New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holde...
A portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mails found there in July 1835. Mail sacks are handed through a forced window of the ransack... More
Russian rifle pit - now part of the British advanced trenches, on the ...
Print shows soldiers filling sand bags and firing over a barrier of sand bags and gabions. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / William Simps... More
[Bank note illustration showing colonists praying for deliverance from...
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U.S. iron clad Galena, after her attack on Fort Darling, James River, ...
Photograph showing the deck of the warship after receiving Confederate cannon fire, with holes in the smokestack. Mounted on board with five other photographs. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congr... More
Attack on the center. Chickamauga
Title Inscribed above image. Inscribed below image: Chickamauga. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.664) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
The attack and capture of our train, July 12, 1864
Wagon train being attacked by Indians. Illus. in: Fanny Kelly, My Captivity Among the Sioux. Cincinnati, : Wilstach, Baldwin & Co.,1871, oppos. p. 19. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More
Warding off a night attack during World War I
Poster showing photograph of sailors firing a large gun aboard a ship at night. Text continues: Each dreadnaught carries twenty or more 5-inch rapid fire guns [...] In order to be an efficient member of a gun's... More
British liquid fire attack - Public domain portrait photograph
Photograph shows liquid fire demonstration during King George V's visit to the Gas School, Helfaut, France, July 7, 1917 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on Imperial W... More
Repairing telephone lines during gas attack at the front, France
J240884 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19205. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Italian fishermen gathered on Fisherman's Wharf, on December 8th, afte...
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Fort Riley, Kansas. Dismounted attack of a reconnaissance unit during ...
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Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldiers of a mechanized reconnaissance unit durin...
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Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Men of the 35th servi...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
These French airplane engines were undamaged in the attack and are in ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Attack of the lion - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0322.
Notice : instruction to patrons on premises in case of nuclear bomb at...
Posters are variants in size and coloring. Satire on posted government emergency procedures. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
Attack on the Quarantine establishment [Staten Island, N.Y.] on Septem...
Mob burning Marine Quarantine Hospital, which was used for immigrants, in protest of the health hazard. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1858 Sept. 11. Reference copy may be in LOT 4383D. This record contains unveri... More
[Zion besieg'd and attack'd] - Engraving, Public domain image
Print shows a large citadel on the right besieged by a host of characters, among them the "Bankers Corps", and defended by a group of soldiers with banners labeled "Confed" and "Franklin & Liberty" and one man ... More
Attack of Johnston's Div., C.S.A. on the breastworks on Culps Hill def...
"No. 5." Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.287) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.
The attack on the Malakoff / W. Simpson del. ; E. Morin, lith. ; Day &...
Print shows the French assault on the Malakoff, the main Russian fortification before Sevastopolʹ, French soldiers advancing from the left, Zouaves from the left foreground, crossing ditch and engaging Russian ... More
Sebastobol from the 26 gun battery on the extreme right of French atta...
Print shows soldiers digging trenches in the snow, and distant view of Sevastopolʹ, during winter. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majesty the Queen / Willi... More
The war in China - attack on the "Banterer's" boat in Sai-Lau Creek, C...
Opium War. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1858 March 6, p. 233. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; China Hist. 1858; Opium War.
The Naval attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans
Night scene illuminated by gun flashes from Federal gunboats on Mississippi River. Apr. 1862. Photo "copied from a painting belonging to Adm. Porter". This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More
The Battle of Santa Rosa, October 9, 1861 - the attack upon Wilson's ...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 258 (1861 Dec. 7), p. 781.
The battle of Gettysburg - Longstreet's attack upon our left centre - ...
Wood engraving after drawing by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1863 Aug. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Rebel attack on our gun-boats in the Red River
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 8, 1864 May 14, p. 305.
Juarez, Insurrectos attack federals in cowboy park
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Aeroplane attacking troops from low height at Vierzy during Soissons a...
Print shows German airplane firing on Allied troops at Vierzy, France, during World War I. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Copyright by Wendell Westover.
A man sitting in a chair listening, Iowa. Farm Security Administration...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Cairo's A.R.P at practice and in training. Britain has presented Egypt...
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Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, December 8, 1...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...
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Ready for trouble from the conning tower of the United States submarin...
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Scott Field, Illinois. Troops of the Army Air Forces Technical Trainin...
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Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Maryland. Moored inboard of the USS Oklahoma...
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Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Substation no. 38 window displ...
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Rubble removed from Ground Zero, site of the attack on the World Trade...
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
Dazed by an eagle's unexpected attack - Indian and golden eagle (Aguil...
Stereograph shows an Indian on mountain side being attacked by an eagle. H119149 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 22861. Copyright by C.L. Wasson.
Attack of the Seminoles on the block house
Print shows an attack by the Seminole Indians possibly on a fort on the Withlacoochee River in December 1835. No. 6 in set of 8 "Views of Florida." The State Library and Archives of Florida cites as "Lithograph... More
Philippine Islands: A regiment of sure shots - the fighting 20th Kansa...
Stereo published by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Stereo copyrighted 1900 by Underwood & Underwood.
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.
[Attack on Fredericksburg] - An old picture of a village with a horse ...
Union troops landing on shore of river, pulling up pontoon bridges and maneuvering in foreground; buildings burning in background. Title devised. Published in: Evert A. Duyckinck, National History of the war fo... More
Nagasaki, Japan under atomic bomb attack / U.S. Army A.A.F. photo.
Photograph shows atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. No. A-58450 AC.
[Fortresses designed to enable defense against attack from any directi...
Illus. in: Trattato di archittetura civile e militare di Francesco di Giorgio Martini ... / Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Torino : Tip. Chirio e Mina, 1841, Tav. XXIII. Published in: The tradition of technolog... More
[Fig. 1 Greenland seal-hunting; fig. 2 Brazilian Indians bird-shooting...
Illus. in: Heck, Iconographic Encyclopedia, (1851) v. 1, plate 35. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Patagonia; Dwellings; Seals; Brazil; Greenland; Ind. of S. ... More
The new works at the siege of Sebastopol on the right attack - from th...
Print shows a mortar battery with soldiers, two mortars, gabions, and earthworks, with a distant view of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the east : Dedicated by permission to Her most gracious Majest... More
[B]alloon view of the attack on Fort Darling in the James River, by Co...
Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 541.2 From Harper's weekly, v. 6, May 31, 1862. p. [337] This view was acquired by the Library of Congress in 1948 with the purchase of the papers and maps of Ma... More
Scene of Ewell's attack, May 19, 1864, near Spottsylvania [i.e. Spotsy...
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Attack on Fort Fisher - A picture of a picture on a wall above a fire ...
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Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds... More
Bringing in the wounded during a gas attack
J269619 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5203. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An infantry attack in woods at Argonne front / L. Jonas, 1927.
Print shows soldiers running during a battle in World War I. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Copyright by Wendell Westover.
Rebel attack on Bethlehem, Sept. 14, '38. Government offices in Bethle...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Disturbance. Attack on an Arab buss [i.e., bus] July 4, 1938. An Arab ...
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Disturbance. Attack on an Arab buss [i.e., bus] July 4, 1938. An Arab ...
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Troops in Australia. Led by Australian-manned American light tanks, Al...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Washington, D.C.--The attack on the President's life--Scene in the lad...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1881 July 16, pp. 332-333.
[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: Jeff... 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
Spot near fort Damnation where the 9th Corps charged and afterwords ca...
Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: Sketch A. the Frize [sic] and Abattis was placed in the night after the fight. Inscribed lower left above title: This bank enem... More
[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...
"Plate the seventh." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Public domain scan - drawing of sailing ship, sea, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Capture of Fort George (Col. Winfield Scott leading the attack) / Chap...
Print shows American soldiers storming the gate at Fort George, Ontario.
The attack of the 2nd Iowa Regt. on the rebel batteries at Fort Donels...
Feb. 1862. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Corinth, Mississippi. Confederate dead in front of Battery Robinette (...
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Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Chaplains quarters. 1st Conn. Heavy Artiller...
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The attack on our outer ramparts - first the house of refuge - then th...
Illustration shows a hapless army of clergymen assulting a fortress labeled "Non-Sectarian Institution" around a building labeled "House of Refuge" with a battering ram labeled "Freedom of Worship Bill", one bi... More
Pennsylvania - the mining troubles in the Schuylkill region - attack o...
Striking Polish coal miners in battle with coal and iron police, near Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 66, 1888 Feb. 18, p. 1.
The pigmies attack; but the government still lives / Keppler.
Illustration shows President McKinley standing on the steps to the U.S. Capitol, holding up two flags, one labeled "Expansion" and the other labeled "Sound Money." Tiny figures at the foot of the steps show Wil... More
Denounces rail inquiry. Washington, D.C., Oct. 28. Treasurer of the Mi...
A black and white photo of a man reading a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
USS Arizona, at height of fire, following Japanese aerial attack on Pe...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, December 8, 1...
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German warning to occupied France. Here, in the Nazis' own black and w...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Massachusetts attack. Problems of production for war work are studied ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Men of the 35th servi...
Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Don't be a dope! Handle equipment right When the Stukas begin to attac...
Poster shows Joe Dope being shot through by enemy fire as he oils his machine gun.
Storming of Monterey. Attack on the bishop's palace
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kelloggs & Thayer. Entered 1847 by Kelloggs & Thayer. E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. D. Needham, Buffalo. Copyright deposit... More
The Attack of Manilla, October 1762.
Scale ca. 1:2,100. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the left. Pictorial map. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 731 Includes index to points of interest and ships in the harbor. Available als... More
Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of C...
Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially. From James Murray's Impartial history of the present war in America. v. 1. p. 431. Includes historical note on fires and in... More
Smoke-stack of Confederate iron-clad Virginia on wharf at Richmond, Vi...
No. B223. 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
Attack at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. - Public domain scenic engraving
Soldiers on ridge and scaling ridge during the Civil War. Engraving after painting by Chappel. Copyright by Johnson, Fry & Co.
The first cigar (the attack) - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...
Stereograph showing boy smoking cigar. 18020W1 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1601.
The advance on Port Gibson Attack on Grand Gulf.
Prints show Union troops marching through the countryside from Bruinsburg to Port Gibson, and Union vessels, under the command of Admiral David D. Porter, engaged in naval bombardment of Confederate guns at Gra... More
Attack on York Town, engraving, Library of Congress
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Morning attack, Native Americans
Dakota Indians on horseback on plains.
Potash lorries burned on Jericho road. Great rubber tire of potash lor...
Public domain photograph of an automobile, car, the 1920s or 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...
Public domain photograph of early 20th-century New York metropolis cityscape, buildings, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Army sentries standing guard at transport dock one day after the Japan...
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Civilian protection. Fully equipped to cope with any situation they ma...
Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Civilian protection. It looks like a good idea to this young man, who ...
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Scott Field, Illinois. Nurses must acquaint themselves with the use of...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Reconstruction at Ground Zero, site of the attack on the World Trade 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
Siege of Sevastopol from the New 32 pounder battery above the left att...
Interior view of the British 32 pounder battery before Sevastopolʹ showing soldiers firing cannons and sailors dragging a large cannon into the battery; in the middle distance is Sevastopolʹ, and on the horizon... More
[Submarine ("Submarine Vessel, Submarine Bombs and Mode of Attack") fo...
Cross section through "plunging boat" showing "chambers for submarine bombs." "Plate the second." Signed and dated "Robert Fulton 1806." Scaled "one inch to a foot." Published in: The tradition of technology : ... More
[Charleston, S.C. Site of the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 8...
Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1862-1863.
The attack of the Mexicans from the chapperal, on the first division o...
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sarony & Major.
The expedition to Beaufort - before the attack
Illustration shows three scenes of naval warfare off the coast of South Carolina during the Civil War. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5 (1861 Nov. 30), p. 757.
Map showing the defenses of the Mississippi below New Orleans and Farr...
Map shows the Confederate fortifications at Fort Jackson under Gen. Duncan, Fort St. Philip and the Union fleet along the Mississippi River. This map, also shows the positions of Union ships under Farragut, who... More
Plan of the attack on Ft. Sumter, April 6th, 1863.
Map shows a regional view of Charleston Harbor including Confederate fortifications and Union naval vessels. This April 1863 atttack by Union ironclads was unsuccessful. Color coding indicates the location of U... More
Scene of Ewell's attack, May 19, 1864, near Spottsylvania [i.e. Spotsy...
Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 724. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description