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View looking east down Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E., from U.S. Capitol wi...

Unverified information on negative sleeve: View - Carroll Row, East Capitol St. Rowhouses at left on A Street, S.E., at East Capitol Street include the former boardinghouse of Abraham Lincoln. Annotation from n... More

[Aerial view of Paris, France, from balloon, showing the Eiffel Tower ...

Tissandier Collection. Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of San Francisco, 500 feet elevation above Hyde and Green Sts.

The Washington Monument, the world's highest work of masonry (555 ft.)...

Stereograph shows view of the Washington Monument from the clock tower of the post office with a man in shadows in the foreground. H87543 U.S. Copyright Office. Sold only by Berry, Kelley & Chadwick, Office: Ph... More

[View of Staten Island, New York City, from balloon]

H81578 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographic print by Collier (P.F.) & Son. Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Bird's eye view, Roanoke, Virginia], Panoramic Photograph

H94839 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Stone Printing & Mnfg. Co.; June 3, 1907. Copyright claimant's address: Roanoke, Va. Title derived from copyright deposit records.

Birds eye view of La Grange, Ill. from Lawrence Captive Airship at 800...

H10[...]274 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, New York, Washington. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; April 2, 1908.

[San Diego, seen from balloon] - Public domain dedication image

Stamped on verso of duplicate: "West Coast Art Co. (Inc.), 115 East Jefferson St., Los Angeles. Price, $2.00. No. 886. Order by number. Mail orders receive prompt attention." Title derived from duplicate. Digit... More

Camp Custer, Michigan, photographed from kites, camera elevated 500 fe...

J232007 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. Copyright claimant's address: 425 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Copyright deposit, Kaufmann & Fabry Co., October 29, 1918 (DLC/PP-1918:45907). More in... More

[Aerial view of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, Cannon House and...

J233430 U.S. Copyright Office. Inscribed on image recto, lower right: copyright F.D. Bradford 1919.

Airplane view of Foshay Tower - 32 stories, Minneapolis unlike any oth...

Photograph shows an airplane view of the Foshay Tower and surrounding buildings. Title from news agency caption on item. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Libra... More

Jerusalem. Temple area from the east, looking down on the Dome of the ...

No. 4334. In album: Aerial views of Palestine / Matson Photo Service. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.

View of Civic Center from Goodyear blimp, Aug. 26, 1933

J14007 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - 1930s California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

S.S. Normandie arriving in New York Harbor on maiden voyage

Aerial view with Statue of Liberty in background. J18177 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.

Aerial photographs - Assuan Dam

Title from negative. Caption on negative sleeve: Africa. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Jerusalem, Temple area from S.E. corner showing a great part of the Ol...

In album: Dead Sea album prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd., no. 4333, [p. 43, top] Title from caption list. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Library of Congress).

A black and white photo of a plane flying in the sky. War Production F...

To identify this image it may help to search for images that have neighboring call numbers, are similar in appearance, and have titles. There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist. Transfer; Un... More

American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American bu...

Photograph shows Catalina flying boats flying from Singapore to patrol the seas. Caption continues: Their work takes them on long distance patrols from the civilisation of Singapore to sparsely inhabited islan... More

Pre-strike aerial view of Hiroshima [...]

Date stamped on verso: Jun 26 1946. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Official U.S. Army photo.

Theatre #23 - Southwest Pacific - It's D-Day in the South Pacific and ...

Title transcribed from item. No. 50753 AC. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Aerial photograph, taken by a Japanese pilot, of the destruction of P...

NEA Services photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Aerial view of Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C.

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

[Aerial view of Capitol Hill featuring the Madison, Jefferson and Adam...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

[Aerial view from the southwest of the Library of Congress Thomas Jeff...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Raritan & Delaware Bay Railroad, Crossing Compton Creek & Church Road ...

Significance: The former Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad line was significant to the history of the bay shore region of Monmouth Coutny as an important freight line that conveyed various products to market. ... More

Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Company, 800 Twenty-eighth Street, North, B...

Significance: The Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Company is an example of a typical foundry and machine shop serving industrial customers in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The company retains substan... More

Arlington Heights Citrus Landscape, Southwestern portion of city of Ri...

See also HAER CA-118, CA-120 & CA-121 for additional information. Significance: Arlington Heights is the last vestige of the once-vast citrus culture of Riverside, California. Although other citrus groves in t... More

Sparkman Street Bridge, Spanning Cumberland River, Nashville, Davidson...

Significance: The bridge possesses state level engineering significance as an example of the through Parker and camelback truss types for its uncommon concrete trusses. The bridge possesses local significance a... More

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Significance: This fort is one of the three defenses erected to protect Spain's first permanent colony in the present territory of the United States. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: ... More

U. S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, 2100 Ridgecrest Southeas...

Significance: An excellent example of the Spanish/Pueblo Revival style, the Veterans Administration Medical Center is an architectural expression of the VA's desire to design buildings that not only fit in with... More

Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 20...

Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; 1906. Exhibit loan 4105-L. Exhibited in: Documenting disaster: photographs of the 1906 San Francisco earthquakes and fire, San Fra... More

Central Iron Foundry Site, 1700 Holt Road, Holt, Tuscaloosa County, AL

After additional research, the name of the structure was amended in 2013 from Central Iron Foundry to Central Iron Foundry Site since the foundry itself no longer exists and the documentation is of the site. Si... More

Aerial view, Camp Grant, Ill., 1000 ft. elevation

J228872 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Aerial Photo Co. of America; March 21, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45723. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, Ill. Image may have been retouched on the negative or may ... More

Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Los Angeles...

Significance: The Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway) was the first divided-lane, high-speed, limited-access road in the urban western United States and the first stretch of road for what would become the ex... More

Fortin de San Juan de la Cruz, El Canuelo, Isla de Cabras, San Juan, S...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-8 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N125 Survey number: HABS PR-52 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000930

Connecticut Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: Extending from Lafayette Square, Connecticut Avenue evolved from a residential street to a major commercial thoroughfare. It passes through the Dupont Circle and Massachusetts Avenue historic dist... More

Huber Coal Breaker, 101 South Main Street, Ashley, Luzerne County, PA

Significance: The Huber Coal Breaker is important as an example of coal preparation plants built in the 1930s by large anthracite coal companies in Northeastern Pennsylvania to meet market conditions. The brea... More

Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge, I-90, for 7.8 miles from South State Stree...

Significance: The Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge system crosses the Calumet River on a 650'-0"-long cantilever Warren through truss. This is Chicago's highest and longest bridge, and perhaps more importantly, its ... More

New York State Barge Canal, Lockport Locks, Richmond Avenue, Lockport,...

Locks E34 and E35 were surveyed as part of the 2009 New York State Barge Canal survey; see HAER Nos. NY-515 (Lock E34) and NY-516 (Lock E35). Significance: Locks 67-71 (north flight) comprise a rare 19th-centur... More

Clark Howell Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by North Avenue, Lovejoy ...

Significance: Clark Howell Homes is the first public housing project to be completed by the Atlanta Housing Authority, which was created in May of 1938. Clark Howell Homes is a representative example of pre-Wor... More

Richmond Bridge, US 90A at Brazos River, Richmond, Fort Bend County, T...

Significance: The Richmond Bridge was an important element in the first Federally-assisted highway connecting Houston, and San Antonio, two of Texas' major metropolitan areas. Its construction marked the first... More

University Heights Bridge, Spanning Harlem River at 207th Street & Wes...

Significance: The University Heights Bridge, a steel Pratt/Howe truss, pin-connected, rim bearing swing span draw, with Warren truss approach spans, is one of the oldest swing-type bridges and the third oldest ... More

St. Joseph's on the Brandywine, 10 Old Church Road, Wilmington, New Ca...

Significance: St. Joseph's on the Brandywine was an important component of Henry Clay Village and the DuPont Powder Mills. The church and its associated buildings are reflective of the DuPont Company's, and in... More

Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Bounded by Lexington & Grens...

Significance: The Merchandise Building was one of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons and Fellows, with add... More

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between New Jersey/New York ...

Survey number: HAER NY-121 Public domain photograph - New York City, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Highway 10, Deer Lodge, Powell County, MT

Significance: The history of Grant-Kohrs Ranch spans the period from 1862 to 1972 illustrating the range cattle era from its beginnings on the open range, to the current stock raising and marketing system in Am... More

NASA Industrial Plant, Missile Research Laboratory, 12214 Lakewood Bou...

Significance: Building 41 was used for missile research and construction and is a contributing factor to the historic value of the NASA site. Survey number: HAER CA-310-G Building/structure dates: 1942 Initia... More

Van Duzen Bridge, Spanning Van Duzen River at State Highway 36, Carlot...

Significance: This is a highway bridge of open spandrel reinforced concrete deck arch type. It is associated with John B. Leonard - leading proponent and important early designer of reinforced concrete bridges... More

Ridgeland, Chamounix Drive, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: Ridgeland was built for William Couch by 1762 and is, potentially, one of the oldest houses in Fairmount Park. Unlike the villas that prosperous Philadelphians erected in the Schuylkill River Vall... More

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Bridge No. Z-6, Spanning North ...

Significance: The Milwaukee Road's Bridge No. Z-6 may be the only one of its kind ever built, defying the conventional categories of center-bearing and rim-bearing swing bridges. This ingenious design answers ... More

Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham,...

Significance: Stockham Valves and Fittings grew from a modest early twentieth century company to become one of the world's largest producers of valves and fittings. Beginning in the mid-1920s, the firm utilize... More

William Enston Home, 900 King Street, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Significance: The William Enston Home consists of twenty-nine structures on 12.1 landscaped acres. Buildings include the twenty-four residential cottages (HABS SC-686-A and SC-686-B), Memorial Hall (SC-686-C), ... More

William Enston Home, 900 King Street, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Roger Williams Way, North Kingstown, ...

Significance: The Quonset Point Naval Air Station is a typical example of the design and construction concepts that influenced major World War II era naval air stations. Until the time of its closing it was th... More

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, 1401 Marina Way South, Ric...

Survey number: HAER CA-326 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oakland Harbor Training Walls, Mouth of Federal Channel to Inner Harbo...

Significance: The North Training Wall is one component of the Oakland Harbor Training Walls, which defined Oakland's basic harbor footprint and are the oldest surviving remnants of nineteenth-century harbor imp... More

Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 4, Alma, Buffal...

Significance: This lock and dam was the first constructed as part of the Upper Mississippi River Nine-Foot Channel Project. It contains the standard items on most of the lock and dam structures in this project... More

Fuerte El Abanico, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipio,...

Significance: It was built 1779-1783 by military engineer Thomas O'Daly, Chief of the Spanish Corps of Engineers in San Juan. It is a bastion-fort in the outer works of Castillo San Cristobal, a fan-shpaed desi... More

U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange County, NY

Significance: It was established by an Act of Congress on March 16, 1802. Prior to that Act, West Point served as an important defensive fortification since the time of the Revolutionary War. A National Histori... More

U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange County, NY

NASA Langley Research Center, Full-Scale Wind Tunnel, 224 Hunting Aven...

Significance: The facility allowed wind tunnel research into fields that could be most effectively investigated with full-scale models and actual aircraft. Until 1945 it was the largest wind tunnel in the world... More

City Plan of Charleston, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-689 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City Plan of Charleston, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-689 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

San Francisco from Captive Air Ship over San Francisco Bay

H111814 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; May 15, 1908.

Idaho Falls, Idaho. Cityscape photograph, Panoramic Photograph

J134618 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Trowbridge & Niver Co.; November 11, 1909. Photographer's address: Chicago.

Kantner aeroplane, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows airplane of aviator Harold Dewolf Kantner (1886-1973) during a race above the Hudson River, New York on July 4, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, July 5, 1914) Tit... More

[Aerial view of Niagara Falls, New York]

J258278 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph by Ronne & Washburn. Public domain photograph of water reservoir, lake, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Air views of Palestine. Alexandria harbour. Closer view looking along ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Air views of Palestine. Tel Aviv. Section near the Rothchild i.e., Rot...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Office of War Information loc.gov photo collection (Pre-War and WW2)

(Source: researcher C. Weber, 2018) Negative not titled and probably not printed by FSA/OWI/OEM. Images with neighboring call numbers that are similar in appearance may have titles based on agency captions. To... More

[Low-level aerial view of destruction of a refinery in the Tokyo area,...

U.S. Army A.A.F. photo. No. A-58492 A.C. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Aerial view of Lafayette Square looking north I

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Theodor Horydczak Collection is a collection of photographs taken by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971) a Polish-born Americ... More

[Aerial view of Capitol Hill featuring the Library of Congress Thomas ...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Carol M. Highsmith - Aerial view of Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Fort Bragg, Noncommissioned Officers' Service Club, South of Butner Ro...

Significance: Built right after WWII but utilizing WWII building plans for temporary buildings, the two buildings served the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. The Army was still segregated at this time, and t... More

Augusta Canal Industrial District, Augusta, Richmond County, GA

Survey number: HAER GA-36 Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Northwest end of San Juan, San Juan,...

Eastside Reservoir, Diamond & Domenigoni Valleys, southwest of Hemet, ...

Reservoir should be full by 2004. Survey number: HAER CA-248 Building/structure dates: 1999 Initial Construction

George Washington Bridge, Spanning Hudson River between Manhattan & Fo...

Significance: At the time of its construction, the George Washington Bridge was the longest span suspension bridge in the world. Survey number: HAER NY-129

L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: The historic plan of Washington, designed by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as the site of the Federal City, represents the sole American example of a comprehensive baroque city plan with a coordinated s... More

Fort Monroe, Hampton, Hampton, Virginia

Significance: Fort Monroe occupies a sandy projection of land in Hampton, Virginia, at the end of the peninsula between the York and James Rivers. Between this pit and the peninsula is a small inlet, Mill Cree... More

Williamstown-Marietta Bridge, Spanning Ohio River between Williamstown...

Significance: The Williamstown-Marietta Bridge was the first highway bridge in the United States built in a cantilever fashion over an inland river. In 1902, it was the site of the first strike by the newly-fo... More

Fort McCoy, Sparta, Monroe County, WI

Significance: Fort McCoy is significant as the location of one of the largest concentrations of 800 Series temporary buildings in the United States. Fort McCoy was built as part of a massive mobilization progr... More

Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Los Angeles...

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Significance: Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery constitutes the second major rural cemetery in the United States. Begun in 1836, it is the earliest known work of John Notman, an important nineteenth-century a... More

Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co...

Everglades Club, Palm Beach, Fla.

J246764 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright L.C. Seldomridge, 1921. Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Whittier Theatre, 11602-11612 East Whittier Boulevard, Whittier, Los A...

Significance: The Whittier Theatre was the largest and most elaborate movie theater complex in Whittier. It was significant as an example of a local architect's interpretation both of the prevailing trend towa... More

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Spanning East River between Whitestone, Queen...

Survey number: HAER NY-308 Building/structure dates: 1939 Initial Construction

Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Drydock No. 4, East terminus of Palou Av...

Significance: Dry Dock No. 4 appears to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the events and patterns identified in the defense of the United States during... More

Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works, Spruce & Market Streets, Paterson, ...

Significance: Several of the buildings in the complex forming the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works were originally constructed in the 1830's for the manufacture of textiles and textile machinery, and of pape... More

McWane Cast Iron Pipe, 1201 Vanderbilt Road, Birmingham, Jefferson Cou...

Survey number: HAER AL-70 Public domain photograph of a city streets, cityscape, urban environment, buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Holt Lock & Dam, Warrior River, Holt, Tuscaloosa County, AL

Significance: This structure includes a lock against the left bank with inside chamber dimensions of 110 by 600 feet, a maximum lift of 64 feet, and a spillway controlled by 14 individually-operated tainter gat... More

Washburn-Crosby Milling Complex, Washburn "A" Mill, 710-714 South Seco...

Significance: Prior to being damaged by fire in 1991, the Washburn "A" Mill was the last surviving structure of the original Minneapolis milling complex established by Cadwallader C. Washburn in the 1870s. As ... More

Madigan Hospital, Bounded by Wilson & McKinley Avenues & Garfield & Li...

Original documentation listed this structure as being in Tacoma, WA. It is actually in Fort Lewis, WA. Significance: Madigan General Hospital is a well-preserved example of the semi-permanent emergency hospita... More

Boise Project, Deer Flat Embankments, Lake Lowell, Nampa, Canyon Count...

Significance: The Deer Flat Embankments, which impound Lake Lowell, are significant as the first large storage feature built by the U.S. Reclamation Service on the Boise Project, one of the largest of the early... More

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heigh...

Significance: The Gage Irrigation Canal was instrumental in the development of citrus production and the settlement of the Riverside area. At the time of its completion, the canal was the most ambitious irriga... More

William Enston Home, 900 King Street, Charleston, Charleston County, S...

Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 19, Upper Mississippi...

Significance: Rare, intact example of nationally significant historic engineering listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Lock 19 National Register District. The U.S. Army Corps of ... More

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