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[Soldiers, other people, and tents of Confederates outside of Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia]

[Soldiers, other people, and tents of Confederates outside of Libby Pr...

No. 1875. Public domain photograph related to Confederate States of America, American Civil War, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Industrial school for boys (Michigan Vocational School for Boys), Lansing, Mich.]

[Industrial school for boys (Michigan Vocational School for Boys), Lan...

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

[Libby Prison] - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

[Libby Prison] - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

Stereograph showing a group of people including soldiers standing outside Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Part of series: Views of Richmond and Vicinity, and Mountain Scenery of Virginia and West Va. Forms... More

[Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison]

[Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Richmond, Virginia Side view of Libby Prison]

[Richmond, Virginia Side view of Libby Prison]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Baraki voennopli︠e︡nnykh avstrīĭt︠s︡ev u stant︠s︡īi Kannesemga [Kiappeselga]

Baraki voennopli︠e︡nnykh avstrīĭt︠s︡ev u stant︠s︡īi Kannesemga [Kiappe...

Public domain photograph - prisoners of war, military forces during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

[Stockade at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia] / Photographed and published by Engle & Furlong, Fernandina, Fla.

[Stockade at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia] / Photograp...

Date from Andersonville Civil War Prison / Robert Scott Davis. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010, p. 121. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Miss Naito works in an office at the center

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Lo...

Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Pomona (Calif.). Assembly Center - Boys unloading dishes for the newly arrived evacuees Signal Corps photo

Pomona (Calif.). Assembly Center - Boys unloading dishes for the newly...

In volume: Japanese evacuation photos: Assembly Centers Marysville, Pinedale, Pomona. Blind stamped: Signal Corps U.S. Army. Photo no. "S 107."

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain  drawing

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain drawing

Signed lower right: W.W. Title inscribed below image. On verso study for DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no 14 (A size) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

[Richmond, Virginia Castle Thunder, Cary Street]

[Richmond, Virginia Castle Thunder, Cary Street]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

Libbey (i.e. Libby) Prison from Union Hotel, Richmond

Libbey (i.e. Libby) Prison from Union Hotel, Richmond

Stereograph showing exterior view of the prison with people milling about in the prison yard. A sailing ship is docked behind the prison. No. 873. Part of series: Photographic Incidents of the War. Forms part ... More

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing an exterior view of the site of the Confederate military prison. No. 2726. Part of series: Photographic History: The War for the Union. Printed on verso: War Views. Original glass negative:... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

Tip baraka dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh

Tip baraka dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh

Public domain photograph of Russian Empire, color separation negatives, by Prokudin Gorsky, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Interior. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Full stereo, The War for the Union. Photographic History (No. 2298). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: V... More

O'Connor House, where the Union Officers were imprisoned, under fire, on Broad St. near the Ashley Road, Charleston, S.C.

O'Connor House, where the Union Officers were imprisoned, under fire, ...

Stereograph showing three men near all that remains of a brick chimney in front of the O'Connor house at 180 Broad Street. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. An... More

These inmates of the Amphing [i.e., Ampfing] concentration camp in Germany were recently liberated by U.S. Third Army troops [...] Amphing, Germany / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

These inmates of the Amphing [i.e., Ampfing] concentration camp in Ger...

Men suffering from starvation standing by bunks in a Nazi concentration camp. Signal Corps photo. No. SC 206586.

Castle Thunder Prison, Petersburg [i.e. Richmond] (Andrew J. Russel)

Castle Thunder Prison, Petersburg [i.e. Richmond] (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows soldiers in courtyard, Castle Thunder Prison, Richmond, Virginia. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating pape... More

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain  drawing

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain drawing

Signed lower right: W.W. Title inscribed below image. On verso study for DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no 14 (A size) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

Castle Thunder, Richmond, on Carey, (i.e. Cary) from 19th street

Castle Thunder, Richmond, on Carey, (i.e. Cary) from 19th street

Stereograph showing exterior of a building used by the Confederacy to detain Union soldiers and spies. No. 897. Part of series: Photographic Incidents of the War. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection... More

[Washington, D.C. Adjusting the rope for the execution of Wirz]

[Washington, D.C. Adjusting the rope for the execution of Wirz]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

[Stockade at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia] / Photographed and published by Engle & Furlong, Fernandina, Fla.

[Stockade at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia] / Photograp...

Date from Andersonville Civil War Prison / Robert Scott Davis. Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010, p. 121. Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).

Libby Prison - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

Libby Prison - 19th century Virginia. Stereoscope card.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support wi... More

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: Ellis Island is significant as the primary port of entry into the United States for immigrants during the period 1892-1954. The Ellis Island facility is located in New York Harbor on three small ... More

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Exterior, African American woman standing in foreground. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Stereo, The War for the Union. Photographic History (no. 2300). LC-B811-2300 (half). This record contains ... More

Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865

Home views. No. 15, Rebel prison - 1865

Stereograph shows a bird's-eye or elevated view of Elmira prison camp in New York, with a long line of prisoners standing along the fence with rows of buildings in the background. No. 15. Printed on label: A ... More

Detention pen--on roof of main building, Ellis Island, where emigrants held for deportation may go in fine weather

Detention pen--on roof of main building, Ellis Island, where emigrants...

Illus. in: Quarantine sketches. The Maltine Company, [1902], [p. 18]. Public domain photograph - immigration to the United States, immigrants, Ellis Island, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picry... More

Portland (Ore.) Assembly Center - Complete postal service under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Post Office, was maintained and included regular mail delivery, special, parcel post, money orders and other units

Portland (Ore.) Assembly Center - Complete postal service under the ju...

Japanese American women work in Portland Assembly Center post office. Signal Corps Photo No. 9CA-42-2800-PSF. S 166. Photo from U.S. Army, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. In album: v. 7, p. 610.

Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center enroute to a War Relocation Center / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

Evacuees boarding a special train at Santa Anita (California) Assembly...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - Left-handed and right handed pupils in lower grade class ply their pencils

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - Left-handed and right handed pu...

Japanese American school children work at crowded tables and benches under instruction of teachers in schoolroom in Santa Anita Assembly Center, Arcadia, California. Signal Corps Photo No. 9CA-42-2005-PSF. S 39... More

War Relocation Center, Manzanar, California,  Panoramic Photograph

War Relocation Center, Manzanar, California, Panoramic Photograph

J 36070 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Manzanar Cooperative Enterprises, Inc.; 1943.

Union prisoners at Salisbury, N.C. / drawn from nature by Act. Major Otto Boetticher ; lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N. York.

Union prisoners at Salisbury, N.C. / drawn from nature by Act. Major O...

Public domain scan of American Civil War image, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia / sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. A, 24th Wis. Vols. ; lith. by E. Sachse & Co. 104 S. Charles St. Baltimore.

Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia / sketched by W.C. Schwartzburg, Co. ...

Print shows an exterior of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, from across a street, with inmates behind barred windows and guards patrolling in front of the building. Publication date based on copyright state... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

[Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE]

[Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States ... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: Ellis Island is significant as the primary port of entry into the United States for immigrants during the period 1892-1954. The Ellis Island facility is located in New York Harbor on three small ... More

Belle Island [sic], Confederate States of America

Belle Island [sic], Confederate States of America

Prison camp with tents and guards. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: the river. Formerly Waud no. B-150. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.914) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil... More

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - another grouping of evacuees toward the rim of the Center prior to departing for relocation center

Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center - another grouping of evacuees towar...

Photograph shows a large group of Japanese American detainees at an assembly center awaiting transportation to a relocation center. Signal Corps photo: 9CA-42-2890-PSF. S 86. Blind stamped in lower left: U.S. ... More

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh po Murm. zh.d, color separation negative

Sergei Prokudin Gorskiy, Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh po Murm. zh.d...

Credit line: Prokudin-Gorskiĭ photograph collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Corresponding photographic print is in album: Views along the Murmansk Railway, Russian Empire, LOT 103... More

Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison

Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh po Murm. zh.d.

Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh po Murm. zh.d.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison]

[Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

[Washington, D.C. Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold]

[Washington, D.C. Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.

[Washington, D.C. Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold]

[Washington, D.C. Reading the death warrant to Wirz on the scaffold]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Ground on Belle island where 13000 Union prisoners were encamped at one time

Ground on Belle island where 13000 Union prisoners were encamped at on...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed above image: fort on Manchester side of the river; guns to repress the prisoners. Inscribed on verso: [ * ]by a prisoner. As far as topographi... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

Libby Prison, north side, Richmond, Virginia

Libby Prison, north side, Richmond, Virginia

Stereograph showing an exterior view of the site of the Confederate military prison with a group of people standing outside. Part of series: Photographic History: The War for the Union. Original glass negative... More

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY

Significance: Ellis Island is significant as the primary port of entry into the United States for immigrants during the period 1892-1954. The Ellis Island facility is located in New York Harbor on three small ... More

[Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York], Confederate States of America.

[Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York], Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows rows of tents within stockade at Camp Rathbun, which was converted to a prison camp for Confederate soldiers in 1864. Purchase; Cal Packard; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:060).

Club House at the race course, where the Union Officers were confined, Charleston, S.C.

Club House at the race course, where the Union Officers were confined,...

No. 3083. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may ... More

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - a young evacuee Japanese-American woman serves as secretary in the Center Manager's office

Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center - a young evacuee Japanese-Americ...

No. 9CA-42-2112-PSF. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenburg, Germany, was found by 97th Division of U.S. Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army.

This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenburg...

Emaciated man being held up by two other men. Signal Corps photo. No. SC 206582.

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain  drawing

A new batch at Andersonville - Public domain drawing

Signed lower right: W.W. Title inscribed below image. On verso study for DRWG/US - Waud (W.), no 14 (A size) Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file ... More

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.

Stereograph shows the interior of a military prison with a Union soldier standing guard; prior to its capture by the Union Army in 1861, the facility had been used by Price, Birch & Co. slave dealership to hold... More

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - A black and white photo of an old building

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - A black and white photo of an old bu...

Photograph shows street view of buildings along 1300 block of Duke Street, including Price, Birch & Co., which were used to hold slaves awaiting auction. Slave pen address: 1315 Duke Street. No. 4191. Illus. i... More

[Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison]

[Richmond, Virginia Front and side view of Libby Prison]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Fort McDowell, Angel Island State Park, Angel Island, Marin County, CA

Significance: The growth of the U.S. military in the early twentieth century precipitated expansion of the Army presence on Angel Island. After nearly forty years of maintaining a modest Army installation at C... More

[Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE]

[Washington, D.C. The Old Capitol Prison, 1st and A Streets NE]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is the federal agency responsible for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of the United States ... More

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport, Boundary County, ID

U.S. Border Inspection Station, West side of State Route 95, Eastport,...

Significance: The Border Inspection Station at Eastport is one of only two such facilities built in the State of Idaho. The styles, materials, and methods of construction of the station and the two residences ... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

MacDill Air Force Base, Fire & Guard House, 2709 Florida Keys Avenue, ...

Significance: The Fire and Guard House, due to its architectural integrity and its contribution to the Second World War-era infrastructure, forms an integral part of MacDill Air Force Base's historic character.... More

Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows a group of people including a child and a man holding on to a horse next to tents in front of Libby Prison, a Confederate military prison established in 1861.

Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh u st. Segezh

Baraki dli︠a︡ voennopli︠e︡nnykh u st. Segezh

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

The open air kitchen used by German prisoners while a new mess hall and kitchen is being erected Camp Miramas, near Marseilles, France / / Signal Corps U.S.A.

The open air kitchen used by German prisoners while a new mess hall an...

Photograph shows German prisoners of war cooking in large pots in outdoor kitchen. In album: Photographic supplement to historical record of quartermaster corps activities, A.E.F. Vol. 13, leaf 1. "1410-G8."

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. Miss Naito works in an office at the center

Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Lo...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

[Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison]

[Richmond, Virginia Side and rear view of Libby Prison]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865.

"Castle Thunder," Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

"Castle Thunder," Richmond, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing prison on Cary Street in Richmond, Virginia. The prison was used to confine Union soldiers. No. 897. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Forms part ... More

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King County, WA

U.S. Immigrant Station & Assay Office, 815 Airport Way, Seattle, King ...

Significance: The U.S. Immigrant Station and Assay Office (Federal Building, Immigration and Naturalization Service), is significant both architecturally and culturally. Built for the Immigration and Naturaliza... More

Penitentiary / Levy & Cohen., Confederate States of America.

Penitentiary / Levy & Cohen., Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows an exterior view of the Virginia State Penetentiary on Gamble's Hill in Richmond, Virginia. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Levy and Cohen in the Clerk's Office, of th... More

[Washington, D.C. Hooded body of Captain Wirz hanging from the scaffold]

[Washington, D.C. Hooded body of Captain Wirz hanging from the scaffol...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.

House where the Union officers were confined under fire, Broad St., Charleston, S.C.

House where the Union officers were confined under fire, Broad St., Ch...

Stereograph showing two men and a boy seated on the ruins of a wall in front of the O'Connor House at 180 Broad St. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony &... More

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