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Medical supply boat, Appomattox Landing, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positive by A. Gardner.

Medical supply boat, Appomattox Landing, Virginia / negative by J. Ree...

Photograph showing the supply boat "Planter" pulling up to a pier on the Appomattox River, a mile above City Point. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C... More

Virginia & Truckee ore train Crown Point trestle ; Virginia & Truckee R.R. express and depot ; Early day scene in gold canyon when gold was first discovered in Nevada in 1850.

Virginia & Truckee ore train Crown Point trestle ; Virginia & Truckee ...

Photographs show trains, train depot, and trestle bridge; also earlier photograph of men looking for gold; at the Comstock Lode, Nevada. Illus. in: Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Vi... More

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied Forces, Tien-tsin, China

Specimens of ancient and modern Chinese shells captured by the Allied ...

D24252 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 12027. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Turkish soldiers under German command near the Dardanelles

Turkish soldiers under German command near the Dardanelles

Photograph shows Turkish soldiers with machine guns perched atop earthen bunkers. J205318 U.S. Copyright Office. Imprinted on photo: C-945. Copyright July 29, 1915.

13th U.S. Cavalry Mechanized, Fort Knox, Ky., June 16th, 1938, Col. C.L. Scott command'g.

13th U.S. Cavalry Mechanized, Fort Knox, Ky., June 16th, 1938, Col. C....

Personnel seated in vehicles. J 26682 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: San Antonio, Texas. Photo no. 5224-A. Copyright deposit; National Photo & News Service; February 3, 1939.

[Sikh soldiers in training with field artillery in Singapore]

[Sikh soldiers in training with field artillery in Singapore]

British Official Photograph. SING. 82-11. Title devised by library staff. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information; 1946.

Regimental flag of 36th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Wolff's Gallery

Regimental flag of 36th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment Wolff's Gallery

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Purchased from: The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 2016. Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photog... More

Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee

Charleston Harbor, S.C. 24-pdr. howitzer on deck of U.S.S. Pawnee

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Dona... More

District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and crew of 100-pdr. Parrott gun on iron barbette carriage at Fort Totten

District of Columbia. Officers of Companies A and B, 3d Massachusetts ...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. N... More

Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter with gabions; another view

Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter with gabions; another view

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milho... More

[Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter with gabions; another view]

[Charleston, S.C. Interior of Fort Sumter with gabions; another view]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Sheridans Army. Quarter Master Stores. Harpers Ferry

Sheridans Army. Quarter Master Stores. Harpers Ferry

Signed lower left: Waud. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed above image: Clothing; tents; poles; wagon furniture; harness. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.513) Reference print available in the Civ... More

U.S. Naval Air Station, San Diego, Cal.

U.S. Naval Air Station, San Diego, Cal.

J232429 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Kearny Photo Service; December 27, 1918. No. 3.

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Old Sea coast howitzer, Ft. Wagner. Whitworth gun, Charleston

Title inscribed upper left and right margin. Faint sketch of shipwreck on verso. Formerly Waud no. C-83. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1010) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

One reason why we did not go to Richmond

One reason why we did not go to Richmond

Stereograph showing Columbiad gun in Confederate Fort Darling on the James River at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. No. 3346. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Forms part of... More

Distributing ammunition under fire. 5th corps front May 6

Distributing ammunition under fire. 5th corps front May 6

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.653) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Circulars, from December 20, 1878 to May 23, 1879

Circulars, from December 20, 1878 to May 23, 1879

Picryl description: Public domain document related to trials and litigations, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Richmond, Virginia Park of captured guns at Rocketts]

[Richmond, Virginia Park of captured guns at Rocketts]

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

Interior of Fort Moultrie, Battery B. and group of palmetto trees in distance

Interior of Fort Moultrie, Battery B. and group of palmetto trees in d...

Stereograph showing a cannon in the foreground, palmetto trees and battery fortifications in the background. No. 353, part of series: War Views. Copyright 1865 by John P. Soule. From verso: Charleston, S.C. an... More

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 [i.e.1862]

22d New York State Militia near Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 1861 [i.e.186...

Soldiers with cannons and caisson. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. B888, no. B775, no. B978, no. B1019, no. B1030, and no. B898. Individual photographs are catalogued separately. Dat... More

Landing place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Genoese Castle - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Landing place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, Genoese Castle - Roger Fento...

View of landing place and people working at ordnance wharf, Balaklava harbor, with ships, buildings, and Genoese Castle in background. Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 :... More

Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

J288845 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. O. Goldbeck; January 11, 1927. National Photo & News Service, 757 E. Houston St., San Antonio, Texas. Photo no. 882. Printed on image, left to right: "Capt. A... More

Fort Sumner on the Chickahominy, Virginia / Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.

Fort Sumner on the Chickahominy, Virginia / Negative by Brady & Co., W...

Stereograph shows Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack while infantry men line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June, 1862. Cor... More

Skedaddlers Hall, Harrisons Landing

Skedaddlers Hall, Harrisons Landing

Signed lower right: Waud. Title inscribed upper right. Inscribed lower left: Sk[etch in Sutlers's] store Excelsior Brigade July 3rd. Note that the figure seated to the left of the doorway bears a close resembla... More

[Bealeton, Virginia Sutler's tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters]

[Bealeton, Virginia Sutler's tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863.

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

Oral history with 78 year old male, Lewiston, Idaho (Transcript)

For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Idaho Commission on the Arts. Boise, ID 78 year old male. "Michigan Bill" born in 1903 in Quebec (St. Anisette); grew up in North Lawrence, NY. Arrive... More

Fair Oaks Station, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Fair Oaks Station, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing soldiers gathered around a 32 pdr. field howitzer. Twin houses on the battlefield in the distance in Seven Pines, Virginia. No. 471. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War ... More

[Brandy Station, Virginia Tent of A. Foulke, Sutler, at headquarters of 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery]

[Brandy Station, Virginia Tent of A. Foulke, Sutler, at headquarters o...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, winter quarters at Brandy Station, December 1863-April 1864.

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field howitzer in foreground]

[Seven Pines, Virginia Twin houses on battlefield, with 32-pdr. field ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Harbor - Ft. Sumpter (i.e. Sumter) in distance

Harbor - Ft. Sumpter (i.e. Sumter) in distance

Photograph shows a supply ship at the dock in Charleston harbor. Barrels and trunks accumulate on the wharf. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date based on years that Cook had a studio in Ch... More

The murder of a fine cal .50 by 'killer' Joe Dope - reel 2 Aloft in the thick of the fight, Joe Dope would be "ace" overnight, so he shoots a whole drum - doesn't cool off th' gun, heat's melted the barrel jes' right! / / Cpt. Will Eisner, Ordnance.

The murder of a fine cal .50 by 'killer' Joe Dope - reel 2 Aloft in th...

Poster shows Joe Dope destroying a machine gun. Instructions on how to display the poster on verso (partially obscured by textile backing).

Interior view of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S.C. City in the distance

Interior view of Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, S.C. City in the ...

Stereograph showing a mounted cannon in the foreground and ammunition inside the fort. A building with two chimneys is in the distance. No. 3122. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Co... More

Railroad battery before Petersburg - 19th century Virginia.

Railroad battery before Petersburg - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing General Grant's railroad battery and crew near Petersburg, Virginia. The cannon is mounted in a specially made armored car that moves along the track close to or away from the enemy as requi... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

World War I in Palestine and the Sinai

Photographs show people and events in Palestine (present day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) and the Sinai (Egypt) during World War I. Album focuses on the activities of the Ottoman, German, and Austr... More

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binoculars to the Navy pack carefully, include your name and address : send to Naval Observatory Washington D.C.

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch &...

Poster showing a periscope emerging from the sea, with a ship in flames and sinking in the distance.

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binoculars to the Navy pack carefully, include your name and address : send to Naval Observatory Washington D.C.

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch &...

Poster showing a periscope emerging from the sea, with a ship in flames and sinking in the distance.

Destruction of the R.R. bridge, over the Monocacy River near Frederick, Md.

Destruction of the R.R. bridge, over the Monocacy River near Frederick...

Scene depicts damage caused by Confederate raid. Title inscribed above image. Inscribed below image: Dead horses. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.123) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Morris Island, S.C. Two 100-pdr. Parrott guns and stacks of shells inside Fort Putnam]

[Morris Island, S.C. Two 100-pdr. Parrott guns and stacks of shells in...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain drawing

Bratt rifle Howitzer - Public domain drawing

Pencil sketch of buildings on the verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.0304) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Unknown location. 12-pdr. Napoleon (model 1857?)]

[Unknown location. 12-pdr. Napoleon (model 1857?)]

Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with gauntlets, shoulder scales, and cavalry Company K Hardee hat holding dual Colt Model 1855 Root sidehammer pistols and cavalry saber]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with gauntlets, shoulder scales...

Case: Leather oval scroll design. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: The Civil War: A visual history. Bath, U.K. : Parragon, 2011, p... More

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with gauntlets, shoulder scales, and cavalry Company K Hardee hat holding dual Colt Model 1855 Root sidehammer pistols and cavalry saber]

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with gauntlets, shoulder scales...

Case: Leather oval scroll design. Digital photo with mat removed by Mike O'Donnell. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105). Published in: The Civil War: A visual history. Bath, U.K. : Parragon, 2011, p... More

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman smooth-bore siege guns]

[Yorktown, Virginia Confederate water Battery Magruder, with Rodman sm...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[White House Landing, Virginia Supply vessels at anchor]

[White House Landing, Virginia Supply vessels at anchor]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[City Point, Virginia View of waterfront with Federal supply boats]

[City Point, Virginia View of waterfront with Federal supply boats]

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

[Petersburg, Virginia Row of stacked Federal rifles; houses beyond]

[Petersburg, Virginia Row of stacked Federal rifles; houses beyond]

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg,June 1864-April 1865.

[Belle Plain, Virginia Army wagons and transports at the lower landing]

[Belle Plain, Virginia Army wagons and transports at the lower landin...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

[Richmond, Virginia Fire Engine No. 3]

[Richmond, Virginia Fire Engine No. 3]

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

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfield's Brigade near Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862]

[The Peninsula, Virginia A 12-pdr. howitzer gun captured by Butterfiel...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Photograph of a gun captured by 12th Maine and 17th New York Infantry.

[Fort Brady, Virginia Battery of Parrott guns manned by Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery]

[Fort Brady, Virginia Battery of Parrott guns manned by Company C, 1st...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

[Horses and covered wagons in front of two-chimney brick house and outbuildings, probably at Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia]

[Horses and covered wagons in front of two-chimney brick house and out...

Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewat... More

Jefferson and pontoon bridge on the Shenandoah

Jefferson and pontoon bridge on the Shenandoah

Photograph shows a man sitting on Jefferson Rock above the Shenandoah River at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. A pontoon bridge is shown on the right. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs ... More

[Sling for heavy artillery. Drewry's Bluff, Virginia]

[Sling for heavy artillery. Drewry's Bluff, Virginia]

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-B811-1152.

Shipment of cotton at Savannah, for New York, on account of the U.S. Government / from a sketch by our special artist, W.T. Crane.

Shipment of cotton at Savannah, for New York, on account of the U.S. G...

Cotton bales on wharf, ships in background, Savannah harbor. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1865 Feb. 25, p. 357.

Repairing locomotives, Penn. R.R. shops, Altoona, Pennsylvania--engine hoisted for replacing wheels

Repairing locomotives, Penn. R.R. shops, Altoona, Pennsylvania--engine...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Japanese removing timbers from lighters at Chemulpo for erection of runways]

[Japanese removing timbers from lighters at Chemulpo for erection of r...

H43609 U.S. Copyright Office Title from copyright register. Copyright by Collier's Weekly, Mar. 22, 1904. Written on verso: Dunn.

Carpet cleaner run by a gasoline engine in Kearney, Nebraska

Carpet cleaner run by a gasoline engine in Kearney, Nebraska

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

[Elephants from Ringling Bros.--Circus, trains and crowd of people]

[Elephants from Ringling Bros.--Circus, trains and crowd of people]

Copyright by Glasier, Brockton, Mass. Public domain photograph related to Circus, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Screened howitzers during World War I

Screened howitzers during World War I

Photograph shows soldiers at howitzer camouflaged with evergreen branches. J208885 U.S. Copyright Office.

A German amunition [sic] dump in the St. Mihiel sector

A German amunition [sic] dump in the St. Mihiel sector

Photographer's address: 613 14th St., Wash., D.C. No. 177. Gift; Breckenridge Long; 1953.

[Locomotive and a watertower at the Erie Railroad yards, Jersey City, N.J.] / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al. Aumuller

[Locomotive and a watertower at the Erie Railroad yards, Jersey City, ...

NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American built Catalina Flying Boats have been patrolling the Indian Ocean and China Seas .... Photo shows Tamil coolies helping to launch a Catalina down the slipway.

American Catalinas in the Far East For several months past American bu...

British Official photo: K-1101. No. BO-699. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

A line of armoured cars ready to be moved during the campaign in Malaya

A line of armoured cars ready to be moved during the campaign in Malay...

Original file: British-Combine. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library of Congress).

Radar in operation in the second World War / Signal Corps photo.

Radar in operation in the second World War / Signal Corps photo.

Radio set SCR-268 with five-man crew in operation on an Italian hillside. "No. 2. of eight pictures." SC 209983-S.

Packing ammunition on mules, Cuba /

Packing ammunition on mules, Cuba /

From The Phonoscope, October 1898, p. 15: Dotting the horizon on the right of the picture is the great fleet of transports, while scattered all along the beach and piled high to the left are hundreds upon hundr... More

Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; H.L. Stuart, Nathaniel P. Willis, and General Daniel E. Sickles at right

Washington, D.C. Park of Wiard guns at the Arsenal; H.L. Stuart, Natha...

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the capital at war. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0724 Title fr... More

A French 155-mm. gun trained on the German trenches

A French 155-mm. gun trained on the German trenches

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18651. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia View of the Federal supply depot

Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia View of the Federal supply depot

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Burnside and Hooker, November 1862-April 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Bealeton, Virginia Sutler's tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters

Bealeton, Virginia Sutler's tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Meade in Virginia, August-November 1863. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of ... More

Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie

Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milh... More

[Three wagons, probably used for army supplies in Civil War]

[Three wagons, probably used for army supplies in Civil War]

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Residence of Jefferson Davis (1201 East Clay Street), Richmond, Virginia

Residence of Jefferson Davis (1201 East Clay Street), Richmond, Virgin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rear view of the same gun, as shown in no. 1001. This view shows its range of fire down James River

Rear view of the same gun, as shown in no. 1001. This view shows its r...

No. 1003. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Alternate title devised by Library staff from information on stereograph no. 1001. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (... More

The 15 in. gun at Fortress Monroe, Virginia

The 15 in. gun at Fortress Monroe, Virginia

Stereograph shows a cannon with a soldier standing at attention on its base. Attributed to George Stacy. Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Cong... More

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAllister]

[Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun...

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Sava... More

[Port Royal, Virginia The Rappahannock River front during the evacuation]

[Port Royal, Virginia The Rappahannock River front during the evacuati...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

A sutler's tent near H.Q.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

A sutler's tent near H.Q.. American Civil War 1861-1865.

Detailed sketch of the interior of a sutler's tent, with several full-length portraits of unidentified officers drinking at a bar in the foreground. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed lower right: Aug 1862. ... More

[James River, Virginia Schooners sunk to obstruct passage]

[James River, Virginia Schooners sunk to obstruct passage]

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery]

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

New rifled cannon at Washington Navy Yard

New rifled cannon at Washington Navy Yard

Sailor standing behind cannon. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed on verso: These guns are cast without runners. They are afterwards fitted to the piece and fastened by the bands that run from breech to the... More

[Charleston, S.C. Breach patched with gabions on the north wall of Fort Sumter]

[Charleston, S.C. Breach patched with gabions on the north wall of For...

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Cattle Raid - Public domain scenic drawing

Cattle Raid - Public domain scenic drawing

Signed lower left: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed on a separate sheet of cream paper: Confederate cattle raid Sept. 16th 1864. Genl. Wade Hampden [sic] suddenly appeared at Coggins point in th... More

Foraging for hay outside of the lines in Virginia

Foraging for hay outside of the lines in Virginia

Men piling hay on wagon pulled by horses and oxen. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.117) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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