Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...
Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More
Sibley Manufacturing Company, 1717 Goodrich Street, Augusta Canal, Aug...
Significance: Located on the Augusta Canal, one of the few remaining power canals in the country, the Sibley mill continuously has used the canal to generate its own power; at present, it supplies between 50% a... More
Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Main Street & Lakeside Avenue, West Ora...
See also HABS NJ-808 (A-B) for additional documentation. Significance: The Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratory site represents a significant era in the history of American manufacturing. Edison originally ... More
City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscog...
Significance: Grist milling has been continuous at the site since the City Mills were established in 1828. Some of the newer buildings house offices, equipment, and warehouses used in the production of feed. ... More
City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscog...
Significance: Grist milling has been continuous at the site since the City Mills were established in 1828. Some of the newer buildings house offices, equipment, and warehouses used in the production of feed. ... More
City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscog...
Significance: Grist milling has been continuous at the site since the City Mills were established in 1828. Some of the newer buildings house offices, equipment, and warehouses used in the production of feed. ... More
City Mills Company, Eighteenth Street & First Avenue, Columbus, Muscog...
Significance: Grist milling has been continuous at the site since the City Mills were established in 1828. Some of the newer buildings house offices, equipment, and warehouses used in the production of feed. ... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI
For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
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.
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
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U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
U. S. Naval Asylum, Biddle Hall, Gray's Ferry Avenue, Philadelphia, Ph...
Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Baltimore : the book of the fire : a word picture and a series of illu...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A voice from Richmond, and other addresses to children and youth.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A voice from Richmond, and other addresses to children and youth.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A voice from Richmond, and other addresses to children and youth.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Sellers & Pennock 231 High Street Philadelphia
Print shows an advertisement for Sellers & Pennock showing several men operating a firehose water-pumping machine. Caption continues: Patent rivet hose, fire bucket and hydraulion manufacturers. Another impres... More
Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.
Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More
Watson Machine Works prior to 1850s fires.
Forms part of a group of images which are copies of historical photos from Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey. These photogra... More
The great fire at Philadelphia: Front page, illustration only
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 April 26, p. 305.
The Pacific Mail Company's steamer "Golden Gate," burned at sea July 2...
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 295 (1862 Aug. 23), p. 540.
The Riots at New York--the rioters burning and sacking the colored orp...
Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Army of the Potomac - Our wounded escaping from the fires in the Wilde...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 June 4. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Scenes in Memphis, Tennessee, during the riot
2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly, 1866 May 26, p. 321. Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, as seen after the great conflagration, embracing the whole of...
On front: "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871 by Joshua Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Have duplicate obtained through copyright deposit, no. 10970. Gift... More
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[Man building fire on shore while dog howls]
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
The burning stable / motion picture
From Maguire & Baucus catalogues: Shows a barn actually in flames, from which four horses and a burning wagon are rescued by firemen and stable hands. The scene is exciting, full of action from beginning to end... More
![One of the men who guard the F.B.I. Washington, D.C., Aug. 6. Guard Arthur E. Focht, doing patrol duty in the Department of Justice building, note the phone in his hand, this phone can be plugged in anywhere on his beat to report fires or other troubles without the guard going to the guard room [...]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvb25lLW9mLXRoZS1tZW4td2hvLWd1YXJkLXRoZS1mYmktd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1kYy1hdWctNi1ndWFyZC1hcnRodXItZS1mb2NodC1kb2luZy0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/50/webp "One of the men who guard the F.B.I. Washington, D.C., Aug. 6. Guard Arthur E. Focht, doing patrol duty in the Department of Justice building, note the phone in his hand, this phone can be plugged in anywhere on his beat to report fires or other troubles without the guard going to the guard room [...]")
One of the men who guard the F.B.I. Washington, D.C., Aug. 6. Guard Ar...
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Arnold Genthe - On the ruins (April 1906), Chinatown, San Francisco
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Bernhardt, Sarah, in carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake an...
A black and white photo of a woman in a horse drawn carriage. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
San Francisco, April 18, 1906. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
San Francisco, April 18, 1906, San Francisco, California
Picryl description: Public domain image of San Francisco earthquake and Great Fire, 1906, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Giving clothing, Fort Point, San Francisco, California
Distribution of clothing to homeless people, San Francisco, California, after earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. Copyright Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 59. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Cong... More
Panorama from Hopkins Institute, Panoramic Photograph
H78111 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 23, 1906; DLC/PP-1906:42933. Copyright claimant's address: 1070 Broadway, Oakland, California. No. 233.
W.T. Galliher fire - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The devastated urban district immediately following the earthquake dis...
Album entitled: "Yokohama Reconstructed, 1929". Panorama is photo no. 25 in album, on last page. Accompanying caption reads: "The great earthquake of the 1st Sept., 1923 which swept its ways through the Kwanto... More
Mexican mother and child. Fires built in old galvanized tubs are used ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children, kids, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Mexican man sitting by makeshift cooking stove. It is not unusual to f...
Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Results of forest fires in Glacier National Park, Montana
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Cumberland '61 by Franklin Fyles
Caption: I will hang him as a spy! No! Let him go! Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cin'ti & New York." Management, Augustus Pitou. NY no. 7850. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collec... More
Sainsevain Property, 14804 Summit Avenue, Fontana, San Bernardino Coun...
Significance: The 1874 residence and ancillary structures a smokehouse and reservoir, are eligible for listing on the National Register according to Criteria A, B, C, (and D). The Sainsevain Complex is signif... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Central Railroad of New Jersey, Newark Bay Lift Bridge, Spanning Newar...
Significance: The Newark Bay Bridge was constructed near the end of J.A.L. Waddell's career. He was an early proponent of the vertical lift bridge, designing and building his first in 1892. Waddell's landmark... More
Front Avenue Industrial District, Front Avenue between Eighth & Fourte...
Significance: The nearly continuous eight block facade along the west side of Front Avenue (4,300 feet) represents a rare survival of the late 19th century commercial and industrial architecture. The integrity... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
Congress Street Bascule Bridge, Spanning Fort Point Channel at Congres...
Significance: The Congress Street Bridge, built in 1930, is a trunnion bascule bridge and the most recent of the five movable-truss bridges spanning the Fort Point Channel. It replaced a steam operated swing d... More
University of South Dakota, University Hall, Clark Street, Vermillion,...
Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
University of South Dakota, University Hall, Clark Street, Vermillion,...
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Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
515 Eleventh Street, Northwest (Commercial), Square 347, Washington, D...
Significance: Although much altered, 515 Eleventh Street, NW, constructed around 1875, is a good example of a post-Civil War Italianate brick rowhouse. This type of building was constructed throughout Washingto... More
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
Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, Lexington Depot, Depot Square, Le...
Significance: The Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad, incorporated by the legislature in 1845, was built to link Lexington and Arlington (then called West Cambridge) with the new line of the Fitchburg Railroad... More
San Francisco, April 18, 1906, lantern slide
Picryl description: Public domain image of damaged, burned, or destroyed buildings, natural disaster, fire destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Public Service Railway Company, Newton Avenue Car Shops, Bounded by Te...
Significance: The Newton Avenue Car Shops have been found significant as among the last structural remains associated with the history of trolley transportation in the City of Camden. By the close of the 19th ... More
Vickers Building, 219-231 East Redwood Street, Baltimore, Independent ...
Significance: One of the few remaining large-scale commercial edifices to utilize brick as a primary material after Baltimore's Great Fire of 1904, the Vickers building typifies the simple massing and restraine... More
Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck
Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... More
Baltimore Street west of St. Paul
Sections at left and right may be missing. Copyright deposit; J. W. Schaefer; July 29, 1904.
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
Prairie fires of the great west
Train traveling across prairie ahead of fire. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5269
Sacred Heart Church at Whitemarsh, 16101 Annapolis Road, Bowie, Prince...
Significance: This is the only pre-Revolutionary War Roman Catholic Church in the county, and the site of important events in the development of the Catholic Church in Maryland. Survey number: HABS MD-1014 Bu... More
Panorama of San Francisco from the Ferry Building
H78302 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Pillsbury Picture Co.; May 15, 1906. No. 230. Streets labeled on image.
![[Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fell on hose, hose wetting man, fireman putting out flames]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTIvMDEvMDEvZmlyZS1lbmdpbmVzLXB1dHRpbmctb3V0LWZsYW1lcy1maXJlbWVuLWNoYXNpbmctbWFuLXdob3NlLWhhdGNoZXQtZmVsbC1vbi1ob3NlLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "[Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fell on hose, hose wetting man, fireman putting out flames]")
[Fire engines putting out flames, firemen chasing man whose hatchet fe...
Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published as vignettes in: "The Old Niagara. A Ballad," by Arthur Guiterman, Scribner's ma... More