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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

Indian lodge at Medicine Creek, Kansas--scene of the late Indian peace...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Nov. 16., p. 724.

Shaw's unusual round sod house with thatched roof in Cherry County, Ne...

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An Autumn pathway, zoo park [Rock Creek], Washington, D.C.

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Group of Cannery Workers, School #1, Buffalo, N.Y. (from left to right...

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Mother of family camped near a creek bed, panning for gold. "Slept in ...

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Corn shocks on mountain farm up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt ...

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Mountain woman by her home up Stinking Creek, Pine Mountain, Kentucky

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Aerial view of Catenary Coal's Samples Mine, a Mountaintop Removal pro...

Event: Helicopter tour of Coal River and Mountaintop Removal Sites. In the 1990s, mountaintop removal and reclamation became the mining method of choice for coal operators in central Appalachia. Mountaintop rem... More

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Makepeace, Johnson Creek vicinity, Crisfield, Somerset County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-698 Building/structure dates: before 1700 Initial Construction

Camp Hofnung, Infirmary, Old Easton Road at Tohickon Creek, Pipersvill...

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Waddell "A" Truss Bridge, Spanning Lin Branch Creek, Trimble, Clinton ...

The address was changed to reflect that the bridge was moved from its original location (Spanning Linn Branch Creek, Trimble vicinity, Clinton County, Missouri) to Parkville, Missouri, in 1987. (March 2016) Si... More

El Paso Lode, Adjacent to Highway 67, .5 mile east of Cripple Creek, C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a coal mine, mining, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hawthorne Ditch, North side of Rapid Creek, Rapid City, Pennington Cou...

Significance: The Hawthorne Ditch is significant for its association with the development of irrigated agriculture in South Dakota. The ditch is a representative example of irrigation systems constructed, main... More

Woodward Coal & Iron Company Furnace, Opossum Creek vicinity, Woodward...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: The Woodward Iron Company established the first iron furnace in the Bessemer area, and began operation of its first furnace in 1883. The Company later expanded t... More

Belleville, North River & Belleville Creek vicinity, Ware Neck, Glouce...

Significance: Belleville is located on one of the earliest land grants in America. It was formerly the home of the Taliaferro and Booth families. The site has been used for a homesite continuously over its th... More

Rosewell, Carter Creek, White Marsh, Gloucester County, VA

Significance: Building in 1725. Begun by Mann Page. Ruinous. Brick, Portland Stone trim. Survey number: HABS VA-61 Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Indian Timothy Memorial Bridge, U.S. Route 12 spanning Alpowa Creek, S...

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Day book for Isaac Shelby's company station, Beaver Creek, Southwest V...

Vermont Covered Bridge, Highland Park, spanning Kokomo Creek at West e...

Significance: Typical example of the Smith patented truss system used extensively throughout the Midwest. Survey number: HAER IN-30 Building/structure dates: 1874-1875 Initial Construction Building/structure... More

Grand Ditch, Baker Creek to LaPoudre Pass Creek, Grand Lake, Grand Cou...

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Rock Creek Station, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroad, R...

Survey number: HABS WY-55

Humpback Covered Bridge, Humpback Bridge Wayside Park, spanning Dunlap...

Significance: The Humpback Covered Bridge was built for the James River & Kanawha Turnpike and is one of the early turnpikes through the Alleghany region of Virginia. It is the oldest bridge in Virginia, and t... More

Humpback Covered Bridge, Humpback Bridge Wayside Park, spanning Dunlap...

Significance: The Humpback Covered Bridge was built for the James River & Kanawha Turnpike and is one of the early turnpikes through the Alleghany region of Virginia. It is the oldest bridge in Virginia, and t... More

Rev. William McCaslin house, known as the "Preacher Home," in Rose Va...

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Langhron, Victoria Creek, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: "One of the early settlers, known far and near." Note his dugout toward the upper left of the frame original size: 6x8

A strawberry field on Rock Creek, near Baltimore. Whites and negroes, ...

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Sentinel Rock at the mouth of Waweap Creek / E.C.L.

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Car fording creek up Morris Fork of the Kentucky River. Kentucky

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Log cabin playhouses built by Ivan Jarrell's nephews on Rock Creek

We visited Ivan Jarrell's property at the head of Dry Creek in early spring, when the coves were coming to life with wildflowers, greening trees, and blooming dogwoods, redbuds, spicebush, and the songs of bird... More

Dark water in drainage ditch at the head of Right-Hand Fork of Rock Cr...

Event: Visit to Toxic Leak on Rock Creek. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Skiff's Creek House, Skiff's Creek vicinity, Williamsburg, Williamsbur...

Survey number: HABS VA-407 Building/structure dates: 17t1 Initial Construction

Stevens Creek Bridge, Spanning Stevens Creek on Stevens Canyon Highway...

Significance: The Stevens Creek Bridge represents a transition in the park road bridges from standard reinforced concrete arches to arched girder designs. Its stone facing is characteristic of the National Par... More

Eames Covered Bridge, Spanning Henderson Creek, Oquawka, Henderson Cou...

Significance: The bridge was probably built ca. 1861. The span of 104 feet is carried by means of a Howe truss with a segmental arch. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-53 Survey n... More

Dome in the Desert, Grapevine Road, Cave Creek, Maricopa County, AZ

1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: "The Dome in the Desert" built in 1949, coined its name from its shape and it function. The historical significance of this structure is the idea... More

Osage Creek Bridge, Spanning Osage Creek at County Road 71, Healing Sp...

Significance: The Osage Creek is an excellent Arkansan example of a Pratt through truss bridge. Constructed by an unknown builder in the early twentieth century, its economy of materials and proven structural ... More

Ohio & Erie Canal, Tinker's Creek Aqueduct, Canal Road, South Tinkers ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HAER OH-59-F Building/structure dates: 1826 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000607

Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge, Town park south of Rout...

Significance: The Avery-Bartholomew Patent Railroad Iron Bridge in Groton, New York, is a single-span tied arch iron bridge incorporating railroad rails for its upper and lower chords. The bridge is one of a v... More

Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church, 1 block North of SC Route 17, McPher...

Significance: Stoney Creek Presbyterian Church is architecturally significant as an antebellum Greek Revival Church with later 19th century alterations and as a summer chapel for low-country planters. Rectangul... More

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia. Distant view of Federal supply depot

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Mount Evans Crest House, State Route 5, Mount Evans summit, Arapaho Na...

Significance: The Mt. Evans Crest House represents the highest business structure in the United States. Located at the summit of Mt. Evans, at 14,260 feet, this structure is one of the oldest architectural feat... More

Frank Slaven Roadhouse, Yukon River at Coal Creek, Circle, Yukon-Koyuk...

Significance: The Frank Slaven Roadhouse was built in about 1930 to take advantage of traffic along the Yukon River, as well as up Coal Creek, where there was an active mining district in the 1930s. Like many ... More

Mushroom rock on Alum Creek, Kansas, 7 miles east of Fort Harker & 496...

No. 130. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his pho... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 3 Penstock Standpipes, Big ...

Significance: Three of the four powerhouse no. 3 penstock standpipes were constructed in 1923 during the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Their significance derives from association with th... More

Bridge over Bird Creek, Spanning Bird Creek, Avant, Osage County, OK

Significance: The bridge over Bird Creek at Avant is one of the earliest overhead truss bridges of known construction date and known construction company in the State of Oklahoma. Survey number: HAER OK-2 Bui... More

Sandgates on Cat Creek, East of Oakville on State Route 472, Oakville,...

Survey number: HABS MD-874 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740- ca. 1780 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1961-1965 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78003179

Jackson Covered Bridge, Spanning Sugar Creek, CR 775N (Changed from S...

Burr truss, 1 span, 207' Significance: The Jackson Bridge was built in 1861 by J.J. Daniels. It spans Sugar Creek and is of double Burr construction. It has survived all major floods. This includes the flood... More

[Sugar Creek refinery], gelatin silver print

J129816 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); July 29, 1909. Title derived from copyright deposit records. No. B.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Cades Cove Road &...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is representative of NPS park road design and landscape planning throughout the country. Much of the conservation work was underta... More

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

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

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

Rehabilitation client's children fishing in creek. Cherokee County, Ka...

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Reeds Creek, Centerville vic., Queen Anne County, Maryland

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Safe of old mining company. Two Bit Creek, near Deadwood, South Dakota

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Mountaineers hauling coal up the creek bed to their homes. Morris Fork...

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Willamette National Forest, Lane County, Oregon. Salt Creek

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[Fern Canyon is a canyon in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in H...

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Fort Custer Military Reservation, P-67 Radar Station, .25 mile north o...

Significance: The Fort Custer P-67 Radar Station is significant because it illustrates the link between World War II technology and the implementation of computer operated SAGE technology. Survey number: HAER MI-87-A

Calliham's Mill, SC Route 138 on Stevens Creek, 2 miles east of Parksv...

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

Heinrich G. Dietz House, Creek & Bowie Streets, Fredericksburg, Gilles...

Survey number: HABS TX-380 Building/structure dates: 1848 Initial Construction

Denver International Airport Site, Between Fifty-sixth & 128th Avenues...

Significance: The Denver International Airport site has a Euroamerican history that can be traced to the early nineteenth century. Today, cultural remains and archival information exist to explain and interpre... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...

Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More

East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...

Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More

East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, ...

Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine. Survey number: HAER MA-65 Buildin... More

Sandgates on Cat Creek, East of Oakville on State Route 472, Oakville,...

Survey number: HABS MD-874 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740- ca. 1780 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1961-1965 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78003179

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Acequias of San Antonio, Hildebrand Avenue & Minita Creek, San Antonio...

Significance: The Acequias of San Antonio were the Spanish colonial water supply and irrigation systems used to support the region's earliest settlements. Five of the nine acequias were built to supply water t... More

Onion Creek Bridge, Spanning Onion Creek .1 mile South of U.S. 166, Co...

Significance: From the National Register nomination: "The bridge is unique in that it is one of only two vertical end post Parker trusses in Kansas, and retains a high degree of its integrity. It is also uniqu... More

Presidio Water Treatment Plant, Filtration Plant, East of Lobos Creek ...

Survey number: HAER CA-155-E Building/structure dates: 1912 Initial Construction

Fort Zeller, Mill Creek (Millcreek Township), Newmanstown, Lebanon Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-109 Survey number: HABS PA-141 Building/structure dates: 1745 Initial Construction

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Cades Cove Road &...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is representative of NPS park road design and landscape planning throughout the country. Much of the conservation work was underta... More

E. Sugar Creek, Bradford Co. - Public domain old map

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

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

St. Peter's dome, Colorado, C.S. & C.C. [i.e. Colorado Springs & Cripp...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Wissahickon Creek and drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Prospector taking a sample of dirt from creek bed which contains scatt...

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Prospector examining rock formation along creek bed which contains gol...

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German-Russian farmers waiting to vote in presidential election, Novem...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Memorial marker at a church in Buffalo Creek, listing the victims and ...

Event: Ceremony at Buffalo Creek Memorial on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster and the 20th Anniversary of the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). The Pittston Coal Comp... More

Rock Creek Water Tower, Junction of Rock Creek & Union Pacific Railroa...

Significance: The Rock Creek Water Tower is the best preserved of six extant structures of a late 19th-century town that flourished during the early days of the trans-continental railroad. Once a center for t... More

Makepeace, Johnson Creek vicinity, Crisfield, Somerset County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-698 Building/structure dates: before 1700 Initial Construction

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Big Creek Town, Operator House, Orchar...

Significance: Operator house (building 105) was one of four operator houses built in Cascada (later Big Creek) adjacent to Powerhouse No. 1 in 1912-1913. These were the first permanent operator houses in the B... More

Heckert Oil Pumping Jack, 0.6 mile North of Connoquenessing Creek, 0.1...

Significance: Historically significant as a relatively rare survivor of the early-twentieth-century oil industry in southwestern Pennsylvania; manufactured by a short-lived, small manufacturing division of the ... More

Foster Gulch Mine, Bear Creek 1 mile Southwest of Town of Bear Creek, ...

Significance: The mines were part of the Montana Coal and Iron Company operations. The underground workings were connected to the Smith No. 3 mine where 74 men died in Montana's worst coal mine disaster in 1943... More

Weaverland Bridge, Quarry Road spanning Conestoga Creek, Terre Hill, L...

Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Weaverland Bridge, built in 1916m, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the State of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type... More

Mary _____________, a Polish girl and her mother, picking berries on B...

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

Bridge over Little Pine Creek, State Route 1026 over Little Pine Creek...

Significance: The bridge is an early example of a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge, noteworthy for its modern method of construction, and unusual shape and design. The two ribs of the arch and the ... More

Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser ...

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Bishop Creek Hydroelectric System, Plant 4, Worker Cottage, Bishop Cre...

Significance: Building 117, Plant 4 (formerly Building No. 24, Plant 4), is significant because of its contribution to an understanding of the historic character of the physical and social environment of the Pl... More

Standard Gold Mill, East of Bodie Creek, Northeast of Bodie, Bodie, Mo...

Significance: The Standard mill is significant as an intact example of the "model California stamp mill" that developed from the flowering of nineteenth-century developments in mining and milling technologies i... More

Creek Chiefs to Alexander Arbuthnot, June 17, 1817

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, Meadville Repair Shops, Between Fre...

See also HAER PA-13 for additional documentation. Includes photographs. Survey number: HAER PA-11

Boat crew of the "Trilobite" at Diamond Creek.

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Humpback Covered Bridge, Humpback Bridge Wayside Park, spanning Dunlap...

Significance: The Humpback Covered Bridge was built for the James River & Kanawha Turnpike and is one of the early turnpikes through the Alleghany region of Virginia. It is the oldest bridge in Virginia, and t... More

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 Antietam - Taking of the Bridge on Antietam Creek

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US History Civil War, 1861-1865; Shelf. Maryland.