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Bowles's new and accurate map of the world, or Terrestrial globe : lai...

Shows various expedition routes. Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and col. ill. Ancillary maps: Solar system -- Northern hemisphere -- Southern hemisphere -- Astronomical latitude and longitude analemma ... More

A map shewing the progress of, discovery & improvement, in the geograp...

Relief shown pictorially. "The double line of dots shews Mr. Park's route in the West; Mr. Bruce's in the East." "Published according to Act of Parliament by james Rennell, May 25th, 1798." "J. Walker, sculp." ... More

A topographical map describing the principality of the islands of Malt...

Topographic map showing field/fence/wall lines in rural areas. Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings (coastlines). Oriented with north toward the upper left. Handwritten Millard Fillmore signature is not p... More

Der gestirnte Himmel : nördliche Halbkugel /

Includes note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Liquid staining throughout.

[Engraved frontis. illus. to each of four volumes of Swift, Voyages de...

Illus. in: Swift, Voyages de Gulliver, Paris, 1795. Reference copy may be in BIOG FILE - SWIFT, JONATHAN. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Books, B.I.

Colton's illustrated & embellished steel plate map of the world on Mer...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes illustrations of cities and people along filigreed border. Inset: view of Antarctic Continent as seen by the U.S. Ship Peacock, January 19th, 1840. 4 x 29 cm. List of distance... More

Conglomerate peaks of Echo (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows two women, one seated and one standing, in front of large conglomerate rock formations near Echo, Utah. Illus. in: Sun pictures of Rocky Mountain scenery, with a description of the geographica... More

Black Cañon of the Colorado River.

Original negative number: 128. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.

Mt. Range, near Castle Valley. - stereoscopic view, public domain phot...

Original negative number: 21. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Kanab Wash, Colorado basin., Colorado 19th century sterescope card.

Original negative number: 49. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Kanab Wash, Colorado basin., Colorado 19th century sterescope card.

Original negative number: 53. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Head of Mountain Park, Conejos Valley.

Original negative number: 24. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Snake River Cañon, Idaho / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing rock formations along the top of the falls. Plate no. 25. "Descriptive legend of view no. 25" on verso. Part of geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridia... More

Life's voyage - Print, Library of Congress collection

L13829 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: American Homes Publishing Co.

Rambles through our country - an instructive geographical game for the...

Print showing a map of the United States as it appeared in 1890. 2568J U.S. Copyright Office. Caption continues: To the rising generation. Copyright secured by American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn.

[Students in geography class at Thaddeus Stevens School, fresh air cla...

Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs.

Palestine in the time of Christ : illustrating the four Gospels

Relief shown by hachures. Shows boundaries at the time of Christ and cities of the Decapolis. Includes inset of Jerusalem before 70 AD "Environs of Jerusalem". "The London Geographical Institute"--Lower right m... More

Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic Endurance squeezed between an...

Photograph shows the Endurace, leaning to the right, stuck within an ice jam. No. 212295.

S.S. Normandie arriving in New York Harbor on maiden voyage

Aerial view with Statue of Liberty in background. J18177 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. The "Mother of Good Voyages" statue in Capt...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Voyager Motel, Biscayne Blvd. & 104th St., North Miami, Florida. V

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Voyager Motel, Biscayne Blvd. & 104th St., North Miami, Florida. III

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Old Faithful geyser faithfully erupts in the Wyoming portion of Ye...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Geographica Latine - Rare book, public domain, Library of Congress sca...

First 10 books translated by Guarinus Veronensis, the remainder by Gregorius Tifernas. Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁸ f-h¹⁰ i-k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o-p⁸ q-s¹⁰ t⁸ u⁸⁻¹ x-y¹⁰ z⁸ A⁸]. Goff S-794 Hain-Copinger 15087 Proctor 4042 (3 Ve... More

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

Americae nona & postrema pars. Qva de ratione elementorvm: de Novi Orb...

Pts. 2, 3, and illus. have also special title pages. The 1st pt., De Novi Orbis natura, is by José de Acosta. First ed. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 168. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no... More

Itinerarium. German., Augsburg, Bavaria

Title extracted from incipit (leaf [2a]). Translated from the French by Michel Velser. Signatures: [a-h¹⁰ i-k⁶]. Goff M-164 Hain 10647 (variations) Schramm, IV, p. 19, 51, and illus. (variations) Rosenwald 79 L... More

Souvenirs de voyage - Public domain American sheet music, 1870

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

View of Grand Cañon walls, near mouth of Diamond River.

Original negative number: 143. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 6. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lie... More

"The Bath", a dripping spring in Kanab Cañon.

Original negative number: 55. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 9. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieu... More

Pagosa Springs, Colo., Colorado 19th century sterescope card.

Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: Pagosa Hot Springs, Co. Series.

Geological and geographical atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A consultation previous to an aerial voyage from London to Weilburg in...

Group portrait with balloon in the background of (from left to right) W. Prideaux, J. Hollins, W. M. James, Robert Hollond, Charles Green, and Thomas Monck Mason. Hollond was a sponsor of the 500 mile flight ta... More

Grand Cañon; Sheavwitz Crossing. - stereocsopic card

Original negative number: 72. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entde...

Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 199. This collection of voyages by Herrera and others, was previously published in Amsterdam, in 1622, under title: Novvs Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occiden... More

Zwölffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist: Gründliche volkommene Entde...

Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 199. This collection of voyages by Herrera and others, was previously published in Amsterdam, in 1622, under title: Novvs Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occiden... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Warner Ranch, Barn-Trading Post, San Felipe Road (State Highway S2), W...

Structure is associated with the Santa Fe Trail, Camp Wright, & the Battle of San Pasqual. Significance: Warner's Ranch is a landmark of the history of the American West. It is strongly associated with importa... More

Aboriginal life among the Navajo Indians, Cañon de Chelle, New Mexico.

Original negative number: 68. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 26. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lie... More

Wall in the Grand Cañon, Colorado River / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing erosion on the steep rock walls of the Grand Canyon. Plate no. 11. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory o... More

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

ESTC T146751 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2008-11-20

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A voyage to the East Indies; containing authentic accounts of the Mogu...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...

Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More

Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...

Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More

Little Falls Tie Line Towers, Near Little Dam Falls on Spokane River, ...

Significance: The Little Falls Tie Lint Towers are significant as components of one of the trans-Mississippian West's earliest steel tower transmission lines. This system distributed electrical power from The ... More

Grand Cañon, Colorado River, near Paria Creek, looking west / W. Bell,...

Photograph showing a person sitting on a rock looking down at the Colorado River going through the canyon. Plate no. 7. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of p... More

Rock carved by drifting sand, below fortification rock, Arizona / T.H....

Plate no. 14. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geolog... More

Iceberg Cañon, Colorado River, looking above / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geological exploratio... More

Grand Cañon; Sheavwitz Crossing. - stereocsopic card

Original negative number: 80. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Head of Black Cañon, Colorado River.

Original negative number: 170. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.

Distant view of Explorers column, Cañon de Chelle, about 900 ft. in he...

Original negative number: 14. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, looking North / W. Bell, phot.

Plate no. 2. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geologi... More

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Appendix dess eilfften Theils Americae, das ist: Warhafftige Beschreib...

Bound with the editor's [America. pt. 10. German] Oppenheim, 1618. 2d issue, copy 2. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 198. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 32 Also available in digital form ... More

Continental Grain Company, 307 South Washington Street, Brownwood, Bro...

STORED ON SITE. mchr 2004 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Brownwood's prime location as a major stop on the Santa Fe Railroad in the first part of the twentieth century, and its geographical situ... More

Almagestum Cl. Ptolemi, 1515 book

The Almagest is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy. It is one of the most influential scien... More

Almagestum Cl. Ptolemi, 1515 book

The Almagest is a 2nd-century Greek-language mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy. It is one of the most influential scien... More

One of the group of Pagosa Hot Springs, showing incrustation on the su...

Original negative number: 30. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 38. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lie... More

Group of Pah-ute Indians, Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a group of Paiute Indians including women and children. Most members of the tribe wear western clothing while some wear traditional garments. No. 2. Originally published: Photographs showin... More

Bon voyage and return - Public domain World War One sheet music

lyric by Janan Cecil ; music by W.S. Mygrant. (statement of responsibility) For voice and piano. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. (additional physical form) Staff notation. (language)

The bath, Kanab Wash. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Original negative number: 55. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1872; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Range.

Original negative number: 8. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: A... More

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain image of a historic building, 15th-16th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

"Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Latin for "Cities of the World." - 1572 atlas by Abraham Ortelius, the first modern atlas. Cartography, geography.

Civitates orbis terrarvm. Historic map, Library of Congress

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Cañon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, looking South / W. Bell, phot.

Plate no. 1. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connection with geographical and geologi... More

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

San Francisco Mt. from its base

Photograph shows the photographer's "portable developing box, ten-by-twelve-inch large-plate camera, and pack mule with members of the Wheeler survey." (Source: Framing the West) Original negative number: 158.... More

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

Party group at Prescott. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Original negative number: 152. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of:... More

Cañon of the Colorado River, near mouth of San Juan River, Arizona / T...

Photograph showing rock formations. Plate no. 13. "Descriptive view of legend no. 14" on verso. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western t... More

Blackwater Cañon, near Zuni Pueblo. - stereocsopic card

Original negative number: 20. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Beaver Lake, Conejos Cañon, Colorado, 9,000 feet above sea-level, and ...

Original negative number: 18. Caption number on back of stereo: No. 35. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lie... More

Grand Cañon of the Colorado River, mouth of Kanab Wash, looking west /...

Photograph showing a man sitting on the ground looking at the river. Plate no. 11. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of t... More

Bluff opposite Big Horn Camp, Black Cañon, Colorado River / T.H. O'Sul...

Photograph showing rock walls of Black Canyon along the Colorado River. Plate no. 3. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of... More

Burro pack team. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Original negative number: 69. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1874; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding.

Camp Big Horn, Black Cañon. - stereoscopic view, public domain photorp...

Original negative number: 116. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of:... More

Direct contact among galactic civilizations by relativistic interstell...

A draft of Sagan's paper, "Direct contact among galactic civilizations by relativistic interstellar spaceflight." The paper explores models for the distribution of technical civilizations in the galaxy. Using F... More

The ancient church of San Miguel, Santa Fé, N.M.

Original negative number: 22. Part of series: U.S. War Dept., Corps of Engineers; Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of 100th Meridian, Expedition of 1871; Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, commanding. Part of: ... More

Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona / W. Bell, phot.

Photograph showing a large rock. Plate no. 14. Originally published: Photographs showing landscapes, geological, and other features of portions of the western territory of the United States, obtained in connec... More