[Paddle wheel mechanism of side-wheel steamer]
Drawing is third panel on the "Machinery Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan in 1853. Watercolor drawing by contemporary Japanese artist.
[Port views of the U.S.S. Susquehanna and the U.S.S. Mississippi under...
Drawings are panels one and two of the "Machinery scroll' depicting Perry's expedition to Japan, 1853. Watercolor by a contemporary Japanese artist.
U.S. gunboat Commodore Barney(?) during American Civil War
No. B113. 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
The Mississippi River Fleet at Mound City, Illinois
No. 3132. 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
[Sailors and a cannon on deck of a gunboat]
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Confederate obstructions in James River at Drewry's Bluff
No. B470. Similar to LC-B811-2475. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
U.S. gunboat Benton. Warship photograph collection
No. 3148. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi RIver Fleet. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
On deck of U.S. gunboat Hunchback
No. B708. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
U.S. gunboat Vindicator. Warship photograph collection
No. 3144. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
[B]alloon view of the attack on Fort Darling in the James River, by Co...
Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 541.2 From Harper's weekly, v. 6, May 31, 1862. p. [337] This view was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Ma... More
The Civil War in America--Naval engagement in Hampton Roads: the Confe...
Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, 1862 April 5, p. 327.
Little Mack and his party "going up" Salt River on a gunboat. Terrific...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Şevket] / Constantinople, Abdull...
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constan...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. No. 595. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[The officers' club of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Cons...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 20. No. 433. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More
The steamboat St. Lucie - Public domain image of a steam boat
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Fort Darling. (Magazines, bomb-p...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Maiden rock: Mississippi River - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4217
U.S. gunboat Fort Hindman - Mississippi River Fleet
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, which creates a glossy surface to h... More
Intérieur de la batterie du Merrimac, pendant le combat avec le Monito...
Interior of the Merrimac showing Confederate sailors loading cannon, during combat with the Monitor. Illus. from: Le Monde Illustré. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Bombardment and capture of Fort Henry, Tenn.: By the federal gunboats ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0657. Purchase; (DLC/PP-1938:042).
View of Fort Clifton showing the Water Battery and obstructions in the...
Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: sketched from Battery B 2nd U.S. regulars (colored). Inscribed above image : (sketch 3); obstructions in the river sunk by the rebels; Water Battery of Clifton... More
Helena, Arkansas. April 26, 1865. Ill-fated Sultana
Photograph shows the overloaded steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River the day before her boilers exploded and she sank on April 27th. The passengers included ca. 1,880 Union soldiers heading home at the en... More
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Columbiad gun in Fort Darling on James
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Deck and officers of U.S.S. monitor Catskill;...
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
Steamer Louisiana now running between Baltimore & Fort Monroe
Broadside view of steamship under weigh. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.459) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms part of: Morgan collectio... More
Transatlantic sketches--the Mississippi River
Wood engravings showing three views of the Mississippi River, captioned: 1. Down the lower Mississippi--from the Baton Rouge; 2. Voyageurs ascending the lower Mississippi; 3. Woodchopper's hut, lower Mississippi.
[Group portrait of the crew on the deck of an ironclad]
Title devised by library staff. 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 mi... More
Arrival of the Twenty-Second Indiana Volunteers, Colonel J.C. Davis, a...
Soldiers getting off steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 246 (1861 Sept. 14), p. 582.
U.S. gunboat Milwaukee - A black and white photo of a boat in the wate...
No. 3139. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
On deck of the monitor Lehigh, James River, Virginia
No. B768. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Crew on deck of U.S.S. Colorado
No. 4455. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
James River, Virginia. Captain W.N. Jeffers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Burning of the steamship "Golden Gate" :July 27. 1862
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Deck of gunboat "Hunchback", 1865(?) during American Civil War
U.S. Army Signal Corps 1921 Brady Photographs Catalogue no. B-6199.
Levee below the bridge, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Princess on Dunn's Creek, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Aziziye] / Abdullah Frères, Constantino...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 38. No. 44. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More
[Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia]
Photograph shows the exterior of the Winter Palace along the Neva River, with steam-powered passenger boats and posts in the foreground. Library of Congress copy mounted on cardboard. Purchase; I. Daziro; St. ... More
Providence and Stonington Steamship Co's. steamer, Rhode Island
Artist: G.M. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5387
[Two broadside views of steamships]
Title devised. Inscribed below first image: 4 new Gun Boats like the above viz. Unadilla, Seneca, Pembria, Pembina. Inscribed below second image: 2 Ships like this viz. the Florida & Augusta another with bows t... More
Our city, (St. Louis, Mo.) / lith. by A. Janicke & Co., St. Louis.
Bird's-eye view of Saint Louis, Missouri as seen from above the Mississippi River.
Admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0057
The progress of the century - the lightning steam press, the electric ...
Man using telegraph in foreground; in background are people using steam press, steamboat, and locomotive. 4614 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, ... More
Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns The ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6463 Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Steamship Adriatic 5,888 tons, 1350 horse power: George Steers naval c...
Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6149
Gun-boat quick step - American Civil War sheet music
inscriberd to Commodore Foote
Federal tranports in the Tennessee River
Photograph shows steamships along the banks of the Tennessee River with people on the ships and on shore. On verso: LC-B8184-10279. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (vicinity). Sling cart used in removing the c...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Moonrise on the Ohio - Victorian era public domain image
Boats on river, mountains, and moon in background. Public domain photograph of steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Providence and Stonington Steamship Co's. steamers, Massachusetts and ...
Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The White House - Pamunkey River, Virginia / McIlvaine.
Soldiers (?) on porch of a house on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, with a steamship flying the American flag at landing to the left. Inscribed: The residence of Mr. Custis, afterwards Mr. Washington. Similar vie... More
The White House - Pamunkey River, Virginia / McIlvaine.
Soldiers (?) on porch of a house on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, with a steamship flying the American flag at landing to the left. Inscribed: The residence of Mr. Custis, afterwards Mr. Washington. Similar vie... More
[Arlington, Virginia Interior view of Fort C.F. Smith, with gun crew o...
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.
Scene on the upper Mississippi (Am Ober-Mississippi)
Two steamboats and raft in foreground. Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gunboat on the Mississippi - A black and white photo of people on a bo...
Part of the Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Admiral Farragut and Captain Drayton on deck of U.S. frigate Hartford
No. 3169. 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
Officers on deck of monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia
No. B696. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
On deck of the monitor Lehigh, James River, Virginia
No. B686. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Confederate iron-clad Stonewall, Confederate States of America.
No. 912. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative: LC-B817-7912-B
Steamboat dock, Morris Island, S.C., Confederate States of America.
No. 4295. No. 3531 etched on negative, lower left corner. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Map showing the system of rebel fortifications on the Mississippi Rive...
Scale 1:84,480 ("3/4 of an inch = one mile"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 299.8 From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the W... More
Capture of Fort Henry by U.S. gun boats under the command of Flag Offi...
Print shows four Union ironclads in the foreground, identified as the "St. Louis", "Carondelet", "Cincinnati", and the "Essex", bombarding Confederate Fort Henry in the background; also shows two Confederate st... More
Deep Creek, Fla.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Constantinople, Abdullah F...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 31. No. 425. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[The torpedo steamboats] / Abdullah Frères, Constantinople.
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 22. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More
On the Tomoka - Public domain image of a steam boat
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[The cannon hold in the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Constan...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 21. No. 450. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
William Sprague - Public domain image of a steam boat
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Beaver Dam Lake, Wis., the Edna
Public domain image of a boat in the water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Steamboats passing at midnight: on Long Island
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6139
White House - Pamunkey River / McIlvaine.
Soldiers (?) on porch of a house on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, with steamship flying American flag at landing to the left. Similar view filed under: DRWG/US - McIlvaine, no. 3, of 1862. Forms part of the Mar... More
Our city, (St. Louis, Mo.) / lith. by A. Janicke & Co., St. Louis.
Bird's-eye view of Saint Louis, Missouri as seen from above the Mississippi River.
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. No. 601. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constantinople, Abdullah Fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. No. 601. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
Admiral Farragut's fleet engaging the rebel batteries at Port Hudson, ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0057
Gunboats shelling the enemy at the battle of Malvern hill sketched fro...
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: General McClellan went aboard while I was sketching to change the position of the gunboats that were shelling our infantry. Gif... More
The low pressure steamboat "Isaac Newton": passing the palisades on th...
Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4148
Intérieur de la batterie du Merrimac, pendant le combat avec le Monito...
Interior of the Merrimac showing Confederate sailors loading cannon, during combat with the Monitor. Illus. from: Le Monde Illustré. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
Steamboat constructed by the Soldiers at Chattanooga, 1863
Title inscribed below image. Sketches of a man and woman, and muscular arm, on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-26. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.953) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Obstructions in James River opposite Fort Da...
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. gunboat General Price - Mississippi River Fleet
No. 3128. 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
[The crew hanging the ship's lifeboats on the Imperial Ironclad Frigat...
Lifeboat launching drill. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. No. 600. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of:... More
[Unknown location. U.S. gunboat Kansas (built in 1863)]
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
[Point of Rocks, Virginia, vicinity. Crew of U.S. Army gunboat General...
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
Great naval victory in Mobile Bay, Aug. 5th 1864
Print shows battle between Union monitors and sloops against Confederate ships and ram CSS Tennessee in Mobile Bay with Fort Morgan in the distance. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Rese... More
View of the U.S. mail steamship company's premises, Aspinwall, N.G. / ...
Inscribed in pencil on verso: A460216. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
From Grays Ferry looking south / Jas. Queen.
Drawing shows two steamboats at dock and four riverboats or barges on the Schuylkill River, with marsh in the foreground. Signed "Jas. Queen" on lower right. (DLC/PP-1997:105) Forms part of: Marian S. Carson c... More
Deck of one of Porter's mortar schooners
Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 197". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Officers on deck of the monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia
No. B438. 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
U.S. gunboat Cairo - Mississippi River Fleet
No. 3135. Copy neg., LC-B8184-3135, not made from this print. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Officers on deck of monitor Mahopac, James River, Virginia
No. B403. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 145". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
The Pacific Mail Company's steamer "Golden Gate," burned at sea July 2...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 295 (1862 Aug. 23), p. 540.
The levee at Memphis, Tenn.-Hauling sugar and cotton from their hiding...
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
A little game of bagatelle, between Old Abe the rail splitter & Little...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Steamship SACRAMENTO, San Francisco, California, 19th century steresco...
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Consta...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 23. No. 426. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More
[Broadside view of three-masted schooner Niagara, with riverboat Mount...
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gun deck, N. Carolina - Public domain scan / drawing
Title inscribed below image. Outline of two ships on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-157. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1084) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.