1,717 James river Images: LOC's Public Domain Archive Public Domain Search

[Sailors in front of turret on the U.S.S. Lehigh Passaic-class ironcla...

Title devised by Library from information on item verso. Notation on verso: "View on Moultrie." For information on the identification of the photographer see article: "Richmond Again Taken: Reappraising the Bra... More

Pontoon bridge across James River at Powhatan Point on which Army of P...

No. B458. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 an... More

Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal and view down James River

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Houses and a church ("Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Vi...

Inscriptions on recto: "25" "Put 2 Blank leaves before this." "BHLatrobe Boneval inv et del. Dec 1797." Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

[James River, Virginia Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett House, T...

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

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

[Dock on the south side of the James River, opposite Richmond, Virgini...

Photograph shows United States Military Railroad freight car at a dock on the James River.

[Dock on the south side of the James River, opposite Richmond, Virgini...

Photograph shows United States Military Railroad freight car at a dock on the James River.

Four-Mile Tree Plantation, Servants' Quarters, James River vicinity, S...

Survey number: HABS VA-55 Public domain photograph of ruins in United States, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James River Bridge, .6 mile North of Greene-Christian County Line, Spr...

Significance: James River Bridge was the first metal bridge constructed in the county and was associated with the Harrison-Springfield Road, a major 19th century commercial route. Survey number: HAER MO-44 Bu... More

Rebel officers take[n] a[t] Petersburg, Virginia - sketched on board a...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.245) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Gen Grant, Hancock & Staff watching the transportation of the Second C...

Title inscribed on verso. Inscribed upper left: Any quantity of aids[sic], orderlies Generals Horses &c. &c. Inscribed lower right: another [image cropped] Inscribed within image, vertically, with arrow indicat... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Cartersville Bridge, Route 25, spanning James River, Cartersville, Cum...

Significance: Built in 1884, the Cartersville Bridge is an unusual example of composite truss construction. Located where Va. Route 45 crosses the James River, the center four spans of the bridge were washed aw... More

Monitor "Lehigh" in Trent's Reach, James River, Virginia, just below C...

Public domain scan of American Civil War photograph, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[U.S.S. Casco, light draft monitor, in the James River]

Title devised by library staff. See also: LOT 4182, no. 76. Gift; George Holmes; July 26, 1941.

Officers on deck of monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia

No. B889. Mounted with four other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Pontoon bridge at Deep Bottom, James River, Virginia

No. 254. Original negative in National Archives Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860-1985, Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, 1921-... More

Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia

No. B596. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Bomb proof quarters at Ft. Burnham. The sides and top are 7 feet thick...

Stereograph showing three Union soldiers in front of bombproof quarters at Fort Burnham, near James River, Virginia.

Confederate ram Atlanta (after capture), Trent's Reach, James River, V...

No. 5129. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

View on James River, below Aikens

No. B757. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

View on James River, near Jones' Landing

Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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, w... More

The monitor Casco, James River, Virginia

No. B589. Hand written on mount: "Light draft monitor turret has been removed". Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 177". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Army transports in James River, Virginia near Deep Bottom

Public domain photograph of American Civil War, 19th-century early photogrpahy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. iron clad Galena, after her attack on Fort Darling, James River, ...

Photograph showing the deck of the warship after receiving Confederate cannon fire, with holes in the smokestack. Mounted on board with five other photographs. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congr... More

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia / negative by J. Reekie, positi...

Photograph showing the canal which was built to join together two portions of the James River. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons,... More

Ancient Church. Jamestown 1864 - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-45. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.810) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Double turreted monitor, Onondaga, James River, Virginia

No. B74. Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. VI, p. 132 - 33". Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Ruins of Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge, Richmond, Virginia, ...

Photograph shows ruins of the railroad bridge across the James River. Plate no. 88. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], ... More

[Looking down James River from Dutch Gap, February 1865]

No. B594. Title devised by library staff. Title based on similar image: LOT 11486-F, no. 10. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia. Confederate battery on James R...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Belle Isle, James River, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

Photograph shows a view of Belle Isle from Richmond side of James River with some homes in the distance. No. 4549. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Westover, James River, Virginia - Public domain image. Dry plate negat...

Attribution to Jackson based on negatives with similar numbers. Also available as photographic print in LOT 9204 B with copy negative LC-USZ62-82886 (b&w film neg.). Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplemen... More

Shirley Plantation, James River, Virginia

"WHJ-1349" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 016187. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Fishing on the James River

Caption from negative sleeve: Signal Station, Cobb's Hill, James River, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-2503B) and right (LC-B811-2503A) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-E. Cre... More

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Obstructions in James River opposite Fort Da...

Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Obstructions in James River, opposite the Confederate Fort Darling, near Richmond, Va. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3351A) and right (LC-B811-3351B) halves of a stereo... More

Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district and ruins of Mayo's bridge...

Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., April 1865, view of burnt district from across the James River and ruins of Mayo's Bridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3271A) and right (LC-B811-3271 B) halves of... More

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.

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Brady on t...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Continuation of view no. 1009, showing rear of Battery Dantzler, (Howl...

Stereograph showing the magazine and fortifications in Confederate Battery Dantzler on the James River above Dutch Gap Canal from a high vantage point. No. 1010. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batter... More

Views of Rocketts and south side of James River from Libby Hill

Photograph shows view of buildings at the wharf at Rocketts Landing on the south side of the James River in Richmond, Virginia.

[James River, Virginia Another view of the Dutch Gap canal]

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

Fort Brady, James River, Virginia near Dutch Gap Canal

No. B505. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Dutch Gap Canal, James River, Virginia, April, 1865

Public domain photograph of a lake, river, pond in the woods, forest, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Rowe, James River vicinity, Tettington, Charles City, Virginia

Survey number: HABS VA-142 Building/structure dates: ca. 1770 Initial Construction

Saugatuck, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News, Virg...

Significance: Saugatuck is representative of the T2-SE-A1 tanker class, which became the workhorse for the U.S. Navy during World War II. There were 481 tankers constructed in this category under the U.S. Mari... More

Libby again. Rebel soldiers waiting for accommodations in that Hotel

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left margin: Lower half whitewashed. Inscribed above image; Dimensions 150 by 190. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.502) Reference ... More

Ten Inch Columbiad, and Magazine Entrance, Sand Bag Revertment (i.e. r...

Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to a cannon, and the fortified entrance to the magazine. No. 1001. Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River. Forms part of: Civil War Photo... More

Gunboats shelling the enemy at the battle of Malvern hill sketched fro...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper right: General McClellan went aboard while I was sketching to change the position of the gunboats that were shelling our infantry. Gif... More

[James River, Virginia Pontoon bridge] during American Civil War

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

[James River, Virginia Another Confederate gun emplacement at Howlett ...

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

Harrison's Landing, Virginia. "Westover" near Harrison's Landing on th...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[James River, Virginia Bow of Confederate gunboat Teaser, Lt. Hunter D...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Empire State V, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport News,...

Significance: Originally built for American President Lines for commercial purposes, the Military Sea Transportation Services instead converted the Empire State V to a troopship. One of three in its class, it ... More

James River Suspension Bridge, Spanning James River, Route 11, Buchana...

Survey number: HAER VA-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. steamer "Massasoit," in James River, 1864

Stereograph showing Union sailors on a pier in the foreground and the U.S. gunboat Massasoit nearby on the James River in Virginia. No. 2547. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 186... More

[James River], Virginia. U.S. gunboat MASSASOIT

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military maps illustrating the operations of the armies of the Potomac...

Shows fortifications and troop movement. Relief shown by hachures. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 517 Some sheets have the map title, border, and names of the surveyor added. Available also through the Library of... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Pumphouse, Richmond, Independent City, Vi...

Significance: The 1883 pumphouse replaced an earlier one which pumped water to the reservoir above. The two-story stone building consists of a long central block with flanking cross pavilions which project slig... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Pumphouse, Richmond, Independent City, Vi...

Significance: The 1883 pumphouse replaced an earlier one which pumped water to the reservoir above. The two-story stone building consists of a long central block with flanking cross pavilions which project slig... More

[James River, Virginia U.S.S. monitor Canonicus taking on coal from a ...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Guerilla warfare. Unarmed Union soldiers fired at by farmers on the Ja...

Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed upper left: Prime block. See similar image by William Waud in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper August 2, 1862. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DL... More

James river, 1864 - Public domain scan / drawing

Three landscapes, two identified as 1861 and one as 1864. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below upper left image: on the James river 1864. Inscribed below upper right image: Near Powhatan on the James 186... More

General Grant's rail road, City Point, Virginia looking north

Stereograph showing an overview of the railroad facility. Sailing ships in the distance on the James River.

Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. View of Confederate Fort Darling and obstruc...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[James River, Virginia Monitor U.S.S. Onondaga; soldiers in rowboat in...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

[James River, Virginia Monitor U.S.S. Onondaga; soldiers in rowboat in...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district and ruins of Mayo's bridge...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

James River, Virginia. Gunboat MENDOTA - 19th century Virginia.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Houses and a church ("Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Vi...

Inscriptions on recto: "25" "Put 2 Blank leaves before this." "BHLatrobe Boneval inv et del. Dec 1797." Reference copy available in LOT 4249. Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

Arthur M. Huddell, James River Reserve Fleet, Newport News, Newport Ne...

Significance: The Arthur M. Huddell is significant as an example of the Liberty class, which have been described as the workhorses of World War II. The mass production of the Liberty class was possible because... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Ben Salem Lock, Maury River, Lexington, L...

Significance: Located on the western bank of the Maury River (formerly the North River) approximately 1 mile downstream from its junction with the South River, the Ben Salem Lock is constructed out of rough and... More

James River Bridge, .6 mile North of Greene-Christian County Line, Spr...

Significance: James River Bridge was the first metal bridge constructed in the county and was associated with the Harrison-Springfield Road, a major 19th century commercial route. Survey number: HAER MO-44 Bu... More

James River Bridge, .6 mile North of Greene-Christian County Line, Spr...

Significance: James River Bridge was the first metal bridge constructed in the county and was associated with the Harrison-Springfield Road, a major 19th century commercial route. Survey number: HAER MO-44 Bu... More

Aiken's Landing, Virginia (vicinity). Aiken house on James River

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pontoon bridge over the James River above Ft. Powhatan

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below title: put in more boats ad libitum; evening effect misty; Inscribed upper left Atlanta 3 ports on a side. Sunset; rebel ram Atlanta. G... More

[Richmond, Virginia View on James River and Kanawha Canal near the Hax...

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

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

James River & Kanawha Canal, Locks 1-5, Tenth to Thirteenth Streets, n...

Significance: From the late eighteenth century until the 1880s, an important and far-flung canal system gradually emerged on the Richmond scene. Envisioned by George Washington and others, the canal system eve... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Manchester Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Company, Southern Bank of Jam...

Significance: The Manchester Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company was among the first textile mills to operate in the Richmond area and represented one of the early efforts to diversify the predominately agr... More

Cartersville Bridge, Route 25, spanning James River, Cartersville, Cum...

Significance: Built in 1884, the Cartersville Bridge is an unusual example of composite truss construction. Located where Va. Route 45 crosses the James River, the center four spans of the bridge were washed aw... More

U.S.S. Mendota, James River, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B203. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. Public domain image of an American navy warship, 19th-century ship, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Officers on deck of the monitor Saugus, James River, Virginia

No. B438. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More

Wilcox Landing, James River, Virginia during American Civil War

No. B177. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. 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 a... More