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William Hogarth - Columbus Breaking the Egg

William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Public domain scan of 18th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

General Forbes' route on the march against Fort Du Quesne, 1758 : this...

Shows the route westward in Pennsylvania from Loudon, via Littleton, Fort Bedford, Stony Brook, Fort Ligonier, Washington's Camp, to Pittsburgh (Ohio River). Relief shown pictorially. Title from westernmost pan... More

Indenture made by Henry Vanderburgh for Peter McNelly, Knox County, Te...

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The journal of a tour into the territory northwest of the Alleghany Mo...

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The journal of a tour into the territory northwest of the Alleghany Mo...

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The journal of a tour into the territory northwest of the Alleghany Mo...

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Ohio from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divi...

This image has been taken from scan 000485 from "A Book of the United States: exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ... together with a condensed history of the land ... the biography... More

This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend . . .

A Whig campaign print, showing William Henry Harrison greeting a wounded veteran before a log cabin by a river. The cabin flies an American flag with the words "Harrison & Tyler" and with a liberty cap on its s... More

Map shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with ot...

Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:4,900,000. LC Railroad maps, 334 Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ras... More

[John Sherman, head-and-shoulders portrait, full face]

Republican Representative from Ohio, 1855-1861; Senator, 1861-1877, 1881-1897; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-1881. Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, oval frame design. Source unknown. Forms par... More

Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, Garrettsville, [Ohio], Grange Co, to M...

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Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, Harveysburg, Warren Co., O[hio], to Ma...

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Letter from Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock, Salem, [Ohio], to Maria Weston C...

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Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, Brunswick, Co[unty], [Ohio], to Maria ...

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map from "Pioneer history: being an account of the first examinations ...

This image has been taken from scan 000222 from "Pioneer history: being an account of the first examinations of the Ohio Valley and the early settlement of the Northwest Territory, etc". The title and subject t... More

map from "Pioneer history: being an account of the first examinations ...

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Letter from Jane Elizabeth Jones, Salem, [Ohio], to Anne Warren Weston...

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Letter from Jane Elizabeth Jones, Salem, [Ohio], to Anne Warren Weston...

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Letter from Jane Elizabeth Jones, Salem, [Ohio], to Anne Warren Weston...

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Letter from Jane Elizabeth Jones, Salem, [Ohio], to Anne Warren Weston...

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Christopher Columbus from "A Popular History of the United States from...

This image has been taken from scan 000167 from volume 01 of "A Popular History of the United States from the first discovery of the western hemisphere ... to the end of the first century of the union of the St... More

map from "[History of the United States of America, ... extending from...

This image has been taken from scan 000428 from "[History of the United States of America, ... extending from the discovery of America by Columbus to the present time, etc.]". The title and subject terms of thi... More

The American moose-deer, or Away to the River Ohio, British Cartoon Pr...

"An engraving showing an American moose-deer surrounded by kings, and standing on the banks of the "Ohio"..." (Source: Stephens) This record contains unverified data from Stephens. Catalogue of prints and drawi... More

Letter from Clarissa G. Olds, Unionville Lake Co., Ohio, to Anne Warre...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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Letter from Sarah N. Macmillan, Salem, Ohio, to Anne Warren Weston, Ap...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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map from "Historical Collections of Ohio; containing a collection of t...

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Colton's railroad & township map of the state of Ohio, drawn by George...

Detailed map showing drainage, railroads under construction and completed, canals, post roads, towns, townships, villages, post offices, and county boundaries. Scale ca. 1:750,000. LC also has 1856 and 1859 edi... More

Letter from Emily Robinson, Salem, O[hio], to Anne Warren Weston, July...

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[Title page of History of the United States, vol. I, showing Christoph...

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Lt. Colonel Benj. P. Runkle, 45th Ohio Infantry., 26th U.S. Vet. R. Co...

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

General Samuel S. Carroll, Colonel of 18th Ohio Infantry

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

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Lt. Colonel Benj. P. Runkle, 45th Ohio Infantry., 26th U.S. Vet. R. Co...

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

N.C. McLean, 7th Ohio, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negative.

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 2170; tape on emulsion: 1270 [crossed out]. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war phot... More

J.W. Fuller, 27th Ohio, 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

Ohio - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. C-21. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.948) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Thomas Church Haskell Smith, 1st Ohio Cavalry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve; Library staff added fuller forenames. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Pho... More

S.H. Hurst Colonel 73rd Ohio, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Neg...

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

Lewis C. Hunt, Colonel 67th Ohio - Public domain portrait print

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: Hunt, 1541, 2051 [crossed out]. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 186... More

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Lt. Colonel D.A. Williams, 136th Ohio Infantry

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

General George H. Sharpe, U.S.A, American Civil War Photograph, Glass ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, in marker on image: Genl. Sharp, 991, Regrs[?] Ohio Is [?]; scratched on emulsion: Sharp, 1161. In charge of Bureau of Military In... More

General E.B. Tyler, Colonel of 7th Ohio Infantry

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

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Colonel J. Cradlebough, 114th Ohio Infantry

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

J.W. Fuller, 27th Ohio, 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

Lt. Colonel Benj. P. Runkle, 45th Ohio Infantry., 26th U.S. Vet. R. Co...

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

General E.B. Tyler, Colonel of 7th Ohio Infantry

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

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Lt. Colonel D.A. Williams, 136th Ohio Infantry

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

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

Annotation from negative, in pencil, on emulsion: 6518. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is av... More

General Emerson Opdycke, U.S.A, American Civil War Photograph, Glass N...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: Gen. Opdycke; glass side: Genl. E. Opdycke. Col. of 125th Ohio Inf. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 186... More

Catharinus P. Buckingham of Ohio, American Civil War Photograph, Glass...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 2175; on tape on emulsion: 1275 [crossed out]. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war p... More

General Charles R. Woods, Colonel of 76th Ohio Infantry

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

Ohio - Public domain drawing

Two broadside sketches of ships and buildings at dock, warehouses beyond. Inscribed mid left: high. Inscribed upper right: 90. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.153) Forms part of: Morgan collection of ... More

James M. Fitch autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, ...

Sends an account of the fund for the monument to the colored men. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

J.W. Fuller, 27th Ohio, 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

Maj. General William S. Rosecrans, Commander of the Army of Ohio

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 2001. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congres... More

James S. Robinson, Colonel 82nd Ohio Infantry

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 3756. Corresponding print is in LOT 4192. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congres... More

General J. Warren Keifer, American Civil War Photograph, Glass Negativ...

Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Maj. in 3rd Ohio Inf.; wounded Battle of Wilderness, May 5, 1864; Last Civil War man in Congress, Born Ohio 1836, living in 1911; served in Civil War from 1... More

Thomas Wentworth Higginson autograph letter to [Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ch...

Missed his lecture at Elkart; spent the evening with Sarah Hervey and "her songs." Was really very comfortable in the sleeping car. Marked as "Thomas Wentworth Higginson" in pencil. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Lt. Colonel D.A. Williams, 136th Ohio Infantry

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

[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

U.S. gunboats DeKalb, Mound City, and Cincinati [i.e. Cincinnati] - Mi...

No. 3123. 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

[Civil War envelope showing Columbia with American flag bearing messag...

Addressed to Mr. Wm. Scott, Eldersville, Washington Co., Penn.; postmarked Sep. 24; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljmem

Civil War envelope showing Columbia with American flag and state seal ...

Addressed to Jerome Hill Esq., Mannsville, Jefferson Co., New York ; postmarked Cincinnati, O., Nov. 7 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Don Tocher, U.S. Classics, Su... More

Bird's eye view of junction of the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers, showing ...

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 1.5 Panoramic map looking south from Vienna, Illinois, to Holly Springs, Mississippi. Waverly, Tennessee, is on the left and Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is on the righ... More

The dangerous playmate--A singular instance of fascination

Cartoon showing innocent infant "Jonny Bull" feeding coins to snake "Rebellion, slavery". Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 259 (1861 Dec. 14), p. 800.

The Boston battery at General Butler's camps, Relay House. Commanding ...

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[Envelope showing Confederate flag, addressed to Miss Lou Taylor, No. ...

Brigadier General Eleazer A. Paine, Colonel of the 9th Illinois Infant...

On negative sleeve: "Brig. Gen. Eleazer A. Paine, USA, born in Ohio, 1815, Col. 9th Ill. Inf., personal friend of Pres. Lincoln." Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

Topographical sketch of the line of operations of the Army of the Ohio...

Shows drainage, roads, railraods, dwellings with names of inhabitants, churches, "Buell's landing," "Battleground, 6th and 7th of Apr., 1862," and location of Buell's various headquarters, numbered I through VI... More

The Antietam Campaign - Sept. 1862 - Public domain map

Shows the area between Mercerville, Md., to the north and the Potomac River to the south. The location of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is also indicated.

Battle of Antietam, Md. - Public domain vintage map

In this extremely detailed map, Sneden indicates the locations of roads, bridges, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, houses, barns, ploughed fields, and the Antietam Iron Works. The Union and Confederate signal sta... More

The women and children of Louisville, Kentucky, leaving the city, by o...

Illustration showing a throng of Louisville citizens in carriages and covered wagons, and on foot evacuating the city, many headed toward the docks on the Ohio River where they are boarding steamboats. Illus. ... More

Sketch of the manoeuvres [sic] on Antietam and Sharpsburg, Maryland. S...

Shows the area from Sharpsburg east to Frederick, Md., and the positions of Lee's Confederate army as it faced McClellan's forces. The map also shows Hagerstown south to the Potomac River. The Baltimore and Ohi... More

Sketch of manoeuvers [sic] on Antietam and Sharpsburg Maryland : Septr...

Shows the area from Harper's Ferry, W. Va., west to Frederick, Md., and the position of Confederate forces under R. E. Lee and Union forces under McClellen. The map also shows Hagerstown, Md., south to the Poto... More

U.S. Sanitary Commission. Soldiers’ Home [Cleveland, Ohio].

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

U.S. Sanitary Commission. Soldiers’ Home. [Cleveland, Ohio].

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

[Private Henry McCollum of Company B, 78th Pennsylvania Infantry Regim...

Photo shows soldiers, including Henry McCollum on the left, who posed for the Linns, who left Ohio to photograph the Army of the Cumberland. In late 1863, after the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary R... More

Map of the Kentucky Central Rail Road and Valley of Licking River from...

"Fortifications Map File" Plans of Military Forts

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo.

Scale ca. 1:23,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 213 Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Description derived fr... More

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry sitting around tab...

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

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentu...

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

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry sitting in tent at...

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

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo /

Depths shown by soundings in feet. From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1864 (Washington, Government Printeing Office, 1866). Map 31. Ind... More

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentu...

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

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentu...

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

Powhatan Beaty, born a slave on Oct. 8, 1837, at Richmond,

Powhatan Beaty, born a slave on Oct. 8, 1837, at Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia, later moved to Cincinnati and became free. He earned the Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm in 1... More

Soldiers from the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Columbus, Kentu...

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

Reserve Picket 134th Ill Vol - A black and white photo of a group of p...

No. 16. 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 sur... More

Liberty and union - A black and white image of a union bank note

An allegorical Unionist sheet music cover for a song by Ohio composer J.T. Wamelink with lyrics by C.B. Barr. Beneath an arch "Union," which rests on two bases "Liberty" and "Law," sits a classical female figur... More