Keith Rocco - William Sherwood House - Jamestown in the 1690s
Excavations at the home of William Sherwood, a prominent landowner in Jamestown during the late 17th century, have revealed a number of signs of the prosperity of the colony, including ornate ornamental plaster... More
Historic Jamestowne glass blower
At the Historic Jamestowne Glasshouse, costumed craftsmen demonstrate the same glassblowing and production techniques used by their 17th-century Jamestown counterparts.
Nelson House, Jefferson national expansion memorial
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Historic Jamestowne Glasshouse - National Parks Gallery
The Historic Jamestowne Glasshouse recreates the first industry attempted by the colonists in 1608
From Fort to City - Jamestown in 1621
By the early 1620s, Jamestown was slowly transitioning from an wilderness outpost to a town (Keith Rocco, artist).
Keith Rocco - Jamestown, 1630s: Harvey's Industrial Enclave
Virginia Governor John Harvey (1630-35; 1637-39) helped to develop many of the industrial and craft operations at Jamestown early in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. The failure of his industrial ... More
Keith Rocco - Jamestown Lifescape - Mid-17th Century
A scene of a busy street in Jamestown, circa 1650 (Keith Rocco, artist).
Keith Rocco - Jamestown in the Winter of 1690
Nottoway tribe bringing annual tribute to the governor of Virginia during the winter of 1690, a tradition that continues to this day.
Tourist Attraction - Old Custom House
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Reddition de l'Armée angloises commandée par Mylord Comte de Cornwalli...
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Yorktown, Colonial National Historical Park, Virginia
"*GPO: 2006--320-369/00564. Reprint 2006." Title from panel. Includes text, col. ill, and map of "The final campaign, 1781." Text, map of "Echoes from the past, Yorktown on foot", and ill. (some col.) on verso.... 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
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
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
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
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
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
A plan of the entrance of Chesapeak Bay, with James and York rivers : ...
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
Keith Rocco - Yorktown Surrender Ceremony
British troops stack arms during the ceremonial surrender of Cornwallis' army marking the end of the siege of Yorktown, October 19, 1781 (Keith Rocco, artist).
Yorktown - Mid-18th Century - Public Domain image, National Parks Gall...
By the middle of the 18th century, prosperous Yorktown, Virginia was the busies seaport in the Chesapeake Bay region (artist unknown).
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
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia Oct. 19th 1781
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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
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
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
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
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
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
To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies o...
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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.
Lafayette, James Armistead [Facsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's or...
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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
Sieǵe d'Yorktown - Print, Library of Congress collection
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Fontaine.
Rembrandt Peale - Washington before Yorktown
Reproduction shows George Washington, full-length portrait, in full dress uniform on horseback preparing his troops for the final battle of the Revolutionary War in Yorktown, Virginia. The figure to Washington'... More
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
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
Yorktown - Public domain image of steamship
Sidewheeler using steam as auxiliary power, showing men with crates of tobacco marked "P.B." (Paulin Byrd). LOT subdivision subject: Ships (clipper and steam). Title and other information transcribed from capti... More
Confederate Fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Metropolitan Museum of...
James F. Gibson (American, born 1828) 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 sa... More
Seige of Yorktown, Virginia: Confederate water batteries
Tents and houses; bay in left backgrd. Civil War Collection. No. 452. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts; Geogr.; C.W. Artillery; C.W. Campaigns Yorktown.
Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...
No. B141. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 8, page 371. Hand written on verso from an unidentified source: Confederate Battery at Yorktown which fired upon the Federal Balloonist and upon which "Balloon Bry... More
Great siege train at Yorktown, Virginia
Rows of mortars and field guns in foreground. Stereo half by Brady, #2358. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Civil War, 1861-1865.
Siege train at Yorktown Landing, Virginia
No. B121. 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
Water Battery at Yorktown - Early photography, Public domain image
James F. Gibson (American, born 1828) 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 sa... More
Map of country between Yorktown and Williamsbu[rg] in Virginia.
Shows a portion of the peninsula outlined by the York River to the north and the James River to the south. Sneden marked the Union line of march, wagon trains, and Confederate works, all related to the Peninsul... More
Seige of Yorktown, Virginia: Confederate fortifications
6 men at sand-bagged cannon emplacement in right backgrd. Civil War Collection. No. 2364. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts; Geogr.; C.W. Artillery; C.W. Campa... More
Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...
No. B140. 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
Moore House, Yorktown, [Virginia] - Early photography, Public domain i...
Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 462. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; C.W. Campaigns.
below Yorktown, Virginia from "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, b...
This image has been taken from scan 000219 from volume 02 of "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon “the Century War Series.” ... More
Siege of Yorktown. Federal Battery No. 1 near Farnhold's house, mounti...
No. 94. 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 and... More
Confederate fortifications at Gloucester Point, Virginia, opposite Yor...
2 men with cannon in foregrd.; ships on water in backgrd.
Siege of Yorktown, Virginia Confederate Water Battery, Nelson Church i...
No. 463. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Civil War Fortifications; Civil War Batteries Water; Civil War Battlefiel... More
Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia, Confederate States of ...
8 men at sand-bagged cannon emplacement; man in mid-ground seated on wreckage of cannon. Civil War Collection. No. 2367. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Forts...; ... More
"King Cotton", Yorktown, Virginia during American Civil War
Fortification with bales of cotton inside. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 2B67. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Plantation crops Cotton; C.W. Forts... More
Water Battery, Yorktown - Early photography, Public domain image
James F. Gibson (American, born 1828) 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 sa... More
Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery. Magruder with 8-inch Columbia...
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Yorktown, Virginia, May 1862. A scene during the Civil War
No. B-82. Caption continues: (US Army signal corps "Brady photographs" catalogue, 1921, no. B-82) after a photographer working under the direction of Mathew B. Brady
Topographical engineers at Headquarters, Army of Potomac, in front of ...
Group of 9 men at table in front of tent. Civil War Collection. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; C.W.... More
Sketch of the lines at Yorktown Virginia April 30th 1862.
Shows an area that includes Gloucester Point on the north/east side of the York River, Yorktown on the south/west side of the river, and Wormsley Creek to the south of Yorktown as the Union forces finalized pre... More
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Prince...
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Confederate naval battery at Yorktown, Virginia; Nelson Church hospita...
Photo from Brady Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: CW Churches Virginia; Civil War, 1861-1865 Batteries Water battery; Shelf.
Yorktown, Virginia. Both sections of Federal mortar battery No. 4
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Position of Union Army April 5th and 6th 1862
Shows the area of Wormsley Creek to the north and Poquoson River to the south as McClellan's forces prepared to launch the siege of Yorktown, Va. The locations of Howard's Bridge across the Poquoson and the roa... More
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Clark's house used a hospital for the r...
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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group. Similar to 351
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Yorktown Landing, 19th century - Early photography, Public domain imag...
James F. Gibson (American, born 1828) 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 sa... More
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars...
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Official map of the Union works in front of Yorktown, Va.
Shows the vicinity of Yorktown, Va., including Union batteries located along the Warwick Court House Road. Also shows the Confederate barricade made up of abatis, palisades, slashings of trees, felled trees, an... More
Plan of Yorktown, Virginia ... April, 1862.
Shows the area of the York River coastline from Windmill Creek to Wormsley Creek with particular attention to the landforms and defenses around Yorktown and the layout of streets and buildings within the town itself.
Yorktown to Williamsburg Historic map, Library of Congress
Description derived from published bibliography. Shows fortifications, towns, roads, houses, names of residents, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library o... More
Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 1 at Farnhold's House, York River moun...
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Floating hospitals for Yorktown ... Washington, April 16, 1862.
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 30.
Yorktown, Virginia. View from Cornwallis cave
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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Headquarters of General McClellan at Ca...
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Servants at quarters of Prince de Joinville in front of Yorktown, May ...
Four men with wash tub, frying pan, etc. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Official plan of the siege of Yorktown, Va., conducted by the Army of ...
Scale ca. 1:13,500. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 673 "This plan shows about half the line, including the point of attack. The Rebel works are laid down from reconnoissances [sic] made immediately after the evac... More
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Farenholt's house, with part of Federal...
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Siege of Yorktown. Federal Battery No. 1
No. 4179. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 23. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 13. ... More
The Union assault on the Rebel works at Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Va.
Shows fortifications on opposite sides of the Warwick River, with the Confederate forces concentrated to the north of the river and the Union forces to the south around Lee's Mill.
Yorktown, Virginia. Moore house where Lord Cornwallis the capitulation
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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group. T. Anderson, Esq. Lt. Colonel F...
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The assault on the "Red Battery," April 25th, 1862 Yorktown, Va.
Shows the area between the Warwick River to the west and the Warwick Road to the east as McClellan's forces attacked Confederate batteries on the Peninsula south of Yorktown, Va. Color coding indicates the loca... More
Yorktown, Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson house in background used...
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Siege of Yorktown, Virginia Views of Federal Battery, No. 4
Soldiers with three 13 inch mortars. LC-B811-375. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Original glass negative no.: LC-B811-375. Caption card ... More
The Centre position of Union and Rebel armies, Yorktown, Va.
Shows both of the armies west of Yorktown, with the York River to the east, as the Siege of Yorktown got underway. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this scrapbook image. Color coding indica... More
Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery with McClellan's No. 1 mortar ...
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Plan of Yorktown, Virginia : showing the Rebel works after the evacuat...
Shows the street plan of Yorktown and the fortifications surrounding the town following the Confederate removal up the Peninsula. The York River and the town of Gloucester Point are also indicated.
[Yorktown to Williamsburg] Historic map, Library of Congress
Scale ca. 1:95,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 600 Principal rivers are hand-colored blue. Description derived from published bibliography. Civil War salted paper maps. AL-57. Available also through the Libra... More
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Servants of officers of staff. (The "Be...
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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Group of contrabands at Allen's farm ho...
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Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery with General McClellan's No. 1...
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Official plan of the siege of Yorktown, Va. conducted by the Army of t...
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Yorktown, Virginia. Naval battery with Nelson church in background use...
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Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars...
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Map of the lines at Yorktown, Virginia, April 1862.
Shows the vicinity around Yorktown, Va., including Warwick Court House, the Warwick River, and Wormsley Creek as siege lines were drawn by McClellan's Union troops and Magruder's Confederate forces.
The siege of Yorktown, April 1862
Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 673.7 "Entered accord. to Act of Congress A.D. 1862 by C. Bohn in the Clerks Office of the District of Columbia." Bird's-eye view of the Union siege of Yorktown, wi... More
Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate fortifications built on the site where...
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