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Frank F. Gibson, 1305 Linden St. Western Union Telegraph Co. Messenger...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Hroswitha (10th Century nun, poet, and chronicler) presenting her wor...

Woodcut by Albrecht Durer. Illus. in: Hroswitha's Opera, Nuremberg, 1501, frontis. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

A view of St. John's, upon the River Sorell, in Canada, with the redou...

Print shows a view looking across the Richelieu River at St. John, a cluster of buildings and fortifications used by the British. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of lette... More

View of the water works at Centre Square Philadelphia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A perspective view of the salt works in Salisbury, New England

Print shows view of a salt works on the Merrimack River, near Newburyport, Massachusetts, with large meadow in the foreground. Engrav'd for the Penna. Magazine. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania Magazine: or America... More

Sketch of the Heights of Kingsbridge 1777, with the proposed redoubts ...

Scale ca. 1:7,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Oriented with north to the left LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1165 Available also through ... More

Vieille Montagne zinc company. Mines, works and foundries in France an...

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

Sample card - works at Wheeling, W. Virginia - works at Sandwich, Mass...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Bufford's (J.H.).

Burlington steam mills and water works

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

The water works, Centre Square, Philadelphia

Print shows an exterior view of the front entrance and the side facade of the pump house at Centre Square for the Philadelphia waterworks. Possible restrike of plate by George E. Blake.

William Berryman - [Sugar works]

Title transcribed from finding aid. Public domain photograph of 19th-century landscape drawing, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Berryman - Four paths, works and great-house, Clarendon Mounta...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

William Berryman - [Sugar works]

Title from finding aid. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

[Title page of The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, il...

/ E Tisdale, del.; W.H. Bassett fc. Engraving by W.H. Bassett after drawing by E. Tisdale. Illus. in: The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - PATRIOTISM 1820. This re... More

All the works of Bunbury, & Gillray ..., British Cartoon Print

This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Cartoons, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470... More

[Schuylhill, Fairmont Water Works, Philadelphia]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

High Bridge and high service works and reservoir

Print shows the High Bridge and aqueduct spanning the Harlem River to the pumping station and reservoir. Illus. from: Manual of the Corporation for the City of New York. New York : Common Council, 184-.

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

[Lampshade design with six views: "Kansas", "Jefferson City", "Erie R....

Stamped on lower left: From the file of James F. Queen artist, 1824-1889. (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress.

[Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pennsylv...

Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress) Public domain scan of 19th-century salted paper print artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.

Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More

Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.

The Manchester Print Works, at Manchester, N.H.

Exterior. Illus. in: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, v. 7, 1854, p. 320. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Factories; Geogr.

[Notion Company's Works, California]

Gold mine. From Gleason's Pictorial, vol. 6, 1854. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: California; Gold processing; Shelf.

The new works at the siege of Sebastopol on the right attack - from th...

Print shows a mortar battery with soldiers, two mortars, gabions, and earthworks, with a distant view of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majest... More

The water works at Fair Mount / eng. and coloured by R.H. Filbert.

Print shows a distant view of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Print was splattered with muddy water or ot... More

Rebel works on the heights of Centerville [sic]

Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-2. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.767) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Buildings at the Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania],

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Entrance to Washington Water Works, Great Falls, Potomac River

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

Confederate Powder Works, Augusta, Ga., Confederate States of America.

No. 5307. Photograph is half stereograph. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

The Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia

Photograph shows ruins of Tredegar Iron Works with footbridge to Neilson's Island in the distance. No. B748. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Rebel works in front of Atlanta, Ga., no. 2

This record contains unverified data from shelflist. Plate from: Photographic views of Sherman's campaign / from negatives taken in the field by Geo. N. Barnard. New York : 1866. Published in: Photographic view... More

Works thrown up near Rappahannock R.R. Bridge

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below image: Bridge on fire. Published in: Harper's Weekly, November 7, 1863, p. 716 as: Works thrown up near the Railroad Bridge over the Rappah... More

[Folly Island, South Carolina. Bomb and splinter proof of General Gill...

An old black and white photo of a man in a hut. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chattanooga water works, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows U.S. Army water works at Cameron Hill, Chattanooga, Tennessee Purchase; Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:117). Vender : Andrew Smith Gallery, Inc.

The seige of Vicksburg - Approach of McPhearson's saps to the rebel wo...

Wood engraving after Theo. R. Davis. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 July 11. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Breast works on extreme left

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

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Breast works on extreme left

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Bombardment of Port Hudson by Admiral Farragut's fleet Assault of the ...

Print shows (top) Union ships under the command of Admiral Farragut bombarding Port Hudson, Louisiana, and (bottom) African American troops of the 2nd Louisiana Regiment attacking the Confederate defensive work... More

The War in Virginia - Battle of Rappahannock Station, Nov. 7 - a porti...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1863 Nov. 28, pp. 152-153. Reference copy in LOT 4416G (1863)

Rebel works in front of Atlanta, Ga., no. 3

[Interior view of Rebel fort in front of Petersburg works, manned by C...

No. 788. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

North Anna River, Virginia. View of log bridge at Quarles' mill. Where...

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

Armstrong's mills and rebel works on Hatcher's Run, captured by the Se...

Illustration from: Harper's Weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Two views of military works on the James River in 1864]

Title devised. Inscribed below first image: Bridge-James river 1864. Inscribed above image: Butler's lookout. Inscribed below second image: At the obstructions on the James River. Inscribed above image: Dashed ... More

Grant's campaign south of the James--reinforcements to General Warren ...

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

[Part of Federal Line of Works showing bombproof tents occupied by U.S...

No. 802. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

The war in Virginia - the 22nd Colored Regiment, Duncan's brigade, car...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 July 9, p. 244.

Near Lead works. Petersburg - Public domain scenic drawing

Portrait of a soldier and deforested landscape. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed below image: This the enemy was damming to drown the Union works; a creek through which much of the drainage of the siege l... More

[Rear view of the 13-inch Mortar "Dictator" in the works of Petersburg...

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

Confederate works in front of Petersburg, Virginia captured by 18th Co...

No. 785. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003.

Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Pete...

Stereograph showing a barricade composed of long wooden spikes attached to a wooden frame placed by Confederate soldiers in front of parapets. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Capti... More

Petersburg, Virginia. View of gas works. (Photographic wagon, Engineer...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Richmond, Virginia. Tredegar Iron Works - 19th century Virginia.

Public domain historical photo, American history, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter), east face, Charleston Harbor, S.C., showin...

Stereograph showing broken girders among piles of rocks next to the palmetto reinforcement on the exterior wall of Fort Sumter. No. 3127. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright ... More

Richmond, Virginia. Tredegar Iron Works - 19th century Virginia.

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Chevaux-de-Frise in front of the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Pete...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to the defensive fortification composed of wooden spikes attached to a frame in front of a Confederate fort. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic Histo... More

Petersburg, Virginia. Gas works showing the effect of bombardment

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View from the parapet of the rebel works in front of Petersburgh (i.e....

Stereograph showing various fortifications inside the Confederate fort near Elliott's salient and Petersburg, Va. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthon... More

The Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond Virginia

Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia. No. 862. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative available: LC-B815-862

Petersburg, Virginia. Captain Andrew Cown's 1st New York Independent B...

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A large gun in the Rebel Works at Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg), Virgi...

Stereograph showing a cannon mounted on inner line of Confederate fortifications. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Imprinted on card: "It i... More

View of the Petersburg Gas Works / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan, positi...

Photograph showing the damage to the gas works building and smoke stack caused by Union Army bombs. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solo... More

Interior of the rebel works in front of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg),...

Stereograph showing gabions and other fortifications inside a Confederate fort near Petersburg. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Forms part... More

The Vulcan Iron Works, Cumberland St., Charleston, S.C.

Stereograph showing a group of men standing on the balcony of Archibald McLeish's Vulcan Iron Works. Several wagons and a pair of sawhorses line both sides of Cumberland Street. No. 3112. Part of series: The W... More

Ruins near arsenal and Tredegar Iron Works, Richmond, Virginia, April,...

No. B597. 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

Interior view of the Rebel works in front of Petersburgh [sic], Virgin...

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Interior of the rebel works in front of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg),...

Stereograph showing soldiers standing on the breastworks of a Confederate fort in front of Petersburg, Va. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.... More

Robert Wood's ornamental iron works, Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia / Hinc...

Print shows an advertisement for Robert Wood's Ornamental Iron Works on "Ridge Avenue below Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia" showing cast iron statues and fountains, the "Clay Monument, at Pottsville, Pa.", ... More

Richmond, Virginia. Tredegar Iron Works - 19th century Virginia.

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

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Brooke gun (Made at Tredegar I...

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Interior of the rebel works in front of Petersburgh (i.e. Petersburg),...

Stereograph showing log and gabion reinforced fortifications inside a Confederate fort near Petersburg. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright 1865 by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. Fo... More

Extreme line of Confederate works, Cold Harbor, Virginia / negative by...

Photograph showing a fallen tree and other barricades used by Confederate soldiers in the Battle of Cold Harbor. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. :... More

Davis & Cowell's Lime Works, Santa Cruz

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 54. LOT subdivision subject: Mills (Lumber Mills, etc.). This record contains unverified old data ... More

The Gould and Curry Works - General view, from the South

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 723. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Chollar Mining Works, Virginia City - 19th century Virginia.

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 732. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s Works, Benicia, Solano County, Maretinez ...

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 575. LOT subdivision subject: Solano County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Gould & Curry Works, from the East

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 725. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Hoisting works of the Bullion Mine, Gold Hill

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 736. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified data from old caption... More

Empire, Imperial, Challenge, and other Mining Works at Gold Hill

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 739. LOT subdivision subject: Mining Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from caption card.

Sacramento City - Central Pacific R.R. Works, at China Slough

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Six mile Canyon, from office of Chollar Works, desert in the distance

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 733. LOT subdivision subject: Virginia City, Nevada. This record contains unverified old data from... More

Gas Works and Long Bridge from Rincon Point, San Francisco

The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 389. LOT subdivision subject: San Francisco General Views. This record contains unverified old dat... More

Battle-field of Gettysburg - Union breast works on Culp's Hill, tempor...

Broken and fallen trees on Gettysburg battlefield. Tipton & Myers' stereoscopic views series. No. 537.

Vulcan's steam works, California, 19th century sterescope card.

Small buildings at foot of hill near stream in Sonoma County, California. On verso: Julian H. Hatch, West Medford. No. 11.

"Time works wonders." Iago. (Jeff Davis) "For that I do suspect the lu...

Cartoon showing Jefferson Davis looking over his shoulder at Hiram Revels seated in the United States Senate. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 April 9, p. 232.

[Page with three original photoprints "Views on the Pennsylvania Centr...

Illustrations (possibly stereo halves) of views, one mile east of Black Log Water Station, Black Log Water Station, and Lewiston Narrows.

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.

Fairmount Water Works- Philadelphia, engraving, Library of Congress

11035 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kelly, T.

Woman's holy war. Grand charge on the enemy's works

The "Holy War" was the nineteenth-century crusade for temperance and prohibition, whose advocates were predominantly clergymen and women. Here a young woman in armor on a black horse leads a group of similarly ... More

National gas works company's portable works, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...

F8440 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Krebs, O.

Salt works and drying floors - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The Ministry of Commerce and Public Works] / Constantinople, Abdullah...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Water Works Park - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illinois Steel Works, Joliet - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to an industrial revolution, industry history, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.