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Oldsmobile Sales Co., Rock Creek Park, [Washington, D.C.]

[Property survey of tracts and land grants in part of Maryland near Ti...

Cadastral map covering tracts named Jamaca, Port Royal, Burns Neglect, Elenor, Gleenings, Gordons Meddows, Knock, Houp Yard, and Cern Abbey Mannor. "Beginning of 'Cern Abbey Mannor' being a resurvey on Duddingt... More

A plan of my farm on Little Huntg. Creek & Potomk. R.

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on linen covered cardboard. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1447 Accompanied by 2 manuscript notes. Available also through the Library of Co... More

A plan of part of the rivers Tombecbe, Alabama, Tensa, Perdido, & Scam...

Scale ca. 1:126,720. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Cadastral map. Drawn from the original map in British archives "Col. Off. 5. Vol. 73, pp. 103-104. (Old A.W.I. 276)." Inclu... More

Boston from Willis Creek / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-17... More

A view of a saw mill and block house upon Fort Anne Creek ...which on ...

Title from item. Published in: Travels through the interior parts of America. In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey. London : W. Lane, 1789.

A view of the saw-mill & block house upon Fort Anne Creek, the propert...

Print shows a sawmill belonging to loyalist Philip Skene and the blockhouse at Fort Anne which were burned by American forces, reteating in advance of the British army under the command of General Burgoyne. Tit... More

E. Sugar Creek, Bradford Co.

Covers lands of the William Bingham estate surveyed by John Adlum. Shows land ownership, lots, boundaries, numbers, dimensions, and acreages. Title from label affixed to verso. From the William Bingham estate m... More

[Portion of a map of Feliciana District, Spanish Louisiana, from the L...

Shows area in West Feliciana Parish. Cadastral map. Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Has watermarks. From the papers of Vicente Sebas... More

The Folly, Icehouse, Folly Creek, Accomac, Accomack County, VA

Significance: The date of erection of this ice house is not known, but it is probably approximately contemporary with the main house which was built in sections between about 1759 and about 1800. It is a circu... More

[Swift Creek area, Chesterfield and Prince George Counties, Virginia] ...

The Folly, Dovecote, Folly Creek, Accomac, Accomack County, VA

Significance: The date of erection of this dovecot is not known, but it is probably somewhat later than the main house which was built in stages between about 1759 and about 1800. It is a simple, wood structur... More

[Map of a portion of Feliciana District, Spanish West Florida, along A...

Shows area in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Cadastral map. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink; unfinished. Watermarks: W Elgar 1797 and horn in a shield surmounted by a crown over the let... More

[Map of area from Rio Iberville to Thompson's Creek along the Mississi...

Cadastral map. Some unclaimed lots also shown. Relief shown by hachures. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Watermarks: J Whatman 1803, D & C Blauw, and letters D C B... More

Lower Falls of Solomon's Creek [N.Y.?]

Upper Falls of Solomon's Creek

Illus. in: The Portfolio Magazine, 1809, v. 2. Reference copy may be in LOT 4385E. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Waterfalls; Shelf. Sources checked: Li... More

A profile of the ground between Fort Green on the Jacksons hill southe...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 539" on verso. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of Congress... More

[Prof]ile of the surface of the ground [at Cobble H]ill Fort on Brokly...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "B: Cobble Hill Fort, C: Mr Bergens hill." "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 538" on verso. Copy imperfect: Lower right corner a... More

Proposals for publishing by subscription the life of Major General And...

On verso: 2-90.244.20. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 174, Folder 4a.

Rough sketches of the Creek Country : [Alabama].

Shows unspecified Creek Indian territory in Alabama. Title from verso. Pen-and-ink. On verso in pencil at upper left: Catalogued W. Imperfect: Fold-lined, mounted on paper, mounted on cloth, edged with cloth ta... More

Articles of agreement between The United States of America and the Chi...

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their statement at Fort Strother o...

Shows Alabama and Georgia from the Tombigbee River in the west to the southern Great Smoky Mountains and the Savannah River in the east and indicating U.S. Army forts in that region. Relief shown by hachures. T... More

Proposals for publishing by subscription, the life of Major General An...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 191, Folder 3b. Copy scanned: 1

A solemn Tragedy. Tune of the Batten Kill mourners. Lines composed on ...

Title.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 177, Folder 15.

Young's Mill on the Brandywine Creek / J.R. Smith.

One of a series of 4 views of Young's Mill Rockland on the Brandywine Creek about 2 miles above Duponts Powder Mills. Title from item. Signed on verso: J.R. Smith. Inscribed lower center : North West view. Phil... More

McIntosh. A Creek chief

Head and shoulders, facing right. Lithograph by McKenney & Hall. Illus. in: History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Philadelphia, 1838. Reference copy may be in Biog File. This record contains unverified... More

Me-Na-Wa. A Creek warrior

Half length, facing left. Lithograph by McKenney & Hall. Illus. in: History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Philadelphia, 1838. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old d... More

Opothle Yoholo A Creek chief / / Drawn printed & coloured at I.T. Bowe...

Print shows portrait of Opothle Yoholo in traditional dress from painting by Charles Bird King for History of the Indian tribes of North America... / By Thomas L. M'Kenney and James Hall, 1836-1844. Title from item.

Minutes of the regular Baptist association; held at Apple Creek church...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 16, Folder 25.

[Fort Edward to Putnam's Creek, incidents of the French War.

[Ancient Indian burial mounds. Moundsville, W.Va.] Great Mound at Grav...

Engraving by J.W. Orr. Illus. in: Squier & Davis, Ancient Monuments..., 1848. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: W.Va. Moundsv... More

Paper-Mill tract : [on Rock Creek, N.W. Washington D.C.].

Partial cadastral survey map showing mill, cistern, millrace, dam, and associated features. Pen-and-ink and lead pencil. Soiled, torn, fold-lined, missing sections at edges, and mounted on cloth backing. Inclu... More

Map of the property of the Western Mining & Manufacturing Co. situate ...

Shows the names of some residents. Date taken from LC jacket note. Oriented with north toward bottom. Copy imperfect: Very brittle, losses along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as... More

Potomac River from Aquia Creek Virginia

Drawing shows the Potomac River, as seen from Aquia Creek in Virginia. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Foreign Office to the United States in 1853. Originally 1 of 37 drawings in portfolios with bind... More

White seaman and cold. [e.g. colored] man on board steamboat on Potoma...

Sketch shows side-view portraits of a white seaman and an African American man aboard the steamboat that Wallis took from Washington, DC to Aquia Creek, Virginia. Wallis was a British Commissioner from the Fore... More

[Survey of the original landholdings in Washington D.C. in the area bo...

Important to travelers going South from Washington. Richmond, Frederic...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 186, Folder 45a.

[Survey of the original landholdings in Washington D.C. in the area bo...

Cadastral map showing tracts dated 1687 thru 1794 of which 3 are named "Port Royal," "Gleanings," and "Youngsborough." "The annexed plat ... made by Order of the Hon. the Judges of the Circuit Court ... accordi... More

The war in China - attack on the "Banterer's" boat in Sai-Lau Creek, C...

Opium War. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1858 March 6, p. 233. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; China Hist. 1858; Opium War.

Profile of Olive Street between Washington Street and Rock Creek : [Ge...

Angeline Pettry, with her mother, Mrs. Absalom Pettry, of Hazy Creek.

Event: Historic photo. This photo was loaned by Glenna Bailey, who remembers Angeline Pettry as a close friend. Angeline, who was elderly when Glenna was a girl growing up in Stringtown (a section of Edwight), ... More

The gold mining town of Rock Creek, British Columbia, 1860

Photograph shows a cluster of log buildings, one identified as a restaurant, of the gold mining town, Rock Creek, British Columbia, as seen from a hillside above the town, with the creek in the background. Titl... More

The sons of New Jersey, composed at Dividing Creek, by F. B. Johnson, ...

[West front of the United States Capitol, with the new cast-iron dome ...

Vintage salt print from the personal photographic album of Montgomery Meigs. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Canals; Greenhouses.

Angeline Pettry, Hazy Creek

Event: Historic photo. This photo was loaned by Glenna Bailey, who remembers Angeline Pettry as a close friend. Angeline, who was elderly when Glenna was a girl growing up in Stringtown (a section of Edwight), ... More

Sublet Mine No. 6, Housing Unit No. 2, East side of Willow Creek Valle...

Sketch no. 4 of roads between H.-Q. 10th Army Corps and Swift Creek on...

Sketch map of eastern Chesterfield County (Va.) north of Petersburg showing Civil War fortifications, batteries, headquarters, roads, railroads, settlements, farms with occupants' names, vegetation, and streams... More

Dividing Creek volunteers. Tune- " Joe Browers." Johnson, Printer, 7 N...

The charge of the First Iowa Regiment, with General Lyon at its head, ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 11, 1861 Aug. 31, p. 244.

Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861 Aug. 24. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

View of battlefield. Peach Tree Creek, Ga.

Part of Brady-Handy Collection. Title from item. Published in: Barnard, George N., Photographic views of Sherman's campaign. New York: Dover Publishers, 1977, E475.97 .B32 1977. Hand written on verso: Similar t... More

Government bakery, Stoneman's Station, Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh R...

Photograph shows overhead view of the facility with several people standing outside.

Potomac Creek Bridge - Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek and Fredericksburg R....

No. B457. Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Hunting Creek Bridge, near Alexandria, Va.

No. B183. Title from item. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. 4, page 325 ( The barracks at Giesboro, Wash., D.C.)" Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under c...

Partial cadastral map showing selected buildings and householders' names beyond city limits. Covers area extending from Mt. Gilead Church in west to Decatur in east and from Buckhead in north to East Point in s... More

Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Landing, Va.

No. 446. Title from item. Alternate title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil Wa... More

Potomac Creek bridge - Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Railroad built by U. ...

No. 4071. Similar photograph in LOT 9209, no. 13, also taken by Andrew J. Russell. Title from item. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, Mechanicsville, Hanover County, VA

Significance: 1) Union Maj. Gen. Fitz-John Porter's Fifth Army Corps held a partially entrenched line north of the Chickahominy River behind Beaver Dam Creek with Brig. Gen. McCall's Division, about 9,500 men i... More

Military railroad bridge across Chattanooga Creek, L8536

Copyright by John C. Taylor. Title from item. Hand written on verso: "Miller, II, 314-15".

Position of Union Army at Cedar Creek Union position and plan of battl...

However, what initially appeared to be an overwhelming success quickly turned to a rout when the Union forces were redeployed and launched a successful counterattack that drove the Confederates back across th... More

John C. Fremont to Simon Cameron, Tuesday, August 13, 1861 (Telegram ...

[Two sketches on one sheet of the road from Huntersville, W. Va. along...

Relief shown by hachures. Title and date from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on blue paper, mounted between sheets of transparent paper. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H79 Map in pencil... More

Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 15, no. 367 (1862 Oct. 11), p. 33.

The War in Virginia - rebuilding railway bridge over Goose Creek, near...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1862 May 10, p. 41. Reference copy in LOT 4420B.

Aquia Creek, on the Potomac, new base of supplies of the Army of the P...

Illus. from: Harper's weekly, 1862 Dec. 6, p. 779.

Antietam, Maryland. Battlefield near Sherrick's house where the 79th N...

Sketch of proposed defences for the depot at Aquia Creek /

Preliminary chart of Calibogue Sound and Skull Creek forming inside pa...

Scale 1:40,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 368a.4 From its Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of the survey during the year 1862 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1... 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

Plan of the Battle of Mechanicsville or Beaverdam Creek, Virginia : fo...

Shows the area of Hanover County near Beaverdam Creek, oriented with the Chickahominy River to the south and the Mechanicsville Road to the north. Here, on the second day of the Seven Days' Battles, the Confede... More

Map showing position Union and Rebel armies 2 p.m. 30th June : and the...

Shows the area of Henrico County between Richmond and New Market, in which occurred the Battle of White Oak Swamp, one of the Seven Day's Battles.

Evacuation of Aquia Creek / negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. positive by A...

Photograph showing ships loaded with supplies in Aquia Creek. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 33. Copyright... More

Bridge at Acquia [sic] Creek

Title inscribed below image. Inscription continues after title: burned by rebels in 1863, when the line was given up by the Union troops. This replaced a temporary structure made by the army in 40 hours. Inscri... More

[Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia (vicinity)]. Group at Captain W.S. Hall...

Stoneman's Station, Acquia Creek, Va.

This record contains unverified data from shelflist.

Captain Theron E. Hall, A.Q.M., Acquia Creek, Va., February 1863

Standing, full lgth., facing left. Civil War Collection. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 2080. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: CW BI; BI... More

Topography of the north side of Hunting Creek near Alexandria, Va. /

Relief shown by contours and hachures. At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt. "Copied from the Archives of the U.S. Coast Survey for Gen. J.G. Barnard. [Signed] J.E. Hilgard, Asst. Coast Survey... More

[Fort Sumter. Vincents Creek. Battery Gregg]

Group of officers at Acquia Creek, February, 1863

Ten Union officers posed in front of building. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 7355.

Map of supplementary reconnaissance of the approaches to Philadelphia ...

Topographic map showing Civil War earthworks and batteries. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Authorship statement citing Whiting's name is in handwriting (black ink). Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), ... More

Route of the late expedtion [sic] commanded by Act'g. Rear Admiral D. ...

Scale ca. 1:215,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 295 "The shaded bayou shows the route actually travelled by the gun boats. The doted line shows the remaining proposed route." Indicates the location of bridges... More

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Supply boats at the wharf

[Captain James William Forsyth, Provost Marshall of 18th Regular Army ...

Title devised by Library staff. Associated negative: LC-B811-214. Caption on negative sleeve: Capt. J. W. Forsyth, Provost Marshall, Aquia Creek, Feb. 1863.

Group at Commissary Depot, Acquia [i.e. Aquia] Creek Landing, Va., Feb...

Photographs shows General John H. H. Ward and a group gathered near a railcar and a stack of wooden boxes. No. 7040. Title from item. Alternate title and photographer from Catalogue of photographic incidents of... More

Potomac Creek Bridge, Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh Railroad, April 18...

Photograph shows a truss railroad bridge over Potomac Creek. Title from item.

Provost Marshal's office, Acquia [i.e. Aquia] Creek Landing, Va., Febr...

No. 4208. Title from item. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 46. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Group of Commissary clerks

Battle of Baker's Creek, May 16 - defeat of the rebels under Pemberton...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 16, no. 402 (1863 June 13), p. 180.

Evacuation of Acquia (i.e. Aquia) Creek Landing, Va., June 1863

No. 4213. Title from item. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 33. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Aquia Creek, Virginia. Group standing in front of hospital

Acquia Creek landing. Depot of supplies for the Army of the Potomac

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1918:R1.1.134) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Railroad train crossing Potomac Creek bridge

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.208) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Group of officers: Col. [Rogers], Lt. C...

[Potomac Creek Bridge, Aquia Creek & Fredericksburgh [sic] Railroad, A...

Photograph shows several men at the construction site of the Potomac Creek Bridge. E.C. Sneed is seated at right. Title and caption information taken from another view, LOT 11486-H, no. 8.

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. View of wharf

Group at transportation office, Aquia Creek, Va.

Cavalry outpost, near Potomac Creek. Daybreak on a cold morning

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.162) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. View from Commissary Department

Head of Potomac Creek

Battle of Wilson's Creek - fall of Genl. Lyon

Nathaniel Lyon falling from horse after being shot in the Civil War, Wilson's Creek, Mo., Aug. 10, 1861. Engraving by H.B. Hall. Drawing by F.O.C. Darley. In: Abbott, The Civil War, vol. 1, p. 275 (E468.A135). ... More