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[Illus. poem showing mountain landslide threatening 3 horsemen]

Woodcut on vellum by Hans Schaufrerlein. Illus. in: Theuerdank, Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen...(Nürnberg, Schönsperger [1517], pl. 36). Reference copy may be in SSF... More

[Mountain scene, 2 men, 1 fishing]

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Foerster.

[Two men, one carrying a large axe, walking along a narrow mountain pa...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Le Valais / drawn by Major Cockburn ; engraved by R. Wallis.

Illustration showing Swiss mountain scene with village. Illus. in: Swiss scenery, 1820, opp. p. 89. Reference copy in LOT 4635.

Mountain Mocking Bird and Varied Thrush

Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Illus. in: The birds of America / John James Audubon. 4 vols. London, 1827-1838, (Elephant Folio), Vol. IV, Pl. 369. This record contains unverifi... More

[Title page and frontispiece showing slave on top of mountain, with hi...

Illus. in: Walker's appeal, with a brief sketch of his life / by David Walker. New York : Printed by J.H. Tobitt, 1848, title page and frontispiece.

[Samuel Anderson Emery as Robin Roughhead in Fortunes frolics, full-le...

Image is very faint and hard to see, so the portrait is described in the title in some detail. Scratched on face of plate: 33; Emery. Hallmark: [asterisk double paschal lamb] 50. Identification from engraving b... More

The Mountain Expressman. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Illus. in: Delano, Alonzo. Pen Knife Sketches ... Sacramento,1853. Reference copy may be in LOT 4392B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Postal service; Shelf.

"View of the Iron Mountain" - Public domain portrait print

Mo. Lithograph by L. Gast & Brother, St. Louis. Illus. in: Annual Review. History of St. Louis, Commercial Statistics, Improvements of the Year, and Account of Leading Manufactories, etc., from the Missouri Rep... More

View of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville & Monticello, take...

"Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1856, by Casimir Bohn, in the Clerks Office of the District Court, of the District of Columbia." Gift; Alan M. Voorhees; LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 953.2 ... More

[Ethan Allen, 1738-1789, full-length portrait, standing, before "the G...

Wood engraving by Lossing-Barritt in Harper's Monthly, v. 17, 1858. p. 725. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Mr. La Mountain's aerial voyage - the descent of the balloon

John La Moutnain's balloon voyage with John Wise and Gager from St. Louis to Rochester, 1859.

[Three illustrations: Denver City, K.T.; The Rocky Mountain News Offic...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1859 Aug. 20, p. 186.

Arnold Bailey, of Bailey Mountain, with a baby

Event: Historic photo. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Summertown Hotel, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee during American Civil Wa...

Title transcribed from handwritten text on verso. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 137, surrogate p. 35 (upper left). Surrogate a... More

[How we get gold in California: "hydraulic mining, at French Corral", ...

Wood engraving from Harper's Monthly, Volume 20, 1860. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Coal river. Pauline Bailey, of Bailey Mountain. Southern West Virginia...

Event: Historic photo. Pauline Bailey was the mother of Jim Bailey, Sarah Boggess's grandfather. They lived on Bailey Mountain around the turn of the last century.

American Fall and ice mountain. New York (state) 19th Century Stereosc...

People and horse on ice, Niagara Falls, New York. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad tracks at the foot of Lookout Moun...

Photo by R.M. Cressey. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War, 1861-1865 RR; Shelf.

[Mountain howitzer of the 5th Ohio Cavalry Company]

Case: Leather; birds and grapes design. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Rick Carlile, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Con... More

[Unidentified soldiers of 5th Ohio Cavalry Company with horses and mou...

Frame: Thermoplastic. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: Rick Carlile, 2012. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress). Forms part... More

View on Lookout Mountain - An old photo of a rock in the woods

No. B633. 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

South Mountain, Maryland?, gelatin silver print

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

Group of officers on Lookout Mountain

No. 4511. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views at Chattanooga, Tennessee. 18th Ohio Infantry. 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Photograph is half stereograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

View on Lookout Mountain - A black and white photo of a river

No. B1286. 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 from Lookout Mountain, Tenn. during American Civil War

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

"The home guard" White Mountain rangers

Stereograph shows a group of women kneeling and standing in formation, holding long pointed sticks or spears, forming a unit of "home guards". Attributed to Alexander Gardner based on stamp "A.G." on another c... More

Twin Sister Rock on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Photograph shows three soldiers atop rocks. 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

Chattanooga, Tenn. (vicinity) Nashville & Chattanooga railroad at foot...

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

The battle of Rich mountain, Virginia, July 13, 1861 / Hennessy del.

Men charging into battle. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 239 (1861 July 27), p. 468.

General Hooker's Headquarters, Lookout Mountain during American Civil ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Tennessee, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Lookout Mountain, Tenn. - An old black and white photo of a mountain

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Tennessee, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Antietam Cemetery in foreground, South Mountain in background - gap sh...

No. 5078. Mounted with 5 other photographs with general caption: Battlefield of Antietam. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Camp Garnett and vicinity, Rich Mountain, Randolph Co., Virginia /

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H70 Relief shown by form lines. Shows encampments and troop movements of Confederate and Union forces at the battle of Rich Mountain. Similar to the map reproduced in the Atlas to a... More

Lookout Mountain - A black and white photo of a field with a mountain ...

No. B1304. 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 Table Rock on Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

Photograph shows two men in uniform standing in front of Table Rock, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

General McCallum on Lookout Mountain. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Genl. Daniel C. McCallum and Capt. Hurlbut, seated on top of Lookout Mountain, full-length

[View of Chattanooga with Lookout Mountain in the distance]

No. B874. Title devised by library staff. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Views at Chattanooga. Photograph is half stereograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The Rebel General Joseph E. Johnston The ascent of Gauley Mountain, in...

Two illustrations: head-and-shoulders portrait of Rebel Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, facing slightly left; and Twelfth Ohio Regiment climbing mountain. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 249 (1861 Oct. 5), p. 636.

North slope of Lookout Mountain, from the west

No. B1302. 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 on Lookout Mountain - A black and white photo of a waterfall

No. B1283. 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 on Lookout Mountain - A group of people standing in front of a wa...

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

Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Officers of 10th Maine Regt. On the battlefi...

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

Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Panoramic view from center of battlefield of...

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

Signal Corps Detachment, Elk Mountain, Md., October 1862

No. 4483. 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

Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Parson Slaughter's house on Slaughter's (or ...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Parson's Slaughter House on Cedar Mountain. Site of a Confederate Battery. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167. Credit line: Civil war photograph... More

Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Parson Slaughter's house on Slaughter's (or ...

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

Elk Mountain, Maryland. Lts. Edward C. Pearce, John C. Babcock and Roc...

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

Elk Mountain, Maryland. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield

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

Cedar Mountain, Virginia. Bodies of horses on battlefield

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

Elk Mountain, Maryland. Signal tower, American Civil War Glass Negativ...

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

Rebel signal station, 1863, Wauhatchee side, Lookout Mountain Point, T...

Historical Civil War Port. 5. Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

[General Ulysses S. Grant and five other men on Lookout Mountain, Tenn...

Public domain photograph related to President Ulysses Grant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Union troops on rocks climbing to the summit of Lookout Mountain] / J...

Photograph shows soldiers led by Captain John Wilson reenacting climb to plant 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment battle flag on the summit of Lookout Mountain (Source: Will Stapp, January 2016). Photographed by Ro... More

Cedar Mountain, Virginia, American Civil War Glass Negative. (Andrew J...

No. 1297. 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

Old mill on Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Virginia Ap...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.148) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

General Sherman's advance - view of Kenesaw Mountain, from Little Kene...

Georgia, June 27, 1864. Wood engraving after sketch by T.R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1864). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; United States Histor... More

Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic], Virginia Apr. 21, 1864

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.196) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

View from the top of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., February, 1864

Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; December 20, 1985; DLC/PP-1985:644. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. No. 50.

Mountain Run near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Apr. 1, 1864

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.146) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Group of 7th Illinois Soldiers on Lookout Mountain, Tenn., June 19, 18...

Identification from caption on item, with fuller name additions from the American Civil War Research Database: 1. R. L. Mountjoy [Robert L.], George Thompson, Geo. Sullivan [George], Israel P. Norris, Joseph ... More

Catholic Cemetery, Lone Mountain, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 469. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Cemeteries. This record contains unverified old data f... More

Town of Silver Mountain, Alpine County. General view from the East

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 921. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

French Lake, Nevada County, near Old Man Mountain, Central Pacific Rai...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1278. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Lakes. This record contains unverified old data from ca... More

Rattlesnake Mountain, Yuba River, Nevada County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 770. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Sugar Loaf Mountain, and Webster's Station

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 615. LOT subdivision subject: Placerville Tahoe Route. This record contains unverified old data fr... More

Meadow Lake, Summit City, Knickerbocker Hill and Old Man Mountain, Sen...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1288. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Lakes. This record contains unverified old data from ca... More

Main Street, Silver Mountain, Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 919. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Protestant burying ground, (Broderick's Monument) from the Catholic Ce...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 472. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco Cemeteries. This record contains unverified data from ... More

Cement Ridge, near Crystal Lake, on the Central Pacific Railroad - Old...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1266. LOT subdivision subject: Central Pacific Railroad Equipment and Tracks on Donner Pass Route... More

Broderick Monument, Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco - Close-up v...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 474. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco-Cemeteries. This record contains unverified old data f... More

Silver Mountain Peak; altitude 11,000 feet; Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 916. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Lone Mountain, San Francisco, California, 19th century sterescope card...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 471. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco- Cemeteries. This record contains unverified data from... More

Silver Mountain Valley, from the Pass, Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 915. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Turret Mountain from Lake near the Summit, Dutch Flat and Donner Lake ...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 779. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Snow Slide Mountain, Headwaters of the American River

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 633. LOT subdivision subject: Placerville Tahoe Route. This record contains unverified old data f... More

View of the Summit, from Silver Mountain Pass; Altitude 9,000 feet, Al...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 914. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Quartz Mill, Silver Mountain, Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 920. LOT subdivision subject: Quartz Mill. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Fallen Leaf Lake and Tahlac Mountain, Valley of Lake Tahoe

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 646. LOT subdivision subject: Fallen Leaf Lake. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Silver Mountain Valley, from the West, Alpine County

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 917. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Webster's Station and Sugar Loaf Mountain, wagon in foreground

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 614. LOT subdivision subject: Wagon Trains and Stage Coaches. This record contains unverified old ... More

Tahlac Mountain, Fallen Leaf Lake, Valley of Lake Tahoe

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 649. LOT subdivision subject: Fallen Leaf Lake. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Old Man Mountain, near Meadow Lake - Altitude 7,800 feet - Central Pac...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1276. LOT subdivision subject: Donner Pass Route. This record contains unverified old data from ca... More

Lady Thorn and Mountain Boy: in their great match for $2000 mile heats...

Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3664

The Battle of Lookout Mountain, November 25, 1863 - the scene from Loo...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Nov. 30, p. 764. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Castle on the Mountain, Echo Canon

Stereograph showing a flat rock formation on top of a hill.

Snow and timber line - Medicine Bow Mountain

Photograph shows the snow and timberline in the Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming, and snowcapped mountains in the background.

South Dome, (6000 ft. above valley) and Old Man Mountain, from Mirror ...

4471 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1254. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Bridal Veil mountain, (4500 feet above valley)

4485 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1268. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Mountain Dew tobacco - Jacobs, Stall & Co., Sole Agents, Nos. 18 & 20 ...

Tyler Davidson Fountain, Cincinnati. Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Man Mountain, from Mirror Lake

4472 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1255. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley.

Mountain pass, Ralston, Penna., Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope...

Stereograph showing a locomotive and coal car on the tracks at the railroad depot at Ralston, Pennsylvania, also men, women, and children standing and sitting on a platform, on the railroad cars, and in front o... More

The Devil's Slide, Cinnabar Mountain - stereocsopic card

No. 424. Part of series: Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More

[William Henry Jackson and another man with photographic equipment on ...

No. 24469-FFG. (OWI list of codes indicates "FFG" refers to a federal agency source.)

The Devil's Slide, Cinnabar Mountain - stereocsopic card

No. 427. Part of series: Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More

Church in the mountain side - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a small village tucked into a valley in the side of a mountain. The church rises about the other buildings. The location may be Europe. Formerly DRWG/US - Gedney - 85. Gift, Ralph Gedney 1926 (DLC... More

Camp in Cache Valley--Wasatch Mountain series / W.H. Jackson photo.

No. 169. Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mountain Dew fine cut chewing tobacco Manufactured by Allen & Ellis, t...

Tobacco package label showing a goddess draped with diaphanous gown handing a pipe and tobacco leaves to a Native man reclining on the shores of a mountain stream with waterfall.

The Catskills. Sunrise from South Mountain / Harry Fenn ; S.V. Hunt.

Print shows two people standing at the percipice of a cliff in the Catskill Mountains, high above rock formations and trees, with a distant view of the sunrise across a broad valley. Publication date based on ... More

The Catskills--Sunrise from south mountain / Harry Fenn ; S.V. Hunt.

8605D U.S. Copyright Office. Steel engraving by S.V. Hunt after painting by Harry Fenn. Copyright by D. Appleton & Co. Illus. in: Picturesque America / William Cullen Bryant. N.Y. :[c1872-], v. 2.

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