city plans

Ierusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit, accurate nota...

Relief shown pictorially. German. Titles in Latin and German. Shows Jerusalem during the time of Christ. Includes descriptive text in German. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan du siege de Brimston Hill. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:14,440. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Hand colored. Accompanied by photocopy of map. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1994 Relief shown by shading. Available also through the Library o... More

A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done...

Scale ca. 1:900,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. "This is a copy of the first map engraved in New England. Taken from one in Hubbard's Narrative of the t... More

A plan of the city of Savannah : with a drawing of the part of the cit...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Select buildings shown pictorially. Annotations in pencil. Minor tears around edges of sheet repaired by conservatio... More

An exact draught of the island of New Providence one of the Bahama Isl...

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734.

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 3 copies; 1 copy missing; 1 copy to P&P?

Plan du terrain sur le cap appartenant à la paroise de cette uille 175...

Scale ca. 1:550. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. The original manuscript plot of the top of the cape at Quebec, on which the Chateau St. Louis stood, where the Chateau Frontenac now stands, as well as t... More

Plan of the inlet, strait, & town of St. Augustine.

Scale ca. 1:9,100. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. "No. 9." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1636 LC Luso-Hispanic World, 907 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2

Plan de Monaco. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:6,000. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. "Tome IV, no. 72." Covers commune of Monaco. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Available also through the ... More

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 new plan of Boston Harbour from an actual survey.

Scale ca. 1:110,000. "N.B. Charlestown burnt June 17th, 1775 by the regulars." Index for points of interest. Cited in David McNeely Stauffer's American engravers upon copper and steel as appearing in the Pennsy... More

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

Origin of steam navigation... - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Hutchings, John.

The village of Flushing, Queens County, L.I. : nine miles east of the ...

Cadastral map of the incorporated village of Flushing showing lot lines, dimensions, buildings (residential/non-residential), landholders' names, marshlands, and village boundary. Oriented with north to the lef... More

New map of Stark County, Ohio / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 677 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes population statistical table, list of post offices, views of public, and residential properties. I... More

Topographical map of Franklin County, Maine /

Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance chart, statistics, and illustrations. Insets: Allen's Mills -- ... More

Plan of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Va. Showing position of both ar...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Decr. 13, 1862.

Map shows the region surrounding Fredericksburg, Va., including Marie's Heights outside of the city and Falmouth across the Rappahannock River. Due to Burnside's slow maneuvering of the Union forces, Lee was a... More

Map of Winona County, Minnesota. 1867.

Phillips, 2046 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 414.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Library of Congress ("National Library"), Judiciary Square site, Wash...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monson, Massachusetts. 1879. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 310.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to poin... More

Esplicacion de la 1a. vista del panorama de Mexico / imprenta lito cal...

Print showing bird's-eye view of prominent buildings, identified by numbered key, in Mexico City.

[The plan of the basement of the Mekteb-i Sultani]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. School is now called Galatasaray Lisesi. In album: Mekteb-i Sultani, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, buildi... More

[Ground and first floor plans, imperial high school, Baghdad]

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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Scale 1:19,320; 230 sazh. v angl. di︠u︡ĭmi︠e︡. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In Russian. Identifies wards, trolley lines, police stations, municipal, military and ot... More

East Pepperell, Massachusetts. 1886., engraving, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 287 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100; 710/1

Panoramic map of Warwick, N.Y. 1887.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 651 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2

Tennessee Centennial Exposition, Nashville, Tennessee, 1897.

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

["The Faulkner Farm Gardens, Brookline, Massachusettsachusetts"]

Photograph of a plan of Charles T. Sprague house and garden in the Monograph of the Work of Charles Adams Platt, New York, 1913. On slide (handwritten): "Plan, Faulkner Farm, Brookline, Mass." Possibly photogra... More

Map of city of Manila and vicinity /

Relief shown by contours. "Office of Department Engineer, Phil. Dept. June 1915." "Corrected to March 1919." Blue-line print. In lower left margin: 6-7-1. Includes note. Available also through the Library of Co... More

Plan of Jerusalem Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lower Manhattan Expressway, New York City. Bird's-eye perspective sec...

Forms part of: The Paul Rudolph Archive. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:126. Conservation no. 2.14.3324.2. Conservation no. 8.10.2396.23.

National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., for General Services Admin...

Drawing no. 2. Gift; Animal Welfare Institute; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:008) Accession box no. PR 13 CN 2018:008.04

Gründtlicher Bericht von Eroberung der Stadt vnd dess Schloss Würtzbur...

Print shows Gustavus Adolphus with his Swedish army poised to conquer Würzburg, Germany in October, 1631. Print shows a birds-eye view of the walled city of Würzburg, Germany with its castle on the hill on the ... More

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, 50...

See also HABS WI-303 (A-E) and HABS WI-360 (A-U) for additional documentation. Significance: The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) was established in 1865 as the first federal-level institut... More

English Camp (Remains), Garrison Bay, San Juan Island, Friday Harbor, ...

Survey number: HABS WA-39-W-17 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000369

Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, Mission & Washington Boulevards, Fremon...

See also HALS CA-75 for additional documentation. Significance: Restored remains of Fourteenth Mission founded by Franciscan Fathers in Alta, California. Site consecrated June 11, 1797. Church and most of the... More

Central Power Station, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Kitsap C...

Significance: The Central Power Station at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was constructed in 1910 as the Shipyard's first Central Steam/Power Station. It was the principal power plant for the buildings and equipme... More

Reuel Smith House, West Lake Road, Skaneateles, Onondaga County, NY

Significance: The only surviving example in Onondaga county by this distinguished architect of the American Gothic Revival, since the demolition of the Charles Sedgewick Cottage on James Street in Syracuse. S... More

Winton Motor Carriage Company, Berea Road & Madison Avenue, Cleveland,...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Pueblo of Nambe, State Road 4 Vicinity, Nambe Pueblo, Santa Fe County,...

Public domain scan of a plan of settlement buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ebenezer Smith House, 20 Main Street, Durham, Strafford County, NH

Survey number: HABS NH-14 Building/structure dates: ca. 1765 Initial Construction

Fuerte La Princessa, Boulevard Norzagaray, San Juan, San Juan Municipi...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: The historic plan of Washington, designed by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as the site of the Federal City, represents the sole American example of a comprehensive baroque city plan with a coordinated s... More

L'Enfant-McMillan Plan of Washington, DC, Washington, District of Colu...

Significance: The historic plan of Washington, designed by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as the site of the Federal City, represents the sole American example of a comprehensive baroque city plan with a coordinated s... More

Atlas of the city of Boston, Brighton : from actual surveys and offici...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. In manuscript on piece of paper pasted inside of front cover: "C.E. Cushing, 68 Devonshire St., Boston." Acquisitions c... More

[Remodeling a house into a hospital ("Joseph Barrell House remodeled a...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Hope Homes (Public Housing), Bounded by Larkin, Dora, Spelman Str...

Significance: John Hope Homes was originally planned as an extension of University Homes the first federally subsidized housing project for Black residents in the United States. In its own right, it is signific... More

Boston City Hall, 41-45 School Street, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Significance: Old City Hall is significant as one of the first major structures in the country to be built in the French Second Empire style and as a nationally-known work which inspired the building of other s... More

Deister Farmstead, Route 442, Stull, Douglas County, KS

Significance: The Deister Farmstead is representative of a way of life on a working farm in the early years of Kansas' history. Henry Deister bought the farm in the late 1860s and is typical of the large number... More

John & James Dobson Carpet Mill (West Parcel), 4041-4055 Ridge Avenue,...

Significance: The John & James Dobson Carpet Mill is one of the most important industrial complexes surviving from the mid-to-late-19th-century manufacturing boom in Philadelpha. Begun in the 1850s, the mill's ... More

First Universalist Church, Gougler Street, Kent, Portage County, OH

Significance: The Universalists Church dedicated on August 25, 1878. The first pastor was Rev. Andrew Wilson. The total cost of the building was $17,000. Extensive alterations in the church building were made d... More

U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center, 600 South Seventieth Stre...

Significance: The Lincoln Veterans Administration Medical Center is part of the VA's "Architectural Set," which is a thematic group of VA planned and designed hospitals constructed throughout the nation between... More

Sutter's Fort, L & Twenty-Seventh Streets, Sacramento, Sacramento Coun...

Survey number: HABS CA-1294 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000221

Liberty Hall, 112 East Liberty Street, Rome, Oneida County, NY

Survey number: HABS NY-5511 Public domain scan of a plan of settlement buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Luna Lodge, 9119 Central Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Cou...

Significance: Luna Lodge is one of the best examples of a largely unaltered tourist court remaining along historic Route 66 in New Mexico. Survey number: HAER NM-13 Building/structure dates: 1949 Initial Cons... More

James Brown House, Fifth & Main Streets, Silverton, Marion, OR

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS OR-12 Building/structure dates: ca. 1850 Initial Construction

Mercer Museum, Pine & Ashland Streets, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA

See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes photographs (photographs 67 & 68). Significance: A pioneering example of the use of reinforced concrete. An eclectic interpretation of Medieval styles... More

Zane Grey House, West side of Scenic Drive, Lackawaxen, Pike County, P...

Significance: Zane Grey (1872-1939), a noted fisherman and author of novels about the American West, began his professional writing career in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania where he lived from 1906 until 1918. The ho... More

Davis & Kimpton Brickyard, West bank of Warwick River, Mulberry Island...

Significance: The Davis and Kimpton Brickyard is a unique and well-preserved example of a brick manufacturing plant and associated technology which was revolutionizing regional industrial patterns at the turn o... More

Druid Hills Historic District, US 29, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Significance: Druid Hills is historically significant primarily in the areas of landscape architecture, architecture, and community planning. Druid Hills is the finest example of late-nineteenth and early-twent... More

Wagamon Pond Dam & Bridge, Spanning Broadkill River at State Road No. ...

Significance: The structure is a combination dam and water control structure of an unusual type. The existing system has evolved through a series of reconstructions since the first bridge was replaced in 1815 ... More

Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele Coun...

Significance: The history of Wendover Airport spans a period of 50 years, and has gained historical recognition due to the critical role it played during World War II. During World War II events at Wendover pro... More

Benicia State Capitol, First & G Streets, Benicia, Solano County, CA

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

John N. Cushing Place, 98 High Street, Newburyport, Essex County, MA

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...

Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More

Hotel Del Coronado, 1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, San Diego County, CA

Significance: The Hotel Del Coronado, designed by James W. and Merrit Reid, in 1887, stands as a monument to luxurious resort guesting of the past and present. The hotel has hosted many notable guests including... More

Church of St. Louis of France (Roman Catholic), Third & Walnut Streets...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-165 Survey number: HABS MO-31-1 Building/structure dates: 1834 Initial Construction

Hacienda Buena Vista, PR Route 10 (Ponce to Arecibo), Magueyes, Ponce ...

Public domain scan of a plan of settlement buildings, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Custom House, 423 Canal Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Significance: The structure is architecturally significant, not only because of its monumental size, but also because of the unusual foundation system on which it rests. This system was quite common in the mid... More

Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley off U.S. Highway 395, 6 m...

Significance: Manzanar was one of ten relocation centers which held Japanese evacuated from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. After a National Park Service study of all ten sites it was ... More

The American rattle snake, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, Brit...

Cartoon shows "American" snake, the emblem used by Americans as a device on their flag before the adoption of the stars and stripes, with two of three coils around units of British soldiers, commanded by Burgoy... More

Rancho Santa Fe, Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego County, CA

Significance: In the 1920s, the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company, a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, developed Rancho Santa Fe as a community of "gentlemen's ranches" in the hills north... More

Isaac Pierce House, 711 Sixth Street Southeast, Washington, District o...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7 Survey number: HABS DC-14

Municipal Auditorium, 1310 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Jackson Coun...

Significance: The Municipal Auditorium is a classic example of 1930s moderne style constructed with funds from the city and the federal government. Although the U.S. contribution was relatively small, it kept t... More

Gage Irrigation Canal, Running from Santa Ana River to Arlington Heigh...

Significance: The Gage Irrigation Canal was instrumental in the development of citrus production and the settlement of the Riverside area. At the time of its completion, the canal was the most ambitious irriga... More

Franklin Inn & Store, Mill Road, Port Republic, Atlantic County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-522 Survey number: HABS NJ-663 Building/structure dates: 1778 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1827 Subsequent Work

U.S. Department of the Interior, Eighteenth & C Streets Northwest, Was...

Significance: One of Washington's major governmental buildings, it was designed by one of the city's most noted architects, Waddy Wood. Interesting example of the blending of traditional Classical motifs with ... More

Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Significance: Fort Pulaski was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century by U.S. military engineers who hoped to guard against unwanted river approaches to the nearby port city of Savannah. It was p... More

Militärgeographische Einzelangaben über England : militärgeographische...

Also shows Wales on some sheets. Issued as a series in separate portfolios; each portfolio consists of 2 or more sheets; and numbered 1 through 4 and 6 through 12. Relief shown by contours, hachures, and spot h... More

Woodford, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-1307 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000021

Eli Whitney Armory, West of Whitney Avenue, Armory Street Vicinity, Ha...

Significance: Location of the musket factory of Eli Whitney, an important contributor to the development of the American System of Manufacturing. It was here that Whitney attempted a system of production that ... More

Wyck, 6026 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4 Survey number: HABS PA-7-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1690 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000736

Atlas and farmers' directory of Charles Mix County, South Dakota : con...

"On township maps township roads are shown with parallel lines, rural routes are shown with broken black lines, location of farm buildings is shown with black square, school district boundary lines are shown wi... More

Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ arkheologicheskai︠a︡ / po raspori︠a︡zheni...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Partie du fleuve St. Laurent avec le passage de la traverse et les isl...

Scale ca. 1:140,000. Relief shown by hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows ship channels. "Tome I, no. 7." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 242 Availab... More

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...

Scale ca. 1:6,300. Dedicated "To the Honble. Thos. Gage ... " Relief shown by hachures. Includes text, index to points of interest, and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the pr... More

Bowles's new pocket map of the most inhabited part of New England; com...

[Plan de la ville, du port, et de la rade de New-port et Rhode Island....

Scale ca. 1:26,000. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications, fields of fire, and position of French nav... More

Plan de Portsmouth en Virginie. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:3,333. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Shows defense works, forts, etc. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1454 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1

Ile de Fîleh (Philae) Plan des ruines principales / / dessiné par Féli...

Map showing the principle archaeological ruins and geographical features of the island of Philae, Egypt. Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histo... More

Topographical map of Nashville, Tenn. / during American Civil War

Shows physical relief, street rights-of-way, railroads, and outstanding buildings. Does not show vernacular buildings or other cultural features. Relief shown by gradated hachures. Signed in ink handwriting at ... More

Battle of the Antietam fought September 16 & 17, 1862

Scale 1:10,560. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 246 Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, showing "line of Hooker's advance," roads, houses and names of occupants, fences, vegetation, drainage, and relief... More

Adrian, Michigan 1866. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 332 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interest. Va... More

Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, Wisconsin 1870.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 1051 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. Vault AACR2: 100... More

[Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 337 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Map of the grounds of the National Chautauqua of Glen Echo near Washin...

Cadastral map. Includes note and ill. LC copy fold-lined and taped. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Bird's eye view of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. 1891.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking north-east." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 662 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., index to points of interest... More

[Plan of Jerusalem ... from the Ordnance Plan ... made by Major Genera...

Public domain photograph of 1920s Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ludgate prison, with a plan of the London workhouse Sir Paul Pindar's ...

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