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Chief Engineer of the Marine Corps Jeannette Evans-Morgis

Chief Engineer of the Marine Corps Jeannette Evans-Morgis (center) and Mark Jackson, assistant portfolio manager–Engineering for Network and Infrastructure, demonstrate the FitLight Trainer April 6, at Marine C... More

A teapot with the word o written on it. Pot steam art.

A teapot on a wall with graffiti on it / A teapot is painted on a wall / Public domain art photo.

A cup of coffee with steam rising out of it. Coffee cup coffee cup.

A cup of coffee on a table / A cup of coffee with steam rising out of it / Public domain stock illustration.

A cup of coffee sitting on a wooden table. Coffee cup still life cup.

Public domain textures and patterns: A cup of coffee on a wooden table / A cup of coffee on a table.

[Garden monument when heated by the sun brings water to a boil generat...

Illus. in: Les raisons des forces movvantes auec diuerses machines tant vtilles que plaisantes, ... / par Salomon de Cavs .... Francfort : en la boutique de I. Norton, 1615. Published in: The tradition of tech... More

[Hero's miraculous altar]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows the details of a steam-driven mechanical apparatus for opening doors. Illus. in: Gli artificiosi e cvriosi moti spiritali di Herone / Giambattista Aleotti. Bologna : C. Zenero, 1647. Publish... More

[The miner's friend, a pump using steam to create a vacuum to draw wat...

Illus. in: Philosophical transactions, giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world. London : C. Davis, Printer to the Royal S... More

[A steaming urn]. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illus. in: Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains, ... / par M. Hilliard d'Auberteuil .... Bruxelles : 1782, p. x. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist o... More

Public Domain Stock Photo . Vintage balloon retro, travel vacation.

Flying Balloons: Free images of hot air balloons all over the World, available for commercial use and free download. Copyright-free, no attribution required.

Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat - Public domain image of a steam boat

Print shows broadside view of John Fitch's design for ferry boat with steam-driven oars. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or monthly miscellany,.... Philadelphia : Printed for T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cis... More

Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat Annual passage of the herrings.

Prints show (on top) a boat with power-driven oars and (below) a map showing the annual migration route taken by herring around the north and central portions of the Atlantic Ocean. Illus. in: The Columbian ma... More

Estimate for expense of a steam ferry boat for one year, signed by Rob...

Picryl description: Public domain book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Origin of steam navigation... - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hutchings, John.

Travelers! tourists!! railroad men !!! Dinsmore's new and complete Ame...

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 122, Folder 21.

Burlington steam mills and water works

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

[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Plan - flue, fly...

Inscriptions on recto: "Plan. " "September 28th 1808" "28." Delineator: James Smallwood. (Source: The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, New Haven, Conn. : Published for the Maryland Historica... More

[Early steam locomotive with toothed "propelling wheel" which gripped ...

Illus. in: The monthly magazine. [London : Printed for R. Phillips], 1814 June 1. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library ... More

To the Senate and House of representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn...

2461 C 21 28 Je 44.; Rec. 9-2-44.; On verso: No 49; 2461 C 21 28 Je 44 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... More

Patent puffs to raise the wind or Dandy steam packets on contrary Jack...

Print shows three men attempting to power their bicycles by means of flatulence. Library of Congress copy is hand-colored. Not found in British Museum Catalogue (BMC). Publisher's name misspelled on item. Corr... More

Steam engine - Mr. Watt's double steam engine from his specification o...

Print shows gears and pump mechanism for a steam engine. Illus. in: A system of mechanical philosophy. Edinburgh : J. Murray, 1822. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology .... More

[Rear and side view of George Stephenson's steam locomotive and railro...

Illus. in: Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to "The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement" / By William Strickland ... while engaged in the service of the s... More

Washington Steam Packet Company to William Berkeley Lewis, December 20...

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Amphibious steam powered carriage and paddle boat designed by Oliver ...

Illus. in: The Boston mechanic and journal of the useful arts and sciences. Boston : G.W. Light & Co., 1834 July, p. 17. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonar... More

The steam ship President, Lieut. Roberts R.N. commander: the largest i...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6196

A new map of South Carolina with its canals, roads & distances from pl...

The earliest general map to show the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company's line which began in Charleston, S.C. It was completed to Hamburg, S.C., in 1833. Its 136 miles of track were then the longest in... More

map from "Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c., including a steam v...

This image has been taken from scan 000045 from volume 01 of "Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c., including a steam voyage down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea in 1836". Th... More

map from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across ...

This image has been taken from scan 000170 from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima and Panama. ... To which are added pl... More

Newspaper article accompanying print in The Sun, Awful Conflagration o...

map from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across ...

This image has been taken from scan 000341 from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima and Panama. ... To which are added pl... More

map from "Steam to India, via the Red Sea, and via the Cape of Good Ho...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "Steam to India, via the Red Sea, and via the Cape of Good Hope. The respective routes, and the facilities for establishing a comprehensive plan, by way of Egypt,... More

map from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across ...

This image has been taken from scan 000713 from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima and Panama. ... To which are added pl... More

map from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across ...

This image has been taken from scan 000715 from "South American and the Pacific, comprising a Journey across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima and Panama. ... To which are added pl... More

Phelps & Ensign's travellers' guide, and map of the United States : co...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Novelty Iron works, Foot of 12th St. E.R. New York. Stillman, Allen & ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Novelty Iron works, Foot of 12th St. E.R. New York. Stillman, Allen & ...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Mitchell's travellers guide through the United States : a map of the r...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Steam ship of War Eagle - Public domain image of steamship

"Copyright Deposit, Southern District of N.Y.: 1842." This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Penniman.

diplomat from "A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and the ...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from volume 01 of "A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and the Danube, in 1840-1841, and to Portugal, Spain, &c., in 1839. ... To which is annexed, the auth... More

portrait from "A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and the ...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from volume 02 of "A Steam Voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine and the Danube, in 1840-1841, and to Portugal, Spain, &c., in 1839. ... To which is annexed, the auth... More

David Octavius Hill - James Nasmyth (Steam Hammer)

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. David Octavius Hill was a Scottish painter and photographer. He was a pioneer of photography in Scot... More

The explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralte...

Crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watch as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of a U.S. steam powered ship the day prior.

The aerial steam carriage - Drawing. Public domain image.

Pictorial lettersheet shows British inventor William Samuel Henson's proposed steam powered flying machine in an imaginary flight over the Thames River, London, 1843. Attempts to fly a model of the aerial steam... More

Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop

A cryptic satire possibly dealing with some facet of the 1844 presidential campaign. The print features two unsuccessful aspirants for the Democratic presidential nomination: Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Joh... More

ship from "Steam Warfare in the Parana: a narrative of operations by t...

This image has been taken from scan 000240 from volume 01 of "Steam Warfare in the Parana: a narrative of operations by the combined squadrons of England and France". The title and subject terms of this image h... More

Royal mail steam ship, Europe - Public domain image of steamship

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5675

List of officers for 1849. Troy, Kneeland and Co's steam press. [1849]...

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 120, Folder 24h.

American fashions, fall & winter 1849-50, by John R. Shankland, no. 10...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, eight men, a woman, and four children standing outdoors along a dirt roadway, one man is dressed for hunting and carrying a rifle, and at bottom, six men, five chil... More

U.S. mail steam ship Baltic: Collins line. builders, hull by Brown & B...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. mail steam ship, Atlantic: Collins line. builders, hull by Willia...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6832

U.S. mail steam ship Pacific: Collins line, builders, hull by Brown & ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6838

A geyser [sic], New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wairakei, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Notice to builders, architects, masons, &c. Welch's patent anhydrous c...

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 134, Folder 24.

A steam engine train traveling down train tracks. Locomotive steam tra...

A black and white photo of a train on a track / A train is coming down the tracks with steam coming out of it / Public domain vintage photo.

... New building, Nos. 82, 84 and 86 Louisiana Avenue ... The gymnasiu...

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 209, Folder 12.

[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title pag...

Illus. in: A new digester or engine for softning bones, .... / by Denis Papin M.D. London : Printed by J. M. for H. Bonwicke, 1681. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology .... More

Sherman & Smith's railroad, steam boat & stage route map of New Englan...

Detailed township and county map showing place names and some indication of drainage and relief. Scale [ca. 1:1,550,000]. LC Railroad maps, 106 Description derived from published bibliography. Insets: 15 miles ... More

A geyser, Rotomahana, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The great pictorial romance of the age, or, steam ship commodores & Un...

American political cartoon about the awarding of United States mail contracts. Print shows steamships (two shaped like rocking horses) and a balloon labeled "California mail balloon via Nicaragua," with discuss... More

Reminiscences of a fancy dress ball, in Philadelphia, February 1850 / ...

Print shows a crowd at "Masonic Hall" during "Naylor's Grand Fancy Dress Party", a masquerade with an orchestra playing on the right as revelers mingle on the main floor and on the balconies. [Source: Library C... More

Stolen between the evenings of the 3d and morning of the 5th of July, ...

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 122, Folder 46.

By Jas. C. McGuire, auctioneer. Peremptory sale of splendid jewelry by...

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 209, Folder 5.

Wairakei, New Zealand / Burton Brothers Studio

Public domain vintage photo from New Zealand archive, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steam Hammer. Nasmyth. - Early photography, Public domain image

Public domain scan of artwork in the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Steam hammer. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows J. Nasmyth's patent steam hammer. Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The grave of my mother Poetry and music composed and respectfully dedi...

Print showing title page illustration with girl looking sadly at "the grave of my mother." Drawn on stone by James Queen.

Steam indicator diargams, engine of Committee Room fan, north wing

U.S. Capitol (drawing). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Wonderful, unprecedented, and exciting exhibition! An aeroport of flyi...

Aerial navigation. 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 201, Folder 9.

A new map of Nth. Carolina : with its canals, roads & distances from p...

Relief shown by contours. Prime meridian: Washington. Cover title "N. Carolina" with "Population of North Carolina by Counties, in 1850" pasted on verso of front cover. "Entered according to Act of Congress in ... More

Steam engine with 9 in. cyl. 18 in. stroke by J.T. Sutton & Co. Frankl...

Print shows front and side views and a cut-away view of a steam engine. Printed at top right corner: Pl. 1. Illus. from: The American engineer, draftsman, and machinist's assistant : designed for practical wor... More

United States mail steam ship "Pacific"

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Day & Son.

Shankland's American fashions for spring & summer of 1853, 100, Chesnu...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, nine men and two children are standing in a large room, all but one of the men either wear or are holding hats, and at bottom, seven men, two children, and one woma... More

Steam or other communication with Liberia. An adjourned meeting to aid...

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 201, Folder 27.

Nasmyth's patent steam hammer, copied by permission of the inventor fr...

Illus. in: Cyclopædia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering / ed. by Charles Tomlinson.... London : New York, G. Virtue & co., 1854. Published in: The tradition of tech... More

[Stern paddle-wheel steam tugboat towing British warship]

Illus. in: A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour,.... [London : Reprinted for J. Sheepshanks, 1855 from 1737 edition]. Published in: The ... More

Explosion of a steam fire engine, Cincinnati

Wood engraving by Bobbett-Hooper(?). Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1855 Dec. 22. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Publ. Ind.; Steam engines; Disa... More

Paris, New York & Philadelphia fashions for spring & summer 1855, publ...

Print shows in two horizontal panels, at top, men, a woman, and two children standing in a large drawing room, and at bottom, men, a woman, and two children standing outdoors on a street at seaside. At bottom c... More

Examination of the Lowell High School. Monday, July 21, 1856 ... Daily...

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor.

United States "Auxiliary Screw" steam frigate "Merrimac" 60 guns. Off ...

Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S. Merrimack undersail near the entrance to New York harbor. Includes measurements for length, breadth, weight, and horse power. Blind e... More

Resumption of the fast express train Through to Pittsburg in 13 hours....

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 122, Folder 8g.

U.S. steam frigate Mississippi passing Punta Tristao. N. west point of...

Print shows the American side wheel steam frigate Mississippi on rough seas as it passes Tristram Point, Madeira. Plate from: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan ...... More

people from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam C...

This image has been taken from scan 000047 from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam Company's route to Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, Norway, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Ports". The title and ... More

Grand Celebration of the Cincinnati Steam Fire Dept. in honor of the o...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1857 June 6, p. 8 & 9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4428. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Firefighting...; St... More

Grand Celebration of the Cincinnati Steam Fire Dept. in honor of the o...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1857 June 6, p. 8 & 9. Reference copy may be in LOT 4428. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Firefighting...; St... More

technology from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Ste...

This image has been taken from scan 000009 from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam Company's route to Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, Norway, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Ports". The title and ... More

Peter_the_Great from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europ...

This image has been taken from scan 000081 from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam Company's route to Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, Norway, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Ports". The title and ... More

Reduced. The great central Pennsylvania rail road route to the west .....

Transportation.; On verso: M.C. #09-82-038.191 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 122... More

1857 Pennsylvania central railroad, in direct connection with the Pitt...

circle from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam C...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "The Book of the Baltic, being the North of Europe Steam Company's route to Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, Norway, Prussia, and the Hanseatic Ports". The title and ... More

The committee on exhibition of the Horticultural society, District of ...

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 203, Folder 6.

Fare reduced! The great central Pennsylvania rail road route to the we...

Transportation.; On verso of Copy 1: M.C. #09-82-038.188; On verso of Copy 2: M.C. #09-82-038.189 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text ... More

The self-propelling steam fire-engine, "J.C. Cary"

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858 November 20), p. 749. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.

Central academy, Corner of E. and 10th street, Washington City, D. C. ...

Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 203, Folder... More

[Advertisement, September 12, 1859] [Washington] McGill's Steam Press,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 192, Folder 28a. Copy scanned: 1

Franklin Trotting Park North Chelsea, near Boston. A purse of $100 two...

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 64, Folder 43.

... Furniture at auction! on Wednesday next, May 25 at 10 o'clock, A. ...

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 64, Folder 22.

The new and elegant screw steamship Mt. Vernon having resumed her trip...

Transportation. 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 204, Folder 1.

The fisherman's daughter, that lives o'er the water. W. S. Fortey, Gen...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Steam Frigate "Susquehannah" [and] U.S. War Steamer "Bienville"

Broadside view of two sidewheel steamships. Title inscribed below images. Inscribed below image of Bienville: N.B. The "De Soto" is just like the above. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1099 verso) For... More