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Reconnoisance [sic] by Bufords Cavalry towards the Rapidan river

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed upper left: Half this sketch missing. Inscribed lower right: Generl [sic.] Bu[ford]. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 632-633. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/... More

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

Before Petersburg at sunrise, July 30th 1864

Sig ned lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Spires in Petersburg. The mine. Inscribed on separate sheet of cream paper: Explosion of the mine under the Confederate works at... More

Pursuit of the flying rebels from Yorktown Sunday morning

Signed lower right right: Alf R. Wau[d]. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: 8 pictures of the evacuation. Sketch of horseman above image. Inscribed to the right of it: Detail of horseman. Publi... More

Scene at Chancellorsville during the battle, May 1st 1863

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 23, 1863, p. 328-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.747) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More

Dragging up the guns on the recent reconnoisance [sic] in force (night...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. For published engraving, see Waud no. 169a. Published in: Harper's Weekly, March 19, 1864, p. 188. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.169) Refe... More

[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Aiming a Mortar, in Jacksons Connecticut battery

Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Published in Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, p. 505 as part of a series: In the trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.451... More

Presidio of San Francisco, Gun Emplacements, U.S. 101 & I-480, San Fra...

Public domain photograph of San Francisco streets, landmark historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charge of Louisiana brigade Gettysburgh [sic]

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed upper right: It was sometime after sunset. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.422) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1863. Forms part of: M... More

Falls Church, July 1st, 1861, Outpost

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left margin: Tompkins cavalry camped in Trees on left. Formerly Waud no. C-28. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.955) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Inscribed below image: William Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see daily papers this is called the fight at Strawberry Plains. Inscribed upper right: When our men charged the Gunners fl... More

Rebel Gun at Munsons hill--a regular quaker

Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: New York Illustrated News, October 14, 1861, p. 372. Four sketches of ships' hulls on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.493) Re... More

U.S.S. Chicago, one of the crew

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charge of the light cavalry brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major Gener...

Print shows Lord Cardigan leading the charge of the light brigade toward Russian artillery on the left, in the foreground, Russian artillery fire on the left flank of the charging light brigade, as artillery on... More

[Union soldiers stand around a mounted cannon at a fort]

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

U.S.S. Vesuvius, muzzles of dynamite guns

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blowing from guns in British India / painted by Vassili Verestchagin.

British soldiers executing men tied to cannons. Copyright by the American Art Association of New York.

U.S.S. Newark, loading 6-inch gun

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dynamite gun on Brazilian ship, Nitheroy [i.e. Nictheroy]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. New York, forward gun deck

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Massachusetts, interior of turret

Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Oregon, 6-pounder and crew

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Nahant, 6-pound gun and crew

Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20049. "X 101" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020043. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

U.S.S. New Orleans, 6 inch gun - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20072. "X 79; 4" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020085. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

U.S.S. Kentucky, forward gun turrets

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tower of Victory, Newburgh, N.Y.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

American 155 mm artillery cooperating with the 29th Div. in position o...

Photograph shows American soldiers from the 324th Field Artillery Regiment or the 158th Field Artillery Brigade around a camouflaged 155 mm howitzer with shells nearby, one soldier stands in front of the cannon... More

Sailors firing big stationary guns, U.S. Naval Training Station, Camp ...

No. 119. Public domain photograph of United States navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military subjects. Breech of 12" gun

Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jap field pieces; and Shape of Jap belly-band

Sketch shows Japanese abandoned Japanese field artillery on the road to Kokumbona on Guadalcanal island during World War II. In addition, another sketch shows the belly-band of the Japanese uniform. Inscribed o... More

Members of an artillery unit stand by and check their equipment while ...

Photograph shows African American artillery troops on march in Belgium. Stamped on verso: Released by authority of Bureau of Public Relations War Department. Credit: Signal Corps photo. SC 196212-A-S. Forms pa... More

Field and siege guns - Public domain drawing

Photograph of mechanical drawing showing equipment. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 109. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 2. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts; different view

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Alexandria, Virginia Battery Rodgers at Hunting Creek and the Potomac;...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. N... More

Charleston, S.C. East Battery; dismantled Blakely gun in foreground

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

Thunderbolt Battery looking down the River

Signed above image: Wm Waud. Title inscribed above image. On verso sketch of river landscape with frigate. Published in: Harper's Weekly, January 21, 1865, p. 41. Reference print available in the Civil War Draw... More

Fort Funston, Panama Mounts for 155mm Guns, Skyline Boulevard & Great ...

Significance: The Panama mounts of Battery Bluff are significant as they are a contributing feature to the Fort Funston Historic District which is considered eligible for listing in the National Register of His... More

Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing-Siege train awaiting shipment-U.S. ...

Stereograph showing rows of cannons and carts on a field in Broadway Landing, Virginia with soldiers in the foreground. No. 1074. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Forms part ... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Fort Jefferson was part of Fort Jefferson National Monument from 1935 to 1992. Since then it has been part of Dry Tortugas National Park. The address for the survey has been updated to reflect this change. Sign... More

Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Every Liberty Bond is a shot at a U boat--Fire your shot today--Buy a ...

Poster showing a shell, marked Second Liberty Loan, being shot toward German submarine. Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2017.

Dragging artillery through the mud

Title printed below image. Published in Harper's Weekly, March 19, 1864, p. 188. Original drawing is Waud no. 169. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.169) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Nov 25 1863.

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed under image: Corse [sic] v Cleburnes fight Missionary ridge, Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.230) Reference print availabe in the Civil War Drawings file 1863. ... More

Slocum's Artillery engaged with the enemy on the Charles City Road. (S...

Troops preparing for battle - infantry lying on ground in foreground, caissons and cannons in background. Wounded being carried off field. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed above image: these six guns were ... More

Slocum's Artillery engaged with the enemy on the Charles City Road. (S...

Battery of mortars and light twelves. Lt. Jackson. 1st Connecticut hea...

Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, pp. 504-505, as part of: General Grant's Campaign In the trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.170) R... 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.

Williston's battery near Fredericksburg 1862

Title inscribed lower left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.143) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

U.S.S. Newark, 6 in. gun and crew

Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861...

Signed upper left: W. Waud. Title inscribed upper left. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Battle of Winchester - Public domain scan / drawing

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed upper left: Mansion on Berryville pike. Inscribed above image: Winchester. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 15, 1864, pp. 660, as: Earl... More

Scene at Chancellorsville during the battle, May 1st 1863

Taking up position. Cold Harbor. June 2, 1864

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed lower right. Printed(?) in black ink upper left: Ed. May 2nd. 1864. Inscribed on verso Advance upon the left Hancock. Formerly Waud no. B-24. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC... More

Fort Johnson. Fort Sumter in the distance. James Island, March, 1865

Photograph shows the battery at Fort Johnson on James Island in Charleston harbor.

Buckland from Mr. Huntons house - Public domain scan / engraving

Image overdrawn with numbered grid to guide engravers. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Scene of a cavalry engagement with Stuart. 63. Published in: Harper's We... More

Battery No. 1.--100 and 200 pounder Parrots opposite Yorktown and Glou...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed within image: River. Inscribed upper right: Yorktown in distance as in sketch No 6. guns firing. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1862, ... More

Couch's Corps forming line of battle in the fields at Chancellorsville...

Title inscribed below image. Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Inscribed on verso: Battle May 1-3, 1863 Chancellorsville, Va. 11; Corps ... 26 Wisconsin; 25 Ohio; 82 Illinois; 55 Ohio; No II 2. MJB 32. Gift, J.P... More

Parapet, Fort Sumter, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows abandoned artillery and chevaux-de-frise on parapet of Fort Sumter. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3057. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.

Capture of four 20 lb Parrotts at Deep Bottom by Gen Miles

Pontoon carriage. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows the plan and pontoon of a pontoon carriage, with a view of the axel. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, PL XXVI. P... More

Battery at Annapolis, Md. - A black and white photo of a bunch of boat...

Photograph shows four mounted cannons. Brady-Handy Collection. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Breech of 8 inch gun and crew - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

Title in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901) continues: ... sub-caliber practice, New York (armored cruiser). Attribution based on negative D4-20739. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "2" on negative. Detroit ... More

U.S.S. Brooklyn, forward turret and bridge

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021068. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. Brooklyn, forward turret and bridge

Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S.S. Brooklyn forward turret, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit...

"2 A" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020197. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. Iowa, 12 inch and 8 inch gun turrets

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020438. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

U.S.S. New York, chief gunner Morgan

Title from jacket. Attribution based on negative D4-32317. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032310. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949. Edward H. Hart, American photographer active about 1890

[U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson's son and Pitch the Mascot]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S.S. Kentucky, quarter deck and after gun turrets

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Parade ground and barracks, Fort Monroe, Virginia

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?

Poster showing a military review, with soldiers displaying a German cannon that was captured at the battle of Chateau Thierry.

Military subjects. 12-inch Barbet carriage rifle

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Military subjects. Soldiers on horses pulling a canon

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Richmond, Virginia Park of captured guns at Rocketts

A French 155-mm. gun trained on the German trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18651. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. M... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, V Borodinskom muzei︠e︡. Borodino, color separ...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views of the Napoleonic campaign area, Russian Empire, LO... More

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.

[Yorktown, Virginia Federal artillery park] - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Men of Fort Story operate an azimuth instrument, to measure the angle ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Funston, Panama Mounts for 155mm Guns, Skyline Boulevard & Great ...

Review of the Artillery of Shermans Co[rps]

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed in black ink on verso below title: Review by General Barry, at Savannah, of Sherman's Artillery. Inscribed above image: Pulaski Monument; Bull Street; Gen Barry's HdQrs (Moly... More

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Title inscribed upper left and right margin. Faint sketch of shipwreck on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-83. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1010) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Petersburg, Virginia The "Dictator," a 13-inch mortar, in position]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

100 lb. gun on board the Confederate gunboat Teazer [i.e. Teaser], whi...

Photograph shows a seaman sitting next to the 100 lb. gun that was captured by the U.S.S. Maratanza on July 4, 1862, on the James River, Virginia. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 482 Entered according to Act of Cong... More

The pursuit of General Lee's rebel army. The heavy guns - 30 pounders ...

Union soldiers, with heavy guns (30 pounders), marching toward Frederick after the battle at Gettysburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.85) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

English Armstrong gun in Fort Fisher, N.C.

Stereograph showing a Confederate soldier in the battery with an English Armstrong gun. Three men stand behind him. No. 1234. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attribu... More

Battle near Upperville. Ashbys Gap in Distance

Title inscribed upper left. Inscribed below title: see description. Published in: Harper's Weekly, July 11, 1863, as: The Army of the Potomac-Skirmish Near Upperville-Ashby's Gap in the Distance. Gift, J.P. Mor... More

The Mozart (40th N.Y.) and the Scott Life Guard (38th N.Y.) taking pos...

Signed inscribed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 24, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.32) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Edward Penfield - [Officer with fieldglasses by artillery gun]

Drawing for magazine cover shows officer with fieldglasses by artillery gun. Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0034). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in:... More

Left of No. 6, May 5th, 1864 - Public domain scan / drawing

Battery and landscape. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: Russet broken into green [and] red dust. Formerly Waud no. B-142. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.906) Forms part of: Morgan ... More

Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Key West, Monroe County, FL

Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor & Fort Mears, Ulakta Head Fixed Defe...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Fort Monroe, Virginia The "Lincoln Gun," a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Monroe, Va.

Federal Vessels Driving Back the Iron-Plated Rebel Steamer Yorktown, w...

Published engraving based upon DRWG/US - Balling, no. 1 (A size). Attributed to Balling in New York Illustrated News caption. Title printed below image. Initials T.N. engraved lower right of image indicate that... More

[Fort Pulaski, Ga. The "Beauregard" gun]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- specifically of Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 1862.

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