Destruction of Minot's Ledge lighthouse
Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 1, no. 1 (1851 May 3), p. 20.
Appalling calamity at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Sept. 14th, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Court-House Square - the public bu...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 Oct. 28, p. 101.
Wreck of the "Maine."--Divers - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...
22249 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1450. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. American and Foreign Views.
Kearney St. and Hall of Justice after the great disaster, San Francisc...
Stereograph showing ruins following the earthquake and fire in 1906 in San Francisco, California. H96571 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8773. Copyright 1907 by H.C. White Co. Exhibited: "Documenting Disaster: Phot... More
Le tragedie del lavoro - Public domain document scan of drawing
Front page of newspaper, Il progresso Italo-Americano, with story about the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. Includes list of Italian American victims, a drawing of a victim and photograph of police.
Take up the sword of justice / B.P. ; printed by David Allen & Sons Ld...
Poster showing a figure rising from the sea to offer a sword, with a sinking ship and drowning victims in the distance. Refers to the sinking of the Lusitania. Poster no. 105. W6764. 25.M - 7/15.
Wreckage of USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941
Official U.S. Navy photograph. No. 8967. Z 75685. Public domain photograph of Imperial Japan, Japanese empire, during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public do... More
[Memorial for the victims of the September 11th terrorist attack on th...
Title devised by Library Staff. Published in: Lamentation 911 / text by E.L. Doctorow ... photographs by David Finn. Millwood Pub., 2002. Exhibited: "Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions" at the Libr... More
[R.M.S. Lusitania, hit by torpedos off Kinsale Head, Ireland]
Photograph of drawing, made for the New York Herald and the London Sphere, shows the R.M.S. Lusitania as a second torpedo hits behind a gaping hole in the hull. J203512 U.S. Copyright Office. On back on mount ... More
The recent panic - scene in the New York Stock Exchange on the morning...
Photograph shows ship, the "W.B. Flint" at a dock in the East River, New York City. Copyrighted 1889 by the Albertype Co., 58 & 60 Reade St., New York.
Destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor Feby 15th, 1...
Destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, with inserts of location of the "Maine-Havana Habor," recovering the dead bodies, and head-and-shoulders portraits of Admiral Sicard and Captain Sigsbe... More
Debris at P.R.R. stone bridge, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
17832U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. No. 15, General view of Johnstown loo...
U17845 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. Printed on mount at bottom: Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. Loss from 10,000 to 12,000 lives. Typed on label attached at top... More
View of the great railroad wreck The most appalling railroad disaster ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a locomotive, train tracks, rail transportation, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5926.
Belt R. R. engines - A group of men standing on top of a bridge
Photograph shows three boys standing atop overturned and partially submerged railroad engine; in the background men examine wreckage. Additional title on item: Belt railroad engines [during a flood at Vandalia... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
End of the Irish Invasion : - or - the Destruction of the French Armad...
French warships, labeled Le Révolutionaire, L'Egalité and The Revolutionary Jolly Boat, being tossed about during a storm blown up by Pitt, Dundas, Grenville and Windham, whose heads appear from the clouds. Cha... More
The fire at the Union League Club house last Sunday morning The new Al...
First print shows scenes at the clubhouse after a fire including: the staircase, where the fire started, the art gallery, covered art and furniture, workers shoveling debris, and a copy of Jaspar Cropsey's pain... More
An opened passageway in the debris, North on 19th Street, Galveston, T...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Galveston disaster - Lucas Terrace where fifty lives were lost, lookin...
Copyright by Griffith & Griffith. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Hanlons, Le voyage en Suisse
Caption: The railroad disaster : where no one is hurt it's only done for fun. Created and "copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co, Cincinnati & New York." Elmer & Thall, owners & managers. N.Y. no. 9049. F... More
Rosewell (ruins), Whitemarsh i.e. White Marsh vic., Gloucester County,...
Title from photographer's inventory. Building/structure dates: ca. 1725. Built by Mann Page. Home of the Page family and was the largest of Virginia Colonial houses. Burned in 1916. Corresponding reference prin... More
Famed steeple topples, gelatin silver print
Photo shows the steeple atop historic Old North Church in Boston toppling August 31, 1954, at height of a howling hurricane which swept through New England. Wide World Photos photograph. Inscribed on verso: Gi... More
[Two fire fighters looking into car while another New York City fire f...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"August 2001" / Rachel Cole. - Public domain drawing
Drawing shows the World Trade Center towers, New York City, before the September 11 terrorist attacks. Forms part of: Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks. "This piece d... More
My name is Marc and my friend Joey worked on the 105th floor of No. 1 ...
Portrait of a boy next to stars and strips of the American flag, with text describing his reaction to the loss of his friend during the September 11th terrorist attack on New York City. Forms part of: Exit Art ... More
[New York City fire fighters amid debris following September 11th terr...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs... Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[World Trade Center towers covered with flowers] / Jen Kim.
Forms part of: the Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Exhibited: Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress, 2002.
Waffle House Restaurant torn apart by Hurricane Katrina on the Biloxi,...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More
Military post on Kernville Hill, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
Photo shows shows soldiers, river, and city ruins. 17833U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cambria Iron Company's office an store rooms looking from P.R.R. depot...
17834U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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
Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
17835U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Bird's-eye-view of ruins of San Francisco from captive airship, 600 fe...
H77574 U.S. Copyright Office Photographer's address: Chicago, Ill. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; May 16, 1906.
Railroad wreck on Long Island Railroad, Fifth Avenue, Bay Shore, L. I....
Photograph shows the wreckage of a railroad train after it collided into the rear of another railroad car; bystanders nearby watch as two men, probably railroad employees, look over the damage. Copyright regist... More
Railroad wreck on Long Island Railroad, Fifth Avenue, Bay Shore, L. I....
Photograph shows the wreckage of a railroad train after it collided into the rear of another railroad car; bystanders nearby watch as two men, probably railroad employees, look over the damage. Copyright regist... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Wreck of the "Maine."--Divers going down
22234 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1449. Sold only by Griffith & Griffith. American and Foreign Views.
Wreck on the CM & PSRY [Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway], May...
Photograph shows the severe damage and wreckage of tangled passenger cars from the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Company; a man stands on top of one of the overturned passenger cars; a crane is in t... More
Triangle Waist Co. fire, N.Y.C.--Crowds outside pier morgue
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Omaha tornado. No. 8 - A black and white photo of a house that has bee...
Photograph shows wreckage of homes damaged by tornado. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New Jersey, Sealbright. Wreckage after hurricane
Photograph shows individuals standing among wreckage of homes damaged by hurricane; boys stand on porch of home leaning to left side.
[World Trade Center Twin Towers during the September 11th terrorist at...
Forms part of: Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks. Edition: 1/3000. Information on media provided by the artist, 9-11-2002. Exhibited: Witness and Response: September ... More
[Three New York City fire fighters spraying water on smoldering ruins ...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs ... Public domain photograph of industrial workers, factory building, work, assembly line, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A full week after the blasts, there are still immense clouds of smoke ...
Forms part of: Exit Art Gallery Reactions Collection: A Global Response to the 9/11 Attacks.
Enlist / Fred Spear. during World War I
Poster showing a woman, a passenger from the Lusitania, submerged in water cradling an infant in her arms. Issued by The Boston Public Safety Committee. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. ... More
[Bull coming through the gate] - Public domain book illustration
Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Brownies around the World : in Spain / Palmer Cox. New York : The Centur... More
Camp of relief corps, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
17841U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Club House and Morrell Institute, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
17835U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sinking of the steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonne / compiled by Gale Research, Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5926.
Cycloramic view of Baltimore's big fire from Hanover St.
H43350 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Frederick W. Mueller; March 16, 1904.
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Collection of unattributed photographs of the September 11th terrorist...
Slides showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burni... More
Disasters of 60 days : Wreck of Steamship Tennessee, Indian Cove, Marc...
Pictorial lettersheet shows four images of shipwrecks on one page plus two vignettes of (top) a shepherdess and a bear and (center) Explosion R.K. Page Nicolaus, Feather River, March 21th, 1853; with attached b... More
Arica, after the earthquake. No. 1
Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 1.
The Great fire at Chicago. Scene in Wells Street - the terrified popul...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1871 Oct. 28, p. 97. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. No. 5, George Hamilton, Assistant Sup...
U17835 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa. Printed on mount at bottom: Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889. Loss from 10,000 to 12,000 lives. Typed on label attached at top... More