potomac river, river

Leesylvania State Park - National Parks Gallery

Native Americans lived on this land for thousands of years. Capt. John Smith visited the area in 1608 on his voyage of discovery.

A plan of Patomack River, from the mouth of Sherrendo, down to Chapawa...

Present sheet covers from Little Falls to south. Northern sheet missing. Pen-and-ink on tracing paper. Soiled, brittle, creased, missing small sections, rubber-stamped, and mounted on cloth backing. Accompanied... More

[Manuscript sketch of the Potomac River and Eastern Branch bounding th...

Shows waterfront, wharves, and bridges. Depths shown by soundings. Title from Phillips's Descriptive list of maps and views of Washington. On verso in ink: Handed to the Surveyor by Mr. J.P. Ingle for safe keep... More

Potomac Aqueduct, hydrographic survey of the Potomac River near George...

"Survey made in the fall of 1832." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. From the papers of the Virginia-District of Columbia Boundary Commission. Available also through the Library ... More

Treasury department, April 11th, 1833. The President of the United Sta...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 195, Folder 4.

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

Chart of the Potomac River and Eastern Branch from the Sister Islands ...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Also shows block numbers and major buildings. "Approved--T.C. Mendenhall, Superintendent, U.S.C. & G.S." Includes text. Available also through t... More

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

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

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

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

Head of navigation of the Potomac River / nautical chart

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Photocopy of ms. map. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes notes. LC copy originally printed on separate sheets, assembled to 1 s... More

Georgetown College, District of Columbia. This college stands on a pec...

Timber raft on the Potomac River US

Drawing shows a timber raft floating down the Potomac River past Maryland house and Georgetown, although neither are visible in the sketch. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the Unite... More

River boat on the Potomac - Public domain scan / drawing

Sketch shows a sidewheel steamboat on the Potomac River. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 drawings in portfolios with binder's title: Sk... More

Potomac River from Aquia Creek Virginia

Drawing shows the Potomac River, as seen from Aquia Creek in Virginia. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 drawings in portfolios with bind... More

Chart of the head of navigation of the Potomac River : surveyed by ord...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes note. LC copy fold-lined, laminated, halved, and mounted on cloth backing. Available also th... More

Indian Head, M.D. [and] Fish house, Indian head

Two sketches. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-86. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.850) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Map of the northern part of Virginia and West Virginia, between the B...

Relief shown by hachures and shading. Date and title from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. In upper left: The square are miles. Pen-and-ink on pencil grid, mounted on cloth. Imperfect: horizontal creases and ... More

Topographical copy of a Map of the Valley of the Shenandoah River From...

Topographical copy of a Map of the Valley of the Shenandoah River From Strasburg, [Va.], to Harper's Ferry. [W.] Va., with the adjacent counties west of it and south of the Potomac River, Captured in the rebel ... More

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

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

Looking up the Potomac River, from Fort Sumner (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows two men, one seated and one standing, on a bank above the Potomac River in Fort Sumner, Maryland. No. 261.

Flotilla of the Potomac River; Freestone Point; ---- --- Creek

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

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

Battery Rodgers, Potomac River near Washington

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

Army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battle fields, fo...

Scale ca. 1:183,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 448 Map of the Potomac River and vicinity from Harpers Ferry to Swan Point showing towns, roads, railroads, names and boundaries of counties, drainage, and reli... More

[Map of the lower Potomac River showing picket lines, January 1862]

Concerns Union and Confederate pickets positioned north and south around Pohick Church and Accotink in Fairfax County, Va., in January 1862. Includes a balloon pictured near Pohick Church and labelled as "Decr... More

[Map of the Potomac River]. - Public domain old map

Regional map of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania showing the Potomac River and its tributaries.

Battery Rodgers, Defenses of the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virginia.

Soldiers posing with Battery Rodger's 15-inch Rodman gun, the largest cannon in the Federal arsenal mounted in Washington DC. Battery Rodgers located near the Alexandria Whard, was constructed to guard the ap... More

Entrance to Washington Water Works, Great Falls, Potomac River

Photograph shows two men standing in a small flat boat near the spillway.

Battery Rodgers, Potomac River, near Alexandria

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

Potomac River, looking down from Georgetown, showing Mason's Island, L...

Photograph shows an aerial view of Georgetown rooftops and backyard gardens, the Potomac River, and Mason's Island, now known as Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, D.C.

Boteler's Ford, Potomac River near Shepherdstown. Point at which Confe...

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

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

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

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

John A. Dahlgren to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, April 25, 1861 (Report...

View of Georgetown and Aqueduct Bridge during the Civil War.

View of Georgetown and Aqueduct Bridge during the Civil War. The Potomac River is spanned by the bridge. The brigade was one of the three major crossing across the river (Chain Bridge and Long Bridge), and was ... More

Battery Rodgers, Potomac River, near Alexandria

No. 143. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 87. Hand written on verso: also BH825-16. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Potomac River, Sept. 31st, 1861

Broadside view sidewheel steamship. Signed upper left: Wau[d] Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image and crossed out: "Putnam" and "Lockwood." Formerly Waud no. C-113 Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP... More

Ruins of bridge, across Potomac River at Shepherdstown

Photograph shows a man in the foreground overlooking the ruins of the bridge at Shepherdstown, West Virginia. No. 5077. Mounted with five other photographs. Photograph is half of a stereograph pair. Gift; Col.... More

A reconnaissance of the Potomac River from Point Lookout to Washington...

Scale 1:200,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 17.85 At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt. Pencil note in the bottom margin reads "This is the first chart of the Potomac River issued by the Coa... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: man rowing raft of blanke...

No. 81 (handwritten) and 2582 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Bacon's new army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battl...

Scale ca. 1:180,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 452 Map of northeast Virginia, Washington, D.C., and part of Maryland showing the location and date of engagements, battles in which cannons were used, country ... More

Potomac River (in four sheets) / nautical chart

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Alexandria, Virginia (vicinity). Battery Rodgers, erected in 1863, ove...

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[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 77b (handwritten) and 2578 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Libra... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 76 (handwritten) and 2576 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

The war in Georgia -- Reconnoissance of a detachment of national troop...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 13, no. 336 (1862 April 19), p. 376.

[Military construction in northern Virginia: men sitting in blanket bo...

No. 74 (handwritten) and 2574 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River at Berlin, October 1862

No. 4218. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 25. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. II, p. 56 - 57". Gift; ... More

Map of the Potomac River, Va. : from Alexandria to below the Occoquan.

Regional map of the lower Potomac River in Virginia, including Alexandria and Fairfax Court House. The Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad is also indicated.

[Military construction in northern Virginia: men sitting in blanket bo...

No. 73 (handwritten) and 2573 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 78 (handwritten) and 2579 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

[Military construction in northern Virginia: raft of blanket boats fer...

No. 77a (handwritten) and 2577 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Libra... More

[Raft of blanket boats ferrying field artillery and soldiers across th...

No. 79 (handwritten) and 2580 (stamped) on mount. Forms part of Civil War photos, military construction and transportation in Northern Virginia and elsewhere / United States Military Railway Department (Librar... More

Army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battle fields, fo...

Scale ca. 1:183,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 455 Map of the Potomac River and vicinity from Harpers Ferry to Swan Point showing towns, roads, railroads, names and boundaries of counties, drainage, and reli... More

"Masterly inactivity," or six months on the Potomac [caricature of ina...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Wood engraving by A.B. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 13 (1862 Feb. 1), p. 176. No reference copy may be available. Caption card... More

The Potomac River, near Williamsport, on the morning of the crossing o...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.88) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Map shewing [sic] vicinity of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and the upper ...

Concerns an area of Maryland and Virginia between the towns of Cumberland, Md., on the west and Harpers Ferry, Va. [now W.Va.], on the eastern side of the map. Sneden details the mountainous topography highlig... More

Jones Point, Potomac River, near Alexandria, Virginia /

Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot heights. At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, supdt. At lower right: Coast Survey Office, Washington D.C., April 29th 1863. India ink, red ink, and lead ... More

Potomac River (in four sheets): Sheet no. 4, from Indian Head to Georg...

Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 53.4 "No. 391" in upper left corner of map. "Electrotype copy no. 1, by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S." is printed in the upper margin. Information concerning lighthouses, tid... More

Belle Plain, Virginia. Potomac River, Upper Wharf

James Gardner (American, born 1832) 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... More

Long Bridge across Potomac River, 1865

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Bridge across Eastern branch of Potomac River, Washington, D.C., April...

Photograph shows Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. (Source: similar image with caption "Navy Yard Bridge across the Anacostia River," Smithsonian Institution, "America on the Move" o... More

Pontoon bridge across Potomac River from Georgetown, D.C. to Analostan...

Photograph shows a group of civilians crossing a pontoon bridge from Georgetown to Analostan Island (i.e. Roosevelt Island). A group of men seated in a carriage in the foreground while a woman stands at the sh... More

Hydrographic map of the Potomac River from Aqueduct Bridge, Georgetown...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Originally printed on 2 sheets. Includes notes. LC copy mounted on cloth backing and extensively annotated in red ink to show estuarine contours. Available a... More

On the Potomac - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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Potomac River at Washington, D.C., map showing progress of work : June...

Shows dredged and reclaimed Potomac park areas. Depths shown by soundings and contours. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congres... More

Rock and river, south branch of the Potomac

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Palisades of the Potomac, scenery unsurpassed : embracing the addition...

Cadastral map. "June 23rd 1890." Alternate title at upper right: Palisades of the Potomac Land and Improvement Co.'s subdivision no. 1, being part of "White Haven." "Entered according to act of Congress in the ... More

Palisades of the Potomac, scenery unsurpassed : embracing the addition...

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On the Potomac, William Henry Jackson photograph

Second title on negative: Back from the Potomac. Locale based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). Also available as photographic print in LOT 9097 with copy negative LC-USZ62-65867 (b&w film copy ne... More

The Potomac, Virginia side - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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River Hills, trough of the Potomac

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The Potomac, Virginia side - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

"W.H. Jackson & Co., Denver", "110" and "1788" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01788. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bullneck Rock, east of Piedmont, mammoth plate negative

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Potomac at mouth of Patterson's Creek

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Saltpeter Rocks, "Trough of the Potomac"

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Sycamore Rocks, trough of the Potomac

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Bullneck Rock, east of Piedmont, mammoth plate negative

Listed in Detroit Publishing Co. negative log as "Bull neck Rock, east of Piedmont". "W.H. Jackson & Co., Denver.", "43" and "1726" on negative. Commissioned by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Detroit Publishing Co.... More

Potomac River at Washington D.C., plan showing how reclaimed area may ...

Shows dredged and reclaimed areas with proposed roads and plantings for the Potomac parks. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Includes text, 3 cross-sections, statistical tabl... More

[Evening on the Potomac, Washington, D.C.]

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[Washington and Potomac from Arlington, Arlington, Virginia]

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Washington and Potomac from Arlington, Arlington, Virginia

Title from jacket. Possibly from Arlington House in the Arlington National Cemetery. "X 148" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032189. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Potomac River, Frances Benjamin Johnston collection

Photograph shows reeds in the Potomac River. Title from album. "61189" bottom right. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Corresponding negative: LC-J698-61189.

Old mill on the Potomac River, Maryland

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Cabin John Bridge, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.

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Washington turns out for open air music. Washington, D.C., July 12. Si...

A large crowd of people watching a concert. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chesapeake and Ohio canal - Potomac River at Williamsport, Md.

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Great Falls of the Potomac River, Washington, D.C.

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Great Falls of the Potomac River, Washington, D.C

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Originally part of a panorama; other section(s) not in collection. "10520 R" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013031. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Chesapeake and Ohio canal - Potomac River at Williamsport, Md.

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Potomac River at Williamsport, MD, mammoth plate negative

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Potomac River at Williamsport, Md., mammoth plate negative

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Washington & the Potomac River from Arlington, Washington, D.C.

Title from jacket. "G 8057" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039995. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Washington and the Potomac River from Arlington, Washington, D.C.]

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[Washington & the Potomac River from Arlington, Washington, D.C.]

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Washington and the Potomac River from Arlington, Washington, D.C.

Title from jacket. "G 8058" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039996. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

On the Potomac River, Washington, D.C. / The Rotograph Co.

Postcard shows small boats on the Potomac River. Public domain photograph - panorama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Potomac River at Alexandria, Virginia : surveyed in compliance with th...

Depths shown by contours and soundings. "House Doc. 1253; 60th Cong., 2d Sess." Oriented with north toward the lower left. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP 2 copies... More

Fishing in the Potomac river near 14th St. Bridge, Wash. D.C.

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Down the Potomac from Mt. Vernon

"G 9022" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072808. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.