forts

The Naval attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, New Orleans

Night scene illuminated by gun flashes from Federal gunboats on Mississippi River. Apr. 1862. Photo "copied from a painting belonging to Adm. Porter". This record contains unverified, old data from caption card... More

Fort Gaines, Alabama during American Civil War

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

Fort Morgan is a historic fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama

Known as "one of the finest examples of military architecture in the New World," the post was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan. Construction was completed in 1834. Title, date, subject not... More

The Cavalry Building, which served as barracks at Fort Brown in Browns...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Forts Wagner & Gregg on...

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Coal barges and the passers whose bodies are as black as night with c...

Photographs show laborers on a coal barge with baskets, and a view of the coastline of Malta. On page: no. 1509 (top image) and no. 1510 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [134]. Negat... More

Old forts built centuries ago to hold back the Turkish invasion In the...

Photographs show a palaces on the shores of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1370 (top image) and no. 1371 (bottom image). Text under image no. 1370:... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Fort Morgan is a historic fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama

Known as "one of the finest examples of military architecture in the New World," the post was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan. Construction was completed in 1834. Title, date, subject not... More

Fort James Jackson, usually called Old Fort Jackson, is a restored 19t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. President Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of a national defense system of fortifications to defend his new nation. Jeffer... More

Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Colton's United States shewing the military stations, forts &c. Entere...

Scale ca. 1:7,900,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 7 "No 3" in upper left corner. Forts are marked by red flags. Indicates railroads, towns, names and boundaries of states and territories, rivers, and canals. ... More

Colton's United States shewing the military stations, forts, &c

Fort Gaines, Alabama - Carol M. Highsmith photogrpahy

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

Fort Condé, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Originally founded in 1702 at 27-Mile Bluff up river as Fort Louis, it was relocated in 1711 to the current site. In 1723, a new brick fort with a stone foundation began and was renamed Fort Condé in honor of K... More

Fort Gaines, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

One of the surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for n...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

Surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for nearly a cen...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

Com. Farragut's fleet, passing the forts on the Mississippi, April 24t...

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A general map of North America; in which is express'd the several new ...

Scale ca. 1:9,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows Caribbean region. "Published ... by M. A. Rocque in the Strand & A. Dury in Dukes Court St. Martins Lane." Title in English and French. LC Ma... More

State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respe...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Colton's map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...

Scale ca 1:1,520,640. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 6.6 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.H. Colton." Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y. Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 20 cm.-Colton'... More

Capture of forts [sic] ... Donelson, Tennessee By U.S. Grant, January ...

This map shows the area surrounding Fort Donelson, Tenn., including the Cumberland River, the town of Dover, and Fort Henry Road, and includes the locations of confederate earthworks as well as roads, buildings... More

Robert College and American School for boys crowns high hills above th...

Photographs show Robert College and an old fort on the shores of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code stamped on page: LC-C26. On page: no. 1368 (top image) and no. 1369 (bottom image). Text ... More

Testing M-4 tanks. One of America's new traveling forts, an M-4 tank, ...

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Carol M. Highsmith - Fort Point, San Francisco, California

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Fort Condé, Mobile, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

Originally founded in 1702 at 27-Mile Bluff up river as Fort Louis, it was relocated in 1711 to the current site. In 1723, a new brick fort with a stone foundation began and was renamed Fort Condé in honor of K... More

The great fight at Charleston S.C. April, 7th 1863: between 9 United S...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2831

The U.S. naval expedition under Com..ore M.C. Perry, ascending the Tus...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. Naval Portfolio No. 2. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lt. U.S. Navy.

Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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[Sketches of ships and forts] - Public domain drawing

Title devised. Sketch of sailboat on verso. Inscribed below images: (?). Inscribed above one fortress: Little [Tallon?]. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.142) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil ... More

How the Przemysl Forts were wrecked

Photograph shows fort in Przemysl, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Poland) during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

Pill-Box Fort finished in four hours. Washington, D.C., Aug. 25. Somet...

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Production. M-4 tanks. Treads for M-4 tanks awaiting installation as t...

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Fort Gaines, Alabama during American Civil War

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...

Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Aerial view of Fort James Jackson, usually called Old Fort Jackson, a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. President Thomas Jefferson authorized the construction of a national defense system of fortifications to defend his new nation. Jeffer... More

[Russia's fleet lying under great Golden Hill forts, being sunk by Jap...

H63737 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7801.

Bombardment & capture of the Forts at Hatteras Inlet, N.C.: by the U.S...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0661

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). View of Forts Wagner & Gregg on...

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Map of the southern states, including rail roads, county towns, state ...

Scale ca. 1:2,970,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 37 At top of map: Bacon's shilling series of war maps,-no. 3. Inset: Enlarged plan of the battle fields of Virginia and Maryland. Scale ca. 1:1,040,000. 16 x ... More

Dismantling of the rebel forts after the storming of Petersburgh (i.e....

Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing and sitting on a rifled cannon and other artillery in the interior of a Confederate fort. No. 3205. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Date... More

Defenses of Washington, extract of military map of N.E. Virginia : sho...

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows woods and householders' names in rural areas. In lower left corner: Accompanying report of Brig. Gen. Richard Delafield ... dated October 30, 1865... More

Production. M-4 tanks. Treads for M-4 tanks awaiting installation as t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1867 along the anks of the Concho Rier, the fort's 40 buildings supported up to infantry and cavalry troops, sent to T... More

Fort Gaines, Alabama during American Civil War

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

One of the surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for n...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

Housing at the decommissioned Fort Hancock in Sandy Hook, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-8). Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol... More

The great fight at Charleston S.C. April, 7th 1863: between 9 United S...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2831

Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Keeping below the dead line--in Japanese trenches near the Russian for...

H59920 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 7596. Public domain photograph of landscape view, nature, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A sentinel over the dead -- guarding comrades who died defending Russ...

H63419 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7729.

"Tankers," the tough, durable lads who man our traveling forts. These ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Established in 1867 along the anks of the Concho Rier, the fort's 40 buildings supported up to infantry and cavalry troops, sent to T... More

A portion of the ruins at Fort Constitution in New Castle, the smalles...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally called Fort William and Mary during the period when New Hampshire was a North American British colony, the was captured by ... More

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...

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Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his fl...

Adm. David Farragut lashed to upper mast, holding spyglass; during Battle of Mobil Bay, Jan. 1864. "Prang's American Chromos."

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.7) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Designed to be colored. Not colored. "Sold by Wm. Herbert on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street." LC Maps of North America, 175... More

Magnus's county map of the United States, showing the forts, railroads...

Scale 1:2,111,789. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 30.2 Printed at the bottom of the map: Extra session of Congress map. Price 25 cents. General map of the eastern United States showing finished railroads, railroa... More

Sketch of the forts and breastworks near Petersburg

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.281) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Cowan's independent battery, 1st N.Y., inside one of the rebel forts ...

No. 787. Title, photographer, and date from Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mount... More

[Russian officers watching Japanese assault on one of the forts -- dur...

H63424 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7734.

Sailing from Genoa. Hundreds of Italians are waving bon voyage to rela...

Photographs the port of Genoa, Italy, and two boys standing next to propeller blades on the S.S. Conte Verde. On page: no. 1565 (top left image), no. 1566 (top right image), no. 1567 (bottom left image) and no... More

Fort Morgan is a historic fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama

Known as "one of the finest examples of military architecture in the New World," the post was named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Daniel Morgan. Construction was completed in 1834. Title, date, subject not... More

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...

Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Fort Gaines, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

[Russians advancing to take the place of fallen comrades in the outer ...

H63421 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7736.

Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch stone structure, bridge, or tunnel, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bombardment & capture of the Forts at Hatteras Inlet, N.C.: by the U.S...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0661

Map of Roanoke Island showing Rebel forts.

Shows the area surrounding Roanoke Island, N.C., including Croatan, Roanoke and Pamlico sounds, and the locations of Confederate forces on the eve of the Battle of Roanoke Island in February 1862. Color coding ... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for nearly a cen...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

[Original plattings of forts at St. Louis, Mo. 186-].

"145.D" Detailed series of pen and ink drawings of the forts defending St. Louis. Orientation varies. "Engr. Dept. July 18/64. Recd. with Gen. Cullum's letter of the 16th inst. (C. 5621)."-- on most maps. Some... More

Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his fl...

Adm. David Farragut lashed to upper mast, holding spyglass; during Battle of Mobil Bay, Jan. 1864. "Prang's American Chromos."

Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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Forts Baker-Barry Tunnel, Under Lime Point Ridge on Bunker Road, Sausa...

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[Forts, batteries, and a photographic studio in Virginia]

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1861 Nov. 23, p. 742. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wyld's military map of the United States, the northern states, and the...

Bacon's military map of the United States shewing the forts & fortific...

Scale ca. 1:8,000,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 24 Ent. Sta. Hall: Aug. 182 , 1862. At top of map: 1s. Bacon's military map of America. 1s. Forts are named and marked by small flags. Map also includes towns... More

[Russian officers on a tour of inspection among the hill forts during ...

H63733 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 24, 1905. Title from published stereograph, no. 7781.

Sutter's Fort is a State Historical Park in California's capital city ...

Sutter's Fort was constructed about 1840 at the behest of John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant who had received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. Sutter is best known for the discover... More

Fort Gaines, Alabama - Drawing. Public domain image.

In 1853, Congress named the fortification for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a Revolutionary War commander who won lasting fame for his tenacious defense of Fort Erie. Fort Gaines was in active use during the... More

Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, pasture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

One of the surviving buildings from Fort McIntosh, which existed for n...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Fort McIntosh was established to guard the Texas frontier at the site of a strategic river crossing. The fort was deactivated in 1946... More

Surviving buildings at old Fort Concho in San Angelo, the seat of Tom ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A piece of re-created Fort Clatsop, near Astoria, Oregon

The fort was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery" near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806. A replica, constructed for the journey's sesquicentennial in 1955, la... More

[Four sketches of towns, forts, and ships]

Title devised. Inscribed as descriptions for middle image: Schooner & [torpes Bais + an?]; white; shipping & steam boats. Inscribed below two other images: James Island; Fort Pinckney. Inscribed on verso: Retur... More

Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his fl...

Adm. David Farragut lashed to upper mast, holding spyglass; during Battle of Mobil Bay, Jan. 1864. "Prang's American Chromos."