St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with...
Significance: St. Paul's at Baden is the oldest church in Prince George's County, and one of only six churches extant from the colonial period. In May of 1692, the Governor's Council and the Maryland Assembly ... More
Brick Store, Route 488, East of Road 489, Smyrna, Kent County, DE
Significance: Brick Store is the only known colonial period agricultural building surviving in southern New Castle County. It was built as a creek side grain warehouse in 1767 and converted into a dwelling befo... More
Brick Store, Route 488, East of Road 489, Smyrna, Kent County, DE
Significance: Brick Store is the only known colonial period agricultural building surviving in southern New Castle County. It was built as a creek side grain warehouse in 1767 and converted into a dwelling befo... More
Oakley Plantation, House, State Highway 965, Saint Francisville, West ...
1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Oakley Plantation House is, perhaps, the finest surviving historic example of Louisiana's rare Angle Tidewater Creole architecture. ...As one of only four sur... More
The United States of America, in Congress assembled, to all who shall ...
Includes the text of the treaty, supplementary article, and the ratification by the Congress, dated July 18, 1787. Imprint from Evans. Former attribution to the press of John Dunlap rejected in the Journals of ... More
Benjamin Franklin - born in Boston, Jany. 17th 1706 -- died in Philade...
Print showing Benjamin Franklin, full-length portrait, sitting in chair, facing slightly left, holding compass, with globe at his feet, and electrical storm visible through the window in the background.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...
Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph of wooden panel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...
Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Carta della Colonia Eritrea. - Public domain old map
Relief shown by shading, hachures, form lines, and spot heights. Title in upper left margin of each sheet. Geographic coverage complete in 36 sheets. Each sheet includes diagram of adjoining sheets. Some sheets... More
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
King William County Courthouse & Stable, State Route 619, King William...
Significance: The King William County Courthouse was built in 1725, and expanded in 1840. The courthouse green was enclosed at this time with the construction of a brick wall. The courthouse is still in use and... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Paul Revere silversmith, pioneer, industrialist and a leading Revolutionary activist owned this house in North Square from 1770 to 1800. Constructed c. 1678=1680, the building is the sole survivo... More
Kingsley Plantation, Barn, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval ...
Significance: T-shaped in plan, the barn at Kingsley Plantation was erected in two phases. The north wing, constructed of tabby brick, was most likely built ca. 1814-20 early in Zephaniah Kingsley's tenure. The... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Convent, 807 Mission Road, S...
Significance: The convent, which is adjoined to the church's south side, is significant architecturally as physical evidence of building practices and techniques of the Spanish colonial period. Unprocessed Fie... More
Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et f...
Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, half-length portrait, wearing necklace and head ornaments, and with facial markings, facing slightly left. Parthey, 2009 Published in: Many nations: A Library of C... More
Unveiling tablet commemorating first settlement of Massachusetts. Bay ...
Public domain photograph of park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe o...
"Only 200 copies privately printed" (for Charles Gorham Barney, of Richmond, Va., cf. Sabin, Dict.) The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) "To the R. and my most esteemed friend Mr. D.M. at his house a... More
[Prospectus for Mr. Franklin and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.] Chi...
Picryl description: Public domain document, political pamphlet, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Relatio itineris in Marylandiam : declaratio coloniae domini baronis d...
Text and translation on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Supplemented by: "Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum. Ab anno 1638, ad annum 1677. Extracts from different letters of missionaries. From ... More
The Calvert papers.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The history of Virginia, in four parts. I. The history of the first se...
ESTC N7255 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The history of Virginia, in four parts. I. The history of the first se...
ESTC N7255 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...
The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More
Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd S...
Illus. 1-23 have title: Wahrhafftige Contrafacturen vnd Gebräuch der Innwohnern der jenigen Landtschafft in America, welche Virginia genennet worden ... Alles auff das allerfleissigst erkündigt, vnd ... abcontr... More
The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...
Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)
The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...
Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)
New England. Historic map, Library of Congress
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... More
Sir William Johnson, Major General of the English forces in America / ...
Print shows three-quarter length portrait of Sir William Johnson, with his arm resting on a cannon muzzle and holding a baton.
A map of the British colonies in North America, with the roads, distan...
Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Fourth ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 43 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those c... More
Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit cœlo fulme...
Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing front; map and his spectacles are on the table.
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. F.R.S. - one of the American plenipotentiarie...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, without spectacles, wearing fur cap, in oval. After a portrait by Cochin. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present war in America;... More
Benjamin Franklin engraved by T.B. Welch from the portrait by Martin i...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of a scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Benjamin Franklin Tracy, three-quarter length portrait, standing by d...
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916
A man in a suit and top hat with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin celebration [Washington, D.C.]
A crowd of people standing around a fountain. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin University. Entrance to School of Accountancy, Benja...
Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin University. Entrance to School of Accountancy, Benja...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Centennial Guard Box, Traffic Triangle, Benjamin Franklin Parkway vici...
Survey number: HABS PA-1652 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, water stream, cascade, nature site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image related to Hindu, India, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Public domain photograph of Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A view of the circular walk leading from the Benjamin Franklin Post Of...
Public domain photograph of car, historic place, automobile, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Post Office, Edna Strain [...]4313 Stillen [...]St. Little Rock, [...]...
A woman in a polka dot dress standing on a map of the world. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys take one day a...
Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Old State House was the center of political activity of the Massac...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. It is Boston's oldest surviving public building. Title,... More
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Print, engraving, Library of Congress
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Edwin, David.
The town of Boston in New England and British ships of war landing the...
Print is a restrike from shortened plate for original print with loss to text of cartouche and row of ships in the foreground. Text of cartouche in lower right corner: To the Earl of Hillsborough, His Majests ... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Pompion Hill Chapel, Cooper River, south side, Huger, Berkeley County,...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Pompion Hill is one of South Carolina's best-preserved chapels of ease and is known for its unaltered Georgian interior and exterior. It is significant ... More
Russian-American Company, Building No. 29, 202-206 Lincoln Street, Sit...
Significance: Building No. 29 is one of only four buildings of Russian construction known to survive in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the Russian American capitol of New Archangel (now Sitka), the ce... More
Russian-American Company, Building No. 29, 202-206 Lincoln Street, Sit...
Significance: Building No. 29 is one of only four buildings of Russian construction known to survive in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the Russian American capitol of New Archangel (now Sitka), the ce... More
Russian-American Company, Building No. 29, 202-206 Lincoln Street, Sit...
Significance: Building No. 29 is one of only four buildings of Russian construction known to survive in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the Russian American capitol of New Archangel (now Sitka), the ce... More
Knapp Farm, 417 DeKalb Pike, Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, PA
Significance: The Knapp Farmhouse illustrates how German and English vernacular styles were combined in the construction of homes during the colonial period of American architecture. The property was nominated ... More
Wilson Mill Bridge, Spanning Deer Creek at MD Route 161, Darlington, H...
Significance: This bridge is part of the Darlington Road, a major north/south artery, dating from the colonial period, that links the northern, agrarian, section of Harford County with the southern, commercial ... More
Carte nouvelle de l'Amérique angloise contenant tout ce que les Angloi...
Scale ca. 1:3,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique. 1778. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Two copies. ... More
Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Ja...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, in oval on pedestal with poem. Tiré du cabinet de M. Le Ray de Chaumont &c. After painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. Publi... More
Benjamin Franklin Pearson House, Dodge Street, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co...
Survey number: HABS IA-30-27
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...
Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin: The statesman and philosopher
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0562.
The Surrender of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1664
Print shows Dutch soldiers, lead by Director General Peter Stuyvesant, leaving Nieuw Amsterdam after ceding it to the English. B61245 U.S. Copyright Office
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
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
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
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
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
Eyre Hall, U.S. Route 13 & State Route 636 vicinity, Cheriton, Northam...
Significance: One of the Eastern Shore's most notable 18th century houses, with relatively complete surviving plantation complex, including dairy, smokehouse, overseer's house, graveyard and orangery (ruins). ... More
Eyre Hall, U.S. Route 13 & State Route 636 vicinity, Cheriton, Northam...
Significance: One of the Eastern Shore's most notable 18th century houses, with relatively complete surviving plantation complex, including dairy, smokehouse, overseer's house, graveyard and orangery (ruins). ... More
King William County Courthouse & Stable, State Route 619, King William...
Significance: The King William County Courthouse was built in 1725, and expanded in 1840. The courthouse green was enclosed at this time with the construction of a brick wall. The courthouse is still in use and... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kingsley Plantation, Barn, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval ...
Significance: T-shaped in plan, the barn at Kingsley Plantation was erected in two phases. The north wing, constructed of tabby brick, was most likely built ca. 1814-20 early in Zephaniah Kingsley's tenure. The... More
Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...
Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More
Westtown Friends Meeting House, Westtown School, east side, Westtown, ...
Significance: A rare architect-designed meeting house, the Westtown Friends Meeting House was constructed in 1929. Walter F. Price was the architect in charge; Price later designed the Florida Avenue Meeting Ho... More
A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe o...
"Only 200 copies privately printed" (for Charles Gorham Barney, of Richmond, Va., cf. Sabin, Dict.) The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) "To the R. and my most esteemed friend Mr. D.M. at his house a... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Relatio itineris in Marylandiam : declaratio coloniae domini baronis d...
Text and translation on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Supplemented by: "Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum. Ab anno 1638, ad annum 1677. Extracts from different letters of missionaries. From ... More
Relatio itineris in Marylandiam : declaratio coloniae domini baronis d...
Text and translation on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Supplemented by: "Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum. Ab anno 1638, ad annum 1677. Extracts from different letters of missionaries. From ... More