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Rebell Gratitude, or a representation of the treachery and barbarity o...

Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cartoons, British - 1745-1747; Hist. Gt. Brit.; Hist Sco... More

Battle of the Thames - A map of a small town in the middle of the day

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Revolutionary War battle between civilians and British soldiers]

Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Genl. Taylor at the battle of Resaca de la Palma Capt. May receiving h...

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

[A commander (Aga) of the Janissaries of the Ottoman Turkish army dres...

Illus. in: Der Turckische Schau-Platz erofnet und ..., Hamburg, T. von Wiering, 1685. cf: Victory at Vienna: The Ottoman Siege of 1683, p. 16. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption car... More

Battle of Hermannstadt / sketched by Capt. Ed. Scheifele ; drawn on st...

Print showing a battle scene with Russian, Austrian, and Hungarian troops standing in formation, shooting at each other across an open field. Caption continues: Where the Hungarians (March 11th 1849) under Gen... More

[General William Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua] Scene in the Battle of Ri...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 2, no. 32 (1856 July 19), p. 89. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE.

Battle of Hagers' Town Road. The Rebels are skedadling out of my Maryl...

Public domain song - scan of American song sheet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Commodore Perry at the battle of Lake Erie. "Ready! All ready your hon...

Print shows Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry speaking to gunners aboard ship during the Battle of Lake Erie.

[Daggers, swords, and battle hatchets displayed at the Armory, Madrid,...

In album: Spain, opposite p. 11. No. 89. 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 and... More

[Two unidentified soldiers in Mississippi battle shirts with double ba...

Case: Berg, no. 1-23. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Purchased from: The Historical Shop, Metairie, La., 2011. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of... More

Battle of Beaverdam Creek Va., Chickahominy River, June 27th 1862

While dated June 27th, this map depicts an engagement that took place the day previously, on the second day of the Seven Days' Battles. It shows the area of Hanover County that includes Mechanicsville, with th... More

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...

Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Where five thousand Confederate prisoners lay camped. A scene after th...

Hand written on verso: "See Miller, vol. 7, p. 42". Gift; George Holmes; July 26, 1941.

The Battle on the Little Big Horn River - The death struggle of Genera...

Wood engraving after drawing by W. M. Cary. Illus from: The Daily Graphic: an Illustrated Evening Newspaper, July 19, 1876. p. 122. (May have been made from a different copy.) Reference copy available in LOT 43... More

The Transvaal war: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba M...

Public domain illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle with the Peruvians - Public domain book illustration

Battle between Spaniards with guns and Incas with bows and arrows. Illus. in: The New world heroes of discovery and conquest / by D.M. Kelsey. Philadelphia, Pa. : National Publishing Company, c1891, p. 409. Ref... More

Scene of the battle with Pinkertons, Homestead, Pennsylvania

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

U.S.S. Texas, forward superstructure showing damage from Spanish 9-inc...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

U.S. Ram Katahdin. Warship photograph collection

Published by Koerner and Hayes. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Wreck of the Vizcaya, Battle of Santiago, gallus frames, 1898

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition - Behind the Filipino Trenches aft...

2 dead Filipinos in foreground; 2 U.S. soldiers behind them, Philippine Islands. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: ... More

Mrs. G.G. Battle - Public domain scan / photograph

An old photo of a woman preparing food. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle monument, Chalmette, Louisiana

Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a dock, harbor, boats, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Still friends after House battle of neutrality. Washington, D.C., July...

A black and white photo of three men in suits. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Japanese doctors attending their wounded after the Battle of Tientsin,...

Two doctors lean over back of man sitting on ground. XXc 461H U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2.

George Gordon Battle, Marceau, N.Y. / Marceau

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The Battle of New Orleans] / E. Percy Moran.

Shows Andrew Jackson standing in front of American flag with sword raised. K17403 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by E. Percy Moran.

After Battle -- Road from Diest to Haelen

Photograph shows dead horses and damaged buildings after the Battle of Haelen which was fought by the German and Belgian armies on August 12, 1914 near Haelen, Belgium during World War I. (Source: Flickr Common... More

General addressing French troops before battle

Photo of half-tone. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: WWI France; Shelf.

Vitagraph Battle Scene - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vitagraph "Movie" Battle - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Am. Battle Monument Assn., [9/21/23]

Public domain photograph of cabinet, bureau, office, 1920s - 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Battle hymn" [by] Michael Gold and Michael Blankfort epic drama of pr...

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "Battle Hymn" at the Columbia theater, showing a half-length portrait of a white man, facing left, reaching his hand toward the hand of an African American.

Erasty Emvich climbing a ladder to the loft of the barn he built himse...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Spotting and battle problems

Public domain photograph of people around a table, meeting, boardgame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Knox. Halftrac crews. Lifting a "wounded" tank crew member into a...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Soldier of a reconnaissance unit inspecting a brid...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Drilling a wing bulkhead...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The scuttled French fleet at Toulon: aerial pictures. On November 28, ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Partial view of one of Nort...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Ventura bombers. Part of the makings of Ventura bombers th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Japanese prisoner recuperating from his wounds in a clearing station i...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Scout car in a smokescreen during a sham battle

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Kansas. Scout car machine gunner in action during a sham b...

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

Point Pleasant, West Virginia. A monument erected to commemorate the b...

Public domain photograph of West Virginia in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. Camouflaged troops repel attack ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. American trucks, furnished under lend-lease, pla...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Front side view of C-82 shown at demonstration of equipment held by Un...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Howitzer being loaded into the new C-82 at demonstration of equipment ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a military aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cannons at Cheatham Hill, Kennesaw Mountain battle site, Georgia

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 Battle Ridge Coal Pit, in Orgas

To better understand the method of mining known as "mountaintop removal and reclamation," Lyntha Eiler and I visited the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection. There we interviewed Roger Hall, the ... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. First held in 1891 to honor the heroes of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, the parade, in which local women decorated carriag... More

Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, part of the monthlong Fiest...

Mexican forces march toward Texan lines at the annual Battle of San Ja...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antoni... More

Mexican scouts advance at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival an...

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

Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder and his yoked Texan longhorns (Ju...

Battle of Lexington - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).

Capt. Bragg's artillery at the Battle of Buena Vista. Give 'em a littl...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Magee.

Battle of Perryville--the extreme left-- Starkweather's brigade

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Middleton, Strobridge & Co.

View of the battle ground at Concord, Massachusetts

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Thayer.

Battle of Buena Vista: fought Feby. 23d 1847

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0431.

Bragg's battery: Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23D 1847

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Kellogg, E.B. & E.C.

Majr. Genl. George B. McClellan: at the Battle of Antietam, Md. Sept. ...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4260

The battle of Manila, fought on Sunday morning, May 1st 1898

38127 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gray.

Battle of Manassas - Public domain American sheet music

For piano Verso cover page, extensive introduction as to the particulars of the this piece, performing and monologue by the composer.

Wolgast-Nelson Fight Pictures : Wonderful moving pictures of the great...

Motion picture poster for "Wolgast-Nelson Fight Pictures" shows two boxers, Bat Nelson and Ad Wolgast, fighting in ring. Printed by Riverside Printing Co., Milwaukee. "5129" and "#1227".

Battle of Franklin. November 30, 1864-Union (General Schofield) ... Co...

Picryl description: Public domain image of infantry armed forces, war, 18th-19th century military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Battle prayer - Public domain World War One sheet music

For voice and piano. Manuscript in ink. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

Charge of the first brigade, commanded by Colonel M.B. Walker, on the ...

Caption continues: January 2nd, 1863; in which the Rebels were repulsed with heavy loss, and driven behind their breastworks. Elements of print identified by number, includes key.

Chattanooga and the battle ground, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Donaldson & Elmes.

Chattanooga and the battle ground, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Donaldson & Elmes.

Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia Dec. 13th 1862

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0450.

The Battle of Stony Point / J.H. Brightly, sc.

Print shows General Anthony Wayne and his men attacking a British fortification.

Battle of Antietam--Army of the Potomac: General George B. McClellan, ...

27020T U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

Battle of Kenesaw Mountian [i.e., Mountain]--June 27, 1864--Union (Gen...

6794W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1891 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

An Exciting skirmish in the Battle of Colenso, Boer War, World's Fair,...

H53815 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 15. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[The snowball battle near Dalton, Georgia]

Title devised from historical sources. Inscribed on mat: The Snowball Battle near Dalton, Georgia, March 22, 1864. A grand mock Battle between several divisions of Confederate soldiers. Published in: Joseph M. ... 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

Kearney [sic] at Battle of Williamsburg

Title inscribed lower right. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.501) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1862. Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Battle of Mill El Rey--Near the city of Mexico--Sept. 8th 1847 / E.B. ...

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

Battle scenes, no. 1 - The battle begins, no 1

Three scenes: 1. Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., August 10, 1861. Gen. Lyon leading into action the Iowa Regiment, whose colonel had been disabled; 2. Col. Burnside's brigade, First and Second Rhode Island, and ... More

Battle scenes, no. 1 - The battle scene of the battle scene of the bat...

Commencement of the battle of Savage's station, Sunday June 29

Title inscribed above image. Inscribed upper right: Baxter's Zouaves advancing with skirmishers thrown to the front. Burning of train explosion of ammunition, rockets, &c. Inscribed above image: Woods filled wi... More

Capture of Genl. La Vega by the gallant Capt. May, at the Battle of Re...

No. 440, no. 250. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 901

Battle of Chattanooga--General Thomas' charge near Orchard Knob, Nov. ...

36666T U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted 1888 by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A.

8th Penn Cavalry, crossing at Ely's Ford, before battle of Chancellors...

Signed lower left: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, May 16, 1863, p. 308. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.97) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The battle of Newbern, N.C. March 14th 1862

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0465

American war memorials, 1917-1918 / Folder prepared by The American Ba...

Brochure includes photographs of Meuse-Argonne Memorial, St. Mihiel Memorial, Aisne-Marne Memorial; Aisne-Marne Cemetery, Suresnes Cemetery, Naval Memorial at Brest, Meuse-Argonne Cemetery, St. Mihiel Cemetery,... More

[Mexican War battle] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Memories of the Mexican War" by Mrs. La Salle Corbell Pickett, Delineator 89... More

William III., Prince of Orange! At the battle of the Boyne. 1690

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sinclair, Thomas.

Battle of Bull Run--July 21st 1861--Federal (General McDowell) ... Con...

4515V(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Kurz & Allison, Art Publishers, Chicago, U.S.A. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washin... More

Battle of Stone River, Near Murfreesborough, Tenn.--Dec. 31, 62. Jan. ...

Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fifteen pen and ink maps of the battle of the Wilderness /

Annotated in pen-and-ink and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 668 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10662 Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G129... More

Genl. Custer presenting the flags captured in the last battle in the v...

General Custer, with aides, presenting Confederate flags captured during battle of Cedar Creek. Signed lower right: A.R.W. Title inscribed below image. Confederate flag sketched upper left. Inscribed upper lef... More

The Battle of the Kings: 2:111/4-2:103/4

Public domain image of horse carriage, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Fredericksburg, Virginia Wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

The night after the battle - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4851

Battle of Opequan or Winchester, Virginia--Sept. 19' 1864--Union: (Gen...

Copyrighted 1893 by Kurz & Allison, Chicago. Public domain scan of lithograph illustration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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