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
The Johnstown Calamity. The Valley of Death from Kern Hill, Showing ga...
Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Women and children first - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Cong...
General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Category designation on original folder: Disasters... More
California St., to Fairmount Hotel, great Merchant's Exchange on left,...
Stereograph showing ruins following the earthquake and fire in San Francisco, 1906, with men and women walking along the center of California Street. H79780 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8722. Copyright by H.C. Wh... More
His face assumed a deadly pallor -- the paper was a blank
(DLC/PP-1933:0185). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Twelve Green Russian Garnets" by Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Harper's magazine, 121:451 (Aug. 1910).
Lusitania survivor with injured hand, May 25, 1915
Man, with sling around his neck, walking with arm around woman. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Red Cross offered air aid in forthcoming rill call. Washington, D.C., ...
Two men sitting at a table with papers. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Skyline of Manhattan with smoke billowing from the Twin Towers follow...
Forms part of: Collection of unattributed photographs... Public domain photograph of air pollution, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Crying woman standing in street with ambulance in background, followi...
September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Pontoon bridge across Conemaugh river, Johnstown Flood, May 31st, 1889
17840U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Smith Mine, Bear Creek 1.5 miles West of Town of Bear Creek, Red Lodge...
Significance: In 1943 an explosion inside the Smith mine resulted in the death of 74 men making the mine the tragic site of the worst coal mine disaster in Montana history. The mine is also significant as one o... More
The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 / sketched ...
Print shows a large group of Union soldiers under the command of General Sherman, watching Columbia, South Carolina burn; inhabitants, mostly women, flee both the fire and the soldiers. Illus. in: Harper's wee... 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
View of wrecked houses, looking towards Kernville, Johnstown Flood, Ma...
17844U U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyright by Histed, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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
Cycloramic view of Baltimore's big fire from Hanover St.
H43350 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Frederick W. Mueller; March 16, 1904.
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
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
The principal square of Arequipa, after the earthquake
Photograph shows earthquake damage; in foreground, tents in main square to shelter residents. Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 1.
Arica after the earthquake. No. 2
Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 1.
The Sunken steamship "Oregon."--vessels of the Merritt Wrecking Compan...
Crews of the Rescue and the Edwin Post salvaging the steamship Oregon.
Debris on fire at Bridge, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.
No. 6. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th centu...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Shelter for the homeless, Galveston's awful disaster
Row of tents set up to house survivors of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. D21479 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young.
Lucas Terrace under which 51 people lie buried, Galveston
Remnants of multi-story building, bricks and lumber strewn in the wake of the 1900 hurricane and flood, Galveston, Texas. D21851 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 611-C. Copyright by C.L. Wasson.
Seeking valuables in the wreckage, Galveston, Texas
Man, woman and children rummage through rubble of destroyed houses following a violent hurricane which devestated most of Galveston and took more than 5,000 lives. D19845 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L... More
[Taking body of "Lusitania" victim from "New York"]
Two men removing crated body of victim from rescue ship. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Destruction of 28th Infantry Camp, Fort Crockett, Tex. by hurricane of...
J206847 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Martin Blandford; September 24, 1915; DLC/PP-1915:44993.
At his post - A group of people standing around a train wreck
Photograph shows bystanders at the site of a train wreck on the Fort Worth & Denver line; an arrow indicates where the body of a crew man is located in the part of the train that's plunged into the ground. Copy... More
Remains of Avalon Dam after flood of October, 1904
Illustration shows a gaping hole in earthen dam through which the Pecos River flows. Illus. in: Water in New Mexico : a history of its management and use / Ira G. Clark. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico ... More
I felt-- shocked & angry. USA, united, democracy, equality ... / submi...
Forms part of: 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. Title continues: Honesty... More