shows identified soldier, Samuel K. Thompson, with unidentified soldiers. Weapon identification, fort identification, and date from information provided by Jack Melton, November 2015. Frame: Berg, n... More

Battery D, 2d (i.e. 5th?) U.S. Artillery, going into action on south s...

No. 4212. Caption on verso from Gardner's photographic sketchbook of the war: "Battery D, Second United States Artillery". Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gard... More

[John B. Gallie gun, Fort McAllister, Georgia]

Title devised by Library staff based on identification by David Richardson, Jack Melton, and Talley Kirkland, September 2015. Photo formerly misidentified as Swamp Angel gun, Morris Island, South Carolina. Date... More

Ft. Brady, James River, Virginia View showing battery ready for action

Stereograph showing Union soldiers from Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery standing in a battery of Parrott guns at Fort Brady, Virginia.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers and men, 3d Regiment, Massa...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

District of Columbia. Company F, 3d Regiment Massachusetts Heavy Artil...

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Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing three Confederate mounted cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civ... More

View in the Arsenal Yard, Charleston, S.C. Captured Blakely Guns in th...

Stereograph showing cannons, some mounted on carts. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Li... More

Interior view of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S.C. City in the ...

Stereograph showing a mounted cannon and ammunition inside the fort. No. 3121. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil War Ph... More

Fort C.F. Smith, Co. L, 2d New York Artillery

Group of soldiers with cannon and caisson. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 675. Original neg. number: LC-B817-7675.

Washington, District of Columbia. Officers and men, 3d Regiment Massac...

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Captured Confederate artillery on docks at Rocketts

No. B862. Mounted with three other photographs with general caption: Views in Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (vicinity). Sling for heavy artillery

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Park of artillery

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Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. View of mortar and artil...

Photo shows ordinance in a Union artillery park near Petersburg, Va.

Interior views of Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C., April, 1865

Photograph shows a mounted cannon with two men at the parapet. No. 4387. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 118". Mounted with four other photographs. Photograph is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Co... More

A large gun in the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virgi...

Stereograph showing a cannon mounted on inner line of Confederate fortifications. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Imprinted on card: "It i... More

Dismantling of the rebel forts after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e....

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing and sitting on a rifled cannon and other artillery in the interior of a Confederate fort. No. 3205. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Date... More

Captured siege guns, at Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing Confederate mounted cannons at Rocketts Landing in Richmond. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright in 1865 by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Forms part of: Civil ... More

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Park of artillery

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian squaws weaving a blanket / sketched by Theodore R. Davis. "Old...

Three illustrations with text: two Navajo women weaving a blanket; eagle standing on barrel of cannon; and people gathering moss. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1866 Sept. 15, p. 580. Title transcribed from item.

The situation wood engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Ulysses Grant and Edwin Stanton near cannon labeled "Congress" aimed at Lorenzo Thomas and President Johnson. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 584 (1868 March 7), p. 160.

[Dominican Republic, 1871]: View of Ocoa Bay, the Azua port, or embark...

Naval cannon in foreground. Photoreproduction of watercolor. Watercolor by James E. Taylor. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cannons; Wagons; Wharves; Water; F... More

Bombardment von Paris / L.R. wood engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows an artillery battery with several guns firing on Paris, as well as being fired upon and sustaining casualties. In album: Grosses Kriegs- und Schlachten-Album für Deutschlands Jugend. Stuttgart : Ve... More

"1775 - another 'shot heard round the world' - 1875"

Cartoon shows Uncle Sam firing 1875 cannon labelled "we still live" at Europe. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1875 May 8, p. 388. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4405. This record contains unverified, old data from captio... More

Peace insecure - afraid for her life / Th. Nast.

Columbia, clutching a dove to her breast, cowers beneath mock fortifications, a log for a gun barrel, a scarecrow for a soldier, along the coast of America; the flag, upside down, a sign of distress, meekly flu... More

[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876: "Mach. Hall, Krupp Exhibit ...

Stereo copyrighted by Centennial Photo. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War Navy, US Vessels; BI Business; Exhibitions 1876; Interiors; Shelf. Krupp... More

The Krupp guns in Machinery Hall

Stereograph shows cannons on display at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia.

Poster - The human canon ball - Public domain lithograph

K9060 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright Metropolitan Litho. Studio, 29 Warren St., N.Y., 1879." J.E. Jackson, agent. Signed: R. Muller. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[The ancient cannons captured from foreign states] / Abdullah Frères, ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 24. No. 109. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

[The ancient cannons captured from foreign states] / Abdullah Frères, ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 27. No. 112. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

[The artillery exercises of the Osmaniye]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[The crew of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constantinople,...

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

North from the battery, West Point

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The stern cannon of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 422. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The preparation of artillery] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The attachment of the artillery to a limber (two-wheeled vehicle)] / ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. No. 197. In album: Military personnel, arms depots, and other buildings, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More

[The ancient cannons captured from foreign states] / Abdullah Frères, ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 110. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The parade of the First Mobile Artillery Bodyguard Brigade with the b...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. In album: Military personnel, arms depots, and other buildings, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Coll... More

[The cannons captured from the foreign countries] / Constantinople, Ab...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 27. No. 107. In album: Imperial Gun and Small Arms Factory, barracks and cannons, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 36. No. 423. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

[Charleston, S.C.] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lancers on horseback, in field in front of barracks(?)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The ancient cannons captured from foreign states] / Abdullah Frères, ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. No. 108. In album: Imperial artillery and engineering schools, Tophane, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, an... More

An apparatus by means of which suicides can get the better of the "pen...

Illustration shows a man whose offer of marriage has been rejected and is now determined to kill himself as a means of ending his suffering; he is sitting in a chair with two handguns, aimed at his chest, mount... More

Gun Model on Pneumatic Carriage #1467

This photograph depicts a ten inch gun model on a pneumatic carriage at the Watertown Arsenal. Photographs

[Cannons at the Paris Exposition, 1889]

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634. Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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