[Artillery hold in the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Bülend] / Co...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 419. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Abdulla...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. No. 636. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More
[The deck of the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Necm-i Şevket] / Constant...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. No. 625. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More
U.S.S. Winona - Public domain image of a steam ship or boat
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Steamer landing, Lake Chautauqua
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Avn-i Ilâh] / Abdullah Frères, Consta...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Turkey, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[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
U.S.S. Genesee at Baton Rouge, La., March 1863
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
Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound o...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 356.
Destruction of the rebel monster "Merrimac" off Craney Island May 11th...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1707
[James River], Virginia. U.S. gunboat MASSASOIT
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer, captured by the Maritanza
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis...
Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3052
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Confederate Fort Darling on the ...
Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[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.
Naval bombardment of Vera Cruz: March 1847
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4775
The Union iron clad monitor "Montauk": destroying the Rebel steamship ...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6772
Patapsco engaging Sullivans Id. Batteries.
Broadside view of an ironclad shelling a fort in Charleston, S.C. Harbor. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: red top to stack. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2... More
The iron steam ship "Great Eastern" 22,500 tons: constructed under the...
Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3370
U.S. ironclad gunboat Essex - A black and white photo of a ship in the...
Photo shows the USS Essex, launched in 1856 as the New Era and acquired druing the American Civil War by the US Army in 1861 for the Western Gunboat Flotilla. Transferred to the US Navy in 1862 and participated... More
View from residence of L.Z. Lieter, Lake Geneva, Wis.
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Admiral Dahlgren and staff on the "Pawnee"
Stereograph showing group portrait of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (fifth from left) and Union officers aboard U.S.S. Pawnee at Charleston, South Carolina. No. 3413. Part of series: The War for the Union. Phot... More
[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the...
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
[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]
Nine vignetted scenes surround central image of soldiers moving earth. Title devised. Inscribed within images, from top left to bottom right: obstructions; Nigger huts James river; Deep bottom James river; mail... More
North River Blue Stone Works of John Maxwell and the Bigelow Blue Ston...
Print showing a view from across the Hudson River of the waterfront plant of John Maxwell's North River Blue Stone Works and the Bigelow Blue Stone Co. at Malden, New York; stacks of blue stone tiles, men worki... More
[On deck of U.S.S. Arago, off Charleston, SC]
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[Union soldiers on deck of U.S.S. New Hampshire, off Charleston, S.C.]
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Adm. David D. Porter, Lt. Commander, on deck of U.S. Steamship Fulton.
A black and white photo of a man on a boat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Officers on deck of U.S. gunboat Miami
No. B82. Hand written on verso: "See Miller, vol. 6, p. 199". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
U.S. gunboat Lexington [i.e. Tyler] - Mississippi River Fleet
Photograph shows a Union timberclad, the U.S.S. Tyler. No. 3122. Cited in Miller, vol. I, p. 203, as the U.S.S. Tyler. "U.S. Army Military History Institute also identifies it as (U.S.S) Tyler" inscribed on ve... More
Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia
No. B517. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. 1, pp. 110-111. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Officers on deck of monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia
No. B655. Mounted with four other photographs. For information on the identification of the photographer see article: "Richmond Again Taken: Reappraising the Brady Legend through Photographs by Andrew J. Russe... More
Crew on deck of monitor Lehigh, James River, Virginia
No. B80. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 179". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Wreck of U.S. gunboat Indianola - Mississippi River Fleet
No. 3117. 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
[Sling for heavy artillery. Drewry's Bluff, Virginia]
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-B811-1152.
Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois during American Civil War
No. 3165. 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
On deck of U.S.S. Vermont off Charleston, S.C.
No. 4959. Mounted with three other photographs and two prints. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Gunboat "Commodore Perry", James River, Virginia
No. 4274. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
The floating hospital on the Mississippi / drawn by Mr. Theodore R. Da...
Views showing the steamboat Civil War naval hospital "Red Rover," a nursing "sister," a waterside grave, the convalescent ward, and the sick ward. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 May 9, p. 300.
Fredericksburg, Virginia. Gunboat YANKEE - 19th century Virginia.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (vicinity). Sling for heavy artillery
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U. S. S. Huron, which was lost Nov. 24, 1877 near Oregon Inlet, North ...
Photograph shows side view of U. S. S. Huron anchored. Copyright 1897 by C. F. Holden, Charlestown, Mass. Copyright 18?8 at Washington, D.C. No. 452.
Terrible collision between the steamboats Stonington and Narragansett:...
Print shows people in lifeboats and people jumping from blazing steamboats. 7163 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6461
[The stern cannon of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Consta...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 422. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[The Imperial Ironclad Frigates Hamidiye, Osmaniye and Aziziye seen fr...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 24. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More
St. Lucie [at Eden], Indian River
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship in the sea, harbor, maritime, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[The stern hall on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Constant...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 33. No. 660. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
Crew of Monitor, Hampton Roads, Virginia 1862
Stereograph showing the crew of the U.S.S. ironclad, "Monitor" sitting and standing on deck near the turret. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be avail... More
[Boatswain piping in front of large cannon on deck of U.S. Naval warsh...
Title devised by library staff. U.S. Navy photo, (186-?). Public domain photograph of United States navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren standing...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The magnificent steamships Egypt and Spain: of the national steamship ...
Artist: Charles R. Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4214
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. No. 587. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[Broadside views of three sidewheel steamships:] U.S. Transport Ericcs...
Title devised and inscribed below images. Formerly Waud no. C-51. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.978 recto) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More
The Steamship Oregon, of the Cunard Line, between New York and Liverpo...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6189.
A steamboat race on the Mississippi, (between the Baltic & Diana)
118 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weingärtner. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of t... More
U.S. Gunboat "Lockwood". Warship photograph collection
Broadside view of sidewheel steamship. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: U.S. Gunboat. Formerly Waud no. C-117. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1044) Forms part of: Morgan collection of... More
[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.
Oswego, N.Y. / Lewis Bradley del. ; on stone by D.W. Moody.
Bird's-eye view of Oswego, New York, showing the mouth of the Oswego River at Lake Ontario.
Oswego, N.Y. / Lewis Bradley del. ; on stone by D.W. Moody.
Bird's-eye view of Oswego, New York, showing the mouth of the Oswego River at Lake Ontario.
[U.S.S. Susquehanna, Commodore Perry's flag ship, full starboard view]
Drawing is on the "Susquehanna & Mississippil Scroll", depicting Perry's expedition to Japan. Watercolor drawing Taguchi Shumpei.
[Broadside views of three steamships]
Title devised. Inscribed below first image: U.S. Transport "Daniel Webster." N.B. The "Ariel" is precisely like the Webster only much longer. Inscribed below the second image: Transports "Parkersburgh" "Locust ... More
View of St. Louis, Mo. [Levee] - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...
Purchase; Christie's, South Kensington; 1981; (DLC/PP-1981:260). Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public ... More
U.S. gunboat Pittsburg - Mississippi River Fleet
No. 3136. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 148". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
U.S. gunboat Lafayette, Mississippi River Fleet
No. 4584. 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 Osage - Mississippi River Fleet
No. 3126. Hand written on mount: "Lt. Comdr. Thos. O. Selfridge". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
[Ship deck with sailors and cannons]
Photograph possibly by George H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tid... More
The United States gun-boat "Wyandotte" firing a salute on Washington's...
Shown are the gun-boat "Wyandotte," and in the background left to right Fort Barrancas, Barrancas barracks, and United States Marine Hospital. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 April 6, p. 212.
Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia
No. B481. 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 Meteor [i.e. Cricket] during American Civil War
No. 3145. Correction to title made on card mount comparing images of the two gunboats. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Officers on deck on U.S. frigate Sabine
No. 4367. 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
[Civil War envelope showing flotilla of gunboats engaged in battle on ...
Addressed to Miss Josie Paige, Nelson, N.H.; bears 3 cent stamp. Initialed A.L.M. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library ... More
James River, Virginia. Officers on deck of U.S.S. MONITOR
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Difficulties of a working general among the bayous Bayou navigation in...
Four illustrations: men poling a flatboat; man seated on shore; soldiers along bayou; and a steamboat. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 7, no. 328 (1863 April 11), p. 225. DCRM(G) example 1F1.1 - Material without... More
Rebel attack on our gun-boats in the Red River
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 8, 1864 May 14, p. 305.
The United States monitor "Neosho" engaging three Rebel batteries on t...
Published in: Harper's weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (vicinity). Sling for heavy artillery
Photo shows the equipment used by Union troops to remove heavy artillery pieces from Drewry's Bluff, which was on the James River and part Confederate defenses for Richmond, Virginia, until evacuated in April 1865.
Scenes of the great Red River raft - 1873
Photograph showing the steam snag boat, US AID, clearing logjam in the Red River, Louisiana. In album: Photographic views of Red River raft, made in April & May, 1873, under directions of C.W. Howell, Capt. Co... More
James McNeill Whistler - [Steamboats off the Tower]
Print shows view of the Thames River with the Tower of London on the opposite side. Title and some other information from the Whistler Etching Project website: http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. Signed with butter... More
Boating 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
A.W. Chesterton - Public domain image of a steam boat
Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Birds eye or balloon view of Rocky Point. Narragansett Bay, R.I.
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the waterfront at Rocky Point, Warwick, Rhode Island, with a large building, possibly a hotel, and pavilions on the grounds, and a steamboat named the "Bay Queen" taking on pass... More
[The crew hanging the ship's lifeboats on the Imperial Ironclad Frigat...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 42. No. 623. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[U.S. Naval officers relaxing on deck]
Title devised by library staff. U.S. Navy photo, (186-?). Public domain photograph of United States navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Vicksburg, Miss. Levee and steamboats] - stereocsopic card
Photograph of the War in the West. Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The city of St. Louis / sketched & drawn on stone by Parsons & Atwater...
Bird's-eye view of St. Louis, Missouri, as seen from above the Mississippi River; prominent features identified below the image.
Destruction of the rebel ram "Arkansas": By the United State gunboat "...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1708
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
Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound o...
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 356.
[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...
Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. No. 587. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More
[Charleston Harbor, S.C. Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren standing by a D...
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
A steamboat race on the Mississippi, (between the Baltic & Diana)
118 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Weingärtner. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of t... More
High pressure steamboat Mayflower first class packet between St. Louis...
Artist: Charles Parsons. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3052
[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.
[Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee]
Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
Queenstown [sic] Heights, Ontario, Canada
Public domain photograph of steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Oblique view of sidewheel steamship]
Title devised. Inscribed below broadside view of sidewheel steamship on verso: Dean Richmond. Formerly Waud no. B-111. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.875) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil Wa... More