virginia, history

Painting "Sir Walter Raleigh" at Court House Annex, Richmond, Virginia

Artist: Paul Cadmus, 1939. Oil, 83" x 36". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Pho... More

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles: ...

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D'Engelze volkplanting in Virginie - Public domain map

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George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel

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A map of the country between Will's Creek & Monongahela River shewing ...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

To the freeholders and freemen of the City and County of New-York. Gen...

Political campaign.; Imprint 2.; On verso: S; Jan. 19, 1769. 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... More

Fresh intelligence. Monday. November 6, 1775. Williamsburg, (Virginia)...

Evans 14707.; Imprint 3. 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 144, Folder 12.

Fresh intelligence. Monday. November 6, 1775. Williamsburg, (Virginia)...

Fresh intelligence. Monday. November 6, 1775. Williamsburg, (Virginia)...

Philip Dawe - The alternative of Williams-burg

Print shows a "Virginian loyalist" being forced to sign a document, possibly issued by the Williamsburg Convention, by a club-wielding mob of "liberty men." On the left, a man is being led towards a gallows sta... More

Virginia. In convention. Present 112 members, Wednesday, May 15, 1776....

Negative Photostat.; Evans 15200. 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 178, Folder 20.

George Washington, Esq'r. - general and commander in chief of the Cont...

Print shows George Washington, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing right, wearing military uniform, gesturing with right hand toward battle in background. Formerly filed under: PGA - Will, J.M. Geo... More

Letter from Thomas Walker to a unknown correspondent

Reddition de l'Armée angloises commandée par Mylord Comte de Cornwalli...

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A map and chart of those parts of the Bay of Chesapeak, York and James...

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Campagne en Virginie du Major Général M'is de LaFayette : ou se trouve...

Covers central Virginia from Orange County in the north to Isle of Wight County in the south, and west to Cumberland County. Shows selected bridges, houses, churches, taverns, and other points of interest, and ... More

Plan d'York en Virginie avec les attaques faites par les Armées franço...

Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1466 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AA... More

Plan de Portsmouth en Virginie. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:3,333. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Shows defense works, forts, etc. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1454 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1

Notes sur les environs de York: Plan donné par des arpenteurs du pays.

Scale ca. 1:44,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1470 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; ... More

A Representation, of the sea fight, on the 5th of Sepr. 1781, between ...

Scale ca. 1:444,000. Shows engagement at entrance to Chesapeake Bay. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, index to positions, and list of British ships and c... More

Plan de l'armée de Cornwallis attaquée et faitte prisonière dans York ...

Scale ca. 1:15,000. Relief shown by hachures. In upper left corner, covered by blank piece of paper: Dedié à M. de Vault, Lieutt. Gal. des armées du roi. Includes "Legende." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,... More

Batteries de West-point au haut de la Rivière d'York.

Scale ca. 1:5,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes index to types of guns mounted. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1458 Available also through the Lib... More

A map and chart of those parts of the Bay of Chesapeak, York and James...

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A plan of the entrance of Chesapeak Bay, with James and York rivers : ...

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Plan des ouvrages faits à York-town en Virginie.

Scale ca. 1:5,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Incomplete: Upper and right edges have been trimmed. LC Maps of North America, 175... More

Plan des ouvrages de Portsmouth en Virginie.

Scale ca. 1:3,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Relief shown by shading. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1456 Available also through the Library of Congre... More

Plan of York Town and Gloucester in Virginia, shewing the works constr...

Scale ca. 1:5,850. Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1473 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

Lord Cornwallis surrender, 1781. - Public domain old map

Shows Yorktown Virginia and the York River on conical powder horn. Relief shown by hachures. Manuscript: Engraved bovine horn, shellacked. Has wooden pouring spout inserted at narrow end and wooden hinged cap i... More

York town - A drawing of a group of people on horseback

An emaciated cow representing British commerce grazed on Scottish thistles. Men representing France, Spain, and Holland have just milked the cow. The British lion howls because he has hurt his foot on a broken ... More

A Plan of the entrance of Chesapeak Bay, with James and York rivers; w...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the publisher's Atlas of battles of the American Revolution.[1845] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1465 Available also through the Library of Congr... More

Carte de la partie de la Virginie ou l'armée combinée de France & des ...

Scale ca. 1:215,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Situation of the fleets shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1462 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ras... More

A Plan of the entrance of Chesapeak [sic] Bay, with James and York Riv...

Scale ca. 1:240,500. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Depths shown by soundings. Annotated "London, Published by Wm. Faden, Charing Cross, Novr. 26th 1781." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1464 Available also thro... More

Plan des ouvrages de Portsmouth en Virginie.

Scale ca. 1:3,220. Title on verso: Ouvrages faits à Portsmouth en Virginie par les Anglais, et rasé en 1781 par les François. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Relief sho... More

Siege d'York, 1781. Plan d'York en Virginie avec les attaques et les c...

Scale ca. 1:14,640. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index and "Nota." LC Maps ofth America, 1750-1789, 1467 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as ... More

Defense Mapping Agency Bicentennial commemorative memento of the Battl...

Shows troop positions, firing lines, fortifications, and ship positions. Relief shown by hachures. Facsimile. Original version: To His Excellency Gen'l Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United... More

York en Virginie, 1781. Carte des environs d'York avec les attaques à ...

Scale ca. 1:134,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Includes descriptive index to military works. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1475 Available also through the Library o... More

Notes sur les environs de York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:44,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1469 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; ... More

Armée de Rochambeau, 1782. Carte des environs de Williamsburg en Virgi...

Scale ca. 1:15,250. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by hachures. Shows names of landholders. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-... More

To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies o...

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[Côte de York-town à Boston: Marches de l'armée.

Scale ca. 1:650,000. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Key map of the route of march of Comte de Roc... More

Carte generale des colonies angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale p...

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

Carte generale des colonies angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale p...

Scale ca. 1:5,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes historic notes and insets "Suite de la Floride et la position des Isles Lucayes et des Grandes Antilles" and "Le de... More

Nicolas Ponce - [Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown] - Nicolas Ponce

Wash drawing (reverse of printed versions) shows the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. Illus. in: Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'indépen... More

Die Americaner machen den Lord Cornwallis mit seiner Armee zu Gefangne...

Print shows British troops handing over their weapons to the Americans at the surrender at Yorktown, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution.

Reddition de l'armée du Lord Cornwalis dessiné par le Barbier Peintre ...

Print shows the surrender of the British Army at Yorktown on October 19th 1781, with Comte de Rochambeau directing British General Charles O'Hara to present Cornwallis's sword to General George Washington; incl... More

Reddition de l'armée du Lord Cornwalis / dessiné par le Barbier peintr...

Print shows the surrender of the British Army at Yorktown on October 19th 1781, with Comte de Rochambeau directing British General Charles O'Hara to present Cornwallis's sword to General George Washington; incl... More

One thousand-acre Virginia land grant to Alexander Breckinridge

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To the American Philosophical Society, this map of the peninsula betwe...

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The marches of Lord Cornwallis in the Southern Provinces, now States o...

Plan of the post at Great Bridge, on the south branch of the Elizabeth...

Scale ca. 1:1,300. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789 1453 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 651

[Cartouche showing cherubs celebrating the founding of the new nation]...

Print shows cherubs unrolling a scroll inscribed "New Map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys... More

Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after...

Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape in Charlottesville, Virginia, with British troops, captured at the surrender in Saratoga, engaged in subsistence farming. Illus. in: Travels through the interior p... More

Military orders from Aquilla Whitaker to James Hougland

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In Council. January the 16th, 1797. Gentlemen, The Executive deem it e...

Evans 33127.; On verso: 6 6 1.00 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 180, Folder 12a.

[Map of portion of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia] /

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Affair of the Wmsbg Road or Fair Oaks No. 2, Oct. 26-27-28/64 /

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Affair of the Wmsbg Road or Fair Oaks No. 2, Oct. 26-27-2864

One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing Civil War battle lines. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 24417, Gaines Family Papers, 1776-1905. This item is ... More

Cold Harbor [Hanover County, Virginia] /

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Cold Harbor Hanover County, Virginia

One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing battle lines. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 24417, Gaines Family Papers, 1776-1905. This item is in the Map... More

Map of the Chaffin's Bluff area of Henrico County, Virginia

Additional annotations made in pencil. Map shows federal and Confederate positions September 28, 1864. One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing battle lines. Original maps are included i... More

[Map of the Chaffin's Bluff area of Henrico County, Virginia] /

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Map of portion of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia

One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing battle lines. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 24417, Gaines Family Papers, 1776-1905. Oriented with north tow... More

Vessels destroyed at Norfolk 1861. - Public domain map

Sketch map of "U.S. Navy Yard" vicinity at Portsmouth (Va.) showing buildings, shipbuilding docks, drydock, buoys, and locations of the scuttled U.S. ships "Pennsylvania", "Columbia", "Raritan", and "Delaware".... More

[Swift Creek area, Chesterfield and Prince George Counties, Virginia] ...

Swift Creek area, Chesterfield and Prince George Counties, Virginia

One of a series of five maps drawn by Col. Normand Smith showing battle lines. Original maps are included in Personal Papers Collection, accession 24417, Gaines Family Papers, 1776-1905. This item is in the Map... More

Ellerson's Mill. Battle-field of Mechanicsville, Virginia

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 920. Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plan of the investment and attack of York in Virginia

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Plan of York Town in Virginia and adjacent country, exhibiting the ope...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References to the British lines" and "Explanation." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Joshua Vail to Edward Bangs, 19 April 1828

Operations in Virginia.

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[Survey of lands in Blue Ridge between Manassass Gap, Ashby's and Sinc...

Shows the names of some residents. Title devised by cataloger. Each sheet pasted together in 4 sections, sectioned in 2, and mounted on cloth. LC Land ownership maps, 1240 Available also through the Library of ... More

To the Democratic voters of Frederick County Fellow-citizens of the co...

Political campaign.; On verso: B 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 186, Folder 28.

sarcophagus from "Tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. (Washington's F...

This image has been taken from scan 000055 from "Tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. (Washington's Farewell Address.)". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users... More

Siège d' York-Town, (6 Octobre 1781) investissement de la place peint ...

Print shows a long column of soldiers moving through the wilderness toward Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolution. Printed at top right: Sie IV. May have been published in: Galeries historiques de ... More

map from "The Westover Manuscripts: containing the History of the Divi...

This image has been taken from scan 000135 from "The Westover Manuscripts: containing the History of the Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; a Journey to the Land of Eden, A.D. 1733; and a Progre... More

Sketch of the skirmish at Petersburg : between the Royal Army under th...

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spa from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to its histo...

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Virginia from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to its ...

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University of Virginia from "Historical collections of Virginia ... re...

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Richmond from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to its ...

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White Sulphur Springs from "Historical collections of Virginia ... rel...

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Rebecca Rolfe from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to...

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Washington College from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relati...

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James River from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to i...

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map from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to its histo...

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Fredericksburg from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating t...

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explorer from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to its ...

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market square from "Historical collections of Virginia ... relating to...

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A map of the internal improvements of Virginia; prepared by C. Crozet,...

The map indicates drainage, county boundaries, mines, cities and towns, roads, canals, and railroads. Scale 1:950,000. LC Railroad maps, 307 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also throu... More

1777 from "History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western ...

This image has been taken from scan 000236 from "History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia; embracing an account of the various expeditions in the West, previous to 1795. Also, biograp... More

Allegheny Mountains from "History of the Early Settlement and Indian W...

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American Revolutionary War from "History of the Early Settlement and I...

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Portrait from "History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West...

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Christopher Columbus from "History of the Early Settlement and Indian ...

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[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing the Georg...

Case: (front) Berg, no. 1-3S; (back) 1-3S variant. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). pp/liljunion

Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and Indian War, in Virginia ...

Illustration shows Indians armed with rifles in a forest; in background British soldiers. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 9 ( 1855 July 7), p. 16. Wood engraving after a work by Billings (possibly Hammett Billings).

Engine, J.H. Devereux, Alexandria (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows the ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station. Published in: Civil War... More

Excursion to Mount Vernon. by the American medical association, Friday...

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 15.

[Two unidentified soldiers of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, later...

Case: Berg, no. 1-39. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202) Purchased from: Anne Arundel House, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, 2013. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs... More