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Sculpture "Temperance" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Depart...

Artist: Carl Paul Jennewein, 1935. Aluminum, dimensions: 36" x 19" x 16". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the... More

Sculpture "Justice" located at second floor elevator, no. 9, Departmen...

National Cathedral interiors. Stained glass windows at National Cathed...

Titles devised. Public domain photograph of 13th-14th-century medieval illuminated manuscript, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Door latch decorations, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Mural "Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam," by Karl R. Free at the Ariel...

Date: 1938; dimensions: 7' x 13' 6". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photograp... More

"Cyrus Tiffany in the Battle of Lake Erie, September 13, 1813," mural ...

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

"Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814," mural ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photo... More

Honorable D.C. Broderick of Cal. Mathew Brady photograph of American C...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Mortally wounded in a duel with David S. Terry, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California; Died Sept 16, 1859. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph co... More

John Peter Van Ness. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War per...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Mayor of D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evan... More

U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1840 to 1855

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Copy neg. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is ... More

Judge David Davis. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War perio...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, on masking: Supreme Court. D.C. Court. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Honorable James L. Orr, Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Brady NY. One of three commissioners sent to Wash. D.C. to with Federal Government for the surrencer of t... More

Honorable A.W. Bradford. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Gov. of Md.; Peace Commission Wash. D.C. 1861. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchas... More

Reverend Pise. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Rev. Pise (Chas. Constantine) of Wash. D.C.; served at St. Patrick's for a no. of years. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress... More

John Peter Van Ness. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War per...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Mayor of Washington, DC; Born in Ghent, N.Y. 1770; Died in Wash. D.C. 1846; elected Mayor of the militia of D.C. 1803; later mayor of Wash. D.C. Credit line... More

Judge David Davis. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War perio...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, on maskingn masking: Judge David Davis. D.C. Court. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints an... More

James G. Berritt. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Mayor of Wash. D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H... More

Matthew G. Emery. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War period...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: M.G. Emery ex Mayor. Ex Mayor of D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress... More

John Peter Van Ness. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War per...

Judge David Davis. Mathew Brady photograph of American Civil War perio...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. D.C. Court. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans;... More

Treasury Dept. (old print): Construction of Treasury, Washington, D.C....

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Copy, caption on envelope. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Compa... More

[Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Colu...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 163. Notation: R. McClelland, Secretary; Franklin Pierce. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Hospital for the Insane of the Army and Navy and the District of Colum...

In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 134. Notation: R. McClelland, Secretary; Franklin Pierce. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

U.S. Treasury. Washington, D.C. showing old Riggs Hotel, 15th & G. N.W

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Alice H. Cox and Mary H. Evans; 1954. Gene... More

General D.C. McCallum, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov Forms part of: Civil war photographs... More

D.C. McCallum, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information... More

Judge R.T. Merrick of D.C - Public domain portrait photograph

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side, top: illegible. Looks like Richard T. Merrick, 1826-1885. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of C... More

Portrait photo of Judge Carter, Glass Negative, 1860s

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, glass side, top: Chief Justice Cartter Cate, No. 24. Chief Justice, D.C. Court. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Li... More

Honorable Burton Chauncey Cook of Ill

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in pencil: Hon. Cook. Member of Peace Convention of 1861 held in Wash. D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Librar... More

Honorable Cadwallader Colden Washburn of Wisc

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Hon. C. C. Washburn. Delegate to Peace Convention in Wash. D.C. in 1861; Colonel of 2nd Wisc Cavalry, Maj... More

General D.C. McCallum, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Honorable Godlove Stein Orth of Indiana

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Hon. Orth. Delegate to the Peace Convention held in Wash. D.C., 1861. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph... More

U.S. Treasury before completion. Washington, D.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: Treasury from corner of. See item no. 368. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress,... More

Lt. Colonel W.O. Drew 2nd D.C. Infantry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 14098. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192-A. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Cong... More

Old Winder Bldg. 17th & F. St. N.W. Wash. D.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, penciled on emulsion: Winder Building 17th & F. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Honorable Aylett Hawes Buckner of MO

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Delegate to the Convention in Washington D.C. in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collect... More

Seaton, W.W., ex-Mayor of Wash. D.C

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: 442. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division... More

Honorable Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen of N.J

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Freling Huysen. Member of Peace Convention in Wash. D.C. in 1861. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph col... More

John Potter Stockton, Senator, New Jersey

Title information based on similarity to other photographs of Stockton in the collection. Unverified information on negative sleeve: Robert Field Stockton. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Sen... More

Old Navy Dept., Wash. D.C. (1st photo)

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: Old Navy Dept. 350; penciled on emulsion: Navy Dept. probably after the war. Item no. 348. Credit line: Brady-H... More

Colonel C.N. Alexander, 2d D.C. Infantry

Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov ... More

Honorable James G. Berret - Public domain portrait print

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: Berrett Mayor. Mayor of Wash. D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, P... More

D.C. McCallum, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 3751. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. ... More

Colonel C.N. Alexander, 2d D.C. Infantry

General John Eaton, Glass Negative, 1860s

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: John Eaton. Commissioner Education, Washington, D.C. Corresponding print in LOT 4192. Credit line: Brady-... More

Colonel John Harris? U.S. Marine Corps. Commandant Marine Corps. Hdq. ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is avai... More

R. Wallack sic, Mayor of Wash - Public domain portrait print

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched into emulsion: 5339. Photo shows Richard Wallach, former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Credit line: Brady-Handy photograph c... More

Colonel John Harris? U.S. Marine Corps. Commandant Marine Corps. Hdq. ...

Colonel C.N. Alexander, 2d D.C. Infantry

Indians at White House during the Civil War, Washington, D.C.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, ... More

Harewood (i.e. Mt. Pleasant) Hospital, Washington, D.C.

No. B1119. Original caption from Col. Godwin Ordway misidentifies hospital as "Harewood." Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B904. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Encampment near Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B900. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B956. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The old Capitol prison, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows old Capitol prison used during the Civil War. No. 4159. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 2, pl. 9... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. 905. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Pontoon bridge across James River above Jones' Landing (view from sout...

No. 2537. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B952. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[Boats docked at the shore of a river in a wooded area]

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

Ox team with cannon, 15th & Penn. Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a team of oxen hauling a 15 inch Rodman at the intersection of 15th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. No. 1486.

The Seventh Street Market - A black and white photo of an old building

Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views in Washington, D.C. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

Photograph shows the Old Naval Observatory, Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. No. B1198. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Seri... More

[Josua P. Graffam, Sgt., 1st D.C. & 1st Maine Cavalry, Co. B., U.S.A.,...

Information from file print. Original photograph in collection of Josephine Cobbs. Copy photo made by LC in 1961 from a tintype belonging to Mrs. Nellie L. Cobb, South Portland, ME. Forms part of: Civil War Ph... More

Appomattox Court House, Virginia. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Photograph shows Federal troops with rifles in front of the court house. Two children stand on the fence. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 9, p. 127". Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; ... More

Ninth Massachusetts Infantry Camp near Washington, D.C., 1861

No. 8142. Mounted with one other photograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

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

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B933. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Surgeons and hospital stewards at Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C.

No. B489. 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

Sanitary Commission lodge, Washington, D.C., American Civil War Photog...

Twelve men posed in front of Sanitary Commission lodge, Washington, D.C. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 707.

Camp Jameson, near Washington, D.C. 2nd Rhode Island Infantry

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sanitary Commission Lodge, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

No. 715. 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

Fort Carroll (Andrew J. Russel) during American Civil War

No. B500. See also: LOT 11486-G for similar photographs by Andrew J. Russell. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Fort Carroll, Wash., D.C. (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing guns and ammunition in Fort Carrol, near Giesboro, Washington, D.C.

7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B901. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B948. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

7th N.Y. State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B955. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Officers of 71st N. Y. S. M., Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., 1861

No. 4105. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 8, p. 69". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Field and staff officers of 33d New York Infantry, Camp Granger, near ...

No. 4542. 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

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B938. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

City Point, Cooking, West Point, Virginia

No. 2597. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

[General Alexander McCook and staff posed on porch near Washington, D....

Civil War Photograph Collection. Public domain photograph of a military, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Officers of 1st Battalion New York Light Artilleryillery, Fort Duncan,...

No. 4404. 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

Camp of 40th Massachusetts. Infantry Miner's Hill, Virginia

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

Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

No. 5214. 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

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B912. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Chain Bridge near Washington, D.C. during American Civil War

No. 657. 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

[Maj. General Joseph Hooker, three-quarter length portrait, standing, ...

No. 1922. Civil War Photograph Collection. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.

General Jeff. C. Davis - A group of people sitting around a tent

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, c2003. Pur... More

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B929. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Long bridge, Washington, D.C. - A black and white photo of people on a...

Photograph shows General Daniel Craig McCallum, Military Director and Superintendent of the Union railroads during the Civil War, with unidentified men on railroad bridge. No. B266. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Hunting Creek Bridge, near Alexandria, Virginia

No. B183. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, page 325 ( The barracks at Giesboro, Wash., D.C.)" Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Battlefield of Bull Run. Soldiers' graves

No. B1250. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B924. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Ruins of Gallego Mills, Richmond, Virginia

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

7th New York State Militia, Camp Cameron, D.C., 1861

No. B951. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Docks in City Point, Virginia - A black and white photo of a harbor wi...

No. 812. Hand written on verso: "James River, City Point, Va." Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

Chain bridge, Washington, D.C. - A black and white photo of a train cr...

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gettysburg, battlefield of, Scene of Pickett's charge, 974

Photograph shows clump of trees on left that was point of direction for Pickett's soldiers, monument to 2nd Corps placed near where General Alexander S. Webb was wounded, spot in the center where General Armist... More

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