[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
Interior of Redoubt No 3--Fair Oaks
Three sketches depicting plan, interior, and distant view of military redoubt. Title inscribed above image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
View in water battery, James River, Virginia--Ready to fire
Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Civil War, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Kentucky, US Navy. Dry Plate Negative by Detroit Publishing Com...
Title from jacket. Attribution to Hart based on negative D4-20495. Listed in Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "Dup" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0665. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
U.S.S. Miantonomoh, 10 inch guns and forward turret
Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Newark, sighting 6-inch gun
Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Popa do Nitheroy [sic] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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 photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Oregon, breech of 13-inch guns in after turret
Public domain image of a American navy warship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S. Marines - first to fight for democracy / L.A. Shafer.
U.S. Marines recruitment poster showing marines firing artillery from a ship.
Military subjects. Soldiers sitting on 12-inch rifle
Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Benicia Arsenal, Gun Yard, Benicia, Solano County, CA
Survey number: HABS CA-1842 Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun, model 1841
Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0859 Title from 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
Captain Ricketts Battery - Public domain scan / drawing
Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower right: Near Charleston Va / March 10. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.372) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
McClellan reconnoitering the Turnpike to Richmond from the Peach Orcha...
Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch 34-. Pencil sketches of heads of two men on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.407) Reference print avail... More
Capt. Stevens battery on the 6th Corps Skirmish line
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, 25 June 1864, p. 404. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.426) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawing... More
[Petersburg, Virginia The "Dictator," a closer view]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
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
Famous Battery "E" of 1st Artillery. These brave men and the Hotchkiss...
Fifteen military men in uniform posed with three Hotchkiss guns in front of army tents. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain Guns of 1.65 in. They are sometimes referred to as Mountain Rifles. (Source: Ed Dittus, ... More
Captain Varians battery N.Y. 8th S.M. having their first shot at the e...
Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Oct. 18-1861 Varians battery near Fairfax. Inscribed above sketch on verso: The advance of Federal troops in line of battle of skirmishers to the front approa... More
Copr. Paul Wernert [i.e. Weinert] and gunners of Battery "E" 1st Artil...
Seven Lakota scouts and four uniformed Euro-Americans posed behind an artillery piece or Hotchkiss gun, probably in the Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain ... More
U.S.S. Oregon after turret - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Plan of main work, Allatoona cut
Title inscribed above image. Formerly Waud no. C-81. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1008) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
View from rebel fort on Peach Tree Street, looking north, Atlanta, Ga....
Photograph shows two soldiers sitting amid Confederate weapons and fortifications. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3639. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.
Confederates advancing to the capture of disabled guns. Gaines Mills
Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed right of image with arrow indicator: Rifle pits. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.272) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings... More
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
[Cedar Creek, Virginia] - Public domain drawing
Signed lower left: AR Waud. Title devised. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.234) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[Midnight before Petersburg] - Public domain scenic drawing
Title devised from Harper's Weekly title. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 8, 1864, pp. 648-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.735) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 186... More
Battery Creighton. Jacksonville, Fa.
Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-52. Possibly by William Waud. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R2.2.817) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
[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.
[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.
Casemented fort in front of Petersburg
Title inscribed in blue crayon above image. Inscribed on verso: This is the only casemented fort on the line. I was not allowed to make a sketch of it, so this is a stolen one. Across the nigh part of the work ... More
Stockade and gates closing the approach to the long bridge
Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed: Stockade and gates closing the approach to the long bridge [thro'] two enfiladed lines. (a dusty place). Inscribed on verso: Long bridg [sic?] Stockade & gate closing the ... More
[Alexandria, Virginia Battery Rodgers at Hunting Creek and the Potoma...
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington.
Fort Sumter (i.e. Sumner), near Fair Oaks, June 1862. A sharp fight oc...
Stereograph showing Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack while infantry men line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June, 1862. C... More
Going into action / W.H. Shelton.
Print shows cavalry and horse artillery troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. Includes men riding on a caisson towing a small cannon, a building on fire, and additional cavalry headed... More
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
[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
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
Gettysburg. View of the hills on the left of our position from the Reb...
Signed lower right and left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Gettysburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.16) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
Death of General Polk Pine Mountain, Kennesaw
Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed upper right: 51. Action at Pine Mountain took place in the course of the general assault associated with Kennesaw Mountain. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.500) ... More
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.
[Richmond, Virginia Captured siege guns at Rocketts]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.
12th May Hancock and Wright fighting for the enemies rifle pits sketch...
Title inscribed. Inscribed upper left: Try & get a little gradation of tint and color out of the engraver. Inscribed above image. Rainy day time 6 o clock. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 4, 1864, p. 306-1.... More
[Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; another view. H....
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Public domain photograph - Artillery gun, cannon, armed forces, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Bunker Hill] - Drawing. Public domain image.
Soldiers digging and pulling artillery, horse pulling, and battle scene. Title devised by cataloger. Purchase; Childs Gallery; (DLC/PP-1984:368). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Ft. Carroll, Wash., D.C. - A black and white photo of an old farm
Photograph showing guns and ammunition inside of Fort Carrol, near Giesboro, Washington, D.C.
White-house review, Washington, D.C.
Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed above image: Tents of light artillery; Maj. Gen Andrews and staff. Inscribed within image as indicators: White smoke; All grass. Inscribed lower left. Figures larger to be... More
U.S.S. Brooklyn, gundeck. Warship photograph collection
Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S.S. Massachusetts, 13-inch gun division
Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. New Orleans, quarter-deck
Public domain photograph of American ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U.S.S. Free Lance, petty officers, 1898
"X 135" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 020021. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
6-inch rapid fire guns in west battery, Santiago, 1898
Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "828" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021514. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
U.S.S. Iowa, group under 12-inch guns
Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S.S. Raleigh, the gun that fired the first shot at Manila
Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied ...
D24252 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12027. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Japanese field battery firing shells over the mountains into doomed ...
H64023 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.L. Wasson. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[An almost ideal natural gun-pit was found near the beach]
Title from mat. (DLC/PP-1935:0006). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "To Cuba as a Filibuster" by Frederick Funston, Scribner's, 48:312 (Sept. 1910).
Men wanted for the army / Michael P. Whelan.
U.S. Army recruiting poster showing officers and soldiers sending or receiving information through wireless and signal flags, other soldiers position and prepare to fire a cannon. Form no. 401. A.G.O.
[Officer reviewing line of armored tanks ; Artillery truck]
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1920s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fighting in France for freedom! Are you helping at home?
Poster showing soldiers rushing to position at antiaircraft guns in an English town.
Ordnance Department - U.S. Army
Poster showing scenes of Army ordnance activities. Ordnance Recruiting Poster No. 5. A.G.O.R.S. No. 214, 12-20-19.
Military subjects. Soldiers firing artillery III
Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Military subjects. Soldiers firing artillery I
Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Man of the Fort Story, Virginia coastal defense
12002-30. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More
Great naval gun and its protecting fort of sand bags on the Saloniki f...
Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18904. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More
District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts ...
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
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
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
7th N.Y. Heavy Arty. in Barlows charge nr. Cold Harbor Friday June 3rd...
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, June 25, 1864, p. 408-9. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.722) 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
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
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
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.
Butlers battery going into position
Signed lower right: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1863, p. 635. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.408) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings f... More
[Richmond, Virginia Park of captured guns at Rocketts]
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.
In front of Sedgwick May 6th 1864
Title inscribed below image. Sketch on verso of officers on horseback and foot soldiers, inscribed: nr Hatchers run [Oct.- Dec. 1864]. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.622) Forms part of: Morgan collec... 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
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
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
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
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
Captain Varians battery N.Y. 8th S.M. having their first shot at the e...
Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Oct. 18-1861 Varians battery near Fairfax. Inscribed above sketch on verso: The advance of Federal troops in line of battle of skirmishers to the front approa... More
Copr. Paul Wernert [i.e. Weinert] and gunners of Battery "E" 1st Artil...
Seven Lakota scouts and four uniformed Euro-Americans posed behind an artillery piece or Hotchkiss gun, probably in the Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The cannon are Hotchkiss Mountain ... More
Fight at Kelly's Ford. Sleepers battery
Signed lower right: Alf R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below image: 10 Mass in foreground. Inscribed above image: Barnard House. Inscribed upper right: Kelly Ville. Inscribed lower left: Genl C... More
Battle of Gettysburg. Longstreet's attack upon the left center of the ...
Signed lower right: Alf. R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 8, 1863, p. 504-5. Dated from Harper's account and historical sources. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R... More
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
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.
Plan of main work, Allatoona cut
Title inscribed above image. Formerly Waud no. C-81. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1008) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
View from rebel fort on Peach Tree Street, looking north, Atlanta, Ga....
Photograph shows two soldiers sitting amid Confederate weapons and fortifications. Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-3639. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.