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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Albany, Delaware County, Indiana.

Mar 1920. 5 Sheet(s). Indiana fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability.... More

Wessel Van Schaick House, Van Schaick Avenue & Delaware & Hudson Railr...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-173 Survey number: HABS NY-3121 Building/structure dates: after 1750 Initial Construction

Governor William H. Ross House, State Route 543, Seaford, Sussex Count...

Significance: This fine Italianate villa was built for Gov. William H. Ross when he left office. During his administration, Gov. Ross encouraged legislation to establish the Delaware Railroad, from which, as a... More

State of New Jersey. An act to regulate the fisheries in the river Del...

Imprint 2. Page Order: Multipage 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 99, Folder 15.

Bonsall House, 1009 Main Street, Darby, Delaware County, PA

Survey number: HABS PA-127 Building/structure dates: 1745 Initial Construction

John Richardson House, 15 Race Street, Richardson Park, Wilmington, Ne...

Significance: The Richardson House is one of the best preserved examples of early 18th-century domestic architecture extant in Delaware. The building retains numerous interior and exterior details which are ex... 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

Peter Williams House, Pencader Hundred, southwest corner of intersecti...

Significance: The Peter Williams House represents one of the last remaining early nineteenth-century brick dwelling houses in northern New Castle County. Its location at the intersection of Routes 71 and 72 pl... More

Wilmington & Northern Railroad, Repair Shop, Beech Street, Wilmington,...

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

Swanwyck, 65 Landers Lane, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Survey number: HABS DE-48 Building/structure dates: 1820 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000387

By the president of the Delaware State a proclamation [to prevent clan...

Proclamation.; Imprint 3. 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 13, Folder 30.

Old Customs House, King at Sixth Street, Wilmington, New Castle County...

Significance: Of national significance, not only because of its design, the recognized talents of its architect, but also for its role in the development of fire proof architecture and cast iron technology. Hou... More

Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of Ne...

Signatures: [A]² B-D²; horizontal chain lines. Followed by the letter of transmittal to the states: In Congress, November 17, 1777; recommendations to the legislatures relating to taxes etc.: In Congress, Novem... More

Georgetown Post Office, 2 The Circle, Georgetown, Sussex County, DE

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[Circular letter seeking assistance for a proposed column to commemora...

Folded and in original envelope. Removed from the Papers of Thomas F. Bayard.; On verso, Piece 1: Gift Mrs. William S. Hilles 1933. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facs... More

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Locktender's House, North of Hamilton, East ...

Significance: Housed lock tender and family. The lock tender was responsible for operation, inspection, and general maintenance of Lock #13 of the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Survey number: HAER NJ-60-B Buil... More

Locust Grove, 749 Middletown-Odessa Road (Delaware State Route 299), M...

Significance: The farmhouse at Locust Grove was built in two phases during a prosperous and dynamic period in the history of southern New Castle County and, specifically, St. Georges Hundred. The first section... More

Snowland (Interiors), Route 42, Leipsic, Kent County, DE

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Delaware State House, East side of The Green, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: State House built in 1787-92 using brick from the previous 1722 State House for its foundations. Served as State House from 1792 to 1932 and as Kent County Courthouse from 1792 to 1873. Heavily ... More

Delaware State House, East side of The Green, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: State House built in 1787-92 using brick from the previous 1722 State House for its foundations. Served as State House from 1792 to 1932 and as Kent County Courthouse from 1792 to 1873. Heavily ... More

Causey House, 2 Causey Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, DE

Significance: Built in the mid eighteenth century in the Georgian style, this house was owned by the Crapper family who owned most of south Milford's land. It was later owned by Gov. Daniel Rogers and Gov. Pet... More

General diagram : [western Philadelphia city and adjacent portions of ...

Topographic map showing proposed and existing Civil-War batteries and defensive positions immediately west of Philadelphia. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Title from southern sheet. Partial tracing of t... More

House, U.S. Route 1 vicinity (moved to Bacton), Concordville, Delaware...

Significance: The house was dismantled by John D. Milner for the owner, Hugh Peeling, who donated the house to the Chester County Historical Society. The house was placed in storage until 1974, when it was reas... More

Joseph Tatnall House, 1803 North Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle...

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By his excellency Caesar Rodney, Esq; president, Captain-general and c...

Proclamation.; Imprint 3. 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 13, Folder 29.

Morton Mortensen House, Winona Avenue & Amosland Road, Norwood, Delawa...

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

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Gas House, 10...

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

William H. Ward House, North side of Road 244, .25 mile east of Road 2...

Significance: The William H. Ward house is an example of the single-pile, hall-parlor-plan house type utilized in Delaware from the middle seventeenth century, persisting in the lower regions of the state throu... More

New City-County Building, 800 French Street, Wilmington, New Castle Co...

Significance: Wlimington's City/County Building and its neighbors have set the tone for future development within the City. The building is part of a new Governmental and Civic Center, and an example of the su... More

Delaware & Hudson Canal, Delaware Aqueduct Toll House, Minisink Ford, ...

Significance: In 1908, Charles Spruks bought the defunct Delaware Aqueduct for use as a bridge between his lands in Sullivan County and timber customers in Pennsylvania. As a side business, he built a tollhous... More

Rose Cottage, 102 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Cathedral Church of St. John, Concord Avenue & North Market Street, Wi...

Significance: This is the last documented church design produced by Notman, and is a fine example of the Early English gothic style. It was commissioned by Alexis I. duPont as a memorial to his brother-in-law,... More

Morgan Farmhouse, Matsons Ford Road (Radnor Township), Radnor, Delawar...

Significance: This eighteenth century fieldstone farmhouse is in almost its original condition. Survey number: HABS PA-1004 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760- ca. 1770 Initial Construction

In case. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esqrs. Plaintiffs. ...

In case. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esqrs. Plaintiffs. ...

In case. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esqrs. Plaintiffs. ...

In case. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esqrs. Plaintiffs. ...

In case. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esqrs. Plaintiffs. ...

The Maid of the Delaware - Public domain American sheet music, 1879

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Pretty birds, that Addie loved

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Cochran Grange, Threshing Barn, U.S. Route 301, West of Route 71, Midd...

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Fellow-citizens read this. Sept. 7, 1827. We do hereby certify, that s...

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 13, Folder 40b.

State of New Jersey. An act for erecting the lower part of the county ...

Page Order: Leaflet 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 99, Folder 31.

True copies of I. The agreement between Lord Baltimore and Messieurs P...

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Pennsylvania & New Jersey Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning De...

Significance: Because of its location on the lower Delaware River, the bridge has a collection of extremely long and heavy spans. These include the world's heaviest center-bearing swing span, completed in 1896,... More

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...

Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More

Alexander Wilson Agricultural Works Complex, County Route 4, Pencader ...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...

Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between Maryland/Delaware & ...

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thompson's Bridge, Spanning Brandywine River on Delaware State Route 9...

Significance: Thompson's Bridge is a multiple span, highly ornamental example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge; this type commonly was constructed by the State Highway Department during the period 1925... More

Milford Ice & Coal Company, 18 Maple Avenue, Milford, Sussex County, D...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Riverside, West Delaware Street, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-260 Survey number: HABS NJ-318 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction

Riverside, West Delaware Street, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-260 Survey number: HABS NJ-318 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction

Harlan & Hollingsworth Company Factory, 100 South West Street, Wilming...

Public domain photograph of diesel or electric train engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harlan & Hollingsworth Company Factory, 100 South West Street, Wilming...

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Exhibit of the shocking oppression and injustice suffered for sixteen ...

Ascribed to Matthew Carey. Cf. J.M. Finotti. Bibl. Cath. Amer. 1872. p. 285. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Pensylvania, Nova Jersey et Nova York cum regionibus ad Fluvium Delawa...

Relief shown pictorially. Also covers New England (distorted) and northern Chesapeake region. Title in Latin; notes in German and Latin; legend in Latin, German, and English. Unidentified meridian. Provinces in... More

A map of Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, and the three Delaware cou...

Scale ca. 1:960,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. LC copy imperfect: Lower left corner missing. Shows trails. Includes descriptive... More

Plano de Philadelphia. Historic map, Library of Congress nautical char...

Scale ca. 1:220,000. Manuscript, pen and ink. Copied from Joshua Fishers' "To the merchants & insurers of the city of Philadelphia, this chart of Delaware Bay and river." Depths shown in fathoms. Oriented with ... More

To the merchants and other inhabitants of Pennsylvania. [Recommending ...

Positive Photostat. 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 143, Folder 18.

[Map of the country between and bordering the Delaware River and Chesa...

Scale ca. 1:670,000. Title from P. L. Phillips' List of maps of America. Manuscript, pen and ink and pencil. Label on verso has title: Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey showing roads. LC M... More

[The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting...

Scale ca. 1:32,400. Title from the author's The course of Delaware River ... 1778. Manuscript, pen-and-ink (black and red) and watercolor. Shows soundings, disposition of ships, etc. Names "Fort Mifflin" and "F... More

To the American Philosophical Society, this map of the peninsula betwe...

A map of the state of Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland : wit...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the right. Includes illustrations. Includes testimonial from pilots to the left of title, dated October 20th 1801. LC copy sectioned i... More

Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, topographical view /

Scale ca. 1:120,000. From the 5th general report of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, 1824. Includes "Profile or vertical section." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster i... More

A map of the state of Virginia : reduced from the nine sheet map of th...

Covers also Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and southern Pennsylvania. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress, the 31st day of October 1827 by W.B. Giles, Governor ... More

The tourist's guide through the states of Maryland, Delaware and part ...

General map showing drainage, relief by hachures, place names, roads, canals, and railroads. Road distances between towns are given at right top and left side of map.

Delaware and Maryland Historic map, Library of Congress

General content state map hand colored to distinguish counties. Hundred (township) names printed in Delaware portion. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J. H. Co... More

Bayard, Honorable Jas. A., Senator of Del.

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Co...

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by W. Schaus in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of New York." Insets: [Lower Mississippi Valley] -- [Richmo... More

Map of the state of Virginia - Public domain old map

"August 1863." "Lith. by Chas. G. Krebs." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia / compiled in the office of the United States Coast Survey. Washington, D.C. : W.H. & O.H. Morrison : 15 x 10 cm. Also covers Dela... More

Johnson's Virginia, Delaware, Maryland & West Virginia

"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864, by A.J. Johnson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New Includes ill. of "Fortress Monroe," "Ge... More

Johnson's Virginia, Delaware and Maryland

Includes ill. of "Fortress Monroe, Va." Plates 33-34. Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. Shows counties, railroads, and includes some counties of West Vi... More

Foundation screw for light house - stereocsopic card

Stereograph shows foundation screw with man standing next to it. Made for Jere. P. Smith, Act'g. Eng'r. 6th L. H. Dist., by J. Morton Poole & Co., Engineers and Machinists, Wilmington, Delaware.

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Washington and other men on horseback; soldiers on foot and on boats. Engraving by Duthie of drawing by Darley for Washington Irving, Life of George Washington. Gift; L.M. Rabinowitz; 1948 Jan. 5.

Delaware River above gap - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Kittatinny Hotel [i.e. House], Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Earl Kelly, 116 E. 2% [i.e., 2nd?] Street. 9 years of age. Selling pap...

Picryl description: Public domain portrait of a child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

All are workers in the Ross Cannery, Seaford, Del. The smallest girl s...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Where the newsboy's money goes. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Street trades. Hine no. 1523. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

John Towers, 627 S. Connell Street. Postal Telegraph Company, Messenge...

In album: Street trades. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 1511A. Hine no. 1512. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inf... More

Picking peaches, Delaware - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpap...

No. 29445. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Central position of the south front of the Delaware County Courthouse,...

J 10436 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Henry F. Dupont, residence in Winterthur, Delaware. Swimming pool pavi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Monterey, Icehouse, State Road 423, East of Route 13, McDonough, New C...

Survey number: HABS DE-207-E Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction

New Castle-Frenchtown Railroad Ticket Office, Washington Avenue Crossi...

Survey number: HABS DE-104 Building/structure dates: 1832 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1908

New Castle, Delaware. Narrow and wide house, E. 3rd St.

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New Castle, Delaware. Yellow houses I, E. 3rd St

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New Castle, Delaware. Narrow and wide house, E. 3rd St

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Shelter at Strawberry Point, Asawomen Bay, Delaware. Land use project

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc... More

Press tent and Roosevelt-Dupont wedding. Wilmington, Del., July 1. The...

A black and white photo of a group of people sitting outside of a tent, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Har... More

Soldiers guard Dupont home. Wilmington, Del. July 1. A cordon of soldi...

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Man in front of the drugstore. Dover, Delaware

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Main street building. Dover, Delaware

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Graveyard. Dover, Delaware. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Farmland along the upper Delaware River in New York state

12002-47. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Add... More

The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon Comp...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

A black and white photo of people in a field, possibly related to: Mig...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Camp for migratory agricultural workers at Staytonville, Delaware. The...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wilmington, Delaware. Tower Hill School, noted country day school for ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More