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A new chart of New Holland on which are delineated New South Wale, and...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

A plan of the east part of Long Island Sound from remarks made on boar...

Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated: By Lieutt. Knatchbull, Recd. 31 Jany. 1778. Includes directions for navigatio... More

Antiquedad relativa y Estialification...

Cross-section of stratified volcanic rock. Drawing by Humboldt, 1803. Engraving by F. Suria. Illus. in: Elementos de Orictognosia o del Conocimiento de los Fosiles. Mexico, 1805, vol. 2, plate 2. No ref. copy. ... More

[Looking down James River from Dutch Gap, February 1865]

No. B594. Title devised by library staff. Title based on similar image: LOT 11486-F, no. 10. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

[The Viking Ship] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Spanish caravel Nina - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Colonia - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clorita - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fishermen's Wharf, San Francisco

Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 014041. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.... More

Embarkation of New England troops under Governor Pepperell during the ...

Reproduction of painting by Charles Delort. Public domain photograph - engraving of a sailing ship, sea battle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Spanish caravel Santa Maria] - A black and white photo of a ship in t...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The "Niagara" on the scene of her battle 1813

Oliver Perry's flagship the "Niagara" and two other ships in Put-in-Bay Harbor, Lake Erie. J183986(?) U.S. Copyright Office.

Columbia harbor, eastern terminus of canal: Mouth of Atrato, U.S.S. Ni...

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

A general map of South America : from the best surveys, 1796

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: London. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The West Indies exhibiting the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Da...

Scale ca. 1:4,750,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: [Plate no.] 56. Label attached to verso. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1726 Available also through the Libr... More

Cartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle /

Relief shown pictorially. "Présentées au Roi le 15 mai 1757". Phillips, 220 Engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: map titled "Planisp... More

Pacific Coast Steamship Co's Steamer: State of California, Goodall, Pe...

Artist: Charles R. Parsons (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5065

Perry's victory / T. Birch. - A drawing of a ship in a harbor

Marine view showing American fleet, under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry, engaged in battle with the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congr... More

Capt. Avery and his crew taking one of the Great Mogul's ships

Capt. Avery standing, holding sword; battle between 2 ships in background. Engraving by W. Pritchard after William Telt. Illus. in: Charles Johnson, History of Most Famous Highway Men, 1734. Reference copy may ... More

A plan of the harbour and town of Louisbourg in the Island of Cape Bre...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the upper right. Appears in An authentic account of the reduction of Louisbourg, in June and July 1758. London : W. Owen, 1758. LC Maps and charts of North Ameri... More

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.

A map of the Hawaiian Islands. - Public domain old map

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Includes view of Lahainaluna. LC copy is only two panels of a larger map.

The little magician's sleight of hand performance. An absquabulating s...

Again the theme of corruption in the Van Buren administration, here centering on the President's "Sub-Treasury" or independent treasury program, passed by Congress in July 1840. A large frigate "United States,... More

[Lifeboat moving with oars] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

At Şile. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 39. No. 641. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms pa... More

Lasca - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hermione - Public domain image of steamship

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Boat races]: Group of five yachts

Photoprint copyrighted by C.E. Bolles. No. 662. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Races; Yachts.

Half Moon re-entered Hudson River after an absence of 300 years

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Sailboat] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Le Capne. Aubert, Comt. le Jean Baptte de Caen, sauvant l'equipage de ...

"Captain Aubert, Comt. le Jean Baptte de Caen," saving the crew of the American brig "Lydia." .

Pilot Schooner "Alabama", Moored in harbor at Vineyard Haven, Vineyard...

Significance: ALABAMA was designed by Thomas F. McManus, a noted fishing schooner and yacht designer from Boston, Massachusetts. She was built during the final throes of the age of commercial sailing vessels i... More

Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones / Richard Paton pinxit...

Vue d'optique showing naval battle during Revolutionary War between John Paul Jones of the Bonhomme Richard and Capt. Richard Pearson of the British naval vessel Serapis, Sept. 22, 1779. Title appears in revers... More

U.S.S. Alert. Warship photograph collection

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

Norwich Line, between New York, Boston and Worcester, via New York and...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Parsons, C. R.

Boston lightship, Boston, Massachusetts.

Photograph of Boston No. 54 lightship. H72366 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 022216. Photograph copyrighted by the Detroit Publishing Co.

R-Boat Pirate, The Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, King County, WA

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

U.S. mail steam ship company's, ships

395 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Menger, Louis.

Destruction of the privateer PETREL by the ST. LAWRENCE

U.S. revenue cutter AIKEN, captured by Confederate and re-named PETREL, being sunk by U.S. frigate St. Lawrence, 1861 Steel engraving by Robert Hinshelwood, b. 1812; after painting(?) by Paul Manzoni, copyright... More

Models of a fleet of vessels in Machinery Hall

Wood engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1876, of interior scenes of the Phila. Centennial Exhibition. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1876 July 29. Reference copy may be in LOT 4435A. This record contains unverified, ... More

The Viking ship - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A fleet of Arab boats on the Nile, Egypt

Public domain photograph - ship, port, harbor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowd waiting to board excursion fleet and other ships, Hampton Roads

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

[The Water front, Newburgh and the Half Moon]

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Peary's steamer Roosevelt at Newburgh, N.Y.]

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Long Beach at waterfront, Long Beach, Calif., Oct. 7th, 1911

J161621 U.S. Copyright Office No. 4. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles, Cal. Copyright deposit; West Coast Art Co.; October 19, 1911; DLC/PP-1911:44369.

Tree in San Domingo to which Columbus is said to have tied his caravel...

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

The barque Alexander Von Humboldt II, one of the ships passing by in C...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

U.S.S. frigate Saranac, off San Juan Sur, Nicaragua

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

The U.S. frigate United States capturing H.B.M. frigate Macedonian: fo...

The United States was commanded by Stephen Decatur when it overtook Captain John S. Garden's Macedonian on October 28, 1812 near the Azores in the Atlantic. Decatur captured the Macedonian and brought it to Ne... More

Steam ship Southerner, Capt. Berry. Regular packet between New York & ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott, G. & W.

Steam ship Southerner, Capt. Berry. Regular packet between New York & ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Endicott, G. & W.

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Plano del Puerto de Plata situado en la costa del norte de la Ysla de ...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: D. & C. Blauw. Pen-and-ink and green, red, and yellow watercolors. Mounted on cloth b... More

Plano de la Bahía de Ocoa - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Indexed. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 390 Available also through the Library of Congress W... More

This plan of the harbour, town, and forts of Porto Bello (taken by Edw...

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Published March 27th, 1740 ..." Oriented with north toward the lower left. Includes index and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

[Mount Desert Island and neighboring coast of Maine. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:49,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows coast of Hancock County, Maine. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Rough plan of the defences of the harbour of Annapolis in Maryland /

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

The Sumter running the blockade of St. Pierre, Martinique, by the enem...

Illus. from: Memoirs of service afloat during the war between the states / Raphael Semmes. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869.

J.H. Bufford's Sons steamboat cards, nos. 443

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

U.S.S. Richmond, sailors polishing bright work

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Spanish caravel Santa Maria - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Spanish caravel Santa Maria - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Second title on negative: Santa Maria, Columbus Caravel. Attribution to Hart based on negatives with similar numbers. Either World's Columbian Exposition or Columbian Naval Review. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 02... More

[Start of the Dories]. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Four sail boats. 46702 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo copyrighted by Charles E. Bolles, Brooklyn, New York. No. 973. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Sailboats; Shelf.

The James Pierce - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Illumination of the Roosevelt in winter quarters on a moonlight night;...

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Co. Copyright by Frederick A. Stokes Co. Halftone color reproduction of photo. Caption card tracings: Ships; Arctic; Expeditions & Surveys; Sleighs; Chron.; Shelf.

Titanic survivors on way to rescue ship Carpathia

Group of people in a lifeboat. Public domain image of a passenger ship, ocean liner, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Destruction of "Maine", Havana harbor, Cuba, Spanish-American War 1898

Photograph shows sailors and others in small boats near the wreckage of the U. S. S. Maine; a wreath is tossed from the Maine's crows nest, American flag waving. Additional devised title: [Ceremonial sinking at... More

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

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones / Richard Paton pinxit...

The landing of Columbus at San Salvador, October 12, 1492

Columbus standing in bow of boat holding Spanish flag. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3699

The First voyage - Print, Library of Congress collection

Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to the Queen of Spain on his departure for the New World, August 3, 1492. 40795Y U.S. Copyright Office.

Battle of Lake Erie - A painting of a group of people in a boat

Oliver Hazard Perry standing on front of small boat after abandoning his flagship, the Lawrence. K33650 U.S. Copyright Office.

U.S.M. steam ship Baltic. Collins line builders, hull by Brown & Bell ...

Print shows a port side view of the U.S. Mail Steam Ship Baltic at sea.

[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents].

Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied b... More

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Sheet removed from German ed. of W.J. Blaeu's atlas: Atlas novus, Amsterdam, 1634. Map redesigned from a portion of Blaeu's larger map of North America printed ca. 1630. Has vertical fold line at center of shee... More

China Sea : sheet II - Public domain vintage map

Depth shown by soundings. "Published 1st Feb. 1823 by James Horsburgh, ..." Includes 23 relief profiles. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Previous call number: G7822.C5 1862 .H6

Na mokupuni o Hawaii nei / - Public domain old map

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

[Stern paddle-wheel steam tugboat towing British warship]

Illus. in: A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour,.... [London : Reprinted for J. Sheepshanks, 1855 from 1737 edition]. Published in: The ... More

U.S.S. Vanderbilt - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Defender, deck view - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Yachts Defender, Jubilee and Volunteer with bows to left]

No. 135. Copyright by J.S. Johnston, N.Y. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Mayflower in Plymouth harbor, engraving, Library of Congress

Negative cracked upper left corner and taped to second sheet of glass. Photograph of a painting signed "W.F. Halsall." Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 677. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Winslow Homer - The gulf stream

Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of painting signed "Homer, 1899" at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Negative cracked at left. "029310" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M407. Gi... More

[Replica of Santa Maria] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts.

Postcard shows sailing ship pulling a skiff in front of the Navy yard buildings and ships docked at piers. F34782 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7027a.

The American dope party / Albert Levering.

Illustration shows many men dressed as Native Americans on board a ship labeled "The Good Ship Dope", throwing cartons and boxes of adulterated and unhealthy food products over the sides, into the harbor. Capt... More

Fishing smacks, Mackinac Island, Mich

"Silver Chief" on boat in foreground. "G 3176" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019032. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Columbus' Flagship, the SANTA MARIA]

Halftone repro. of photo in the Mentor, vol. 1, no. 13, Serial No. 13. Copyrighted by the Mentor Association, Inc. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ships Other... More

AL-KI wrecked on Point Augusta, Alaska [coastal steamer]

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Sailboat - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco This glass negative might sh... More

[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 15...

The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the citie... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. No. 587. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

Plano Depuerto [sic] Caballo y Omoa en la costa de Honduras situado en...

Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Watermarks: IV; and, fleur-de-lis. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 500 Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plan de la baie et du havre de Casco et des îles adjacentes,

Scale ca. 1:85,000. Depths shown by soundings. Plate no. "335." Appears in France. Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine's Neptune Americo-Septentrional. 1778-80. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 843 Avail... More

U.S. Frigate Savennah, struck by a heavy squall when entering the harb...

16639 01 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Graphic Co.

Alcaea - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Spanish caravel Santa Maria - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description